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county of Cork, province of Munfter, Irdarc!, wliicli rifes 

 in the mountains of Carbery, and after watering the large 

 and thriving town of Bandon-hrid.'jo, and the village of 

 Inifhonan, falls into the harbour of Kiniale. It is navigable 

 for large floops as far as Collier'? quay, near Inifhonan, irom 

 which place Bandon is fupplicd with Englifh coal. At 

 til" confluence of the Bandon and Brinny rivers, a little 

 above Inifhonan, the Eaft India company of England forrvd 

 a fettlement about the year 1612, for carrying on ironwork?, 

 and building large fhips; for which purpofe they }nirch?.fed 

 the adjoining woods and lands. They garrifoned a caftle, 

 and built three villages; but the oppofnion given to this 

 undertaking by the natives, foon obliged them to rclinqnini 

 it. The great woods in the neighbourhood were firom that 

 time much demolilbed; though the river has not yet for- 

 feited the charafter given of it by Speiifcr in his Fairy 

 Queen : 



" The pleafant Bandon, crown'd with many a wood." 

 Campbell's Political Survey of Great Britain, 3:c. Smith's 

 Cork. Beaufort's Memoir. 



BANDON-BRIDGE, or, as it is more commonly called, 

 Bandon, a confiderable market and poll town of the connty 

 of Cork, province of Munller, Ireland, fit\iated on both 

 fides of the river Bandon, over which it has a brid;;e. It 

 was one of the towns which owed their ori,'j!n to the laudable 

 exertions of Richard Boyle, the lu'll, and frequently called 

 the great, earl of Cork. He built it in the year 1610, in the 

 ir.idit of a wafte bog and wood, -vhich had been impaffable, 

 and inclofed it with walls, which were of great ftrength for 

 that period. In 161 3, he procured for it a charter of in- 

 corporation, in confequencc of which it fent two members 

 to the houfe of commons; and was one of the boroughs 

 which occafioned fo violent a debate at the meeting of par- 

 I'ament in that year. It was part of the policy of lord 

 Cork, as appears from his letter to fecretary Cook (quoted 

 in Smith's Cork, vol. i. p. 236.), to admit none but Pro- 

 tcftants to live in the town; which ftems to have been con- 

 fidered a neceffary fupport to the infant colony. The con- 

 fcquence of this was, that the inhabitants, being united 

 among themfelves, and all trained to arms, were very power- 

 ful, and took an aftivc part in the civil wars which diflracled 

 Ireland, in the middle of the fevcnteenth centuiy. After 

 the rtlloration of Charles II. the exclufion was not vei-y 

 Itrifbly obferved, though it had been ccnifirmed by a bye- 

 law of the corporation; but the adherents of James 1 1, 

 imder the earl of Clancarthy, having deftroyed the walls ia 

 16S9, and treated the Proteftant inhabitants v.-ith feverity, 

 it was revived, and has been fince, with few exceptions, 

 flriclly attended to. The wifdom and advantaTe of this 

 excluhon have been often called in qucftion, but the ftrongefl 

 objettion to it certainly is, that it tends to keep alive that 

 animofity which has been the bane of Ireland, aiid which 

 all who fludy the true interefts of the country will endeavour 

 to appeafe. The inhabitants of Bandon have been gene- 

 rally induih-ious. For many years they carried on the ina- 

 nufaiSures of lluffs, camblets, and fliags, very extcnfivrly, 

 but thefe have of late declined. Ticken of fnperior quality, 

 and coarfe green linens 27 inches wide, called vitlcry, are 

 made in the town and neighbourhood; the latter of which is 

 fent from Cork to London and Briftol. There are alfo 

 fome cotton nianufafturers, who employ 3. great number of 

 people. The town is chiefly the property of the duke of 

 Devonlliirc, reprefentative of the eldefl branch of the Boyle 

 family, and on account of the fiiortnefs of the leafes, and 

 the want of proper encoiu-agem.tnt, it is in general ill built, 

 the houfes not at all correfponding to the wealth of the in- 

 habitants. During tlie late war, Bandon became a great 

 military ftation, being conveniently fvtuated tor fending 



afridaiirt to any part of the fout!i-i»e{lern coad at which it 

 might be wanted, and a ftrong garrifon is flill continued 

 there. The p')pulation is eflimated at 12,000, and it fends 

 a member to the imperial jwiliamcnt. Its rillancc S.W. 

 from Dublin is 136 Irifa miles, and S.W. from Cork 13. 

 N. lat. 5 i'- 44'. W. long, about f.=- 44'. Smith's Cork, &c. 



BANDORA, the capital ot Salfct idand, and fcparated 

 from Bombay ifland, on the Malabar coail of India, by a 

 narrov.- channel, in N. lat. ig-' 5'. E. long. 72° 30'. 



Bandora, in Miifir, an inferior kind of lute, for which 

 the notes were written in the fame kind of tablaturc as 

 for the theorbo or great Inte. See Lute. 



BANDT, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the German 

 ocean, near the coalt of Esl't Friellar.d. N. lat. 53* 36'. 

 E. long. 6' 33'. 



BANDURI, Anselme, in Biography, an antiquary of 

 the eighteenth centur)-, was a native of the republic of 

 R?gula, in Dalmatia, and a Bcncdidinc monk. He (ludied 

 at Flcn-ence, and having made lapid progrcfs in the learned 

 languages, he became a preceptor. Mui:tfa:-c.in employed 

 him in 1700 to examine MSS. for his p-ojtCtcd edition of 

 Chr\foftom'.s works; and for extending his acquaintance with 

 ecclefiailical antiquiti.:s, Bandiiri, under the patronage of 

 the grand duke of Tufcany, fpcnt fome years in the abbey of 

 St. Germain in Paris. Here he was enabled to compofe hit 

 valuable work, intitled, " Imperinm Orientale, five, Anti- 

 quitates Conflantinopolitanar," and publifhed at Paris, in 

 171 1, in two volumes, folio. He alfo publillitd at Paris, in 

 1718, fol. a coUedion of Roman medals, under the title of 

 " Numifmata Impcrr-.torum Romanorum a Trajano Decio 

 ad Palseologcs Augullos;" which was enriched and enlarged, 

 and reprinted in 4to. at Hamburg, in 1719, by J. A. Fabri- 

 cius. In 1724, Banduri was appointed librarian to the duke of 

 Orleans, and he died at Paris in 1743. Nouv. Dift. Hiftor. 



BANDUSIAN Fountain, in jlnnsnt Geography, a 

 famous fpring of Sicily, celebrated by Horace in the thir- 

 teenth ode of his third book, placed by fome at his Sabine 

 farm ; but inconteftibly proved by the abbe Cha';py, to be 

 near Palaz'zo, in the principality of St. Gcrvafio. No (hady 

 groves now hang over its banks to fliut out the burning mid- 

 day fun; i;3 gelid waters no longer tumble down the rocks 

 in beautiful caleades ; but ch.oaked with dirt and loll in 

 bogs, are forced to leek their way under ground to avciit at 

 the foot of the hill. Swinb. Travels, vol. ii. p. 33. 



BANDY-Legs, \nSi:ygery, are the dillortion of the lower 

 extremities, in any direflion. This difeafe is ufially occa- 

 fioned by a defeftive olTification of the TiniA or leg-bone, 

 which tVierefore is unable to fuftain the weight of the body 

 without yielding. See Distortion s,andMoLLiTiE!>0^fli7i. 



BANE-Berrv, in Botany. See Actea. 



B.'^^NEE, in Geography, a fmall ifland of France, near the 

 Engliili chalinel, about a league S. W. of Ulliant. 



BANER, J'HN, in Biography, a famous general of 

 Sweden, dcfcendcd of an illuftrious family, was bom in 1601, 

 and was fo much diilinguilhcd by his proficiency in literature, 

 that Gullavus Adolplius ufed to call him his learned general. 

 In very early youth, he attracted, by his magnanimity, the 

 notice of that monarch, who prononced him formed for 

 great events, and placed him in the army; and he foon 

 fignali/ed himfclf fo much, that, under twenty years of age, 

 he was employed in many critical enterprifcs, which required 

 no lefs dexterity than bravery. After the death of Gullavus, 

 he fupported, as commander in chief, the luftre of the 

 Swcdifli arms, by a feres of viftories, which raifed his mili- 

 tary charatler as high as that of any general of the age. 

 He fnftained this reputation undiminifhcd till his death, 

 at H.-ilbcrlladt. on the loth of May 1641, in the 4Ctli year 

 of bif age. Baner, though not infenfible of the glory he 

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