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forced out of Dnilth. In various other warB between the 

 iLi.ghni una \\M(h, tills place wms aki.riKilcly occupied by 

 llic conquering povTcr, and in lachcoiiflicl Lxpericnccd fonie 

 daniaijcs. 



Tliis town ii luigularly built on two panllcl terraces, and 

 forms two llrccts, on the i'lde of a ftci-p declivity. The upper 

 llrcet is clean and rtlpccliible, but the lower, and more 

 populous llrcet, on the banks of the Wye, is narrow, and 

 moll of the houfes have a poor and mean appearance. 

 Builth, from its contiguity to Herefordlliirc, and from the 

 combined attractions of iis falubrious air, grand and iiiterell- 

 ing fcenery, and the quality of its waters, is much reforted to 

 by llrangcis. It is provided with two weekly markets, and 

 three fairs annually. Builth is 171 miles N. W. from Lon- 

 don, 15 from Brecknock, and contains 994 houfes, and 5 159 

 inhabitants. 



About one mile N. W. of Builth is a celebrated mineral 

 fpring, called The P.irk wells ; and about feven miles N. E. 

 is Llandrindod wells, conlilling of three fprings. Thefe 

 waters are elleemed of highly medicinal qualities, and are 

 recommended by the faculty in many diforders of the human 

 frame. Dr. Lindon has written a treatife on their peculiar 

 properties. Thefe wells are iituated on a common, on which 

 are a few fcattered houfes, and a large bvnlding for the ac- 

 commodation of thofe who vifit them. The wells of Llan- 

 wrthyd, which arc fimilar in quahty to fome of thofe of 

 Llandrindod, lie on the other fide, at no great diftance from 

 Builth. Malkin's Tour in South Wales, 4to. I S04. Evans's 

 Cambrian Itinerary, 8vo. iSoi. 



BUINAHA Point, a cape on the weftcoaft of Ireland, 

 being the fouthern point of the entrance into Newport or 

 Clew bay, in the county of Mayo. Near It are fome rocks 

 and a ledge which require the attention of mariners. In 

 fome nautical books it is called i?H(nrt/ja. W. long. 9°4j'. 

 N. lat. 53° 46. M'Kenzie. Beaufort. 



BUINSK, a town and dillrift of Rufiia, in the govern- 

 ment of Sirr.bir(l<, feated on the river Sviaga ; 36 miles 

 N.N.W. of Simbirfk. 



BUIS, Lk, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Drome, and cliief place of a canton in the dillrift of Nyons, 

 2* leagues S.E. of it, and feated on the Oreze. The town 

 contains 3215, and the canton 8932, inhabitants ; the terri- 

 tory comprehends 325 kiliometres and 24 communes. The 

 dillrift called Buis, before the revolution, was a territory of 

 Dauphiny, fmall and mountainous, but moderately fer- 

 tile. 



BUISKOI, a town of Siberia, 64 miles S. E. of Nert- 

 /Iiii:(k. 



BUITRAGA, a fmall town of Spiin in New Cadile, 

 feated on a rock, which is fortified both by art and 

 nature. 



BUKANS. See Bugganz. 

 BUKARI. See Buccari. 



BUKI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Kiov, 44 

 miles fouth of Bialacerkiew. N. lat. 49° 25'. E. long. 

 30° 28'. 



BUKO, a fmall town of Germany, in the ancient duchy 

 of Mecklenburg, called New Biiio, by way of dillinftion 

 from Old Buko, a neighbouring church village. 



BUKOVITZE, a town of Croatia; 14 miles S.E. of 

 Carllladt or Carlowitz. 



BUKTARMINSKOI, Mountain, a branch of the 

 Altay mountains of Ruffia, which commences in the fuperior 

 region of the river Buktarma, at the frontier heights between 

 the Chniefe and the Ruflian empires, declines from the fouth 

 towards the north and weft, and accompanies the fore-men- 

 tioned llream, on both its fides, till its confluence with the 



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Irtifh. It reaches to eaft and north-caft as far ae the moun- 

 tains that run ahnig the Kokufan, and towards the north up 

 to thole that follow the courfe of the Ulba. From the 

 Binlkoi fnow mountains up to the head of the Uiman, which 

 falls into the Kokufan, it forms a lofty ridge, riling almcll 

 throughout in hi'^h fummits of fnow, and on this fide extendi 

 its greatelt height to the fource of the lall-mentioned river. 

 This huge mountain, as yet little known, and partly inac- 

 cefTible, confills, as far as it has been examined, in itshigheft 

 points, of various kinds of granite, porphyry, and flint 

 breccia. But in its chafms, and particularly towards the 

 fhore of the main or mod confiderable rivers, different forts 

 of fchiftns, chalk-llone, marl, breccia, and fand-flone are 

 frequently met with. Jafper is found in abundance, with 

 porphyry and trapp, in the fuperior regions. Of the chalk- 

 mountains feen in the lower confines of the Buktarma, fome 

 are very craggy, and have a number of caverns. In thefe 

 mountains tliere has hitherto been explored but one mine, 

 the Buktarminflioi, with any hope of fuccefs. Sec Al- 

 tai. 



BUKUKUNSKOI Kamen, a fortrefs of Siberia ; 120 

 miles S. W. of Doroninfli. 



BUKUPIENICK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Lublin ; 22 miles S. of Lublin. 



BUL, in the Hclreiu Calendar, the eighth month of the 

 ecclefiallical, and fecond of the civil year, fmce called 

 Marjljevan ; it anfwers to our Oftober, and has nine and 

 twenty days. 



BuL, in Ichthyolo^, one of the Englifh names for the 

 common flounder. 



BULAC, in Geography. See BouLAC. 

 BULACAN, a fmall province of the ifland of Lagon, or 

 Manilla, lying between Panpanga and Tondo. It abounds 

 in rice and palm-wine. 



BULACH, a town of S wifTerland, in the canton of Znric, 

 and a prefefturate of the fame name, which firft entered into 

 an alliance with Zuric, in 1407. The inhabitants are Pro- 

 teftants ; diftant 8 miles N. from Zuric. N. lat. 47° 25'. 

 E. long. 8° 27'. 



BuLACH, a town of Germany, in the circle of Swabia, 

 and duchy of Wurtemberg. In the annexed bailiwic is a 

 mountain, which furniflies iron and copper ores ; 20 miles 

 W.S.W. of Stuttgart, and 4 S.W. of Cain. 



BULAFO, a mufical inftrument, much ufcd by the Ne- 

 groes of Guinea, &c. It confifts of feveral pipes made of 

 hard wood, fet in order ; which diniinifh by little and little 

 in length, and are tied together with thongs of thin leather 

 twilled about fmall round wands, put between each of the 

 pipes, fo as to form a fmall interltice. They play on it with 

 llicks, the ends of which are covered with leather, to make 

 the found lefs harfh. 



BULAKUAN, in Geography, a remarkable caflle in the 

 empire of Morocco, fituate on the banks of the Morbeya, 

 in the province of Duquella. It Hands in a wild and barren 

 fpot, on the fummit of a commanding eminence more than 

 200 feet high, and forms a pyramid, with rounded angles ; 

 and a large river runs beneath it, which, from its depth and 

 rapidity, nifpires a kind of horror. This caftle was built at 

 the clofe of the ijth century, by Mulcy Abdalmomen, the 

 firft king of the race of the Moahedins ; but many additions 

 were made to it by Muley Abdallah, fon of Muley Ilhmael. 

 This prince caufed fubterraneoue paffages to be dug at a 

 great expence for procuring water from the river ; and in 

 order to fecnre his water-carriers from the fire of the 

 muflietry, he built conduits, which brought the waters from 

 the neighbouring mountains, the ruins of which are ftill 

 vifible on the road from Bulakuan to Morocco. Near the 

 6 caftle 



