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B E A 



». TIIO. Our nobility had formerly of5cers of this kind. 

 The annual falary of one of them belonging to the fifth earl 

 of Northumberland was twenty fliillings. Northumb. Houfe- 

 hold Book. 



BEAR-Triie, in Geography, one of the tribes into which 

 the American Indians of the Six-Nations are diilributed. 

 See Six-Natioks. 



Bear, Order of the, was a military order in Swiflerland, 

 ereded by the emperor Frederic II. in IZ13, by way of ac 

 knowledgment for the fervice the Swifj had done him, and 

 in favour of the abbey of St. Gal. To the collar of the or- 

 der, which was a gold chain interlaced with a chaplet of oak- 

 leaves, hung a medal of gold, on which was reprefented a 

 bear raifcd on an eminence of earth ; or a bear fable on a 

 ground vert. 



BEAR-ferrv, in Botany, See Arbutl'S. 



TtiAi.-bind. See Convolvulus. 



"EitA?.'! breech. See Acanthus. 



EearV ears. See Primula Auricula. 



BearV ears fan'icle. See Verbascum. 



Bear'j_/</»/. See Helleborus. 



Y>t. Kv^-a-hand, a naval tenn, fynonymous with make hade, 

 or difpatch. See Bearing. 



Bear'j Bay, in Geography, or Little Port, lies at the eaft 

 end of Anticolli ifland, at the mouth of the river St. Law- 

 rence, in North America. 



BearV Bay, or IVhite Bear Buy, is a very deep bay on 

 the fouth coall of the ifland of Newfoundland, towards its 

 weft end. 



Bear'j- Cape, the fouth-eaft point of St. John's iOand, near 

 Nova Scotia, in North America. N. lat. 45'' 53'. W. long. 

 62=40'. 



Bear Cove, lies on the eaft: fide of the fouth-eaftern cor- 

 ner of the ifland of Newfoundland, at the head of which is 

 the fettlement of Formofe. It is a good fifhing-place for 

 boats. Reneau's rocks are fituated between Bear-Cove and 

 Frefti-water bay on the fouth, 32 miles northerly from cape 

 Race. 



Bear Greet, a water of TennelTee river. See Occo- 



CHAPPO. 



Bear'.; Grafs Greet, a fmall creek on the eaftern fide of 

 Ohio river, north of the town of Louifville, in Kentucky, 

 and near it. A canal is propofed to be cut from this creek 

 to the rapids of the Ohio, which would render the naviga- 

 tion of this river fafe and cafy. The country on the fide of 

 this creek, between Salt river and Kentucky river, is rich 

 and beautiful. 



Bear Ifland, an ifland near the entrance of Bantry bay, 

 in the county of Cork, Ireland. It is about fix miles long, 

 and is ver)- coarfe, mountainous, and rugj-ed, but is of great 

 sfe in defending this noble bay from the fury of the fouth- 

 weft winds, fo that veficls within the ifland mav ride fecure. 

 N. lat. 51^ 35'. W. long. 9° 45'. The whole 'bay was for- 

 merly called B.arbuvcn ; but this name is now confined to 

 that part between the ifland and the peninfula of Bear, on 

 which is the fmall town of Caftleton. Smith's Cork. Beau- 

 fort. .See Bantrv. 



Bear, and Bantry, the name of a barony in the wcftern 

 part of the county of Cork, Ireland, which is very moun- 

 tainous, and with the adjoining parts of Carbery and Muf- 

 kcrry, is the pooreft and Icaft improved part of the county. 



Bear, North, a fmall ifland in St. James's bay, Hudfon's 

 bay. N. lat. 54° 40'. W. long. 80''. — .Another fmall ifland 

 in the fame bay is called South Bear. N. lat. 54° 35'. W. 

 long. 80°. 



Bear, or Cherry, Ifland, lies on the coaft of Greenland. 

 K.lat. 74° 28'. E. long. 17° 58'. 



Bear Late, Great, is fituated in the north-weft part of 

 North America, near the Arctic circle, in N.lat. 65°, and 

 W. long. 121° ; and a river flows from it in a W.N.W. 

 courfe, called Great Bear river, which runs into Mackenzie's 

 river. 



Bear Late, Blact, lies in New South Wales, north-weft 

 from Cumberland huufe. N. lat. 53° 30'. W. long. 107^^30'. 



Bear Late, ll^hite, lies due weft from another fmall lake 

 called Bear lake, both in N. lat. 48^ 15' ; and the former in 

 W. long. 98^ 30'. Thefc lakes are faid to give rife to the 

 river Miflifippi. 



Bears, IVhhe, Point of, the eaft point of St. Peter's ri- 

 ver, on the coaft of Labrador, in North America, fo called 

 from the great number of bears that were feen there. N. 

 lat.jiS'5'. W. long. 55° 30'. 



Bear'j- Port, one of the ports on the coaft of Nova 

 Scotia, in North America, between port and cape de I' 

 Heve to the north-eaft, and cape Sable, the fouth-weft 

 point of Nova Scotia. 



Bear River, a river of the north-weft part of North Ame- 

 rica, which runs into the Unjigah, or Peace river, in N. lat. 

 56" 12'. W. long. 119° 28'.' 



Great Bear River. See Bear Late. 



Bear Rods, Neiu, are fituated about fouth by weft from 

 the extreme weft point of the ifland of Jamaica. N. lat. iG^ 

 20'. W.long. 78^55'. 



Bear Sound, or Barfund, lies on the weft coaft of Weft 

 Greenland. N. lat. 62'^ 20'. W. long. 49°. 



Bear Town, a town of America, in Caroline county, 

 Maryland, about 7 miles north of Greenfburg, and about 

 15 fouth-eaft from Cheftcr-town. 



Bear,/o, denotes to bring forth young, or to produce fruit. 



BEARALSTON, in Geography. See Beeralston. 



BEARD, John, in Biography, an energetic Engliflt 

 finger, and an excellent a<ftor, was brought up in the king's 

 chapel. He knew as much of mufic as was ntccffary to fing 

 a Angle part at fight, and with a voice that was more power- 

 ful than fweet, he became the moll ufeful and favourite 

 Criger of his time, on the ftage, at Ranelagh, at all concerts; 

 and in Handel's oratorios, he had always a capital part ; be- 

 ing by his knowledge of mufic the moft fteady fupport of the 

 chorufes, not only of Handel, but in the odts of Green and 

 Boyce. Having married for his fecord wife a daughter of 

 Rich, the patentee of Covent-garden theatre, upon the death 

 of his father-in-law, he became manager of that play-houfe, 

 and difcontinied all public finging ; which a deafncfs that 

 had been long encreafiiig rendered necefiary. His firft m.ar- 

 riage was with a lady of quality, a fifter of the late Earl of 

 V.'algrave, to whom he was a very indulgent and tender huf- 

 band ; and he proved hiinfeltto be a man of honour and prin- 

 ciple in every tranfaclion of his life. There were fo much in- 

 telligence and humour in his afting.and finging comic parts 

 on the ftage, and Scots and Irifti ballads in private, as wlU 

 compenfated for deficiencies of voice. He was cloi;rly united 

 by friendfliip to Dr. Boyce, in the performance of whofe 

 mufic he manifcfted a zeal and even a partiality which were 

 not difcoverable lor that of any other compoler. He died 

 in 1791. 



Beard, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of Nievre, and chief place of a canton in the ditlria 

 of Decize, on the Loire ; 10 miles S. E. of Nevers. 



Beard, in Phyfwlogy, the hair growing on the chin, and 

 adjacent parts of the face ; chiefly of adults and males. 



Various have been and i^ill are the ceremonies and cuftonw 

 of different nations with regard to the beard : Kingfon aftuves 

 us, that a confiderable branch of the religion of the Tartars 

 confifts in the management of their beards ; and that they 



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