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cotins, tlie picotln into two lialf quarts, or four litrona. 

 For lalt iour biiihels made one niinot, and fix a feptier. 

 For coals (.lt;Iit bufhels made one minot, fixtccii a mine, 

 and jJoanuiiJ. For lime, three bnllitls made a minot, 

 and forty-eight minots a miiid. See Measure a'.id 

 Wkight. 



By ,51 G. III. c. 30. the bufliel by which a'l corn 

 (hnli be mcafurcd and computed for the purpofes of this act, 

 fliall be the \\'inclieiler bulliel, and a quaiter fliall be deemed 

 to confift of S bufliels : and the jnllices of each county, 

 and the mayor of fucii cities and towns as arc counties of 

 themfelves, or enjoy exempt jurifjidlions, and from v\hieli 

 returns are by tills a£l directed to be made, (hall caufe a 

 ilandard Wincheltcr bu(hcl to be provided and kept ; and 

 all meafures fliall be computed by the (bicken and not by the 

 lieaped budiel : and where coin fliall be fold by weight, 

 57lbs. avoirdupoiie of wheat fnall be deemed equal to one 

 Winchefter buflicl ; and 5.';lbs. of rye; -i-^lbs. of barley ; 

 42lbj. of beer or bigg, and .^Slbs. of oats ; and further, 

 56lbs. of wheat-meal, 43lbs. of wheat-flour, ^s.ill''' of 'ye- 

 iTieal, 481b3. of barley-meal, 4! lbs. of beer or bigg meal, 

 and 22lbs. of oat-meal, fliall be deemed equal to every fueh 

 bufliel of corn unground. And for the more eafy meafuring 

 ground corn in facks, the proper officer may make choice 

 of and weigh two facks out of any number not exceeding 

 twenty, and fo in proportion ; and thereby compute the 

 quantity of the whole. And the infpeftor of corn returns 

 • fcall make a companion between the Wincheller meafure 

 and that commonly ufed in the city or town for which he is 

 infpeAor ; and within one month after his appointmei.t, 

 fhall caufe a ilatement in writing of fuch comparifon to be 

 hung up in fome confpicuous place in the market and town- 

 hall of fuch city and town ; and fliall renew the fame if 

 defaced, and fhall return a copy thereof, to the receiver of 

 corn returns. 



BUSHING. SeeCoAKis-G. 



BUSHMILLS, in Geography, a fmall town of the 

 county of Antrim, and province of UlUer, in Ireland, where 

 there is a bridge over the river Bulh. In the bed of the river, 

 near the bridge, are ranges of bafaltic columns, fimilar to 

 thofe of the Giant's-caufeway ; and alfo on the fummit of 

 an adjoining mountain. In the neighbourhood is the ruin 

 of the caliie of Dunluce, which is lituated in a fingular 

 manner on an ifolated abrupt rock, perforated by the waves; 

 which have formed under it a very fpacious cavern. The 

 only approach to this caftle is along a narrow wall, built 

 fomewhat like a bridge ; which circumftance muil have ren- 

 dered it almoft impregnable before the invention of artillery. 

 Buflimills is 120 miles north of Dublin, and about 6 miles 

 call of Coleraine. Hamilton's Antrim. 



BlISHWICK, a fmall but pleafant town of America, 

 in King's county, Long Ifland, New York. The inhabi- 

 tants, 540 in number, are chiefly of Dutch extraftion ; and 

 of thefe 9g are eleftors. 



BUSHY Run, a north-eaft branch of .Sewickly creek, 

 near the head of which is General Boquct's field. The creek 

 runs fouth-eatlerly into Youghiogtny river, 30 miles S. E. 

 from Pittfbuig, in Pennfylvania. 



BUSIR, or BousiR, anciently Bufirts, the name of four 

 different towns or villages of Egypt, viz. one on the well 

 fide of the Nile, at a fraall dillauce from the pyramids, and 

 iS miles S. W. of Cairo. N. lat. 29^ 56'. E. long. 31° 6'. 

 — Alfo, another on the well fide of the Nile, 7 miles N.W. 

 of Achmounain or Hetflimunein. N. lat. 28*^ 10'. E. long. 

 ^0° 44'. See BusiRis. — A third near the wefleru banks 

 of the Nile, 12 miles S. W. of Atlich. — A fourth in the 

 Delta, on the wellern fide of the call branch of the Nile ; 



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about 5 mlljs S. of Semeniiud, mentioned by Herodotui 

 (I, ii. c. 59.). See BusiRi*. 



BUSlRlS, in Entomology, a fpecics of Papilio, (Hefp. 

 Urb. ) with oblong entire wings of a black colour ; on the 

 anterior pair two yellow fpots and dots; pollcrior ones with 

 ayellowdifl<. This is a native of India. Donov. Inf. Ind. 



BusiRis, in /■Indent Geography, a city of Lower Egypt, 

 • now BusiR, ou the Bufiritic branch of the Nile, and capital 

 of the Bulirltio nome in the Delta ; faiJ to have b(-e;i bulc 

 by Bufiris, 'a cruel tyrant, who was flain by Hercules ; but 

 Strabo(Gtog. vol. ii. p. 1154) denies the exillence of fuch 

 a perfon. Ifis h;id a (lately temple eredled to her in tin's 

 city, fome ruins of which are faid to be (lill remaining. The 

 Buliris of the Thcbais, the fecond Biifiris mentioned in the 

 preceding article (B us ir), having revolted from the Romans, 

 was dcllrovod by Dioclefian in his expedition againd Egypt, 

 A. D. 296. 



BusiRis, in Hiflory, the name of feveral kings, who, 

 according to Diodorus Siculus (I. i. c. J 7.) reigned in Egypt ; 

 one of whom is faid to have built the magnificent and power- 

 ful city to which the Greeks gave the name of Thebes. He 

 acknowledges, however, that the barbarity of a certain Bu- 

 firis was fabulous ; and that the fable was grounded ou a 

 cuftom prailifcd in Egypt, of lacrilicing all the red-hair;d 

 people they met with, mod of whom were Ibaiigcrs, as the 

 natives of the country were fcarely ever of this colour, to 

 the manes of Ofirls : Bufiris fignif)ing, in the Egyptian 

 tongue, the fepulchre of Ofiris. \':rgil laiiks the bar- 

 barity of this tyrant among the fiftlons of the poets. Virgil, 

 however, has been cenfured for applying the epithet " In- 

 laudati" to Diilnis (CJeorg. 1. iii. v. j.); as it dots not fuf- 

 (iciently exprefs the terror which the cruelty of fuch a monfter 

 tended to excite Aulas Gellius (1. ii. c. 6.) haiS endeavour- 

 ed to vindicate Virgil's ufe of this term, as implying a tacit 

 condemnation and dttellation of the chaiaftcr of Bufiris, 

 becaufe a perfon uho, in all things, and at all times, remains 

 unpraifed, " illaudatus," mull be the worft and the mod 

 wicked oi wretches; and if "laudare" be confulcred as fignify- 

 ing, in old Latin, to name, " illaudatus" being the lame as 

 " illaudabilis" implies, in Virgil's ufe of it, that Bufiris did 

 not dcferve to have his name repeated. Bayle, dilTatisfied 

 with thefe apologies for the Roman poet, fuggefts that this 

 verfe is one of thofe in which poets are forced, upon ac- 

 count of the length or (hortncfs of fyllabks (the different 

 feet)to employ ufelefs words, mere expletives, or even fuch as 

 prejudice the fenfe. Although Ifocrates made a panegy- 

 ric on the tyrant Bufiris, Bayle fuggells that he only in- 

 tended to ceiifure the impertinent panegyric of Polycrates, 

 a teacher of oratory in the ifland of Cyprus, who had writ- 

 ten the elogium of Bufiris, and the acculation of Socrates. 

 Melanchthon, from his refearches(inChron.lib. ii.) concludes, 

 that Bufiris was probably the Pharaoh who occafioned the 

 dedruilion of the children ol the llraelites. Orofius places 

 him 77^ years before the foundation of Rome ; and, accord- 

 ing to E.ifebius, he was contemporary with Jofliua, about 

 700 years before Romulus built Rome. Gen. Di£l. 



BUSITIS, in Ceogniphy, a diltrift of Arabia Deferta, 

 faid to have derived its name from Bus or Bu/., Nahor'a 

 fcco.ad fon, and to have lieen the country of Elihu, the 

 fourth interlocutor in the hillory of Job ; called by the 



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BUSK, a town of the duchy of Courland ; iS miles 

 S. S.W. of Mittaw. 



BUSKIN, Cothurnus, an article of drefs, fomewhat 

 in the manner of a boot, covering the foot and mid-leg, and 

 tied beneath the knee : very rich and fine, and ufed princi- 

 pally OB the ftage bv the aclor;. in tragedy. 



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