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feveral years, and which terminated his iifcfiil life, in 179.5, 

 after he had been director of the gymnaliiim at Bcrhn for 

 26 vears. He was buried in liib garden at mid-night, with- 

 out pomp or ceremony, according to his own dclire exprcflcd 

 ii\ his will. In his own delineation of his charavfler, he ac- 

 knowledges, that though he was candid and open-hearted, 

 aiTable, ready to iiffill others, and of a compaiTionatc dif- 

 pofition, he had behaved with harflinefs to many perfons, 

 and on various occalions. lie expreffes his conlidence in 

 the Supreme Being, his firm faith in the Saviour of the world, 

 and his fatisfaftion with the difpcnlations of providence. 

 His temper, he fays, was warm, and occafionally irritable ; 

 and his firmncfs had fometimes adumed the appearance of 

 , obftinacy ; and his quicknefs had betrayed him occafionally 

 into precipitation. " I am moderate," fays he, " in all 

 things ; contented with little, and matter of my appetites. 

 In my iiitercourfe with the world I expeft too much from 

 myfelf ; I am therefore often diflatisfied with my own con- 

 duft ; and on that account wiftt to confine my intercourfe 

 within a very narrow circle, and to (hun fociety. I am free 

 from pride, but not void of ambition, though I often ftrng- 

 gle with this paflion, and on refleftion endeavour to fupprefs 

 it. I am fo much attached to labour, that it fcems to me a 

 requifite to life, and that my inipulfe to it is greater than to 

 any fenfual pleafure whatever." 



Bufciiing was a ready writer, fo that his literary produc- 

 tions amounted to more than a hundred, confifting of 

 elementary books, relating to fchools and education, and 

 fuch as were theological, hiftorico-geographical, and bio- 

 graphical. Although his works poflcfs confidcrable merit, 

 they abound with repetitions, and his ftyle is diffufe and 

 inelegant. But the department in which he principally 

 excelled u'as that of geography. His " Geography" com- 

 prehending Europe and the Ruffian part of Afia, contains 

 a variety of interefting and ufeful information ; and was 

 pubUflied after the year 1754, at different periods, in fingle 

 volumes, of which eight editions were publiflied during the 

 . life of the author. His " Magazine for Modern Hillory 

 and Geography" was comprifed in 21 parts, 410. and pub- 

 liflied between the years 1767 and 17S8 : and his " Weekly 

 Account of new Maps" appeared in detached parts, during 

 an interval of is years, from 1773 to 1787. Gen. Biog. 



BUSCHOFF, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Courland ; 8 miles S. of Seelburg. 



BUSCHWEILER, a town of France, in a diltricl 

 of the fame name, in the department of the Lower Rhine, 

 formerly Alface. 



BUSE, in Onutholog'f. See Falco Buteo. . 



BUSELAPHUS Cajl, in Zoology. See Antilope 



BUBALIS. 



BUSENTO, in Geography, a river of Italy, which runs 

 into the fea, near Policallro. 



BUSEY, a town of the ifland of St. Domingo, fituale 

 near Port-au-Prince, and having a fort. 



BUSH, a tuft or aflemblage of boughs or branches. 



Bush alfo denotes a coronated frame of wood hung out 

 as a fign at taverns. It takes the denomination from hence, 

 that, anciently, figns where wine was fold were Itijloes chiefly 

 of ivy, cyprefs, or the like plants, which keep their verdure 

 long. And hence the Enghlh proverb " Good wine needs 

 no biijlj." _ 



Bush, in Geography, the name of a river in Ireland, vi-hich 

 after taking a winding courfe through the northern part 

 of the county of Antrim, falls into the north channel about 

 a mile well of the Giant's Caufeway. 



BusH-/ocun. See Harford. 



Vtv n\-harrow, in /Igriai/iure, an implement conftituted 



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of any fort of bufhy wood, interwoven in a kind of frame 

 conliding of three or more crofs bars, fixed into two end- 

 pieces ill fuch a manner as to be wider behind than before, 

 and very rough and brulhy underneath. To the extremities 

 of the frame before are generally attached two wheels, 

 about eight or twelve inches in diameter, upon which 

 it moves ; fometimes, however, wheels are not employed, 

 but the whole rough furfacc is applied to, and dragged on the 

 ground. See Harrow. 



HvsH-harrvwing, the operation of harrowing with an 

 inftrument of the kind defcribcd above. It is chiefly necef- 

 fary on grafs-land, or fuch as has been long in the ilate of 

 pafturc, for the pnrpofe of removing the worm-cads and of 

 breaking down and reducing the lumps and clods of the 

 manures that may have been applied, and thereby rendering 

 them more capable of being wadied into the ground, or, in 

 fome meafure, for removing the moffy matter that may have 

 formed on the furfaccs of fuch lands. 



A rather dry time (liould be chofen for the performing of 

 the bufmefs, in order that thefe fubdances may be in a more 

 pulverizable date, and of courfe more readily broken down 

 and applied to the roots of the grafs plants. It fliould 

 never be attempted when there is fuch a degree of moiilure 

 as to produce clogginefs. 



HvsH-velch, a plant of the vetch kind, wliich may pro- 

 bably be cultivated to advantage by the farmer, where 

 lucerne and other plants of a limilar nature cannot be grown. 

 It is obferved by Mr. Swayne, in the third volume of the 

 letters and papers of the Bath Society, that " its root is 

 perennial, fibrous, and branching ; the ftalks many, fome 

 of them iTiooting immediately upwards, others creeping juft 

 under the furfacc of the ground, and emerging, fome near 

 to, and others at a confidcrable didance from the parent 

 dock. The fmall oval leaves are conneftcd together by 

 a mid-rib, with a tendril at the extremity ; the flowers are 

 in drape hke thofe of the common vetch, of a reddidi purple 

 colour; the fird that blodbm ufually come in pairs, after- 

 wards to the number of four at a joint ; the pods are much 

 fiiorter than thofe of the common vetch, larger in propor- 

 tion to their length, and flatter, and are of a black colour 

 when ripe ; the feeds are fmaller than thofe of the cultivated 

 fpecies, fome fpeckled, others of a clay colour." Being a 

 perennial plant, it fhould feem, he thinks, " to be a very- 

 proper kind to intermix with grafs feeds for layino- down 

 land intended for pafture ; and that it is as judly entitled to 

 this epithet as any herbaceous plant whatever, having ob- 

 ferved a patch of it growing in one particular fpot of his 

 orchard for 14 or 15 years pad. It is not only a perennial, 

 but an evergreen ; it dioots the earlied in the fpring of any 

 plant eaten by cattle with which he is acquainted, vegetates 

 late in autumn, and continues green through the winter 

 though the weather be very fevere ; add to this, that 

 cattle are remarkably fond of it." See Vicia. 



Thefe peculiarities fliould make it particularly valuable to 

 the farmer as a green food for flieep in the winter and 

 fpring, when food of that denomination is fo e.xcecdingly 

 fcarce. 



The fame writer has likewife obferved, that, " tlie chief 

 rcafon which has hitherto prevented its cultivation has been 

 the very great difliculty of procuring good feed in any 

 quantity. The pods," he finds, " do not ripen altogether ; 

 but as foon almod as they are ripe, they burft with great 

 eladicity, and fcatter the feeds around ; and after the feeds 

 have been procured, fcarce one-third part of them will vcge- 

 tate, owing," as he fuppofes, " to an internal defect, occa- 

 fioned by certain infeds making them the nefts and food for 

 their young," 



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