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and throat are of a dirty white ; the hair on its body is long 
and very uneven, of a greyifli brown, with a black line 
along the middle of its back ; the reft of its back, ftiould- 
ers, and limbs, are Ipotted irregularly with black; its tail 
is a mere dump ; its legs are thick, long, and aukward ; 
it grows to the bulk of a middle-fized ape, and inhabits 
molt parts of the eadcrn fids of South America. It is the 
mod iluggifh and the mod flow of all animals, and feems 
to move with the utm'od pain. Three quarters of a mile 
in a day is a great journey. It afcends trees, in which it 
generally lives; its food is fruit or leaves. When on the 
ground, if it cannot find fruit there, it looks for it on a 
tree ; and, with great pains, climbs up. It then flings ofi’ 
the fruit, and, to fave itfelf the trouble of defcending, 
forms itfelf into a ball and drops from the branches': there 
it continues till it has devoured all; nor ever dirs till com¬ 
pelled by hunger. Its motion is attended with a plaintive 
cry, fomewhat like a kitten, which at once produces both 
pity and difgud; its mouth is never without foam; its 
look is fo pit'dius as to move companion; it isalfo accom¬ 
panied with tears, which diffuade every body from injuring 
fo wretched a Being. Its abdinence from food is almort 
incredible: one that had fattened itfelf by its feet to a pole, 
and was fo fufpended crofs two beams, remained forty days- 
without meat, drink, or deep. The drength of its feet is 
fo great, that there is no podibility of freeing any thing 
from its claws. A dog was let loofe at this animal when 
it was taken from the pole ; after fo'me time the doth laid 
hold of the dog with his feet, and held him four days, till 
he perilhed. 
2. The didaftylus, or two-toed doth, with a round head, 
a fhort projecting nofe, ears like tliofe of the human, ly¬ 
ing clofe to the head ; two long and drong claws on the 
fore feet, three on the hind; hair long and rough, infome 
parts curled and woolly ; in Tome, of a pale red above, 
afh-brown below ; in others, of a yellowitti white below, 
artt-brown above. It inhabits South America and Ceylon. 
The lad is drenuoufly denied by M. de BufFon, who has 
fixed the refidence of this animal to America only ; but, 
befides the authority of Seba, who exprefsly fays his fpe- 
cimen was brought from Ceylon, a gentleman long refi- 
dent in India, and much difringuid)ed in the literary world, 
afierts that he has feen this animal brought from the Palia- 
cat mountains that lie in fight of Madras ; which proves 
that it is'cbmmon to both continents. There is alfo reafon 
to think that it is met with in Guinea, or at lead fome 
fpecies of this genus ; for Barbot and Bofman deferibe an 
animal by the name of potto, to which they give the attri¬ 
butes of the former, and deferibe it as being grey when 
young; red, and covered with a fort of hair as thick fet 
as Rocks of wool, w hen old.' Both thefe writers w ere fen- 
ble men, and, though not naturalids, were to,o oblervant 
of the animals of Guinea to midake one whofe characters 
are fo drongly marked as tliofe of the doth. 
3. Tlie bradypus urfiformis, or urfiform doth, with a 
long and drong nofe, truncated at the end ; the forehead 
rifes fuddetfly above it ; that and the nofe uhitirti, and al¬ 
mod naked ; eyes very final), above is a black line ; ears 
rtiort, and lort in the hair ; the hair on the top of the head 
points forward, that in the neck is parted in the middle ; 
on the head and neck, back and fides, it is extremely long, 
fhaggy, and black; in mod parts twelve inches long, and 
on the upper part of the body rtiines in the fun with a mod 
brilliant purple glofs ; on the bread and belly diort; acrofs 
the firrt is a line of white ; the tail is only five inches long, 
and is quite hid in the hair ; the limbs are very drong and 
bear- like; on each foot are five toes ; on thole of the fore 
feet the claws are three inches long, pointing forward, 
fiightly incurvated, and admirably adapted for digging or 
burrowing ; the claws of the hind feet are very diort; the 
bottoms of the feet are black and- naked. This animal 
wants the incifores, or cutting teeth, above and below. In 
each jaw are two canine teeth, remote from the grinders; 
the roof of the mouth is marked with tranfverfe iulci; 
the tongue is fmooth, and not lo long as the mouth ; the 
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nodrils are tranfverfe, and appear like a narrow flit; the 
lips are very loofe, and capable of being protruded to a 
great length, and drawn in again ; they ferve the ufe of a 
hand, and by their means it conveys apples or any fort of 
food into its mouth. It inhabits Bengal, and lives in cer¬ 
tain rand-hills not remote from Patna.—Thefe curious and 
extraordinary quadrupeds are correCtly figured in the an¬ 
nexed engraving. 
BRAE-MAR, a mountainous territory of Scotland, in 
the (hire of Aberdeen, where the earl of Mar began to 
raife a rebellion in 1715. It is twenty-feven miles north- 
wed of Aberdeen. 
BRAE- MURRAY, a mountainous and woody trad of 
land, in the (hires of Elgin and Nairn, in Scotland. 
A BRAG, r. ». \_braggertn, Dutch. ] To boad ; to dif- 
play odentatioufly ; to tell boadful dories. It has of be¬ 
fore the thing boaded.—Knowledge being the only thing 
whereof we poor old men can brag, we cannot make it known 
but by utterance. Sidney. — On is ufed, but improperly ; 
Yet 16 ! in me what authors have to brag on, 
Reduc’d at lad to hifs in my own dragon. Pope. 
BRAG,/. A boad; a proud expreffion. The thing 
boaded : 
Beauty is nature’s brag, and mud be (hewn 
In courts, at feads, and high folemnities, 
Where mod may wonder. Milton„ 
BRAG, f. A pleafant game at cards, where as many 
may partake as the cards will fupply; the elded hand 
dealing three to each perfon at one time, and turning up 
the lad card all round. This done, each gameder puts 
down three rtakes, one for each card. The firrt dake is 
won by the bed card turned up in dealing round ; begin¬ 
ning from the ace, king, queen, knave, and fo downwards. 
When cards of the fame value are turned up to two or 
more of the players, the elded hand gains ; but it is to be 
obferved, that the ace of diamonds wins, to whatever hand 
it be turned up. The fecond dake is won by what is called 
the brag, which confirts in one of the players challenging 
the red to produce cards equal to his : a pair of aces is the 
bed brag, a pair of kings the next, and fo on ; and a pair 
o-f any fort wins the dake from the mod valuable fingle 
card. The knave of clubs is here a principal favourite, 
making a pair w ith any other card in hand, and with any 
other two cards a pair royal. The third dake is won by 
the perfon who firrt makes up the cards in his hand one- 
and-thirty; each dignified card going for ten, and drawing 
from the pack, as ufual in this game. 
“ Brag’s a good dog, but Holdfafl’s a better.” This 
proverb is a taunt upon braggadocios, who talk big, boad, 
and rattle : it isalfo a memento for fuch who make plen¬ 
tiful promifes to do well for the future, but are fufpected 
to want condancy and refolution to rriPke them good. The 
Germans lay, Verfpreehen if gut, aber halten ijl buffer ; Pro- 
mifing is good, but performing better. 
BRA'GA, a city of Portugal, and capital of the pro¬ 
vince of Entre Duero-e-Minho, fituated on the river Ca- 
vedo ; the fee of an archbifhop, primate of Portugal. The 
archbidiop is lord of Braga, and judge both of civil and 
criminal matters, only of the latter an appeal may be car¬ 
ried to Lifbon. It contains four churches, befides tlie ca¬ 
thedral, eight convents, two hofpitals, a feminary, &c. 
There are fome ruins of an amphitheatre, and an aqueduct. 
The diocefe includes 1200 parifhes, and 150 convents. It 
is twenty-feven miles north-north-ead ot Porto, and eighty 
north of Coimbra. 
BRAGAN'^A, or Bracanza, a city of Portugal, in 
the province of Tra los Montes, fituated on the river Fer- 
vanpa. It was built by Augurtus, contains four coqvents, 
two hofpitals, and about 2,700 inhabitants. The walls are 
dertroyed by age. Mere are manufactures of filk duds, 
velvets, and grograms. It is.thirty miles north-wed of 
Miranda de Duero, and (ixtv north-ead of I.amego. 
BRAGGADO'CIO, / A puffing, fuelling, bonding, 
fellow. 
