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about 30,000, and are efteemed the moft learned and war- 

 like people in Armenia. The climate is mild, and the city, 

 with the extenfive territory attached to it, is under the 

 government of a pacha of two tails, archbifhop of Merdin. 

 M'Kinneir's Perfia. 



BAYLA, the capital of Lus, a diftridl of the Perfian 

 empire, in the province of Mekran, and country of the 

 ancient Oritx, is built on the N.E. bank of the river 

 Pooralee, and contains i5oohoufes, and 6000 inhabitants, 

 of whom 400 are Hindoos. The prefent chief can bring 

 into the field 4000 irregular troops, and enjoys a revenue of 

 50,000 rupees^ir/- annum. 



BAYOU, a term originally Spanifh, fignifies the diminu- 

 tive of bay ; but in Louifiana, where it frequently occurs, it 

 is fynonymous with the word creek, and confequently 

 becomes the diminutive of river. 



BEAN-GoosE. See Anas and Duck. 



BE ATTIE, James, &c. 1. 2, born Nov. 5 ; 1. 1 2, latter, by 

 the liberality of a mother, (his father having died when he 

 was feven years of age,) by, &c. ; 1. 18, dele at Alloa ; and 

 1. 19, (/«/« afliftant to the; 1. 24, for 1760 r. 1761; 1. 41, 

 infert — which was written about the year 1764, though not 

 pubh(hed till fome time after. Col. 2, 1. 35, dele following ; 

 1. 62, for not long afterwards r. in 1770; 1. 65, for 1777 r. 

 1776, (in confequence of which he obtained the penfion 

 above-mentioned.) Col. 3, 1. 23, infert — In 1790 he pub- 

 liftied a fummary of his leftures under the title of " Elements 

 of Moral Science ;" the firft volume of which contains a 

 very accurate enumeration and arrangement of the percep- 

 tive faculties and aftive powers of man. He has alfo given 

 a curfory view of what is called natural theology. The 

 fecond volume, pubhfhed in 1793, comprehends much mif- 

 cellaneous information on ethics, economics, politics, and 

 logic, including rhetoric. Towards the latter part of his 

 life, his time, &c. 



BEAUGAIRE, I. 7, dek The part of the Rhine is well 

 conftrufted. 



BEAVER, in Geography, a county of Pennfylvania, 

 containing 12,168 inhabitants, in which are feveral town- 

 Ihips of the fame name ; fuch as North Beaver with 932, 

 Big Beaver with 702, Litile Beaver with 1 379, Beaver 

 Borough with 426, and South Beaver with 1351 inhabit- 

 ants — Alfo, a town/hip of Pennfylvania, in Northumber- 

 land county, having 502 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townlhip 

 of Crawford county, with 236 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town- 

 fhip of Columbiana county, in the diftrift of Ohio, 

 having 433 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of the fame 

 diftrift, in Greene county, having 793 inhabitants. 



Beaver Creek, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, in Beaver 

 county, with 774 inhabitants. 



Beaveh Kill, a townfhip of the diftrift of Maine, in the 

 county of Kennebeck, containing 354 inhabitants. 



BEAUFORT, in South Carolina, 1. 4, r. 25,887, 

 including 20,914 flaves. 



Beaufort, (col. 2, after 1. 14,) a county of North 

 Carolina, containing 7204 inhabitants, of whom 2,568, are 

 flaves. 



BEAUFORTIA, in Botany, a truly noble genus, con- 

 fecrated, by Mr. Brown, to the memory of Mary duchefs 

 of Beaufort, who died January 7th, 1714, in the 85th year 

 of her age. Her grace cultivated a number of rare plants 

 in the ftoves and green-houfes at Badminton, Gloucefterfhire, 

 during the life-time of her hufband, Henry, firft duke of 

 Beaufort, whofe death happened in 1699. The plants intro- 

 duced by her always therefore bear this date in Mr. Aiton's 

 Hortus Kcwenjis. Numerous fpecimens from the Badminton 

 garden were communicated to fir Hans Sloane, and if we 

 Ht 



are not millaken, a fplendid herbarium in the Britifh Mu- 

 fcum, bound in feveral large folio volumes, bears the title of 

 "The Duchefs of Beaufort's Plants." — Brown in Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. V. 4. 418. — Clafs and order, Polyadelphia 

 Icofiindria. Nat. Ord. Hefperidex, Linn. Myrti, JufF. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth half fuperior, of one leaf, tur- 

 binate ; limb in five deep, awl-fhaped, deciduous fegments. 

 Cor. Petals five, elliptical, feJTile, inferted into the rim of 

 t.ie calyx, between its fegments, and of equal length. &tam. 

 Filaments very numerous, in five fets, inferted into the 

 calyx, oppofitetothe petals, the claw of eachTet linear, hairy 

 at the bafe internally, much longer than the petals, divided at 

 the top into feven, eight, or more, capillary fpreading feg- 

 ments about a quarter the length of the claw ; anthers ter- 

 minal, inferted by the bafe, of two divaricated, conical, 

 deciduous, fingle-celled lobes. Pift. Germen in the bottom 

 of the calyx, fmall, roundifh, hairy at the fummit ; ftyle 

 thread-fhaped, fhorter than the flamens, varioufly bent 

 upwards and downwards ; fligma acute. Perk. Capfule 

 coated with the bafe of the calyx, and firmly united to the 

 branch, roundifh, of three cells. Seeds folitary. 



Eff. Ch. Calyx in five fegments. Petals five. Stamens 

 numerous, very long, in five fets, oppofite to the petals ; 

 anthers of two deciduous lobes. Capfule clothed with the 

 bafe of the calyx, three-celled, permanent. Seeds folitary. 



Obf. Many of the flowers are faid to want the Jly/e. We 

 are not clear, from the account of the author of this genus, 

 whether more than one feed is perfefted in each fruit. The 

 capfules remain in mafTes fiu'rounding the branches, long after 

 \\ie feeds are gone, perhaps for feveral years, being firmly 

 united to the bark or wood ; a charafter common to many 

 of this natural order in New Holland, as Melaleuca, (fee 

 that article,) and others. The very peculiar anthers feem 

 to afford the moft effential charafter of Beaufortia, and dif- 

 tinguifti it from its near ally Calothamnus. See that arti- 

 cle hereafter. 



1. B. decujfata. Splendid Beaufortia. Br. in Ait. n. i. 

 Sims in Curt. Mag. t. 1733. — Leaves oppofite, ovate, many- 

 ribbed, crofling each other in pairs. Claws of the ftamens 

 very long, their filaments radiating. — Gathered by Mr. 

 Brown, on the fouth-weft coaft of New Holland, and fent 

 to Kew by Mr. Good, in 1803. A green-houfe fhrub, 

 flowering in the fpring, and increafed by cuttings. The 

 branches are angular. Z/faii« feffile, crowded, half or three- 

 quarters of an inch long, recurved, fmooth, rigid, entire, 

 full of pellucid dots ; paler beneath. Flowers in denfe 

 tufts, furrounding the branches here and there, moft con- 

 fpicuous for their copious fpreading tufts oi flamens, an inch 

 and a quarter or more in length, all over of a rich fcarlet, 

 the petals, as well as calyx, being green. 



2. 'B.Jparfa. Alternate-leaved Beaufortia. Br. in Ait. 

 n. 2. — Leaves fcattered, elliptical, many-ribbed. — Gathered 

 in the fame country, by Mr. Brown, from whence it was 

 likewife fent to Kew, by Mr. Good, in 1 803, but does not 

 appear to have flowered in 1812, when the fourth volume of 

 Hort. Kew. was printed. 



We prefume Mr. Brown's Prodromus, when completed, 

 will make us acquainted with more fpecies of this genus. 



BEAUMARIS, col. 2, 1. 9, for 1275 r. 1295. Col. 3, 

 1. I, for 37 r. 57 ; 1-37, r. Lavan. Add — The borough 

 of Beaumaris contained in 181 1, 295 houfes, and 1810 

 perfons ; 809 being males, ani looi females. 



BECKET, in Geography, 1. 2, for 751 r. 1028. 



BEDDOES, Thomas, M.D. in Biography, a diftinguifhed 

 phyfician and philofopher, was the fon of an opulent tanner at 

 Shiffnall in Shropfhire, and born in 1760. Indicating at an 

 early age peculiar talents, and difpofed to cultivate them by 



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