Barth, He In Rich

a German explorer, born at Hamburg, in 1821. He was educated at Hamburg and Berlin, and in 1844 published a remarkable thesis on the Commerce of Ancient Corinth. In the next year he commenced those exploratory expeditions which have since so much increased our knowledge of African geography. The government of Morocco refused to allow him to pa through its territory, and B. therefore proceeded to Tunis, whence he penetrated into Sahara and cro ed the vast deserts of Northern Africa to the Nile. In 1846 he cro ed into Asia, and in 1848, returning to Berlin, he published an account of his Exploratory Expedition to the Coasts of the Mediterranean in 1845-1847. In 1849, he joined the expedition fitted out by the English government to explore Central Africa. The expedition was absent 4 years, during which B. travelled 12,000 miles. On his return, in 1855, he drew up a narrative of his journey under the title of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa , published in Germany in 1855, and in England in 1857. This work is one of the most important contributions to modern geographical science, and the researches it records have placed B. among the most illustrious of the geographical explorers of our times. D. 1866. ceived the French emba y in solemn silence. - For the causes which produced this ma acre, see CONDE, GUISE, HUGUENOTS. Bartholomew, St., one of the le er N. Caribbean Islands in the W. Indies, belonging to Sweden, 30 m. N. of St. Kitt's; Lat. 17° 55′ 35′′ N.; Lon. 62° 50′ W. It is of an oblong form, its greatest length being from E. to W., and contains about 8 sq. m. It is abundantly fertile, producing sugar, cotton, tobacco, and indigo; but it has no springs nor fresh water of any sort, except such as is supplied by the rain. Being surrounded by rocks and shoals, it is difficult of acce ; but its harbor, La Carenage, on the W. side of the island, is safe and commodious. Contiguous to the harbor is the cap. Gustavia. This island was settled by the French in 1648, and ceded by them to the Swedes in 1784, who, finding it unprofitable to hold, receded it to France in 1877. Bartholomew, in Ark . , a twp. of Drew co. Bartholomew, in Indiana , a S.E. central county; area, 400 sq. m. It is watered by the Driftwood Fork of White River, and by Flat Rock and Clifty creeks. Its N. surface is hilly, but in the other parts level, with a fertile soil. Cap . Columbus. Bartholomew, a bayou of Louisiana and Arkansas , which, rising in Jefferson co., in the latter State, takes a S. course into Louisiana, and empties into the Washita, at Washita city, in More house parish.