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DRlOS-ToMBOs, a town of France, in the department 

 of t!ie Oifc ; lo miles N. of Beauvais. 



DRIOUDI-, a town of I'raiicc, and principal place of a 

 didriH in the depaninent of the I'ppcr Loire, feated on the 

 river AUier, over which is a bridge of Hone, which is i-egarded 

 as a Rninan work. The town contains 5j86, and the dilbicl 



I jS07 iuhabitr.nts: the territory compreliends26j;!i.i;ionietrcs, 

 ui.d 19 communes. This is called "Old Brioudc," by way of 

 dilliiiition from " Driondc Ghfi-," whith lie.; alfo near the 

 liver AUicr, in which is a collegiate church, called St. Julian. 

 N.lat. 4; 1 4'- K. long, .i'^ 23'. 



DK.IOUX, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Two Sevres, and ch'if place of a canton, in the ditlricl of 

 Mcllc; 1 leagues S. W. of McUe. The place contains 

 741, and the Ciuton 92:5 inhabitants; the tcirilury includes 

 j|ij kihomitres, and 23 cj:^ununes- 



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

 Oine.and chief place of a canton, in the dilhid uf Argentan ; 

 4-' leagues \V. of Argentan. The town contains 940, and 

 t'lie canton 9,;;o inhabitants: the territory includes 1152A 

 klliomelrcs, and I 7 communes. 



r.RIQ^UEBEC, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Ch.-innel, and chief place of a canton, in the dilbicl of 

 Valugnes ; ;i leagues W. of Valognes, and ,j J S. of Cher- 

 burg. The town contains 4000, and the canton 1 1, 1 08 in- 

 habitants : the territory comprehends 1 73 kiliometres, and 



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BRIQUENAY, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Ardennes, and dillrid of Vouziera ; 4 miles N. of 

 Grandpre. . „ r 



DRIQ_UER.\S, a town of Piedmont, m tlie valky ot 

 Lucerne ; 4 leagues S. of Pignerol. N. lat. 44^ 41'. E. 

 long. 7° 24'. 



BRISACH, or Brfysach, OIJ, a town of Germany, 

 formerly the capital of Brifgaw, feated on the Rhine, ar.d 

 partly upon an eminence, which commands the adjacent 

 champaign country. The bridge of boats over the Rhine 

 at this place was demoliil-.ed fome years ago, and the pafiage 

 altered to a ferry. It was formerly an imperial city, but 

 mortgaged in ij.ii, by the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria, to 

 Otto duke of Auftria, and the mortgage was ratified by 

 Charles V. in 1 348. This place had formerly a fortrefs, which 

 was taken by the French in 1688, but redored in 1697, and 

 a'^ain taken in 170.3, but furrendered in i;ij. The fortifica- 

 tions were razed in 1741, by order of Maria Therefa, queen 

 of Hungary and Bohemia, and the town became an open 

 place. N. lat. 48° 51'. E. long. 7° 49'. See Brisgaw. 



Bkisach, ncu; a town of France, in the department of 

 the Upper Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 

 trid of Colmar, fituate about a mile from the well fide of the 

 Rhine, and oppofite to the old town. It was built by 

 Lewis XIV. and fortified by M. Vauban ; it flands entirely 

 upon the plain, and its ftrcets are fo regular that in the great 

 market all the gates of the town are to be feen. The town 

 contains 1682, and the canton 7925 inhabitants: the ter- 

 ritory comprehends 170 killometres, and 16 communes. 

 The road from this place to Bafie, 9 leagues N. diftaiit from 

 it, is very pleafant, and commands a prolpec\ on the left 

 hand beyond the Rhine into the margraviate of Baden. N. 

 lat. 48^ .5'. E. long. 7° 41'/. 



, BRIS AGO, a town of the Milancfe, feated on the borders 

 of the Italian bailliages, and near the well bank of the 

 Lago Maggiore or lake of Locarno, and ', miles S. of Lo- 

 carno. N.lat. 45° 55'. E. long. 8. j j'. 



}iRISAU, or Br/kzowa, a town of Moravia, in the 

 circle of Olmutz, 6 miles S. of Zwitau. 



BRI6BA>'E, John, in Bk^mphy, originally of Kelfo, in 



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Scotland, prailifed medicine feveral years, towardsth.ee: d of 

 thelalt century in London, and piibhlhed in 1 -C)y, "Anatomy 

 of Paintin;;, orafhort and eafy Introdufticni to Anatomy, con- 

 lillin" of tables of Albinus, with linear figures on a Inidler 

 fcak-rincluding .'\lbinus's figures of the Uterus," fol. London. 

 Alfo " feleCt Cafes in the pradice of Medicine," 8vo. 1772, 

 London. Among thefe, are interfpcrfcd fome ufcful prac- 

 tical obfervations. Haller. Bild. 



BRISE', in Fremh Armory, fignifies broken, and implies 

 an ordinary with part of it broken off. The Eii^lifk blazon 

 it with the word couped. 



BRISEIS, in Kiiloniology, a fpecics of Papilio, the wings 

 of which are dcntated, brown, and glodtd wiih (liiiiing 

 green : on the anterior wings two ocellutcd fpols, and a 

 white band : two black fpots beneath. Iiiliabitj Germany. 

 Linn. Fabr. &c. — Tliis is Papillo Jaiitho of Pallas. 



Briseis, in Fabulous ll'ijlory, the wife of Myncs king of 

 Lyrnelfa, who was taken c-!ptive by Achilles, afti.-. he had 

 taken the city and killed her hulband. D.Jt wh.-n Aga- 

 memnon robbed him of this objed of his ardent affedion, 

 file became the accidental caufe of innumerable diforders in 

 the Grecian army. Achilles, enraged, retired to his tent ; and 

 till the de.ilh of I'atruclus refufed to fight agaiiill the Trojans. 



BRISELLO, ill Geography. See Bkrslllo. 



BRLSCi.-\\V, a dillrid of Germany, in the circle of 

 Suabia, fituated on the call fide of tlie Rhine, by which it 

 is feparated from France ; a portion of it was formerly pof- 

 fc-fhd by the marquis of Baden, and the principal part be- 

 longed to the houfe of Auftria ; but by the i8th article of 

 the treaty of Campo Formio in 1797, confirmed by the 4th 

 article of the treaty of I^uneville, in 1801, his majeilv tlie 

 emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia, bound lumfclf to 

 cede to the duke of Modena, as an indemnification for the 

 territory which that prince and his heirs poffcfied in Italy, 

 the Brifgaw ; which he is to polTcfs upon the fame con- 

 ditions as thofe, in virtue of which he pofielTcd the 

 Modenefe. 



BRISIACUS, Mons, in Andmt Geogmphy, a town on 

 the right or call fide of the Rhine, now Old Brifach. 



BRISICH, or Breysich, in Geography, a town of 

 Germany, in the circle of ^Vcllphalia, ai'.d duchy of Juliers ; 

 16 miles N. N. W. of Coblentz. 



BRISIGUELA, a town of Italy, in the province of 

 Romagna, belonging to the Hate ot the church ; 6 miles 

 from Fayenza. 



BRISITINO, a town of Naples, in the province of 

 Capitanata ; 1 1 miles S. S. W. of MaiifreJona. 



BKISK, a town of Germany, in the circle of Tapper 

 Saxony, and LTckermark of Brandenburg ; 8 miles S.S.W. 

 of Beefliow. 



BRISKET, in the Manege, that part of a horfe extend- 

 ed from the two flioulders to the bottom of the cheft. 



BRISKOW, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 

 Saxony, and Middle Mark of Brandenburg ; 4 miles S. of 

 Franckfort on the Oder. 



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

 Maine and Loire, and dillrid of Angers ; if kagues S.S.E. 

 of Angers. 



BRISSEAU, Peter, in A'ojrrt/'/j)', after receiving his de- 

 gree of dodorin medicine, at Montjieliier, went to Paris, where 

 he acquired confiderable reputation by his pradice. In 1677, 

 he was admitted of the college of phylieians at Tournay. He 

 was foon after appointed by Lewis XIV. phyfician to the 

 military hofpitah at Tournay and Mons ; and on Tonrnay's 

 being taken by the allies in 1709, he removed to Dov/av, 

 where he died September joth, 1717, aged S6 year's-. 

 Brifleau was author of feveral works ; but what acquired 



him 



