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have been written by George of Sparta, 



cmbalTy to England by Pope Sxtus IV. i.. U/O- 



who was fent on an 

 It has 



not the ancient K.faxa.x. but the "J'Jli';'-" ,^';"P''^7' ^f Jt 



"re found in our printed bibles. M.chachs's Int. to the 



' ' " ' ii. and iii. 



of Hindollan, which 



New Tcllament byMarfli, vol 



BUNNASS, in Gfosrafhy, a river 

 runs into the Jcflul; 25 miles S. E. of Oud.pour. 



BUNNICK., John Van, in B,or;raphy, a pauiter ot hil- 

 lory and po.tra.t, was born at Utrecht .n 16,54, and under 

 the inllruAion of Herman Sachtlevcn, bcca.oe a conhder- 

 able artift. Having for feme time affociated with (-.erartl 

 Hoet in the exercife of his art, he deterrr-ined to improve 

 himfclf at Rome ; and there became acquainted with Carlo 

 Maratti, and Abraham Genoeis, Irom whofe wor!vS ai.cl 

 converfali6n he derived f-reat benefit. Intending to return 

 liome. he was detained by the duke of Modena, who en- 

 jraKcd his fer^ice by the grant of an honourable peplion, 

 and ictained him in his court fc.r eight years. He d.figned 

 well, difpofed his figures with elegance and propriety, and 

 wai correcl in his outline. He died in i 727.. 



His brother and difciple, Jacob Fan Bunwk, became 

 an excellent mafter, and diftinguillied hm.lelf by panning 

 battles. His fubjcas were difTcrrent from thofe ot his bro- 

 ther, but in the manner of his handling and colounng, he 

 refembled him entirely. He died in 1725. Pilkmgton. 



BUNNOO, or Banou, in Geography, a town oi Cabul, 

 fituate between the mountains of Sindia Baftch, which he 

 fouth of Paifliawur and the river Cophencs, or Cow river, 

 or the great river of Bungudi, which is formed by the 

 waters o? Ghizni and Gurdaiz, and paffing by Nughz and 

 Bunnoo, difchargcs itfelf into the Indus or Siode, at Dem- 

 kotc. N. lat. jj-*. E.long. 70' 20'. , j u 



BUKNUEL, a town of Spain in Navarre, feated on the 

 Ebro ; 7 leagues from Tudela. 



BUNOLA, a fmall town in the ifland of Majorca. 

 BUNOWEN, a vilUge on the coaft ofConnemara, in the 

 wellern part of the county of Galway, Ireland, which gives 

 name to a bay, in which fmall veflels may ride in the lum- 

 mer time, or in moderate weather, the ground holding well, 

 and the water from 2 to i\ fathoms. N. lat. 53° 24'. W. 

 long. 10° 8'. 



BUNRATTY, a barony in the county of Clare, Ireland, 

 which derives its name from the old caftle of Bunratty, or 

 Bonratti, which was built near the month of the fmall river 

 Gearna, that flows into the Shannon, and was confidered a 

 fortrcfs of great ftrength and importance. It was built by 

 Thomas de Clare in 1277 for the proteaion of the Enghfh 

 fttllcis ; and was afterwards the occafional refidence of the 

 earls of Thomond. Being taken polTeffion of by the adhe- 

 rents of the parhament in 1646, it was befieged by the Iiifli 

 under lord Muflierry, and held out fix weeks. It is about 

 8 miles weft from Limericlc. Hollinlhead. 



BUNT of a fail, in Sea Language, is the middle part of it, 

 formed into a kind of bag, or pouch, that it may catch and 

 receive the more wind. 



The bunt is chiefly ufed in topfails, the foremoft leech of 

 which is cut with a neck ; for courfes are for the moft part 

 cut fquare, or at leaft with a fmall allowance for bunt or 

 compafs, which is the middle part of the foot of fuch fails. 

 They fay, the hunt holds much leeward •wind ; that is, it hangs 

 too much to leeward. 



Seamen all agree, that a bellying or hunting fail carries a 

 veffel fader to the windward than a ftraight or faft fail : the 

 contrary of which is afTerted by Dr. Hooke, who has a dif- 

 courfe to fliew the preference of ftraight to bunting fails. Vide 

 Hooke's Pofthum. Works, p. 563, feq. 



Bvur-lines, are fmall hnes made fad to the bottom of the 



BUN 



fquare fails, in the middle part of the bolt-rope to a cren- 

 gle ; and fo are reeved through a fmall block, feized to the 

 vard : their ufe is to trice up the bunt of the fail, for the 

 better furling it up. 



BuNT-/;/J<-i-/e.'A, is the lining fewed up the fail, in the 

 diieftion of the bunt-line, to prevent the fails being chaftd. 



BUNTINE, a t!iin woollen llufl", of which the colours 

 and fignals of a fliip are ufually made. 



BUNTING, ill Orni/hology, the Englifh name of the 

 birds of the Emberiza genus. See Embf.riza.^ — Bunting 

 is the name applied in common to Emberiza Miliaria. 



BUNTINGFORD, in Geography, a fmall maiket-tovvn 

 in the county of Hertford, England. It Hands on the 

 banks of the river Rib, near the fpot where the Romnn road 

 called Enning ftreet, crofTed it. Edward the third, in the 

 21ft vear of his reign, granted to this town, the privilege of 

 a yearly market, and a fair. In the 41ft year of his reign 

 he further endowed it with a nveelly market on Saturdays, 

 and a fair in June. This town is only a chapelry to Lay- 

 tton, where the church is fitnated, but the inhabitants are 

 accommodated with a neat and commodious chapel, which 

 wasfiniflied in 1626. Here are a free-fchool, an alms houfe, 

 and other charities. The prefent market day is Monday ; 

 but the markets are very i: confiderable. Buntlngford is 31 

 miles north from London, and with the remainder of the 

 parifli, contains i6i houfcs, and 799 inhabitants. Magna 

 Britannia, vol. ii. 973. 



BUNTSPECHT, in Ornithology ; Frifch has the greater 

 woodpecker, pictis major, under this name. — Kleiner Bunt- 

 fpecht is the lefler fpotted woodpecker, picus minor, in the 

 fame author. 



BUNTZLAU, or Bunzet., in Latin Bolejlavia, in Geo- 

 graphy, a town of Silefia, in a circle of the fame name, and 

 in the principality of Jauer. It is feated in a fertile coun- 

 try, on the Bober; and exports great quantities of its beau- 

 tiful brown earthen ware. It was formerly noted for the 

 rich mines in its vicinity, and the Silcfian bards have cele- 

 brated the limpid and falubrious waters of the qucck-brunn 

 or quick-fpring that lies near it. N. lat. 51° la'. E. long. 

 15° 50'. 



Buntzlau, /lit, an ancient town of Bohemia, in the cir- 

 cle of Boleflaw, founded by Wratidaus in 915, but reduced 

 by the troubles of the 15th and i6th centuries to an incon- 

 fiderable place. It is feated on the Elbe, 8 miles S. S. W. 

 of Benatek or Benatky. 



Buntzlau, jfung, a town of Bohemia, and capital of 

 the circle of Boleflaw, built in 973 by Boleflaw the younger, 

 and ranked in 1600 among the royal boroughs by the em- 

 peror Rudolph. It is feated on the Ifer, 28 miles N.N.E. 

 of Prague. 



BUNYAN, John, in Biography, a very popular writer 

 among perfons of a particular defcription, fprung from an 

 obfcure origin, being the fon of a tinker, and was born at 

 Elftow near Bedford, in 1628. His parents gave him an 

 education fuitable to their condition, and taught him to read 

 and write ; but his conveifation and conduft in early life 

 were remarkably vicious and profang, though not without 

 fome checks, which indicated very ftrong religious impref- 

 fions. In procefs of time thefe impreflions, revived and 

 cheriflied by the converfation of fome pious women, with 

 whom he accidentally aflbciated, terminated in a thorough 

 reformation, fo that he became as much dillinguifliedfor his 

 piety as he had once been for his profligacy. For feveral 

 years he followed his father's occupation, and in the exer- 

 cife of it travelled about the country, particularly id the 

 neighbourhood of Bedford. He enhlled as a foldier in the 

 parliament army, and at the fiege of Lcicefter in 1645, ''^'s 

 7 life 



