The several districts then actually
possessed by government, inclu-
ding Calpec, and part of Rypoor,
on the banks of the Jumna
The territory of rajah Himmut Ba-
hauder
The districts of Callinjer, Jeypoor,
Huldei, and part of Cutolee, be-
low the Ghauts, estimated at five
lacks of rupees, but chargeable
with Jaghires and provisions for
the native leaders
The city and diamond mines of Pan-
nah, with a portion of territory
adjacent, the probable revenue
being

1,400,000

1 533,184

500,000

employed in knitting stockings. St. Mary's
church is a handsome structure. The church of
the Holy Trinity was impropriated to the priory
of Barlynch, in Somerset, but now belongs to the
bishop of Ely. Here are the ruins of a castle,
supposed to have been built by the Bygods, earls
of Norfolk, which was formerly fortified. A fire
which happened in 1683, consumed the whole
Market
town, with the exception of one street.
on Thursday. Fairs, 14th May and 25th Sep-
tember.

BUNGISHAT, a district of Afghaunistaun, in the province of Cabul, situated about the thirtythird degree of north latitude. It is bounded on the east by the river Indus, and intersected by 200,000 the Cowmul, along the south side of which Scylax is conjectured to have built his vessels, and Rupees 3,633,184 from thence to have sailed down the Indus. The principal towns are Gawhaut, Kohaut, and Bunnoo. The tribe of Bungish emigrated from Tirah.

BUN'DLE, v. & n. Goth. bindel; Swed. byndel; Belg. bondel. See To BIND. Various things tied together, a package; a roll, any thing rolled up. To bundle, is to tie; to fasten together; to roll up; vulgarly to take ones' self off. As to the bundles of petitions in parliament, they were, for the most part, petitions of private persons.

Try lads, can you this bundle break ;-
Then bids the youngest of the six
Take up a well-bound heap of sticks.

Hale.

Swift.

With patches, colours, and with forms, being fetcht
From glistering semblances of piety. Shakspeare.

See how the double nation lies, Like a rich coat with skirts of frize; As if a man, in making posies, Should bundle thistles up with roses. She carried a great bundle of Flanders lace under her arm; but finding herself overloaden, she dropped the good man, and brought away the bundle.

Spectator.

BUNDLES, records of the chancery, lying in the office of the rolls; in which are contained the files of bills and answers; of Hab. Cor. cum causâ; certiorari's; attachments, &c. scire facias's; certificates of statute-staple; extents and liberates; supersedeas's; bails on special pardons; bills from the Exchequer of the names of sheriffs; privy seals for grants; bills signed by the king; warrants of escheators, &c.

BUNG'v. &n. Dan. bundt; Fr. boudon. BUNG'HOLE. See BUNCH. A bunch; a plug; a stopper. Bunghole is the hole in a cask to receive the bung; but the vulgar bung is supposed to mean the aperture. Bung is by the common people frequently used as a verb; to bung up, in boxing, is to close up the eyes.

Why may not imagination trace the noblest dust of

Alexander, till he find it stopping a bunghole?

Shakspeare. After three nights are expired, the next morning pull out the bung, stick, or plug. Mortimer. BUNGALOW, an Indian term for a house with a thatched roof.

BUNGAY, a market town of Suffolk, in the hundred of Wangford, situated on the river Waveney. The town consists of two parishes, St. Mary's and the Holy Trinity, and is well built. The river Waveney enables the inhabitants to carry on a considerable trade in corn, malt, coals and lime Numbers of women are also

They make but bungling work.
Hard features every bungler can command;
To draw true beauty shews a master's hand.
To see the bungler thus distrest
The very fishes sneer and jest,
Even gudgeons join in ridicule

To mortify the medding fool.

Gay's Fables.

BUNIAS, in botany, a genus of the order siliquosa and tetradyuamia class of plants: The siliqua is deciduous, four sided, muriated, or shagreened, with unequal pointed angles, without valve, two or four celled. There are eight species; all annual plants, and natives of the north of Europe.

BUNIUM, PIG-NUT, or EARTH-NUT, in botany, a genus of the digynia order, and the pentandria class of plants: natural order, forty-fifth umbellatæ. COR. uniform, the umbel thick, and the fruit ovate. There are but four known spe cies. B. bulbocastanum is the chief. It grows naturally in moist pastures is Britain, and has a tuberous solid root, which lies dead on the

ground. The roots of this sort are frequently dug up, and by some people eaten raw. They have much resemblance in taste to a chestnut, whence their specific name.

BUNKER'S HILL, a high ground in the state of Massachusetts, which over-looks the whole city of Boston; rendered memorable by the redoubt erected upon it by the Americans, and consequent action fought, in the beginning of the American war. See AMERICA.

BUNN'. Ital. bugna; Fr. bignet, Span. bunela; Bovv was a honey cake offered to the gods; and Sax. beon, bread, honeycomb. French bignets are little round loaves, or lumps, made of fine meal, oil, or butter, and raisins. In English bunn is a kind of sweet bread.

Thy songs are sweeter to mine ear,
Than to the thirsty cattle rivers clear,
Or winter porridge to the laboring youth,
Or bunns and sugar to the damsel's tooth.

BUNT',

Gay's Pastorals.

Goth. bogt, Sax. bugunt; Dan. BUNTER. bug, bugt; Belg. bogt. See To BEND. Bunt is the middle part of a sail when filled with the wind; bending, swelling out. Bunt, says the Encyclopædia Metropolitana, are perhaps bent or broken bits; and he infers if this be correct, bunter may have been originally applied to one who picks up bits of any thing about the streets or ways, and then to any low woman. But it is far more probable that this offensive term is from the Belgic voden hoer, from vod, a rag, a wad, that is, a ragged wench, a slut. The Saxon butan hure, signifies a hedge-whore, or

outlier.

The wear is a frith, reaching slopewise through the ooze, from the land to low water mark, and having in it a bunt, or cod, with an eye-hook. Carew.

Having not flint evermore readie at hand to smite and kindle fire withall, they make shift for to rub and grate one wood against another, and by this attrition there flie out sparkles, which lighting upon some tinder, made either of drie rotten touchwood or of bunts and withered leaves, very quickly catch fire, and burne not out. Holland's Plinie, vol. i. fol. 490. See how she's dressed, as fine as hands and pins can make her, while her two marriageable daughters, like bunters in stuff gowns, are now taking sixpennyworth of tea at the White Conduit-house.

Goldsmith. The Bee, No. 2. On Dress. BUNT LINES, are small lines made fast to the bottom of the sails, in the middle part of the bolt rope, to a cringle, and are so reeved through a small block, seized to the yard. Their use is to trice up the bunt of the sail for the better furling it up.

BUNT OF A SAIL, the middle part of it, formed designedly into a bag or cavity, that the sail may gather more wind. It is used mostly in topsails, because coursers are generally cut square, or with but small allowance for bunt or compass. The bunt holds much to leeward wind; that is, it hangs much to leeward.

BUNTING. Welsh bontinawg, fat rump, Belg. bunting, however signified speckled. Its first application is to a kind of lark; the vulgar name of the emberiza miliaria. Its next reference is to a kind of the open stuff used for ships' colors, corrupted from bolting cloth.

BUNTING, in ornithology. See EMBERIZA BUNTINGFORD, a market town of Hertfordshire, in the hundred of Edwintree, ten miles north from Ware, and thirty-one west from London. The church is situated about half a mile from the town; and is a handsome ancient building. There is also an alms-house and a free-school. Market-day, Monday.

BUNTZLAU, a circle and town of Bohemia, is bounded on the east by the circle of Koningsgratz, on the south by that of Kaurzim, on the west by Leutmeretz, and on the north by Silesia and Lusatia. The northern part is mountainous, and includes a portion of the Reisengebirg; several large forests, and many flourishing manufactories of linen, glass, and wool. The rivers which flow from these mountains yield different kinds of precious stones. The level tracts are in general dry and gravelly, but yield noble crops of corn and flax, and an abundance of hops, wine, and fruits. The rivers also afford various precious ores. The whole circle contains 1880 square miles, thirty-eight lordships, thirty-one market boroughs, twelve towns, and 1000 villages, with a population of 280,000 inhabitants. Buntzlau, the capital, has some good manufactures of leather, cloth, iron, and soap, together with a respectable manufactory, and about 1000 inhabiIt is twenty-eight miles N. N. E. of tants. Prague, and fifty-eight north-east of Dresden. Old Buntzlau is a smaller place of the same circle.

BUNTZLAU, Silesia, is a town of Silesia, capital of a circle in the province of Jauer. Here are manufactured linen, pottery ware, and woollen cloths. Population 3300. It is twenty-six miles north-west of Jauer, and forty-two west of

Schweidnitz.

BUNWOOT, an island lying off the west coast of Mindanao in the Eastern seas, opposite to Mindanao river. It is about eighteen miles in circuit, and has on the north side a harbour called Ubal, almost circular, which is conjectured to have been the crater of a volcano. The island is remarkably healthy and fruitful, and nearly covered with tall timber. Here is a vine, the thickest part of which is about the size of a man's leg, and, being bruised with a hard mallet, it yields a kind of juice which is converted into a useful lee. Wild hogs, monkeys, lizards, and a brown spotted snake, about eighteen inches long, said to be poisonous, are found here. This iland was granted to the East India Company, by the sultan of Magindanao, in 1775.

BUNYAN (John), author of the well-known Pilgrim's Progress, was born at Elstow near Bedford, in 1628. He was the son of a tinker; and in the early part of his life a soldier in the parliamentary army. He for some years led a very dissolute life, but at length began to study the Scriptures, and about 1655 was admitted a member of a Baptist congregation at Bedford, of which he was soon after chosen pastor; but, in 1660, being taken up for presuming to preach, was committed to jail, where he supported his family by making tagged laces. In this unjust and cruel confinement he wrote his Pilgrim's Progress, a religious allegory, which has passed through some hundreds of editions, and been translated into most of the languages of Europe

who take a delight only in cruelty. The first bull-bait in this country is said to have taken place at Stamford in 1209. The introduction of it was as follows:- William, earl Warren, lord of this town, standing upon the walls of the castle, saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the castle meadow, till all the butchers' dogs pursued one of the bulls, madded with noise and multitude, clean through the town. This sight so pleased the earl, that he gave the castle meadow, where the bull's duel began, for a common to the butchers of the town, after the first grass was mowed, on condition that they should find a mad bull, the day six weeks before Christmasday, for the continuance of that sport for ever.' BULL-DOG, n. s. From bull and dog. A dog of a particular form, remarkable for his courage, and the savage pertinacy with which he provokes and continues the fight. When he has once fastened his bite on his antagonist, he cannot be taken off without much difficulty. He is a species of mastiff, on a smaller scale, with a somewhat flatter snout, a more ferocious aspect, pendulous lips, and a short thick neck. He is used in baiting the bull; and this species is so peculiar to Britain, that they are said to degenerate when they are carried to other coun

tries.

All the harmless part of him is that of a bull-dog; they are tame no longer than they are not offended. Addison.

BULLEN (Anne). See BOLEYN. BULLENGER, in old statutes, a boat or a small ship.

BULLERS BUCHAN, THE POT OF, or the BOILERS OF BUCHAN, a large oval cavity in the rocks on the coast of Aberdeenshire, 150 feet deep, round which there is a foot-path. Boats sail into it from the sea, under a natural arch, resembling a large Gothic window. Near this, there is a vast insulated rock, divided by a narrow and very deep chasm from the land. About the middle of this rock, many feet above the level of the water, there is a large triangular aperture, through which the waves, when agi

tated, rush with tremendous noise.

BULLET, n.s. Fr. boulte; Goth. boll; Arm. bolot. See BALL and BowL. A round ball of metal, usually shot out of guns.

As when the devilish iron engine, wrought
In deepest hell, and framed by furies skill,
With windy nitre and quick sulphur fraught,
And rammed with bullet round, ordained to kill.

Spenser. Giaffer, their leader, desperately fighting amongst the foremost of the janizaries, was at once shot with two bullets, and slain. Knolles.

And as the built, so different is the fight; Their mounting shot is on our sails designed; Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light, And through the yielding planks a passage find.

Dryden.

Byron. Deformed Transformed.

BULLET-BORE is a steel shank, having a globe at one end, wherewith to bore the inside of a bullet-mould clean, of the size intended. BULLET IRON, a denomination given by some to Spanish or Swedish bars of iron.

BULLET-MOULDS, iron moulds for casting bullets. They consist of two concave hemispheres, with a handle whereby to hold them; and between them is a hole, called the gate, to pour in the melted metal. The chaps or hemispheres of bullet-moulds are first punched, being blood-red hot, with a round ended punch, of the shape and nearly of the size of the intended bullets. To cleanse the insides a bullet-bore is used.

BULLEYN (William), a learned physician and botanist, born in the Isle of Ely, in the former part of the reign of Henry VIII., and educated at Cambridge. He travelled through various parts of England, Scotland, and Germany, chiefly with an intention to improve his knowledge in botany. In the reign of Edward VI., or queen Mary, Mr. Bulleyn appears, from his remarks on the natural productions of that country, to have resided at Norwich, or near it, and to have spent some time at Bloxhall in Suffolk: but he afterwards removed into the north, and settled at Dunham, where he practised physic with reputation. His great patron was Sir Thomas Hilton, knight baron of Hilton, who was governor of Teignmouth castle in the reign of Philip and Mary. In 1560 he came to London, and, soon after his arrival, was accused by William Hilton of Bidick, of having murdered his brother Sir Thomas, our author's friend and pafolk, and honorably acquitted. This Hilton aftertron. He was arraigned before the duke of Norwards hired some villains to assassinate the doctor; but the attempt proving ineffectual, he had him arrested on an action for debt, and he remained for a long time in prison. During this confinement, Dr. Bulleyn composed several of those writer. He died in January, 1576, and was works which raised his reputation as a medical buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate, in the same grave with his brother the divine, who died thirteen years before, and in which John Fox, the martyrologist, was interred eleven years after. Dr. Bulleyn appears from his writings to have been well acquainted with the works of the ancient Greek, Roman, and Arabian physicians. He was a man of genius and fertile imagination, and his works are by no means barren of entertainment, though his practice is obsolete. He wrote, 1, The Government of Health, 1559, 8vo. 2. A Regimen against the Pleurisy, 8vo. London, 1562, &c.

BULL-FEAST. See BULL-FIGHTING. BULL-FIGHTING, a sport or exercise much in use among the Spaniards and Portuguese, consisting in a kind of combat of a cavalier or torreadore against a wild bull, either on foot or on horseback, by riding at him with a lance. The Spaniards have bull-fights in honor of St. John, the Virgin Mary, &c. This sport the Spaniards received from the Moors, among whom it was celebrated with great eclat. The practice was prohibited by pope Pius V., under pain of excommunication incurred ipso facto. But succeeding popes have granted several miti

gations in behalf of the torreadores. The follow-
ing account of a bull-feast in the Coliseum at
Rome, in 1332, extracted from Muratori by Mr.
Gibbon, may give some idea of the early pomp,
ceremonies, and danger, which attended these
exhibitions:-'A general proclamation, as far as
Rimini and Ravenna, invited the nobles to exer-
cise their skill and courage in this perilous
adventure. The Roman ladies were marshalled
in three squadrons, and seated in three balconies,
which on this day (the 3d Sept.) were lined with
scarlet cloth. The fair Jacova di Rovere led the
matrons from beyond the Tiber, a pure and
native race, who still represent the features and
character of antiquity. The remainder of the
city was divided between the Colonna and Ursini
families: the two factions were proud of the
number and beauty of their female bands: the
charms of Savella Ursini are mentioned with
praise; and the Colonna regretted the absence
of the youngest of their house, who had sprained
her ancle in the garden of Nero's tower. The
lots of the champions were drawn by a res-
pectable citizen; and they descended into the
arena or pit, to encounter the wild bulls, on foot,
as it should seem, with a single spear. Amidst
the crowd, our annalist has selected the names,
colors, and devices, of twenty of the most con-
spicuous knights.. Several of the names are the
most illustrious of Rome and the ecclesiastical
state; Malatesta, Polenta, della Valle, Cafarello,
Savelli, Cappoccio, Conti, Annibaldi, Altieri,
Corsi. The colors were adapted to their taste
and situation; and the devices, expressive of
nope or despair, breathed the spirit of gallantry
and arms.
'I am alone, like the youngest of the
Horatii,' the confidence of an intrepid stranger:
'I live disconsolate,' a weeping widower: 'I
burn under the ashes,' a discreet lover: 'I adore
Lavinia or Lucretia,' the ambiguous declaration
of a modern passion: My faith is as pure,' the
motto of a white livery: Who is stronger than
myself?' of a lion's hide: If I am drowned in
blood, what a pleasant death!' the wish of fero-
cious courage. The pride or prudence of the
Ursini restrained them from the field, which was
occupied by three of their hereditary rivals,
whose inscriptions denoted the lofty greatness of
the Colonna name: "Though sad, I am strong:'
Strong as I am great:' 'If I fall (addressing
himself to the spectators) you fall with me:'-
intimating (says the writer), that while the other
families were the subjects of the Vatican, they
alone were the supporters of the Capitol. The
combats of the amphitheatre were very danger-
ous and bloody. Every champion successively
encountered a wild bull; and the victory may
be ascribed to the quadrupeds, since no more
than eleven were left on the field, with the loss
of nine wounded and eighteen killed on the side
of their adversaries. Some of the noblest fami-
lies might mourn; but the pomp of the funerals,
in the churches of St. John Lateran, and St.
Maria Maggiore, afforded a second holiday to the
people. It was not in such conflicts that the
blood of the Romans should have been shed;
yet, in blaming their rashness, we are compelled
to applaud their gallantry; and the volunteers,
who display their magnificence, and risk their

lives under the balconies of the fair, excite a
more generous sympathy than the thousands of
captives and malefactors who were reluctantly
dragged to the scene of slaughter.'
We extract
the description of a modern Spanish bull-fight,
from the travels of a literary friend :—

In honor of Lord Wellington a bull-fight was exhibited at St. Mary's, Cadiz, at which I attended. This diversion, peculiarly belonging to the Spanish nation, has fallen into disuse, and lately has been restricted by orders from the government, though under new regulations it is still sometimes permitted. The Plaza de Toros is a large amphitheatre, capable of holding 14,000 persons. On this occasion it was not full, and I suppose that not more than 10,000 people were present. The appearance of the assembly was striking, and a degree of interest was excited in every countenance, which, I should previously have thought, a much more important contest would scarcely have called forth. I entered the place at the moment when the first bull was killed, and horses, gayly decorated, were dragging him from the circle, amid the sounds of music, and the applauding shouts of the people.

'Preparations were made for a fresh conflict: three men were posted behind each other, about ten yards asunder, mounted on small, but active horses, and armed with a spear about fifteen feet long; and five or six men on foot, dressed in scarlet cloaks, were placed in other parts of the arena. The gates were thrown open, and the bull rushed in. He made towards the first horseman, who received him on the point of his spear, and wounded him between the shoulders; this turned him, and he attacked the second horseman with great fury; but from the want either of dexterity in the rider, or agility in the animal, the horse was dreadfully gored in the body, and his bowels fell on the ground. The combatants were soon disentangled, and the bull attacked the third horseman, who received him like the first, and wounded him severely. He now became furious, and galloped round the circle; but either from the loss of blood, or the pain he endured, he was fearful of facing the horsemen; the men on foot then began to irritate him, by sticking small darts in his body, and, whenever he made a push at them, threw the cloak over his eyes, and with great dexterity avoided his thrust.

"This irritation was continued some time, till the animal, streaming with blood, became exhausted. The matador, or principal actor, then made his appearance, armed with a small sword and cloak: he advanced towards the bull, which ran and pushed at him, but the man received the thrust on his cloak, and stepping nimbly aside, withheld his blow, because the animal did not present himself in the exact attitude which the matador required for despatching him with grace; he then made a second advance towards the animal, and, while he was in the act of pushing at him, plunged the sword up to the hilt between his shoulders; the bull ran a few paces, staggered, and dropped dead. The trumpets sounded a flourish; horses gallopped in, were fastened to the carcase, and

are sunk for that purpose at such places, See at all times know the situation. The buoy-rope the diagram annexed