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The floor is paved with hard burnt bricks, laid edgewife 

 in mortar, being formed with a fteep dcfccnt from the wall 

 to a channel, from tiiree to four feet from it, and with a 

 gentle fall from the iranger to the fame channel, which be- 

 comes the general drain for rain water and urine. At one 

 end of the pens is a pump (where a natural rill cannot be 

 had) for fupplyiiig the troughs of water ; and, at the other, 

 a llacit of Hubble for litter, which is ufvd in the Ihll only, 

 the yard being left uiilittered. At one ?nd of the building 

 is a cakehoulc, at th; other the rick-yard ; with a door at 

 each end of the gnng way to receive the hay and the cake. 



In fomc inllanccs, he has feen a double range of ftalls on 

 this plan, the area between them being the common recep- 

 tacle for the dung. Wlien a number of Halls, as twenty or 

 thirty, are required, tiicir ari-angcment brings them within 

 a convenient compafs, and the two ranges, with a proper 

 afpeft, biicome Iheltcr to each other. Befide thefe loofe 

 flails, there are others built nearly on the fame plan, but 

 wiiliout gates, and on a foraewhat fmaller fcale, in which the 

 cattle are fallcned to the manger, or the partition pofts, 

 with a long chain, which gives them liberty to rub and lick 

 thcmfelves, and move about in their (lalln. In this cafe, a 

 water-trough is generally placed at the end of every fccond 

 partition, level with the manger, with a general pipe of 

 communication to fill them, each trough fupplying two bul- 

 locks. This plan, he obferves, leffens the cxpence in fome 

 degree, and prevents the bullocks from fouling their 

 mangers. In the Cotfwold hills, he remarks, that each bul- 

 lock has difierent troughs, a fmall one for corn, a larger 

 one for hay, with a wa;er-trough, which runs the whole 

 length of the (hed, and is covered by a board, each bullock 

 having a hole to drink at. There are various other con- 

 ilruAions of (hcds for this ufe, which will be more particu- 

 larly defcribed under their proper heads. See Cattle- 

 sheds, and Feeding-houses. 



BuLi.0CK-/?a//r, the parts that are partitioned off in the 

 (beds, in which the bullocks (land to eat their food. They 

 Ihould always be made fufficiently roomy. See Cattle- 

 sheds. 



Bullock, in Geography, a new county of the ftate of 

 Georgia in America. 



Bullock's /o/rt/ and neci, lie on the eaftern fide of Pro- 

 ▼idence river, in the ftate of Rhode ifland. 



BULLS, hay of, lies on the north of Cadiz in Spain, 

 within Rota point, and affords a fine ihelter from the N.W. 

 to the N.E. winds ; about N.N.W. from Cadiz-bay. 



Bulls, bay of, or Baboul bay, a noted bay on the eaft coaft 

 of Newfoundland ifland, about fix leagues to the fouth of 

 St. John's harbour. It has 14 fathoms of water, and is 

 very fafe, being land- locked. The only danger depends 

 upon a rock, 20 yards from Bread-and-Cheefe point, and 

 another with nine feet watei; off Magotty cave. N. lat. 

 47° 20'. AV. long. 52° 20'. — Another bay of the fame name 

 lies on the weft fide of Trinity bay, running fo far weft, 

 that it is fcarcely three miles over land from the head or 

 bottom of it to the bay of Placcntia. 



BULLSKIN, a townftiip of Fayette county in Pennfyl- 

 vania. 



BULLULLOS, a town of Spain, in Andalufia, four 

 leagues from Lucena. 



BULLY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lower Seine ; fix leagues N. of Rouen. 



BuLLv-/r<'<', in Botany. See AcyRAs and Bumelia. 



BULMAN, in Geography, a rock or (hoal on the fouth 

 coaft of Ireland, on which there is never lefs water than 

 four feet. It lies near Hangman's point on the caft fide of 



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the entry into Kinfale harbour, and mud be carefully 

 guarded agjinft by thofe who enter that port. N. lat. 51° 

 40'. W.^long. %° 28'. 



BULM MoNOu, a county of Africa, on the coaft of 

 Guinea. 



BULONGA ijland, lies off the mouth of Aracan river, 

 on the eaft fide of the bay of Bengal. 



BULSEDI, a town of Arabia, in the county of Yemen, 

 22 miles S. E. of Loheia. 



BULTEAU, Lewis, in Biography, a learned and pious 

 French author, was born at Roueii in 1615, and fucceedcd 

 his uncle as king's fccretary, which office he occupied for 

 14 years, till he withdrew from it to ftudy and religious re- 

 treat. Having entered as a lay-brother among the Benedic- 

 tines of St. Maur, he pafTed the remainder of his days at the 

 abbey of St. Germain des Prcz, near Paris. His principal 

 woiks were "An Effay on the monaftic Hiftory of the Eaft," 

 1680, 8vo. dcfcribing the manners, &c. of the Csnobiles, 

 and proving that monaftic inilitutions are not fo modern as 

 has been fuppofed. " Abridgment of the Hiftory of the 

 Order of St. Benedict, as far as the loth century, 1684," 

 2 vols. 4to. " TranCation of the Dialogues of Gregory 

 the Great," with Notes, 1689, i;mo. His modefty would 

 not allow his annexinn- his name to his works ; his ftyle was 

 formed on the model of the writers of the Port Royal ; and 

 his knowledge of languages was very extenfive. He died of 

 an apoplexy in 1603. Nouv. Dift. Hift. 



BULTEL, derived from the barbarous Latin hultelhis, or 

 bultellum, a fearce, or boulter, denotes the bran or refufe of 

 meal after drtfling. 



Bultel alfo denotes a bag wherein meal is dreffed, called 

 alfo a btill.r, or rather boulter. See Bolters. 



BULTER.Jo/Z.. See Bolting-Jo/A. 



Bulters, are ftrong lines, five hundred feet long, with 

 fixty hooks, eight feet afunder, and baited with pilchards or 

 mackerel, which are ufed on the coaft of Cornwall in the 

 fifliery of congers. They are fuuk to the ground by a ftone 

 faftened to them ; and foraetimes fuch a number of thefe are 

 tied together as to reach a. mile. 



BULWARK, Propugr.aculum, in the yincient Fortification, 

 amounts to much the fame with baition in the modern. 

 See Bastion, and alfo Rampart. 



BULWER, John, in Biography. This writer, who 

 lived in London, and was in repute in his time for his ftill in 

 teaching deaf and dumb perfons, and others, to communicate 

 their thoughts, by motions of their fingers and hands, is now- 

 only known by his works, which are fufficiently fin<Jular to 

 merit attention : viz. " Chirologia, or the Natural L^guage 

 of the Hand ; as alfo Chironomia, or the Art of Manual 

 Rhetonck," London, 1644, 8vo. Rabelais gives an ac- 

 count of a curious conteft of this kind, where the difputants, 

 without fpeaking, communicated their opinions, by motions 

 of the hands and fingers. The art is not entirely loft, but 

 IS now principally praftifed as an amufement by young people 

 at fchods " Pathomyototomia, or the fignificant Mufcles 

 c I ^fT' °^ ^''^ ^'"'^' ^^"^ DifTedion of the Mufcles 

 of the Affeftions," London, 1649, Svo. He defcribes the 

 mulcles ot the head, and denominates them from the expref- 

 ion in the countenance, occafioned by their contraaions, as 

 kve, fear, rage, &c. " Man transformed, or the Artificial 

 Changeling, ihewing the feveral Wavs how divers People 

 alter the Natural Shape of fome Parts of their Bodies" 

 1653, 4to. Jofeph Clark, the famous pofture-mafter, was a 

 remarkable inftance of a man pofl-effing this power. He 

 made himfelf tall or (hort, fat or lean, deformed or ftrai^ht, 

 at his difcretion. He had alfo an equal power in altering his 



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