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north fide of the frozen rocks in Kamtfchatka, where 
there is no other vegetation. See Ev-1'kk.asia and Rhi- 
N A nth us. 
BAR'TULPH, [of beorht ., and ulpi. Sax. i. e. liclp in 
counfel, or famous helper.] A proper name of men. 
BAR'TUS, a town of Hungary, (ixteen miles north- 
weft of Palotza. 
BAR'VliR, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft, 
phalia, and county of Diepholz : fix miles eaft-noi th-eaft 
of Diepholz. 
KARVILIS'KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Troki: twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of Troki. 
BA'RUCH (the prophecy*of), one of the apocryphal 
books, fubjoined to the canon of the Old Teftament. Ba¬ 
ruch was the fon of Neriah, who was the difciple and 
amanueniis of the prophet Jeremiah. It has been reckon¬ 
ed part of Jeremiah’s prophecy, and is often cited by the 
ancient fathers as fucli. jofephus tells us, Baruch was 
defeended of a noble family ; and it is (aid in tire book it- 
fielf, that he wrote this prophecy at Babylon. There are 
extant three copies of it ; one in Greek, the other two in 
Syriac ; but which of thefe, or whether any one of them, 
be the original, is uncertain. 
B AR'UD, a town of Egypt, on the eaft fide of the Rhine: 
feven miles fouth-eaft of Manfalout. 
Barud, a town of Egypt, on the weft fide of the Rhine: 
eighteen miles fouth of Siut. 
BAR'UK, [■yi-D Heb. i. e. bleffed.] A proper name of 
men. 
BARU'LES,/! in church-hiftory, certain heretics, who 
held, that the Son of God had only a phantom of a body ; 
that fouls were created before the world, and that they 
lived all at one time. 
BAR'UM, a town of Germany, in the circle of Lower 
Saxony, and principality of Luneburg: ten miles fouth of 
Luneburg. 
BARUTH', a town of Syria, 60 miles W. of Damafcus. 
Baruth, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony : twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Potzdam, 
and thirty-four north-eaft of Wittenberg. 
BAR.UTH,yi An Indian meafure containing feventeen 
gantans: about 3-J pounds Englifh avoirdupois. 
BAR'WICK (John), an eminent Englifli divine, born 
at Wetherflack in Weftmoreland, April 20,' 1612. He was 
fent to Sedberg fchool in Yorkfhire, where he gave eariy 
marks both of genius and piety. In 1631, and the eigh¬ 
teenth of his own age, he was admitted of St. John’s col¬ 
lege at Cambridge, under the tuition of Mr. Thomas Fo- 
thergill. In 7635 he became bachelor of arts, and in 
1636 he was created fellow. When the civil war broke 
out, and Charles I. had written a letter to the univerfity, 
acquainting them that he was in extreme want, Mr. Bar- 
wick concurred with thofe loyal perfons who firft fent him 
a fupply in money, and afterwards theircollege plate ; and, 
upon information that Cromwell lay with a party of foot 
between Cambridge and Huntington, in order to make him- 
felf mafter of this fmall treafure, Mr. Barwick made one 
of the party which conveyed fit through bye-roads fafely 
to Nottingham, where the king had fet up his ftandard. 
When tiie king was confined in Carifbrook caftle, in the 
Ilie of Wight, fo clofely, that guards were polled at all 
the avenues, to prevent any correfpondence, Mr. Creffet, 
who was placed about him, through the dextrous manage¬ 
ment of Mr. Barwick, defeated all their diligence, and af¬ 
forded the king a free intercourfe with his friends. For 
thefe attachments to his fovereigp he was afterwards com¬ 
mitted to the Tower, and put in a dark dungeon, without 
the life of pen, ink, or paper, and of all books but the 
Bible. When he was placed in this melancholy fitnation, 
in which he continued fifteen months, he was affliHed with 
a dreadful cough, fpitting of blood, and confumption of 
the lungs. He was only allowed the fpare diet of herbs 
or fruit, or thin water-gruel made of oatmeal or barley, 
with currants boiled in it, and fvveetened with a little fu- 
gar j but by which he recovered beyond all expectation.- 
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A cure fo perfect, and withal fo ftrange, that many phy- 
ficians have noticed it in their writings, as a moft pregnant 
inftance of the power of temperance even in the moft in¬ 
veterate difeafes. During his confinement, Mr. Otway, 
and fome other friends, procured a warrant from prelident 
Bradfiuiw to vilit him ; and they were not a little furprifecl 
to find hint fo lufty, and in fuch good health, whom they 
had feen brought io low, as to engage this very Mr. Ot¬ 
way to take care of his burial. At the reftoration he was 
made dean of St. Paul’s; and he took poffefiion of the 
deanery about the middle of Oblober, 1661. He was af¬ 
terwards appointed one of the nine affiftants to the twelve 
bifiiops, commiftioned to hold a conference with the like 
number of prefbyterian minifters upon the review of the 
liturgy ; which conference was held at the bifhopof Lon¬ 
don’s lodgings in the Savoy. He was ayb by tlie unani¬ 
mous fuff rage of the clergy of the province of Canterbu¬ 
ry chofen prolocutor, on the 18th <;f .February, 1661 : ia 
which high office he behaved himlelf in fuch a manner, 
as added even to the great reputation he had before ac¬ 
quired. Finding his health decline, he intended to have 
refigned his deanery and office of prolocutor, to fpend the 
remainder of his days in retirement; but Providence pre¬ 
pared him a Hi 11 more qhiet manfion ; for, being leized 
with a plenrify, it carried him oft’ in three days. He was 
attended in his laft moments by Dr. Peter Gunning, after¬ 
wards bifhop of Ely ; and, as he lived, fo lie died, with all 
the marks of exemplary piety, on October 22, 1664. 
B ARYECOI'A,y.’ heavy, and ar.ovoi } to hear.] 
A difficulty of hearing. 
B ARYPHO'NIA,yi [from /Sagvr, dull, and (puvr ., the 
voice.] A difficulty of fpeaking. 
BARYPYC'Nl, /. ['{jcifVTTvy.vot, Gr.J In the ancient mu- 
fic, was a name given to fuch chords as formed the graved 
noies of the feveral fpijfa. There were five baypycni in 
the feale. 
BARY'TES,/'.-'[from heavy.] A earth fo nam¬ 
ed from the uncommon weight of its combination with vi¬ 
triolic acid, which is more plentifully met with than any 
other, and known by the names of ponderous fpar, or mar - 
mor mctallicum. This combination is found either tranfpa- 
rent or opake. The tranfparent fpar in its ufual form is of 
a fix-tided fiat prifm, ending in a feur-fided pyramid; butg 
like all other cryftals, liable to be varied by the circum- 
ftances attending their formation. The opake fpecimens, 
called cawk by the miners, are of a white, grey, or fawn, 
colour; frequently of no regular fliape, but often in the 
peculiar figure of a number of fmall convex lenfes fet in 
a ground. Moft fpecimens of this earth are more than 
four times as heavy as an equal bulk of water ; which con- 
flitutes an eftential difference between them and thofe of 
the calcareous genus, becaufe thefe laft are little more 
than twice the weight of the water they difplace on jm- 
merlion. The lime-ftone, or lapis hepaticus, contains about 
one third part of this earth. And it is alfo found com¬ 
bined with fixed air in the mine of Anglezark, near Chor- 
ley in Lancafliire, and alfo at Strontian and Dnnglafs, near 
Dumbarton in Scotland. See Phil. Tranf. for 1784. 
To obtain ponderous earth in a difengaged ftate, the hea¬ 
vy fpar or vitriolated ponderous may be fufed with about 
twice its weight of mild fixed alkali, which will combine 
with its acid and form a neutral fait, to be walked off by 
water ; while the ponderous earth remains behind in com¬ 
bination with fixed air. A ftrong heat drives off the fixed 
air, and leaves the ponderous earth in a ftate perfeCfly re- 
fembling quicklime in tafte, and exhibiting the fame phe¬ 
nomena with water. This artificial combination of fixed 
air and ponderous earth differs from the natural in the re¬ 
markable circum fiance, that the latter contains no water; 
and to this it Teems to be owing that the natural combi¬ 
nation docs not lofe its acid by mere heat. Bur, great as 
the refemblance is between ponderous earth and lime in 
many refpeHs, yet in others jt differs fo much as to fhew 
that they are by no means the fame fubftance. It is fo- 
luable in about nine hundred times its weight of water, 
when 
