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with crofs-bars of handles at the other end, fo that it may 
be worked by two, three, or four, men. As barges are 
of different fizes, it is impolfible to fix any given dimen- 
fions for the oar ; it is ^owever to be obferved, that the 
greater the burden to be moved, the wider the oar mud 
be made. The annexed figure fhevvs the fide of the barge, 
with the apparatus affixed. B B are braces to fecure the 
oar, fattened by the two projecting pieces C C. The crofs- 
bars hhhh, which pafs through the pole ee, are the han¬ 
dles for pulhing or pulling the vertical oar E, fattened to 
the pole by the flays ff. In the centre of the pole is a 
hiding weight w, to balance the vertical oar E, with a 
wedge q, to fix the Aiding weight. Care mutt be taken 
to conftruft the oar and its appendages of fuch timber as 
is leatt liable to be warped ; and, to make the apparatus 
work eafy, the Aiding weight mutt be fo placed as to ba¬ 
lance the oar at the end of the pole, when fufpended by 
'the cord or chain D, which fattens the pole to the braces. 
By this artifice the men may raife or fink the oar at plea- 
fure, and make the flroke long or fliort, deep or Aiallow, as 
they pleafe, by raifing or deprefling the pole where the 
crofs-bars are applied ; and may exert their whole force, 
together with that of the defcending weight, again# a 
column of water equal to.the immerfed part of the oar ; 
which, having performed its ftroke, will return to its 
place by means of the defcending weight and depref- 
fion of the end where the men work; and then, by ele¬ 
vating the end anew, the oar will dip perpendicularly, and 
be ready for repeating the flroke. When ufed at the head 
of a veflel, the pole fhonld be of fuch a length as not to 
c a life the water, impelled by the oar, to aft againtt the 
head of the veffel; when at the fides, the length may be 
difcretionary. 
Barge,/, in ornithology, a name ufed by fome authors 
for the godwit, or as it is called in fome places, the Jlone- 
plover, the agochephalus. 
Barge, or Bar'ges, a town of Piedmont, in the dif- 
trift of the Four Valleys, feven miles and a half fouth of 
Pinerola. 
Barge-couples,/, in architefture, is a beam mor- 
tifed into another, to ftrengthen the building. And barge- 
<ourJe with bricklayers, is a term ufed for that part of the 
tiling which projefts over without the principal rafters, 
in all forts of buildings where there is either a.gable or a 
kirken-head. 
Barge le Chatel, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ain, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Pont-de-Vaux: four leagues and a half weft-north- 
weft of Bourg-en-Brefte. Lat.46.19. -N. Ion. 22. 35. E, 
Ferro. 
BARGE'MAN, / He who works in, oraflifts the navi¬ 
gation of, a barge. 
BAR'GER,/ The manager of a barge.—Many way¬ 
farers make themfelves glee, by putting the inhabitants 
in mind of this privilege ; who again, like the Campellians 
in the north, and the London bargcrs, forllow not to baigne 
them. Carew. 
BAR'GEMON, a town of France, in the department 
of the Var, and chief,place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
BAR 
TDraguignan : five leagues weft-fouth-weft of Grade, and 
two north-north-eaft of Draguignan. 
BARGH'MASTER, Barmer, or Bar-master,/ 
in the royal mines, the fteward or judge of the barmote.- 
The bar-matter is to keep two great courts of barmote 
yearly ; and every week a (mall one, as occafton requires. 
BARGH'MOTE, or Barmote, / A court which 
takes cognizance of caufes and difputes between miners. 
By the culiom of the mines, no perfon is to fue any miner 
for ore-debt, or for ore, or for any ground in variance, 
but only in the court of barmote, on penalty of forfeiting 
the debt, and paying the charges at law. 
BARGO'TA, a town of Spain, in Navarre, fix leagues 
from Eftella. 
BARGUZIN', a river of Siberia, which runs into lake 
Baikal, near Barguzinlk. 
BARGUZ 1 NSK', a town of Siberia, on the eaft coatt 
of lake Baikal, on the river Barguzin : 104 miles north- 
eaft of Irkutlk. Lat.53.30. N. Ion. 128. E. Ferro. 
BAR'HAM, a village fix miles fouth-eaft from Can¬ 
terbury, which gives name to that delightful range of open 
country, called Barham-Downs, on which Canterbury 
. races are annually held. 
BARH-NA'GASH, a province of Abyflinia, in the 
kingdom of Tigre, in which the town of Arekea is fituated. 
BA'RI, a feaport town of Italy, in The kingdom of 
Naples, on the coatt of the Adriatic, once the capital of 
the province of the fame name, and fee of an archbifliopv 
It is well built, populous, and has a good trade. The 
harbour was almott deftroyed by the Venetians : 1 20 miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Naples, and eighteen eaft of Trani. Lat. 
41. 15. N. Ion. 34. 34. E. Ferro. 
Bari, a province of Naples, bounded on the north and 
north-eaft by the fea, on the eaft and fouth-eaft by the 
province of Otranto, on the fouth by the Bafilicata, and 
oil the weft by the Capitanata. About fixty-two miles long, 
and rather more than twenty in its mean breadth. It pro¬ 
duces corn, wine, oil, cotton, faffron, and fruits : there 
are fixteen towers built to defend the coafts from corfairs. 
The principal towns are Bari, Trani, the prefent capital, 
Bitonto, Barletta, Altamura, Gravina, Molfetta, Vife- 
glia, and Andri. Ofanto is the only river. 
BARIARED, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman : nineteen leagues fouth-weft of Sirgian. 
BAR-JE'SUS, [jwd, Syr. the fon of jefus.] A name 
of a man. 
BARIL'LA, or Baritha,/ The name of a fpecies of 
glafs-wort, cultivated in Spain for its allies, from which 
the pureft kinds of mineral alkali are obtained. There are 
four fpecies, barilla, gazul, (or as fome call it, algazul,) 
foza, and falicornia or Jalicor, They are all burnt'to attics ; 
but applied to different ufes, as being pottefled of different 
qualities. Barilla is fown afrefli every year. Its greateft 
height above ground is four inches : each root puflies out 
a vaft number of little ftalks, which again are fubdiviaed 
into fmaller fprigs refembling famphire; and altogether 
form a large Ipreading tufted bufti. The colour is bright 
green; as the plant advances towards maturity, this co¬ 
lour vaniffies away till it comes at laft to be a dull green 
tinged with brown. Gazul bears the greateft affinity to 
barilla, both in quality and appearance : the principal dif¬ 
ference confifts in its growing on a drier falter earth, con- 
fequently it is impregnated with a ttronger fait. It does 
not rife above two inches out of the ground, fpreading out 
into little tufts. Its fprigs are much flatter and more 
pulpy than thofe of barilla, and are ftill more like fam¬ 
phire. It is fown but once in three, four, or five, years, 
according to the nature of the foil. Soza, when of the 
fame fize, has the fame appearance as gazul; but in time 
grows much larger, as its natural foil is a ftrong fait marfli, 
where it is to be found in large tufts of fprigs, treble the 
fize of barilla, and of a bright green colour. Salicor has 
a ftalk of a deep green colour, inclining to red, which be¬ 
comes at laft the colour of the whole plant. It grows up¬ 
right, and refembles a buHi of young rofemary. Its na¬ 
tural 
