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"When' the plants have put out four leaves, the ground 
thould be hoed, as is pradtifed for carrots, carefully cut¬ 
ting up all the weeds, and alfo the plants where they are 
too near each other, leaving them at leal! fo,ur inches a- 
lundcr: if tliis is performed in dry weather, all the prefent 
weeds’will be deftroyed ; but, as young weeds will foon 
appear, in three weeks or a month’s time the ground 
Ihould be a fecond time hoed over, to cut up the weeds, 
and thin the plants to a greater didance ; for by this time 
they will be pad danger, and Ihould not be left nearer than 
fix inches, if regard is had to the goodnefs of their leaves: 
and, if it is of the Swifs kind, with broad leaves, the 
plants mud not be nearer than nine or ten inches. If the 
fecond hoeing is well performed, and in dry weather, the 
ground will remain clean a month longer, hen it ihould 
be hoed over a third-time ; which., if properly done, will 
dedroy. all the weeds; fo that after this, the plants, will 
i'pread and prevent the weeds from growing, therefore 
will want but little cleaning for a conliderabie time, and 
the leayes-will loon'be fit for life, when the outer large 
leaves Ihould be fird gathered, leaving the fmal'-l inner 
leaves to grow larger; fo that a fmall f’pot of ground will 
fupply a moderate family, and will furnifh a new fupply 
of leaves' for two years, provided the plants are not per¬ 
mitted to run up to feed, for after that their leaves will 
not.be good : therefore thole who Are curious in their 
herbs muff fow a frefh fpot of ground annually, becaufe 
thefe plants naturally run up the fecond year; and al¬ 
though the roots may be continued longer, by cutting off 
the flalks when they begin to (hoot, yet the leaves will not 
be fo large or tender upon thefe roots as upon the young 
plants. 
The-mangel wurzelis recommended to be fown on good 
ground in March or April, and, as foon,as the plants are 
the fize of a goofe-quili, to be tranfplanted in rows eigh¬ 
teen inches diitant, and eighteen inches apart in the rows. 
Sow very thin, and cover the feed an inch only : it will 
continue in the groundabout a month. In tranfplanting, 
the root is not to be (hortCned, but the leaves cut at the 
top : then let the plant with a dibber, fo that the upper 
part of the root (hall appear half an inch out of the ground. 
After once hoeing, they will take care of themfelves, and 
luffocate every kind of weed. Some feed may be fown 
every month, till the beginning of July, fora (ucceflion. 
The roots however will be larger, and the leaves more 
abundant, if the plants are permitted to (land where the 
feed is fown. It is better therefore to treat this plant.as 
Mr. Miller has directed for the Swifs beet, allowing it 
(Efficient room to .fpread, and therefore fetting out the 
plants, at the lad hoeing, from a foot to eighteen inches 
a fonder. 
To BETA'KE, v. a. prefer. I betook ; part, paflf. betaken. 
[from take.'] To take; to leize : an cbjolete fenfe. To 
have recourie to : with the reciprocal pronoun.—The ad- 
verfe party betaking itfelf to fuch practices as men embrace, 
when they behold things brought to defperate extremities. 
Hooker. —To apply : with the reciprocal pronoun : 
With eafe fuch fond chimeras we purfue. 
As fancy frames for fancy to fubdue : 
But, when ourfelves to action we betake, 
It (huns the mint, like gold that chemifts make. Dryden. 
To move; to remove : 
Soft fhe withdrew ; and, like a wood nymph light, 
Oread or Dryad, or of Delia’s train, 
Betook her to the groves. Milton. 
BETAN'ZOS, or Betanjos, a town of Spain, in Gali¬ 
cia : three leagues from Corunna,and nine fromCompoftella. 
To BETEE'M, v. a. [froiiWfm.] To bring forth ; to 
beftovv ; to give : 
So would I, faid th’ enchanter, glad and fain 
Beteem to you his fword, you to defend ; 
But that this weapon’s pow’r I well have kenn’d, 
To be contrary to the work that ye intend. Spenfer. 
Vol. II. No. ii2. 
BET 
BE'TEL, or Beti.e , f. in botany.. Se.e Piper. 
BETELGEU'SE, a fixed ftar of the fird magnitude in 
the right dioiilder of Orion. 
BETESKO'E, a town of Siberia, on the wed fide of the 
Irtifell : 230miles foutli-eaft of Tobolfic. 
B ETHAB A'R A,.yi a term denoting a palfage ; and 
therefore by many referred to the paflage at Jericho, where 
the Ifraelites pafled over dry-lhod ; bv Lightfpot, to the 
. palfage at Scythopolis ; but Cellarius refers it to the mid¬ 
way between both ; becaufe there were doubtlefs feveral 
palfages or fords, on the Jordan. Here John is faid to 
liave baptifed on the other fide Jordan, (Evangelills). 
BETHA'GLO, or Beth-hagla, a town of the tribe 
of Benjamin, (Jolluia xviii. 21.) In Jerome’s time there 
was a village called Agla, ten miles from Eleutheropolis, 
towards Gaza, luppoled to be Bethaglo. 
BE'THAM (Edward, B. D.) received his education 
at Eton, of which feminary he was a didinguifned orna¬ 
ment ; was defied from thence to King’s college, Cam¬ 
bridge, in 172S, of which he became a fellow in 1731; 
was fome time burfar, and by the provod and fellows, 
when fenior fellow, was prefented to the living of Green- 
ford in Middlefex. fn 1771 the provod and fellows of 
Eton defied him to a vacant feliowfhip in thtit fociety. 
So unexceptionable was his life, that he may truly be faid 
to have made no enemy in the, progrefs of it. His fortune 
was not large, yet his liberality kept more than equal pace 
with it. In his life-time he gave 2000I. for the better 
maintaining the botanical garden at Cambridge, thereby 
encouraging a dudy which did peculiar honour to his tade, 
and materially benefited mankind. So humane was his 
difpofition, that he founded and endowed a charity fchool 
in his own parifh. As in his life he indicated the mod ex- 
tenJive liberality, fo at his death he exhibited a lading re¬ 
cord of his gratitude. Im prefled with the highed fenfe of 
the munificence of the royal founder of Eton, within whole 
walls he had imbibed the fird feeds of education, lie by his 
will direfied a datue of marble, in honour of Henry VI. 
to be erefted at the expence of 600I. And, in order in¬ 
fallibly to carry his purpofe into execution, he contracted 
with Mr. Bacon toexecute ita few monthsbefore hisdeath. 
BETH'ANY, a village at the foot of mount Olivet, 
about two miles to the ead of Jerufalem, where Lazarus 
dwelt, and was raifed front the dead, and where happened 
the afcenfion ©f our Saviour. 
BETHARAMPH'THA,atownof Galilee, (Ptolomy;) 
of t;he Peraea, (Jofephus;) which, being walled round by 
Herod Antipas, was called Julius , after Julia the daughter 
of Augudus, and confort of Tiberius: it ftood to the 
north of the lake of Gennefareth, at the influx of the Jor¬ 
dan, where Dr. Wells places Bethfaida. 
BETHA'RAN, a town of the Peraea, or on the other 
fide Jordan, faid to be called Livias , or Libias, by Herod 
in honour of Livia ; and of the fame latitude almofi with 
Jerufalem, (Ptolomy;) called Julias by Jofephus. 
BETHA'VEN, a town in the tribe of Ephraim, and a 
name given Bethel by Hofea, after the edablifhment of the 
idolatry of Jeroboam there ; meaning it to have become 
the houfe of iniquity, from being the houfe of God. 
BE'THEL, a city of Samaria, on the borders of the 
tribe of Benjamin, anciently called l.uz. Bethel was pro¬ 
perly the place of Jacob’s vifion ; and Luz, an adjoining 
town, afterwards called Bethel, the former name being lod 
in that of Bethel. It was twelve miles to the north-calf of 
Jerufalem, and called Bethaven, (Hofea.) 
BETHES'DA, f. [called in the Greek, x'sAs/z&jSpa 
ffpo?arwi); in the Vulgate Pifcina Probatica, becaufe the 
(beep were wafhed in it, which were appointed for facri- 
fices.] A pool, or public bath, of great celebrity among 
the Hebrews. This bath, for its fingular ufefuinefs was 
called Bethefda, niDfl JV3 Beth Chezda, or the Houfe of Mercy , 
becaufe the erefting of baths in hot countries, where la¬ 
bouring people require frequent wafhing and bathing, was 
always conlidered as an aCt of benevolence and mercy. 
However, fome will have the word Bcthelcla to be nics h*2 
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