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Berkshire

county in England in the midland group. It has an area of 722 square miles, of which about threefourths is under cultivation. The chief occupation of the people is stock raising and agriculture. The chief towns are Windsor, Reading, Maidenhead, and Newbury. Pop. about 180,000.

Berkshires

THE, or BERKSHIRE HILLS, a range of mountains in the N.

W. of Massachusetts; in Berkshire county; stretching 16 miles N. and S., on the E. of the valley of the Upper Hoosic river. They are a favorite summer and autumn resort.

Berlichingen

GETZ VON, surnamed the "Iron Hand," a brave and turbulent German noble, born at Jaxthausen, Württemberg, in 1480. He was almost constantly at war, was put under the ban of the empire by Maximilian, and was killed during the siege of a fortress in which he had taken refuge, in 1562. His story was dramatized by Göthe.

BERLIN

Berlin

a city of New Hampshire in Coos co. It is on the Grand Trunk and the Boston and Maine railroads. The city has excellent water power which is employed in the manufacture of paper, pulp, and lumber. There is a public library, theaters, hospital, excellent schools and a fine municipal building. Pop. (1910) 11,780; (1920) 16,104.

BERLINER

Bermuda Cedar

a species of cedar which covers the Bermuda Islands. The timber is made into ships, boats and pencils. The wood of juniperus barbadensis, the Barbadoes cedar, is sometimes imported with it under the same name.

Bermuda Grass

a species of grass, called in Bermuda devil grass. It grows in the American Southern States and in southern Europe. It is much esteemed for pasture.

Bermuda Hundred

a locality in Chesterfield co., Va.; the scene of a battle in the Civil War between the Federal troops under General Butler, and the Confederates under General Beauregard.

The battle was fought May 16, 1864, and resulted in a defeat for Butler.

Bernard

SAINT (GREAT and LITTLE). See ST. BERNARD.

Burma

SIAM, FRENCH INDO-CHINA CALIFORNIA CANADA CENTRAL AMERICA CHINESE REPUBLIC "BERN-CIRCUMFERENCE" BERNARD OF CLUNY

Bernard of Cluny

a French monk and poet who flourished in the 12th century, and is noted for his work "On Contempt of the World" (1597) but ); but very little is known of the author's life.

Bernina

a mountain of the Rhætian Alps, 13,290 feet high, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, with remarkable and extensive glaciers. Its summit was first attained in 1850. The Bernina Pass, which attains an elevation of 7,642 feet, and over which a carriage road was completed in 1864, leads from Pontresina to Poschiavo.

Berosus

a genus of beetles belong ing to the family hydrophilidæ. They have prominent eyes, a narrow thorax, a dusky yellow hue, with dark metallic bronze markings. They swim in ponds, often in an inverted position.