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 BARROW-IN-FURNESS BARKY 341 " Travels in Southern Africa " (2 vols., London, 1801-'8); "Travels in China" (1804); "A Voyage to Cochin-China" (1806); lives of Macartney (1807), Lord Howe (1838), Lord Anson (1839), and Sir Francis Drake ; " A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arc- tic Regions" (1818); "Voyages in the Arctic Regions since 1818" (1846); and other works, including his "Autobiographical Memoir" (1847), and "Sketches of the Royal Society" (1849). II. John, second son of the preceding, born June 28, 1808, has written "Visit to Ice- land" (London, 1835), "Summer Tours in Central Europe " (1857), and other books of travel, and miscellaneous works ; and prepared a new edition of Cook's "Voyages of Discov- ery" (Edinburgh, 1860). BARROW-IN-ITRJiESS, a municipal borough, manufacturing town, and seaport of Lanca- shire, England, on the S. W. shore of the pen- insula of Lower Furness, opposite Walney island, the terminus of the Furness railway, 4 m. S. W. of Dalton, and 50 m. N. N. W. of Liverpool; pop. in 1871, 17,992 (in 1847, only 800). The rapid progress of the town is due to its iron and steel works. The annual ex- port of iron ore is estimated at 600,000 tons, and of copper ore at 3,000 tons. The steel works convert about 1,000 tons of pig iron weekly into Bessemer steel, the Barrow hema- tite iron and steel company being one of the largest establishments of the kind in the world. Great quantities of coal are imported from Wales, and of timber from Canada and the Baltic. The town received a charter of in- corporation in 1867, and the duke of Devon- shire, the chief owner of the land, inaugurated the new docks in the same year. They are unrivalled in Lancashire in extent and position, except by those of Birkenhead. The town contains a fine town hall and other public buildings. Bathing establishments, and a monu- ment of Mr. Noble, the chief promoter of rail- way and manufacturing enterprise, were inau- gurated in 1872. BARROW STRAIT, a channel in Arctic Amer- ica, named after Sir John Barrow, leading W. from Lancaster sound to Melville sound, in lat. 74 N., and between Ion. 84 and 90 W. It averages 40 m. in width, and has a depth of 75 to 200 fathoms. Its coasts are mountainous. Capt. Parry first navigated it in 1819-'20. I! UtKI Mil t. Jese Frandseo, a Central Amer- ican statesman, born in Guatemala about 1780, died in New York, Aug. 4, 1854. Many members of his family had acquired eminence in the service of Spain, but he early opposed the mother country, and in 1813 was sentenced to death for treason. He and his fellow con- spirators hid themselves in the mountains for six years, when Barrundia placed himself at the head of the revolutionary party of Guate- mala. He took a conspicuous part in the struggle for independence, and was a member of the first republican constituent assembly. On April 10, 1824, he introduced and carried a decree for the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the republic, and he subsequently procured the adoption of a code modelled after that of Livingston for the state of Louisiana, which he had translated into Spanish. In 1825 he declined the otfice of vice president, but in 1829 accepted that of president, and de- voted himself to educational and other reforms. When in 1852 three of the five states which had composed the old republic again united, he was unanimously chosen president ; but two of the states withdrawing their adhesion, he also withdrew, and employed himself in pre- paring a narrative of Central American events. In the hope of regaining his ascendancy in Guatemala through American influence, he set out in 1854 for Washington as minister of Honduras, with the alleged design of nego- tiating for its annexation to the United States ; but apoplexy ended his life soon after landing in New York. BARRY. I. A S.W. county of Missouri, bor- dering on Arkansas, and drained by King's river, Flat creek, and White river of Arkansas; area, 703 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 10,373, of whom 52 were colored. It has a hilly surface, in some places covered with forests, in others occupied by rich prairies. The principal rock is lime- stone. Lead exists in various parts of the county. The Atlantic and Pacific railroad skirts the N. border. The chief productions in 1870 were 71,669 bushels of wheat, 322,808 of Indian corn, 55,348 of oats, and 56,586 Ibs. of tobacco. Capital, Cassville. II. A S.W. county of Michigan, intersected by Thornapple river; area, 576 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 22,199. It has an undulating surface, occupied by alternate tracts of fertile prairie and woodland, and dotted with numerous small lakes. The Grand River Valley railroad passes through the county. The chief productions in 1870 were 575,149 bushels of wheat, 373,420 of Indian corn, 212,857 of oats, 12,568 of barley, 244,579 of potatoes, 28,899 tons of hay, 230,554 Ibs. of wool, 623,171 of butter, and 138,698 of maple sugar. Capital, Hastings. BARRT. I. Sir Charles, an English architect, born in London in May, 1795, died there, May 12, 1860. He studied in England and in Italy, travelled extensively, and after his return be- came the first architect in London, acquiring renown especially by his construction of the Re- form and Travellers' club houses. His master- work is the new parliament houses. The corner stone was laid in 1840; the lords assembled in the new house in 1847, and the commons on Nov. 4, 1852. The queen knighted the architect on the opening of the new buildings. He was a royal academician, a fellow of the royal so- ciety, and a member of many distinguished bodies at home and abroad. II. Edward Mid- dle! on, son of the preceding, born in 1830. He perfected his knowledge of architecture under his father, whom he succeeded as architect of the new houses of parliament, and he also com- pleted these and other buildings which were left