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Ireland which he had projefted. After his return to Wiilss, 

 tu 118-, he wrote and revifed hi;; " Topocjrapliy of Ire- 

 land;" and at Oxford, he publicly recited the three parts 

 of the work on three fucceffive days, fealling on the iirll 

 day all the poor of the city, on the fccor.d the principal 

 doctors and fcholars, and on the third fcholars of inferior 

 rank, folJiers, and bnrgcfles. In the following year he ac- 

 companied Baldwin of Canterbnry in a journey thror..t;-li the 

 mouiitnii]0\is parts of Wales, for the purpofe of inculcating 

 on t!ie people the nccelfity of a crufade ; and he was thus 

 furnilhcd with materials for his " Itiucrar)- in Wales," which 

 he afterwards publilhed. At this time Girald took the crofs ; 

 but being othirwife employed at home, he obtained a dif- 

 pcnfatlon from ihe pope's legate for not purfning his voyage 

 to tlie Holy Land in the retinue of king Richard I. Upon 

 fome dilgnll, he retired from court in 1 192, and lookup 

 liis abode for fix or fevcn years at Lincoln, where he pur- 

 fued his theological ftudios and compoftd various writings. 

 In 1 198, he was folicited by the chapter of St. David's, 

 and the chief men of the country, to canvafs for the vacant 

 fee ; but in declining it, he made ufe of a faying which has 

 become memorable ; " Virum epifcopaleni peti, non petere, 

 debcre," i. e. a man fit for a bilhoprick ought to be fued to, 

 and not fue. However, he foon changed his mind ; for 

 being next year unanimoudy cliofen by the chapter, he w-ent 

 over to Irtiand to engage his relations in fupport of his 

 claim. But during his abfcnce, a mandate was iffncd from 

 the archbifliop and jufticiary tor the election of Geoflroy 

 the prior of Llanthony. Girald appealed to the pope ; 

 and after much delay and three journics to Rome, he only 

 fo far prevailed as to annul the election, and to obtain the 

 appointment of a new choice. Geoflroy was at length the 

 fnccclsful candidate ; upon which Girald rcfigned his arch- 

 deaconry of Brechin to his nephew, and withdrawing from 

 public concerns, devoted himfelf to his (ludies. In 1215, 

 he was offered the bifhopric of St. David, but the ofier was 

 connected with conditions which he did not approve. The 

 time of his death has not been prccifely afcertaintd ; but it 

 18 known that he was alive after the year 1220. 



Giraldus Cambrenfis was a voluminous writer ; and there 

 •were few of the literary topics of his age that did not employ 

 his pen. According to the account given of him by Mr.Tho- 

 mas Wharton (Hill, of Poetry, diiT. ii.), he was an hiftorian, 

 an antiquary, a topographer, a divine, a philofophcr, and a 

 poet. Many of his works, he fays, are written with fome de- 

 gree of elegance, and he abounds with quotations fromthebefl; 

 Latin poets. But his ftyle is in general puerile, affcfted, dif- 

 fufe, and full of quibbles and conceits : neverthelefs, many of 

 tliefe defcfts mull be attributed to the times in whicli he 

 lived. Whatever may be thought of the vanity wliich he 

 manifells in fpeaking of liimfclf, of his family, and of h's 

 performances, he was without doubt in a very great degree 

 credulous, and fo much addiAed to fables, that his (late- 

 ircnt of facts is in many cafes unworthy of confidence. 

 With the events recited in his " Hiftory of the Conqncll of 

 Ireland," he has intermixed all the prophecies he could col- 

 left of Caledonius, Merlin, and various other impollors ; 

 and hence he was led to give to his hiftory the title of " Va- 

 ticinal." This work, and alfo his " Topographia Hiber- 

 nica," have been charged by the Irifli writers with numerous 

 miilakes and falfehoods. They were firll printed by Cam- 

 den, at Frankfort, in 1602. His " Itinerarinm Cambrine" 

 was printed with the annotations of David Powel. The 

 purpofe of his " Ecclefi^ fpeculuni, iive de monallriis ordi- 

 nJbus, ex ecclcfiafticis religion!' us variis diftinftionum. lib. 

 iv." was to expofe the vices of the m.onks, again 11 whom 

 lie had conceived an inveterate hatred, fo that he was ac- 



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cuAomed to add to his litany, " From the malice of the 

 monks, good Lord, deliver us." Biog. Brit. 



Barry I/ln'ir/, in Gecgrophy, the wellernmoft of two 

 iflands off Cardiff point, on the coail of Wales, in the 

 county of Glamorgan. 



BAKr.v'.r Point, a prcjecSiiig head land, on the weft fid« 

 of Little Ifland, up Cork haibour. 



Barry, in Heraldry, is when the fiiield is divided into 

 equal parts horizoritaliy, cor.fiiling of two colours : or thus, 

 barry of fix, argent and fablj. 



Barky Bauh Counterchc.n^cii, is when the bars are crofftd 

 by lines bend wife. See FL:!c of PartiUon lines. 



Barry Indented, is udie!! the lines which tvofs the field 

 to form the bar are indented. 



Barry Wavy and Barn Nchule, arc formed in the fame 

 manner by the lines being -wavy ucbuli. 



Barry JLozengi: Coimlerchanged, is when the bars are 

 croffcd by lines bendwife, dexter and finiller. See Plate as 

 above. 



Barry P'lly, is when the bars are charged with pilej. 

 See Plate as above. 



BARRYERAS Vermellias, in Geography, is a large 

 bay, with very good anchoring on the coatl of Brafil, between 

 St. John's ifiand and Sypomba ifland, 7 leagues north-tail 

 from it ; fituate in about 2" S. lat. and S. E. of the mouth 

 of the great river Amazons. 



BARS, a town of Hungary, and chief place of a county 

 of the fame name, eight miles weft of LeveiUz. 



Bars, or Barco, Cape, lies on the call fide of the paf- 

 fage into the White fea, and to Archangel, from the N.W. 

 and is the north point of the gulf of Mczene. N. lat. 66* 

 30'. E. long. 41^45'. 



BARSA, in Anc'unt Geography, an ifland near the coaft 

 of France, mentioned in the Itinerary of Atitoniue. See 

 IJle of Bas. 



BARSALIUM, a town of Afia, feated on the banks 

 of the Euphrates, on the eaft of Saniofata. 



BARSALLACH Point, in Geography, a cape of Scot- 

 land, on the coaft of the county of Wigton, in Luce bay, 

 8 miles N. \y. of Burrowhead. 



BARSALLI, a kingdom of Africa, bordering orr tlie 

 river Gambia, and inhabited by a tribe of negroes called 

 Jaloffs. The government of this kingdom is a defpotic 

 monarchy ; and the people are in fuch an abjeft ftate of 

 fubniifTion, that they fall on their faces whenever any one 

 of the royal family appears. In time of war, eveiy foldier 

 has his (liare of booty ; and the king contents himi'elf with 

 a very moderate portion. The kingdom is divided into a 

 nutnber of provnices, over which the king appoints gover- 

 nors, called " bnmeys," who pay him. an annual homage 

 and fend a certain tribute or revenue to the exchequer. 

 Thefe bunicys, though powerful and abfolute within their 

 rcfpeftive jr.rildidtion, are fubjetl to the abfolute dominion 

 of the fovtreign. The king maintains his defpotic power 

 fo com.pletely, that he admits of no other counfellor bcfides 

 his prime minifter, who is himfelf in reality his prime (lave. 

 This minifter is alfo the general of the king's forces, and 

 the interpreter of his will, from the very letter of which he 

 muft never deviate. The ki:!g and court profefs the Ma- 

 hometan religion, though they pay little regard to that part 

 of it which foibids the ufe of wine ; for the king cannot 

 live without brandy, nor is he ever more devout than when 

 he is drunk. When he ftands in need of a frelh fupply 

 ot brandy, or of any other neceflary, he fends to the go- 

 vernor of James fort, begging that he will difpatch a boat 

 with the merchandize for which he has occafion ; and for 

 the payment he plunders the neighbouring towns, and fei/.es 



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