form of a little tun. of merchandize.

BARRACAN, in commerce, a fort of stuff, not diapered, fomething like camblet, but of a coarfer grain. It is used to make cloaks, furtouts, and fuch other garments, to keep off the rain.-The cities where the most barracans are made in France are Valenciennes, Lifle, Abbeville, Amiens, and Roan. Those of Valenciennes are the most valued; they are all of wool, both the warp and the woof.

BARRACIDA, in ichthyology, a fpecies of pike. See Esox.

BARRACKS, or BARACKS, places for foldiers to lodge in, especially in garrisons.-Barracks, when damp, are greatly prejudicial to the health of the foldiers lodged in them; occafioning dyfenteries, intermitting 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-flours in houfes that have either been uninhabited, or have any figns of moisture. BARRATOR, or BARRETOR, in law, a perfon guilty of barretry. See BARRETRY.

Lambert derives the word barretor from the Latin balatro, "a vile knave;" but the proper derivation is from the French barrateur, i. e. a" deceiver;" and this agrees with the description of a common barretor in my Lord Coke's report, viz. that he is a common mover and maintainer of fuits in disturbance of the peace, and in taking and detaining the poffeffion of houfes and lands or goods by false inventions, &c. And therefore it was adjudged that the indictment against him ought to be in these words, viz. That he is communis malefactor, calumniator et feminator litium et difcordiarum inter vicinos fuos, et pacis regis perturbator, &c. And there it is faid that a common barretor is the most dangerous oppreffor in the law, for he oppreffeth the innocent by colour of law, which was made to protect them from oppreffion.

BARRATRY, in law. See BARRETRY. BARRATRY, in a fhipmafter, is his cheating the owners. If goods delivered on fhip-board are embezzled, all the mariners ought to contribute to the fatisfaction of the party that loft his goods, by the maritime law; and the caufe is to be tried in the admiralty. In a cafe where a fhip was infured against the barratry of the mafter, &c. and the jury found that the fhip was loft by the fraud and negligence of the mafter, the court agreed, that the fraud was barratry, though not named in the covenant; but that negli gence was not.

BARRAUX, a fortrefs of Dauphiny belonging to France. It ftands in the valley of Grefivaudan, and was built by a Duke of Savoy in 1597. The French took it in 1598, and have kept it ever fince. It is feated on the river Ifer, in E. Long. 4. 35. N. Lat. *45.0.

BARRAY, one of the Hebrides, or Wettern ifles of Scotland, fituated in W. Long. 6. 30. N. Lat. 56.55

BARRE (Louis Francois Jofeph de la), of Tour nay, author of several works printed at Paris. Amongst others, Imper. Orientale, Recueil des Medailles des empereurs," Memoirs for the history of France, &c." He died in 1738.

BARREL, in commerce, a round veffel, extending more in length than in breadth, made of wood, in

It ferves for holding feveral forts Barrel

BARREL is also a measure of liquids. The English barrel, wine-measure, contains the eighth part of a tun, the fourth part of a pipe, and one half of a hogfhead; that is to fay, it contains 31 gallons: a barrel, beer-measure, contains 36 gallons; and, alemeasure, 32 gallons. The barrel of beer, vinegar, or liquor preparing for vinegar, ought to contain 34 gallons, according to the standard of the ale-quart.

BARREL alfo denotes a certain weight of several merchandizes, which differs according to the several commodities. A barrel of Effex butter weighs 106 pounds; and of Suffolk butter, 256 pounds. The barrel of herrings ought to contain 32 gallons winemeasure, which amount to about 28 gallons old ftandard, containing about 1000 herrings. The barrel of falmon muit contain 42 gallons; the barrel of eels the fame. The barrel of foap must weigh 256 lb.

BARREL, in mechanics, a term given by watchmakers to the cylinder about which the fpring is wrapped; and by gun-fmiths to the cylindrical tube of a gun, piftol, &c. through which the ball is difcharged.

BARREL, in anatomy, a pretty large cavity behind. the tympanum of the ear, about four or five lines deep, and five or fix wide.

Fire BARRELS. See FIRE-Ship.

Thundering BARRELS, in the inilitary art, are filled with bombs, grenades, and other fire-works to be rolled down a breach.

BARRENNESS, the fame with fterility. See STERILITY.

BARRETRY, in law, is the offence of frequently exciting and ftirring up fuits and quarrels between his Majefty's fubjects, either at law or otherwife. The punishment for this offence, in a common perfon, is by fine and imprisonment: but if the offender (as is too frequently the cafe) belongs to the profeffion of the law, a barretor who is thus able as well as willing to do mifchief ought alfo to be difabled from practising for the future. And indeed it is enacted by ftatute 12 Geo. I. c. 29. that if any one, who hath been convicted of forgery, perjury, fubordination of perjury, or common barretry, fhall practise as an attor ney, folicitor, or agent, in any fuit; the court, upon complaint, fhall examine it in a fummary way; and, if proved, fhall direct the offender to be transported for feven years. Hereunto alfo may be referred another offence, of equal malignity and audaciousness; that of fuing another in the name of a fictitious plaintiff, either one not in being at all, or one who is ignorant of the fuit. This offence, if committed in any of the king's fuperior courts, is left, as a high contempt, to be punished at their difcretion: but in courts of a lower degree, where the crime is equally pernicious, but the authority of the judges not equally extensive, it is directed by statute 8 Eliz. c. 2. to be punished by fix months imprisonment, and treble damages to the party injured.

BARRICADE, or BARRICADO, a military term for a fence formed in hafte with veffels, baskets of earth, trees, pallifades, or the like, to preserve an arfrom the fhot or affault of the enemy.-The motł ufual materials for barricades confit of pales or stakes, croffed

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Barricade,

BARRICADE, in naval architecture, a strong wooden rail, fupported by ftanchions, extending acrofs the foremost part of the quarter-deck. In a veffel of war, the vacant spaces between the flanchions are commonly filled with rope-matts, cork, or pieces of old cable; and the upper part, which contains a double ropenetting above the rail, is ftuffed with full hammocks to intercept the motion, and prevent the execution of fmall-fhot in time of battle.

BARRIER, in fortification, a kind of fence made at a paffage, retrenchment, &c. to ftop up the entry thereof. It is compofed of great stakes, about four or five feet high, placed at the distance of eight or ten feet from one another, with tranfums, or overthwart rafters, to ftop either horfe and foot, that would enter or rush in with violence in the middle is a moveable bar of wood, that opens or fhuts at pleasure. A barrier is commonly fet up in a void fpace, between the citadel and the town, in half moons, &c.

BARRIERS, fignifies that which the French call jeu de barres, i. e. palaftra; a martial exercife of men armed and fighting together with fhort fwords, within certain bars or rails which separated them from the fpectators: it is now difused in this country.

BARRING A VEIN, in farriery, an operation performed upon the veins of a horfe's legs, and other parts of his body, with intent to ftop the course, and leffen the quantity, of the malignant humours that prevail there. BARRINGTON. See SHUTE.

BARRINGTONIA, in botany; a genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the monadelphia clafs of plants, the characters of which are: one female, the calyx dephyllous above; with a drupa, which it crowns; and the feed is a quadrilocular nut. There is but one species known, the speciofa, a native of China and Otaheite.

BARRISTER, is a counsellor learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there to take upon him the protection and defence of clients. They are termed jurifconfulti; and in other countries called centiati in jure and anciently barristers at law were called apprentices of the law, in Latin apprenticii juris nobiliores. The time before they ought to be called to the bar, by the ancient orders, was eight years, now reduced to five; and the exercises done by them (if they were not called ex gratia) were twelve grand moots performed in the inns of Chancery in the time of the grand readings, and 24 petty moots in the term times, before the readers of the refpective inns: and a barrifter newly called is to attend the fix (or four) next long vacations the exercise of the house, viz. in Lent and Summer, and is thereupon for those three (or two) years ftyled a vacation barriller. Alfo they are called utter barrifters, i. e. pleaders oufter the bar, to diftinguish them from benchers, or those that have been readers, who are fometimes admitted to plead

fel are.

BARRITUS is a word of German original, adopted by the Romans to fignify the general fhout ufually given by the foldiers of their armies on their fift encounter after the claficum or alarm. This cuftom, however, of fetting up a general fhout was not peculiar to the Romans, but prevailed amongst the Trojans according to Homer, amongst the Germans, the Gauls, Macedonians, and Perfians. See CLASSICUM.

BARROS (John), a celebrated Portuguese hiftorian, born at Visco, in 1496. He was educated at the court of king Emanuel, among the princes of the blood, and made a great progrefs in Greek and Latin. The Infant John, to whom he attached himself, and became preceptor, having fucceeded the king his father in 1521, Barros obtained a place in this prince's houfehold; and in 1522, was made governor of St George del Mina, on the coaft of Guinea. Three years after, the king having recalled him to court, made him treasurer of the Indies, and this poft infpired him with the thought of writing this hiftory; for which purpose he retired to Pompas, where he died, in 1570. His hiftory of Afia and the Indies is divided into decades; the first of which he published in 1552, the fecond in 1553, and the third in 1563; but the fourth decade was not publifhed till the year 1615, when it appeared by order of King Philip III. who had the manufcript purchased of the heirs of John BarSeveral authors have continued it, fo that we have at present 12 decades. He left many other works; fome of which have been printed, and others remain in manuscript.

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BARROW (Ifaac), an eminent mathematician and divine, of the laft century, was the fon of Mr Thomas Barrow a linen draper in London, where he was born, in 1630. He was at first placed at the charter-house school, for two or three years; where his behaviour af forded but little hopes of fuccefs in the profeffion of a fcholar, he being fond of fighting, and promoting it among his fchool-fellows: but being removed from thence, his difpofition took a happier turn; and having foon made a great progrefs in learning, he was admitted a penfioner of Peter Houfe in Cambridge. He now applied himself with great diligence to the ftudy of all parts of literature, efpecially to that of natural philofophy. He afterwards turned his thoughts to the profeffion of phyfic, and made a confiderable progrefs in anatomy, botany, and chemistry; after this he ftudied chronology, aftronomy, and geometry. He then travelled into France and Italy, and in a voyage from Leghorn to Smyrna, gave a proof of his bravery; for the fhip being attacked by an Algerine pirate, he ftaid upon deck, and with the greateft intrepidity fought, till the pirate, perceiving the ftout refiftance the fhip made, fheered off and left her (4).

At Smyrna he met with a moft kind reception from

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Barrow. Mr Bretton, the Englifn conful, upon whofe death he afterwards wrote a Latin elegy. From thence he proceeded to Conftantinople, where he received the like civilities from Sir Thomas Bendifh the English ambaffador, and Sir Jonathan Dawes, with whom he afterwards preferved an intimate friendship. At Conftantinople he read over the works of St Chryfoftom, once bishop of that fee, whom he preferred to all the other fathers. When he had been in Turkey fomewhat more than a year, he returned to Venice. From thence he came home in 1659, through Germany and Holland; and was epifcopally ordained by bifhop Brownrig. In 1660, he was chofen to the Greek profefforship at Cambridge. When he entered upon this province, he intended to have read upon the tragedies of Sophocles; but he altered his intention, and made choice of Ariftotle's rhetoric. Thefe lectures having been lent to a friend who never returned them, are irrecoverably loft. July the 16th 1662, he was elected professor of geometry in Gresham college, by the recommendation of Dr Wilkins, mafter of Trinitycollege, and afterwards bishop of Chefter. Upon the zoth of May 1663 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, in the firft choice made by the council after their charter. The fame year the executors of Mr Lucas having, according to his appointment, founded a mathematical lecture at Cambridge, they fixed upon Mr Barrow for the first profeffor; and though his two profefforfhips were not inconfiftent with each other, he chofe to refign that of Grefham college, which he did May the 20th 1664. In 1669 he refigned his mathematical chair to his learned friend Mr Ifaac Newton, being now determined to give up the study of mathematics for that of divinity. Upon quitting his profefforship, he was only a fellow of Trinity college, till his uncle gave him a fmall finecure in Wales, and Dr Seth Ward bishop of Salif bury conferred upon him a prebend in his church. In the year 1670 he was created doctor in divinity by mandate; and, upon the promotion of Dr Pearfon mafter of Trinity college to the fee of Chefter, he was appointed to fucceed him by the king's patent bear ing date the 13th of February 1672. When the king advanced him to this dignity, he was pleafed to fay, "he had given it to the beft fcholar in England." His majefty did not fpeak from report, but from his own knowledge: the doctor being then his chaplain, he used often to converfe with him, and in his humourous way, to call him an "unfair preacher," becaufe he exhaufted every fubject, and left no room for others to come after him. In 1675 he was chofen vice-chancellor of the university.-The doctor's works are very numerous, and fuch as do honour to the English nation. They are, 1. Euclid's Elements. 2. Euclid's Data.

3. Optical Letters, read in the public school of Cam- Barrow, bridge. 4. Thirteen Geometrical Letters. 5. The Barrows.1 Works of Archimedes, the four Books of Appolonius's Conic Sections, and Theodofius's Spherics explained in a new Method. 6. A Lecture, in which Archimedes's Theorems of the Sphere and Cylinder are inveftigated and briefly demonftrated. 7. Mathematical Lectures, read in the public fchools of the university of Cambridge: the above were all printed in Latin; and as to his English works, they are printed together in four volumes folio." The name of Dr Barrow (fays the reverend and learned Mr Granger) will ever be illuftrious for a ftrength of mind and a compass of knowledge that did honour to his country. He was unrivalled in mathematical learning, and especially in the fublime geometry; in which he has been excelled only by one man, and that man was his pupil the great Sir Ifaac Newton. The fame genius that feemed to be born only to bring hidden truths to light, to rife to the heights or defcend to the depths of fcience, would fometimes amufe itself in the flowery paths of poetry, and he compofed verses both in Greek and Latin. He at length gave himself up entirely to divinity; and particularly to the moft ufeful part of it, that which has a tendency to make men wifer and better. lie has, in his excellent fermons on the Creed, folved every difficulty and removed every obftacle that oppofed itself to our faith, and made divine revelation as clear as the demonftrations in his own Euclid. In his fermons he knew not how to leave off writing till he had exhausted his fubject; and his admirable Difcourfe on the Duty and Reward of Bounty to the Poor, took him up three hours and an half in preaching. This excellent perfon, who was a bright example of Christian virtue, as well as a prodigy of learning, died on the 4th of May 1677, in the 47th year of his age ;" and was interred in Weftminster abbey, where a monument, adorned with his buft, was soon after erected, by the contribution of his friends.

BARROWS, in ancient topography, artificial hillocks or mounts, met with in many parts of the world, intended as repofitories for the dead, and formed either of ftones heaped up, or of earth. For the former, more generally known by the name of cairns, see CAIRNS. Of the latter Dr Plott takes notice of two forts in Oxfordfhire: one placed on the military ways; the other in the fields, meadows, or woods; the first fort doubtlefs of Roman erection, the other more probably erected by the Britons or Danes. We have an examination of the barrows in Cornwall by Dr Williams, in the Phil. Tranf. N° 458. from whofe obfervations we find that they are compofed of foreign or adventitious earth; that is, fuch as does not rife on the place, but is fetched from fome diftance.-Monuments

of

Barrows. of this kind are also very frequent in Scotland. On digging into the barrows, urns have been found in fome of them, made of calcined earth, and containing burnt bones and afhes; in others, ftone chefts containing bones entire; in others, bones neither lodged in chefts nor depofited in urns. Thefe tumuli are round, not greatly elevated, and generally at their bafis furrounded with a fofs. They are of different fizes; in proportion, it is fuppofed, to the greatnefs, rank, and power, of the deceafed perfon. The links or fands of Skail, in Sandwich, one of the Orkneys, abound in round barrows. Some are formed of earth alone, others of ftone covered with earth. In the former was found a coffin, made of fix flat ftones. They are too short to receive a body at full length: the skeletons found in them lie with the knees preffed to the breaft, and the legs doubled along the thighs. A bag, made of rufhes, has been found at the feet of fome of these skeletons, containing the bones, moft probably, of another of the fainily. In one were to be feen multitudes of fmall beetles; and as fimilar infects have been difcovered in the bag which inclofed the facred Ibis, we may fuppofe that the Egyptians, and the nation to whom thefe tumuli did belong, might have had the fame fuperftition respecting them. On fome of the corpfes interred in this island, the mode of burning was observed. The afhes, depofited in an urn which was covered on the top with a flat stone, have been found in the cell of one of the barrows. This coffin or cell was placed on the ground, then covered with a heap of ftones, and that again cafed with earth and fods. Both barrow and contents evince them to be of a different age from the former. These tumuli were in the nature of family vaults in them have been found two tiers of coffins. It is probable, that on the death of any one of the family, the tumulus was opened, and the body interred near its kindred bones.

Ancient Greece and Latium concurred in the fame practice with the natives of this ifland. Patroclus among the Greeks, and Hector among the Trojans, received but the fame funeral honours with our Caledonian heroes; and the afhes of Dercennus the Laurentine monarch had the fame fimple protection. The urn and pall of the Trojan warrior might perhaps be more fuperb than those of a British leader: the rifing monument of each had the common materials from our mother earth.

The fnowy bones his friends and brothers place,
With tears collected, in a golden vafe.
The golden vafe in purple palls they roll'd
Of fofteft texture and inwrought with gold.
Laft o'er the urn the facred earth they spread,
And rais'd a tomb, memorial of the dead.

Pope's Homer's Iliad, xxiv. 1003. Or, as it is more ftrongly expreffed by the fame elegant tranflator, in the account of the funeral of Patroclus;

High in the midft they heap the fwelling bed Of rifing earth, memorial of the dead. Ib. xxiii. 319. The Grecian barrows, however, do not feem to have been all equally fimple. The barrow of Alyattes, father of Crofus king of Lydia, is defcribed by Herodotus as a moft fuperb monument inferior only to the N° 41.

works of the Egyptians and Babylonians. It was a Barrows. vaft mound of earth heaped on a basement of large ftones by three claffes of the people; one of which was compofed of girls, who were proftitutes. Alyattes died, after a long reign, in the year 562 before the Chriftian æra. Above a century intervened, but the hiftorian relates, that to his time five ftones (po termini or ftela) on which letters were engraved, had remained on the top, recording what each clafs had performed; and from the measurement it had appeared, that the greater portion was done by the girls. Strabo likewife has mentioned it as a huge mound raised on a lofty basement by the multitude of the city. The circumference was fix ftadia or three quarters of a mile; the height two plethra or two hundred feet; and the width thirteen plethra. It was ćuftomary among the Greeks to place on barrows either the image of fome animal or ftele, commonly round pillars with infcriptions. The famous barrow of the Athenians in the plain of Marathon, defcribed by Paufanias, is an instance of the latter ufage. An ancient monument in Italy by the Appian way, called without reafon the fepulchre of the Curiatii, has the fame number of termini as remained on the barrow of Alyattes; the basement, which is fquare, fupporting five round pyramids-Of the barrow of Alyattes the apparent magnitude is defcribed by travellers as now much diminished, and the bottom rendered wider and lefs diftinct than before, by the gradual increase of the foil below. It stands in the midst of others by the lake Gygæus; where the buryingplace of the Lydian princes was fituated. The barrows are of various fizes, the smaller made perhaps for children of the younger branches of the royal family. Four or five are diftinguifhed by their fuperior magnitude, and are vifible as hills at a great distance. That of Alyattes is greatly fupereminent. The lake it is likely furnished the foil. All of them are covered with green turf; and all retain their conical form without any finking in of the top.

• Notes on the State of

Virginia,

Barrows, or fimilar tumuli, are alfo found in great numbers in America. These are of different fizes, according to Mr Jefferson's account; fome of them conftructed of earth, and fome of loofe ftones. That they were repofitories of the dead has been obvious to all; p. 156. but on what particular occafion conftructed, was matter of doubt. Some have thought they covered the bones of those who have fallen in battles fought on the fpot of interment. Some afcribed them to the cuftom faid to prevail among the Indians, of collecting at certain periods the bones of all their dead, wherefoever depofited at the time of death. Others again fuppofed them the general fepulchres for towns, conjectured to have been on or near thefe grounds; and this opinion was fupported by the quality of the lands in which they are found (thofe conftructed of earth being generally in the foftest and most fertile meadow-grounds on river. fides), and by a tradition said to be handed down from the aboriginal Indians, that when they fettled in a town, the first person who died was placed erect, and earth that when another died, a narrow paffage was dug to put about him, fo as to cover and fupport him; the first, the fecond reclined against him, and the cover of earth replaced, and fo on. "There being one of thefe barrows in my neighbourhood (fays Mr Jefferson), I wifhed to fatisfy myself whether any, and which of

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thefe

Barrow. thefe opinions were juft. For this purpose I determined to open and examine it thoroughly. It was fituated on the low grounds of the Rivanna, about two miles above its principal fork, and oppofite to fome hills, on which had been an Indian town. It was of a fpheroidical form, of about 40 feet diameter at the bafe, and had been of about 12 feet altitude, though now reduced by the plough to seven and a half, having been under cultivation about a dozen years. Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the bafe was an excavation of five feet depth and width, from whence the earth had been taken of which the hillock was formed. I first dug fuperficially in feveral parts of it, and came to collections of human bones, at different depths, from fix inches to three feet below the surface. Thefe were lying in the utmost confufion, fome vertical, fome oblique, fome horizontal, and directed to every point of the compafs, entangled, and held together in clusters by the earth. Bones of the most diftant parts were found together; as, for inftance, the small bones of the foot in the hollow of a skull, many skulls would fometimes be in contact, ly. ing on the face, on the fide, on the back, top or bottom, so as on the whole to give the idea of bones emptied promiscuously from a bag or basket, and covered over with earth, without any attention to their order. The bones of which the greateft numbers remained, were skulls, jaw-bones, teeth, the bones of the arms, thighs, legs, feet, and hands. A few ribs remained, fome vertebræ of the neck and spine, without their proceffes, and one inftance only of the bone which ferves as a base to the vertebral column. The fkulls were fo tender, that they generally fell to pieces on being touched. The other bones were ftronger. There were fome teeth which were judged to be fmaller than thofe of an adult; a fkull which, on a flight view, appeared to be that of an infant, but it fell to pieces on being taken out, fo as to prevent fatisfactory examination; a rib, and a fragment of the under-jaw of a perfon about half-grown; another rib of an infant; and part of the jaw of a child, which had not yet cut its teeth. This laft furnishing the most decifive proof of the burial of children here, I was particular in my attention to it. It was part of the right half of the under jaw. The proceffes by which it was articulated to the temporal bones were entire; and the bone itself firm to where it had been broken off, which, as nearly as I could judge, was about the place of the eye-tooth. Its upper edge, wherein would have been the fockets of the teeth, was perfectly smooth. Measuring it with that of an adult, by placing their hinder proceffes together, its broken end extended to the penultimate grinder of the adult. This bone was white, all the others of a fand colour. The bones of infants being foft, they probably decay fooner, which might be the cause fo few were found here. I proceeded then to make a perpendicular cut through the body of the barrow, that I might examine its internal ftructure. This paffed about three feet from its centre, was opened to the former furface of the earth, and was wide enough for a man to walk through and examine its fides. At the bottom, that is, on the level of the eircumjacent plain, I found bones; above thefe a few ftones, brought from a cliff a quarter of a mile off, and VOL. III. Part I.

Barry.

from the river one-eighth of a mile off; then a large Barrow interval of earth, then a ftratum of bones, and fo on. At one end of the section were four ftrata of bones plainly distinguishable; at the other, three; the ftrata in one part not ranging with thofe in another. The bones nearest the furface were leaft decayed. No holes were discovered in any of them, as if made with bullets, arrows, or other weapons. I conjectured that in this barrow might have been a thousand skeletons. Every one will readily feize the circumftances above related, which militate against the opinion that it covered the bones only of perfons fallen in battle; and against the tradition alfo which would make it the common fepulchre of a town, in which the bodies were placed upright, and touching each other. Appearances certainly indicate that it has derived both origin and growth from the accuftomary collection of bones, and depofition of them together; that the first collection had been depofited on the common furface of the earth, a few ftones put over it, and then a covering of earth; that the fecond had been laid on this, had covered more or lefs of it in proportion to the number of bones, and was then alfo covered with earth, and so on. The following are the particular circumstances which give it this aspect. 1. The number of bones. 2. Their confufed pofition. 3. Their being in different ftrata. 4. The ftrata in one part having no correfpondence with thofe in another. 5. The different ftates of decay in these ftrata, which feem to indicate a difference in the time of inhumation. The existence of infant bones among them. But on whatever occafion they may have been made, they are of confiderable notoriety among the Indians: for a party paffing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any inftructions or enquiry; and having ftaid about it fome time, with expreffions which were conftrued to be thofe of for row, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this vifit, and purfued their journey. There is another barrow, much refembling this in the low grounds of the South branch of Shenandoah, where it is croffed by the road leading from the Rock-fifh gap to Staunton. Both of thefe have, within thefe dozen years, been cleared of their trees and put under cultivation, are much reduced in their height, and spread in width, by the plough, and will probably difappear in time. There is another on a hill in the blue ridge of mountains, a few miles north of Wood's gap, which is made up of fmall ftones thrown together. This has been opened and found to contain human bones as the others do. There are also many others in other parts of the country."

BARROW, in the falt-works, are wicker-cafes, almoft in the fhape of a fugar-loaf, wherein the falt is put to drain.

BARRULET, in heraldry, the fourth part of the bar, or the one half of the cloffet: an ufual bearing in

coat-armour.

BARRULY, in heraldry, is when the field is divided bar-ways, that is, across from fide to fide, into feveral parts.

BARRY (Girald), commonly called Giraldus Cambrenfis, i. e. Girald of Wales, an hiftorian and eccleF fiaftic

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