one of the Scilly islands, lying almost directly west of the land's end in Cornwall, about the distance of 30 miles. It lies between the isles of Mincarlo, Guel, Trefcau, and Samson. It is the roughest and most mountainous of them all, and not many years since there were only two families in it, but now there are 13. There are a few poor hovels, called the town of Brehar; and there are several barrows edged with stone, in which they buried considerable persons in ancient times; besides many monuments of the Druids. Some are of opinion, that this with the rest made but one island, which is the reason why so many antiquities are now found in most of them.

BREHONS, the provincial judges among the ancient Irish, by whom justice was administered, and controversies decided. These sages were a distinct tribe or family, to whom competent lands were allowed in inheritance. In criminal cases the brehon had the eleventh part of all the fines; which could not but be considerable at a time when murders, rapes, robberies, and the like offences, were only subject to pecuniary commutations.