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 BAR ( 525 > BAS Quejl. 2. How many yards of linen, at 4s. per modity for another ; in doing of which the price of one yard, I have in barter for 120 yards of velvet, of the commodities, and an equivalent quantity of the at 15 s.fhould ? other, muft be found either by practice, or by the rule Yds. 6d.Sixp. Sixp. Yds. of three. Queji. 1. How many pounds of cotton, at 9 d. per 120 X 31 = 3720, and 8)3720(459 Anf lb. muft be given in barter for 13 C. 3 0,^X4 lb. of BARTHOLOMEW, or St Bartholomew, one of pepper, at 2 1. 16 s. per C. ? Caribbee iflands, fituated in 62° 5? W. long, and' Firji, Find the price or value of the commodity the 180 6' N. lat. whofe quantity is given, as follows. BARTQN, a market-town in Lincolnfhire, fituated on, C lb. L. s. the fouthern {bore of the Humber, 30 miles fouth-eaft 13 3 14 at 2 16 of York, in i5r W. long, and 530 40/ N. lat. Barton is alfo ufed, in the weft of England, for the 2 1. 26 demefne lands of a manor ; alfo for the manoj-houfe j 16 s. 10 8 and in fome parts for out-houfes, <bc. 2Q^ x 8 BARTSIA, in botany, a gequs of the didynamia angi147 ofpermia clafs. The calix has two coloured emargi14xCL lb. nated lobes ; the corolla is lefs than the calix, and the fuperior lip is longeft ; the capfule has two cells. The L.38 17 fpecies are 4, of which the vilcofa,' or marfh eyeSecondly, Find how much cotton, at <)&. per lb. bright cow-wheat, and the alpina, or mountain eye38 1. 17 s. will purchafe, as under. bright cow-wheat, are natives of Britain. d. lb. L. s. BARUA, a city of Abyllinia, in Africa, the capital of the kingdom of Barnagalfa. If 9 : I :: 38 17 20 BARULES, in church-hiftqry, certain heretics, who held that the Son of God had only a phantom of a body; that fouls were created before the world, and 77712 that they lived all at one time. BARUTH, an Indian meafure, containing feventeen gantans : It ought to weigh about three pounds and an 9)9324( • half Englifh avoirdupois. Anf. 1036 lb. — <) ^1 BARYTONUM, in the Italian mufic, the fame with our bafs. See Bass. If the above queftion be wrought decimally, the BAS-RELIEF. See Basso-relievo. operation may ftand as follows : BASALTES, in natural hiftory, called alfo coticula, C. L. C. lapis keraclius, and lapis lydius, a kind of marble, of If 1 : 2.8 :: 13.875 a very fine texture, of a deep gloffy black, refembling 2.8 that of polifhed fteel, and mixed with no other colour, nor any extraneous matter. The moft remarkable 111000 quality of this marble Is its figure, being never found 27750 in ftrata, like other marbles, but always ftanding up lb. C. ^ in the form of regular angular columns, compofed of a .0375)38.8500(1036 = 9 x Anf. number of joints, one placed on and nicely fitted to 37 5 ” * another, as if formed by the hands of a fkilful workman. It is remarkably hard and heavy, will not ftrike 1350 fire with fteel, and is a fine touch-ftone. See Plate 1125 LI. fig. 20. The bafaltes was originally found in columns in Ethiopia, in fragments in the river Tmo2250 lus, and fome other places ; we now have it frequent2250 ly, both in columns and fmall pieces, in Spain, Ruffia, Poland, near Drefden, and in Silefia ; but the The value or price of the goods received and deliftore in the world feems to be that called the vered in barter being always equal, it is obvious, that nobleft Giant's caufenuay, in Ireland, where it rifes far up in the produ<5l of the quantities received and delivered, the country, runs into the fea, croffes its bottom, and multiplied into their refpe6tive rates, will be equal. rifes again on the oppofite land. Hence arifes a rule which may be ufed with advan- BASANUS, or Basanites, names ufed by ancient tage in working feveral queftions ; namely, Multiply writers for the bafaltes. the given quantity and rate of the one commodity, and BASARUCO, in commerce, a fmall bafe coin in the the produft divided by the rate of the other commodity Eaft Indies, being only of very bad tin. There quotes the quantity fought; or divided by the quan- are, however, jtwomade forts of this coin, a good and a tity quotes the rate. bad; the bad is one fixth in value lower than the good. Vol.I. Numb. 22. 3 6R BASE*