BUN 
tanka de terra. With us it grows on heaths, in pafhires, 
woods, and among bullies, in a gravelly or Tandy Toil. 
Foreign authors, as Haller, Pollich, &c. lay that it grows 
among corn, which we have never known it to do in Eng¬ 
land. It flowers in May and June. The roots are fre¬ 
quently dug up, and eaten raw by the poorer fort of peo¬ 
ple. Swine are very fond of them, and will foon become 
fat with feeding on them. When boiled they are very 
pleafant and delicious, and are fuppofed to afford great 
nourifhment. Thus prepared, they are fa id to be eaten 
in Holland, in the Alps, and in foine parts of England, 
in fcup or broth. Roafted, they are little inferior to chef- 
nuts, and might be no difagreeable addition to our winter 
defert. The knobbed root add finely divided leavds fo 
diftinguifh this plant from all the poifonous fpecies of the 
umbellate tribe, that it can hardly he miflaken, especially 
if the place of growth be attended to. Oenanthe fiftulofa 
indeed, when thrown out on ditch-banks, or cultivated in 
a-garden, has roots fo much refembling thof'e of bunium, 
.that it mav deceive even good judges; the root-leaves al¬ 
io are finely divided ; but this is a water-plant, and it is to 
be remembered, that all aquatics of this tribe are of a 
fiifpicious character. See StsoN. 
BU'NIUS,/. in botany. See zEthusa and Stilago. 
BUN'KER’s HILL, an elevated fpot, adjoining to 
Breed’s hill, near Boflon, in North America, celebrated 
as being the place where hoftilities were fir ft commenced 
between Great Britain and her colonies, in 1775. See 
America, vol. i. p.441. 
BUNN ,_/1 [1 bunelo, Span.] A kind of fweet bread or cake : 
Thy fongs are Tweeter to mine ear, 
Than to the thirfty cattle rivers clear, 
Or winter porridge to the lab’ring youth, 
Or bums and lugar to the damfel’s tooth. Gay. 
BUN'NASS, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into 
the Jeflul, twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Oudipour. 
BUN'NUEI,, a tovyn of Spain, in Navarre, on the Ebro: 
feven leagues from Tudella. 
BUNRKE', a river of Ireland, which runs into the Moy, 
fix miles fouth of Killala. 
BUNROSS', a river of Ireland, which runs into the Bay 
of Donegal, eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Ballylhannon. 
BUNT,yi [corrupted, as Skinner thinks, from bent.'] 
A fwelling parr ; an rncreafing cavity.—l lte wear is a 
frith, reaching (lopewife through the ooze, from the land 
to low-water mark, and having in it a bunt, or cod, with an 
■eye-hook, where the fi(h entering, upon the coming back 
with the ebb, are (topped from itfuingout again, forfaken 
by the water, and left dry on the ooze. Carcw. 
To BUNT, v. n. To fwell out: as, the fail bunts out. 
BUNT of a SAIL, the middle part of it, formed de- 
fignedly into a bag or cqvity, that the fail may gather 
more wind. It is ufed mofily in top-fails, becaufe courfes 
are-generally cut fquare, or with but fmall allowance for 
bunt or conipafs. The bunt holds much leeward wind ; 
that is, it hangs much to leeward. The bunt-lines, are 
fmall ropes made faff to the bottom of the fails, in the 
middle part of the bolr-rope, to a cringle, and are fo 
reeved through a fmall block, feized to the yard. Their 
ufe is to trice up the bunt of the fail for the better furl¬ 
ing it up. 
BUN'TER,/! A cant word fora woman who pi<ks up 
rags about the ftreet; and ufed, by way of contempt, for 
any low vulgar woman. 
BUN'TINGjjf. The fluff of which a (hip’s colours are 
made. 
BUN'TING./i in ornithology. See Emberiza. 
BUN'TINGFORD, a fmall market-town in Hertford- 
fhire, onthe-great road to Scotland, thirty-one miles from 
London. It is feated on the ford of the river Rib, and 
upon Ermine-ftreet, being a chapelry to I.ayflon, though 
fituated in that and three other parithes; The church is 
a very ancient building, and Hands half a mile out of the 
town. Here is alto an elegant chapel, erected in 1615 by 
Vol. HI. No. 144. 
BUG ?0 9 
Alexander Strange, D. D. vicar at that time, who alfo 
erected a gratnmar-fehool, and endowed it with a liand- 
fome falary for the matter. Here is alfo an hofpital for 
four.old decayed men and four women ; endowed in 1684, 
by Seth Ward, lord hilltop of Salithury, and chancellor of 
the moll noble order of the garter; lie was educated in the 
free-fehool of Buntingford. Betides thele, there are fe- 
veral other charities in the town, 1 he market is on Mon¬ 
day, but it is not confiderable. The annual fairs are on 
June 29 and November 30: Eatt of the town is a noble 
feat and park called Widdial-hali, belonging to John d hc- 
mas Ellis, Efq. One mile weft is Alpeden-hall, a very 
ancient fabric, the feat of Charles Boldero, Efq. Three 
miles fouth is Hamels-park, au elegant feat of the earl of 
Hardwicke. 
BUNTZ'LAU, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Jauer; tw enty-fix miles north-weft of Jauer, and forty- 
two north-weft of Schweidnitz. 
BUNTZ'LAU (Alt), a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of-Boleflaw, built in the year 915, by Wratitlaus 11 . litut- 
ated on the Elbe, nearly dettroyed by the troubles in the 
fourteenth and 'fifteenth centuries ; eight miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Benatek. 
BUN TZ'LAU (Jung), a town of Bohemia, and capi¬ 
tal of the circle of Boleflaw, built in the year 973, by 
Boleflaus the Young, and became a royal town under Ro- 
dolpims II. twenty-eight miles north-north-eaft Prague, 
and fifty-eight fouth-eaft of Drefden. 
BUN'YAN (John), author of tliat jufity-admired alle¬ 
gory, the Pilgrim’s Progrefs, was born at Elftow, near 
Bedford, in 1628. * His parents, though very mean, took 
care to give him that learning which was f 11 itable to their 
condition, bringing him up to read and write : but he 
quickly forgot both, abandoning himfelf to a diflolute life, 
and all manner of wickednefs. His father brought him 
up to his own bufinefs, which was that of a tinker ; but, 
difliking work, he became a foldier in the parliament nr- 
. my ; at the fiege of Leicefter, in 1645, he vvas draw n out 
to (land fentinei ; but another foldier of his company de- 
fired to take his place, to which he agreed, and thereby 
efcaped being (hot by a miifket-ball, which took off his 
comrade. At length, being llruck with the enormity of 
his paft life, he laid alide his profligate courfes, and be¬ 
came remarkably fober and religious. About 1655 he 
was admitted a member of a baptiff congregation at Bed¬ 
ford, and foon after was chofen their preacher. In con- 
fequence of this, he was taken up, and convidted of hold- 
•ing unlawful atfemblies and conventicles, and was fen- 
tenced to perpetual banifhment. In the mean time he was 
committed to prilon, from which lie vvas not difeharged 
till after a confinement of twelve years and a half; and 
not then, but by the compaflionate interpofition of Dr. 
Barlow, bifliop of Lincoln. During his imprifonment, 
his own hand miniftered to his neceliities, making many 
an hundred grofs of long-tagged laces, which lie learned' 
to do in his confinement. At this time lie alfo wrote many 
of his tradls. Afterwards he travelled into feveral parts 
of England, to vifit and confirm the brethren, which pro¬ 
cured him the epithet of bj/iop Bunyan. When the decla¬ 
ration of James II. for liberty of confcience was publifiied, 
he, by the contributions of his followers, built a meeting- 
houte in Bedford, and preached conftantly to a numerous 
audience. He died in London of a fever, in 1688, aged 
tixty. He left four children, one of whom, named Mary, 
was blind. This daughter, he (aid, lay nearer his heart, 
vvhtlft he was in prifon, than all the reft; on account of 
her helplefs fituation. His works are collected in two vo¬ 
lumes in folio, printt-d at London in 1736-7. His allegory 
Called the Holy War, and his Pilgr im’s Progrefs, have 
been tranllated into almolf every European language. 
BU'ON, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples and 
Principato Ultra : feven miles eaft-noith-eati of Benevauo.. 
BUONACOR'Sl, or PkArin dkl Vaga, was borniin 
Tulcany, of a poor family. He w as ('tickled by a flic-go.af. 
His happy difpotitions for painting were unfolded and im- 
6 O proved 
