an island in the Bay of Bengal, about 18 miles in circumference. It contains a volcano 1800 feet above the level of the sea, which is sometimes in a state of activity, and discharges immense columns of smoke and showers of red-hot stones. Long. 94. 1. E. Lat. 12. 15. N.

BARRÈRE (or BARÈRE) DE VIEUZAC, Bertrand, originally an avocat, was one of the most noted and cruel members of the convention in the first French Revolution. He was born at Tarbes in 1755, and died at Paris in 1841. His was the horrible apophthegm, "Il n'y a que les morts qui ne reviennent pas." The list of his works, historical, political, poetical, and miscellaneous, is numerous. The graceful style in which he couched even his sanguinary proscriptions procured him the singular title of the Anacreon of the Guillotine. See FRANCE.