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for the ai)bey churcli of St. Paul, taken from the Old and 

 New Teflamont ; and in one of thefe, reprefenting Noali's 

 drk, he introduced his own portrait, which is the only por- 

 trait known of iiim, and is tlie fame Vafaii introduced into 

 the fccond edition of his " Lives of the Painters." 



15uffalmacco enjoyed confiderable reputation, nor was the 

 age wanting in aflotding him opportunity to e.xcrt hi.-; ta- 

 lents ; yet, from the f )I!owing anecdote, he appears occafion- 

 ally to have worked at a very low price. Vafari hai re- 

 co-ded, that he painted a whole length tigure of St. Chriilo- 

 pher, J 2 braccia in heiglit, nearly 33 feet, for 8 florins; and 

 this fad is prefcrvcd ior the fake of a whimfical circumllance 

 that attended the execution of it. The pit^lure was ordered 

 by a countryman, and was to occupy a wall in a church at 

 Florence ; when BiiffalmQcco went to paint, he founii the 

 wall only 9 braccia in height : that his employer, therefore, 

 might h.Tve his meafure, he painted St. Chrillopher lying 

 upon his back ; but unfortunately even in this pofitlon, the 

 wall did not admit of his whole length ; he then turned up 

 the legs perpendicular to the body, which was fo exceedingly 

 ri'diculous, that when the countryman came to fee his faint, 

 he flew into a violent pafiion, and demanded his money, de- 

 daring that he was both cheated and infulted, but the 

 painttr infilled that he had executed the commiilion with the 

 llricleft iideiity, and therefore could neither agree with him, 

 nor comply with his requrft : upon which tl;e countryman 

 brought an aftion againft him, and in the refult was not more 

 fnccefsfid. 



This prope-fity to make meri-y with life, made Buffal- 

 nacco regavdkfs of the means by which its decline is fup. 

 ported ; and at the advanced age of 7S years he died in ex- 

 treme poverty and diftrefs, fupported in his lall illntfs by 

 the charity of an hofpilal, and buried by the company of 

 the Mifericordia. Vafari has written his life ia 1 3 quarto 

 pages, containing little more than general commendation 

 and whimfical anecdotes connecled with the cxcrcife of his 

 profcfiion. 



BUONAROTI. See Anctlo. 



BUON-CONVENTO, m Geography. See Boncon- 



TEVTO. 



BUONHABITACULO, a town of Naples; Smiles 

 N. of Policailro. 



BUONTALENTI, Btrnardo, called Girandolf, 

 in Biography., a painter of hiltory and portrait in miniature, 

 acquired correiSnefs of dellgn, and the knowledge of colour- 

 ing, from Salvati, Bronziiio, and Vafari, and the art of 

 miniature-painting fixim Julio Clovio. His works were 

 much admired for the beauty of the colouring, and for a 

 certain dignity of cxpreflion in his Madonnas, as well as in 

 his portraits. Befides his merit as a painter, he was much 

 approved as a ftatuary and an architect. He was born at 

 Florence in 1547, and died hi r6o.S. Pilkington. 



BUONVICINO, in Geugraphy, a town of Naples, in 

 the province of Calabria Citra ; 1 1 miles S. E. of Scalea. 



BUOY, a fmall idand on the ealt coalt of Newfoundland, 

 between Feiryland head and harbour. See Broyle. 



Buoy, in Sea Language, a body floating in water, to fliew 

 either the fitnation of a (hip's anchor, or a danger, as fands, 

 flioals, 5ic. that it may be avoided. Buoys are of various 

 forms, and conllrudcd of bnnyant materials, as wood, cork, 

 &c. The names of the principal kinds of buoys are can, 

 C(i/h, or cable, inin, and -woaJeit buoys. 



A can-ltiijy is made in form of a cone. This kind is 

 particularly employed in pointing out the extrcioities or fides 

 ef any dangerous bank, land, ixc. A buoy for tliis purpoie 

 is, therefore, large, that it may be feen at fome coiiiiderable 

 dillance, »iiJ is fallcned to au anthur, funk in a proper fitvia- 



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tion, to point out the danger. "When there are fe»era! 

 buojs on the fame find or rtioal, they are generally painted 

 of different colours, to prevent millake, as black, white and 

 red ; this lall colour is that which is bed peiceived, for a 

 white buoy is not cafily obferved in broken water, and in 

 many cafes a black pointed buoy is very indillinct. In goiii{j 

 through a narrow channel, in place 01 having buoys on one 

 fide only, there arc fometiiiKS buoys on one lide and beacons 

 on the other; but as thefe lall arc n;ore eafily broke dowH 

 by the violence of the waves, buoys may, tlierefoie, be 

 placed on each lide; and to prevent niidake, thofe on ihc 

 one fide flioiild be can-bur ys, and cafli-buoys on the other fide. 

 For this pu'pofe it has been propofed, in going in to 

 all ports, U) have can-buoyson the llarboard hand, 

 and caflv-bnoys placed on the larboard hand ; which 

 varieties, experience has fhewn, may be perceived at a 

 confiderable dillance. For the ean-buoy, in confequcnce 

 of its broad heavy end, fwims chiefly on its fide ; while 

 the cafic-biioy, being much narrower and lighter at its 

 upper cud, Iwims more upright, and liigl-.er out of the 

 water. 



C.ajh-luoys are any common cadvs iifed for buoys. When 

 calks are employed to float, or buoy up the cable in different 

 places to prevent it from being injured by rocks, &c. at the 

 bottom, they are called calk-buoys. 



Nun-buoys are in form of the middle frufhim of two cones, 

 abutting upon a common bafe, being calks, which are 

 large in the middle, and tapering greatly towards each 

 end. 



IVooden-buoys are folid pieces of timber, being in form 

 either of a cylinder, or nun-buoy. They are furniflied with 

 one or tv.-o holes, in which to fix a (hnrt piece of rope, 

 whole two ends being fpliced together, make a fort of circle 

 or ring called TxJInp. Thefe feveral buoys are reprefented 

 in the Plales ofjl/rps. 



Buoy rope, the rope that conntcls the buoy with the 

 anchor. The length of this rope fluiuld be vtry little tnoic 

 than equal to the d-pth of the water where the anchor is 

 to lie, that the buoy may thereby float, as nearly as pofTi- 

 ble, immediately above the anchor, and confcquently point 

 out its fituaticn. The buoy rope is ufeful in weighing the 

 anchor, either by mians of a boat, or when the cable is 

 broke or run out ; and, therefore, it fliould always be of a 

 fnfficient Ihtngtli for this purpofe, otherwife the anchor 

 may be loll. See Piatt of flips. 



Buoy, Slmgs of the, the ropes which are fallered about 

 it, and by which it is hung. They are curioufly fpliced 

 round the buoy, fomewhat refembling the braces of a 

 drum. 



Buoy, to flrcain the, is to let it fall from the (hip's fide 

 into the water. This is always done before the anchor is 

 let go, that it may not be retarded by the buoy rope, in 

 its del'cent to the bottom. 



Buoy of the A'ure, is fituated about N. E. from Sheernefs 

 fort, on the N. W. point of the iflc of Shcppcy, the eaft 

 entrance into Chatham river, or the Medway ; and it is at 

 the extreme point of a fand, which runs E. N. E. from the 

 iilaniJ of Grain, or weft entrance of the Medway. 



BUOYANT, denotes a thing floating, or apt to float. 



BUPALUS, in Biugnjphy, a ctkhratcd feulptor, de- 

 fcended from a line of anccilois of the faire profefnon, was 

 a native of Chios, and flourifhed in the 6cth olyr.ipiad, or 

 540 years B.C. His bi other Aihenls was a!fo of the 

 fame prufcffioii. They worked only in the «'hite marble of 

 the ille of Paros, and executed feveral ftatucs at Kom.\ 

 They were contemporaries with Hippotiax, a poet of a de- 

 formed aud vontenaptible figure, whom, for theii- diverfioii, 

 3X2 ihcy 



