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ciTcV, a Tittk- below the junction of tlie two eaftern branchw, 

 about 8 milf s from the mouth of the crcrk. Tliefe, and alfo 

 the other fait fprings, in the wcftcrn country, are called 

 lieh, becaufe the earth about them is furrowed up in a very 

 curious manner, by the buffaloes and dccr which lick the 

 e.irth, on account of the faline particles with which it is 

 impregnated. A ilrcam of brackith water runs through 

 thefe 'licks, the foil of which is of a foft clay. The large 

 bines found here, and in feveral other places near fait lick', 

 and in. low foft tcrounds, thought to belong to the Mam- 

 moth, have p^-rplexed naturahils, in tluir invelligation of the 

 animals to which they belong. See BoNfs /y/i/i-, and 

 Mammoth. 



IJfGEMlNATE Leaf, in Botany. See Leaf. 

 BIGERRA, in jimicnt Geography, a town of Spain, 

 which, according to Livy, was attack- d by the Carthagi- 

 nian', becaufe it was allied to the Romans, but it was fuc- 

 conrcd by Scipio. Ptolemy alfigns it to the Baftitani, in. 

 TarraiToneufis. 



BIGERRONES, a people of Gaul, fo called by Cxfar, 

 aiiil denoininattd by Phny, lli^irn; and by Aufouius, Ee- 

 rerilarii. M. d'Anville places them at the foot ot the Py- 

 reiitcs, to liie welt of the Coiivepse. Their name exifts in 

 that of Bigorre. 



BIGGAR, the name of a town and parifli of Lanarkdiire, 

 in ScothuKl. The parifli includes an area of lai^l, meafnring 

 about 6 miles, by 35 in trarfverfe diameter. The furface is 

 pirtly hilly, and is appropriated, in nearly equal parts, to 

 pallure and arable. The population of the parilli in 1790 was 

 <)37> but this was 161 Itfs than when a return was made 36 

 years anterior. From the improved (late of the roads, and of 

 agriculture, it was found to contain i2i6perfoiis in the year 

 iSoo. The town of Biggar has 389 inhabitants. Here are 

 three annual fairs. At the well end of the parifh are the vef- 

 tiges of a large tumulus, and three encampments. Tradition 

 fays, that a defperate battle was fought here between the Scots 

 tinder lir William Wallace, and the Englirti army, when the 

 flaughter was very great. Sir John Sinclair's Statiftical Hif- 

 tory of Scotland. 



BIGGE, a river of Germany, which runs into the 

 I.enne, 3 miles north of Allendorn, in the duchy of Well- 

 phalia. 



BlGGEIo in Zoology, ylnlUope Tragocamelus of Gmelin, 

 in Mandtin. it. 



BIGGLE.SWADE, in Geo^^rtip/ty, is a large improving 

 town of Bedforddiirc, England, pleafantly fituatcd in a 

 fertile valley, on the eafteru bank of the river Ivel. This 

 has been rendered navigable to the town by aft of parlia- 

 ment, and confiderable quantities of coals, timber, corn, and 

 fume other commodities, are brought by this channeL An 

 cxtenfive weekly market, and four annual fairs, alfo attract 

 various merchandize to the town. The manor belongs to the 

 king, and the paridi includes, befides the town, the fmall 

 hamlets of Strctton and Holme. Thefe together contain a 

 population of 1650 perfons, who occupy 301 houfes. The 

 church, an ancient and Itrong edifice, was partly built in 

 the year 1230, and was formerly collegiate. The inhabi- 

 tants, being free tenants, have all equal rights in the church. 

 In this town are two charity-fchools ; alfo a Baptill meet- 

 ing-houfc ; and being fcated on a great public road, it con- 

 tains feveral large inns. Bigglcfvvade fuffered very materi- 

 ally by fire, which happened on the i6thof June 178J. In 

 a few hours 150 dwelling-houfts were reduced to aflies, be- 

 fides fome malt-houfes, corn-chambers, &c. which were 

 fituatcd round the market-place, near the centre of the 

 town. The damages fullained by this lire were eftimated at 

 24,0001. Since the conflagration feveral new houfes have 

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improved appearance. On the zjtli of February 1792, a 

 (hock of an earthquake greatly alarmed the inhabitants of 

 this place, and its conculiion was fo powerful as to throw 

 down fome old houf.-s. It tailed feveral feconds, and was 

 found to extend northward into Yorklhire, and towards the 

 fea-coall of Lincohilhire. In the manor of Stretton, at a 

 fliort diftance fouth-eafl; of Bigglefwade, as a carter was 

 ploughing the land, he difcovered a yellow earthen pot, 

 which was found to contain about 300 gold coins of Heury 

 VI. They were nearly the fi/.e of halt crown pieces each, 

 but being very thin did not equal the weight of a guinea. 



About 4 miles weft of Bigglcfwade, are the remains of 

 Warden-abbey, which was formerly a very extenlive and 

 confiderable foundation. It was founded in 11 3 5, by W^al- 

 ter Efpec, for Ciilercian monks ; and at the diflolution its 

 revenues were valued at 3S9I. i6s. 6d. per annum. Le- 

 laud's Itinerary. Camden's Britannia. Beauties of Eng- 

 land and Wales, vol. i. 



BIGGS Bay, lies on the foulh fide of Jamaica, and to 

 the eall of north from Portland-poi:it, which is the uioll 

 foutherly point of the iflaiid. 



BIG-HILL Crtfk, an American creek, whick runs 

 weft into the Kaflcafliias river, 25 miles below Beavei creek, 

 17 above Blind creek, and 26 northerly from the mouth of 

 Ka(l<aflcias. 



BIGGlNSwAMP. See Santf.f. River. 

 BIGHT, in the Sca-fun^'tin^e, dsnotts any part of a rope, 

 as it is taken compading, coiled up ; or t!ie double part ot a 

 rope, when it is tnlded, in contradiltinftion to the cud. It 

 fignit'ies alfo a fmall bay between two points of land. 



BIGINI, in Geography, a town of Sicily, in the valley of 

 Mazara, 10 miles eall of Mazara. 



BIG IS, in jlncient Geography, a town of Afia, placed by 

 Ptolemy in Drangiana. 



BIGLA, in Geography, a town of Lithuania, in the pa- 

 latinate of Wihia, 40 miles E. N. E. of W^ilcomirz, near 

 a lake from which tlie river Drifiia iffues. N. lat. 55" 26'. 

 E. long. 20" 24'. 



BIGLOBATUS, in Entomology, a fpecies of Cuacu- 

 Lio, found at the Cape of Good Hope. This is of a black 

 colour, with acanaliculatedfnout ; thorax globofe, very rough 

 with punftured dots ; wing-cafes with fcabrous dot', and 

 two rows ot tubercles on each fide. Sparrm. Nov. Aft. 

 Stoekh. 



BIGLUMIS, a fpecies of Vespa, with four dots on 

 the fcutcl ; margin of the abdominal fegmeiits white, with 

 two white dots on the fecond. Gmelin. Vefpa Rupejlris 

 of Linn. Syft. Nat. is deemed a variety of this kind. 



BIGNAN, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of Morbihan, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 

 trict of Joftclin, 3 leagues S. W. of JofTeliu. 



BIGNIjin Conehology, a name under which Adanfon de- 

 fcribes Vohila Tringa ot Gmelin. 



BIGNON, Jf.rom, in Biography, was born at Paris in 

 1590, and educated by his father, who was an advocate in 

 the parliament of Paris, and diilinguidied by his learning and 

 charafter. Plaving made a furprifing progrefs under hi* 

 father's tuition, he was placed, about the age of ten years, 

 near the perfon of the young prince of Condc, and about 

 this period publidied, '< A Dcfcriptiori of the Holy Land," 

 more accurate than any extant. In 1604, he compoled for 

 the ufe of the young duke of Vendome, a " Treatife on 

 Roman Antiquities." Thefe. works were compilations; but 

 his work on the " Eleftion of the Popes," faid to be com- 

 pofed in his fourteenth year, but not publidied till 1608, 

 was of a more original kind, and difplayed a degree of eru- 

 dition that furprifcd the moll learned men of the age. Big- 



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