De Quincey

Thomas, an English author; born in Manchester, Aug. 15, 1785. He received a cla ical education at the grammar school of Bath, and entered the University of Oxford in 1803, where he remained till 1808. While there he contracted the habit of eating opium, to which he remained a bounden slave for many years. The consequences were fearful, as he himself relates in his principal work, “The Confe ions of an English Opium-eater.” He was a very prolific writer; but his works are mostly occasional e ays, and papers on historical, literary, and miscellaneous topics. He died in La wade, near Edinburgh, Dec. 8, 1859, Derajat, a narrow strip in the Punjab, India, between the Sulimen mountains and the Indus; are 20,300 square miles, Derbend, or Derbent, (‘ gateway’), a port and eapital of the Ru ian district of Daghestan, on the W. shore of the Caspian, 140 miles N. W. of Baku; long considered the key of Persia on the N. W. Derby, a city in New Haven county, Conn., comprising the former towns of Birmingham and Derby; at junction of the Naugatuck and Piamasionie rivers, and on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad; 9 miles W. of New Haven; is principally engaged in the manufacture of bra and iron goods, pins, and paper. Pop. (1910) 8,991.