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pretended to have fallen from heaven : and a black ftone of 

 this kind was facht.i from P!,ryg'a, with great ceremony, 

 together with the pritHs that belonged to it, by a Roman 

 enibafTy, at the head of which w^as Scipio Nafica. 



BJE7.A, in G^-ogmphy, a town of Spain, in the province 

 of Andalufia, and country of Jaen, featcd on a high hill 

 three miles from the river Giiadalquivir. It vyas anciently 

 the fee of a bilhop, which was removed to Jaen in 1249, and 

 a kind of univerfity founded by John d'Avila. It was 

 taken by the Moors about the end of the fifteenth century. 



N.lat.37°45'- E. long. 3° 15'. • , r u 



B;eza, a town of South America, the capital ot the 

 government of Quixos, in the province of Qiiito, in Peru, 

 was founded by Gil Ramirez D'Avalos in the year 1559. 

 Bxza, though the tirll built town in this country, has re- 

 mained very fmall, which is owing to the building of the 

 two cities of Avila, and Archidona, which became the 

 chief objefts of the attention of the fcttlers. But thefe 

 places have not increafed to the title of cities, which was 

 given them, when they were founded ; becaufe the country 

 is much inferior to Qiiito with regard to its air and ferti- 

 lity, and the other enjoyments of hfe. Bceza ij much de- 

 clined, and confills only of eight or nine thatched houfes, 

 with about twenty inhabitants of all ages ; fo that from 

 being the capital as it once was, it is now annexed to the 

 parilh of PapjUafta, in which town refides tlie prieil, who 

 has alfo under his cere another town called Mafpu. This 

 decay was the unavoidable confequence of the removal of 

 the governor, who has of late refided at Archidona. See 

 Quixos. 



B.(EZ1LL0, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, three 

 leagues from Valladolid. 



. BAFETAS, or Baftas, a cloth made entirely of 

 eoarfe white cotton thread, which comes from the Eaft 

 Indies. Thofe of Sural are the bell. 



BAFFA, or BoFO, in Geography, a neat village of Africa, 

 on the Grain coaft, about a mile call of Sanguin ; which 

 fi'.pplies fliips with ivoiy and pepper. It is eafily diilin- 

 guilhed by a long fandy point, furrounded with rocks, that 

 projeit into the fea. The language fpoken in this place is 

 a kind of corrupt Portuguefe, or rather a mixed language. 



Baffa, Ccipe, is the fouth-vveil point of the ifland of 

 Cyprus in the Mediterranean, in N. hit. 34° 37'. E. long. 

 32° 18'. Near this harbour ftood the ancient Paphos, 

 where was a temple confecrated to Venus (fee Paphos) ; 

 it is now fnccecdtd by ruins, a village, a mean callle, and 

 equally mean houfes, and a few Greek churches of the fame 

 defcription ; and the name Paphos is converted into Baffa 

 or Baffo. In the rocks is found a very fine rock-cryftal, 

 which is called the Baffa diamond, becaufe it is procured 

 fiom the environs of Baffa. 



BAFFIN'S Bay, is the largeft gulf or bay of North 

 America, and was called from William Baffin, who, accom- 

 panied by captain Robert Bylot, attempted, in 1616, to 

 find a paffige through Davis's Itraits. In a large fenfe it 

 extends nearly north ^and north-wed from cape Farewel in 

 Weft Greenland, as far as Whale found, paffing through 

 the part of it called Davis's ftraits, and reaches from the 

 parallel of 60° to that of 80 N. lat. In a more confined 

 fenfe it comprehends from 70° to 80°, being bounded on 

 the north by the Arftic continent or lands approaching 

 towards the north pole, on the eaft by Greenland, on the 

 fouth by Davis's ftraits, the ocean, and feveral iflands which 

 lie between this gulf and Hudfoa's bay, and on tlie weft by a 

 part of North America. BafHn feems to have rcftrifted 

 this appellation to the fea between 72° and 78*^ N. lat. and 

 fays that he traded with the GreenlandcFS at Horn found, 



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in the feventy-third degree, but in the feventy-fourth degree 

 he found no natives, but feveral plains where tents had 

 bien fet up, from which he concluded, that at certain fea- 

 fons of the fiimmer people refided there. The fea was full 

 of feals and unicorn fifti ; and in fir Thomas Smith's found, 

 in the feventy-cighth degree, he found the largeft whales. See 

 Craiitz's Hift. of Greenland, vol. i. p. 16. In our maps 

 it opens into the Atlantic ocean througli Baffin's and Davis's 

 ftraits, between the broken land on the American coaft, 

 and that wcil of New Greenland, and between cape 

 Chidley on the Labrador coaft and cape Farewel on that 

 of Well Greenland ; and on the fouth-wtft of Davis's ftraits 

 it has a communication with Hudfow's bay, through a 

 clufter of iflands. Some maps ftiew a communication with 

 Hudfon's bay, in the 70th degree of N. lat. ai d in the 70th 

 of W. long. Baffin's bay is laid down as extending from 

 46" W. long, to 94®, which allowing only fixteen geogra- 

 phical miles for the degree, would give a length of 768 

 geographical milts ; and the breadth on die weft fide is 

 reprefented as little inferior. But the extent and limits 

 of this fea have not yet been accurately afcertalned : nor 

 has the weft coaft of Greenland been explored beyond N. 

 lat. 72° or Sanderfon's Hope, and an old Danirti f-Lt'ement 

 called Opernerig. In the midft of Baffin's bay many maps 

 prefent a large traft called James Ifland, which fome have 

 imagined to be a promontory paffiiig from Greenland ; or it 

 is probably a large ifie in the north of Hudfon fea, laid down 

 from erroneous obfervations. This bay has been fometimes 

 called Bylot's bay. 



Baffin'^ Strait is a pafTage between James ifland and 

 the moft eaftern of Cumberland iflands, from the guli of tlie 

 ocean into Baffin's bay. This, and Davis's ftiait on the 

 eaft of Jarnes ifland, and Cumberland ftrait on the louth- 

 weft between the Cumberland iflands, ieem to fhcw that the 

 proper boundary of Baffin's bay does not reach fo far fouth 

 as to cape Farewel. 



BAFING, or Black, River, a principal branch of the 

 Senegal river in Africa. Mr. Park, in his " Travels in the 

 Interior Dillrifts of Africa," defcribes a fi::gular bridge 

 erefted by the lallonkas over this river. It confiils of 

 two tall trees, which when tied together by the tops, reach 

 from one fide of the river to the other; the roots refting upon 

 the rocks, and the tops floating in the water. When a few 

 trees have been placed in this direction, they are covered 

 with dry bamboos, fo as to form a floating bridge, with a 

 floping gangway at each end, where the trees reft upon the 

 rocks. In the rainy feafon this bridge is carried away by 

 the fwelling of the river. 



BAFWEN Lake lies in that part of Sweden called 

 Sndermanland; it is extenfive, and contains many iflands. 



BAG, in Commerce, ,■& term ufcd to fignify different quan- 

 tities of certain commodities: a bag of almonds, forinftance, 

 is about 3 cwt. ; of anifeeds, from 3 to 4 cwt. ; of pepper, 

 from 1 4 to 3 cwt. ; of goats-hair, from 2 to 4 cwt. ; ol cot- 

 ton-yarn, from 2| to 4i cwt. &c. 



Bag, Sacculus, in Medicine and Pharmacy, denotes a kind 

 of fomentation, prepared of proper ingredients, incloTed in 

 a bag, to be applied externally to a part difeafed for prefent 

 relief. Difpenlatory writers defcribe cordial bags, ufed in 

 deliquiuins ; bags for the fide, for the ftomach, in weak- 

 neffes of the ftomach ; anodyne bags to eafe pain in anv 

 part. Wines and ales are frequently medicated by putting 

 into them bags full of proper ingredients. 



Sweet bags are corapofitions of perfumes, fcentcd 

 powders, and the like, incloled in bags, to give a fragrancy 

 to clothes, &c. 



Bag, in Farriery. See Chewimg-Balls. 



Bag, 



