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ef diJlruBlon ; to a harbour not far diftant, tlicy gave the 

 name of Mete, or death ; and an adjacent headland they call- 

 ed Garde/an, or the cape of burial. Near this ftrait Ptolemy 

 places a town, which he calls, in the Greek, Mandaeth, 

 probably a coiTupticn of Maiideb; ar-.d the promotitory on 

 the fouth fide of the ilrait, and the city upon it, is Dirx, 

 which means the Hades, or Hell, by Ptolemy called An^.:. 

 A clufter of idands met with in the canal, after paffin'r 

 Mocha, is called Jibb;lZckir, or the idands of prayer for the 

 remembrance of the dead. And in the fame courfe up the 

 gulf, others are called Scbaat Gzicr, praife or glory be to 

 God, as we may fuppofe, for the return from this dan- 

 gerous navigation. Niebuhr and Bruce. 



In the " Periplus of the Erythraean fea," by Dr. Vin- 

 cent, the ftraits of Babel-mandeb are contrafted to 23 

 miles, and divided into two channels, by the intervention of 

 Perim and othtr iflcs ; and they open in an eafterlv direction 

 to Cana or Cape Fartaque on the Arabian fide, and to Aro- 

 mata or Gardefan on the coaft of Africa ; which two pro- 

 montories form the proper entrance to the ftraits from the In- 

 dian ocean, and are about 250 geographical miles afunder. 



BABENHAUSEN, a town of Germany in the circle 

 of Swabia, to which belongs a lord (hip of the counts of 

 Fugger, featcd on the Gunz ; 26 miles W. S. W. of Augf- 

 burgh, and 16 S. E. of Ulm. N. lat. 48° 11'. E. long. 

 9' 16'. 



BABENSKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government 

 of Archangel, 90 miles S. S. W. of Kola. 



BABIA, a river of Ruffian I^apland, which runs into 

 the White fea, fix miles fouth of Pialitza. 



Babia, in Mythology, a goddefs of Syria, worlhipptd 

 particularly at Damas. She was fjppofed to be the god- 

 defs of youth, and to have been their Venus, who pre- 

 fided over love and marriage. Selden, de Diis Syris, Syntag. 

 II. c. 4. 



BA13IBA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Libya interior, on the Weftern coaft, between the rivers 

 Aradus and Stachir. 



BABICA, in Geography, a town of Poland, in the Pa- 

 latinate of Min(k, eight miles eaft of Mozyr. 



BABIN, Francis, in Biography, a theologian and 

 canonift of France, was born at Angers in 1651, and 

 eledled profeflTor of divinity* in the univerfity of his native 

 city. Here he read lecture; to numerous clafles for 20 

 years. In 1706, he was appointed by the bifliop of Angers 

 one of his errand vicars, and employed to collect and regu- 

 late the minutes of the conferences of the diocefe. This 

 work was publiftied in 18 volumes l2mo, and is much 

 eftcemed for its method and ftyle. In 1697, Babin piiblifh- 

 ed in 410. a work, intitlcd, " A Narrative of what pan"ed 

 in the univerfity of Angers, on the fubjc£l of Janfenifm 

 and Cartefianifm." Louis XIV. allowed him a penfion of 

 2000 livres, and appointed him to fcveral lucrative and 

 honourable offices, which he enjoyed till his death in 1734, 

 at the age of 83. He retained his faculties to the lall, and 

 was often confulted on ecclefiaftical queftions and cafes of 

 confcience. Nouv. Diet. Hilt. 



Babin, in. Geography, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Lublin ; eight miles fouth-weft of Lublin. — Alfo, a 

 town of Poland, in the palatinate of Braclaw ; twenty-eight 

 niiles north-eaft of Braclaw. — Alfo, a town of Poland, in 

 the palatinate of Belcz, thirty-fix miles eaft of Belcz. 



BAEINGTON, Gervase, in Biography, an Englilh 

 bjfhop, was born about the middle of the fixteenth ceiitur)-, 

 in Nottinghamftiire, as fome fay, but accordlifg to others, 

 in Devonfhire, and educated in Tiiiiity college, Cambridge. 

 Vyiiilft he was domeftic chaplain to Hcnr)- earl of Pembroke, 



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prefidcnt of the council in the marches of Wales, he is faid 

 to have zffifted lady Mary Sidney, the countcfs of Pem- 

 broke, in her Englifu metrical verfion of the Pfalmj of Da- 

 vid. By the intereft of his patron, he was appointed trea- 

 furtr of the church of LandafF, and in 1591 became bilhop 

 of that fee, from which he was tranflattd firft to Exeter, 

 and afterwards to Worcefter, where he remained for thirteen 

 years, till the time of his death in 1610. Notwithftandinjf 

 his liberality in repairing the cathedral of the diocefe, and 

 bequeatiiing to it his library, no monument was erefted on 

 his grave. For learning and piety, and as a pathetic and po- 

 pular preacher, Dr. Babirrgton has been highly extolled. 

 He was alfo liumble and diligent, and with the exception of 

 having alienated from the biftiopric of Exeter the rich manor 

 of Crediton in Devonfhire, he has been deemed unobnoxioui 

 to the charge of avarice. His v.-orks, publilhed in 1615 and 

 1637, contain " Comfortable Notes on the Pentateuch:" 

 an " Expofition of the Creed, Commasdments, and Lord's 

 Prayer;" a " Conferei'.ce between Man's Frailty and Faith ;" 

 and three ftrmons. They are written in the quaint ftile of 

 the times, and are diftinguiihcd by their piety more than by 

 their literarv merit. Biog. Brit. ' 



BABINOVITCHI, in Geography, a diftrid of the go- 

 vernment of Mohilef in RufTia, on the river Lutchoffa, 

 falling into the Duna. N. lat. 54° 52'. E. long. 50" 14'. 



BABIROSA, Barbirovssa, and Baksikoessa. See 

 Babyrossa. 



BABITZ, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the cir- 

 cle of Czafiau ; five miles W. N. W. of TeaUch Brod. 



BABOEUF, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Oile, and chief place of a canton in the diflridi of Noyon ; 

 two miles E. N. E. of Noyon. 



BABOLZA, a town of Lower Hungary, in Sclavoniat 

 between Poil'eg and Zigeth, towards the Drave ; fuppofed 

 by fome to have been, the ancient Manfuelin'ium, or Pont 

 Manfuetinus. 



BABOON, in Zoology, the name of that tribe of Apes 

 (5/Wa Linn.) which have (hort tails; — cauda abbreviata : 

 papiones xwoxsTa'a "veterum, Gmel. Linn. Syft. Nat. ; and 

 comprehending the fpecics nemeftrina, apedia, fphinx, mor- 

 mon, maimon, and porcaria. The baboons of Dr. Shaw 

 are fuch of the Sim'ia genus as have very mufcular bodies, 

 and whofe tails are commonly (hort. Baboon in the Englifh 

 language has the fame application as habouin in the French, 

 and of which many accounts have been given by BufFon, 

 Sonnini, and others. Virey obferves, that the iatouinj arc 

 a ferocious and very lafcivious kind of ape, found in many 

 parts of the old world, and cfpecially in Africa. Their 

 muzzle, he remarks, is a little lengthened in the fame man- 

 ner as that of a dog, and on that account they have fome- 

 times been called /inges cyar.oeephr.hs, and alfo tr.agols. They 

 live on fruits, feeds, roots, leaves, infetts, &c. like the 

 other kinds of apes ; and are obferved to be a mifchievoui 

 and thievifii race. In a ftate of captivity they are altogether 

 untameable, are fond of wine and Ipirituouj hquors ; and 

 the females, it is affcrted, have an antipathy to the fair fex, 

 as the ma'es have againil men. See Simia. 



BABOPAS, in Geography, a town in the interior part 

 of New Albion, ealt of the long range of mountains which 

 extend northward from the head of the peninfula of Cali- 

 fornia. N. lat. 37° 45'. W. long. 1 14° 25'. 



BABORA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lcm- 

 berg ; twelve miles fouth of Lemberg. 



BABOUCARD, in Ornilhohgy, the name given by Buf- 

 fon to the Senegal variety of Aleedo Ij'pida (j^ Gn-.tlin), or 

 common king-fiflier; and whith BiilToa calls IfpiJa Senega- 

 lenjit, 



3 H BABOUIN, 



