BAR 



l/hfi Me of tKem, tlicy aluay: produce tlieir titles of nobilily. 

 The race of hyrfcs is much degenerated in Nuiuitlia ; the 

 Aribs having been difcouraged from maintaining it by the 

 Tiirkifh officers, who are fure to become mafters of them. 

 The Tingitaniani and Egyptians have had the reputation of 

 prcfervintr the belt breed iaotii for fize and beauty. Some 

 of ihefc are fixteen hands hi^^h, and all of them (liaped, ac- 

 cording to their phrafe, like the antelope. The good qua- 

 lities of a Barbary horfe, belides the fuppofed one of never 

 lying down, and of (landing ftill when the rider drops his 

 bridle, are to have a long walk, and to Hop (hort, if re- 

 quired, in a full career. The Barb is very lazy and negli- 

 gent in all his motions ; he will ftumble in walking upon 

 the fmootheft ground ; his trot is like that of a cow, and his 

 gallop very low and very cafy to himfclf. This fort of horfe, 

 however, is for the moll part fmewy, nervous, and excel- 

 lently winded ; it is therefore good for a courfe, if not 

 overweighlcd. The mountain barbs, which are the largcll 

 and ftrongetl, are much elleemed ; they belong to the Al- 

 larbes, who value themfelves much upon them, and are as 

 fond of them as other nations are, fo that they are not ea- 

 fily procured. The common barbs have been ufually bought 

 in Provence and Languedoc in France, at a moderate price; 

 and many of our perfons of faihion in England have theni 

 from thence. Barbs, amongll us, fall fhort of the fwiftnefs 

 attributed to them in their native country : this may be ac- 

 counted for, partly from the fmallnefs and lightnefs of their 

 riders, and partly from their not being loaded with heavy 

 faddles and bridles, as in Europe, nor even with fhoes. An 

 Arab faddle is only a cloth girt round with a pair of light 

 ftirrups, and a fort of pummel to fullain them. 



Bo/IuiyISarbs, thofe defcending from the Englilh 

 mares, covered by barb llallions, are, by experience, con- 

 {lautly found both better fliapcd and titter for the fad- 

 dls, and llronger for fcrvice than their fires. Phil. Tranf. 

 N'' 105. 



Barbe, St. in Geography, a town of Mexico, in New 

 Bifcay, in the vicinity of which are very rich filver mines ; 

 diftant 5C0 miles N. W. from the city of Mexico. N. hit. 

 26"^ 10'. W. long. lion's'. 



Barbe, St. IJlnnds of, lie olf the mouth of Green bay, 

 and to the ea!l of cape Den, or the fouth point of White 

 bay in the Marchigonis river ; on the eatl coad of New- 

 foundland, and to tlie north of cape Bonavifta. 



Barbe, or Barlct, in the Mdllary Art. — To fire en Barbs, 

 is to lire the cannon over the parapet, intlead of through 

 the embrafures ; in which cafe the parapet rauft not be more 

 than three feet and a half high. 



Barbe, or Barde, is alfo an old term for the armour of 

 the liorfes of the ancient knig'.its and foldiers, who were ac- 

 coutred at all points. 



Delia Crufca fays, the barde is an armour of iron or lea- 

 ther, wherewith the neck, breaft, and flioulders of the horfe 

 are covered. 



BARBEAU, in Geography, a river of Canada, which 

 runs into the Utwas. N. lat. 45° 15'. W. long. 76° 20'. 



BARBED, in Heraldry, The five petals or leaves which 

 appear on the outfide of a full blown rofe are called barbs, 

 and are emblazoned thus : a rofe gules barbed SiaAfeeded pro- 

 per, the rofe is red, the barbs green, and the feeds yellow 

 or grey. 



Barbed Arrow, fignifies an arrow whofe head is 

 pointed of an angular form, and jagged. See Plate of 

 Heraldry. 



Barbed Horfe is a horle barbed at all points, that is, a 

 war-horfe completely armed, furnifhed, and accoutred. 



Barbed and Crejled, a term ufed in blazoning to exprefs 



BAR 



the comb and gills of a cock. The ufual term in the Eng. 

 lifn blazon i< combed and wattled. 



BARBE'E, or Bar3ei> Cross, is by fome called crofc 

 cramponce and tournce. See Plate of Heraldry. 



BARBEL, '\\\ Ichthyology. See Cyphn'l s Barbus. 



BARBELA, or V^rbela, in Geography, a river of Afri- 

 ca, in Congo, which joins the Zaire near its mouth, 



BARBELICOT^, in ErchfiaJlUol H'fljry, an ancient 

 fedl of Gnoltics, fpokc of by Theodoret. The doftrine of 

 the Barbclicotx was, that one of the seons, pofleffed of im- 

 mortality, had comniercc with a virgin fpirit named Barbe- 

 loth, who demanded of him, firit orefcicnce, then incorrup- 

 tibility, and lalUy cti.nial life, all which wen? granted to 

 her ; that being one day in a gayer humour than ordinary, 

 fhe conceived, and afterwards brought forth light, which 

 being perfected by the uiidlion of the fpirit, was called 

 Chrijl ; the child Chrill dcfued to have underllanding, 

 vK», and obtained it ; after which, underllanding, reafon, 

 incorruptibility, and Chrid, united together; and from 

 their union arofe autogencs, aiV,y;vr,;. To thefe fables 

 they add divers others. They were alfo denominated Bar- 

 bariani. 



BARBELLA, Emanuel, of Naples. It would be 

 unjull not to bellow a few words on this pleafing and pecu- 

 liar player on the violin of the old fchool. The father of 

 this Angular but worthy and inolfenfive charafter, was an 

 eminent performer on the violin, and leader of the opera 

 band at Naples in the beginning of the laft century, during 

 the life of Coielli, when his Icholar G^miniani arrived iu 

 that city from Rome. (Sec Corf.lli, and Gemisiani.) 

 On the firll hearing of the younger Barbella, he Ijrprifcd no 

 one who had heard Giardini and other famous violinills of 

 the new fcliools. He was not young, indeed, when the 

 parallel was drawn, and folo playing was difregarded at 

 Naples, where vocal compulition and finging were chiefly 

 cultivated in the coiifervatories, and patronized by the pub- 

 lic, f ) that teaching and orclicllra playing were Barbeila's 

 chief employment a:'d fupport ; and for the latter he was ill- 

 qualified bv the foitnefs of his tone, and the (hortncU of 

 his bow. He performed, however, moil admirably the fa- 

 mous Neapohian air, which the common people conftantly 

 play at Chriftmas to the vij-gin. Barbella executed it with 

 a drone kind of bagpipe bafe, in a very huinorous though 

 delicate manner. But as a folo player, though his tone 

 was very even and fvvcet, it was fomewhat languid and in- 

 ferior in force to that of N-^rdini of the far.it fthool, and 

 indeed to that of feveral others tiien in Italy ; but he knew 

 mufic well, had much fancy in his compofitions, with a 

 tinfture of not difagreeable madnefs. 



He was mod remarkable for his fweet and infinuating 

 marmer of playing Calahrefe, Loccefe, and Neapolitan airs, 

 and among the rell a humourous piece compoled by himfclf, 

 which he calls Titina Nomia ; it is a nurfeiy tunc, or LuU 

 laby, excellent in it6 way, and with his exprelSon, was ex- 

 tremely captivating. 



BarbtUa was the mod obliging and bed-natured of mor- 

 tals ; his tempv.T has been faid to be as foft and fweet as the 

 tone of his violin. 



In a correfpondence with the author of this article, who 

 had requeded of him an account of the Neapolitan fchool 

 of mufic, and above all, of his own ftudies ; as his anfwer 

 concerning himfelf was fliort and charafteriflic, we (hall here 

 infert a tranflation of it. 



«' Emanuele Barbella had the violin placed in his hand 

 when he was only fix years and a half old, by his father 

 Francefco Barbella. After his father's deceafe he took 

 klTons of Angelo Zaga, till the arrival of Pafquifino Bini, 



a fcholar 



