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BURLETTA, Ital. from hurhn-e, to jcft, be jocular, de- 

 ride, turn tu ridicule, in Altific. It is extraordinary that 

 tiic term burlttta, fa common in fpeaking of comic operas, 

 appears in no mulical diilionary. Comic operas began by an 

 hitiTmczzo, a fiiigle aft or fccne, as an ad tune between any 

 two acts of a drama. See Opera Buffa. 

 BURLING 0/C/9//J. See Cloth. 

 Burling Iron, an inllrument nfed by the manufafturers 

 of cloth, and borne in the; arms of tlic company of weavers at 

 E.stter. 



BuRLixcs' Rods, in Geojm/'fjy, lie on the coad of Portu- 

 gal, 14 leasrues about N. N. \\'. from cape llocque, com- 

 monly called the rock of Lilhon, and 18 k-agues S. W. from 

 cape Montage. Behind the Bnrlings are a ^noA road and 

 anchorage, under the great i(l.i:ul before t!ie Htrmitage, 

 and 10 fathoms water. N. lat. 29^ -o- ^^' l""o' 

 9° .37'. 



BURLINGTON. See Bridlington. 

 Burlington, a county of America, in New Jcrfey, ex- 

 tending acrofs from the Atlantic ocean on the S. E. to 

 Delaware river, and part of Huntingdon county on the 

 N. W., ill length about 60 miles. A great part of it is 

 barren ; but about three-eighths of it are under cultivation, 

 generally level, and well-watered. It has 1^,095 inhabit- 

 ants, including 227 flaves. — Alfo, a city, the capital of the 

 above county, under the government of a mayor, aldermen, 

 and common council. The extent of the townlhip is 3 miles 

 along the Delaware, and a mile back ; being about iS miles 

 N. E. of Pliiladelphia, and ll from Trenton. The ifland, 

 ■which is the moll; populous part, is about a mile each way ; 

 and includes about j6o houlcs, and 1000 white and 140 

 black inhabitants, of the lall fome few being flaves. The 

 ftreets are cpmmodioufly fpacious, and mollly ornamented 

 with rows of trees. The town is oppoiite to Brillol in 

 Pennfylvania, where the river is about a mile wide. Under 

 the (belter of Mittinicunk and Burlington iflands is a fafe 

 harbour, conveniently adapted for trade, but too near to 

 Philadelphia to allow of much foreign commerce. Burling- 

 ton was firlt fettled in 1677, and has an academy and a frce- 

 fchool. Mittinicunk ifland belongs to the latter, and yields 

 a vearly profit of iSol. This lown has a place of worlhip 

 for the Friends, who are the moll numerous, and another tor 

 the Epifcopalians. It has two market-houfes, a work-houfe, 

 and the bell gaol in the (late. Here are likewife a nail ma- 

 nufattory, and an excellent dillillerv. N. lat. 40° tl'. 

 W. long. 74°. 



Burlington, a townfliip of Ameriea, in Olfego county. 

 New York, divided by an acl of the legiflalure in i 797 into 

 two towns. — Alfo, a pleafant towndiip, the chief in Chit- 

 tenden county, Vermont, fituste on the fouth fide of Onion 

 river, on the eailbank of lake Cham plain, and containing 332 

 inhabitants. The governor and patrons of the college of 

 Vermont have fclefted this healthy and agreeable fituation 

 for a feminary, conilituted for the education of young per- 

 fons of all denominations. Burlington is 22 miles dillant 

 northerly from Vergennes, 122 from Bennington, and 332 

 from the city of New York. N.lat. 44° jo'. 



Burlington, or Oumcjkea Bay, lies on the eaft (ide of 

 lake Champlain, about 34 miles N. by E. from Crown 

 point, 69 S. E. from lake St. Francis in St. Lawrence river, 

 and 70 foutherly from St. John's. N.lat. 44" 22'. 



BURLO, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 

 phalia, and biftiopric of Muniler ; 4 miles N. N. W. of 

 Borchen. 



BURMAH. See Birman Empire. 



BURMANN, Francis, in Biography, a famous theo- 

 logical profeflbr, was born in 1628 at Leyden, where he re- 



ceived his education ; and after having for fome time 

 oHiciated as minirter at Hanau, and as agent of the eol!c;,-e 

 at his native place, he was invited to the chair of theology at 

 Utrecht. In this llation he dillinguilhed himlelf by his 

 Icftures and writings. He died in 1679. His publication, 

 are " Commentaries on the Pentateuch and Hillorical 

 Books of the Old Tedament," written in Dutch, and 

 printed at dilferent ' times : " An Abridgment of Tic o- 

 logy," 2 vols. 4to. in Latin ; " Exercitaltones Acade- 

 miccc," 2 V(,ls. 4to., and fome controvcilial piiccf. Morcri. 

 Gen. Bio J. 



BuRMANM, PiTER, an cmi'icnt philologid, w.is the fon 

 of the preceding, and born in 1068 at Utrecht, where he w.t.; 

 educated, and where he attended the leisures of the leariiol 

 Giasvius. Devoti:ig himfelf to the profrfii:)n of the law, he 

 lUidicd for fome time at Leyden, and in his 2cih year took 

 the degree of doctor of laws. Having gained reputation in 

 the exercife of his profcllion, he was, in 1696, apjiointed 

 profefFor of eloquence and hillory in his native city, and 

 afterwardii of Greek and politics. From this time lie de- 

 voted himftif wholly to literature, and became one of the 

 moll laborious commentator'; and editors of tr.e age. He 

 pubhfhed, with his own notes and thole of othtr critics, 

 Vtllfius Paterculus, Q^intilian, Vakrius Flaccus, Virgil, 

 Ovid, Suetonius, Liican, Phxdrus, and Petronius, a,nd alfo 

 a colkdion of the minor Latin poets, in 2 vols. 4to. He 

 alfo wrote a treatife " On tlie Taxes of the Romans," 

 edited ftveral learned works, with prefaces and notes, and 

 was the author of various difieitations, difcourfes, and pieces 

 of Latin poetry. As a com:r.entator, he was dillinguilh- 

 ed more by his indudry and erudition than-for his geniirs and 

 talle ; and though he is deficient in the elucid;nion of ob- 

 feure and difficult pafTagcs, he has accumulated a mafs of- 

 materials from which other grammarians and critics may de- 

 rive great advantage. He was twice rcftor of the univeriUy, 

 and thrice private fecretary to the academical fenate ; av'd 

 to his other honours was added the profefloi lliip of the 

 hillory of the United Scatts. He died in 1741. Moren. 

 Gen. Biog. 



BuRMANN, John, M. D. of a noble and wealthy fr.mily, 

 and of no mean literary acquirements, employed much labour 

 ard e>:pence in editing various botanical works particularly 

 tliofe giving accounts of plants procured from the Indies. In 

 1 736. he publifntdan edition of Weinman's Herbal, to which 

 he added feveral plates with African plants. His iiext 

 publication, in which he had the affidance of Linrxus, then 

 a young man, was the " Thefauru.^ Zeylanicus, exhibens 

 Plantas in Infula Zcylana nafcentes, Iconibtis illudratus," 

 410. J 73 7, taken from various travellers, with ne-,vdt;fcrip;ior;S 

 and plates. The following year he was appointed profs ffor 

 to the botanical garden at Amfterdam, and foon after pub- 

 hflitd " Rariarum Africanacum Plantarum, Decades De- 

 cern, " 4to. principally from Witfen and Vanderilell, to 

 which, however, he made feveral additions. He tranllated 

 Rumphius's great work into Latin, which he enriched with 

 valuable notes, and pubiifhcd under the title of " Evcrhardi 

 Rumphli Herbarium Amboinenfe, continens plantas in ca, 

 et adjacentibus Infulis repertas." Hi; l?.lt labour was pro- 

 curing engravings to be executed, from the drawings of 

 American plants left by Plumier, to which he added 

 delcriptions, with the modern, and former names. His 

 fon, 



BuRMANN, Nicolas Lawrence, following the fteps of 

 his father, took his degree as doftor of medicine at Leyden, 

 in 1759, and pubhlhed, for his inaugnnd thefis, •' Specimen 

 Botanicum de Geraniis," 4to. In 176S, at Amilerdam, 

 " Flora Jndica, accedit fcries Zoophytorum Jndicorum, iiec 



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