Burroughs
JOHN, an American essayist and descriptive writer, born in Roxbury, N. Y., April 3, 1837. He became a clerk in the Treasury Department and subsequently a National Bank Examiner. In 1874 he settled on a farm in New York State and has since de- JOHN BURROUGHS voted himself to nature study and literature. His books on rural themes include, "Wake Robin" (1871); "Winter Sunshine" (1875); "Birds and Poets" (1877); "Locusts and Wild Honey" (1879); "Pepacton; Notes of a Walker" (1881); ; "Fresh Fields" (1884); "Signs (1888); "Far and Near" (1904); "Ways of Nature" (1905); "Bird and Bough" (1906); "The Summer of the Years" 1913); ( ; "Field and Study" (1919); etc, He also wrote "Notes on Walt Whitman" (1867); and "Whitman: Study" a (1897); contributed frequently to various magazines. He died on March 29, 1921.
BRYSON, an American artist, born in Hyde Park, Mass., in 1869. He was educated in the public schools and studied art at the Art Stu- II-Cyc dent's League. He afterward carried on art studies in Paris and Florence. He won silver medals at the Buffalo and Pittsburgh Expositions. He was curator of paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was associate at the National Academy.
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Burslem
a town of England, in Staffordshire, in the center of "The Potteries." Here is the Wedgwood Memorial Institute, comprising a free library, a museum, and a school of art, erected in honor of Josiah Wedgwood, who was born at Burslem in 1730. Burslem has extensive manufactures of china and earthenware, in which trade and coal mining the inhabitants are chiefly employed. Pop. about 45,000.
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Burton, Robert
Robert (1577-1640), an English clergyman. He spent his life in study and the writing of one book, The Anatomy of Melancholy . He was educated at Oxford and was appointed fellow at the age of twenty-two. From that time he lived in libraries. He says of himself, "I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method. I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment." See Anatomy Of Melancholy Doctor and poet, man of letters and savant, he is all at once; for want of dams, ideas pour like different liquids into the same vat, with strange spluttering and bubbling, with an unsavory smell and odd effect.--Taine. That fantastic great old man.--Lamb. To whom melancholy gave life and death.--Epitaph by Burton himself.
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Burton-On-Trent
a town of England in the counties of Stafford and Derby, 22 miles E. of Stafford, and 128 N. N. W. of London. It is famous, all the world over, for its ale. Brewing is here on the most extensive conducted scale; and the India pale ale, made by the great firms of Bass and Allsopp, bears a noted reputation both at home and abroad, more especially in India, its greatest market. Pop. about 50,000.
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Buru
or BOEROE, an island of the Malay Archipelago, in the residency of Amboyna, from which it lies about 40 miles to the W. Area, with the small island of Ambalau, 3,360 square about 15,000. The abo miles; population marshy coast lands are notoriously uncains rise in healthful, but lofty mountains the interior, one peak (Tomahoe) attaining an altitude of 8,530 feet. A dense natural forest covers most of the country, small portion has been and only a very small brought under cultivation. The soil is rich, and vegetation everywhere luxuriant. Capital, Cajeli. Ca
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Bury
a municipal and parliamentary borough of England, in Lancashire, 8 miles N. N. W. of Manchester, well situated on rising ground between the Irwell and the Roche. The staple manufacture is cotton, and there are also large woolen factories, bleaching and ting works, dye works, foundries, etc. Sir Robert Peel was born near Bury in 1788, and a bronze statue of him adorns the town. Pop. about 60,000. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, or ST. ED- MUNDSBURY, a parliamentary and municipal borough in Suffolk, England, well built and delightfully situated on the Larke, 26 miles from Ipswich. Agricultural implements are manufactured, and there is a large trade in agricultural produce. Bury St. Edmund's is an ancient place, and derived its name from St. Edmund, a King of the East Angles, slain by the heathen Danes and buried here. It contains the remains of an abbey, once the most wealthy and magnificent in Great Britain. Pop. about 17,000.
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Busaco
a ridge (1,826 feet) on the N. side of the river Mondego, in the Portuguese province of Beira, 16 miles N. N. E. of Coimbra. Here Wellington, with 40,000 British and Portuguese troops, repulsed the attack of Masséna with 65,000 French, Sept. 27, 1810.
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Bush Antelope
also called BUSH BUCK, and BUSH GOAT, names common to a number of species of ANTELOPE (q. v.), natives chiefly of the southern and western parts of Africa. According to some naturalists, they form a distinct genus (cephalolophus). They are animals of more compact form, shorter limbs, and greater strength, but much less agility, than the true or typical antelopes. They are remarkable for the arched form of the back. They have short, straight, or slightly curved horns, situated far back, and often peculiar to the male sex, with usually a long tuft of hair between them. They have no tear pits, but, instead of them, a naked glandular furrow, formed of two series of pores, on each cheek. They frequent por jungles, thick forests and beds of reeds, and, when pursued, seek to escape by diving into a thicket. The commonest species is the duyker (C. mergens), living in pairs in the bushy districts of south Africa.
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Bushing or Closing Hole Punch
This tool is very simple in construction and will be found very useful in repairing both watches and clocks. Fig. 45, Goeggel's Bushing and Closing Hole Punch, consists of two counter-sunk steel punches, with a post in the lower punch. In using, fasten the lower punch in vise and place the work over it. They are made in various sizes for watches and clocks and are quite inexpensive.
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Bushing Wire
Hard brass tubing for bushing the pivot holes of watches and clocks. This wire is kept by most material houses in the various sizes applicable to watch and clock work, and is put up in assorted sizes. See Bouchon and Bush.
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