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See Dunbar. See Dun britt on. Vacat. Ex. 92. The Dun, or Don, is a river of England, an afifluent of the Drayton puts in is a tributary of the Humber. the mouth of the West Riding of Yorkshire the following addre Ouse, which to the Don Thou first of all my Floods, whose Banks doe bound my South, And offrest up thy Streame to mightie Humbers mouth, From thy cleare Fountaine first through many a Mead dost play,. tow’rds Don caster doth drive,........ when holding on her race. She dancing in and out, indenteth Hat field Chase. {Polyolbion 28. ~) He also speaks of the Don as “lively,” and calls her course “lusty.” Dunbar (Dumbarrensis). Cromwell 8; 2 Defens. 6. 308. A seaport in Hadding tons hire, Scotland, near the mouth of the Firth of Forth, where the Scotch under Leslie were defeated by Cromwell, September 3, 1650. Dun britt on (Alcluith). (4) 5. 175; (5) 5. 196. Hist. Brit. (2) 5. 67; (3) 5. 102 (twice); (See also Wall.) Dun britt on, the ancient Alcluith, now called Dumb art on, is a town of Scotland on the northern shore of the Firth of Clyde, The Firth itself was formerly known at the influx of the Leven. as the Firth of Dun britt on, and to the Romans as Glota. 122