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4^46 are wliites. The northern part of this diftrift aboundi 

 with large forefts of cyprefs ; but the lands are fit for railing 

 rice, indigo, &c. It fends twelve reprcfentatives and four 

 feiiatorsto thelegiflature of the llate. The amount of taxes 

 is ^,0221. 2s. I id. fterhng. 



I5bAUF0RT is the chief town of the above-mentioned dif- 

 triift, fituated in the ifland of Port Royal, at the mouth of 

 Coofawhatchie river. It is a plealant though fniall town, 

 having fixty houfes, and about 200 inhabitants, dillinguifticd 

 by their hofpitality and pohtenefs. It has a fine harbour, 

 and is likely to become a confiderable town. Its fituation is 

 healthy, and it is diftant about 73 miles S. W. from Charlef- 

 ton. N.ht. 32°26'. W.long. 8o°55'. 



BrAUfORT, a fea-port town of North Carolina, in the 

 connty of Carteret, and dii^ricf of Newbern, on the N. E. 

 fide of Core found. It contains about 20 lujufes, a cou:t- 

 houfe, and gaol; and the county-courts are held here. It 

 is dillant 55 miles S. E. from Newbern, and about 27 from 

 Cape Look-out. N. lat. 34° 47'. W. long. 77= 20'. 



Beaufort Iflar.d. See Port-Roval. 



BEAUGENCV, or Baugencv, a town of France, and 

 principal place of a diftrift in the department of the Loiret, 

 feated on the I^oire, over which is a bridge of 2 2 arches, 

 and trading in wine and brandy ; 4 J leagues S.W. from Or- 

 leans. N. lat. 47° 48'. E. long. i°46'. 



BEAUJEU, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a canton in the diftrict 

 of Villefranche, fituate at the foot of a mountain on the Ar- 

 diere, formerly the capital of the Beaujolois ; 4 leagues 

 N.N.W. of Viiltfranchc, and 7 E.N.E. of Roanne. N. 

 lat. 46^ 10'. E. long. 4" 40'. 



BEALTJOLOIS, a fmall but fertile province of France 

 before the revolution, now forming part of the department 

 of Ifcre, 10 leagues long, and S wide, fituated between the 

 I.vonnois, Burgundy, the Saone, and Loire. 



BEAULIEU, a pleafant village in the New Foreft, 

 Hampdiire, is diiHnguifned in the monadic hiftor)- of Eng- 

 land, for a large abbey, which was founded and endowed here 

 by king John, in 1204, for monks of the Ciftcrcian order. 

 The remains of this abbey are now confiderable ; and the 

 walls, which formerly inclofed an area of nearly twenty 

 acres, are moftly Handing. The abbot's houfe, now called 

 the Palace, has been fitted up and much modernized by the 

 predecefTor of the late duke of Montagu. This abbey pof- 

 feffed the privilege ci ftincliiary., and confequently gave re- 

 ception and protection to many villains and felons. Among 

 others, Perkin Warbeck, in the year 1498, having raifed the 

 fiegc of Exeter, and retired with his army to Taunton, fled 

 by night to this monaftery, where he and feveral of his com- 

 panions regiftered themfelves fanftuary-men. Henrj- VII. 

 was prevailed on from feizing him by force, but offered his 

 life, if he would furrender himfelf. This he complied v.ith, 

 and was brought to London, where he was confined in the 

 Tov.-er, and afterwards hung at Tybur.n for feditious prac- 

 tices. Rapin's England, vol. i. Tour round Southampton, 

 l2mo. 



Beauliev, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Correze, and chief place of a canton in the diftriftof Brive, 

 on the Dordogne, 17 miles iouth-eail of Brive. — Alfo, a 

 town of France, in the department of the Indre and Loire, 

 feated on the Indre, oppofite Loches, and containing about 

 1500 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Loiret, 4 leagues S. E. of Gien. 



BEAULiEuyid/j- /a Roci/e, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Vendee, and chief place of a canton in the 

 diftrift of Sables d'Olonne, 4I leagues N.N.E. of Sables 

 d'Olanne. 



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BEAULON, a town of France, in the department of the 

 111 and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton in the diftrict 

 of Redon, 4 leagues S.W. of Rennes. 



BEAULY, h the name of a river in Invernefbfliire, Scot- 

 land. It is formed by the junftion of three fmall llreams, 

 which concentrate near Erklcfs caftle, whence the united 

 waters flow eailerly, and after forrr.iHg the falls of Kilmo- 

 rack and other fine cafcades, they are difcharged into an 

 arm of the fea. The frith, or mouth of the river, is fix miles 

 in length and two in breadth. The banks of this river are 

 richly diverfified with fome fine natural woods, a;:d various 

 combinations of bold rocky fcenery. At one place, the ri- 

 ver divides, forming the httle ifland of Agaifn, whicli is &i 

 an oval figur;, about one mile and a iia'f in circumference, 

 and rifes gradually about 100 feet above the level of the wa- 

 ter. The Bcauly is noted f ir ito falmon finery, whofe rents 

 have lately produced fix hundred a:!d thirty-one pounds per 

 annum. 



BEAUMAN'S, or Bauman's, fjZrnJs, a clulter of 

 three iflaiids, fo called from the name of the csptain who 

 difcovered tliem, part of Roggewtin's archipelago, fituated 

 in the great Equinoctiai or Pacific ocean, in about S. lat. 12" 

 W. long. 155^ 10'. The difcovery of thefe iflands hr.s been 

 afcribed by feveral geographers to Roggewein ; and he 

 named them, in 1721, Beauman's illands. His own words 

 are thefe : " we difcovered three ilhmds at the fame time in 

 the 1 2th degree of latitude, of a very agreeable appearance ; 

 we found them Hocked with fine fruit-trees, herbs, vegeta- 

 bles, and plants of every defcription. The iflanders, who 

 came to meet our veffels, offered us all forts of fi:h, cocoa- 

 nuts, bananas, and other excellent fruit. Thefe iflands muil 

 be well-peopled, the beach being on our arrival covered 

 with many thoufands of men and wom.en, th^ greater part 

 of the former carrying bows and arrows. All the inhabit- 

 ants are white, and only differ from Europeans by fome of 

 them being much fun-burnt. They feemed good kind of 

 people, lively and gay in converfation, kind and humane to- 

 wards each other, and nothing of the favage in their man- 

 ners. Their bodies were not painted like thofe we had be- 

 fore feen ; they were clothed from the waitl to the ancle 

 with fringes of filken fluff artfully wrought ; their heads 

 were covered with hats of the fame kind, very fiae and 

 broad, to protecl them from the heat of the fun. Some of 

 thefe iflands were ten, fourteen, and even twenty miles in 

 circumference. We called them Beauman's iflands, from the 

 name of the captain of the fhip Tinhoven, who firfl: faw 

 them. It muft be confeffed (adds the author), that this is 

 the mod civihzed and honeft; nation we have met with in the 

 iflands of the South fea. All the coads of thefe iflands 

 have good anchorage, in from 13 to 20 fathoms water." 

 Sec the extraft from the hifforical account of Roggewein'* 

 voyage, written in French, in 1739, by a German of Meck- 

 lenburgh, who was on board Roggewein's fleet, in La Pe- 

 roufe's Voyage round the World, vol. ii. p. 192. Eno-. ed. 

 The other clufl;ers of iflands of Roggewein's archipelago, 

 marked in the hydrogi-aphical charts annexed to Marchand's 

 Voynge, are Roggewein and Groning, fituated a little to the 

 north of Beauman's iflands, and nearly in the fame longitude. 

 Som.e have fuppoled Beauman's iflands to be the fame with 

 fhofe which Bougainville has called " Navi^^ator's iflands ;" 

 but neither the hiilorvof the inhabitants, nor the geographical 

 pofition of the iflands, warrant this fuppofition. 



BEAUMARCHEZ, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Gers, 7 leagues weft; of Auch. N. lat. 43* 

 35'. W. long. 0° r. 



BEALTM.\RIS, or Bfaumarsh, the principal and 



countf town of the ifle of Anglcfea, North Waks, is fitu- 



K 2 ated 



