.520 BUR 
or Waihdili: Clnverius'places them about the Warta, a 
river.of Poland, though the conjectures on the feat of 
thefe people are doubtful ; and no wonder, becliufe the 
Roman expedirions'terminated at the Elbe. 1 hey after¬ 
wards removed to the (Jifalpine, Germany, and at length 
to Celtic Gaul, and gave name to the duchy and county 
of Burgundy. 
BUR-GUNDY, before the revolution, a very con fide - 
rable province of France, including Breffe, Bugay, and 
Gex, is near fifty leagues in length, and more than thirty 
broad; bordered on the eaft by Fmnche-Comte, on the 
Youth by Lyonnois, on the well by Bourbonnois and Ni- 
vernois, and on the north by Champagne. The Dijonnois, 
Auxerrois, An.xois, Autunois, Charolois, Brlennois, Chal- 
l.dnois, and Maconuis, which take their.names from the 
feveral towns, aie included in this province. Dijon was 
the Capital, [t is very .fertile, and the wines are much 
efteemed : the principal rivers which run through it are 
the Saone, the Seine, the Loire, the Armaripon, the Ouche, 
the Arrunx, and tiie Doux. • It now.forms the departments 
hf tiie Aube, the Cote d’Or, tire Saone and Loire, and the 
Yonne. 
BUR.H, f. is a tower, and from that a defence or pro¬ 
tection ; fo Ctotnburh is a woman'ready to aflift; Cuthbur, 
eminent for a(Ti(lance-. 
BURH AMPOUR', a city of Hindooftan, anfi capital of 
the Candeifli country. It has a confiderable trade inline 
cottons, white and painted, plain and mixed with .gold and 
.filver, for veils, (bawls, handkerchiefs, &c. Burhampour 
is 100 miles north of Aurangabad, 230 eaft of Surat, and 
.452Louth of Delhi. Lat.21.22-N. Ion. 76. 20. E. Green¬ 
wich. 
BURHANPOUR', a town of Hfndo.oftan, in the coun¬ 
try of Bengal, ten miles fouth of Moorftiedabad, and 
eighty-five north of Calcutta. 
HURRAH, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Jut'nnah, twenty miles fouth of Delhi. 
BU'RI AL,y. [from To bury.] The act of burying; fe- 
pulture ; interment: 
Your body I fought,, and, had 1 found, 
Defign’d for burial in your native ground. D>yden. 
The adt of placing any tiling under earth or water.—We 
have great lakes, both fait and frefh ; we ufe then* for 
burials of fome natural bodies: for we find a difference of 
things buried in earth, and thing's buried in water. Bayon. 
—The cliurch fervice for funerals.—The office of the 
.church is performed by the parilh prieft, at the time of 
interment, if not prohibited unto periods excommunica¬ 
ted, and laying violent hands on themfelves, by a rubric 
of the burial fervice. Ayliffe. 
The rites of burial are looked upon in all countries, and 
at all times, as a debt fo facred, that fuch as negleCted 
to difeharge it were thought accurfed : hence the Romans 
..called them jujla , and the Greeks by words implying the 
inviolable obligations which nature has laid upon the living 
to take care of the obfequies of the .dead. Nor are we 
to vyonder, that the ancient Greeks and Romans were ex¬ 
tremely folicitous about the interment of their deceafed 
friends, fince they were ftrongly perfuaded, that their 
fouls could not be admitted into the Elyfian-fields till their 
bod by were committed to the earth ; and, if it happened 
that they never obtained the rites of burial, they were 
excluded from thofe happy manfionsLor the term of too 
years. For'this reafon it was confidered as a duty incum¬ 
bent upon all travellers who (hould meet with a dead body 
in their way, to caft duft or mould upon it three times; 
and of thefe three handfuls one at leaft.was caft upon the 
hedd. Tiie ancients likewife confidered it as a great mis¬ 
fortune on the dead not to be laid in the fepulchres of their 
fathers; for which reafon, fuch as died in foreign coun¬ 
tries had ufually their allies brought home, and interred 
with thofe of their anceftorS; But, notwitiiltanding their 
great care in the burial of the dead, there Were lonie per¬ 
sons whom they thought unworthy of that laft office, and 
BUR , . 
to whom therefore they refufed it: fuch were, 1. Public 
or private enemies. 2. Such as betrayed or confpired 
againft the ftate. 3. Tyrants, who were always looked 
upon as enemies to their country. 4- Villains guilty of 
lacrilege. 5. Such as died in debt, whole.bodies belonged 
to their creditors. And, 6. Some particular offenders, 
who Tuffered capital punilhnient. Of thofe who were al¬ 
lowed the rites of burial, fome were diftinguifhed by par¬ 
ticular circlimftances of difgrace - attending'their inter¬ 
ment : thus perfons killed by lightning were buried apart 
by themfelves, being thought odious.ro the gods; thofe 
who wafted their patrimony forfeited the right of being 
buried in the fepulchres of their fathers; and thofe who 
were guilty of (elf-murder were privately depofited in the 
ground, without the accuftomed folemnities. 
To want a decent burial has been always accounted, 
amongft all nations, a great diftionour to the 'deceafed.par¬ 
ty. On this account, Ciinon, the Athenian, chofe to go 
to prifon, to fatisfy a public debt, which his father Mil- 
tiades had contracted, that his body might be interred, 
which other-wife, by the laws of Athens, could not be. In 
like manner the Scriptures note'this as.a very heavy judg¬ 
ment in the caTe of Jezebel : “ And the dogs ffiall eat Je¬ 
zebel, and there (hall be none to bury her.” The fame 
thing is threatened as a very great calamity to befal the 
Jews, viz. “Uhey (Itall not be gathered, nor buried-, they 
(hall be for dung-upon the face of the earth.” Jeremiah, 
viii. 2. Upon this-account the friends of a deceafed per- 
fon have always confidered it their duty decently to dif- 
pofe of his body, with foletnn rites, according to the c'uf- 
tom of the.feveral countries.attending it. Tints Abraham 
folemnly interred his wife Sarah in a burying-place, which 
he had pure ha fed near Hebron, where he likewife himfelf 
was.buried; as alfo his children Ifaac, Rebecca, Leah, 
and Jacob. Gen. xxv. Tiie Egyptians likewife interred 
their dead with great veneration, and religious ceremony ; 
embalming their bodies, and wrapping them up in certain 
linen cloths, impregnated with gums, wax, &c. to pre¬ 
vent putrefaction.. 
It may be proved from innumerable inftances, that the en- 
.clofing the dead in graves, is the moft ancient way of burial; 
but, in fucceeding ages, there arofe a falhion of burning 
the bodies, occalioned, as fome imagine, through fear that 
their enemies might dig them up, and offer them fome 
.violence ; which imagination is rendered not improbable 
by a paftage in the fir ft book of Samuel, where the Ifrael- 
ites burn the bodies of Saul and his fons, after they had 
been mifufed by the Philiftines; even though their com¬ 
mon ctiftom was interment. And fo Sylla, among the 
Romans, w'as the firft of his family who ordered his body 
to be burnt, lead tiie barbarities he had exercifed upon 
that of Marius (hould be retaliated upon his own ; or fan¬ 
cying thereby, that ‘their fouls were carried up in the 
flames to confort among the gods.’ The Greeks uled 
burning as early as the times of the Trojan war, as appears 
by Homer’s defeription of the funeral-pile of Patroclus. 
Yet Thucydides, in his fecond book, mentions Aapax.aj 
«ti9ragicrc-iv«s; coffins or cherts made of cyprefs-wood, in 
which the Athenians depofited the bones of their friends 
who died in the wars. The Romans derived from the 
Greeks both thefe cuftoms of burning add burying: In 
urbt fiomincm mortuum nefepelito neve urito , ‘Neither bury 
nor burn a dead body in the city,’ fays tiie law of the 
Twelve Tables. The place were they burned the dead 
was fet apart for this religious ufe, and called Gleba; from 
which practice the name is yet applied to all the grounds 
belonging to tiie church. 
It is very clear that interment was the only way of fe- 
pulchre among the Jews; and, as Chviftianity took its rife 
from the Jewifh nation, rhe firft profelytes followed their 
way of difpofing of tiie dead ; and, when the empire re¬ 
ceived Chriftianity, perfons of all rank were interred. 
Thus Conftantine the Great was interred in the porch of 
the Church.of the Apoftles, at Conftanftinople; and the 
fa-me emperor inftituted feveral corporations of men, to 
taike 
