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nour of-Britannie in France, and alfo of the honour of 
Richmond in England: the honour of Richmond was 
t fcmetimes called by the foreign name, the honour ot Bri- 
tannie, or the honour of the earl of Britannie.- This ferves 
. to explain the terms ‘ honour of Albemarle in England,’ 
.honor Albemarlice, or comitis Albemarlice in Anglia ; honor Bri¬ 
tannia ?, or comitis Britannia in Anglia , 4 the honour of Bri¬ 
tannie,’ or ‘the earl of Britannie in England.’ Not that 
Albemarle or Britannie were in England, but that the 
fame perfon refpeCtively was lord of each of the laid ho- 
. nours abroad and each of the.faid honours in England. 
The baronies belonging to bifliops are by fome called re¬ 
galia, as being held lolely on the king’s liberality. A ba¬ 
rony, according to Bradon, is a right indivilible; Where¬ 
fore, if an inheritance be to be divided among, coparce¬ 
ners, though fome capital melfuages may be divided, yet, 
if the capital me Ullage be the head of a county or baro¬ 
ny, it may not be parcelled : and the reafon is* left by this 
divilion many of the rights of counties and baronies by de- 
- grees come to nothing, to the prejudice of'the realm, w hich 
is laid to be compofed of counties and baronies. 
BARONY'CHI A,/, in botany. See Asflenium ru- 
ta muraria. 
B A'ROSCOPE,yi [of heavy, and a-y.ama, to fpy 
out.] An inftrument to Ihew the weight of the atmof- 
phere ; the fame with Barometer. —If there was always 
a calm, the equilibrium could only be changed by the con¬ 
tents ; where the winds are not variable, the alterations 
of the ba'ofcope. are very fmall. Arbuthnot. 
BAROWECZ', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lublin, thirty-fix miles north of Lublin. 
BAR'QUES POINT, a cape on the north-eaft of Sa- 
gana-bay, in lake Huron. 
BARR, or Baar, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrid of Benfelden, feven miles weft-north-weft of Ben- 
felden. 
BAR'RA, an ifland of Africa, in the mouth of the ri¬ 
ver Gambia. 
Barra, or Bar, a kingdom of Africa, near the river 
■Gambia, on the borders of it, which extends about twen¬ 
ty leagues. 
Barra, or Barray, one of the Hebrides, or Weftern 
Iilands of Scotland : about fix miles long, and two and a 
half broad. The -principaLproduce is barley and pota¬ 
toes ; great quantities of cod. and ling are caught on the 
eaft coaft, 30,000 of the latter having been lent in one 
year from this ifland to Glafgow, which is thought to be 
about the average, where they are fold for 5I. or 61. the 
hundred ; the fidiermen alfo catch fome dog-fifli, the oil 
of which they burn in their lamps, and fell what they do 
not confume at 7d. or 8d. the Scotch pint. Shell-fifh 
abound here, fuch as limpets, mufcles, wilks, clams, fpout- 
filh or razor-fi111, lobllers, crabs, &c. &c. but what is An¬ 
gularly beneficial to the inhabitants, is the fhell-fifh called 
cockle. It is found upon the great land on the north end 
of Barray, in fuch quantities, that, in times of great fcar- 
city, all the families upon the ifland (about 200) refort to 
it for their daily fubliftence. It has been computed, that 
in tw’o fummers, which were peculiarly diftrelling on-ac¬ 
count of the great fcarcity, no lefs than from 100 to 200 
horfe-loads of cockles were taken off the lands at low- 
water every day of the fpring-tides, during the months of 
May, June, July, and Auguff. If the people made ufe 
of cockles in plentiful years, they might fave as much 
bread, as .would prevent a fcarcity in the word of times. 
•Barra is five miles fouth of the ifland of South Uift. I.at. 
57. 2. N. Ion. 7. 30, W. Greenwich. 
Barra Lough, a lake of Ireland, in the county of 
Donegal, twenty.miles north of Don'egal. 
B aRRA,/ i in commerce, a long-meafure ufed in Por¬ 
tugal, and lome parts of Spain, to meafure woollen cloths, 
linen cloths, and ferges. There are three forts : the barra 
-of Valencia, thirteen.of which make vz% yards Englifh 
meafure; the barra of Caftile, feven of winch make 6J- 
Vox. II. No. ioi. 
B A R j ?i 
yards; and the barra of Arragon, three of which make 
2|- yards Englifh. 
BARRABA' (Defert of), a traCt of land in Siberia, ly¬ 
ing between the rivers Irtis and Oby, in the province of 
Tobollk. It is uninhabited, but not through any defici¬ 
ency of the foil; for that is excellent for tillage, and part 
of it might alfo be laid out in meadows and paftures. It 
'is interfperfed with a great number of lakes, which abound 
with a fpecies of carp called by the neighbouring people 
karawfehen ; and the country produces great numbers of 
elks, deer, foxes, ermine, and fquirrels. Between the Ir¬ 
tis and Oby are fome rich copper-mines ; particularly on 
a mountain called Pittowa, from the pitta or white firs that 
grow upon it. 
BARRABO'A, a town of Africa, in the country of 
Magadoxa. 
BAR'RACAN, or B arrag AN,y.' [ bouracan , or barra¬ 
can, Fr. j A kind of fluff belonging to the ciafs of camb- 
lets, only of a grain much coarler than the reft, manu¬ 
factured in various parts of France and Flanders, chiefly 
at Abbeville, Amiens, Rouen, and Lifle, and now in Eng¬ 
land. The chief life of barracans is for fnrtouts, or up¬ 
per garments againft the rain, being, when good, of fo 
clofe a grain, that the water will not foak through, but 
only run over them. For the woof, its thread is. (ingle, 
twilled, and fine.fpun; that of the warp is double or tri¬ 
ple, i.e. compOfed of two or three threads well twifted to¬ 
gether. The ufual material is wool; though there are 
fome made at Rouen, where the warp is hemp, and the 
woof wool. Some barracans are made of wool, dyed be¬ 
fore it comes to the loom; others are woven white, and 
dyed afterwards, red, black, blue, brown, &c. They are 
not fulled, but only boiled two or three times in fair wa¬ 
ter, when they come from the loom ; then calendered to 
make them fmooth and even ; and laftly, made into rolls 
called pieces of barracan. 
B ARRACI'DA,^ in ichthyology, a fpecies of pike. 
See Esox. 
BAR'RACK,/! \_barracca, Span.] Little cabins made 
by the Spanifli fiftiermen on the fea-fhore; or little lodges 
for foldiers in a Camp. It is generally taken among us for 
buildings to lodge foldiers. 
Barracks, when damp, are greatly prejudicial to the 
health of the foldiers lodged in them ; occafioning dyfen- 
teries, intermittent fevers, coughs, rheumatic pains, &c„ 
For which reafon, quarter-mafters ought to be careful in 
examining every barrack offered by the magiftrates of a 
place; rejecting all ground-floors in houfes that have any 
(jgns of moifture. 
B ARRA-CON'DA, a town of Africa, in the country 
of Nigritia, fituated on the river Gambia. 
BARR AD', a town of Arabia, forty miles fouth-eaft 
of Saade, 
BARR AN', a town of France, in the department of the 
Gers, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Aiich ; 
containing about 700 inhabitants. It is two leagues welt- 
fouth-weft of Audi, and two north of Mirande. 
BARRAN'CE, a town of South America, in Pern, 
witli a harbour, on the Pacific Ocean. Lat. 10. 30. S. 
Ion. 59. 45. W. Ferro. 
BAR'RATI, barred, an appellation given to the Car¬ 
melites after they were obliged to lay afide the white cap, 
and wear cowls ftriped black and white. 
BAR'RATOR, or Barretor, f. \_harrattator, Lat. 
barrateur, Fr. ] A common mover of fnits and quarrels, ei¬ 
ther in law, or otherwife, between any of his majefty’s fub- 
jefts. Lambard derives the word barretor , from the Lat. 
balatro, ‘a vile knave:’ but the proper derivationis from 
the French barrateur, ‘a deceiver,’ and this agrees with 
the defeription of a common barretor in lord Coke’s Re¬ 
ports, viz. that he is a common mover and maintainer of 
(hits in difturbance of the peace, and in taking and detain¬ 
ing the poffeflion of houfes and lands, or goods by falfe 
inventions, See. 8 Rep. 37. However it feems clear,- riiat 
no general indictment, charging the defendant with being 
