Burton

RICHARD HENRY, (bur'ton,)an English traveller, B. 1821; author of Sindh, or the Unhappy Valley (1852); Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah (1856); The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860); Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains (1863); and The Highlands of Brazil (1869). Burton, ROBERT, an English divine, B. 1756; wrote the famous humoristic work entitled The Anatomy of Melancholy, to which many of the greatest succeeding wits have been greatly indebted. D. 1840. Burton-on -Trent, a town of England, cos. Stafford and Derby, 128 m. N.N.W. of London. It is celebrated for its breweries of ale. Pop. 15,947. [s. 125]