BUZ 



BuviNC ihi refufal, is givin;:; money for the right or 

 liberty of piirclialni^ a thing at a fixed price, in a certain 

 time to conic ; chitHy ufed in dialing for fliares in (lock. 

 This is fomctiines alfo called by a cant name, hufing the 

 bear. 



Buying o( lilies. See Maintenance. 

 BuYisc the Small-pox. See Small-Pox, Inoculal'wn of. 

 BUYTRAGO, in Geography^ a finall town of Spain, in 

 New Cailile, on the confines of Old CalUle, in front of which 

 the monntain-ilrcam Lozoya winds along a deep rocky 

 bed : while, on the other fide, the town, with its towers and 

 fteeples, leans romanlically agaiiill a ilcep afcent in a recefs 

 among the mountains, that fcparates the two Caitiles. Thtfe 

 mountains are rich in minerals ; and the environs of this city, 

 which is epifcopal, are famous for the wood which they 

 furnifh. It is 36 miles N. of Madrid, and 18 E. of Se- 

 govia. 



BIT YT RON, a town of Spain, in Andalufia ; 27 miles 

 N.W. of Seville. 



BUZANCAIS, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Indre, and chief place of a canton in the didridt of 

 Chateauroux, 11 miles W.N.W. of it. N. lat. 46° 38'. 

 E.long. i°29'. The town contains 3199, and the canton 

 1 1,130, inhabitants ; the territory includes 422I kiliometres 

 and 13 communes. 



BUZANCY, a town of France, in the department of 

 Ardennes, and chief place of a canton in the diftridt of Vou- 

 ziers, 2 leagues N. of Grandpre. The town contains 774) 

 and the canton 8275, inhabitants ; ^'"^ territory includes 265 

 kiliometres and 24 comiiunes. 



BUZARA, in Ancient Geography, a mountain in the 

 eallern part of the interior of Africa. Ptolemy. 



BUZARAS.a town of Africa, in Mauritania Caifarienfis. 

 BUZAW. See Butzo. 



BUZERI, a people of Afia, in Cappadocia, on the weft 

 of the Euxine. 



BUZES, a people of Africa, in Marmarica. 

 BUZE T, in Geography, a fmall town of France, in the 

 department of the Upper Garonne, 4J leagues N.E. of 

 Touloufe. N. lat. 43-47'. E.long. l°4.5'. 



BUZ 1 KIN A, a town of Siberia, 220 miles E. of 

 Enifeidc. 



BUZIM, a town of Siberia, on the Tchulim, So miles 

 N.N.E. of Tomllc. 



BUZULEITSK. See Busulutsk. 

 Bl'ZWARAH. See Bezoara. 



BUZY, a town of France, in the department of the Meufe, 

 and diftrift of Verdun, 13 miles E. of it. 



BUZZARD, in Ornhhoiogy, tlie trivial name of feveral 

 fpecies of the falcon tribe, as, for inftance, the common 

 buzzard, faico htitco, greater buzzard, falco gallinarius, 

 American buzzard, falco borealis, honey buzzard, falca 

 apivorus, Java buzzard, fako j^avanicus, &c. 



Buzzard, yimcrican, of Latham, red-tailed falcon of Arctic 

 Zoology, is the Falco borealis ; the cere and legs are pale 

 yellow ; the body is brown above and white below, the tail 

 is of a pale riift colour, having a tranfvcrfe dufl<y or black 

 rarrow bar near the end. It inhabits North America, 

 particularly Carolina. Its fize is about that of the common 

 buzzard. 



Buzzard, Honey. See Apivorus. 

 Buzzard, Moor, falco xruginofus, the milvus ^ruginofus of 

 Aldrovand and Ray, and the lufard of Buffon, has the cere 

 grtcnidi, the body bro\vni(h-grey, the ciown of the head, 

 chin, axillx, arm-pits, or fpace below the root of the wings, 

 and legs, yellow. It inhabits Europe, building its ncft in 

 marfhy places, and fubulling oa aquatic birds, fifli, and 

 rabbits. 



BYE 



Buzzard's Bay, in Geography, a bay of America, in the 

 ftatc of Maffachufctts, lying between 41^25' and 41° 42' 

 N. lat. and between 70° 38' and 7 1° 10' W. loiiij. This and 

 Barnllaple bav on tlie north call form the ptninfula, w liofe 

 extremity is called cape Cod. It runs into the land about 

 30 miles N.E. by N. and its mean breadth is about 7 

 miles. 



BUZZARDET, in Ornithology, the whitilh falcon, Falco 

 albidus. 



BYAREM, in Geography, a town of Hindoftan, in the 

 country of the Nizam, 89 miles N.E. of Hydrabad, and 60 

 E. of Warangole. 



BYBASSUS, in Ancient Geography, a maritime town of 

 Afia Minor, in Caria, probably fituated in the country called 

 by Pliny Bubcffiis. 



BYBE, a country of Thrace. — Alfo, a town of Italy, oil 

 the confines of Peucetia. Steph. Byz. 



BYBERRY, in Geography, a townfhip of America, 

 in the county of Philadelphia, and ftate of Pennfylvania. 



BYBLIS, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Afia 

 Minor, before the town of Miletus. 



BYBLOS, or Bvblus, a maritime town 'of Phoenicia, 

 fituate between Berytus and Botr) s, 18 miles S. from 

 Tripoli according to the Itinerary of Antonine. The ancient 

 inhabitants of this town fervcd in all the maritime expedi- 

 tions of Tyre, and as they excelled in all arts relating to 

 wood, they were employed in building Solomon's temple at 

 Jerufalem, I Kings chap. v. At this time they were 

 fubjeft to the Tyrians ; but when Phoenicia was reduced 

 under the dominion of the Perfians, they had their own 

 kings. According to Arrian (de Exped. Alex.) their fhips 

 formed a part of the fleet of Darius : but when Alexander 

 had entered Phoenicia and made himfelf mailer of Byblus, 

 they defcrted Darius and united their naval force with that 

 of Alexander. Under the fucceffors of Alexander, Byblus 

 lomctimes belonged to Egypt and fometimes to Syria. 

 Strabo informs us (1. 16. vol. ii. p. 755.), that Pompey 

 refcued them from the opprtflive tyranny of one of their 

 fovereigns by cutting off his head. From him we learn, 

 that it was feated on an eminence at a fmall diftance from 

 the fea, and that it was the royal refidence of Cinyras, and 

 that it was the feat of the famous fciperftition praftifed in its 

 temples in memory of Adonis. See Adonis. The river 

 Adonis flowed from the adjacent mountain?, and pafling 

 by Byblus, dilcharged itfelf into the fea about two leagues 

 S. of the town. This river, called Ibrahim and Ohrahim 

 BalTa, has the only bridge to be feen, that of Tripoli 

 excepted, from thence to Antioch. It confifts of a fingle 

 arch, 50 feet wide and upwards of jO high, of a very light 

 architecture, and appears to have been a work of the Arabs. 

 Byblus is now known by the name of Djcbail or Gibyle, 

 and is the moll confiderable town in that dillntt of the 

 pachalic of Tripoli, denominated Kefrouan, and extending 

 from Nahr-el-kelb, by Lebanon, as far as Tripoli. It has 

 not, however, above 6000 inhabitants. Its ancient port 

 relembles that of Latakia or Laodicca, but is in a woife 

 ft.ue, fcarcely any traces of it remaining. Volney's Travels 

 in Egypt and Syria, vol. ii. p. 176. 



Byblos, a fortified place of Egypt, feated on the Nile. 

 Steph. Byz. 



BYCE, BuGEs, or Sacra Palus, in Geography, a lake 

 of Cherfonchis 'I'aurica, in European Sarmatia, to the well 

 of the Palus Mnotis, from which it is feparated by an ilthmus. 

 It is mentioned by Ptolemy, Pliny, and Strabo, who affigns 

 to it a circuit of 4000 lladia. 



BYDEAS-KIRCHE, a town of Sweden, in Weft Both- 

 nia, near Umea. 



BYEFIELD, a parilh of Newbury, in Effex county, and 



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