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L.angMedoc, for the confolation and iiiftriiftion of \\\i 

 defolated Church," to which his enemies would naturally 

 afcribe the cliaraftcr of fanaticifm. He alfo piiblidied a 

 volume of fermons, and received from the States of 

 Holland a pcnfion, as a miniller. Towards the clofe of the 

 year 1695, he again vifited France, travelling through mod 

 of its provinces and employing his pen in various writings. 

 During the negotiation for the peace of Ryfwick, he ex- 

 erted himfelf in exciting the jiiotcllant powei's to treat 

 for the rc-eftablifliment of the French reformed churches. 

 Failing of fucccfs in this objeft, he made another tour 

 through France, and, after encountering a variety of hazards, 

 he was at length apprehended at Oleron in September, 

 1698, and carried for trial to Montpellier. Having been 

 convifted of preaching in defiance of the royal ediif\, and of 

 having held correfpoiidence with tiie enemies af the ilate, 

 he was condemned to be broken alive upon the wheel, 

 and he endured the execution of this dreadful fcntence with 

 all the firmnefs appropriate to his charafter. His eloquence 

 and zeal were univerfally acknowledged, and by his own 

 party he was regarded as a martyr. The States of Hol- 

 land did honour to his memory, by adding 600 florins, as 

 a penfion to his widow, to the 400 which had been allowed 

 to himfelf. Nouv. Dia Hilt. 



BROUVELIEURES, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Vofgcs, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the diftri£l of St. Die ; one league N. of 

 Bruycres. The place contains 414, and the canton 3574 

 inhabitants ; the territory comprehends ijo kiliomstres and 

 10 communes. 



BROUWER, in Biography. See Brauwer. 



BROUZET, Nicholas, was born in the neighbourhood 

 of Montpellier, where he took his degree of doftor in 

 medicine, in the year lyjC, whence he went to Paris, and 

 was admitted correfponding member of the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences, and foon after was made phyfician to the 

 hofpital at Fontainbleau. He publifhed in 1754, " Eflai 

 furi'Education medicinaledesEnfans, et fur leurs Maladies;" 

 a popular work, by which he obtained much credit. 

 In his chapter on Generation, he follows the fyftem of 

 Buffon, and fuppofes the organized particles to attraft 

 each other, as tiie particles of fait do in forming cryllals. 

 He alfo contends for the power of the imagination of 

 pregnant women, in marking and deforming the fcetus ; 

 but though there are thele, and other bltmifhes, the 

 work contains many ufeful practical rules for the manage- 

 ment of infants, and for the cure of their difeafcs. It was 

 tranflated into Englifh and published in J^ondou, in 17 5j, 

 Haller Bib. Chir. Eloy. Did. Hill. 



BROW-fln/Ztr, the firtt branch of the horn of a hart or 

 buck, Ihooting out from tlie beam, or main horn, next the 

 head. 



Hnow-pofl, in Carpentry, a beam which goes acrofs or 

 averthwart a building. 



BROWALLA Hei^e, or Browei.la heath, in Geo- 

 jfraphy, a plain of Sweden in the province of Smaland, 

 lying about two Swedifh miles from ^V'exio, and famous for 

 being the place where the Danes were totally routed by 

 the heroine Blenda, who commanded the Smaland wonun, 

 in the defence of their huftjands, who were engaged in 

 another expedition. As a recompence of their bravery, the 

 women of Smaland were honoured with extraordi- 

 nary privileges, and wore a kind of martial head-drefs ; 

 and they have ilill an equal (hare of inheritance with the 

 men- 



BROWALLIA, in Botany, (named by I^innsus in honour 

 of Browallius, bifliop of Abo, who defended the fexual 



fyftem againft. Seiorcfheck). Linn. pen. 773. Reich. 834. 

 Schreh. 1036. Jufl". 123. Gxrt. 304. PI. 5;. WiilJ. 1 175. 

 La Marck. PL ^55. Clafs, (H.'/ynamia nngiofprrmia. Nat, 

 Ord. Lur'tJi — Scroph\iltti(C JniF. Gen. Char. (-V. perianth 

 one-leafed, tubular, fnort, five-toothed, pennanent ; teitli 

 rather unequal. Cor. monopetalous, funucl.ninped ; t!.he 

 cylindric, as long again as the calyx ; border flat, (ivc cleft ; 

 fegmeinc rounded, emarginate, the upper onr a little larger 

 than the reft, and conftituting theuppcrlip. ■^.-.jj'?. filaments 

 four, included in the tube ; the two longeft with larger 

 anthers, vhich clofe the throat of the corolla. Antliers 

 fimple, incurved, converging; the inner ones twin, the 

 outer ones openii.g at the top with a fmall hole. P'ljl. 

 germ ovate, retufc ; ftyle thread-fliaped, the length of the 

 tube of the corolla ; iligma thick, four-lobcd Perir. 

 capfule ovate, obtnfe, clotlicd with the calyx, two-celled, 

 niany-feeded, two-valved ; valves bifid at tlie top ; parti- 

 tion fiat, thin, parallel to the valves, and fcparating from 

 the fides of the capfule a."; it advances to maturity, vlienec 

 I.,innxus judged it to be one-celled. (Ga:rt. and JufT. ) 

 Seeds numerous, fmalL 



EfT. Ch. l'[i!. five-toolhcd, Ccr. border five-cleft, nearly- 

 equal, fpreading ; throat clofcd by the two larger anthers. 



Sp. I. B. <!etv'ifa, Linn. (La Marck PI. 5J5.) " Downy ; 

 peduncles alternate, ont-flowered." Rcot annual. Stem 

 herbaceous, about a foot high, branched. Leaves alternate, 

 petioled, ovate-pointed, with (hort hairs on their petioles and 

 nerves, F/oii'ers axilkry and terminating, folitary, fliorter 

 than the leaves. Corolla of a bright, but pale blue colour. 

 Seeds fent to Mr. Miller from Panama, i)i 173^, who 

 named the plant Daiea, in honour of Mr. Dale, an em-neilt 

 Englifn botaniil, and fent the feeds under that name to Lin- 

 naeus, who thought proper to change the name to Rrowallia. 

 2. B. f/j/ij, Linn. (Curt. Bot. Mag. .:;4.) " RatheV fmooth, 

 flowers one or more, terminating." /{so/ annual. Stem zhout 

 two feet high, cylindric, (lifT, much branched. Len-vcs lanceo- 

 late. Floiuers of a beautiful violet-blue. Native of Peru. 

 Both thefe fpecies nvjll be raifed on a hot-bed in the 

 fpring, and may afterwaids be traniplanted into a warm 

 flower border, where, if the weather be favourable, they 

 will flower and ripen their feeds. 3. B. al'ienata, Linn. 

 " Upper leaves oppofite, two ftamcns the length of tha 

 corolla." Taken up by Linnxus folely 0:1 the authoritr of 

 Miller's figure; and as Miller himfelf did not infert it in the 

 later editions of his Dictionary, it is a dubious plant. 4. 

 B humifufa, Forflc. " Hifpid, proftrate ; flowers axillary, 

 nearly felhle, white." Stems flcnder, branched, hifpid. 

 Leaves oppofite, oblong, feffile, narrowed at their bafe. 

 Peilurcks axillary, folitary, very fhort. Calyx hifpid, cy- 

 hndric, with 'iwt thread-diaped divifions. Tube of the 

 corolla ftraight, half an inch long ; border open, almfrtl 

 regular, with four oval divifions. Capfule compreflied, one- 

 celled ? manv-feeded, enveloped by the calyx. 



Brov.'Frshavi:n, in Geography, fo called {rem port Jes 

 Braffeuri, the port or haven of brewers, a fea-port town of 

 Zealand on the north fide of the ifland of Schouwen, 

 oppofite to Goree. In 1421^, a bloody battle was fought 

 near this town between Phili]), duke of I^urgundy, ar.d 

 Humphry, duke of Glouceflcr, 1 r.ither to Henry V. kin"- 

 of Li;gland, who came with ;;o:o F.nglifli to the affiilnnce 

 of Mary de Jaqueline, coiuiteff. of Holland, in which the 

 duke ol Ghuicellcr war, defeated ; ^ m'les S. of Goree and 

 8. S.W. of Melvottnuys. N. lat^ -1° 40'. E. long. 4" 

 15'- 



BROWHEAD, a cape of Ireland, at the enftern extre- 

 mity of Barley Cove, in the fouth-wellern part of tke county 

 of Cork. N.'lat. 51° 23' -Jo". W.long. y° 40'. 



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