West Indies, Central

AMERICA, . -Jamaica, Barb a does, Trinidad, Tobago, Bahamas, Bermuda, Turk's Island, Virgin Islands, St. Kitt's, Nevis, Antigua, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Honduras.... SOUTH AMERICA.-British Guiana and Falkland Islands...... AUSTRAL ASIA. - New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, New Zealand, British New Guinea, and the islands of Auckland, Chas am, Caroline, Fanning, Fiji, Lord Howe's, Malden, Norfolk, Star buck, ....... TOTAL....... Area in Eng. sq. m. of the most important of his subsequent publications was The Cathedral Antiquities of England , 14 vols. fol. and 4to., 1814-1835, with upwards of 300 highly finished plates. Altogether, his illustrated works in the depart- ment of architectural and topographical description and antiquities number 87. D. 1857. Britton's Neck, in South Carolina , a post-office of Marion district. Britt's Landing, in Tenne ee, a P. O. of Perry co. Britzska, ( bris'ka , ) n . [Ru , britschka ; Pol. bryzcka .] An open, four-wheeled carriage, with shutters to close at pleasure, and space for reclining when on a journey. Brive-la-Gaillarde, a town of France, dep. Corrèze, cap. arrond., in a beautiful and fertile plain on the Corrèze, 15 m. S.W. of Tulle. It is a well-built place, having a large trade in wine, cattle, chestnuts, and truffles. Pop . 10,839. -Vulgar; gro ; indelicate; as, a broad jest; broad mirth. "Because he seems to chew the cud again, When his broad comment makes the text too plain."- Dryden. Broad as long. Equal in all respects. Broadal'bin, in New York , a post-township of Fulton co., 40 m. N.W. of Albany. Broad-arrow, n . ( Her .) See PHEON. -In England, a cuneiform mark, painted or branded, thus →, on all stores and materials belonging to the British Admiralty and the Board of Customs. It is unknown when this mark originated; but a penalty was affixed, in 1698, to the use of it by any private person under the Act 9 and 10 Will. III. cap. 41. Broad-axe, n. An axe with a broad edge, used for felling timber. Brix'ton, in Virginia , a post-office of Alexandria co. Bri'za, n. [Gr. brizo , I nod, on account of the quaking character of the spikelets.) ( Bot . ) The Quaking-gra . a genus of plants, ord. Gram in ace a. The species B. Population. media is naturalized in the vicinity of Boston. Its dense clusters of flowers hang upon the ends of very delicate filamentous peduncles, forming elegant panicles, which shake with the slightest breath of air. 1,683,496 296,049,000 2,587,755 41,133,953 3,490,466 5,031,239 28,252 1,305,000 83,000 282,000 3,346,900 4,290,000 11,341,108,386,025,476 For further information regarding the various countries named above, see each name in the vocabulary order, and also the article GREAT BRITAIN. British Gum, n. (Chem.) See DEXTRIN. British Hollow, in Wisconsin, a P. O. of Grant co. Brit'on, n. [A.S. bryt ; Celt. brit , variegated, spotted.] Originally, a painted man; an inhabitant of ancient Britain; in the modern sense, a native of England or Scotland (Great Britain proper). " Britons never shall be slaves." Thomson. See GREAT BRITAIN. Britt any, in France. See BRETAGNE. Brittle, ( brit'l ,) a. [From AS. bryttian ; Swed. and Goth. bryta ; Icel. briota , to break.] Apt to break; easily broken; easily breaking short; not tough or tenacious; as, a brittle vase. See BRITTLENESS. "From earth all came, to earth must all return. Frail as the cord, and brittle as the urn."-Prior.