and the total population of the parish, which in-
cludes hamlets, in 1821, was 34,581.

Bury, St. Edmund, a borough in Suffolk, Eng.
It took its name from St. Edmund the king, who
was buried here ; and to his honour an abbey was
founded, of which some noble ruins remain.
Here are two parish churches, which stand in
one chureh-yard ; in St. Mary’s lies Mary, queen
of France, who was married to Charles Brandon,
duke of Suffolk. At this town the barons met
and entered into a league against king John.
Henry VI. called a parliament here in 1446, when
Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, was imprisoned,
and here he died, as supposed, by poison. The
assizes for the county are held here; and it has
a free-school founded by Edward VI. The num-
ber of inhabitants in 1811 was 7,986 ; and in 1821,
9,999, and most of them were returned as employ-
ed in trade and manufactures. It is seated on
the Larke, a branch of the Ouse, 25 m. N. W. of
Ipswich, and 71 N. N. E. of London.

Buryens, St. a village in Cornwall, Eng. 5 m.
W. S. W. of Penzance. It was once of great
note, and had a college founded by king Athels-
tan. The church is spacious, and contains many
curious relics of antiquity. In its neighbourhood
are 19 large stones standing in a circle, 12 feet
from each other, and in the centre is one much
larger than the rest. Pop. 1,188.

Bush-'r. or Btishirc. a town of Persia, in Far-
sistaa. surrounded bv a wall, with a few bastions.
The English East India Company had formerly
a factory here. The trade with Shiraz, by cara-
vans. is considerable. It is situate on a narrow
neck of land, in the golf of Persia, 110 m. W. S.
W. of Shiraz. Long. 51. 0. E. lat. 29. 20. N.

Bushlull, t. Northampton, Co. Pa.

Bushioick, t. Kings Co. N. Y. on Long Island,
3 m. from Brooklyn. Pop. 1,620.

Bussorah. See Bassorah.

Bate, an island of Scotland, in the frith of Clyde,
separated on the north from the peninsula of Cow-
al in Argyleshire by a narrow channel. It is
fourteen miles long and four broad; the north
part hilly and barren, but the south fertile and
well cultivated. The coast is rocky, and indent-
ed witn several safe harbours, chiefly appropriat-
ed to the herring fishery. Rothsay is the capital.

Buteshire, a county of Scotland, consisting of
the island of Bute, Arran, Great and Little Cam-
bray, and Inchmarnoc, lying in the frith of
Clvde. between the counties of Ayr and Argyle.
This shire sends a member to parliament alternate-
ly with Caithnesshire.

Butj-r bnrh, a town of the Netherlands, 25 m.
S. bv E. of Aix-la-Chapelle.

BitT'r, -in interior county in the W. District
of PemsTlvania. the south-east point jetting upon
the Alleghany River, 18 m. above Pittsburg. Pop.
14.683. The chief town, of the same name, in the
centre ofthe county, is 242 m. W. by N. of Har-
risburg

Buller. an interior county in the west part of
Kentucky, intersected from east to west by Green
River, which falls into the Ohio. Pop. 3,055.
Morgantown, on the south bank of Green River,
144 W. by S. of Frankfort. is the chief town.

Butler, a frontier county at the S E. extremity
of the state of Ohio, bordering on Indiana. It is
intersected from the north-west corner to the cen-
tre of the south border by the Miami River. Pop-
ulation, 27,044. Hamilton, on the east bank of
the Miami, 107 m. W. S. W. of Columbus, and
12 north of Cincinnati, is the chief town.

Butler, a county in Alabama. Pop. 5,634
Greenville is the capital. Also the name of 2
towns in Pa. and Ohio.

Butler, the name of 2 towns in Ohio.

Butrinto, a seaport of European Turkey, in
Albania, and a bishop’s see ; seated on the canal
of Corfu, at the entrance of the gulf of Venice,
30 m. S. of Chimaera. Long. 19.9. E. lat. 36.49. N.

Butternuts, ph. Otsego Co. N. Y. 94 m. W.
Albany. Pop. 3,991. '

Buttermere, a lake in Cumberland, Eng. eight
miles S. W. of Keswick. It is two miles long, and
nearly half a mile broad. On the west side it is
terminated by a mountain, called, from its fer-
ruginous colour, the Red Pike; a strip of culti-
vated ground adorns tne east shore : at the north
end is the village of Buttermere and a group of
houses, called Gatesgarth, is seated on the south
extremity, under an amphitheatre of mountain-
ous rocks. Here Honister Crag is seen rising to
a vast height, flanked by two conical mountains,
Fleetwith on the east, and Scarf on the west side.
Numerous mountain torrents create never-failing
cataracts that thunder and foam down the rocks,
and form the lake below. This lake is called the
Upper Lake; and, near a mile from it, to the
north-east is the Lower Lake, called also Cro-
mack-water. The river Cocker flows through
both these lakes to Cockermouth.

Butterworth, an appendage to the town of Roch-
dale, in Lancastershire, Eng. Pop. 5,554. See
Rochdale.

Buttevant, a town and parish of Ireland, in the
county of Cork. The town is 4 m. N. of Mallow,
and in 1320 contained a population of 1,020 ; total
of the parish, 5,049.

Button Bay, the north part of Hudson Bay,
through which attempts were made by Sir Thom-
as Button, to discover a north-west passage to
China, when he lost his ship, and came back in a
sloop built in the country. It lies between 60.
and 66. N. lat. t

Buttstadt and Buttelstatdt, two towns of Upper
Saxony, in Thuringia, seated on the Loss, 16 m.
W. of Naumburg.

Butzbaeh, a town of Germany, in Wetteravia,
seated in a marshy but fertile plain, 10 m. S. of
Giessen, and 25 N. of Frankfort. Pop. about
3,200.

Butzow, a town cf Lower Saxony, in Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin, seated on the Warna, 17 m. S.
W. of Rostock.

Buxadewar, a strong fort of the country of
Bootan, at the entrance of the mountains from
Bengal. It stands on the top-of a rock, 20 m. N.
of Chiehacotta.

Buxar, a town iind fort ot Hindoostan, in Ba-
har, on the south bank of the Ganges, 72 m. W.
of Patna.

Buxtehude, a town of Lower Saxony, in the
duchy of Bremen, on the river Este, 18 m. S. E.
of Stade.

Buxton, a village in Derbyshire, Eng. at the
entrance of the Peak. It has nine wells that rise
near the source of the river Wye; and they are
deemed one of the seven wonders of the Peak.
Their waters, noted in the time of the Romans, are
hot and sulphureous, temperature about 82; much
company resort to them in the summer. The
building for the bath was erected by George, earl
of Shrewsbury; and here Mary, queen of Scot-
land, resided for some time. The duke ofDevon
shire has erected a beautiful building in the form
of a crescent, under which are piazzas and shops.