Brocatel, Brocatello

[Fr. brocatelle; Sp. bro St. Clair co. Brock'way's Mills, in Maine , a post-office of Pis cataquis co. Jefferson co. Brock'wayville, in Pennsylvania , a post-office of Broc'ton, in New York , a post-office of Chautauqua co. Brodbecks, in Pennsylvania , a post-office of York co. Brod'head, JOHN ROMEYN, an American historian, B. at Philadelphia, in 1814. In 1841, the New York State Legislature commi ioned him to proceed as their agent to Europe, there to transcribe documents relating to the history of that State. B. employed three years in the task of exploring the government archives of England, France, and Holland, and brought home the fruits of his researches in 1844; which were printed by authority in 10 large 4to. vols. From 1846 to 1849, B. held the post of secretary of legation under Mr. Bancroft, at the English Court. On his return he began his long cherished work, A History of the State of New York , the 1st vol. of which, comprising the Dutch period from 1609 to 1664, was published in 1853, D. 1873, Brod'head, in Pennsylvania, a P. O. of Alleghany co. Brod'head, in Wisconsin, a post-vill. of Green co., on Sugar River, 18 m. W. by S. of Janesville. Brod'head's Creek, in Pennsylvania, Monroe co., emptying into the Delaware River. Brod headsville, in Pennsylvania, a post-office of Bro'die, SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS, BART, LL.D., F.R.S., an Monroe co. eminent English surgeon, в. 1783. Having devoted himself earnestly to the study of practical surgery, he was, when comparatively young, appointed surgeon at St. George's Hospital, London; and, after the death of Sir Astley Cooper, became the first consulting surgeon of his day. B.'s reputation did not rest so much upon his operative skill as upon his powers of diagnosis, and upon his knowledge of the advantageous effects of constitutional treatment in surgical affections. He was a prolific writer. Early in his career, he made a series of most valuable and interesting observations on the action of poisons, and he published various works on surgical science, which are held in high authority. Prominent among them stands his Treatise on Diseases of the Joints, which will in all time coming be a standard authority. Latterly, he brought out e ays on psychological science of the most powerful character. Sir Benjamin was serjeant-surgeon to kings George IV. and William IV., and also to Queen Victoria. D. 1862. Bro'dy, a town of Austria, prov. Galicia, circ. Złoczow, 52 m. E. by N. of Lemberg: Lat. 50°7′ N., Lon. 25°18′ E. Nearly half the residents are Jews. It is a mean place in appearance, but has a most extensive trade (principally transit), the value of which amounts to about $15,000,000 annually. Its fairs, too, are conducted on a great scale. On account of the great number of Jews in this town, it has been nicknamed the German Jerusalem. Pop . 18,743. Broek, a village of Holland, 6 m. N.E. of Amsterdam. This village is celebrated for the wealth of its inhabitants, but more from the extreme cleanline of its houses and streets, the attention to which is carried to almost an absurd exce . The entire pop . (about 1,650) consists of retired merchants and their families, who amuse themselves in keeping their dwellings free from every speck of dust.