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The Aftbs of Barbaiy are like thofe of other parts of 

 Africa ; they follow the fame mode of living, are governed 

 by their own defpotic cheyks, and all of them, except thofe 

 of the wandering kind, and fuch as live under tiie dumiuion 

 of the emperors of Morocco and Fez, are in fome fort 

 tributary to the Turks, ever fince they have made thcmfclves 

 mailers of the remainder of the Barbary coaft. They are 

 often obliged, by the opprefTian they fuffcr, to abandon 

 their habitations, and to fetk (heltcr among the moil rocky 

 and inacceflible mountains, vshithcr the Turkilh forces can- 

 not purfue them. Such is the condition of thofe who live 

 in the country, and along the ridge of mount Atlas; but 

 there is another and more civiliftd ciafs of them, who are, 

 •like the Moors, fettled in fome of the towns and villages, 

 and apply themf^lves to agriculture, and tfpecially to the 

 breeding of that race of horfes fo much e'.lcemcd, known to 

 us by the name of barbs, for which their country has been 

 famous all over Europe. The wild, or u andtring Arabs, 

 who range along the great Atlas and other parts of Barbary, 

 arc warlike, bold, and even defperate in all their plundering 

 excurfions; efpecially in their attempts on the large and 

 rich caravans, which go from Morocco into Egypt. The 

 Arabs of each clafs are addifted to the lludy of aitronomy 

 and allrology, to which they are difpofed by their paftoral 

 life, which affords much leifure, their clear fky, and natural 

 fuperllition. The neither f >w, reap, pla;t, travel, buy, or 

 fell, nor undertake any expedition, without previouflv con- 

 fuiting the ftars, or in other words, their almanacks, or fome 

 of the makers of them, whether they be Mahometans or 

 idolaters. 



The Turks are of all the inhabitants of Barbary the 

 feweft in number, and in all rcfpedts the word of ail the 

 three claffes; being originally no better than a wretched 

 crew of indigent, loofe, idle, and thievilh fallows, inhfted in 

 and about Conllantinople, and fcnt from thence once in three 

 years to recruit the foldiery, They are wanton and favage 

 in the exercife of their tyranny over both the Moors and 

 Arabs. They make oflentatious profeflions of Mahometan- 

 ifm; but in pradlice they negleCl and violate its precepts 

 in the moll hcentious degree, and are fo notorious for the diflb- 

 lutenefs of their manners, that they are abhorred by all true 

 Mahometans. 



The whole traft of Barbarj' from one end to the other is 

 fo excellently fituateJ for navigation and commerce, fo 

 fertile of every neceiTary of life in its variety of foils and 

 climates, fo rich in its mines of gold, filver, and other metals 

 and minerals, fo healthy, and fo populous, that it might 

 defy the whole force of Europe or Afii to reduce it, were 

 its inhabitants as induftrious as they are indolent and knavifh, 

 and were the feveral nations that inhabit it, or the feveral 

 powers to which it is fubjecled, united in one common in- 

 tereft. Shaw's Travels, paflim. Mod. Un. Hill. vol. xi. 

 p. 226, &c. vol. xiv. p. 2S8. vol. xxxvii. p. 186, &c. 



Barbary Point, the weftern point of the entrance into 

 the river, &c. of Senegal, on the coaft of Africa. N. lat. 

 15° 38'. W.long. 15° 30'. 



BARBAS, Cape, lies on the coaft of Africa, weft from 

 Cypriano river, and 26 leagues north from cape Blanco. N.lat. 

 22° 15' 30". W.long. 16"^ 40'. 



BARBASQTE, a fta-port town of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Fez, a little to the welt of Ceuta. 



BARBASTELLUS, Vespertilio, in Zoology, the 

 tailed bat, with elevated hairy cheeks, and large ears, angu- 

 lated on the lower part. (Linn. Syll. Nat. Gmehn, p. 48.) 

 Barbajldle of Buffon and Pennant. Its length is about two 

 inches from r.ofe to tail ; extent about ten inches ; upper 

 part of the body dufliy brown; under part adi coloured} 



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forehead iunk; ears broad and long, lower parts of the inner 

 fides touching each other, and thus concealing the face and 

 head when viewed in front; nofe (hort; cheeks full; end of 

 the nofe flattened; found in France. Shaw. 



BARBATA, in Entomohgy, a fpecies of Castharis 

 that i:ihabits Germany. It is of a brown colour; antenna 

 and flianks pitchy. Olivier. The down on the body is 

 changeable to a golden hue. 



Barbata, a fpecies of Cicada {Dejl:xa) of a brown 

 colour, with greenifh abdomen, and a fnowy-white woolly 

 tuft at the vent. Fabricias, Gmelin. 



Barbata, a fpecies of Phal^na that inhabits Bar- 

 bary. T!ie wings are greyirti, with a brown fpot in the 

 middle, and an obfolcte band behind. Fabricies, &:c. 



Barbata, a fpecies of Pimelia (Htl<jps Fabr.), of a 

 black colour; feelers advanced, and with the legs ytllowilh. 

 Inhabits Saxony. Fabricius. 



Barbata, in Natural Hijlory, a fpecies of Corallina, 

 about three inches in length, that giows on the fhores of 

 Jamaica. Ellis, in his work on coralline, calls it the rofary 

 or bead-coralline of Jamaica; it is the bead-band ilrirg of 

 Plunknet, and corallina major, nervo crafiiori fuciformi inter- 

 media breviora neciente of Sloane. (Hill. Jam.) This ki:;d 

 is fpecifically diilinguifhed according to Pallas, Solander, 

 and others, by being dichotomous, with cylindrical joint?, 

 the extreme ones bearded at the tips. 



Barbata, a fpecies of Nais, about one third of an inch 

 in length, that is found in wet places, in woods, and lonie- 

 times adh.ering to the hd'ix planorhh and other frefii-water 

 fnails. The lateral briftles are difpofed in tufts, and it has 

 no probofcis. (Miiller, Bonnet, &c.) The boJy is ha.iy 

 beneath, ar.d each fegment furnilhcd on both fides with four 

 divergent briftles; eyes two, and of a black colour; length 

 four hncs. 



Barbata, in Ormihokgi, a fpecies of Frisgilla that 

 lives ill the mountainous parts of Chili. This bird is about 

 the fize of a Canary-bird ; of a pale yellow colour, with green 

 v.'ings, fpotted with black and red ; and has the chin bearded. 

 It ib laid to fing delightfully, and to be capable of imitating 

 the notes of other birds with the greatell facility. The bill 

 is white at the bafe, and black at the tip; head black; chin 

 in the young bird yellow, in a few months th:s changes 

 black, and appears, when full grown, bearded; this is only 

 in the male bird, for the female has no beard, and is of a 

 cinereous colour, with a few fpots of vtllow on the wing. 

 Moh.i. Hift. Nat. Chih. Gmel. &c. 



Barbata, a fpecies of Muscicapa, of an olive-browa 

 colour above; beneath greenifli yellow; crown yellow; 

 rump yellow. A native of Cayenne; called by Buffon 

 barbichon de Cayenne ; and by Latham the whilkered Hy- 

 catcher. 



The length of this bird is five inches; bill broad, de- 

 preffed, and (horter than the whiskers. Female greenifti- 

 black, yellowilh beneath; breail brownifh; on the crown an 

 oblong yellow fpot. 



BARBATED Leaf, in Botany, is a leaf terminated by 

 a bunch of ftrong hairs. 



BARBATELLI, Bernardino, called Pochetti, in 

 Biography, a painter of hiftory, fruit, animals, and flowers, 

 was the i^ifciple of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio at Florence; and 

 from his fchool he went to Rome, where he applied with fuch 

 aHiduity, and his mind was fo engageil by the objects cf his 

 contemplation, that he neglected the neciiTary refrt;hr.itnts 

 of fleep and food. In painting the fubjeCts, to which his 

 attention was principally directed, he not only imitated but 

 equalled nature. His touch was free, light and delicate, and 

 the colouring 'of his objefts incxptcllibly tnie; and befides 



his 



