BAR 



BARNET, 1. ult. r. parifh are 259 houfes, inhabited by 



!579perfons; 755 males, and 824 females. 



BarneT, in America, for 477 r. 1301. 



BARNSTAPLE. At the clofe r. in the borough and 

 parifti is Itated by the return in i8ii to be 628, and cf 

 perfons 4019, vi%. 1633 males, and 2386 females. 



Barn'STAPLE, or Barnjlahh, American county, 1. 6, r. 

 22,211. Do. col. 2, 1. 25, for 2610 r. 3646. 



BARNWELL, a diftrict of South Carolina, containing 

 12,280 inhabitants, including 4153 flaves. 



BAROMETER, col. 7, 1. 17,,-. 68-hundredth parts 

 of, &c. Col. 14, 1. 40, add — We obferve, however, that it 

 is merely a floating manometer, and as fuch more influenced 

 by the temperature than the denfity of the atmofphere, 

 ar.d therefore not to be fo much depended upon as to 

 warrant the high commendation above given to it. 

 Col. 68, 1. 36, r. 42 — 32. Col. 69, 1. 6 from bottom r. 

 29.4 + 25.19 ^ 

 2 



BARON, col. I, 1. 21 from bottom, for Minerva r- 

 Minever. 



BARQUISIMETO, in Geography, a city of America, 

 in the government of Caraccas, 40 leagues W.S.W. of 

 Caraccas, 150 leagues N.N.E. of Santa Fe, and 15 leagues 

 from Totuyo. N. lat. 9° 45'. The excefllve heat is ren- 

 dered fupportable by the cooling breeze ariilng from its ele- 

 vated fituation. The adjacent plains are covered with excel- 

 lent pailurage favourable for rearing every marketable 

 animal. The fugar-cane and the beft wheat are alfo culti- 

 vated. The vales produce excellent cacao ; and the fides 

 of the hills are devoted to the culture of coffee. This city 

 accommodates 1 1,300 perfons ; its houfes are well built, and 

 the ftreets are fo laid out as to afford a free circulation of air. 

 It has a parifti-church and two officiating priefts, a monaf- 

 tery of Francifcans, and a hofpital badly attended. 



BARRE', a townlhip of America, 1. 2, r. 197 I ; 1. 11, 

 add — ^liaving 1053 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of Vermont, 

 in Orange county, having 1669 inhabitants. 



BARREL. By 43 Geo. IIL c. 69. every 36 gallons 

 of beer or ale brewed by the common brewers iu Great 

 Britain, taken according to the ftandard of the ale quart, 

 four thereof to the gallon, in the exchequer, (hall be reckoned 

 by the gauger or other officer of excife for a barrel of beer 

 or ale. 



Bakrel, a weight by which corn is fold in Ireland. The 

 barrel of wheat, peas, beans, and rye, is 20 ftone : of barley, 

 bere, and rape-feed, 16 itone ; of oats 14, and in fome 

 places 12 ftone; of malt, 12 ftone : the ftone being I4lbs. 

 avoirdupois weight. A barrel of good wheat anfwers to 

 about four Winchefter bulliels. 



BARREN Flowers, in Botany diX\A Vegetable Phyfwlogy, 

 Flores mafculi m Linnasan terminology, are fuch as are not 

 provided with organs for the- formation of fruit Or feed, but 

 only v>'\t\i Jlamens for its impregnation. See Fecundation 

 of Plants. 



BARRIER, in Fortification. Add — See Ciieval de 

 Frife, Herison, Klinkets, and Turnstile. 



BARRILE, plur. Barrili, a liquid meafure in Italy. 



BARRIN, in Geography, a county of the diftridt of 

 Kentucky, containing 11,042 inhabitants, of whom 1656 

 are flaves. The town, Glafgow, has 244 inhabitants, of 

 whom 68 are flaves. 



BARRINGTON, a townfliip in Strafford county, &c. 

 1. 3, for 2470 r. 3564. Id. 1. 5, for 683 r. 604. Id. 1. 2, 

 for 1373 r. 1784. 



BARRIOUE, a meafure for wine and brandy in fome 



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parts of France, as at Bourdeaux, Rochelle, &c. At Bo 

 deaux, a tonneau of wine contains 4 barriqu'es or hoef' 

 heads = 50 ftekans in Amfterdam, 259 ftubgen in Ham- 

 burgh, or 243 Enghfli gaUons ; and weighs with the wood 

 about 2000 lbs. of Bourdeaux. The barrique contains 1 ic 

 pots, or 32 veltes. 



BARRY-Bendy, &c. Plate III. Heraldry, &c. 



BART, in Lancafter county, add— It contains looq 

 inhabitants. " 



BARTHELEMY, a river of Louifiana, which rifes 

 near the Arkanfas, and after a courfe generally from N. to 

 S. of 100 miles, falls into Ouachitta, 3 miles below the 

 Derbane, on the contrary fide. 



BARTHOLINA, in Botany, a genus of the Orchis 

 family eftabliJhed by Mr. Brown, and dedicated by him to 

 the memory of the great Danifli anatomift and phyfiologift, 

 Thomas Bartholin, whofe hfe is already given in its 

 proper place, and whofe various writings relating to plants, 

 in the old Copenhagen Tranfactions, entitle us to adorn the 



hiftory of our fcience with his truly illuftrious name Brown 



in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 5. 194 — Clafs and order, Gvnandria 

 Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Orchiden. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of one leaf, tubular at 

 the bafe, deeply divided above into three, elhptic-oblong, 

 equal, ribbed, fpreading fegments, externally hairj-. Cor. 

 Petals two, linear-lanceolate, ereft, fmooth, taper-pointed, 

 nearly twice the length of the calyx. Neftary a large 

 fpreading lip, united to the bafe of the petals, thrice the 

 length ot the calyx, in three deep principal lobes, the mid- 

 dle one broadeft, all divided, more than half way down, into 

 many Hnear, fringe-like fegments, and terminating behind in 

 a tumid, curved, bluntly-pointed fpur, rather longer than the 

 tube of the calyx. Stam. Anther pointed, of two oblong, 

 rather diftant, parallel cells, opening in front, attached to 

 the two margins of the ftyle ; maffes of pollen each fup- 

 ported on a long, membranous-bordered ftalk, to which their 

 cells are laterally attached, " their glands diftiiitt, half 

 covered by the exterior lobe." Pijl. Germen inferior, 

 elliptic-oblong, curved, very hairy ; ftyle flattened, much 

 fliorter than the calyx ; ftigma a cavity between the lobes 

 of the anther. Peric. Capfule 



Eff. Ch. Calyx tubular at the bafe. Petals united to 

 the bafe of the lip, whofe fpur is ftiorter than the germen. 

 Stalks of the pollen elongated; their cells laterally fixed i 

 " glands dittlnct, half covered by the exterior lobe." 



I. B. pectinata. Fringed Barthohna. Ait. n. i. 

 (Orchis Burmanniana ; Linn. Sp. Pi. 1334. Am. Acad. 

 V. 6. 108. " Swartz in Web. and Mohr Archiv. v. 1. 55. 

 t. 3." O. peftinata ; Thunb. Prodr. 4. Fl. Cap. v. 1.45. 

 ■Willd. Sp. PI. V. 4. II. Arethufa ciliaris ; Linn. Suppl. 

 405.) —Gathered by Thunberg and Sparrmann,on the fides 

 of hills at the Cape of Good Hope, in Roode Sand, as well 

 as near Cape Town, flowering from October to December. 

 The root confifts of two ovate hairy knobs, tlie fize of a 

 horfe-bean. Leaf fohtary, radical, orbicular, clafping the 

 flower-ftalk, an inch broad, horizontal, flefliy ; fmooth, and 

 of a fine green, on the upper fide ; paler and veiny beneath ; 

 the margin reflexed, and very denfcly fringed. Floiuer- 

 flalk folitary, fimple, fingle -flowered, five or fix inches high, 

 erect, hairy, with a folitary, funnel-fhaped, hairy braflea, 

 half an inch long, near the top. Flower l.irgc, of a very 

 Angular afpeft. Calyx green, converging, ftrongly ribbed, 

 and externally hairy, near au inch long, its tube included. 

 Petals whitifli, with a blue mid-rib, and a fbipe of the fame 

 colour in their lower part. Lip two inches in length and 

 breadth, fpreading, finely cut ; its fegments white above, 

 blue underneath, the thrpat dotted and minutely ftreaked 



with 



