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Benton; Pond, Otis Town, Berkshire 

 County, Mass. (Not Paristi.) 



Bentons Ferry; Village, Marion Coun- 

 ty, W. Va. (Not Benton Ferry.) 



Benu4; Benuwe; see Binue. 



Benville; Steamboat Wharf, St. Marys 

 County, Md. (Not Wynee.) 



Berdeleben; see Bendeleben. 



Berenda; Slough and Village, Madera 

 County, Calif. (Not Berendo, Ber- 

 renda, nor Berrendo.) 



Berendo; see Berenda. 



Beresford; Lake, Volusia County, Fla. 

 (Not Bearfoot.) 



Bergenfield; Borough, Bergen County, 

 N. J. (Not Bergen Fields nor Ber- 

 genfields. ) 



Berhampore; City, Murshidabad Dis- 

 trict, Bengal, India. (Not Berham- 

 poor nor Berhampur. ) 



Berhampur ; see Berhampore. 



Bering'; Glacier, Island, Sea, and 

 Strait, Alaska. (Not Behring nor 

 Kamchatka.) So named after Capt. 

 Commander Ivan Ivanovich Bering, 

 to whose exploration, in 1741, we 

 owe our first knowledge of what is 

 now Alaska. Bering himself, his an- 

 cestors for five generations at least, 

 and his descendants spell the name 

 Bering. This form is widely used by 

 English-speaking people and almost 

 universally used by all others. — 

 M. B. 



Bering ; see Controller. 



Beriuch; see Biryuch. 



Berkeley Heights; Railroad Station, 

 Union County, N. J. (Not Berkley 

 Heights. ) 



Berkley; see Barkley. 



Berlin; Mountain, Williamstown, Berk- 

 shire County, Mass., and Berlin 

 Town, Rensselaer, County, N. Y. In 

 New York State known as Mount 

 McComber ; in Massachusetts as 

 Berlin Mountain; Williams College 

 people call it Mount Hopkins. 



Berlin Centre; see Center Berlin. 



Bermejo; see Vermejo. 



Bermuda; a group of islands in the 

 western Atlantic Ocean. Called 

 " Bermudas " after Juan Bermudes 



Bermuda — Continued. 



a Spanish mariner, who discovered 

 them in 1515. In 1609 Admiral Sir 

 George Somers, Royal Navy, in the 

 Sea Venture, found them uninhabited. 

 He was wrecked and died there, and 

 the islands were called after him by 

 his companions, " Somers Islands." 

 Bermuda has been adopted as the 

 British official usage, and is the pop- 

 ular and all but universal designa- 

 tion. — A. H. A. 



Bern; Creek, tributary to Black River, 

 Alaska, International Boundary (be- 

 tween Alaska and Canada). 



Bern; Township, Berks County, Pa. 

 (Not Berne.) 



Bern; see Berne. 



Bernard; Mountain, western one of 

 two peaks. Southwest Harbor Town, 

 National Monument, Mount Desert 

 Island, Hancock County, Me. (Not 

 Western. ) 



Bernard; Township, Somerset County, 

 N. J. (Not Bernards.) 



Bernardo ; see San Dieguito. 



* Berne; Town, Adams County, Ind. 

 (Not Bern.) 



Berne; Town and Village, Albany 

 County, N. Y. (Not Bern.) 



Bernville; Borough, Berks County, Pa. 

 (Not Berneville.) 



Berrenda; Berrendo; see Berenda. 



Berry; Trail, Coconino County, Ariz. 



Berryessa; Village, Santa Clara Coun- 

 ty, Calif. (Not Berreyesa, Berryesa, 

 nor Beryessa.) 



Berut ; see Beirut. 



Besboro; Island, Norton Sound, Alaska. 

 (Not Besborough.) 



Beshta; Bay, west side Cook Inlet, 

 near head, indenting southeast coast 

 Moquawkie Indian Reservation, be- 

 tween Granite Point and North Fore- 

 land, Alaska. 



Betatakin; Prehistoric Cliff Dwellings, 

 Navajo National Monument, Navajo 

 County, Ariz. 



Beteharef ; see Becharof. 



Bethel; Township and Village, Berks 

 County, Pa. (Not Bethal nor Mil- 

 lersburg. ) 



Bethel; Township, Fulton County, Pa. 

 (Not Bethal.) 



