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all who would not adopt their profeflion of faith, viz. 

 " There is but one God, and Baba is his apoftlt :" and they 

 put feveral Mahometans and Chrillians, who relifted them, 

 to death. At length, the Mahometans and Chriftians unit- 

 '"fC together, raifed an army, which entirely routed their 

 followers, dcftroyed many of them, and took their two 

 chiefs captives, who were afterwards beheaded ; and thus 

 their feci was totally annihilated. Herbelot. Bib. Orient. 

 Sale's Koran. Intiod. p. 187. 



Baba, in Geography, a territory in the iurifdiftion of 

 Guayaquil, in South America, extending to the Ikirts of 

 the Cordilleras, or the mountains of Anga Marca, belong- 

 ing to the jnrifdiftion of Latacunga. Bclides the principal 

 town ot the fame name, at fome dillance from a river of the 

 fame appellation, there are two other places called San Lo- 

 renzo and Palenque, far from the capital, and near the Cor- 

 dilleras, whofe inhabitants 'are little civilized. The cacao- 

 trees, which abound in this diitriCl, produce fruit twice in 

 the year. 



Baba, or Temifvar, a town of European Turkey, in Bul- 

 garia, 64 miles eaft of Siliftria. 



Baba, Cape, a cape of Natolia, in Afia Minor, between 

 the iflands of Tenedos and Lefbos, and near the gulf of 

 Adramytti, on the coall of the Archipelago. N. lat. 39° 

 33'. E. long. 26" 22'. It was formerly the promontoiy 

 Ledos. A fmall town of the fame name, fituated to the 

 call of the cape, on a floping ground, has a fmall harbour 

 for boats ; and is famous in Turkey for the knife and fword 

 blades which are manufaftured there for the ule of the 

 orientals. It is peopled by Turks and Greeks ; the adjacent 

 foil is tolerably good, and furnifhes the fame produftions as 

 that of Troas. Olivier's Trav. vol. ii. p. 56. 



Baba, in Ornithology, the Ruffian name of the Pelicam. 

 BABACHOKA, in Gcogmphy, one of the Biifagos 

 iflands. 



BABAHOYO, a territory and town of the jurifdiftion 

 cf Guayaquil, in South America. The town is the fite of 

 the grand cuftom-houfe, w'hcre account is taken of the va- 

 rious commodities that are conveyed to or from the Cordil- 

 leras and adjacent countries. BellJes the principal town, 

 this dillridl contains Ujiba, Caracol, Quilea, and Mangathes; 

 the two laft border on the Cordilleras, and are at a confide- 

 rable dillance from Ujiba, where the prieft refides during 

 winter, and whence he removes to Babahoyo in the fummer. 

 The capital, befides its fettled inhabitants, has always a 

 great number of traders from other ports. This country, 

 being level and low, is overflowed by the fwcllings of the 

 river.- Caluma, Ujiba, and Caracol ; fo that at Babahoyo 

 t!ie water rifes to the tir'd itory of the houfcs ; and dining 

 winter it is entirely deferted. In this dillrict cacaos ai-e 

 abundant. It alfo produces cotton, rice, Guinea pepper, 

 and a great variety of fruits. It has likewife large droves 

 of black cattle, horfes, and mules, which, in winter, are 

 kept in the mountains, and in fummer are removed to the low 

 lands to feed on the gamalotc, a plant fo luxin-iant as to cover 

 the ground, and rifing to the height of two and a half yards. 

 BABA IN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kcnnan, 

 ninety miles fouth-eaft of Strgian. 



Babain, a village cr burgh of Egypt, built on the ruins 

 of an ancient town, about fix miles well of Achmounain. 

 BAB-BAHA, one of the richeft countries of Abylfmia, 

 about twelve miles from the river Baha, and near the lake 

 Tzana. This on the fouth, and Woggora on the north, 

 are the two granaries that fupply the red of the kingdom. 

 It contains a number of fmall villages ; in which" the queen 

 and many of her relations have their houfes and poifeillons. 

 Thefe villages are aTi Airrounded with Kolquall trees, as 

 large in tlie trunk as ^hofe of the province of Tigvc, but 

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Icfs bfatitiful, and fumifhed with fewer branches. Bruec's 



Travck, vol. iii. p. 504. 



BABBI, Gregorio, in Biography, a tenor finger in the 

 Italian opera, with the fwcetcd, mou flexible, and mod power- 

 ful voice of its kind, that his country could boall at the time. 

 He flouriflud from 1 730 to 1 74c ; never was in England ; but 

 we have fecn the principal fongs that were compoled for him, 

 and convti fed with many good judges that heard him fing 

 thein, and have no doubt but that he was a dignilied, fplcn- 

 did, and powerful performer. 



BABBIN, in Go-)grnphy, a town of Pomcrania, in the 

 ifland of Riigen, twelve miles north of Bergen. 



BABBINI, Mattfo, in Biography, fo named from 

 being the fchoJar or imitator of Babbi, arrived in England 

 in 1786, at the fame time as Rubineili. He had a tenor voice 

 that v.as fweet, thougii not powerful, had an elegant and 

 pltafiiig ftyle of finging ; but it was cafy to imagine that his 

 voice had been better ; and not difficult to diftover, though 

 his talle was modem, and many of his rlffioramenti refined 

 and judicious, that his graces were fometimes redundant, 

 and his manner affected. His importance was very much 

 diminifhed, when he fung with the Mara ; and after the ar- 

 rival of Rubineili, he funk into inlignificance. 



BjVBBLING, among Hunters, is when the hounds arc 

 too hufy aitir they have found a good fcent. 



BABEL, William, in Biography, organifl of AH- 

 hallc/ws, Bread-ftrect, feems to have bjen the firft, in this 

 country at kail, who thinned, fimplified, and diverted the 

 mnfic of keved-inllruments of the crouded and complicated 

 harmony, with which, from the convenience of the clavier, 

 and paffion for full and elaborate mufic, it had been embar- 

 raffcd from its earliell cultivation. This author acquired 

 great celebrity by wire-drawing the favourite fongs of the 

 opera of Riualdo, and others of the fame period, into 

 fhowy and brilliant IcfTons, which, by mere rapidity of fin- 

 ger in playing lingle founds, without the affiftance of taftc, 

 exprcfhon, harm.ony, or modulation, enabled the performer 

 to aftonilh ignorance, and acquire the reputation of a great 

 player, at a fir.all cxpence. There is no inftrument io fa- 

 vourable to fucli frothy and unmeaning mufic as the harpfi- 

 choid. Arpeggios, which lie under the fingers, and running 

 up and down the fcales of eafy keys with velocity, are not 

 difficult, on an inftrument of which neither the tone nor 

 tuning depends on the player ; as neither his breath nor bow- 

 hand is rtquifite to give exiftence or fweetncfs to its founds. 

 And Mr. Babel, by avoiding its chief difficulties of full 

 harmony, and diffimilar motion of the parts, at once grati- 

 fied idlencfs and vanitv. We remember well, in the early part 

 of our hfe, being duped to the glare and glitter of this kind 

 of linfcl ; i\\\% poiijfiere dans !es yeux, which Mr. Felton con- 

 tinued, and other dealers in notes, et run que des notes, till 

 Jozzi, the finger, by his neat and elegant manner of exe- 

 cuting the brilliant, graceful, and pleating kflbns of Alberti, 

 rendered them the objeds of imitation. At length, on 

 the arrival of the late Mr. Bach, and conftruAion of piano- 

 fortes in this country, the performers on keyed-inllmments 

 were oblii'id wholly to change their ground ; and inflead of 

 furpriling^hy the feeming labour and dexterity of execution, 

 had the real and more ufeful difficulties of tafle, expreflion, 

 and light and (hade, to encounter. Babel, who was one 

 of his Majelly George the Firil's private mufic, died about 

 the year 1722. 



Babel, in Ancient Geography, a city and tower buih by 

 Noah's polUrity in the plain of Shinar, Gen. xi. I — 9. Its 

 preeife fituation is not afccrtained ; nor is it of any great 

 importance to determine it. It was within the province of 

 Shinar, and probably the ancient Babylon was erefled on 

 or near its ruins. (See Sui.nar, and £AB¥LOi<.) Some tra- 



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