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fays of 'them, that they were trcatiftfs or exaft difr.-rtations 

 rather than harangues to pkafe the multitude ; and Dr. 

 Tillotfon, who pubhdicd them, obferves in his preface, that 

 " their own excellence and eloquence will praife thtm bell ;" 

 and king Charles II. ufed facetioufly to call him " an un- 

 fair preaeher," becaufe he (■■:l;;ui!led every fubjed, and^left 

 nothing for any perfon that came after him to fay. The 

 delivery of liis Spital fernion concerning charity, before the 

 lord mayor and aldermen, took up Vi hours ; and being 

 alked upon his leaving the pulpit, whether he was not tired, 

 he replied " yes indeed, I began to be weary with Handing 

 fo long." In his compolitions he feems, as it were, to la- 

 bour for words to exprefs the amplitude and energy of his 

 conceptions; and, on this account, his llyle is involved and 

 interrupted by parenthefes, though he fometimes intioduccs 

 pa(rages of fublime and fimple eloquence. Dr. Barrow, as 

 we may naturrdly imagine from the conrfe of his lli:die3 and 

 the charafter as well as the number of his writings, was 

 unremitting in his application. He flept little, and gene- 

 rally rofc in the winter months before day. He is faid to 

 have been intemperate in the ufe of fruit, alleging that if 

 it kills luindreds in autumn, it preferves thoufands ; and he 

 was much addiifted to the ufe of tobacco, calling it his 

 " panpharmacon," or univerfal medicine, and imagining 

 that it hclptd to compoft and regulate his thoughts. In 

 his general difpofition and conduct he was fingularly amiable 

 and pleafing. Such were his modefty and diflidence, that 

 when he underftood that his optical and geometrical leftuves 

 were to be printed in the Philofophical Tranfatlions, he re- 

 quelled that they might be introduced with merely a fimple 

 and (hort account of them, without any thing in commenda- 

 tion or difcommendation of them ; and on the occafion 

 above referred to, when his congregation dtferted him, he 

 accounted for it to a friend by faying, " I thought they did 

 not like me, or my fermon ; and I have no rcafon to be 

 angry with them for that." In converfation he was un- 

 refervcd and communicative, often facetious and cheerful, 

 and always anxious to adapt his difcourfe to different capa- 

 cities. He was charitable in a mean eftate, difuiterellLd 

 in a flourifliing one, ferene and content in all fortunes, of 

 the (Iric'lelt integrity, above all art:fice and difguife, friend- 

 ly and courteous. With thefe private virtues he combined 

 the charafler of the greatcll fcholar of his times ; and as 

 Dr. Pembsrton obferves in his preface to the " View of fir 

 I. Newton's Philofophy," " he may be efteemed as having 

 fhewn a compafs of invention equal if not fupcrior to any 

 of the moderns, fu- Ifaac Newton only excepted." The 

 chief property which he had accumulated conlilled of bpoks, 

 which were well chofen, and fold after his death for more 

 money than they coft. His own MSS in theology, were 

 committed to the care of Dr. John Tillotfon and Mr. 

 Abraham Hill, with permiffion to publilTi fucb of them as 

 they thovight proper. They firll appeared in 16S5, in 3 vols, 

 folio ; there have been feveral editions fince, and the la'l 

 was in 1741. They confill of fermons, of expofitions of 

 the creed, the Lord's prayer, and the decalogue ; of the doc- 

 trine of the facraments, and of treatifes on the pope's fupre- 

 macy and the unity of the church. A fourth volume in 

 Latin, intitled " Opufcula," was publifhed in 1687 ; and 

 conHlls of Determinationes, Condones ad Clerum, Speeches, 

 Latin poems, &c. 



Dr. Barrow was no Icfs diftingulflicd as a mathematician 

 than as a divine. The principal of his mathematical works 

 are the following : \'vi.. " Euclidis Elementa," Camb. 1655. 

 8vo., and tranllated into Englifli and publilhed at London 

 .in 1660. 8vo. In this edition of all the books and propo- 

 fiuoos of Euclid, the demonftrations are diilinguifhcdby their 



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concifenefs. " Euclidis Data," Camb. 1657. Svo., fubjoined 

 to the Elements in later editions, " Letliones Opticsc 

 XVIII.; CantabrigioE in fcho'i; publicis habits, &c." 

 Lond. 1669. 4to : this work was revifed and enlarged by 

 Newton, and has been highly commended by the bell 

 judges. " Leftiones Gcomtlric;e XIII. in quibus praefer- 

 tini gcneralia linearum curvarum fymptomata declarantur ;" 

 Lond. 1C70. 4to. : publifhed in 1672 and 1674 with the 

 "Optics," " Arcliimedis Opera ; Apollonii Conicorum 

 Libri IV. ; Tlxodolii Sphicrica, methodo nova illullrata, 

 tt fucciniSte demonllrata :" Lond. 1675, 4to.' After l)r, 

 Barrow's deceafe, were publilhed his " Lectio in qua theo- 

 rematu Archimedis de Sphsera et Cylindro, per methoduin 

 indivifibilium invtlligata, r.'Z nreviter demonihata, exhibeu- 

 tur," Lond. 1678, 121110.; and " Mathematicx I^edliones, 

 habitx in fcholis publicis Academix Cantabrigienfis," 

 Lond. 1683, Svo. Btfides thefe, Dr. Barrow left feveral 

 curious papers, written with his own hand, and communi- 

 cated by William Jones, elq. to Dr. W^ard. Hill's L'fe pre- 

 fixed to Barrow's Works. Ward's Lives of the Profcffore 

 of Gre(hani college, p. 157, &c. Biog. Brit. 



Bap.row, in Geogi-iiphy, a uoble river of Ireland, fuppofed 

 to be the Birgiis or Bngus'-.i Ptokmy. It riles in the mouii tain 

 of Sliebh-bloom in the King's county, and running for a 

 (liort fpace north-eaft, makes a kind of elbow ; and continu- 

 ing aftcnvards a fouth-eall courfe, it divides the King's and 

 QjJCLn's counties from that of Kildare. At Athy, in the 

 latter county, a branch of the grand canal frcm Dubhn to 

 the Shannon has formed a junction with it ; which con- 

 tributes much to the advantage of the adjoining country. 

 It proceeds next through the heart of the county of Car- 

 low, and then feparates thofe of Kilkenny and Wexford. 

 A little before it reaches the town of Rois, it receives 

 the Nore ; and then varying its courfe fomewhat to the well, 

 mingles its waters with thofe of the Suire, forming with it 

 the haven of Waterford. The navigation of this river has 

 been deemed of luch great importance that iiooo pounds 

 have been granted by parliament to remove fome obftruiilions 

 in it ; and a corporation eftablidied for the pur; ofe has been 

 enabled to raife 20000 1. more to render it completely navi- 

 gable. It is now (1802) expefled that boats will foon 

 regularly ply from Waterford to Athy, and thence by the. 

 grand canal to Dublin. The circumllance of the three 

 rivers Barrow, Nore, and Suire, all rifing in the fame 

 mountain, proceeding from it by diiTertnt courfes, and 

 uniting their llreams before thev fall into the fea, has been 

 mentioned by many writers. Amongft others, Spenfer has 

 noticed it in his epifode of the marriage of the Thames and 

 Mcdway (Fairy Queen, book iv. cant. 1 1.) ; in which he re- 

 prtient.s them as three brothers, fons of the giant Blomius 

 and the nymph Rheufa. He fpeaks of the Barrow as 

 abounding in falmon ; 



" The third, the goodly Barrow which doth hoord 

 Great heapes of lalmon in his deepe bofome." 

 Campbell's Political Survey, &c. &c. 



Barrow Lktk, a river of Ireland, which rtins into the 

 Barrow about 4 miles eaft. of Portarhngton. 



Barrow Harbour is an extenfive bay in that of Bonavifla 

 in the ifland of Newfoundland, divided by Keel's head on 

 the E. from the port of Bonavifta, and from Bloody bay on 

 the W. by a large peninfula joined to the itland by a narrow 

 iilhm.us, which forms Newman's found ; which,' as well as 

 Clode found, are vvilliin Barrow harbour. 



Barrov/ Point, a cape on the fouth coaft of Ireland, ia 

 the county of Cork, 5 miles eafl; of Kinfale. 



Barrov/s, ox Tumuli, in Topography, a name ufually 

 given to thofe hillocks or mounds of earth which were an- 

 ciently 



