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he acquired, that he was one of the fiift fcholars elc(£tcd upon 

 the foundation, ellabhflied in 1724, by king George I. for 

 the ftiidy of modern hillory and lansruages, witii a view of 

 qnahfying young men for employment at court and in 

 foreign embadies. To this ciivumftance lie alludes in his 

 poem on the death of the founder, vvliich was the fiill of 

 hia poetical produilions, and much approved. About the 

 year 1727, he fettled at Lincoln's Inn, and profecuted the 

 iludy of the law with a view to the profeihon of a bairiitcr, 

 for which he was originally defigned ; but though he ac- 

 quired a confiderable degree of knowledge, he never arrived 

 at any great eminence in the praflice of the law, and reliu- 

 quidu'd it for a long time before his death, that he might 

 have the greater leilure for gratifying his inclination in lite- 

 rary purfuits. PofTetTcd of a fortune, which was adequate 

 to his defires, and which, by preferving the happy mean be- 

 tween extravagance and avarice, he neither diminiflicd nor 

 increafed, he was the lefs anxious about the emoluments of 

 his profedlon. Soon after his fettlement at I-incoln's Inn, 

 lie addreded to his friend Mr. Hi jh.niore, the painter, a poem 

 on " Dellgn and Beauty," in which he adopted the elegant 

 ideas of the I'latonic philofophy. Among other pieces, 

 compofed by him, the moll pleafing and popular was his 

 " Pipe ot Tobacco," confilling of an imitation of the llyles 

 of fix poetical writers, then living, viz. Cibber, Ambrofe 

 Philips, Thomfon, Young, Pope, and Swift. In this col- 

 leftion, much admired for the ilrain of humour and fpirit of 

 difcrimination with which it was written, the imitation of 

 A. Philips was the produclion of his friend Dr. Hoadly, 

 chancellor of the diocefe of Winchellcr. 



In 1744, Mr. Browne married a lady, whofe amiable 

 temper contributed very much to his dom;.llic felicity ; and 

 he was cholen twice, viz. in this year, and again in 1 748, to 

 ferve in parliament for the borough of Wenlock, in Slirop- 

 fhire. For this appointment he was indebted to the iuterell of 

 Willani Forefter, efq. who recommended him to the eleflors 

 from no other motivethan theopinion he entertained of his abi- 

 lities, and the confidence hehad in his integrity and principles. 

 Ashe had obtained his feat without oppofition or cxpence, and 

 without incurring obligation to any political party, he was 

 an independent member; and though he fuppoited the ad- 

 miniftiation of Mr. Pelham, he never received any favour, nor 

 defired any employment. The love of his country, and an 

 ardent zeal for its conllitution and liberties, formed a diilin- 

 guifhing part of his charafler. Although he pofTcfTed an 

 uncommon degree of eloquence in private convc-rfation, he 

 was deterred, by a peculiar kind of delicacy and nervous 

 timidity, from ever appeanng as a parhamentary fpeaker. 

 In 1754, he pubiifhed his principal work, which was his 

 Latin poem " De Animi Immortalitate," in 3 books, and 

 which unites the philolopliical learning and elegance of 

 Cicero, with the numbers, and much of the poetry of Lucre- 

 tius and Virgil, This poem was very iViuch admired by the 

 bell judges at the time of its piibhcation, and its popularity 

 was lo great, that feveral Enghlh tranllations of it foon ap- 

 peared. The beil of thcle ia that of Mr. Soame Jenyn^, in 

 his " Mifcelianies." It was the author's intention to have 

 added a third book, propofing to carry natural rehgion as 

 iar as it would go, and in fo doing, to lay the true foun- 

 dation of Chriitianity, of which he was a firm believer ; but 

 of this book he only left an iniperfeft fragment. Having 

 pafTcd through a life diftingiiihed by private virtues, and 

 graced by a variety of accomplilhmcnts, Mr. Browne died in 

 1760, in the 5';th year of his age. His only fon, Mr. 

 Hawkins Browne, to wliofe education he had paid particular 

 attention, and in which he had fucceeded to his wifhes, 

 pubulhed an elegant edition of his poems, in large oftavo, 



in 176S. Several of them are alfo printed in Dodfiey's 

 Collection. Biog. Brit. 



Brown Buy, in tlie 3Iarte^e, is underftuod of horfcs of a 

 very dark chchuit colour. 



Brown's B,ij, in G.o:;raj>hy., lies on the foutli fide of 

 Nonfuch harbour, near the call end of the iilaivd of Antigua 

 in tlie \Veft Indies. 



Bkown's Point, the north-weft point of the peninfula 

 called IJland Ma^ee, in the county of Antrim, Ltlnud, at 

 the entrance into Loch-Larne. N. lat. ■;4''^i'. \V. long. 

 5° 41'. Huddiirt. — Alfo, a cape at the foiithern extremity 

 of the idand of Tobago, in the W^ell Indies. N. lat. i i." 

 10'. W. long. 60° 40'. 



Brown's Sound, lies on the north-wed coaft of North 

 America. N. lat. 55° 18'. \V. long. i.;2°2o'. The lands on 

 the call fide of this found are tolerably level ; but on the 

 well are mountains, which life above the clouds, and exhibit 

 in winter a dreary afpe£t. The land abounds with various 

 forts of pines ; the animals in its vicinity are deer, wolves, 

 fea-ottei", and feals ; tlie fifh are falnion, holibnt, and a 

 fpecies of cod, ice. In iiimmer, ducks, brants, fliags, &c. 

 are plentiful. 



BROWN.'EA, in Bol.my (named from Dr. Patrick 

 Browne, author of the hillory of Jamaica.) Lin. gen. S ; '. 

 Reich. 898. Schreb. 1115. Julf. 566. Jacq. Amer. 566. 

 WiUd. 1272. Lamarck. Bofc. Clafs, nionailtlphia ende- 

 candria (datrndriii, Schr.) Nat. Ord. Loinentacf,f — Lcgumi- 

 iiojle. Jufl. Nat. Char. Calyx double ; outer one-leaved, co- 

 nical, with two unequal ftgnients ; inner longer, one-leaved, 

 funnel-lhapcd, with five divifions. Cor. petals five ; claws 

 long, inferted within the tube of the inner calyx ; borders 

 ovate, obtufe. Stam. filaments ten or eleven, awl-rtiaped, 

 alternately (horter, attached to the tube of the inner calyx, 

 and united near the bottom ; anthers oblong. P}/}. germ 

 oblong, pointed, pedicelled, adhering to the tube of the 

 inner calyx ; ityle awl-fliaped ; Itigma blunt. Pericarp, 

 legume oblong, comprefTcd, bilocular, narrowed about 

 the partition ; partition membranaceous. Seeds foli- 

 tary, ovate, compreifed, rather rugged, involved in fungous 

 fibres. 



LIT. Char. Calyx double, outer bifid, inner quinquefid. 

 Cor. five-petalled. 



Obf. Linnaeus, Jacquin, &c. have confidered the calyx as 

 fingle, and the corolla double ; but from a careful conll- 

 deration of Lamarck's figure of the coccinea, we have been 

 induced to adopt the ideas of Jufiieu, and the other FrencU' 

 botauills. 



Sp. 1. B. coccinea. Linn. (Jac. Amer. PI. 121. Lamarck 

 PI. 575. N° I.) " Stamens the length of the corolla; pe- 

 duncles fomewhat aggregate ; branches fmooth." Willd. 

 A fhrub from eight to ten feet high, branched. Leaves ab- 

 ruptly winged ; leaflets in two or three pairs, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, fliarply pointed, very entire, fmooth, on fhortell pe- 

 tioles. Flowers lateral, large, fcarlet, pendent, from fix to 

 ten together, on very fliort nearly united peduncles. Sln- 

 mens ten. A native of rocky woods, m South America. 

 2. B. grandicepj (Jacq. Colleft. ,3. PI. 22. La Marck Illnll. 

 PI- 57.5- No. 2 ?). " Stamens the length of the corolla ; 

 flowei-s capitate-fpiked ; branches downy." Willd. FoIioLs 

 net-veined. Floivers fcarlet, in a fpike Iwe inches long and 

 four broad. A native of mountainous woods in South 

 America. 3. B. Rofa de Man'.e (Bergius in Philof. Tranf. 

 vol.63. PL 8. p. 174. La Marck Illull. PI. 575. \\o. 3.) 

 " Stamens twice as long as the corolh: ; (lower-; in heads." 

 Willd. A tree. Branches fwelling into fcattered knobs. 

 Branchlets, or common petioles, generally alternate, round, 

 fmooth, rugged at the bafe, fpreading. Lea-ves leathery, 



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