BRUNTON

Maby, an ingenious novel is i^ ww It in the the daughter of Colonel Thomas Balfour, and waa bom in the island of Burra^ in Orkfiey, in 1779. In every and her twentieth year she married Ih*. Alexander^ Brunton, minister at Bolton, near Haddingtcai^ alter a wards at Edinburgh. She was the authovew << the The Discipline and Self-Control, two novels whi^ took: was well with the publio. She died in 1818, Icavi Emmeline, a tale, and other pieces, wMdi were pnbliBhed by Dr. Brunton, with a biographical sketch. BRUSH-WHEELS. In light machinery, wheels sometimes turn eadi other by means of bristles or brushes fixed to their circumference. They may also oommunicate circular motion by friction only. The surface brought in contact is then formed of the end grain of wwxl, or is covered with an elastic subetonce, and the wheels are pre ed together to increase the friction. BRUSSA, BRU8A, or Bobsa, a Turkish dty in the pashalic of Anatolia (Asia Minor), with a pop. of about 100,000 Turks, Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, engaged in commerce, and the manufacture of satins, silk stuffs, carpets, gauze, . In the manufacture of silk stuffs about 30,000 persons are employed, most of whom belong to the town itself, some to the surrounding district These stuffs are in great demand over all the East, but their sale has been somewhat diminished since the Swi have succeeded in providing exceUent imitations in cotton of many of the silk patterns of Bru a, for which imitations a ready sale is found throughout Syria and Asia Minor. The bazaars are filled with merchandise, and the caravans pa ing from Aleppo and Smyrna to Constantinople promote its commerce. Before the earthquake of 1855 it contained close upon 150 mosques, and was adorned with an immense number of fountains; but by the earthquake in that year, and by a terrible conflagration, the former splendour of the town must have suffered considerably. It is situated in a fertile and finely wooded plam, which is inclosed by the ridges of Olympus, and abounds in hot springs. A railway is about to be constructed between Scutari and Bru a. The port of Bru a is Kemlik or Ghemlek, on the Sea of Marmora. The castle, which is about a mile in circumference, is supposed to be the Prusa of the ancients. Bru a was long capital of Bithynia, and one of the most flourishing towns in the Greek Empire of Constantinople. In 1326 it was taken by Orkhan, son of Othman, founder of the Ottoman dynasties; and from that epoch it was the residence of the Turkish sovereigns, until the seat of empire was transferred to Adrianople. 450