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BOGLIPOOR, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Bahar, and chief town of the district of the same name, about two miles from the main branch of the Ganges. It has a Mahommedan college, and two very singular round towers, about a mile north-west of the town, which are considered sacred. The inhabitants of this distri...
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BOGODUCHOW, a circle in the European-Russian government of Slobodsk-Ukraine, extending over 1192 square miles. It comprehends four cities, 104 towns and villages, with 135,500 inhabitants. The soil is good, and produces abundance of fruit, corn, and cattle. The chief place is the city of the same name on the river Merl...
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50 10' N 35 35' E
BOGODUCHOW
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BOGOMILI, or Bogarmitae, in Ecclesiastical History, a sect of heretics which sprung up about the year 1179. They held that the use of churches, of the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and of all prayer except the Lord’s prayer, ought to be abolished; that the baptism of Catholics is imperfect; that the persons of the Tr...
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BOGOMILI
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BOGORADSK, a circle in the Russian government of Moscow, extending over 1324 square miles, comprehending one city, one market-town, and 553 villages, with 95,000 inhabitants. The chief place is Bogordsk, on the Kliasma. Long. 38. 15. E. Lat. 54. 45. N.
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54 45' N 38 15' E
BOGORADSK
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BOGORODIZK, a circle of the Russian government of Tula, comprehending one city, two market-towns, and 166 villages, with 125,000 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, on the river Lesnaja, has about 2800 inhabitants. Long. 37. 5. E. Lat. 53. 45. N.
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53 45' N 37 5' E
BOGORODIZK
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BOGOTA, or Santa Fe de Bogota, the capital of the republic of Colombia, in South America, is situated in the department of Cundinamarca, in west longitude 78° 30' and north latitude 4° 6', on an elevated plain or tableland, forming part of the eastern ridge of the cordillera of the Andes, which separates the extensive ...
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BOGOTA
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BOGUSLAW, a circle in the Russian government of Kiew, and a fruitful but neglected district. The chief place, a town of the same name, on the river Ross, contains 297 houses and 1650 inhabitants. Long. 30. 49. E. Lat. 49. 32. N.
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49 32' N 30 49' E
BOGUSLAW
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BOGUTSCHAT, a circle in the Russian government of Woronesh, and a district productive of corn and cattle. The chief place, of the same name, stands at the junction of the Boguschara with the Don, and contains less than 1000 inhabitants. Long. 40. 35. E. Lat. 50. 5. N.
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50 5' N 40 35' E
BOGUTSCHAT
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BOGWANGOLA, a large inland trading town of Hindostan, in the province of Bengal. It is a great mart for grain, from which the town of Moorshedabad is principally supplied. It is chiefly built of bamboos, mats, and thatch; and it has been frequently removed on account of the encroachments of the Ganges. It is eight mile...
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24 21' N 88 29' E
BOGWANGOLA
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BOHADDIN, or, more properly, Boh-a-Eddyn, an eminent Aiabian writer and statesman, better known in the East under the appellation of 1bn-Sjcddad, or the Son of Sjeddad. He was born at Mossul in the year 539 of the Hejira (1145 A. D.) He early became eminent in the study of the Koran, and of the traditions and controver...
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BOHADDIN
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BOHEA, in commerce, one of the coarsest kinds of tea imported from China. See Tea.
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BOHEA
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BOHEMIA, a kingdom of Europe, subject to the house of Austria. See Austria.
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BOHEMIA
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BOHEMIAN Brethren, a Christian sect which sprung up in Bohemia in the year 1467. They treated the pope and cardinals as antichrist, and the church of Rome as the harlot spoken of in the Revelation. They rejected the sacraments of the Catholic church, and chose laymen for their ministers. They held the Scriptures to be ...
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BOHEMIAN
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BOHOL, or Bool, one of the most southern of the Philippine Islands, discovered by Magellan in the year 1621. It is about 32 miles in length and 20 in breadth, and produces gold. It is 20 miles north of Mindanao. Long. 124. 15. E. Lat. 10. N. '
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10 N 124 15' E
BOHOL
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BOIARDO, Count Matteo Maria, of a noble and illustrious house established at Ferrara, but originally from Reggio, was born at Scandiano, one of the seignorial estates of his family, near Reggio di Modena, about the year 1434 according to Tiraboschi, or 1420 according to Mazzuchelli. At an early age he entered the unive...
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BOIARDO
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BOIGTSBERG, a bailiwick in the circle of Voigtland, of the kingdom of Saxony. It contains four towns, 112 villages, and about 30,000 inhabitants, who are mostly employed in various manufactures. The town, of the same name, has near it some mines of iron, copper, and alum.
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BOIGTSBERG
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BOILEAU, Despreaux Nicoas, a celebrated French poet, was born at Paris in the year 1636. After having gone through a course of literature and philosophy, his relations induced him to study the law, and he was admitted advocate at the age of twenty-one. But though he had all the talents necessary for the bar, yet he cou...
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BOILEAU
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BOILING, or Ebullition, the bubbling up of any fluid. The term is most commonly applied to that bubbling which is produced by the application of fire; though that which ensues when the particles of bodies rapidly combine, such as on the mixing of an acid with an alkali, is sometimes also distinguished by the same name....
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BOILING
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BOINITZ, a town of Upper Hungary, in the county of Zell, remarkable for its baths and the quantity of saffron that grows about it. Long. 19. 10. E. Lat. 48. 42. N. BOIS-le-Duc, or Herzogensbosch, a city of the province of North Brabant, in the Netherlands. It stands at the confluence of the Dommel and the Aa, and is s...
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BOINITZ
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BOISSARD, John James, an antiquarian and Latin poet, born at Besançon in 1528. He studied at first under Hugues Babel, his uncle, professor of Greek at Louvain, and afterwards had other able masters; but their severity having disgusted him with study, he fled secretly from Louvain, traversed a great part of Germany, an...
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BOISSARD
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BOJADOR, a cape of Western Africa, which projects considerably into the sea, and presents a very rugged and tempestuous aspect. The Portuguese were for many years deterred by it from prosecuting their career of discovery in this direction. At length it was passed by Gellaney, and vessels navigating the Atlantic now sta...
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BOJADOR
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BOKHARA. See Bukharia.
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BOKHARA
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BOLABOLA, or Borabora, one of the Society Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is about twenty-four miles in circumference, and is surrounded by a reef of rocks and islets. A very lofty double-peaked mountain rises in the centre. There is a border of low land along the coast, which is very fertile, and covered with ...
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16 32' N 151 52' W
BOLABOLA
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BOLANDUS, John, a famous Jesuit, born at Tille-tnont in the Netherlands, in 1696. He distinguished himself by writing the lives of the saints, under the title of Aeta Sanctorum, of which he published five volumes in folio, but died while he was labouring at the sixth, in the seventieth year of his age. The continuators...
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BOLANDUS
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BOLE, an opake, earthy mineral, occurring in solid amorphous masses, of a yellow, red, or brownish colour. It yields to the nail, and cuts easily, but has a conchoidal fracture, with a shining streak, and adheres to the tongue. Its specific gravity is between 1∙60 and 2∙00, and when thrown into water it emits a crackli...
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BOLE
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BOLEYN, Ann, queen of Henry VIII. of England, and memorable in the English history as being the primary cause of the reformation, as the mother of Queen Elizabeth under whom it was completely established, and also on account of her own sufferings. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, and was born in 1505. At the ...
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BOLEYN
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BOLI, a large town of Asiatic Turkey, in Natolia, slightly defended by a palisade. It is the capital of a district, and the residence of a governor, and contains numerous public edifices, though nowise remarkable in their structure. In the vicinity abundance of ancient ruins are to be seen, and many marble fragments wi...
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41 30' N 31 20' E
BOLI
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BOLINGBROKE, Henry St John, lord viscount, a great statesman, an indifferent philosopher, and an admirable writer, was descended from an ancient and noble family, and born about the year 1672. He had a regular and liberal education, and, by the time he left the university, was considered as a person of uncommon qualifi...
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BOLINGBROKE
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BOLIVAR, Simon, the hero of South American independence, was born in the city of Caraccas, on the 24th July 1783. His father was Don Juan Vicente Bolivar y Ponte, and his mother Dona Maria Concepcion Palacios y Sojo, both descended of noble families in Venezuela. After acquiring the elements of a liberal education at h...
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BOLIVAR
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BOLIVIA. This name has been recently given to a new state or republic in South America, formed from the provinces of Upper Peru, which formerly constituted part of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, and were well known by the names of Charcas, Potosi, La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. These provinces, on ...
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BOLIVIA
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BOLKENHAIN, a circle in the Prussian government of Liegnitz, in Silesia, extending over 107 square miles, or 65,480 acres, and containing two towns and thirty-eight villages, with 3991 houses and 26,131 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, on the river Neisse, contains a Catholic and a Lutheran church, a hos...
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BOLKENHAIN
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BOLLARDS, large posts set into the ground on each side of a dock. On docking or undocking ships, large blocks are lashed to them; and through these blocks are reeved the transporting hawsers to be brought to the capstans.
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BOLLARDS
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BOLOGNA, one of the provinces called delegations, into which the papal dominions are divided. It is bounded on the north by Ferrara, on the east by Ravenna, on the south by Tuscany, and on the west by Modena. It extends over 1450 square miles, and comprehends two cities, twenty-one towns, and 371 villages, with a popul...
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BOLOGNA
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BOLOGNIAN Stone. At Monte Paterno, about four miles from Bologna, a radiating columnar variety of barytes is found imbedded in marl, which, when heated to ignition, finely powdered, converted into a paste, and then dried in pieces about a quarter of an inch thick, affords a pyropliorus, which, after a few minutes’ expo...
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BOLOGNIAN
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BOLSČHAIA Reka, or the Great River, a river of Kamtschatka, which rises in a lake about 120 miles from its mouth. It flows into the sea of Okhotzk, in lat. 54. 52. N. It is navigable from its source to its mouth, and there is a lighthouse south of the entrance into the river.
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BOLSČHAIA
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BOLSCHERETSK, a town and fortress of Kamtschatka, formerly the capital of that peninsula, and the seat of the government. It is situated on the river Bolschaia Réka, 20 miles from its mouth, in an extensive plain stretching along the sea-shore. It was built in 1701, and was designed as a depot of Russian commerce; but,...
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BOLSCHERETSK
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BOLSTER, among surgeons, a soft yielding substance, [7:4:762] laid either under the head or under a broken limb. In this sense, bolsters are contrived for crooked, bunched, and otherwise distorted backs, shoulders, or limbs.
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BOLSTER
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BOLSWERT, or Bolsuerd, Scheltius a, an excellent engraver. The time of his birth and death, and the name of the master he studied under, are equally unknown. Bolswert worked entirely with the graver, and never called in the assistance of the point. Among the variety of engravings by this artist, the few following may b...
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BOLSWERT
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BOLT, among builders, an iron fastening fixed to doors and windows. Bolts are generally distinguished into three kinds; plate, round, and spring bolts. BθLT-Rope, in naval affairs, a rope passing round the sail, to which the edges are sewed, to prevent the sail from tearing.
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BOLTER, or Boulter, a kind of sieves for meal, having the bottoms made of woollen, hair, or wire. The bakers use bolters which are worked by the hand; millers have a larger sort, wrought by the motion of the mill.
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BOLTING, a term of art used in our inns of court, by which is meant a private arguing of cases. Bolting, or Boulting, the act of separating the flour from the bran by means of a sieve or bolter. Bolting- Cloth, or Bolster-cloth, sometimes also called Boulting-cloth, denotes a linen or hair-cloth for sifting meal or f...
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BOLTON, or Boulton, Edmund, an ingenious English antiquarian, who lived in the beginning of the seventeenth century. His most considerable work is that entitled Nero Caesar, or Monarchie Depraved, dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham, lord high admiral, printed at London 1624, folio, and adorned with several curious and...
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BOLTON le Moor, a town of the hundred of Salford, in the county of Lancaster, 197 miles from London. It is divided by a small stream into Great and Little Bolton. It is one of the many towns which, within the last forty years, have risen to wealth and beauty from the great increase of the cotton trade in the coal distr...
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BOMB, in military affairs, a large shell of cast-iron, having a considerable vent to receive the fuse, which is made of wood. The shell being filled with gunpowder, the fuse is driven into the vent or aperture within an inch of the head, and fastened with a cement made of quicklime, ashes, brick-dust, and steel filings...
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BOMBARDIER, a person employed about a mortar. His business is to drive the fuse, fix the shell, and load and fire the mortar.
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BOMBARDO, a musical instrument of the wind kind, similar to the bassoon, and used as a bass to the hautboy.
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BOMBASINE, a name given to two sorts of stuffs, the one of silk, and the other crossed of cotton.
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BOMBAST, in composition, is a serious endeavour, by strained description, to elevate a low or familiar subject; which, instead of being sublime, never fails to be ridiculous. The mind, in some animating passions, is indeed apt to magnify its objects beyond natural bounds; but such hyperbolical description has its limit...
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BOMBAY. This island, which is the seat of government for the western part of India, is situated in lat. 18. 56. N. and long. 72. 56. E. Its length from north to south is six and a half miles, and its breadth, near the fort, is about a mile. It is separated from the mainland by an arm of the sea, and it forms, in conjun...
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BOMBUS, in Music, an artificial motion with the hands, imitating in cadence and harmony the buzzing of bees. The word is originally Greek, and signifies the buzz, boom, or noise of bees, gnats, and the like. In this sense the word is applied to describe a species of applause murmured or buzzed by ancient auditories.
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BOMONICI, in Grecian Antiquity, young men of Lacedaemon, who contended at the sacrifices of Diana which of them was able to endure most lashes, being scourged before the altar of this goddess.
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BOMST, a circle in the Prussian government of Posen, and formerly a part of Poland. It extends over 408 square miles, or 261,120 acres, and contains seven towns and 158 villages, with 33,530 inhabitants. The soil is sandy, bearing little corn, except rye and oats. The chief place, a city of the same name, stands on the...
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BONA, a considerable sea-port of the territory of Algiers, in the province of Constantina, called by the Arabs Bleid-el-Anet. It appears to be about a mile distant from the ancient Hippo, the ruins of which, consisting of broken walls and cisterns, cover a considerable extent of ground. It has two good harbours, though...
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BONA
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BONAA, an island in the Eastern Seas, about twenty-five miles in circuit, lying off the north-western extremity of Ceram. Long. 128. 5. E. Lat. 33. S.
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BONAA
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BONAPARTE, or Buonaparte. See Napoleon.
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BONARELLI, della Rovere, Count Guid’ Ubaldo, an Italian poet, born at Urbino on the 25th December 1563, was the son of Count Pietro Bonarelli, minister of the duke of Urbino. He was intrusted with several important negociations, and was esteemed an able politician and learned philosopher. He was the author of a favola ...
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BONASSUS. See Mammalia, Index.
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BONATI, a city, the capital of a district of the same name, in thePrincipato-Citeriore,of the kingdom of Naples, containing 3480 inhabitants.
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BONAVENTURE, a celebrated cardinal, called, from his works, the Seraphic Doctor. He was born at Bagnarea, a small town of Tuscany, in 1221. His original name was Giovanni Fidenza; but from a particular circumstance he got that of Bonaventure, by which alone he is now generally known. He took the habit of a monk of the ...
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BONAVISTA, an island near the western coast of Africa, forming part of the group called Cape de Verd from their vicinity to that remarkable promontory. It was the first of the number discovered by the Portuguese in 1450. Captain Porter describes the island as consisting of a level plain, rising in the centre into rugge...
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BONAWASI, a small and decayed town of Hindostan, in the province of North Canara, district of Soonda, on the confines of the Bednore district. It contained in Hyder’s time 500 houses, but is now in a ruinous condition. Long. 75. 12. E. Lat. 14. 27. N.
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BONAWASI
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BOND, John, a commentator on Horace and Persius, was born in Somersetshire in the year 1550, and educated at Winchester school. In 1569 he was entered a student of the university of Oxford, probably in the New College, of which he became either one of the clerks or chaplains. He took his degree as bachelor of arts in 1...
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BOND
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BONDAGE properly signifies the same with slavery, but in old law books is used for villenage. Tenants in bondage paid kenots, did fealty, and were prohibited from felling trees in their own garden, without license of the lord. The widow of a tenant in bondage held her husband’s estate quam diu vixerit sine marito, as l...
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BONDMAN, in the English law, is a term used for a villain, or tenant in villenage. The Romans had two kinds of bondmen; one, called servi, who were those either bought for money, taken in war, left by succession, or acquired by some other lawful title; the other, born of their bondwomen, and called vernoe. We may add a...
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BONDOU, a kingdom of Western Africa, between the upper courses of the Senegal and Gambia, bordering on Bambouk, Foota Torra, Tenda, Dentila, and other small kingdoms. The country is elevated, and the mountains are generally unproductive, and covered with stunted wood. The intervening valleys, however, are fertile, and ...
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BONES. See Anatomy. Bones in Fτιneral Solemnities. Different usages and ceremonies relating to the bones of the dead have obtained in different ages; as gathering them from the funeral pile, washing, anointing, and depositing them in urns, and then into tombs; and translating them, which was not to be done without the ...
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BONES
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BONET, or Bonnet, Theophilus, an eminent physician, born at Geneva on the 5th of March 1620. He took his degree in physic in 1643, after having studied with distinction in the schools of his own country, and in the most celebrated foreign universities; and then applied himself to the practice of his profession, in whic...
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BONET
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BONFADIO, James, a celebrated Italian writer, was born about the commencement of the sixteenth century, at Gazano near Salo, in the diocese of Brescia. He was secretary to cardinal Merinos, archbishop of Bari, and after his death to cardinal Ghinucci. He afterwards read public lectures on Aristotle’s politics, and on r...
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BONFINI, Anthony, a Latin historian of the fifteenth century, was born at Ascoli, in Marches of Ancona, in December 1427, and attached himself to the study of history and the belles lettres. Matthias Corvin, king of Hungary, having heard of his learning, sent for him, retained him, and settled upon him a pension. He di...
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BONFRERE, James, in Latin Bonfrerius, a learned Jesuit, born at Dinand-sur-Meuse in 1573. He wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch, and learned notes on the Onomastico, or description of the places and towns mentioned in the Scripture. He died at Tournay in 1643, aged seventy.
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BONGARS, James, in Latin Bongarsius, counsellor and maitre d’hotel to Henri IV., and one of the ablest critics of his time, was born at Orleans in 1546. He studied the belles lettres at Strasburg under an anabaptist professor, and law at Bourges under Cujas. He was for near thirty years employed in the most important n...
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BONIFACE, the name of several eminent men, particularly of nine popes. To the first of these, who was chosen pope in December 418, St Augustin dedicated his four books in answer to the two epistles of the Pelagians. Boniface II. was elected pope in October 530, and succeeded Felix 1V., who had been nominated by a part ...
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BONIFACE
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BONIFACI, a town in the Austrian kingdom of Venetian Lombardy, and in the delegation of Verona. It is the chief place of a district of the same name, on the Alpon, containing 3640 inhabitants.
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BONIFACIO, a town in the island of Corsica, beyond the mountains, near the strait called Bocca di Bonifacio. It is well fortified, and contains about 3000 inhabitants. Long. 9. 9. 16. E. Lat. 41. 23. 10. N.
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BONIFACIO
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BONN, a circle in the Prussian government of Cologne, extending over 75 square miles, or 48,000 acres, including, besides the city, three villages on the left bank of the Rhine, with 24,118 inhabitants. It was the estate of the archbishop of Cologne before the sequestration which accompanied the French revolution. The ...
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BONN
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BONNEE River. This river is formed by the stream of the Soank, which rises in Hindostan, in the district of Chuta Nagpoor and the Burkee river, which it joins in long. 84. 50. E. and lat. 21. 43. N. The united streams pursue a course of about 110 miles, when they take the name of the Bonnce river. Its course afterwards...
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21 43' N 84 50' E
BONNEE
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BONNEFONS, or Bonnefonius, Jjdiin, a Latin poet, was born at Clermont in Auvergne in 1554. He studied law under Cujas at Bourges; became an advocate in the parliament of Paris; was appointed lieutenant-general of Bar-sur-Seine; and acquired great reputation by his Pan-charis and other poems. He died in 1612, in the six...
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BONNER, Edmund, bishop of London, was born at Hanley in Worcestershire about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century, and generally supposed to be the natural son of one Savage, a priest, who was the natural son of Sir John Savage of Clifton in the same county. Strype, however, says he was positi...
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BONNER
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BONNET, Charles, an eminent naturalist, was born at Geneva on the 13th March 1720, of a French family who had been forced on account of religious principles to leave their native country. As he was an only son, his father paid great attention to his education; and finding that he made little progress at the public scho...
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BONNET
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BONNET, in a general sense, denotes a cover for the head, in common use before the introduction of hats. Bonnet, in Fortification, a small work consisting of two faces, having only a parapet with two rows of palisades, at about ten or twelve feet distance. It is generally raised before the salient angle of the counter...
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BONNET
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BONNEVAL, Claude Alexander, Count de, known in the latter part of his life by the name of Achmet Pasha, descended from an illustrious family ^of Limousin, was born on the 14th July 1675, entered himself at the age of sixteen in the service of the crown, and married the daughter of Marshal de Biron. He distinguished him...
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BONNEVAL
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BONONCINI, Giovanni Maria, of Modena, an eminent musical composer, who for some time divided the opinions of the conoscenti in this kingdom, respecting his merits as compared with Handel. An Italian opera, entitled Pharnaces, has the name of Bononcini prefixed to it; but whether the words, or only the music, be his com...
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BONONCINI
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BONONIA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Gallia Belgica, supposed to be the Portus Iccius of Caesar, and [7:4:773]the Gessoriacum of Mela, and to have had three different names. In Peutinger’s map it is called Gessoriacum Bononia. This Bononia corresponds to the modern Bouloqne. Long. 1. 30. E. Lat. 50. 40. N. Bononia...
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BONONIA
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BONVINCINO, Alessandro, called Le Moretto, an historical and portrait painter, was born at Rovate in 1514. He was originally a disciple of Titian, under whose direction he studied diligently for some years; but having accidentally seen the designs of Raphael, he gave himself up entirely to the study of those masterpiec...
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BONVINCINO
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BONY, a kingdom in the island of Celebes, extending from the river Chinrana to the river Salenico a length of about twenty leagues, along the western shore of the bay or gulf of Bony, which indents the northern shore of the island of Celebes to the depth of nearly 200 miles. This kingdom is of very ancient origin, and ...
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BONY
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BONZES, Indian priests. See Hindostan.
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BONZES
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BOODROOM, or Baudrun, a small town of Asia Minor, in Caramania, situated at the bottom of a deep bay. It is supposed to occupy the site of the ancient Halicarnassus, and the vicinity abounds with many relics of antiquity. The houses are irregularly built along the shore, and are interspersed, as is usual in Asiatic cit...
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BOODROOM
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BOOGEBOOGE, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Cutch, situated about ten miles inland from the Gulf of Cutch, and possessed by independent chiefs. The port of this district, which is named Muddi, stands at the mouth of a small river, about twenty miles below Boogebooge, and is a place of considerable trade. Long. ...
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BOOGEBOOGE
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BOOK, the general name of almost every literary composition, but, in a more limited sense, applied only to such compositions as are large enough to make a volume. Several sorts of materials were formerly used in making books. Plates of lead and copper, the bark of trees, bricks, stone, and wood, were the substances an...
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BOOK
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BOOK-KEEPING. Book-keeping is the art of keeping books of account, whether in public offices, manufacturing establishments, or mercantile counting-houses', but the name is generally applied to the books of merchants, on account of the complexity of their transactions, and the care consequently required to prevent obsc...
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BOOK-KEEPING
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BOOKSELLER, one who trades in books. Booksellers, amongst us, are the same with the bibliopolae of the ancients, whose office was distinct from that of the libra-rib Petty dealers, or venders of small wares, were distinguished by the diminutive appellation of libelliones. In Rome, the Argiletum was the mart for books, ...
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BOOKSELLER
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BOOM, in naval language, a long piece of timber with which the clew of the studding-sail is spread out; but sometimes the boom is used to spread or boom out the clew of the main-sail. Boom denotes also a cable stretched across the mouth of a river or harbour, with yards, top-masts, battling, or spars of wood, lashed t...
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BOOM
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BOOMING, among sailors, denotes the application of a boom to the sails. A ship is said to come booming forwards when she comes with all the sail she can make.
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BOOMING
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BOONDEE, a town of Hindostan, in the province of Ajmeer, situated on the southern declivity of a long range of hills, which run nearly from east to west. It is the residence of a rajah, and is tributary to the Mahrattas. The palace of the rajah is fortified, and is a massive building of stone, situated on the brow of a...
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BOONDEE
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BOORHANPOOR, a city of Hindostan, ana the ancient capital of the Khandesh province in the Mahratta territories, situated on the north-west bank of the Tuptee. This was formerly a large city, and when it was in a flourishing condition it extended about ten miles, as is evident from the heaps of ruins that are now scatte...
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BOORHANPOOR
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BOORO, an island in the Eastern Seas, situated between the third and fourth degrees of south latitude, and the 126th and 127th of east longitude. It may be estimated at seventy-five miles in length by thirty-eight in average breadth. The island is of an oval shape. The Dutch had a small fortress in the bay of Cajelli, ...
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BOORO
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BOOROOJIRD, a flourishing city of Persia, in the province of Irak, situated at the foot of a mountain. It is the chief town of a district peopled by a tribe called Lack, who seldom wander far from the spots to which they are partial, but settle in villages, and employ themselves in the im> provement of their estates. T...
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BOOROOJIRD
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BOOSHATTER, formerly the city of Utica, famous for the retreat and death of Cato, lies about seven miles inland from Porto Farina, in the bay of Tunis.
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BOOSHATTER
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BOOT, a leathern cover or defence for the leg, used to keep that part of the body more firm, and to defend it from the injuries of the weather. Boots seem to have taken their name from the resemblance they bear to a sort of jacks or leathern bottles formerly in use, called bottae in Latin, and in the old French bouts. ...
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BOOT
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BOOTAN. This extensive region is situated between Bengal and Thibet, and principally between the twenty-sixth and twenty-eighth degrees of north latitude, though its limits are far from being exactly defined. It is supposed to be 200 miles from east to west, and 90 from north to south. To the north it is separated from...
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