B U F 



for w.int of depth of water, and on account of flioali 

 nitks in the rivtr. and the frequent rccunence of lie 



als and 

 lorms. 

 It IS. therefore, i.fual to anchor every night, and to have 

 the lhi,,'i way founded by a p^ot. Within^) leagues of the 

 town, the goods arc removed on board fomehght veflel ; and 

 wait for their cargoes, whilll they are refitting at Icunado 

 dc Barragan, fitnated 7 or 8 leagues bclon'. b. lat. 34 35 

 ■0\ W.long. ';S".3i' 'V'- , . , r .. 



BUENTO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom ot Mo- 



nomntapa. 



BUl-'ETAGE, lufeta{wm, or bufdarui, a duty paid to 

 the lord for the dvinking," or rather felling of wine in taverns. 



The word is formed from biivela^e, or biivelene, of the 

 French holrc, to t'rini. Du-Cange GlotT. Lat. torn. i. 



BUFF, in Commerce, a fort of leather prepared from the 

 n<in of the bniTJo, or bubalus ; which being dreffed in oil, 

 after the manner of (hammy, or chamois, makes what we 

 call l>iif-/im ; anciently much ufed among the mihtary men 

 for a kind of coats or doublets ; and llill retained by lome 

 of our grenadiers, as well as the French gc;i d'nrmes, on 

 account of its exceeding thicknefi and firmnefs. It is alfo 

 ufed for waill -belts, pouches, kc. 



Buff-fl<in, or buff-leather, makes a very confiderable ar- 

 ticle in the Englilh, French, and Dutch commerce, at 

 Conllantinople, Smyrna, and along the coaft of Africa. 



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BuFFALOE Laie, s. lake of North America, fltuate near 

 Copper-mine river, in the country of the Copper Indians. 

 N. lat. 66°. — Alfo a lake of North America, which receives 

 the Beaver river, about z^ miles long, and from 2 to 10 

 wide. N. lat. 5 5° 55'. W. long. loS-' 55'. 



Buff ALOE Lid: See Grfat Ridge. 



BuFFALOE Loivlands, a traa of land, in Northumber- 

 land county, Pennfylvania, about 83 miles S. E. from 



Prefque ifle. . , . , . r , r 



Buffaloe's Bay, lies within the point of the cape ot 

 Good Hope, acrofs which from point to point is a ledge of 

 rocks continuing northward to the fouth point of the en- 

 trance into Simon's bay, on the well fide of Falfe bay. 



Buffalof's Point, lies above Rongiifoula river, on the 

 approach to Hughly river in B.-ngal, about half way in the 

 bight between Jeffore and Culpe rivers. Ships flop here 

 which do not venture higher up into the Hughly river. 



BUFFAROLO, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe ; 17 

 miles W. of Milan. 



BUFFEL, BuFFELUs, Buffle. See Bos Bubalus. 



BUFFET, or Beaufet, was anciently a fmall apart- 

 ment or recefs, feparated from the reft of the room by means 

 of flcnder wooden pillars, in which were depofited china, 

 glafs-ware, &c. It was fometimes called a cabinet. The 

 term has fince been fometimes applied to a large table, more 



riie Ikins of elks, oxen, and other like animals, when ufually called a " fide-board," furnidied with drawers, and 

 dreded in oil, and prepared after the fame manner as ferving either for convenience or fliew, to receive plate, bot- 



'" ■'• ' ■ ■ ' ' 'r ---■ jjgj^ o-bfles, &c. In France, among perfons of diftindion, 



the buffet is a detached room, decorated with pictures, ex- 

 hibiting fountains, cillerns, and vafes, and commonly faced 

 with marble or bronze. Among the Italians, the buffet, 

 called " crcdenza," is inclofed within aballuflradc as high as 

 the elbow. 



BUFFETTO, in Geography, a town of Swifferland, in 

 feated on the fouth fide of the river Adda. 

 E. long. 9° 50'. 

 BUFFIER, Claude, in Biography, an ingenious writer, 

 was born of Frencli parents, in Poland, in 1661, and edu- 

 cated at Rouen. He entered among the Jefuits at Paris in 

 1679, and afterwards fixed his relidence at the college of 

 the fociety in that city. Befides his engagements with the 

 compilers of the Mcmoires de Trevoux, he wrote a great 

 variety of works, fome of which have been much efteemed. 

 But his moil celebrated performance is his " Traite de pre- 

 miers Veritcs,&c." or treatifeoffirll truths, and of the fources 

 of our judgments ; in which the opinions of philofopliers on 

 the firll notions of things are examined ; Paris, 1724, i2mo. 

 The principles of this work are the fame with thofe adopted 

 and expanded in the writings of Drs. Reid, Ofwald, and 

 Beattie, under the denomination of Common Sense. His 

 " Elements of Metaphyfics, madeintelUgiblc to all Readers," 

 1725, i2mo. is a work formed upon the fame plan. He was 

 alfo the author of a " French Grammar upon a new Plan," 

 which was well received. His principal works have been 

 collefled and publifhed under the title of " Cours des Sci- 

 ences, fur des Principes nouveaux et fimples, &c." or a 

 courfe of fciences on new and fimple principles, for the pur- 

 pofe of forming the language, the underitanding, and the 

 heart, in the ordinary commerce of hfe, 17J2, fol. This 

 laborious and ufeful writer died in 17^7. Nouv. Diet. 

 Hift. 



BUFFLES, or Buff, in Geography, an ifland of Africj, 

 on the fouth coaft of Benin, m the mouth of the river 

 Camarones, or Camonoars. 



BUFFON, George-Louis le Ci.iv.c, Count of,\t\ Bio- 

 graphy, an eminent naturalift and writer, w^as the fon of a coun- 

 felior of the parliament of Dijon, andborn at Montbardin Bur- 

 gundy, 



tliat of the buffalo, are likewife denominated buff, and 

 ufed for the fame purpofes.— In France there are feveral 

 confiderable manufaftovies employed in the prepara- 

 tion of fuch (l<ins ; particulariy at Corbeil, Paris, and 

 Jvouen : their firft cilablirtinient is owing to the Sieur 

 Jabas, a native of Cologne. The manner of preparation 



f<.e under Shammv. 



The flciu of the American moofe detr, wlien well dreffcd, tJu Valtehne 

 makes excellent buff. The Indians make their fnow-ihoes N. lat. 46° 

 of this Ikin. Their way of dreffing it, which is reckoned very 

 good, is thus: after they have haired and grained the 

 hide, they make a lather of the moofe's, brains in warni 

 water, and, after they have foaked the hide for fome time, 

 they ftretch and fuppie it. Phil. Tranf. N" 36S. 



'Qv-ev river anil bay, in Geography, lie on the north-eaft 

 fide of Jamaica ; wi:hin which is Crawford's town, in St. 

 George's parifli, and county of Surry. N. lat. 18° 27'. 

 W. long. 76" 32'. 



Buff. See Bukfles. 

 BUFFA, fee Buffoon. See Giardini. 

 BUFFALMACCO, Buonamico, in Biography, an 

 hillorical painter, was born at Florence in 1262, and was 

 lor fome years a difciple of Andrea TafTi. He poffeffcd a 

 lingular talent for droll humour, and is faid to be the firft 

 who deviled the ufe of a label drawn from the mouth of a 

 figure for reprefenting that figure as fpeaking ; though 

 i'eiiteuces wrote over the heads of figures had before been 

 pradiifed by Cimabue. He died in 1340. Pilkington. 

 BUFFALO, in Zoology. See Bubalus. 

 BUFFALOE, in Geography, a townfhip of America, 

 weft of Sufquehannah river in Pennfylvania. 



BuFFALoE, a river of America, in the Tenneffee govern- 

 ment, which runs S. W. into Tenneffee river, in N. lat. 35'^ 

 so'. — Alfo, a water of the Ohio, which enters it at the 

 fouth bank, Co miles above the mouth of the Wabafh. 



BuFFALOE Creel, a creek of North America in New 

 York, connedled with Niagara river near its mouth, oppo- 

 fite to lake Erie. The Seneca Indians have a town y miles 

 from its mouth, which is able to furuifn 80 warriors. N. 

 kt. 42 '^ 5.1'. 



