54 o BUR 
three- valved, onc-feeded. Male. Calyx, five-toothed ; 
corolla, five-petalkd ; (lamina, ten, (five to eight.) 
But one f'pecies, called Burfera Gfimmifera, or Jamaica 
birch-tree. It is a very lofty tree, with an upright, round, 
fmooth trunk, covered with a livid filming bark, peeling 
off in round pieces, l.ke the European birch. Branches 
terminating, fmooth, horizontal, twigs ferruginous, and 
villofe; leaves pinnate. Flowers (mail and white; on the 
male trees, the flowers are mod copious and crowded in 
the racemes, but are fcarcely larger. According to Sir 
Hans Sloane, the poots run very iuperficially ; the trunk 
is as thick as a hogfhead or pipe ; there are four or eight 
pairs of leaflets, an inch and a half long, and half as broad 
near the round bafe where broadefl; the petals are five 
in number, thick, yelldwifh, and fliort ; the berries three- 
fided, the lize of a final 1 pea, with a reddifh-brown fkin, 
■very gummy, and Imelling like turpentine ; under which 
lies a white, very hard, triangular, done, containing a 
kernel. The tree having flood naked fome time has firfl 
its flowers come out, and its leaves begin to bud a little 
after. Authors differ very much in their deferiptions of 
the fruftifixation. The generic charadlcr given above is 
from-Swartz. This tree is common in all the fugar-iflands 
of the Weft Indies. The bark is very thick, and exudes 
a clear tranfparent relin, which foon hardens in the air, 
and looks like the rnaflic of the (hops ; but by incifion it 
yields a confiderable quantity of a more fluid fubftance, 
whiclv lias much of the fmell and appearance of turpen¬ 
tine, and may be ufed for the fame purpofes. Tlie bark 
of the root is thought to be the Jima-rcuba of the fhops, 
- which is an effeflual remedy in bloody-fluxes : it is adi!»$!•' 
niflered in decodtions ; unci one or two drachms is fufficient 
for a quart of water ; for, if it be ftrong, it purges or vo¬ 
mits. Jn the French i(lands it is called gommicr blanc, and 
an infufion of the buds and young leaves is recommended 
there in difbrders of the brealt. It flowers from May to 
July. With us it has not flowergji',* although it was culti¬ 
vated in the royal garden at Hampton-Caurt fo long flnee 
as the year 1690. 
BURSE'RIA,y. in botany. See Verbena. 
BUR'SLEDON, a fmall port, fltuated on a branch of 
the Southampton river, in Hampfhire, famous for (hip- 
building. Though the river is narrow, it is exceeding 
deep, and eminent for its being able to carry the larged 
fliips, and in king William’s time two eighty-gun (hips 
■were launched here. It feems the fafery of the creek, and 
the plenty of timber in the country behind it, are the rea- 
fons of building fo much in this place. At a fmall diflance 
from Burfledon is Botley, an opulent and pleafant village, 
where great quantities of flour and timber are (hipped 
for the ufe of the navy. The village of Hamble, by many 
called Great-Ham , two miles below Burfledon, is alfo a 
moft convenient retreat for fliips ; as there is, at all times 
of tide, fufficient depth to take advantage of the wind to 
proceed on their refpebf ive voyages. The views from this 
village are uncommonly beautiful ; the Hie of Wight, 
New' Fore ft., and a diftant profpefl of Spithead, in theeaft; 
Southampton in the weft, diverfified with wood and water, 
perpetually changing its object, render it a charming feene. 
On the brink of Southampton water are, fcarcely vilible, 
the remains of a caflte : no traces of grandeur or of ftrength 
are left; and of what was once perhaps a terror to the 
foe, all that is recorded is its name, that of St. And w. 
Hound is the mother-church to Burfledon and Hamble, 
but is now a folitary building. This parifh is extenfive, 
and prides ltfelf in the poflefllon of Netley Abbey, once 
the glory of Hampfhire, and exhibiting, in its prefent dila¬ 
pidations, an objedt grand and affedting. Its ruins are 
beautiful, if ruins may be called fo ; they furnifh, howe¬ 
ver, a mournful monument of the ravages of time; and 
when, from its prefent defolate (late, we form in our ima¬ 
gination a faint picture of the (lately pile it once was, tlie 
tear mult fwell in the eye of fenfibility, at the precarious 
nature ol human grandeur, and with a ligli lament the folly 
of human expeditions. 
BUR 
BUR'SLEM, a confiderable village in county of Staf¬ 
ford, celebrated for its pottery : three miles north of New- 
caflle under Line. 
To BURST, v. n. I burjl j I have burjl, or burjlcn. 
[biujlan, Sax.] To break, or fly open; to fuffef a vio¬ 
lent difruption.—So (hall thy barns be filled with plenty, 
and thy prefles (hall burjl out with new wine. Prov. iii. lo. 
—To fly afunder : 
Yet am T thankful; if my heart were great, 
* Twould burjl at this. Shakefpear ' 
To break away ; to fpring: 
You burjl, ah. cruel! from my arms, 
And fwiftly (hoot along the Mall. Pops. 
To come fuddenly, or with violence : 
If the worlds 
In worlds inclos’d fhould on his fenfes burjl, 
He would abhorrent turn. Thomfon. 
To begin an adlion violently or fuddenly.—Site burjl into 
tears, and wrung her hands. Arbulhnot. 
To BURST, va. To break fuddenly; to make a quick 
and violentdifruption.—Mofes faith alfo, the fountains of 
the great abyfs were burjl afunder, to make the deluge ; 
and what means this abyfs, and the burjling of it, if re- 
drained to Judaea? what appearance is there of this dif¬ 
ruption there ? Burnet. 
BURST, f. A bidden difruption; a hidden and violent 
adlion of any kind : 
Imprifon’d fires, in the clofe dungeons pent, 
Roar to get loofe, and firuggle for a vent ; 
Eating their way, and undermining all, 
Till with a mighty burjl whole mountains fall. Add Jon. 
BURST, or Bursten, particip. adj. Difeafed with a 
herma, or rupture. 
BUR'STADT, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Low'-er Rhine, and electorate of Mentz : two miles 
eafl of Milcenberg. 
BURSTEN'NESS,/! A rupture, or hernia. 
BURST'WORT,/! An herb good againft ruptures j 
the plants hernaria and linum. 
BURT, /! A flat fifh of the turbot kind. 
BUR'THEN. See Burden. 
BUR'TON,/! In a fhip, a fmall tackle to be faflened 
any where at pleafure, confiding of two Angle 'pullies, for 
hoifting fmall things in or out. 
BUR'TON (Henry), born at Birfall in Yorkfhire, in 
1579; and educated at St. John’s college in Cambridge, 
where he took both iris degrees in arts. He was afterwards 
incorporated M. A. at Oxford, and took the degree of 
B. D. He firfl was tutor to the Ions of lord Carey of Le- 
pington (created in 1625 earl of Monmouth), then clerk 
of the cloiet to prince Henry; and after his death to prince 
Charles, whom he was appointed to attend into Spain in 
1623 ; but, for reafons unknown, was fet afide after part 
of his goodsWere fhipped, and upon that prince’s accef- 
fion to the crown was removed from being his clerk of the 
clofet. Burton, highly difgufted at this treatment, took 
every opportunity of exprefling his refentment, by railing 
againfl the bifliops. In April 1625, he prefented a letter 
to king Charles, remonftrating againft Dr. Neile and Dr. 
Laud, as popifhly affedled; and for this was forbidden 
the court. Soon after he was prefented to the reilory of 
St. Matthew’s, in Friday-flreet, London. In December, 
1636, he was fummoned to appear before Dr. Duck, one 
of the commiflioners for canfes ecclefiaflical, who tender¬ 
ed to him the oaths ex officio, to anfwer to certain articles 
brought againfl him, for what he had advanced in two fer- 
mons preached in his own church on the preceding 5th of 
November. Burton, inftead of anfwering, appealed to the 
king: neverthelefs., a fpecial high-commiflioncourt, which 
was called foon after at Doftor’s Commons, fufpended 
him, in his abfence, from both his office and benefice; 
upon which he thought fit to abfeond, but publifhed his 
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