Darcet, JEAN

PIERRE JOSEPH, 1777-1844. French chemist. Dardanelles. Anciently Hellespont. Narrow strait, ab. 40 m. long, 1 to 4 m. wide, connecting the Sea of Marmora with the Archipelago, the current being westward. Both sides of IMG:content-1093.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1094.png:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] Hanseatic League; was a igned to Pru ia at 2d partition of Poland 1793. The French took it by siege 1807; the Allies 1813. It has an extensive commerce and some manufactures. Pop., 1890, 120,459.