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and became a pi-eachcr. Upon the reftoration, objecting 

 to conformity to the eftabhfhed church, he rcfigiied his fcl- 

 low/liip at Oxford in i^Ctz, and retired to Cheller ; but 

 changing^ his mind with rcfpect to conformity, he was 

 epifcopaliy ordained, and was appointed niiniller of White- 

 gate. Ijy his attention to mathematics and chcmillry, in 

 the ftiidy of which he employed his intervals of leifure, he 

 obtained the patronage of lord Brcrewood, who gave him 

 the reftory of Tilfton. Being afterwards appointed mailer 

 of the well-endowed fchool at Macclesfield, he fpent the 

 remainder of his hfe in tliat place, and died there in 1676. 

 His mathematical writings were " A Piece on the Dodlrine 

 of the Sphere," in Latin, publifhed at Oxford in i66z ; 

 a tranllation of Rhonius's algebra, entitled " An Intro- 

 duction to Algebra," 4to. Lond. 166S, in which he li- 

 berally acknowledges the afliHance of Dr. Pell. He alfo 

 corrcfponded on fubjcfls of mathematicB with Collins, and 

 other eminent men. Huiton's Dift. 



BRANKYRKA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 

 the province of Sudermania. 



BRANLE, Fr. a kind of dance, very gay, brought 

 hither from France in the time of Charles II. 



BRANLIN, in Ichthyology. See Samlet. 



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

 partment of the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in tlie 

 diftrift of Libourne ; 2 leagues S. of Libourne. The town 

 contains 544, and the canton 10,726 inhabitants : the ter- 

 ritory includes I >; ^ kiliomttres, and 21 communes. 



BRANNOGENIUM, in indent Geography, a town of 

 the Ordovicts, in Ptolemy's defcription of Britain, placed by 

 Camden and Baxter at Worcefter, fuppofing that fome 

 tranfcriber had committed a miftake in afligning it to the 

 Ordovices, from which territory Worcefter is too remote. 

 Mr. Horfley places it near Ludlow, which might belong to 

 the Ordovices. 



BRANNOVII, a people mentioned by Csfar, who were 

 under the proteftion of the iEdui, and who furniflied him 

 with troops. They are placed in a fmall canton of Bur- 

 gundy in France, called the " Briennois," to the weft of 

 Mafonnois. 



BRANNY, in Botany, furfuraceous, covered with branny 

 fcales ; a term apphed to the ftipes, or ftalks of fome fpe- 

 cics of fungi. 



BRANODUNUM, in yfndetit Geography, one of the 

 nine forts, fubjtft to the command of the count of the 

 Saxou fliore in Britain ; garrifoncd by the equltes Dalmatis, 

 and feated on the Sinus Metaris; now Branceller in Norfolk, 

 on the wafhes. 



BRANSEE, in Ceos;raphy, a fmall ifland of Denmark, 

 in the Little B.-lt ; 5 m'iles W. N. W. from Affens. 



BRAI^vSK, a town and dillrlft of RulTia, in the govern- 

 ment of Orel, fitu^ite on the Defna. — Alfo, a town of Po- 

 land, in the palatinate of Bielflc, 16 miles W. of Bielflc. 



BRANSKA, a town of Tranfylvania, feated on the 

 Marilh. N. lat. 46° o'. E. long. 23= 15'. 



BRANSON, a town of SwilTerland, in the Valais, north 

 of the Rhone, and about 2 miles N. E. of Martiguy. 

 N. lat. 46° 11'. E. long. 6° 57'. 



BRANT, a river of North Wales, in the ifle of Angle- 

 fea, wliieh runs into the Menai, about 3 miles S.from New- 

 burgh. — Alfo, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 

 Aullria ; 8 miles E. of Zwetl. 



BRANTA, Brunta, and Brent-Goosi-, in Ornitho- 

 logy, fynonyniouo names of Anus BerrJcla, the common 

 brent goofe of the EnglUh. 



Branta ToRRiuA, is the name given by Scopoli to 

 Anas torrii/a, Gmel. 



BRA 



Branta Albifrons Scopoli, Anus aWicans, Gmel. 



BRANTHOME, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Dordogne, and chief place of a can- 

 ton, in the dilhid of Perigucux ; .ji leagues N. of Pcrigucux. 

 1 he town contains z+Ol, and the canton 10,765 inh:ibil. 

 ants; the territory comprehends 265 kiliomctrcs, and 12 

 communes. 



BRANTOME, in Bitgraphy. See Bourdeillhs. 

 BRAQirE, and BRAe<UE de Bencale. Buff. Cauls 



av'unhirius, the fpanicl. 



BRARUP, in Geography, a fmall ifland of Denmark, in 

 the gulf of Schley ; 10 miles E. N. E. of Slefwiek. 



BRAS, a town of France, in the department of the Var, 

 and diftrift of the Brignolles ; 4 railts E. N. E. of St. 

 Maximin. 



BRASCHEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Upper Saxony, and duchy of Crolfen ; 5 miles S. S. E. of 

 Crolfen. ' 



BRASCFIEVSKOI, a fortrefs of Siberia, on the Irtilh ; 

 JO miles E. of Scmipolatnoi. 



BRASCHI, in Biography. See Pius VI. 



BRASENIA, in i)'o/dn> Sciueb. 9,58. Clafs, /uW- 

 aria ilecagyiiia. 



Gen. Char. Perianth one-leaved, fix-parted, permanent ; 

 fegments lanceolate, curved, obtufe, coloured; three of 

 thein Ulterior, alternate, a little longer and narrower than the 

 others. Cor. none. Slam, filaments from eighteen to twenty- 

 five, capillary, ereil, attached to the receptacle, fliorter than 

 the calyx ; anthers oblong, ert-a. Pifl. germs from five to 

 ten, oblong, comprefTed, attenuated at the apex ; ftyles erccl, 

 bent inwards towards the lop, pubefcent, Ihorter than the 

 ftamens; ftigmas obtufe. Pericarp, as many capfules a^ 

 germs, oblong, comprefled, the outer fide flat, the inner 

 gibbous, acuminate, rather flelliy, ene-celled, without valves. 

 Seeds two or three, oval, comprefTed. Obf. Calyx, before 

 flowering, ereft, green. Allied to neftris. In both genera 

 the pericarp might, perhaps, be more properly called a berry. 

 Only one feed often comes to perfeftion. 



Bofc. in Nouveau Diftionaire, gives the fame generic 

 charafter, except that he confiders the three inner fegments 

 of the calyx as a corolla. He gives no farther defcription of 

 the plant, nor does he mention any habitat. The genus is 

 not taken up by 'Willdenow, nor is there any figure of it in 

 La Marck's illuftrations. 



BRASIDAS, in Biography, a famous Lacedasmonian 

 general, who dilfinguifhed himfclf, on a variety of occafions, 

 in the Peloponntlian war, wjiich began in the 4Jlft year 

 before Chrift. Flaving gained the reputation of one of tlic 

 greatell generals of his time, he received a mortal wound in 

 the aiition between the Lacedremont-aiis and Athenians, near 

 Amphipolis, in which the former proved victorious, B. C. 

 422. See Athenians. Bralida<^, no lefs diftinguiflied bv 

 his modelly tlian by his prudence and bravery, wrote a letter 

 from Thrace to the Epiiori, which clofes with this heroic 

 declaration : " Wiiatevcr the honour of the ftate requires, I 

 will perform or die ;" and he fulfilled his promife. Phitarcli 

 (Apothegm.) records, that having cauglit a moul'e among 

 fome figs, he let it go after having bitten liis fingers, obierv- 

 ing to thofe who attended on the occafiun ; " That there u 

 no creatuu-fo contemptible as not to be able to free itfelf from 

 a foe, if it exerts all the power it poffcires." Fiiblic 

 honours were decreed to his mother for the f'peech uttered 

 by her on occalion of his death (fee Athenians) ; and a 

 monument was ereaed to Brafidas at the expcncc of the 

 public. See the next article. 



BRASIDIA, in y/ntirjiiity, anniverfary ftatls held at 



Sparta in honour of Bralidas, famous for his great atchieif- 



F f 2 niciu« 



