BAN 



BAN 



had acquired by his adtions, iifually fpoke of them with great eonfifts principally of one draggling ftreet wliich is fituated 



modefty. He was accuftomcd to fay, that he never formed in a narrow valley between two low ridges of flate rock, 



an expedition, nor hazarded an aflion, without the moll opening foiuhward towards Sno\^don, and terminutinTf 



reafonable hopes of fuccefs. He was equally feared and northwards about half a mile from the cathedral, in the; 



beloved by the foldiers, and always infpircd them with un- beautiful bay of Beaumaris. This town is watered by the 



bounded confidence. At the head of his troops, he afted " Dcva's wizard Ilream," .vhofe oppofjte banks are con- 



folcly from himfelf, and without dependence, and would nefted now by a well-built bridge of live arches. Bangor 



rather have nfigncd the command, than have been direfted is reprefented as the olUcil epilcopal fee in Wales, but tho 



in his niilitarv operations by the orders of the cabinet. He prefent cathedral was not founded till the beginning of the 



had the abfol'utedifpofal of all comniiffions, and cllabliflied a fifteenth century. The choir was built by bllliop Denn, 



regular order of promotion; he was humane to the vanquid'.ed in 1496, and the tower and nave by bi:!iop Skivington, in 



.enemy, cautious in not wantonly expofmg hii troops to 1532, as app-ars recorded over the welleni door. The 



aiSlion, and lie blamed thofe generals who in fieges faerifice former meafures 141 feet by 60, and the length of the 



the lives of th;ir men to raife their (nvn mihtary character, whole from call to well is 214 feet. This edilicc contains 



Coxe's Travels in Poland, &c. vol. iv. p. 51. many monuments of its bifhops and other perfonagcs ; but 



BANFF, in Geography. See Bamff. it polTeffes no extraordinary attradlions either in its architec- 



BANGA, a town of Africa, in the country of Whidah, ture or ornaments. The ofttcers belonging to the cathe- 



on the Slave coall. . dral, arc a biihop, a dean, three aichdeacons, a trealurer, 



BANGALORE, a town of Hindoflan, in the Myfore two endowed prebends, a precentor, chancellor, and three 



country, fituate in the centre of the peninfula, and having canons ; belidts other inferior officers. The cathedral 



routes palTnig through it in every direction. It is, in itfelf, fervice is alternately in Englilh and Weld). Within the 



a place of great political importance, being a fortrefs of dioccfe are included the whole county of Anglefca, all 



flrength, and from fituation, the bulwark of the Myfore Carnarvonfliire, except Llysvaen, Eglwys Rofe, and Llang- 



cou.ntry, towards Arcot. It is placed, by major Renr.cll, wilerin, the greater iuilf of Mcrioneththire, and the L\au- 



inN. lat. 13". E. long. 77° 37' ic". This is the common ries of Dyffrynclwydd and Arwllley. This bifliopnc, though 



point of union, in the centre of the peninfula, as Coim- not large, Hur rich, has futfered many defalcations. Among 



bcttore is in the fouth-weft, and Tritchinopoly in the fouth- others it is faid, that Owen Glendower dclhoyed the cathe- 



eall. dral by fire, and biihop Bulklcy walled and fold all th^- 



BANGER, one of the principal places in the ifland revenues, and reduced the fee to great poverty. It is now 



of Belleifle, on the coail of France; and Palais is the valued in the king's books at 131 1. 16s. 3d. The late 



other. and prefent bhhops have made confiderable alterations and 



BANGIUS, Peter, in Biography, a Swedifli divine, improvement,; in the palace, its appendages, and ia the 



was born at Helfmgberg, in 1^33, and having ftudied at town. Among the praifeworthy adts of the former, wa; 



Upfal, travelled with a piipil through Sweden, Denmark, the re-erefl.ion of a large free fchool under his fuperintcnd- 



and the Netherlands. On his return, he was appointed pro- ance. This city is governed by the bilhop's lleward, 



felfor of theology in the univerfity of Abo in Finland, and who holds his court here. Befides a weekly market on 



filled the chair with credit 32 years. In 16S2, he was ap- Friday, here are four fairs annually. Its number of houles 

 pointed biihop of W; burg, by Charles IX. of Sweden ; and 



died in 1696. He took great pains to ferve his country, 

 by cilabliihing fchool.; and promoting knowledge. He 

 wrote in Latin an ecclefiallical Swtdiih hhlorv; a treatife 



304, and thefe contain 1770 inhabitants. Bangor is 

 about fifteen miles v/elt of Conway, and 253 from London. 

 H;df a mile from Bangor, on the fliorc of the bay, is 

 Abercruain, or port Penrhyn, the grand depofitory of the 



on Sacred Chronology; a Coinmeutary on the Hebrews, Hates that are procured froa\ lord Penrhyn's quarrie?, at 



Dolawan. Great quantities of tliefe fiates arc rtiipped for 

 London, I^ivcrpool, Brillol, and other large towns. 



About two miles S. E. of Bangor, is Penrhyn-hall, the 

 elegant ir.ai'lion of lord Penrhyn. 1'he improvements made 

 by this nobleman in the commercial charailer of this part 

 of the country, and by plantations, buildings, &c. are highly 

 honourable to his liberality and judguiei't. There is a 

 ferry into 'Angltfea, about two miles from this town, which 



and other works. 



BanGius, Tho-mas, a learned Danifli divine, of the uni- 

 Terfitv of Copenhagen, wa5 born in 1 6co. He dilcharged, 

 with great credit, the duties of the profeflbrfhips of Hebrew, 

 philofophv, and divinity ; and was the author of leveral learned 

 works. He died in 1661. Among his writings in I>atin 

 are various dilfertations to elucidate the fcripturts; " Phi- 

 lological Obfervatioris," printed in Svo. at Copenhagen, in 



1640; " An Exercitation on the origin of Diveriity ot Lan- is much more commodious than that of Conway. 



guages, and on the Excellence of the Hebrew;" Svo. 1634; Bangor, Bangor- IJcoed, or Bangor Monachorum, is a 



and a " Hebrew Lexicon," 410. 1641. Gen. Dift. fmall village in Flintlhire, North Wales, remaikable for a 



BANGLE Ears, in the Manege., an imp-rfeclion in handfomc bridge over the river Dee, and the fite or an ex- 



a horfe's ears, remedied in the following n:anner; place tenfive and rich monaftery. Bede, and leveral of our hifto- 



his ears in fuch a fituation as they are wanted to Hand; rians, defcribe this place as very flourifhing at the coming 



'bind them with two fmall boards, fo fad as not to llir ; of St. Augulline ; and moll of them relate, that Etheltrith 



and then clip away the empty wrinkled ll<in clofe by the kuig of the Angles, advanced to Ch.efter with a large army, 



head. and obferving the monks praying for the fnccels of their 



BANGO, in Gcngrnphy, a loMg fhoal on t'iie eaft coafl of countrym.en, he rufhed upon them, and conr:gned 1200 to 



Africa, of variable brcadtli, but in fome places about two death. This abbey, according to Lcland, Itood Iti a fair 



leagues. See C<7/<' Corientks. valley clofe on tlie Dee; but when he villttd the place, 



BANGOR, a tov/n(hip of America, in Hancock county every vcllige of the buildings was deftroyed, and the fitc 



in the dillr.dl of Maine, on the well fide of Penobfcot river, ploughed over. Some writers have confounded this with 



25 miles from its month at Belfall bay» 65 N.W. by W. the Bangor in Carnarvonlhire. It is probable ^that the 



from Machias; 63 N.E. from HallowtU; and 280 N.E. latter derived its name ai:d confcquence from and after the 



from Bodon, deflrucflion of the former. 



Bangor, a fmall city of Carnarvonfiiire, North Wales, Bangor, a poll town, and fea-port of the county of 



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