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Bark

PERUVIAN, is the bark of various species of trees of the genus cinchona, found in many parts of South America, but more particularly in Peru.

Its medicinal properties depend upon the presence of quinine, which is now extracted from the bark, and prescribed.

Barmen

a city on the Wupper, in the Prussian Rhine province, government of Düsseldorf, and formed by the union of seven villages contained in the fine valley of Barmen. It has extensive ribbon and other textile manufactures; also dye works, manufactures of chemicals, metal wares, buttons, yarns, iron, machines, pianos, organs, soap, etc. Pop. about 175,000.

Barnabas

CAPE, a headland of Alaska, which Cook discovered on St.

Barnabas Day.

Barnard-Castle

a town of England, county of Durham, giving name to a parliamentary division of the county.

There is a large thread mill and carpet manufactories, the Bowes Museum and School. The castle was originally built about 1178 by Barnard Baliol, grandfather of John Baliol father of John Baliol.

Barnard College

a college for part of COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (q. v.). women in New York City, forming a There were in 1919, 715 students and 86 members of the faculty. Dean, V. C.

D.

English philanthropist; founder of the

Barnave

ANTOINE PIERRE to the radical element of the Democratic party in New York State, which sup-

Barn Burners

the nickname given ported Van Buren in the campaign of party in New York State, which sup- 1848.

Barnegat Bay

a bay on the E. coast of New Jersey, about 25 miles in with the Atlantic. length. Barnegat Inlet connects the bay a British statesman, born in Scotland in

Barnes

WILLIAM, an English poet and philologist, born in Dorsetshire, Feb. 22, 1800; wrote many books on philology; and three series of "Poems of Rural Life in the Dorsetshire Dialect" (1844, 1846 and 1863), and "Poems of Rural Life" (1866). He died in Winterbourne Came, in October, 1886. nver

Barnet

a town of England, in Herts, 11 miles from London, where was fought in 1471 a battle between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, resulting in the defeat of the latter and the death of

Barrackpur

a native town, capibank of the Hooghly, and 15 miles up the stream from Calcutta. Two Sepoy mutinies have occurred here, the first in 1824, when a regiment of Bengal infantry refused to go for service in the Burmese War, and again in the famous mutiny of 1857. Pop. about 18,000. a barracuda-found in the vicinity of the

Barrier Reef

a coral reef which extends for 1,260 miles off the N. E. coast of Australia, at a distance from land ranging from 10 to 100 miles.