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,h. obfcrvan«ofthe laws. ,o decide difpute., to dimlnifi. ov the arms of the dey ar,.ck on both f.dcs, worth half an 



augment the tribes, and to airciiiblc and command the pro- afp>.r. . r „„ „, Te ;„ . .) ;„l, 



p nTo> of recruits, which are fnrnilhcd by the nation ift DURBER, an Efiypt.an p.ece of money. It s a thick 



CTf war. till .Ly a.e united to the main body of the piece of copper abo.t as broad as a h.pence ; twelve of 



armv. Catharine II. with a view of annexing dignity to the fe make a ni^rf;«f there. . „ re ■ 



JlTs'^hief, gave orders that he fhonM wear a girdle orna- BURDIDA, .n Mc.ent Geo^raphy,^ a town of Spam, 



mented with filver. on which is ir.fcrihed the name of the --^,,„t,^-,. :. ,.,.l:..i.... .\.. v„„\,(^ r..^. ^f ^adu 



. ir.fcrihed the name of the between Ti.da and Turoqua. Anton. I in. 



.tt has become proud of this BURBOT, in Ichlhyolosy, the Engh(h name of ga 



1 nmrk. of his flavery. Ac- lola, a fini common in the i rent, and fome few other 



call he commands ; and the Bnrat 

 decoration, though it is merely a nmrk ot his llavery 

 cor<iipg (o tlie accounts taltcn in i;Sj, this nation forms 6j 

 cads, containing 3.;,ooo bows or heads of families; and as 

 they fpe.ik the Mon^rol language, profefs the religion of the 

 "Kaimuks. lead a fimilar kind of life, and manage their flocks 

 in the fa lie manner v.ith the Barfchkirians, it will be i'ufficient 

 to refer for an account of ffvcial particidars relating to them 

 to the articles Bashkirs, Kalmuks, and Mongols. They 

 have, however, fome cudoms peculiar to themf«!ves. Tiiey 

 are allowed to marry as many wives as they can afford to 

 purchafe ; and the price of a bride is paid in cattle of differ- 

 ent kinds. A young girl, accurding to her beauty and 

 charader, may, among the rich, receive loo horfes, 20 

 camels, 50 horned cattle, 200 (heep, and 30 goats. When 

 the cattle are delivered, the nuptials are celebrated. Foi- 

 this purpofe they ercft a " Jurte," of felt, entirely new, of 

 a white colour, aid very neat. The three tirft days are 

 fpent in feafting, fniging, and dancing ; and on thefe occa- 



Cons the mufical iiiftrument is a guitar with two ftrings, re- 



fcmbling that which the Ruffians call " Balalaika." At 



the expiration of thefe three days, the marriage is confum- 



mr.tcd. When a hu(band dies and leaves feveral wives, (lie 



who has borne him children, or the eldeft of fuch as have 



had children, becomes the miftrefs of the Jurte. Thofe 



wlio have had no children, return to their relations on fine 



liorfes, and carry with them the clothes and prefents which 



they received from t!ie hufbai.d. If they have no place of rhana. 



retirement, they continue in the Jurte, fubuidinate to the BURCHAUSEN. 



wife mother, and are entitled to the tenth of tlic cattle left 



by the hufband. The Buratti rt femble the Kalmuks in out- 

 ward form, with fome flight variation?. Their countenance 



15 fallow, and though they are tall, their bodily ftrucfnie is 



feeble, and they feldom attain to an advanced age. They 



formerly fuffered much from the fniall-pox, hut fuice an ino 



o£ 

 our rivers. It is alfo known by the appellation of the eel- 

 pout. This is muf.cia fuv'mlms of two or three old Latin- 

 writers. 



BU RCA, among the Turks, the name of the rich covering 

 of the door of the houfe at Mecca ; it is ten feet long, and 

 five wide ; and there are feveral figures and Arabic letters 

 on it, very richly embroidered in gold, on a ground of 

 red and green. This is carried about in their folcmn 

 proceffi ns, and is often made to ftop, that the people may 

 touch it. 



BuRCA, in Jncient Geography, a town of Africa in Mauri- 

 tania Cxfarienfis Ptolemy. 



BURCARDIA, in Botaijy (from J. H. Burckhard, 

 M. D. \\-ho publifhed Chaiac. Plant. 1702), a genus formed 

 by Scopoli, and adopted by Schreber, tor a plant defcribed. 

 by Aublet in his account of the plants of Guiana, and called 

 by him Piriqueta, which h'.s been referred by-WiUdenow 

 and Bofc to tiie genus Turnera. bee Turn era ru~ 



BURCHAN.A, or BurCHAVis, in Ancient Geogrnphyy 

 an ifland placed by Piiny between the Rhine and the 

 Cimbric promontory. It was reduced by Drulus, who 

 employed for this purpofe ail the Roman forces in thofe 

 parts. 



BURCH.-\RDIA, in Botany. See Callicarpa Ame- 



nta BuRKHAUSEN. 



BURCHEIM. SeeBuRKEiM. 



BURCHIELLO, in Biography, an Italian poet, whofe 

 family name was Domenico, was a native of Florence, where 

 he exercifed the trade of a barber, and where his ihop was, 

 the ufual rendezvous of the men of letters in that C'ty. He 

 died at Rome in 144S. His poems, which were a lingular 



culation hofpital has been inftituted at Irkutflc, the mortality kind of biirlefqiie, abounded with ludicrous expreflions, old 



fcems to have been much diminifhed. They now frequently proverbs, and various extravagancies, often uninte-Uigible;,, 



inoculate their own children. They arc much fubjeit to the and frequently low and indecent, but intermixed with flafhea 



itch, from their manner of living, food, and clothing. In of wit and vivacity, that became very popular, and cftabliflied 



chronical difeafes they ufe the warm baths on the eaft fide a kind of ftyle, called the " Burchellitfqiie," which had 



of the Baikal. Their phyficians are the Schamanes. who feveral imitators. The pieces of this poet are chiefly fon- 



prttend to heal them more by facrifices, incantations, and nets, of which the firft edition appeared at Bologna in 1475; 



fpella, tli?n by natural means. They fubfi.f by the chace and and another edition, with a ccmmcnt, no lefs hard to be 



by their flocks. A Bu at is known to pofTefs a thoufand underilood than the original, was given at Venice in l^SS- 



fiieep, befides horfes, and other cattle. Their habitations The Junti at Florence publiflied all his poems in i 5^2 and 



are hexagonal cabins, conftrudied with beams laid over one 156S. Whatever amnfement performances of this kind 



another, to the height of about 3 feet, with an opening might afford in a rude age, and in the infancy of poetry. 



formed at the top by flakes for the difchargc of the fmoke. 

 The Bursts are a principal branch of the Kalmuks, and differ 

 from the Tuiig'.ifcs only in their language, which is Mongo- 

 lian. Tookc's View of the Ruffian Empire, vol. i. and ii. 

 Chanlrcau's Travels in Rudia, vol.ii. Eng. ed. 



BURAZ, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province of 

 Natolia ; 28 miles S. E. of Degnizlu. 



EURBACII, a town of Hungary, celebrated for its 

 wine ; 8 miles E. of Eifenftadt. 



they have funk into obfcurity by the prevalence of good 

 talle and decorum.. Mr. Rofcoe, in his " Life of Lorenzo 

 de Medici," informs us, that a fatire of BurchicUo in terza 

 r'r.iia, after the manner of Dante, exills in MS. in the library 

 of the duke of Tufcany. 



BURClvERSDORF, in Geogrcphy, a town of Germany, 

 in the circle of Upper Saxony, and territory of Newftadt } 

 2 m-les N.W. of Weyda. 



BURCUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Afiatio Sar- 



BURBARUS, in Ichthyology, the name given by Paul matia, on the banks of which was built the city of Cucunda, 



Jovius, and fome other writers on fiflies, to the common according to Ptolemy. 

 Cirp, Cyprinus carplo. BURDA, in Geography, a river of Hindodan, which 



BUR3AS, in Comnu-rcc, a fmall coin at Algiers, with runs into the Godavery, 60 miles E. of Nceimul. 



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