name of the town was
assumed (instead of Tejuco) in 1838, when it was made a _cidade_.

DIAMANTINO, a small town of the state of Matto Grosso, Brazil, near the
Diamantino river, about 6 m. above its junction with the Paraguay, in
14 deg. 24' 33" S., 56 deg. 8' 30" W. Pop. (1890) of the municipality
2147, mostly Indians. It stands in a broken sterile region 1837 ft. above
sea-level and at the foot of the great Matto Grosso plateau. The first
mining settlement dates from 1730, when gold was found in the vicinity.
On the discovery of diamonds in 1746 the settlement drew a large
population and for a time was very prosperous. The mines failed to meet
expectations, however, and the population has steadily declined.
Ipecacuanha and vanilla beans are now the principal articles of export.

DIAMETER (from the Gr. [Greek: dia], through, [Greek: metron], measure),
in geometry, a line passing through the centre of a circle or conic
section and terminated by the curve; the "principal diameters" of the
ellipse and hyperbola coincide with the "axes" and are at ...
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DETERMINANT, formula = ab'c" - ab"c' + a'b"c - a'bc" - a"bc' - a"b'c.
changed to = ab'c" - ab"c' + a'b"c - a'bc" + a"bc' - a"b'c.

DETMOLD, added missing comma after 'Detmold possesses a natural history
museum'.

DEVENTER, 'The "Athenaeum" disappeared' corrected from the original
'disappered'.

DEVIL, replaced comma with a period after 'according to 1 Chron. xxi'.

DEVONSHIRE, EARLS AND DUKES OF, 'In November 1684' originally 'Novembr'.

DIAGRAM, 'found to be of use especially' originally 'epsecially'.

DIAL, table angles on the dial, column IX. A.M. III. P.M. bottom entry
corrected from '45 45' to '40 45'.

DIAGRAM, missing closing parenthesis added after 'to mark out by lines'.

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