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and the Anabaptills with Jthe'ijls. In the following year 

 lie propofes to the parliament to frime a good bill for the 

 better prefervation of the book of common prayer from the 

 fcorn and violence of BrownilU, Anabaptifls, and other 

 feftaries. At length, however, the appellation of Brovvnifts 

 was changed into that of Independents, a denomination af- 

 fiimcd by thofe, who adopted many of their tenets, and 

 conformed to their difcipline. At the prcfent enlightened 

 period, when the principles of toleration are underllood and 

 inculcated, and a liberal fpirit pervades all ranks of the com- 

 jTiunity, the feverity with whicli the Brownills were treated, 

 will find no advocates ; nor will any one attempt to jnftify 

 or palliate their errors and mifcnnduft. Their rigid and nar- 

 row fentiments in point of difcipline ; their denying the 

 church of England to be a true church ; their maintain- 

 ing that her government was lb wholly Popiih and Anti- 

 chriilian, as to render all her ordinances and facrameuts in- 

 valid ; ard iheir not only renouncing communion with her, 

 but with all other reformed churches, excepting iuch as 

 fhould be of their own model, are fuffieient proofs that they 

 did not come behind tlieir ptrfecutors in bigotry. Nor is it 

 unlikely, but that if they had rifen to power, they would 

 have exercifed it in a very unjnilifiable manner. Neal's Hif- 

 tory of the Puritans, vol. i. p. 231 — 260 — i(>i — j86 — 436. 

 4to. Neal's Hilf. of New Eng. tom.i. cap. 1. p. 58. Ro- 

 binfon, Apologia julla, &c. Browniltarum et Barrowiftarum, 

 i2mo. 1619. Biog. V>x\x.. AxU Robert Bronun. See Inde- 

 pendents. 



BROWNSEA Island, in Geography, an ifland within 

 the harbour of Poole, in England, containing about 800 

 acres of land, where the Danes landed in 1015. 



BROWNSTOWN Head, a cape on the fouth-coaft of 

 Ireland, which is the eaftern point of Tramore bay, on the 

 narrow channel of Rineftark. N. Lit. 52° 7'. W. long. 

 7° 7'. 



BROWNSVILLE, or Red Stone Old Fort, a flou- 

 rifhing poft-townof America, in the county of Fayette, and 

 ftate of Pennfylvania, on the fouth-caftern bank of Monon- 

 gahela river, between Dunlap and Red-Stone creeks, and 

 next to Pitlfburg : the moll confiderable town in the weft- 

 crn part of the ftate. The town is regularly laid out, and 

 countains about 100 houfes, an Epifeopalian and Roman 

 catholic church, a brewery, and a dillilkrv. It is connefted 

 with Bridge-port, a fmall village on the oppofite fide of 

 Dunlap creek, by a bridge 260 feet long. Within a few 

 miles of the town are 4 Friends' meeting-houles, and 24 grift, 

 faw, oil, and fulling mills. The trade and emigration to 

 Kentucky afford a lucrative employment to boat builders ; 

 100 boats of 20 tons each being buiic here annually. Byrd's 

 fort formerly flood here, on the foulh fide of the mouth of 

 Red-Stone creek, in N. lat. 39° 58'. W. long. 81° 12' 30"; 

 37 miles S. from Pitlfburg ; 13 S. by E. from Wathington ; 

 and ;4i W. from Philadelphia. 



BROWS, or Eye-brows, are two hairy arches above 

 the orbits of the eyes, bunching out by means of fome fat 

 under the fliin in this place. 



That end next the nofe is called the head, caput, the 

 other the tail, cauda, of the eye-brow. 



The ufe of the eye-brow is partly to break the rays of light 

 defcending from above, that they may not dart too ilrongly 

 into the eyes ; and partly to be a icreen to the eyes from 

 fweat, diift, or other matters defcending from the fore-head. 

 BROWSE, the tops of the branches of trees, whereon 

 bealls feed. This is fomctimes alfo called brouce, and brut- 

 tie ; probably from the French I/rout, which hgniliesthe fame. 

 Browse more properly denotes the food which deer find 

 in young copfes, continually fpringing anew. 



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I'rowsk, i,r///s of, or Brov^-sinij irajfs, a denomina- 

 tion inehiding all of the fallow kind, as the deer, roc-buck, 

 rupicapra, &c. 



V>Kci\rsK--!voor/, the fame with fpray or brufhwood. 



BROWTING, Broiiler, among the French Gardeners, 

 fignifies breaking ofTtiic tips of the (lender branches of trees, 

 when too long in proportion to their ftrength. 



BROYE, in Geography, a river of Swifferland, which 

 rifes in the canton of Friburg, traverfcs lake Moral, and 

 ifluing from tlience, and winding through a mailhy plan), 

 difcharwts ilfelf into the lake of Ni-ufchalel. 



BROYLE, a harbour, cape, and fetllement on the ead 

 fide of the idand of Newfoundland; 15 mdes N.E. from 

 the ftttlemcnt of Aquaforl, and 50 S.W. from St. John, 

 thecaphal. N. lat. 47" 7'. W. long. 52° 36'. 



BROZZO, a town of Italy, in the priiicipaliLy of Pied- 

 mont, 25 miles N. of Turin. 



BR.SESKIE, Brsestz, or Brzksk. See Braesk. 



BRSEST, a town of Poland, and capital of a piilatinate 

 of that name, ii> the province of Cajavia ; 80 miles W.N. W. 

 of Warfaw. It is fituated in a maidiy plani, and furround- 

 ed with a wall, rampart, ar.d moat. N. lat. 52"^!'. E. 

 long. 19" 35'. 



BRUA, a river of Iceland, flowing from the fouth to the 

 north, 



BRUANT, in Ornithulugy. See Emberiza Citri- 



NELLA. 



Bruant de Pljle dc Bourbon. See Emberiza Borbo- 



NICA. 



BRUARIA Turbaria. Sec Turbary. 



BKUCjEUS, Henry, in Biography, fon of Gerard, one 

 of the magiflrates of Aloft, in Flanders, was born in that 

 city, in the year 153 i. Having paffed through the ufual 

 fchool-education, in x\ hich he diftinguifhed himfelf, he was 

 fent to Rome, where he taught the mathematics for fome 

 years ; then turning his mind to the ftudy of medicine, he 

 went to Boulogne, and having completed his ftudics, and 

 taken his degree of doffor, he travelled, for his further im- 

 provement, over a great part of France. At Paris, he was 

 introduced to the acquaintance of Adrian Turneby and Peter 

 Ramus. Returning to Aloft, he was made phyfjcian and 

 principal magillrate of the city. As he had become a con- 

 vert to Luthernnifm, he readily accepted the invitation of 

 John Albert, duke of Mecklenburgh, to fettle at Roftock, 

 where he might with fafcty profefs his religion. He was 

 here appointed profeffor in mathematics, and foon became 

 popular alfo as a phyfician. After reiiding here 35 years, 

 he was feized with apoplexy, of which he died, December 

 31ft, 1593. His works are, " Propofitioncs de Morbo Gal- 

 ileo," 4to. 1569. He recommends beginning the cure with 

 the decoftion of guiacum ; that not fucceeding, to have re- 

 courfe to mercurial inunftions. " De Scorbuto Propofi- 

 tiones, de quibus pubhce difputandum eft," Roftoch. 1589, 

 and again 1591, 8vo. They are printed with Eugalenus, 

 " Liber Obfervationum de Scorbuto," Lipfix, 1614, &c. 

 He attributes the origin of the difeafe to feeding on dried 

 and faked meat, and to living in a cold and damp atmo- 

 fphere. " Epiftolas de variis Rebus et Argumentis medicis, 

 cum Smetii Mifcellaneis, Francof. 8vo. 161 1. Kaller. Bib. 

 Med. Eloy. Dia. Hift. 



BRUCC'A, in Geography, a town of Italy ,_ in the king- 

 dom of Naples, and Principatro Cilra ; ij miles W. of Po- 

 licaftro. 



BRUCE, James, in Biography, was among the moft 

 celebrated of our modern travellers ; and it appears at pre- 

 fent, as if the general credit of his narrative would furvive 

 thofe prejudices, under which it has long laboured from the 



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