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life, yielding readily to any temptation that offered the 
lemblance ot intemperate enjoyment, he died July 21, 
175 6, at Dumfries, aged thirty-feven; and was buried 
with military honours, having become a member of the 
royal Dumfries volunteer corps. 
BURNT', particip. palf. ol burn: applied to liquors, it 
means made hot : 
Who, to refrefh th’attendants to a grave, 
Burnt claret fir ft, or Naples bifcuit, gave. /vY.vg. 
BURN!' ISLAND, an itland in Chriftmas Sound, at 
the lout Item extremity of South America. 
BURNT ISLAND, or Brun Island, a town of Scot¬ 
land, in the county of Fife, and a royal borough, fi mated 
on the north lide of the Frith of Forth ; formerly a place 
of great trade; the harbour is good, deep, and large. The 
number of inhabitants is about 1100. It is nine miles eaft 
of Dumferline. 
BURNT ISLAND, near the fouth coaft of Newfound¬ 
land : fifteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Cape Ray. I.at. 47. 
30. N. Ion. ;S. 50 W. Greenwich. 
BURNT ISLANDS, a cl lifter of i Hands in the Indian 
Sea, weft-north-weft from Goa. Lat. 15. 50. N. Ion. 73. 
30. Ii. Greenwich. 
BURNT'WOOD. See Brentwood. 
BURON'ZO, a town of Italy, in the country of Ver- 
celli : twelve miles north-weft of Vercelli. 
BU'ROW, a town of Germany, in tIre circle of Upper 
Saxony, and principality of Anhalt Zerbft; two miles weft 
of Cofwick. 
BURR, J. The lobe or lap of the ear ; the round knob 
of the horn next a deer’s head.. 
BURR, a ./'mall ifland in t ire Irifli Sea, near the coafi of 
of the county of Down : twelve miles fouth of Donagha- 
dee. Lat. 54. 28. N. Ion. 5.21. W. Greenwich. 
BURR-PUMP, J. A pump by the fide of a ftiip, into 
v. hich fiaff (even or eight feet long is put, having a burr 
or knob of wood at the end, which is drawn up by a 
rope fattened to the middle of it; called alio a bilge-pump. 
BUR'R A, a large and fertile mountain of Arabia, near 
Homran. 
BUR'R A, one of the Shetland iflands of Scotland, fitu- 
ated on the weftern coal! of the main land. Lat. Co. 5. N. 
Ion. 1. 32. E. Greenwich. 
BURR AMPOO'TER, one of the three great rivers of 
Hindooftan. It is ftiperior to the Ganges, as well in fize 
and extent, as in the number of nations which it vilits; 
though it has been unfortunate in not patting through a 
traft of country known to the clattical learned of remote 
or of modern ages. It is fcarcely credible that this noble 
river fhould have wandered through barbarous climes, 
unexplored, and unknown, till the recent year 1765. It 
rifes in about 32 0 30' north latitude, and 82° 40' eaft lon¬ 
gitude, from Greenwich, in the extenlive kingdom of 
Thibet, and on the oppofite fide of the fame mountains 
which give rife to the Ganges. Taking an eaftern direc¬ 
tion for a confidc-rable way, it paftes with a rapid courfe 
between the Thiberian mountains, and approaches within 
200 miles of the weftern frontiers of China ; thence turn¬ 
ing to the weft through Attain, it enters Bengal on 1 he 
north-eaft quarter. About forty miles from the ocean 
thefe two majeftic rivers unite, and fo ftu.pendo.11s is the 
body of waters at their confluence, that it has formed a 
gulph’of Inch extent as to contain illands that rival our’ 
Ille of Wight in fize and fertility ; and with fuch refiftlefs 
violence do their united ftreams rufti into the ocean, that, 
in the rainy feafon, the fea itfelf, or at lead its furface, 
is perfectly frefh for many leagues out. Among the na¬ 
tives, the Burrampooter, from its fountains through the 
greater part of its courfe, bears the name of Sampoo, or, 
The River. 
BUR'RAS-PIPE, f. with furgeons, an inftrument or 
veftel nfed to keep corroding powders in, as vitriol, pre¬ 
cipitate, &.c. Harris , 
BUR 
BUR'RE, Bouree, or Boree, f. A dance com-pofed 
of three fteps joined together in two motions, begun with 
a crotchet riling. The firft couplet contains twi*e four 
meafures, the lecond twice eight. It -confifts of a balance 
and coupee. 
BUR'KEL, f. A fort of pear, pthervvife called' the red 
butter-pear, from- its fmootli, delicious, and left, pulp. 
Philips. 
BUR'R EL FLY, f. [bout reltr, Fr. to exec'tite, to tor¬ 
ture.] An infect ; called alfo oxjly, gadbee, or breeze. 
BUR’REL-SHO I , f. [uourrcler, to execute, and Jhot.'J 
In gunnery, fmall bullets, nails, (tones, pieces of old iron, 
&c. put into cafes, to be difeharged out of the ordnance; 
a fort of cafe-fhot. Harris. 
BUR'ROCK, f. A fmall weir or dam, where wheels 
are laid in a river for catching fitti. Philips. 
BUR'ROUGHEo (Jeremiah), was educated at Cam¬ 
bridge, but obliged to quit that univerfity for non-confor¬ 
mity. Ke (heitered himfelf for fome time under the 
roof of the earl of Warwick, and afterwards retired to- 
Holland. About the beginning of the civil wars he re¬ 
turned to London ; not to fpread (edition (as his non-con¬ 
forming brethren were falfely accufed of doing), but peace, 
for which he earneflly laboured. His Iremcum was one . 
of the laft fubjecls upon wltich he preached. He was a 
man of learning, candour, and modeiiy, and of irreproach¬ 
able life. A confiderable number of his writings are in 
print, many of which were publilhed after his death, which 
happened November 14, 1646. 
BUR'ROUGHS’s MACHINE, invented by Mr. Bur¬ 
roughs of Southwark ; for which the fociety for the encou¬ 
ragement of arts gave him a premium of 70I. This ma¬ 
chine, reprefented at fig. 6 in the preceding plate, confifts 
of a cog-wheel A, twelve feet in diameter, carrying fe- 
venty-two cogs; which turn a trundle-head B, one foot 
four incites in diameter, and furnilhed with eight rounds ; 
and alfo'an horizontal fpur-wheel C, of twelve cogs, and 
one foot eight inches in diameter. The trundle-head B 
turns a fpur-wheel D of ten cogs, and two feet eight inches 
in diameter. This fpur-wheel has two cranks, a , 6 , in its 
lhaft ; one of which a gives motion to a wooden frame, c , 
about thirty-four inches long and nineteen broad. On the 
under lide of this frame are fattened by 1‘crews twelve 
pieces of polifned metal, each five inches and a half long, 
and three broad, covered with leather; and underneath 
thefe polifhers, a glafs-plate cemented to another frame is 
placed on the bench d, and polilhed with tripoli by the 
motion given to the upper frame by the crank a. The 
nuts of the ferews which fatten the polifhers to the upper 
frame are not ferewed dole to the wood, in order to give 
the frame room to play ; by which contrivance the per¬ 
pendicular rife of the crank is avoided, and the motion of 
the polilhers always parallel and equal. The under frame 
may be moved by tire hand in any direction without flop¬ 
ping the machine ; by which means tire plate, when larger 
than the poiifhing frame can cover in its motion, will be 
equally polilhed in every part. The ether crank b gives 
motion to two other polifhers marked n, 0, which have an 
alternate motion by the bending of the crank ; they move 
upon tlie fame plate, and have an equal number of poll fli¬ 
ers as that already deferibed. The fame crank allo gives 
motion to a contrivance reprefented at e for poiifhing fpec- 
tacle-glafles. It confifts of two fegments of the fame fphere; 
one concave and the other convex. On the latter the glades 
are cemented ; and polilhed by the former, which is mov¬ 
ed by the crank b. The convex fegment may be moved 
round by the hand without flopping the machine, fo that 
all the glades on its fuperficies will be equally polilhed. 
The other fpur-wheel C, by means of a crank in its fhaft, 
gives motion to another frame g,. employed in grinding the 
glafs-plates. The rod h, extended from the crank f to the 
frames, is fattened to the latter by means of a pivot, in 
order to admit of a rotatory motion, as well as that given 
it by the crank in a longitudinal direction. This rotatory 
motion 
