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T lie bn raneers, exafperated at this treatment, refblved to 
belaid the veifel called the Sceptre, where Poiutisliinifdf 
was, and which at that time was too far dj ft a tit front the 
rdf of the (hips to expeR to be a (lifted by liter;). This 
avaricious coimnander was upon the point of being mal- 
i'acred, wh.cnoneof tlie malcontents cried out, “Brethren, 
why (h cm Id we attack this-rafeal 1 he has carried 'OtF no¬ 
thing that belongs to 11s. He has left our (bare at Cartha- 
gena,'ahd there we muft go to recover it.” This propofal 
was received with applaufe. A lavage- joy at once Suc¬ 
ceeded, and without further deliberation all their (hips 
(ailed towards that place. They entered the'city without 
any refinance, and (but up all the men in the great church ; 
and exacted payment of 218,750b the amount ol the (bare 
<»f booty which, they had been defrauded of; promiling to 
retreat immediately upon their compliance, but threaten¬ 
ing the mod dreadful vengeance if they refilled. Upon 
t°nis, a venerable prieft mounted the puTpit, and made lire 
of the influence It is ciraratler and eloquence gave him, to 
perfuade his hearers to-yield up without referve all the 
"gold, (liver, and jewels, they had. The collection, winch 
was made after the fermon, not furnifhing the him required, 
the city was ordered to be plundered. But at length; af¬ 
ter antallin'g all they could get, they fet fail, and acciden¬ 
tally fell-in w ith a fleet-of Dutch and Englifli (hips', both 
which nations were then in alliance with Spain. Several 
of the pirates were either taken or funk; with all the rich 
cargoes they had 011-board ; the reft-.efdaped to St. Do¬ 
mingo. Thiswas the laft memorable event in thehiftory 
of the bitraneers. The reparation of the Englifli and. 
French; when the war, on account-of the prince of O- 
r-ange, divided the two nations ; the fu-ccefsful means 
they both made ufe of to promote the cultivation of land 
in their colonies, by the afiiftaneeof thefe entezqirifing 
men; and the -prudence they (hewed in appointing the 
molt diftinguiftved among them to civil and military em¬ 
ployments; the protection they were’both under a necef- 
fitv of affording to the Spanifh fettlements, which till 
then had been a general object of plunder: all thefe cir- 
curnftances, and various others, betides the inipoflibility 
there was of fupplying-the place of thefe remarkable men 
who were continually dropping off’, concurred to put am¬ 
end to a focie-ty, the moll extraor'dinaryrthat ev-er exifte’d : 
without any regular fyftent, without laws, without fub- 
ordination, and even without any fixed revenue, they be¬ 
came the aftonifoment of the age in which they lived.” 
BUCANERHYL'LUM,/i See Sarracenia. 
BUCCAFERRPl'A, J. in botany. SeeRurriA. 
BUCCA'RIA, or Bocari, a fea-port town of Morla- 
clvia, belonging to Aullria, (kuated on the north-eaft part 
of the Adriatic, declared by the emperor a free port for 
commerce of the Eaft Indies, in the. year 1780. It is fix 
miles eaft of St, Veit, and twenty-two miles north-north- 
weft of Segna; 
BUCCELLA'RI', f. An order of fcldiery under the 
Greek emperors, appointed to guard and diftribute the 
ammunition-bread. Among the Vifigothp, buccellarius 
was a general -name for a client or vaflal who lived at the 
ex pence of his lord. Some .give the denomination to pa- 
rafites in the courts of princes ; others make them the 
body guard of emperors; and feme fancy they were only 
fetch as emperors employed as affallins, in putting pe-rforts 
to death privately. 
BUCCELLA'TUM, f. among ancient military writers, 
denotes camp-bread, or bifeuit baked hard and dry, both 
for lightnefs and keeping. 
BUCCHARE'ST, Buccorest, or Bucko-rest, a, 
town of European Turkey., and one of the largtft and 
riche ft in Walachia, fituated on the Dtimbrowitz ; the re- 
fidence of the ho-fpodar, and the fee of a Greek archbtfhop. 
The Lutherans hold their aftemblies here, proteRed by 
Sweden. It is 250 miles north-north-weft of Conftanti- 
nople, and 135 uorth-north-eaft: of Fi-lippopoli. Lat. 44. 
59. N. Ion. 43. 35. E. Ferro. 
BUCCl'N A,_/i An ancient nuifical and military inftru- 
B- U -C 
merit, ufua’iy ris'ken for a kind of trnr.tp.et; which, opinion 
is confirmed by Feflus, who defines it a crocked horn’ 
played on 1 ke a yrumpet. Vegetius ohferves, that t!:e 
bucc-ina was curved-like a femicircle,• in which refpeii if 
d: flared front the tuba or trumpet. It is har'd to riit’ih- 
*gu ; fli it from, the cornu or' horn, tinlefs it war. fo met (ting 
lefs, and not quite To crooked. InTcripture, the like ih- 
llrttmeuf, tiled both in war and in the temple, was called 
r&at's-korn'i kircnjobel, and Jbp/icroih hagijobdim. This in- 
ftrttment was among the Jews to proclaim their feaft days, 
new moons, jubilees, fabbatic years, and t)ie like. At 
L-teedemon, notice was given by. the buCcina when it-was 
ftipper-time; -and the like was done a’ Rothe, where the 
grandees had a buccina blown both before’and after they 
(at down to table. The found of the buccina was called 
buccirus , or bacinus ; '-and' the murician who played on it 
was called buccinator, Which we render a trumpeter. 
•BUCCI'NUM, f. [buccina, a trumpet ] The Whelk, 
a-genus of (hell fifo belonging to the order of vermes te'fta- 
cete. T his animal is of the frail kind. The (hell is uni¬ 
valve, fpira'i, and gibbous; the aperture is oval, ending 
in-aEmail ftraight' canal. Linnae'ns enumerates Upwards 
of lixty fp.ecies, mod-of which are found in the fouthern 
Teas. The (tx following are found in the Britifo feas. 
1. The pulius, or brown whelk, .with five fpires, ftriat- 
ed, waved, and tuberctilated; aperture wrinkled ; up¬ 
per part replicated; length five-eighths of an inch. 1. 
The tmdatUm, or waved whelk, with feven fpires, is fpi- 
rally ftriated and deeply and tranfverfely undulated ; length 
three inches: inhabits deep water. 3. The ftriatum, has 
eight fpires, with elevated (triae, undulated near the apex ; 
length near four inches. 4. The reticulatum, with fpires 
fcarcely raifed, and Itrongly reticulated, is of a deep brown 
colour, and of an oblong form ; the aperture white, gloffv, 
and denticulated ; ftze of a hazel nut. 5. The minutum, 
or final! whelk, with five fpires, ftriated fpirally, ribbed 
tranfverfelyftze lefs titan a pea; found alfo in Norway. 
6. The lapillns, or maliy whelk, with about rive fpires; 
fide of the mouth (lightly toothed ; a very ftrong thick 
(hell, of a wliitilTi colour. A variety yellow, or fafeiated 
with yellow, on a white ground, or (bleated fpirally, and 
fometimes reticfilated ; length near an inch and a half; in¬ 
habits, in a va(l abundance, rocks near low-watermark. 
T his is one' of the Britifh (hells which produce the purple 
dye analogous to the purpura of-the ancients. 
Da Coft.-t divides the family of buccina or whelks into 
the fix following genera, viz. 1. Buccina canaliculata : 
guttered whelks, or thofe whofe upper part of the mouth 
ends in nearly a ftraight and fomewhat prolonged gutter. 
2. Buccina recurviroftra: wry-mouthed whelks, or thofe 
whofe mouth is, as it-were, cut fliort at top, for the gutter 
or beak does not extend ftraight forward, but bends or 
falls on the back in a wry manner, exaRly like the mouth 
of a foie or other flar-fi(h. 3. Buccina roftrata : beaked 
whelks, or thofe which have a very lengthened beak. 4, 
Buccina umbilicata: umbilicated whelks, or fttch as have 
an umbilicus or perpendicular hollow, or navel, afide the 
columella or pillar-lip, on the firft or body whirl. 5. Buc- 
ci-na columella dentata: whelks with a wrinkled or plaited 
pillar. In thefe the columella or pillar-lip is wrinkled, 
ridged, dr wrought with plaits. 6. Strombi, or needles, 
are buccina with a very long and taper clavicle or turban, 
and a wry mouth turning on the back, in fome fpecies of 
fuch length as to be like a fpur. For Da Cofta’s fcientific 
defeription, and the engravings, fee the article Concho- 
logy. In a medical view, the calcined fhells of the 
whelk have the fame eff>R as the purple-filh, but are 
fomewhat more cnuftic. Filled with fait, then burned in 
a crude earthen pot, they make a good dentifrice. It is a 
lhcll filh, all the forts of which are alkalies and abforbents. 
BUCCJORSERA'I, a town of Hindooftan, in the cir¬ 
ca r of Dooab : eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Etaya. 
BUCCI.ltU'GH, a village in the county of Selkirk in 
Scotland, from which the noble family of Scott have the 
title of duke. See Heraldry. 
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