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<rold is also found. These mines belong to the 

 crown, and are wrought by 4-8,000 boors, beside the 

 regular miners, "\bout 686 pood, 16 pounds, and 

 4-y solotniks of pure gold, was produced from these 

 mines from 174-5 to 1780. (./ ) 



BARNES, Joshua, was the son of a tradesman 

 in London, where he was born in the year 1654;. He 

 received his grammatical education at Christ's Hos- 

 pital, and was admitted into Emmanuel College at 

 Cambridge in 1671. He was elected a fellow in 

 1678 ; took the degree of bachelor in divinity in 

 1688; and in 1695 was chosen Greek professor in 

 that university. A Mrs Mason, a widow of Hem- 

 mingford, near St Ives, became a great admirer of his 

 learning ; and intimated her purpose of leaving him 

 an annuity of 100. " Upon this hint he spake," 

 and secured the widow herself, with a jointure of 

 200" per annum. He lived about 12 years after his 

 marriage, and died on the 3d of August 1712. He 

 was buried at Hemmingford, where his widow erect- 

 ed a monument to his memory, with a Latin inscrip- 

 tion, and the following anacreontic lines : 



'Avtlds Ti run Aotdui' 

 Twv 'lirrtptnv pyytrro;, 

 Kj Tirana* gi<rT?, 

 Ki MTt /30is-r{ 

 BpiTXVVixts apises. 



Which are also thus rendered into English : 



Kind Barnes, adurn'd by every muse, 

 Each Greek in hi* own art outdoes : 

 Ho orator was ever greater, 

 No poet ever chanted sweeter. 

 H'excell'd in grammar mystery, 

 And the Black- l'rince of history ; 

 And a divine the most profound, 

 That ever trod on English ground. 



The learning of Barnes was very extensive, and his 

 pen remarkably ready and prolific. His principal 

 publications were, a volume of Latin and English 

 poems, most of which were composed during his at- 

 tendance at Christ's Hospital, and before he had com- 

 pleted the 17th year of his age; a poetical para- 

 phrase of the book of Esther in Greek verse, with a 

 Latin translation and Greek notes ; a History of Ed- 

 ward III., in which he imitates the ancient historians, 

 and puts long elaborate speeches into the mouths of 

 the principal personages ; all the works of Euripides, 

 with a preliminary dissertation on the life and wri- 

 tings of that poet ; the works of Anacreon, with a 

 Latin translation and notes, a life of the poet, and a 

 dissertation on lyric poetty, all dedicated rather pre- 

 posterously to the Duke of Marlborough ;. Homer, 

 with various tracts and dissertations, and a long Eng- 

 lish poem, in which lie ascribes the Iliad and Odyssey 

 to the pen of Solomon, with a view, it has been sus- 

 pected, to induce his wife to assist the more willingly 

 in defraying the expense of the publication. He 

 wrote a great number of other pieces, whicli were ne- 

 ver published ; and which consisted chiefly of Greek 

 and Latin verses on different subjects ; the lives of 

 Pir.dar, Sophocles, Theocritus, and the Black Prince ; 



an ecclesiastical history from the beginning of the Barnsley, 

 world ; sermons, and orations, and critical notes on Barnstaple* 

 sacred scripture. He expended much money, and * 



involved himself in considerable difficulties, by the 

 publication of his critical works, few of which pro- 

 duced him much fame or profit in return. 



Barnes is admitted to have surpassed most men in 

 the extent of his literary knowledge, to have been 

 full of words, and to have composed in Greek and 

 Latin with wonderful facility ; but he wrote with 

 little elegance, and is frequently very deficient in cri- 

 tical judgment. He was so continually quoting from 

 the Greek classics, that he generally went by the name 

 of Greek Barnes. He neither valued nor understood 

 the English language much ;. and was so little ac- 

 quainted with the usages of his own country, that it 

 has often been said, he would have been more at home 

 in Athens than in London. He had several enemies, 

 or rather rivals in his literary career, some of whom 

 really envied his acquirements, and unjustly slighted 

 his performances ; while others only despised his 

 vanity, or were provoked by the virulence of his 

 censures. He was so remarkable for the compass 

 and quickness of his memory, while his judgment 

 was accounted frequently very deficient, that it has. 

 been proposed to add to his epitaph, what Menage 

 said of Pierre Montmaur, 



Hicjacet Joshua Barnes 

 Felicissinice memorial 

 Expeetans judicium. 



But, with all his errors as a critic, he will always be 

 respected by the lovers of Anacreon, Euripides,, and. 

 Homer ; while his pedantry as a scholar was coun- 

 terbalanced by the many excellent qualities, which 

 he possessed as a man. He was ever liberal of his 

 money to serve his friends ; and has been known, in 

 the warmth of his charity, to give the coat from his 

 back to a ragged beggar. It is also recorded of him, 

 that he always carried about with him a small pocket 

 bible, which, at his leisure hours, he read over 121 

 times in the course of his life. See Biog. Britanni- 

 ca. Biog. Dictionary. Grainger's Biog. Hist, of 

 England. Monthly Review, vol. xiv. (q) 



BARNSLEY, a small manufacturing town of 

 England, situated on the side of a hill in the West 

 Riding of Yorkshire. A great number of forges are 

 perpetually employed in manufacturing iron wire, 

 nails, and hardware. There are also several manu- 

 factures of linen, cloth, and check, and one for bot- 

 tles of black glass. The country abounds with coal, 

 stone, timber, and iron ore. Number of houses 710. 

 Population 3606, of whom 1832 were returned as em- 

 ployed in trade. The trade and population of this 

 town have been much increased since its connection 

 with Wakefield and Rotherham, by the canal naviga- 

 tions, and by the rivers Dearne and Dove. ( j ) 



BARNSTAPLE, a seaport town of England, in- 

 the county of Devon, situated in a fine vale on the 

 eastern bank of the river Taw, over which there is a- 

 stone bridge of 16 arches. On account of the shal- 

 lowness of its harbour, which does not admit vessels 

 of more than 200 tons, a great part of its woollen 

 trade was transferred to Biddeford. Manufactures of 

 baize, however, silk stockings, and waistcoat pieces 



