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ftroyed by fire. It was onginally a fquaie Luildiiig, wiiii a 

 tower at each corner, one of which ftill remains, with frag- 

 ments of walls, and the greater part of a chapel. This has a 

 beautiful arched roof, and on the right fide of the altar is a 

 fhrineof tabernacle work, with a lavaratoi-y, a clofct in wiiich 

 is a confeffional, and over it a prilon. The moat furround- 

 ino- the whole, was about 200 yards in circumference. At 

 a fhort diftauce north of the callle is the parirti church, which 

 is a fmall plain building. Rudge's Hiilory of the County 

 of Glocefter, 



BEVERUNGEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Wertphalia, and bifliopric of Paderborn, at the conflux of 

 the Bever and the Wefel, near which are fprings of fall wd- 

 icr, 26 miles fouth-eaft of Padevbori:. 



BEVERWYCK, John Van, or Bevirovicius, in Bio- 

 graphy, not more known and efteemed as a phyfician than as 

 a magiftrate, and member of the adminiftration in his 

 country, having attained to high honours in both thofe ca- 

 pacities, was born st Dordrecht in Holland, in 1594. Being 

 of a diftinguithed family, he had the advantage of receiving 

 inftruAions in claffical literature from Gerard John Voffui'--, 

 and afterwards of ftudying the different branches of medicine 

 under the ablell maRtrs in France and Italy. Returning to 

 his own country, he took the degree ot dottor in medicine 

 at Padua, about the year 1C24. His works are numerous. 

 Thofe moll deferving notice are, " Fpiftolica queftio, dc ter- 

 mino vitje fatali an mobili, cum dodtornm rcfponfis ;" 8vo. 

 1 634, Dord. Whether there is a fixed term, beyond which life 

 cannot be extended, he determines in the negative. "Montanus, 

 Rtfutatio argumentorum, quibus medicinx neccffitatem ini- 

 piirrnat ;" 8vo. 1634, Dord. : in which he anfwers the cavils 

 of the ficur Montagne againft phyficians, and (hews the necef- 

 fityof the art. "Idea Mcdicinx veterum," 8vo. 1637, Leiden. 

 A compendium of the praftice of medicine, taken from the 

 mod valuable writers on the fubjeft. " Epillolicae queftiones 

 cum dodtorum rcfponfis," 8vo. 1644, Rotter. A coUeclion 

 of letters on fubjefts pertaining to medicine, to which are 

 added, the Elogia of Medicine by Erafnius, Cardan, and Me- 

 landlhon. His works, of which Haller has given a complete 

 lift, were publifhed together in 4to. at Amilerdam, 1651. 

 They have moft of them paffcd through feveral editions. He 

 died Jan. 19th 1647, and was honoured with an epitaph by 

 his friend Heinfius. Haller Bib. Med. Gen. Biog. 



Beverwyck, in Geography, a town of North Holland, 

 wiih a fmall harbour in the Wyckermeer, which is a con- 

 tinuation of the Ye, 3 leagues north of Haerlcm. 



BEUF, John Lf, in Biography, a leamed and laborious 

 French writer, was born at Auxerre in 1687, and educated 

 at Paris. After his return to his native town, he was made 

 canon of its cathedral in 17 11, and during hisrefidence there 

 nequently attended the deputies of the clergy at Sens, to 

 aJTdt them in reforming the liturgies of that diocefe. In 1734, 

 lie was engaged by the archbifhop of Paris in the compofition 

 of the chant in the new breviary and miffalof that city ; and 

 from this tin".e he chiefly refided at Paris. He was admitted 

 an alfociate of the academy of belles lettrcs and infcriptions in 

 1740, and twice obtained the prize of that academy, and five 

 times that of the French academy at Soiffons. He was one 

 of the moft indefatigable, inteUigeiit, and fatisfaftory eccle- 

 fiaftical antiquaries of France. The catalogue of his works 

 from 1716 to 1741, fills 12 pages in folio in the Burgundy 

 library : and his fubfcquent productions for the laft 14 years 

 of his hfe, are nearly as numerous. His " Traite fur le 

 chant ecclcfiaftic" is full of curious rcfearches, and, perhaps, 

 the lafeil guide on the fubjeft which a mufical hiftorian of 

 the firft ages of the church can confult. This prodigy of 

 learning died in 1760. 



The beft known of his numerous works, befidcs that aU 

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ready mentioned, are " A Colle£lion of various writingss 

 tending to illuftrate the hiilory of France," 2 vols. i2mo. 

 1738 ; " Differtations on the ecclefiallical and civil hiftory 

 of Paris," 3 vols. l2mo. ; " Memoir on the hiiloi-y of 

 Auxerre," 2 vols. 4to, 1743 > " H'ftory of the city and of 

 all the diocefe of Paris," 15 vols. lamo. ; more than 2co 

 " Memoirs," or " Hiftorical Diflertations," inferted in the 

 journals of the times ; and a variety of differtations printed 

 in the Memoirs of the Academy of Infcriptions. He alfo 

 liberally communicattd a number of original pieces which he 

 found in his adiduous refearch, to learned men engaged in 

 different works. Nouv. Did. Hift. 



Bevf, Riviere au, in Geography, a river of America, that 

 difcharges itfelf eaftward into Miffifippi river, in N. lat. ^9' 

 4', about 48 miles by the courfe of the river, above the 

 mouth of the Illinois, and 7 miles fouth from Riviere Oahaha. 



Belt, 6'iHa'/ Z/C. SccZ^Beuf. 



BEVIEUX, a village of Swifferland, in the government 

 of Aigle, in that part of the Valais which btlongs to the re- 

 pubhc of Ber.nc. Bevieux is diftant about y miles from the 

 fmall town of Ikx, and is famous for its fait fprings. Mr. 

 Coxe informs us, that he went into the mountain about 3000 

 feet, almoll horizontally. The gallery is 6 feet high, and 4 

 broad, and nicely hewn and hollowed in a black rock, veined 

 in fome places with white gypfum. The fait is procured from 

 fprings, which are found within a folid rock, perforated at a 

 great expence ; the richeft fource yields 28 pounds of fait 

 per c«nt. and the pooreft but half a pound. Near thefe 

 fprings are leveral warm fources, wh'ch contain a mixture of 

 fait, but are fo ftrongly impregnated with fulphur, as to flame 

 when a hghted candle is put into the pipe through which they 

 flow. No folid fait, except a few cubes, has been yet difco- 

 vered : but the mountain is replete with its particles. Rocks 

 of white g^-pfum, or alabafter, mixed with bluiih clay, arc 

 common near the fprings, in the fame manner as may be ob- 

 ferved in the pits of Northwich in Chefliire. After travel- 

 ling in this fubteiTaneous paffage near three quarters of a 

 mile, Mr. Coxe obferved a great wheel, 35 feet in diameter, 

 which raifes the brine from the depth of about 70 feet. 

 From this place is a fliaft 300 feet high, which is cut through 

 themountaintothe furface.for the purpofeof introducing frelTi 

 air. He noticed two rcfervoirs hollowed in the folid rock 

 for holding the brine ; one was 160 feet fquare, and 9 deep. 

 In procefs of time, the workmen pierced the rock 25 feet 

 deeper, and cut a galleiy 100 feet long, and they formed a 

 third refervoir, containing 5500 cubic feet. The brine de- 

 pofited in thefe refervoirs is conveyed by means of 2000 

 pipes, about a league to Bevieux, where the fait is extiacled. 

 The brine pits near Aigle contain only from two to one half 

 per cent, and yield annually about a third as much as thofe 

 of Bevieux, or about 5000 quintals. The fait is much 

 whiter and heavier than that of Bevieux, and confequently 

 bears a higher price. Thefe, which are the only fall-works 

 in Swifferland, fcarcely yield a net yearly profit of more than 

 3000I., and furniiTionly one-twelfth of the annual coniump- 

 lion of the canton. The remainder is procured chiefly from 

 France, at a moderate price, llipulated by treaty. Coxc's 

 Travels, vol. ii. p. 105. 



BEUIL, in Geography, the chief place of a canton, in 

 the diftrift of Puget-Thcniers, and department of the mari- 

 time Alps, containing 468 inhabitants ; thofe of the canton 

 amount to 2133. Its territory' comprehends 225 kiliometres 

 and 6 communes. 



BEV'ILE', in Heraldry, denotes a thing broken, or open- 

 ing like a carpenter's rule Thus he beareth argent a chief 



bevile vert, by the name of Beverlu. 



BEVIN, Elway, in Biography, among our ecclefiaftical 



compofers in the time of James I., juftly defervcs to be 



O o ranked 



