B E W 



lioufes, and 927 perrons; 415 being males, and 512 fe- 

 males. 



BERWICK, North. Add— The burgh and parifh 

 contain 208 houfes, and 1727 perfons ; 759 being males, and 

 968 females. 



Berwick, col. 3, 1. 26, infert — in cruivcs. Add — The 

 town and county of Berwick-upon-Tweed, by the parlia- 

 mentary return of 181 1, contained 934 houfes, and 7746 

 perfons; 3325 being males, and 442 1 females. 



BekwiiK, a town of Adams county, in Pennfylvania, 

 having 1799 inhabitants. 



Berwick, in Maine, 1. 2, /-.4455 for 3894. 



BESANCON,I. 2 and 3, r. capital of Franche Compte, 

 now of the department, &c. 



BESANT, 1. »//. r. under Henry. 



BESITTOON, a long range of barren mountains, in 

 the province of Irak, in the Perfian empire, bounding the 

 plain of Kcrmanrtiaw to the N. and terminating abruptly 

 on the E. by a high and perpendicular rock, in one place 

 cut to a fmooth furface, and projecting over the road, like 

 a canopy. It receives its name from Jittoon, fignifying, in 

 Perfian, a pillar, and be, a negative propoiition. Near its 

 proieftion, on a high and inacceffible part of the rock, is a 

 group of figures, in the form of a procefiion, of the fame 

 age and charafter with thofe of Perfepolis. The ruins at 

 this place refemble the magnificent ones of that famous 



city. , 



i3ESLICK, a fmall Turkifh filver coin, equal to 5 paras, 

 the para being 3 afpcrs. 



' BESSARABIA, col. 2, 1. 9, for fouth-eail r. fouth- 

 weit. 



BESTIAN, or BoSTANA, a cape of Lariftan,lin Perfia, 

 which forms one of the moil fecuie roadfteads in the gulf of 

 Perfia, at the town of Mogoo. The extremity is about 

 N. lat. 26^30', bearing from Polior N.N.E. |, and W. 

 from the S. end of Kiflima. Shinaas and Boftana are 

 fmall towns that lie between Linga and Cape Bollana. 



BETHEL, in Geography, 1. 3, Loivcrmojl Bethel is a 

 towndiip of Northampton county, having 1392 inhabitants; 

 and Uppermoft Bethel, in the fame county, has 1 1 88 inhabi- 

 tants. — After Dauphin county, add — having 2091 inha- 

 bitants; 1. 4,r. 1041 : at the clofe, add — a townfhip of 

 Maine, in the county of Oxford, having 975 inhabitants. — 

 Alfo, a townfhip in Bedford county, containing 1095 inha- 

 bitants. — Alfo, a townfliip of Ohio, in the county of Miami, 

 having 506 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townfhip of Champaign 

 county, in Ohio, having 484 inhabitants. 



BETHLEHEM, col. 4, 1. 10, add— Alfo, a town 

 of New Hampfhire, in Grafton county, having 422 inhabi- 

 tants ; 1. 13, r. 1738;!. 15, add— having 11 18 inhabitants; 

 1. 26, add — but by the cenfus of 1810, they are ilated to 

 be 1436. 



Bethlehem, E. and W., two townfhipsof Pennfylvania, 

 in Wafhington county ; the former has 1806, and the latter 

 1849 inhabitants. 



BETLIS. Subjoin— See Bedlis. 



BEVEL Angle, 1. 3, Plate III. Col. 3, 1. 35, r. A p. 

 Yip. 



BEVERLEY, \. ult. In 181 1, the borough and liber- 

 ties of Beverley contained 1457 houfes, and 6731 perfons; 

 3024 being males, and 3707 females. 



BEVERLY, 1. 5, r. 4608. 



BEVERSTONE, 1. 7, r. Edward. 



BEWCASTLE. Add— The townfhip includes 35 

 houfes, and ig8 perfons; .103 being males, and 95 fe- 

 males 



BEWDLEY, I. ult. r. The borough contained, in 181 1, 



13 



13 I G 



632 houfes, and 3454 perfons ; 1583 being males, and 1871 

 females. 



BEZOZZI, col. 2, 1. 8, r. The cldell, &c. ; 1. 18, 

 compofition ; 1. 26, do. ; 1. 27, for the /■. their ; after deh- 

 cacy, infert — there was ; 1. 40, infert — a labour exquifite in 

 performance. 



BIBIENA, Ferdikando-Galli, 1. 12, r. Alexander; 

 1. 14, r. gencrofi. 



BIBLES, Latin. See Italic Version. 



BICE. Add— See Cast. 



BIDDEFORD, m America, 1. 5, ;-, 1563. 



BiDDEFORD, col. 3, 1. 2, r. 634 houfcs, and 3244 perfons ; 

 1415 being males, and 1829 females. 



BIGELOVIA, in Botany, a genus which we here dedi- 

 cate to our highly intelligent and fcientific correfpondent, 

 Jacob Bigelow, M.D. of Bofton in New England, Rum- 

 ford profefTor of Materia Medica and Botany in Harvard 

 univerfity, author of the Florula Bojlomenjis, publifhed ii 

 18 14; and of the American Medical Botany, with coloured 

 plates, now publilliing periodically ; works which, we are 

 confident, will be but the forerunners of more ample and 

 valuable communications from the fame quarter. We have 

 feleftcd for the commemoration of our friend an American 

 genus, to which the name of Borya, (fee that article here- 

 after,) has been erroneoufly applied, and which therefore 

 requires a new appellation. We have chofen one as indif- 

 putable as the genus ilfelf, whofe fynonyms are the follow- 

 ing (Borya; Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. 711. Purfli 22. Ait. 



Hort. Kew. V. 5. 365. Adelia ; Michaux Boreal. -Amer. 

 V. 2. 223. Browne Jam. 361, but not of Linnxus.) — Clafs 

 and order, Dloec'ia Diandria. Nat. Ord. Sepiari^, Linn. 

 Jiijmmeie, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Male, Cal. Perianth minute, in four deep, 

 credl, lanceolate fegments. Cor. none. Stam. Filaments 

 two or three, thread-fhaped, longer than the calyx, infcrted 

 into the receptacle ; anthers i-oundifh, two-celled. 



Female, on a feparate plant. Cal. Perianth in four deep, 

 oblong, flightly fpreading, deciduous fegments ; two oppo- 

 fite ones very minute, and fometinies wanting. Cor. none. 

 P'Jl. Germen fuperior, roimdilb-ovatc, of two cells ; ftyle 

 fhort, cylindrical, thickiib ; tligma capitate, depreffed, ob- 

 fcurely cloven. Peru-, Berry oval-oblong, of or.e cell, its 

 internal furface cartilaginous and rugged. Seed almoft 

 always folitary, oblong, tapering at each end, furrowed and 

 ribbed longitudinally, with a membranous ll<in ; its embryo 

 flraight, in a horny albumen. 



Elf. Ch. Male, Calyx deeply four-cleft. Corolla none. 

 Stamens two or three. 



Female, Calyx deeply four-cleft ; two oppofite fegments 

 fmallelL Corolla none. Stigma capitate. Berry with 

 one feed. 



Obf. The defcription of Michaux, and his hint of the 

 affinity of this genus to Chwnanthus, have helped us to form, 

 we trull, a correft idja of its characters. Willdenow had 

 feen fpecimens of Browne's Adelia, and he probably had the 

 fandlion of the able M. Richard for uniting it with that of 

 Michaux, the latter having already fo decided this queftion ; 

 nor do we foe any reafon fur a different opinion. 



The fpecies are all rtirubby, with oppofite, undivided, 

 moftly entire, fmooth leaves, and minute, tufted, bracleatcd, 

 jloiuers. The fruit is probably not eatable. 



1 . B. cajinoides. Elliptical Bigelovia. ( Borya caffi- 

 noides ; Willd. n. I. Adelia n. I ; Browne Jam. 361. 

 t. 36. f. 3.) — Leaves flalked, obovate, obtufe, coriaceous, 

 revolute ; reticulated with veins beneath. — Native of the 

 V/cfl Indies. Common on low gravelly hills, eaftward of 

 Kingilon, in Jamaica. Sometimes eight or ten feet high, 



with 



