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bitants; 3 leagues S.W. of Ncgaro, and 9I W.N.W. of 

 Miiande. 



BARCELORE, a fca-port town of the Eaft Indies, on 

 the coaft of Malahar, between Goa and Mangalore, in a 

 ■dilliidt ceded to the Brilifli by the treaty of 1799- It has a 

 good harbour, and the Dutch had formerly a fatlory in this 

 place, which carried nn a confiderable trade in pepper. 

 K. lat. 1 3° 36'. E. long. 74° 45'. 



BARCELOS, a town of Portugal, with the title of a 

 duchy, in the province of Entre Duero e JVIinho, ni.t far 

 from the fea, on the river Cavado, 8 miles W. of Braga. 

 N.lat. 41° 20'. W.long. 7°o'. 



BARCES, or Bkrches, were fonnerly a kind of (liip 

 guns, not unlilie fakers, only fhorter, thicker in metal, and 

 wider bored. 



BARCHIN, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Kerman, 120 miles S. E. of Sirgian. 



BARCHOCHEBAS, or Caziba, in Biography, a falfe 

 Mtffiah oi the Jews, who taking advantage of tlie auimo- 

 Jitv excited among his countrymen by the profanations of 

 the emperor Adrian, when he founded his new city of /Elia 

 en the ruins of Jeruialem, about the year 134, afl'umed the 

 name of Barchocal, or child of the Siar, in allulion to a pro- 

 phecy of Balaam (Numb. xxiv. 17.) and pretended to be the 

 long-expefted deliverer of his nation. He chofe for his 

 precurfor the famous Akiba ; and collefting together an 

 army of 200,000 men from among the banditti who then 

 ■ jnfefted Juda;a, took poffeflion of the itrong town of Bithcr, 

 called by St. Jerom Bethoron, between Cafarea and Diof- 

 polis, which he fortified as the place of his retreat and the 

 capital of his newly -projefted kingdom. Here he was 

 anointed king, and eaufed money to be coined in his own 

 name, by which he proclaimed himfclf the McfTiah and prince 

 of the Jewidi nation. However he deferred declaring war 

 againft the Romans, till Adrian had quitted Egypt, lo that 

 it did not break out till the 17th year of that emperor's 

 reign. Adrian fcems at firft to have neglefted this new re- 

 volt ; but when he perceived that it was likely to become 

 formidable, he fent Tinnius Rufus w'ith a ftrong reinforce- 

 ment to quell it This force being infufficient to reftrain 

 the depredations of thefe banditti, who m-affkered all the 

 Romans and ChrilHans that fell in their way., Julius Severus 

 w. s recalled from Britain, and fent at the head of an army 

 a:;r'n(l; the impoftor. This general laid fiege to Bither, 

 which was refolutely defended, till Barcl^ochebas was (lain. 

 The town was then carried by ftorm, and this event, which, 

 according to Euftbius, happened in the iSth year of Adrian, 

 was followed bv a moil dreadful flaughter of the Jews. 

 Crevicr's Rom. Emp. vol.vii. p. 188, &c. Bafnage, Hid. 

 des Juifs. 1. vii. c. 12. Mod. Un. Hift. vol. x. p. 437. &c. 

 Bee Akiba. 



BARCHUL, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 country of Granada, five leagues from Guadix. 



BARCHUSEN, or Barkhausen, John Conrade, 

 in Biography, a learned phyfician and chtmifl, was born at 

 Home ia the county of Lippe, in 1666. After a liberal 

 education, and a courle of travelling through the principal 

 cit:es of Germany with a view to his improvement in phar- 

 macy and chcraiftry, he became phyfician to the Venetian 

 general in his expedition to the Morea in 1694 > ■'"^ °" his 

 return fettled at Utrecht, where Lc obtained permiflion to 

 teach chemilli-y, in wliich employment he continued till the 

 time of his deatii in 17 17. His charafter was diitinguilhed 

 by integrity and zeal for public good, as well as by indefati- 

 gable attiduity in the pnrfuit of knowledge ; without pof- 

 ftifing any very extraordinary {hare of genius or folidity of 

 judgment. His works art, " Synopfis Pharmactutica," 



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Frankf. 1690, and Utrecht, 1696, 8vo. ; " Pyrofophia," 

 Leyd. 1698, 410. enlarged and publilhed at Leyden in 

 1771, under the title of " Elementa Chemix" &c. " Acroa- 

 maat ad Jatrochymiam & Phyficam Speftantia," Utr. 

 1703, 8vo. ; " Hiiloria Medicinas," Amil. 1710, 8vo. ; 

 publiilied with enlargements under the title of " De 

 Medicinse ortu et progrefTu Differtationes," &c. Utr. 

 1723, 4to. in which work an account is given of all the 

 fefts and theories of medicine from the earlieft times to the 

 author's own age, but with lefs accuracy, efpecially in re- 

 lation to the ancient writers, th.an thofe of Le Clerc and 

 Fr«ind ; " Synopfis Pharmacix-," Leyd. 1712, 4to ; " Com- 

 pendium Ratiocinii Chemici," Leyd. 171Z, 410; " Col- 

 leda Medicinse Prafticae Generalia, et Dialogus de optima 

 Medicorum fefta," Amft. 17 15, 8vo. HallerBib.Med. Praft. 



BARCINO, in Ancknt Geography, a town of Hifpania 

 Tarraconenfis, and capital of the Laletani ; now Barce- 

 lona. 



BARCLAY, Barcley, or Barklay, Alexander, 

 in Biography, an elegant Britifli writer of the 16th century, 

 was a native either of England or Scotland, but probably of 

 the latter country. About the year 1495, he came to Oriel 

 college, Oxford, and having diftinguifhed himfelf bv his 

 parts and learning, he travelled on the continent and acquired 

 a competent knowledge of the languages fpoken in Hol- 

 land, Germany, Italy, and France. On his return to Eng- 

 land, he became one of the pricfts of St. Mary Ottery in 

 Devonfliire, and afterwards a monk of the monaftcry of Ely. 

 After the dilfolution ot this monailery in 1559, he was pre- 

 fented fucceffively to feveral livings, the laft of which were 

 thofe of Bnddow-Macjna in ElFcx, and of Allhallows in 

 London. He was honoured with the degree of doftor in 

 divinity. He died at a very advanced age at Croydon in 

 Surry, in June 1552. Different accounts have been given 

 of his charafter. Bale, the proteftant, treats his memory 

 with indignity, and charges him with being a fcandalous 

 adulterer, whilft he led a fingle life^ but Pitts, the papifl, 

 affures us that he dircfted his fludies to the icrvice of reli- 

 gion, and employed his time in reading and writing the lives 

 of the Saints. Thefe accounts, however, are not altogether 

 incompatible. As an improver of Englifh literature, his 

 merits are acknowledged ; and his induftry in enriching our 

 language with many tranflations, written in a ftyle more pure 

 and fluent than that of hi? contemporaries, entitles him to 

 grateful commemoration. Some of the principal of his works, 

 of which there is no complete catalogue, are the " Mifera: 

 Canalium," or " Eclogues on the Miferies of Courtiers," 

 compiled by iEneas Silvius ; the " Eclogues of Baptid 

 Manman ;" the " Caille of Labour," from the French ; a 

 treatife " Of Virtues," by Mancini ; feveral " Lives of 

 Saints ;" the " Jugurthine war" of Salluft ; a " Treatife 

 againft Skelton," who was poet laureat, and a great enemy 

 to priefts ; and the moll popular of all his works, the " Na- 

 vis Stultifera" or " Ship of Fools," which is a free tranfla- 

 tion, with confiderable additions, from a work under the 

 fame title, by Sebaftian Brantius ; this is a fatiricd work, 

 adorned with many piiflures printed from wooden cuts ; it 

 paffed through feveral editions, and was firft. printed at 

 London by Richard Pynfon, in 1 509. in fmall folio, again 

 in 15 19, and in 4.to. in 1570. Gen. Did. Biog. Brit. 



Bar.clay, William, a learned civilian, was born in 

 Abcrdeenfhire in 1541, and delcendcd from one of the bed 

 families in Scotland'. After the captivity of Mary queen 

 of Sects, by whom he was favoured, he retired to France 

 about the year 1573, and then by clofe application became 

 a proficient in the knowledge of the civil law, fo that he 

 obtained a profeiTorfliip in that fcience in the univerfity of 



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