66S BAN 
To iBAN'GLE, v. a. To wafte by little and little; to 
fquafider carelefsly : a word now ujcd only in converfation .— 
If we bangle away the legacy of peace left ns by Chrift, it 
is a (ign of oor want of regard for him. Duty of Man. 
Bangle Ears, an imperfection in a horfe,.remedied in 
the following manner. Place his ears in fuch a manner as 
you would have them hand; bind them with two little 
boards fo faft that they cannot ftir, and then clip away all 
the empty wrinkled (kin clofe by the head. 
BAN'GOR, [once Banchor, q. Bcnc/ior, i. e. a capital 
choir.] An epilcopal city of Caernarvonfliire, in North 
Wales. It has but one ftreet, of about half a mile in 
length; a market-day on Friday; and four fairs in the 
year, viz. April 5, June 25, September 8, and October 28. 
It was formerly of great note, and by the Welfli was call¬ 
ed Bangor-fawr , i.e. Great Bangor. Here is a large free- 
fchool, lately re-built in a very capital (tile under the pre¬ 
fent bifhop’s direction. The prefent cathedral is a Go¬ 
thic building, (having been built in the reign of Hen¬ 
ry VII.) in good repair, and well worthy the notice of the 
antiquary. This church boaits of being one of the moft 
ancient in Britain ; and that St. Daniel (to whom it was 
dedicated) was firlt bifhop liere, in the year 512. The pa¬ 
gans, perhaps of Anglefea, under Owen Glendower, de- 
ftroyed the church, and poffelled the bifhopric for above 
100 years; nor is there any account of it from the year 
512 to 1009. After this the bifhopric was.again defolated 
by one of its own bifhops, whole name was Bulkeley : he, 
as the Monafticon (ays, not only fold the revenues, but 
even the very bells ; for which facrilege, it is laid, he was 
flruck blind. It is certainly at prefent no rich bilhopric ; 
but the bifhops are generally allowed to hold feme other 
good benefice in commendam, and are generally mandated 
from hence to a more profitable fee. The cathedral has 
received fome great improvements and repairs by Dr. War- 
ren, biihop of the diocefe, who, with great take and at a 
conliderable expence, has modernized the old palace, 
where his lordfliip with a diftinguiflied hofpitality enter¬ 
tains the neighbouring gentry and clergy, and receives the 
bleflings of a numerous poor, during a refidence of one- 
half of the year, (hewing a laudable example to other dio- 
cefans. The remains of feveral Welfli princes, as alio of 
bifhops and deans, lie interred in this cathedral. Bangor 
is two miles from the ferry, twentv-feven from Holyhead, 
nine from Carnarvon, fifteen from Conway, and a hundred 
and forty-fix from London. 
At a little diftance from Bangor is Llandegai, where the 
church makes a confpicuous figure, and contains the re¬ 
mains of archbifhop John Williams, a native of Conway, 
who, at the commencement of the civil wars, was a zea¬ 
lous royalift, and afterwards, on a fuppofed injury, aflifled 
the parliamentary forces to fiubdue the caftle of Conway. 
A little below the church is a village called Aber Cegid, 
by the fide of a fmall rivulet, which here paffes into the 
fea. Upon the left Hands Penrhyn-hall, the elegant man- 
lion of lord Penrhyn, to whole liberal lpirit for improve¬ 
ment, and acquaintance wj^th the advantages of an ablive 
life, this country owes very great obligations. The fitua- 
tion is elevated and pleafant, commanding a view of An¬ 
glefea and the Irifh fea, and bounded on the other fide by 
the Snowdon-hills. On the lite of this manfion flood for¬ 
merly a caftle, or palace, the refidence of Roderic Mol- 
wynog, a Welfli prince, who reigned about the year 720. 
A large wood formerly inclofed the houfe, which the im¬ 
proved tafte of modern times has in fome degree removed ; 
but the very extenfive plantations, which his lordfliip 
makes every year, will in a fliort time change the other- 
wife bleak afpebt of the country. The, caflellated form 
of the houfe, with its elegant turrets, meeting the eye 
above the trees, exhibit a charming object to the travel¬ 
ler. It has the appearance of being built with (lone; but 
the front is faced with tiles, brought from Southampton, 
which, upon a nearer approach, feem to be jointed like 
bricks; the infide doors are of mahogany, brought from 
his lordfhip’s ellates in Jamaica. The ancient drinking- 
B A N 
horn is in the poffeflion of this family. At a fliort difi. 
tan.ee the eye is flruck with the appearance of a houfe 
built in a ftile of great neatnefs, on a fpot which a fliort 
time ago was covered with fragments of rocks and ftones, 
interfperfed with ruflies and roots of alder, wliofe rugged 
appearance feemed to have been continued from the"'de¬ 
luge; but now, by the prophetic eye of tafte, aflumes a 
new creation, and is feen with wonder and delight. The 
river, which once ran rugged and unbounded in its courfe, 
is now confined within the margin of a Hoping lawn, and 
the progre(live heights of the ftream form beautiful cas¬ 
cades and falmon-leaps, feen from the front of the houfe; 
the turnpike-road, over the bridge, erodes the view, which 
is terminated by the Snowdon-hills. At a little diftance 
are thole immenfe rocks of date, which now employ up¬ 
wards of a thoufand people, and produce to lord Penrhyn 
more than 20,000k per annum. 
Bangor, a borough and fea-port town of Ireland, in 
the county of Wicklow, which fends two members to the 
Irifh parliament, with a bay or harbour, on the fouth fide 
of Beltaft Lough. It is ten miles north-eaft of Belfaft. 
Lat. 54. 39. N. Ion. 5. 33. W. Greenwich. 
BAN'GUE,yi a fpecies of opiate, in great ufe through¬ 
out the eaft, for drowning cares and infpiring joy. This 
by the Perfians is called beng\ by the Arabs rffrar, cor¬ 
ruptly afferal, and affarth-, by the Turks bcngitie , and vul- 
gularly maflack\ by the European naturaliits bangue, or 
bavge. It is the leaf of a kind of wild hemp, growing in 
the Levant. Some have fuppofed it a fpecies of althaea, 
but this is not the (ait. It is prepared in a variety of 
ways in different countries. Olearius deferibes the me¬ 
thod tiled in Perfia. Mr. Sale tells 11s, that, among the 
Arabs, the leaf is made into pills, or conferves. But the 
moft diftinbf account is that given by Alexander Mauro- 
cordato, counfellor and phyfician of the Ottoman Porte, 
in a letter to Wedelius. According to him, bangue is 
made of the leaves of wild hemp, dried in the fltade, then 
ground to powder ; put into a pot wherein butter has 
been kept; fet in an oven till it begin to torrefy : then ta¬ 
ken out, and pulverized again ; thus to be ufed occafion- 
ally, as much at a time as will lie on the point of a knife. 
Such is the Turkifh bangue. The eft’ebts of this drug are, 
to confound the underftanding; fet the imagination loofe; 
induce a kind of folly and forgetfulnefs, wherein all cares 
are left, and joy and gaiety rule in their dead. Bangue, 
in reality, is a fuccedaneum to wine, and obtains in thofe 
countries w here Mahometanifm is eftablilhed; which to¬ 
tally prohibiting the ufe of that liquor, the poor mu (Till¬ 
mans are forced to have recourfe to fuccedanea to roufe 
their fptrits. The principal are opium and this bangue. 
As to the opinion among Europeans, that the Turks pre¬ 
pare themfelves for battle by a dole of bangue, which 
roufes their courage, and drives them, with eagernefs, to 
meet death ; Dr. Maurocordato affures us, that it is a po¬ 
pular error; the Turks think they are then going affu- 
redly to receive the crown of martyrdom ; and would not, 
for any confiderarion, lofe the merit of it, which they 
would do by eating the bangue, as being held unlawful by 
their apoftle, among other things which intoxicate. 
BAN'HOO GUR, a town of Hindoftan, in the Sohage- 
pour Circar, tw enty miles north-weft of Sohagepour, thir¬ 
ty-five miles fouth of Makoonda. 
B A'NI, a fmall diftribl of Africa, in the country of Ca¬ 
labar, containing nine or ten villages. 
Bani, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and 
province of Capitanata, ten miles fouth of Troja. 
BA'NIA, a river of Croatia, which runs into the 
Lenia. 
BA.NIAC', a fmall ifiand, near the weft coaft of Su¬ 
matra, in the Indian Sea. Lat. 1.42. N. Ion. 96.48. E. 
Greenwich. 
BANJAI.U'KA, or Bagnaluka, a town of European 
Turkey, in Bofnia, the refidence of a pacha, 144 miles 
weft of Belgrade, twenty-fix miles fouth of Gradifca. 
B AN I AN'-TREE. See Ficus. 
BANIANS', 
