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in Kamtfcbatka, where there is no other vegetation. 



6. B. Oihnlilci, red bartfia. Hiidf. 268. Smith. Brit. 648. 

 Euphr»lia odontites, Sp. PL With. Bait. Curt. Lend. f. I. 

 t. 44. " Leaves lanceolate, ferrate, the upper alternate ; 

 flowtrs in racemes, inclining to one fide ; anthers faooth ; 

 root fibrous, annual." Stems branched, fqnare ; leaves 

 feflile, lanceolate, ferrate, fcabrous, inferior ones oppofite ; 

 raceme?! terminal, many flowered, leal'y ; flowers all on the 

 fame fide ; calyx purple, hairy, fometimes quinquefid ; co- 

 rolla rofe-colourtd ; helmet entire, lips cut into obtufe 

 equal parts ; anthers fnnooth ; capfule fomewhat comprtlfcd, 

 hairy ; feeds numerous, fmall, tlriated. Common in mea- 

 dows and pallures, flowering in July and Augull. 



BARTUS, in Geography, a town of Hunj^ary, 16 miles 

 N. W. of Palotza. 



BARUCH, iu Srriptiire Biogr.iphy, was the fon of Neriah, 

 of the tribe of Judah, and the faithful difciple and fervant 

 ■of the prophet Jeremiah, who employed him as his fecretaiy 

 or amauuenfis. This prophet, having received orders, in 

 the reign of Juhoiachim king of Judah, whilll he was in 

 prifon, to write all his prophecies till that time, dictated 

 them to Baruch, by whom they were read to the people 

 affcmbled iu tl'.e temple on occafion of the fealt of expiation, 

 B. C. 605. Baruch, terrified by the threats containtd in 

 the roll which he had read to the people, was encouraged 

 ■by an afl^iirance, that, notw'thllanding all the calamities 

 which would befall Judah and Jerufalcm, he flionld obtain 

 a dehverance. (Jer. xlv.) Archbiihop Uflier and Dr. 

 Prideaux are of opinion, that this roll was read a fecond 

 time to the people, -in the fifth year of Jchoiachim, B.C. 

 604. ; after which it was committed to the flames by the 

 king himfclf ; and the Jews keep an annual faft, even to 

 this day, in commemoration of the buniing of the roll : 

 the day marked for it in their calendar is the 29th day of 

 Cilleu, the ninth month of the Jewifli year, and correfpond- 

 ing to our November. After the burning of this roll, an- 

 other was immediately written, by God's fpecial command, 

 froi.i the mouth of the prophet, by the hand of Baruch ; 

 and to this were added many other words, and particularly 

 that prophecy with refpeft to Jchoiachim and his houfe, 

 which !S denounced againft them for this impious fad, in 

 the 30th and 3 ill verfes of the 36th chapter of Jeremiah. 

 In the fourth year of Zedckiah (B. C. 594- )i Bpvuch went 

 to Babylon with his brother Seraiah, and carried thither a 

 written account of the prophecies contained in the 50th and 

 51(1 chapters ot Jeremiali, which denounce the judgments 

 that were to be executed upon Chaldsea and Babylon by the 

 Medcs and Perfians. Baruch, having read thefe prophecies 

 to Jehoiachim and the other captives, threw the roll that con- 

 tained them into the Euphrates, as the prophet had com- 

 manded him. Baruch accompanied Jeremiah into Egvpt, 

 and after the death of the prophet, he retired to Babvlon, 

 where, according to the rabbins, he died in the I2ih yerr of 

 the captivity. The book of Biruch, contained in the Apo- 

 crypha, is an epiftie fent, or feigned to be fent, by king jc- 

 hoiachim and the Jews in captivity with him at Bsbylou, to 

 their brethren that were ftill kit in Judah and Jer'ufakm ; 

 with an hillorica! preface, in which it is related, that Ba- 

 ruch being then at Babylon, drevv up this epiftle i:i the name 

 of the king and the people, by their apnointment, and read 

 it to them for their appiobation ; and that a colhftion hav- 

 ing been made, the epiftlc with the money was fent to Jcru- 

 falem- No Hebrew copy of this book is extant ; but there 

 arc three other copies, one in Greek and the other two in 

 Syriac. The Jews have not received this book into their 

 canon ; nor Is it found in the ancient catalogues of the fcrlp- 

 tures, cited by the fathers and the councils. In the later 



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catalogues, it is annexed to the book of Jeremiah, and cited 

 by foi.ie of the fathers as a pan of Jerem.iah. St. Jeiomc 

 (Prsef. in Jerem.) exprefsly rejefts it out of the canon ; 

 nor does he tranflate it, becaufe it was not in Hebrew, nor 

 received by the Hebrews. On the other hand, St. Cyril of 

 Jerufalem, and the Laodicean council held A. D. 364, 

 mention Bsruch among the canonical books of fcripture. 

 In both the catalogues which they have given, thefe words 

 occur : " Jeremias cum Barr.ch Lamentationibus et Lpif- 

 tola." But it has been alleged, that by thele words tliL-y 

 meant to exprefs no more than Jeremiah's prophecies r.nd 

 lamentation ; that by the epillle, is meant merely the epKUe 

 in tlie 29th ch;ipter of Jereirlah ; and that the name of 

 Baruch is added^ only becanlc he h?.d collected thefe to-^^c- 

 ther, and annexed the lail chapter, which is fuppofed to be 

 Baruch's, the prophecies of Jeremiah ending with the 5 lit 

 chapter, as it ii pofitively faid in the lall words of it ; and 

 it mull be acknowledged, fays Dr. Prideaux, that as ndtr.er 

 in St. Cyril, nor in th.e Laodicean council, any of the otl-.er 

 apocryphal books are named, it is very unlikely that by the 

 name of Baruch, in either of them, ihoukl be meant the apo- 

 cryphal book under this title, which has the lead preteuce 

 of any of them to be canonical. Although the church of 

 Rome has admitted it, ard its authority has been fanciioncd, 

 after fome hefitation ai.d difficulty, by the canon of the 

 council of Trent, it is configned by Proteftants to the 

 clafs of apocryphal books. Prid. Conn. pt. i. b. i. vol. i. 

 p. 87, &c. Dupin's Eccl. Hill. vol. i. p. 28. 



BARUCO, or Barica, Capf, in Geogt-aphy, is the weft- 

 ern peint of GoHo Dulce, or Frcfh-wacer bay, and diltant 

 from it about 4 leagues, on the S. \V. fide of the illhmiis 

 of Panama, in the Northern Pacific ocean, 8. S. E. from 

 Cano ifland, and S. E. from the gulf of Salinas. N. lat. 

 8'' 20'. 



EARUD, the name of feveral fmall places of Egypt, 

 on the eafl and well fide of the Nile, fituate not far from 

 Manfalout, Siout, and Dendera. 



BARVER, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 

 phalia, and county of Diepholz, 6 miles E. N. E. of Die- 

 pholz. 



BARVILISKI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 

 of Troki. 28 miles S. W. of Troki. 



BARULES, in Church H'y'lory, a fc6l which maintained 

 that the Son of God had only a phantom of a body ; that 

 fouls were created before the world, and that they lived all at 

 one time. 



BARUM, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 circle of Lower Saxony, and principality of Luneburg ; 

 10 miles fouth of Luneburg. 



BARUTH, in Com:i:erce, an Indian meafure containii-g 

 17 gantans; it ought to weigh about three pounds and a 

 half avoirdupois. 



Baruth, in Geography. See Bairout, and Bery- 



TUS. 



Baruth, a town of Germany, in th ■ circle of Upper 

 Saxony, 22 miles S. S. E. of Putzdain, and 34 N. E. of 

 Wittenberg. 



BARWICK, F?.Tt^,{n I];ogrnphy, of a refpea^ble fa- 

 mily of Witherflack in Wcllmorlaiid, was at a proper age 

 admitted of St. John's college in Cambridge, where, in 

 1642, he took his degree of Bachelor in Arts. Qiiitting that 

 feminary during the troubles which at that time diilurbed 

 the country, he was entertrlued at the houfc ot Mr. Sache- 

 verel of LeicelUrfliire, as tutor to hib fon. In 1665, he took 

 his degree of Doctor in jNIedlclne, and foon after was made 

 phyfieiaii in ordinary to king Chaiks H. ; which occa- 

 fioncd him to come to London, where he foon acquired 



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