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BOGOTA -BOHEMIA. 



place inspired him to write his Psyche (Diuchenkn] 

 which appeared in 1775, niul bad his Kimc on a last- 

 ing foundation. After this, hi- devoted him-rlf li 

 music and {jot-try, in solitary sludy at Petersburg, til 

 Catharine called him from his retirement. He then 

 wrote, on diifcrcnt occasions, several dramatic ami 

 historical pieces. In 1788, he was made president o: 

 the imperial archives. In 1795, he took leave of UK 

 court, and lived as a private man in Little Knssja 

 A lexandcr it-called him to Petersburg, where lie Jivec 

 till 1SO3. lie was as remarkable for modesty as for 

 genius, and a man of childlike goodness and vivacity. 

 BOOTA, at the lime of the Spanish conquest, was 

 t!ie scat of empire of one of the most civilized state; 

 of America, that of the Muisca Indians. Owing to 

 the fertility of the great valley of Bogota, which ha< 

 In 1 11 thought capable of sustaining a population of 

 two or three millions, it contained a comparatively 

 dense population of Indians, whose advances in re- 

 finement rendered them, in a certain sense, the rivals 

 of the inhabitants of Cuzco. They traced the foun- 

 dation of their religious and political institutions to 

 Bochica, whose history greatly resembles that of 

 Mauco Capac. The following cut represents the 

 costume of a male and female Bogotan. 



They were subdued by the Spanish general Gon- 

 zalo Ximenez di Quesada. See Bochica, Cundina- 

 marca Muisca; Compagnoni, t. xix. ; Humboldt; 

 Robinson's Bogota. 



BOGOTA, or SANTA FE DE BOGOTA ; a city of South 

 America, the capital of the republic of Colombia, 

 and formerly the capital of the vice-royalty of lS T ew 

 Grenada. Lon. 74 15' W. ; lat. 4 36' N. The po- 

 pulation has of late been variously stated, from less 

 Uian 30,000 to 60,000. 



Bogota is situated in a spacious and luxuriant plain, 

 elevated 8721 feet above the level of the sea, and 

 ies to the east of the principal chain of the Andes. 

 Two small streams flow through the town, which join 

 the river Funza, or Bogota, at a short distance. The 

 city contains a magnificent cathedral, a university, a 

 mint, an hospital, and various other public buildings. 

 The streets are wide and well paved. The city, by- 

 reason of its elevation, enjoys the temperature of 

 perpetual spring; the mean heat being 57-74, and 

 the thermometer having a range of only a few de- 

 grees. The plains around Bogota produce two regu- 

 lar harvests in a year. 



BOGOTA or FUXZA river. See Teouendama, Catar- 

 act of. 



BOGCK, David, the Father, as he has been called, 



of the London missionary society, was born at Hally- 

 down, in the parish of Coldingham, Berwickshire, on 

 the 18th February, 1750. After undergoing the 

 usual course of study at Edinburgh, lie was licensed 

 as u preacher in connexion with the church of Scot- 

 land. In 1771, he removed to London, and was for 

 some time employed as usher in an academy, and 

 afterwards became minister of an independent chapel 

 at Gosport. In 1780, lie entered into the design of 

 becoming tutor to an establishment tor directing the 

 studies of young men destined for the Christian mi- 

 nistry, in connexion with the Independent com m union. 

 It was in this period, though employed with the ill-tails 

 of what most men would have felt as aTull occupation 

 of their time, that he turned his attention to the for- 

 mation of a grand missionary scheme, which after- 

 wards resulted in the London missionary society. The 

 influence which the establishment of this institution 

 was calculated to have on the public mind was great, 

 and the springing up of the British and foreign Bible 

 society, and the religious tract society at short inter- 

 vals, proves how much good was effected by the im- 

 petus thus given by him. In the establishment of 

 both of these he likewise took an active part, contri- 

 buting to the latter body the first of a series of publu 

 cations which have been of great usefulness. In the 

 year 1 796, Mr Bogue was called upon to show whether 

 he, who had professed himself such a friend to mis- 

 sionary enterprise, was sufficiently imbued with the 

 spirit of the gospel to enable him to forsake home 

 and the comforts of civilized society, to devote him- 

 self to its sacred cause. The call alluded to, was 

 made and it was not made in vain by Robert Hal- 

 dane, Esq. of Airdrie, who, to furnish funds for this 

 grand enterprise, sold his estate. Their design was, 

 in conjunction with two other divines, who had re- 

 cently left the established church of Scotland, and 

 become Independent ministers, to preach the gospel 

 to the natives of India, and likewise to form a semi- 

 nary for the instruction of fellow labourers in the 

 same field. The names of the two other ministers 

 who intended to join in this enterprise were the Rev. 

 Greville Ewing of Glasgow, and the Rev. W. Innes 

 of Edinburgh. But the design was frustrated by the 

 jealousy of the East India company, who refused their 

 sanction to the undertaking a most fortunate cir- 

 cumstance, as it afterwards appeared, in as far as 

 the missionaries were individually concerned ; for a 

 massacre of Europeans took place at the exact spot 

 where it was intended the mission shoujd have been 

 established, and from which these Christian labourers 

 could scarcely have hoped to escape. In 1815, Mr 

 Bogue received the diploma of doctor of divinity, 

 from the senatus academicus of Yale college, North 

 America. His zeal for the cause of missions, to which 

 lie consecrated his life, continued to the last : he may 

 truly be said to have died in the cause. He annually 

 made tours in different parts of the country in behalf 

 of the missionary society ; and it was on a journey ot 

 ;his kind, in which he bad been requested to assist at 

 a meeting of the Sussex auxiliary society, that he took 

 ill at the house of the Rev. Mr Goulty of Brighton, 

 and died on the 25th of October, 1825, after a short 

 llness. The only works of any extent for which we 

 are indebted to the pen of Dr Bogue, are, " An Es- 

 say on the Divine Authority of the New Testament," 

 41 Discourses on the Millennium," and a " History of 

 Dissenters," which he undertook in conjunction with 

 lis pupil and friend Dr Bennet. The first of these 

 las been translated into the French, Italian, German, 

 ind Spanish languages, and has been widely circu- 

 ated on the continent of Europe. 



BOHEMIA, BCEHEIM, BOJEXHEIM, has its name from 

 .he Boii, a Celtic nation, who settled there about 600 

 B. C., under their leader Segovesus, a nephew of 



