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fee of a bifhop, a corregidor, and a governor. It was taken 

 from the Moors in 1 1G2. N. lat. 37' 58'. W. long. 7" 20'. 



BEJA, a large extent of country in Abyflinia, lying be- 

 tween the northern tropic and the mountains of Abyffinia, 

 reaching from Mafuah along the coad of the Red Sea to 

 Suakem ; then turning wellvvard, and continuing in that 

 direftion, with the Nile on the fouth, the tropic on the 

 north, to the dtferts of Selima, and the confines of Libya 

 on the well. See Abyssinia. 



Beja of Tunis. See Bay-jah. 



BEJAD, a village of Egypt, oppofite to Bcnifuiicf, 

 partly inhabited by Copts. 



BEJAPOUR, or VisiAPOUR., a confidcrable city of 

 Hindollan, and once the capital of a large kingdom of the 

 fame name. It is now in the handj of the Poonah Mnhrat- 

 tas ; diftant 234 miles from Bombay, from Calcutta by the 

 Circars, 1183, and by Aurungabad 1216, from Delhi 916, 

 from Hydrabad 269, from Madras 534, from Poonah 136, 

 from Seringapatam 405, from Benares 876, and from Agia 

 825 miles. N. lat. 17^ 28'. E. long. 75° 27'. 



BEJAR, afmall town of Spain in the province of Edre- 

 madura, feated in the midft of a pleafant valley between high 

 mountains, whofe tops are continually covered with fiiow. 

 It is famous tor its baths, and in its vicinity is a lake, which 

 is faid to prefage bad weather by an uuufual agitation. It 

 was raifed into a duchy in 144S. 



Bejar dc Melena, or Bcjer, a town of Spain, in Andalufia, 

 near the ftraits of Gibraltar, 8 leagues fouth oi Cadiz. 



BEJARIA, fo called by Mutis, in honour of Bcjar, a 

 Spanilb botanift, in Botany. Liu. Gen. Reich, n. 64S. 

 Schreb. 811. Jufl". 159. CXdiii znd ovAtr, doiiecanJiia mono- 

 gynia. Nat. Ord. h'lcorncs. Rhododc-ndra, Jufl". Gen. Char. 

 Cal. perianth one leafed, gibbous downwards, fubventricofc, 

 feven-cleft ; divifions fubequal, ovate, acute, converging, 

 fmall ; the outer ones broader, permanent. Cor. petals fcven, 

 oblong, broader above, obtufc, patulous, inferted into the 

 receptacle. Stum, filaments fourteen, fubulatc, rather Ihorter 

 than the corolla, alternately lefs ; anther oblong, incum- 

 bent. Pi/l. germ fuperior ; ftyle columnar, middle-fixed, 

 permanent; lligma thickith, fcven-ftriated. Per. berry juice- 

 lefs, feven-cornered, depreflcd, umbilicate, feven-ccUcd. Seeds 

 numerous, columnar-oblong, imbricate. 



Eflent. Char. Ca/. feven-cleft. Petals feven. Stam. four- 

 teen. Berry feven-ccllcd, many feeded. 



Species, I. Tj. ir/Iuans. Mutis Amer. i. t. 7. "Leaves 

 lanceolate, flowers in racemes." A (hrub twelve feet high, 

 with roundilb fpreading branches. A native of Mexico. 

 Found in New Granada by Mutis, 2. B. refinnfa. Mutis 

 Amer. i. t. 8. " Leaves ovate, flowers heaped." A tree 

 with piohferous branches, and an irregular, tender, fubpu- 

 befcentbark; corolla purple, very refmousorvifcid. Found 

 in New Grenada by Mutis. Thefe have a peculiar bitter 

 flavour, and are allied to the rhododendrum. The name 

 ■WciS erroneoufly made" Befaria" by Linnrens. 



BEIBENIjE SlelU, in Allroifjitf;, a name given by fiime 

 aftronomers to the pnacipal fixed liars in each conftellatiun. 



The appellation is more particularly given to the ftars of 

 the fir!l magnitude, othcrwife called the hearts, cordn, of the 

 feveral conittllations ; though fome would dillinguirti be- 

 tv<een cordd, and he'ileKiis JlUiC, reflraining the former to 

 ftais only of the firll magnitude, and extending the latter 

 to feveral of the fecond, or even third. 



Hermes has a treatife exprefs Dc Stellis Bcibcnlis, pub- 

 liihcd by junftinus, in hisSpcculum AIlrologicum,and nlfo in 

 hii commentaries upon Jo. de Sacrobofco's book De Sphjcra. 



BEICHI^INGEN, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the circle of Upper Saxony, mid country of Thuringia, 

 6 miles S. W. of Wlehe. N. lat. ji° 20'. E. long. 1 1° jc'.' 



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BELLA, a town of Italy, in Piedmont. N.Iat.45' z'. 

 E.long. 7-45'. 



BEILAM, a town of Syria, S. E. of Scandcroon or 

 Alexandretta. N. lat. 36° 26'. E. long. 36=" 31'. 



BEILNGRIES, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Franconia, and bifhopric of Aichlladt, at the condux of 

 the Attmnhl, and the Soulz, 16 miles north of Ingolftadt. 



BEILSTEIN, a fmall town and citadel of Germany, 

 in the Rhenish circle, and capital of a iordlhip to which it 

 gives name, comprifing about fifty villages, in the princi- 

 pahty of Naflau Dillcnburg ; j miles fouth of Diiienburg. 

 Tlie lordfliip belongs to tiie princely houfe of Naffau-Orangc 

 Dietz, M'hich enjoys, in confcquence of it, a feat and voice ut 

 the diets of the ckdoral Rhcnifh circle. N, lat. ^0° 31'. 

 E. long. 8' ri. — Alfo, a fmall town of Germany, in the 

 duchy oF Wiirtemberg. In 11^93, it w'as buna by the 

 Fiench. Its diitrift cornprehcr.d? leveral villages. 



BKILUL, a to-.wi of Abyflima, lituate on the Red Sea 

 north of Affab. N. lat. 14". E. long. 41" 58'. 



BEINA, a river of Norway, in the government of 

 Chrillianja, which nms mto the lake of Sperdillon ; and 

 ferves for exporting timber. 



BEIN.'\C, a town of France, in the department of 

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

 8 miles fouth of Tulle. 



BEIN.\SCHI, Giovanni Battista, in Biography. 

 an hiftorical painter, was born in Piedmont in 1634, and 

 lludied at Rorr.e under Pictro del Po, and as fome fay, waa 

 afterwards a difciple of Lanfnnc. He died in 1688. Bei- 

 nafchi was an admirable defigner, of a lively invention, and 

 not only expeditious, but correft. As an acknowledg- 

 ment of his merit, he received the honour of knighthood. 



BEIXASCO, in Geography, a town of Piedmont, 45 

 miles S.S.W. of Turin. 



BEINDGHURA, a town of Hindoftan, in the dlf- 

 trift of Ber.capour, part of the territory of the Mahrattas, 

 N. lat. ij' 15'. E. long. 75° 11'. 



BEING, in MetaphyfiCi, includes not only whatfoever 

 aftnally is, but whatlbever can be. It is the finl and moll 

 obvious, the moft fimple and natural conception that we 

 can frame of any thing which wc fee, hear, feel, or know. 

 It is in fome fenfe comprehended in all our other concep- 

 tions of tilings, and is therefore the m.oft general or univerfal 

 of all our ideas. By the afl'eclions of being, are meant all pow- 

 ers, properties, accidents, relations, paflions, difpofitions, in- 

 ternal qualities, external adjunflrs, confiderations, conditions, 

 or circum'lances whatfoever ; or, in a word, all thofe modes 

 which belong to things, either as they are in themfelves, or 

 as they ilaud in relation to other things, or as they are repre- 

 fented or modified by our ideas and conceptions. The 

 various kinds of beings have been referred by writers on this 

 fubjeCt into three diftinft claflTes ; and they have been con- 

 fidered as either fubllances or modes, finite or infinite, and 

 natural, artificial, or moral. For the two former claffes, 

 fee Substance, Mode, Finite, and Infinite. Natural 

 beings are all thofe things tiiat have a real and proper exif- 

 tence in the univerfe, and are conudered as formed and or- 

 dained by God the creator ; fuch are bodies, fpirits, men, 

 bealts, trees, fruit, countenance, fenfe, reafon, fire, air, light, 

 ic. Artificial beings are made by the coKtrivance or ope- 

 rations of men, whetlitr they areola more corporeal nature, 

 fuch as houfes, windows, piclures, llatues, arms, garments, 

 writing, mulic, and the various utenfils of life ; or whether 

 they relate more to intcUeclual matters, as words, fciences, 

 rules, arguments, propofitions, verfe, profe, &c. Moral 

 beings are thofe which belong to the conduifl and govern- 

 ment of intelligent crsatures, or creatures endowed with 

 uuderRanding and volition, confidered as lying under obli- 



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