The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; ... / originally compiled by R. Brookes.

Richard Brookes

Date:: 1826

Credit: The general gazetteer; or, compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country; ... / originally compiled by R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$42 miles NW. of Fr anders on ‘the! Oder, and 300 N. by W. of Vienna. Lat. 52. che N. lon. 13.91. E. _ BERLIN, a town of York county, and - fylvania. _ Berling, Northumb. near Harbottle- Cattle. Berlings, near Lincoln. ci ' BermupDa, or SOMERS’ ISLANDS, a celufter of {mall iflands, about 500 miles -E. of Carolina, in the Atlantic Ocean. _ ‘They are properly rocks, or hard fand- -banks, about 400 in number, and not ‘containing in all above 20,000 acres; _fome of them are fo near eich other, that paffengers ftep acrofs the intervening fea trom ifland to iflands They are inhabited _ by the Englith, enjoy a pure and temperate air, and have plenty of fith, fleth, garden _ ftuff, land and water. birds; Indian corn, tobacco, fruits, &c. The common em- _ ployment of the inhabitants is in building Stara te - floops of the cedar, which grows here in _ abundance, and they frequently build their houfes and churches of it. The moft con- iderable of thefe iflands, are St. George, St. David, Cooper, Ireland, Somerfet, Long ifland: Bird Ifland, aid Nonfuch. po Dhe fir euaraned town, the two follow- eh ing have fome villages, the others only - difperted farnis. Ttis.a perpetpal {pring here ;. the trées never lofe their verdure, as the leaves only fall’ when new ones begin to appear, and birds fing and breed with- out intermiifion. The town of St. George, on St. George’s Hand, is the capital. Lat. 32..20. N. lon. 65. 0. W, BERN, the largeit of the 13 cantons of Swiflerland, having for its fouthern boun- dary the Lake of Geneva, the Valais, and the duchy of Savoy: it isabout 150 miles ert tn length, and 75 in breadth, and is di- vided into two principal parts, called the ' - eommonly called the Pays de Vaud, or Country of Vaud. “The people are Cal- vinifts. . Burn, the capital of the canton of Bern, ftands on a peninfula, formed by the river Aar. Here is a celebrated {chool, and arich library. ‘The houfes are of a fine white tree-ffone, and pretty uniform, particularly in the principal ftreet, where the houfes are all of a height, There aré _ piazzas on each fide, with a walk railed 4 feet above the level of the ftreet, very Be incdious 1 in wet weather, and the pub- Tic buildings are magnificent. Moft of the sake are paved with flints, and traverfed by acanal lined with freeftone. Bern is ie 7 miles NE. of Geneva. Lat nip 52. N. Ags. a 20. EE. . Bern, a town be Boberhiay I P wiles i w. of Prague. ; BERNARD, THE GREAT, ST. a moun- ‘ Drance. The top of it is always cover. ed with fnow, and there is alarge convent, where the monks entertain ali itrangers, gratis, for three days, without diftinction - 7 of religious profeffion. - ‘BERNAU, two towns in the archduchy — of Auftria; a town in the Upper Palati- nate; and. a town in the Middle Mar che of Brandenburg. BERNAY, a trading town, in the dept. of Eure, feated on the river Carantone, 20° — miles SW. of Rouen. BERNBURG, a town of Upper Saxony, idiptial of Anhalt Bernburg, and the refi- Bernham, Suff. 8. of Thetford. BERNKASTEL,a town of aE revén; noted for it’s good wine, It is fituated on the. Mofelle, 18 miles ENE. of Treves. Beruthorp, Nott.6 miles NE.ot Newark. | Bernwood Fore}, Bucks, bordering on ~ Oxf, Berrick Priory, Oxf. 4 miles Nw. of Watlington. \ Berrich-Salome, . Oxf, near Watlington. Berrier, Cumb. near © Penrith. Berrington, Glouc. near Camps den. Berrington, Worcef. near Tenbury. Berrington, Som. 4 miles N. of Axbridge. — Berriflow, Derbyth. in the High Peak. Berrough, Somer{. between the Brent and the coaft. Berrow, Norf. near Hingham. Berrow, Worcetfterf. 8 miles from “Over- bury. BERRY, aci devant province of France, having Nivernois onthe E. and Poitou on the W. It is fertile in corn, wine, fruits, hemp, and flax, and has aifo mines of fil- ver, iron, and ochre. ‘It now forms the ~ two departments of Cher and Indre, - 3 Berry, Berks, near Maidenhead. Ber- — ry, Efiex, near Great and Little Wendon, Berry, Dortetf, near Blandford. Berry, . ancathise, near Manchelter. Berry Exd, Bedf. near Hockley. Berry End, Bedf, Se a eS a the coaft, W. of Comb- Martin. Berry- Pomeroy, Devonf{. near Totnels. / Beriy- Siveet, Midd]. near Northolt. Berfeideaya a Hants, near Titchfield. % BERSELLO, or BRISELLO, a {mall but f ftrong town, in the Modenefe, fituated on the Po, 27 miles NW. of Modena. ~~ * Berfted, ane 3 miles SW. of Hem- ~ ftead. Berfted, N. and S. Suffex, SE. of 5 Chichefter. i BeRsuIRE. See Busssore nes é Beri, a river in Dorfetthire, which runs | BERT$

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