Darling ton, William

M.D., a distinguished American botanist, B. in Chester co., Pa., 1782; author of Flora Cestrica, . D. 1863. Darling ton Heights, in Virginia, a post-office of Prince Edwards co. Darmabah, ( dar'ma - ba ,) an island in the Red Sea, off the African coast, Lat. 12° 15′ N., Lon. 42° 55′ E. It is 20 m. in circumference, low, and mostly covered with jungle. Darmstadt, ( darm's tat ,) the capital of the grand duchy of He e, Germany, situated on the small river Darm, at the N.W. extremity of the Odenwald, 58 m. N.E. of Carlsruhe; Lat. 45° 50′ N., Lon. 35° 40 E. It consists of an old and a new town, both enclosed by walls. The principal buildings are the palace of the grand-duke, the palace of Prince Louis, the city-hall, a public library with 250,000 vols., a cabinet of natural history (containing many curious fo ils), the house of a embly of the states, an opera-house, a college, and several fine churches. Manuf. Paper, silver articles, carpets, starch, wax-candles, and tobacco. D. is the birth-place of Liebig.