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BRADLEY BRADSTREET 181 clusively to the sea and the seashore, and he is an unusually careful delineator of shipping in every form familiar to the coast of North Ame- rica. Some of his largest and most elahorate compositions have been suggested by his voy- ages to the higher latitudes. Of these " The Coast of Labrador and " Crushed by Ice- bergs " are conspicuous examples. Other char- acteristic works by him are " The Island of Grand Menan," "Fishing Boats getting under Way," "Fishing Boats at Anchor," "Ship- wreck off Nantucket," " Sudden Squall in the Bay of Fundy," and " A Stiff Breeze in the Harbor of Eastport." Many of these have been photographed. He is now (1873) prac- tising his profession in New York. BRADLEY. I. A S. county of Arkansas, bounded W. by Moro bayou and traversed by Saline river; area, 958 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 8,646, of whom 2,529 were colored. The sur- face is generally level. The chief productions in 1870 were 4,726 bushels of wheat, 222,825 of Indian corn, 48,356 of sweet potatoes, and 5,177 bales of cotton. There were 1,656 horses, 3,536 milch cows, 5,550 other cattle, 2,544 sheep, and 16,213 swine. Capital, Warren. II. A S. E. county of Tennessee, bordering on Georgia and bounded N. E. by Hiawassee river ; area, about 400 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 11,652, of whom 1,700 were colored. The East Ten- nessee, Virginia, and Georgia railroad, and the Dalton branch of the same, pass through it. The county is well watered. The surface is uneven, and in the south mountainous, with ex- tensive forests. The chief productions in 1870 were 112,341 bushels of wheat, 239,490 of In- dian corn, 41,727 of oats, 12,810 of sweet po- tatoes, and 135,976 Ibs. of butter. There were 2,181 horses, 2,455 milch cows, 3,497 other cattle, 9,146 sheep, and 13,633 swine. Cap- ital, Cleveland. BRADLEY, James, an English astronomer, born at Sherborne, Gloucestershire, in March, 1692, died at Chalford, July 13, 1762. He was edu- cated at Oxford and took orders, but devoted himself wholly to the study of astronomy. He was chosen a fellow of the royal society in 1718, and three years afterward was appointed Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford. In 1727 he published his brilliant discovery of the aberration of light, and in 1747 the equally valuable discovery of the nutation of the earth's axis. He also made successful researches into the law of refraction, for which he produced an empirical formula. In 1742 he succeeded Dr. Halley as astronomer royal, and in 1751 he received a pension in consideration of the " advantages of his astronomical labors to the commerce and navigation of Great Britain." From his valuable observations, published after his death, Meyer formed his table of the moon, and Bessel drew the elements of his Funda- menta Astronomim. BRADSHAW, John, president of the court which tried Charles I., born about 1590, died in 1659. He was made chief justice of Chester in 1647, and sergeant in 1648; and on Jan. 10, 1649, the commissioners for trying the king chose him for their president. He performed the duties of the office with dignity and sternness, and declared on his deathbed that if the king were to be tried and condemned again, he would be the first to agree to it. He was made chancellor of the duchy of Lancasterand lord president of the council of state, and received valuable grants from parliament. He opposed Cromwell's elevation to the supreme power, and on the latter's assumption of the protec- torate, he was accordingly deprived of the chief- justiceship of Chester; but after Cromwell's death he obtained a seat in the council, and was again elected president. Bradshaw left the reputation of a cold and impassive, but upright, conscientious, and heroic republican. He was buried with great pomp in Westmin- ister abbey, but on the restoration his body was taken from the tomb and gibbeted beside those of Cromwell and Ireton. BRADSTREET, Anne, an American poetess, born in Northampton, England, about 1612, died Sept. 16, 1672. She was the daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley, and in 1628 married Si- mon Bradstreet, afterward governor of Massa- chusetts, with whom she emigrated to New England in 1630. Her poems were published in London in 1650. The volume was entitled " The Tenth Muse, lately sprung up in Ameri- ca," and contained, according to the title page, " a complete Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Men, Seasons of the Year, together with an Exact Epitome of the Four Monarchies, viz., the As- syrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman." There was also a dialogue on politics, &c., between Old and New England, " with divers other pleasant and serious Poems." Her verses are distin- guished by a great amount of curious and exact learning, especially in natural history, set forth with singular quaintness, and in the most lit- eral manner. A second edition, published at Boston in 1678, contains her "Contemplations," a poem much superior to her other works. Mrs. Bradstreet was the mother of eight chil- dren, to whom she alluded in some verses con- taining these familiar lines : I had eight birds hatch't In the nest ; Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nurs't them up with pains and care, For cost nor labor did I spare ; Till at the last they felt their wing, Mounted the trees, and learned to BiDg. A third edition of her " Tenth Muse " appeared in 1758; and her complete works, both prose and verse, edited by the Rev. G. E. Ellis, D. D., were published at Charlestons in 1868. VRADSTREET, John, an English general, born in 1711, died in New York, Sept. 25, 1774. When a young officer he was ordered to join the British forces in America, and spent the remainder of his life there. He took part in the expedition against Louisburg in 1745, as lieutenant colonel of a colonial regiment, and was in the same year made a captain in the