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t^ic heiglit of about four feet ; leaves frondofe, few, flem. 

 clafpir;T at the bafe, pinrate ; the rib prickly ; the leaflets 

 enfiform, acuminate, fhiniiig, flat, ferrate-prickly ; fpathcs 

 axillai-y, folitary, fpreadin.r, continuing long after the fruit 

 is ripe ; flowers without fcent, very flightly tinged with 

 yellow ; fruit the colour and fize of a common chcri')', con- 

 tainingr an acid juice of which the Americans make a fort 

 of wine. Canes are made of the item ; they arc dark-co- 

 loured, (hining, jointed, very light, and called by the 

 French Cannes de Tohago. 2. B. major. Jacqu. 1. c. " Fruit 

 ovate." This refemblcs the former, but grows to the height 

 of twenty-five feet with a ftem mure than two inches in 

 diameter. Leaves fix feet long; leaflets nearly Ia'o feet, 

 with the marginal prickles brown, a::d more confpicuous 

 than thofe in the other fpecies ; fpadix comprtfled, flat, 

 reclining ; fruit of the form and fize of an egg, acuminate 

 with the ftyle, fibrous, fucculent, covered with a dark pur- 

 ple coriaceous coat, of which the natives make a vinous li- 

 quor. The nut is large, of a dark colour, ovate-oblong, 

 with an acuminate trifid apex, and three obfcure holes, two 

 above the middle, and the third higher ; kernel oblong, 

 blunt at both ends, cartilaginous, folid. The fruits are 

 called Cocorotes, and fold in the market. Both thcfe plants 

 are ■natives of Carthagena in South America. 



Bactris, in Entomology, a Ipecies of Bruchus that 

 lives in the nuts of the American palms. It is cinereous ; 

 wing-cafes rather fmooth ; poltcrior thighs ovate ; (hanks 

 incurved. Linn. Amoen. Ac. Gmel. &c. 



BACTROPERATA, alfo written baBropcreta, com- 

 pounded of pc/.K-^ov,J}aff, and ^rrpa, bag, or budget, an ancient 

 appellation given to philofophers by way of contempt, de- 

 noting a man with a ftaff and a budget. 



BACUACHI, in Geography, a town of North America, 

 in New Navarre, 135 miles iouth of Cafa Grand. 



BACULARES, a feft of Anab-^ptists, fo called, as 

 holding it unlawful to bear a fword, or any other arms be- 

 fides a llaff. 



BACULARIUS, in IVrlUrs <,f the Middle Age, an ec- 

 clcfiartical apparitor, or verger, who carries a ftali, baculus, 

 in his hand, as an enfign of his office. 



BACULE, in Fortification, a kind of portcullis, or gate, 

 made like a pit-fall with a couuterpoife, and fupported by 

 two great ftakes. It is ufually made before tue corps du 

 luard advancing near the gate. 



BACULI. See Bacilli. 



Baculi, Saudi Pauli, or batoons of St. Paul, a kind of 

 figured fiones, of the fame fubitance with thofe reftmbling 

 the briftles of fome American ixhini, called by Dr. Plott 

 lapiihs Judaici. 



BACULOMETRY, the art of meafuring acceffible and 

 jnacccflible diftances, by the help of lacidi, Haves or rods. 

 Schwenter has explained this art in his " Geometna Prafti- 

 ca ;" the rules of it are alfo laid down by Wolfius in his Ele- 

 ments ; Ozanam alfo gives an illullration of llie principles 

 of baculometry. See Distance, and Longimetry. 



BACULOSUS EccLESiASTict'S, in lome Ancient 

 La'ws, is ufed for a bifhop or abbot, dignified with the paf- 

 toral ftaff, or crozier. 



BACULUS DiviNATORius, or Virgula Di-vina, a 

 branch of hazle-tree, of a forked figure, ufcd for the dif- 

 covery of mines, fprings, &c. See Virgula Divina. 



BADA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afnca, accord- 

 ing to Ortclius and St. Cyprian. — Alfo a river of Phoenicia, 

 in the vicinity of the town of Paltos, near which was a 

 tomb faid to be that of Memnon, fon of Tithouus, and 

 nephew of Priam, king of Tioy. Stnibo, 1. xv. 



Bada, or Badas, in Zoology. This is the name of the 

 Rhinoci;r,os among the negroes on the coall of Angola. 



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BADACUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Norica, 

 fituate near the Danube. Ptolemy. 



BADAGIS, in Geography, a town of Korafan, on the 

 foutheni borders of the ancient defcrt of Margiana. N. lat. 

 35° 20'. E. long. 59° 28'. 



BADAGSHAN, or Badakshan, an ancient city of 

 In Jependent Tartar)-, in Great Bucharia, featcd on ' the 

 nortli fide of the river Amu, or Harrat, not far to the 

 north of Andcrab in Tokareftan. In the laft century, this 

 city belonged to the khan of Great Bucharia, or rather cf 

 Samarcand ; and being fecludcd in a branch of the Bclar 

 Alps, was ufed as a ftatc prifon for rivals or infurgmtj. 

 Badakflian was fmall, but well built and populous ; and its 

 inhabitants were enriched by the gold, filvcr, and rubieg 

 found in its neighbourhood ; the grains of gold and filver 

 abounding in the torrents which dtfcend from the moun- 

 tains, when the fnow melts in the beginning of fummer. 

 Several Caravans for Little Bucharia and China pafs by this 

 city. Ebn Plaukal mentions that there were not only mines 

 of rubies and lazulite near Badakfhan ; but that there was 

 abundance of mufl<. It is fituated above loc miles from 

 the fource of the Amu, 230 from Balk, and 210 from 

 Anghien in the province of Samarcand. N. lat. 36'-' 15'. 

 E. long. 68° 45'. 



BADAGRY, a town of Africa, in the country of Be- 

 nin. 



BADAJOZ, Pax Augusta, a conHdcrable town of 

 Spain, being the capital of Eftremadura, and a frontier 

 fortrefs towards Portugal. It is feated near the river Gua- 

 diana, on a gentle rife, which on one fide is covered with 

 olive-trees, and on the other fide of the river are fome forti- 

 fied hills. Over the river is a handfome ftone bridge, built, 

 as it has been faid, by the Romans, but as the infeription 

 on it ftales, by Phihp II. The ftreetsare dean, and partly 

 ftraight, and well-paved ; and there are a few large houfes, 

 with fome handfome churches and towers. The fortifica- 

 tions are not very ilrong ; but it has fuflained two fieges, 

 one by the Portuguefe in 1658 ; and another by the Eng- 

 lifh and Dutch, aided by the Portuguefe, in 1705. N. lat. 

 38° 43'. W. long. 6° 19. 



BADANATHA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Ara- 

 bia Felix, in the counti")' of the ThamudaJ. Pliny. 



BADARA, a town of Afia, in Gcdrofia. — Alfo, a town 

 of Afia, in Caramania. Ptolemy. 



BADA SKA, in Geography, a town of Siberia, on the 

 fide of the Angara ; <So miles N.N.W of Ttkutfch. 



BADATIUM, in Ancient Gtcgraphy, a town of the 

 Tauric Cherfonelus. Ptolemy. 



BADAUSA, a town of Afia, in Mefopotamia. Pto- 

 lemy. 



BADDAMMY, in Geography, a town of Hindoftan, in 

 the country of the Vifiapour, eighty miles fouth of Vifia- 

 pour. N. lat. 16° 10'. E. long. 75" 40'. 



BADELONA, Badalona, or B.stula, an ancient 

 town of Spain, in Catalonia, featcd on the coaft of the Me- 

 diterranean, about fix miles north-eail of Barcelona. 



BADELU, or Badibou, a country of Africa, on the 

 borders of the river Gambia. 



BADELUNDSAHS, a long narrow fandy traft of 

 land iu Sweden, in the province of Wellmannland, where 

 the Danes were totally defeated in 152 I. 



BADEN, a dillrift or county of SwifTerland, lying on 

 both fides of the river Limmalt, and bounded on the weft 

 by the river Aar, on the north by the Rhine, and on the 

 fouth by the Reufs, became a bailliage of the tight ancient 

 cantons in 1418, when the canton of Zurie took pofiifiion 

 of the town and county, and io continued till the year 

 J 7 12. A civil war breaking out at that time between the 



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