Dorset, maritime county in the S. of England, with a deeply indented coast; it consists of a plain between two eastward and westward reaching belts of downs; is mainly a pastoral county; rears sheep and cattle, and produces butter and cheese.
Population (circa 1900) given as 194,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
D'Orsay, Count * Dort