or Breffici, the capital of the palatinate of Breslau, and of Polesia in Poland, seated on the river Bug, 80 miles east of Warsaw, and subject to Poland. It is a fortified town, and has a castle built upon a rock. Here is a famous synagogue, referred to by the Jews from all the countries in Europe. E. Long. 24°. N. Lat. 41°. 35'.
BRETI, a name the people on the coasts of Lincolnshire give to the common turbot, a fish extremely plentiful with them, and taken in vast abundance. The way of catching them is in a net trailed on the ground by two horses; the one going up to the middle of his body in water, the other on shore.