BAG 



Bag, Oil See Oil. 



Bag, Petty. See Petty. 



Bags, Sanii. See Sand. 



Bag, or Boggy Point, in Gcogrnfh;', is a noted promnn- 

 tory among feamen on the noitti coaft of Divon, at the 

 north-well point of the entrance into Barnftaple bay. N. lat. 

 11^ lo'. W. long. 4° 32'. 



BAGA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa Propria, 

 bein^ one of thofe which were re-ellabhihed by the empe- 

 ror Juflinian, according to Procopins. 



Bag a, or Boga, a town of Alia, in Pifidia. 



BAG ADA, a tow'n of Ethiopia, near Egypt. Pliny. — 

 Alfo, a fmall town of Afin, in Sniiana. Diod. Sic. 



BAGADANIA, a large plain of Afia, in Cappadocia, 

 placed by Strabo between mount Taurus ard mount Argea, 

 about 3000 ftadia more foutlierly than the Euxine fea. 



BAGADAT, a name by which fome call the carrier 

 pigeon, the columba taheUaria of Moore. This name is pro- 

 bably a corruption of the word B^jjdat, the name of a c'ty 

 from whence they arc fometiincs brought to Europe ; being 

 originally broticrht thither from Baflora. 



JBAGADUCA Point, in Geography, a head-land of 

 America, within Penobfcot bay, in ttie dil'irid of Maine. 



BAGAGNANA, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of 

 Afia, in Armenia, where they obtained, according to the 

 ancient phyi'ician iEtius, the Armenian bole. 



BAG AN, in Geography, a town of Servia, twenty miles 

 north from Niffa. 



BAGANZA, a river of Italy, which joins the river 

 Parma, at the city of Parma. 



BAGANZOLA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of 

 Parma, four miles north of Parma. — Alfo, another town in 

 the fame duchy four miles fouth of Parma. 



BAGARACA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Thrace, 

 Anton. Itin. 



BAGARD, Charles, in Biography, born at Nanci, in 

 Jan. 1696, was early initiated into the praflice of phyfic by 

 his father Anthony, who had acquired confiderable reputa- 

 tion in that art. To the influence oiu" phyfician had with 

 Stanidaus the firft titular king of Poland, and duke of Lor- 

 raine, we are indebted for the botanic garden and the col- 

 lege of medicine at Nanci, of which he was the firft prcfi- 

 d.nt. He died of apoplexy in December 1772. Befides 

 numerous differtations on medical and philofophical fubjefts, 

 ■we have the following, by this author : " Dlfcours fur 

 Phiftoirc dela Theracquc," piiblilhed 1755; " Difpcnfa- 

 torium Pharmac. Chvmicum," Paris, 1771, fol. ; " Pinax 

 Materia Mediciiiahs,'" &c. 1771, 8vo. " Difcours fur les 

 Monfties du Regne Vegetal, Nancy, 1708, 8vo. Eloy. 

 Diaion. Hift. Haller. Biblioth. Botan. 



BAGARDA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Paropamifns. Ptolemy. 



BAGASSE, a town of Africa, in Libya Interior. Pto- 

 lemy. 



BAGASIS, Bnggai, a town of Africa, fituated on a 

 river at the foot and to the eaft of mount Audus. 



BAGAT, in Geography, a town of France, one league 



weft from Paris. ^ , n n. c 



BAGATHUSA, Cape, lies on the fonth-eafl coatt ot 

 Arabia, fifteen leagues call from Shahar. Under the lee of 

 this cape there is good anchorage : but the fea rages on this 

 coall from April to July to fuch a degree that no fhip can 

 live in it. . . 



BAGATINS, or Couriers, a name given to ilie pi- 



ffeon-carriers. . 



BAGAUD^E, or Bacaud«, in Hif.ory, an ancient 

 fadionofpeafants, ov malecontents, who ravaged Gaul, and 



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afTumed the name Ingauda, which, according to fome au- 

 thors, fignificd, in tlie Gallic language, forced rebels ; ac- 

 cording to others, tribute; according to others, rclbtri ; 

 which lall ri;,iiification others allow the word had, but then 

 it was only after the time of the bagauiJt, and doubtlcfs took 

 its rife from t!iem. Du-Cange. 



The bagaudie were a rutlic troop of plowmen and rtiep- 

 herds, whom the grievous weight of their taxes induced to 

 take up arms under the reign of Claudius II., about A. D. 

 269, ill Older to rid themftlves of a tyranny which feemed 

 to them worfe than death. Irritated by oppreflion, they re- 

 fcmbled by thein ravages the fury of the barbarians, and laid 

 walle the countries which they ought to have cultivated. 

 At this time their (Ircngth muft have been confiderable, 

 as they laid a fiege of fL"\en months to the city of Autun, 

 and at length took it by force. Under Aurehan and Pro- 

 bus no mention of them occurs, becaufe it is probable that 

 the valour and ai^^ivity of thefe warlike princes kept them in 

 awe. But under the reign of Dioclefian, about the year 

 286, exafperated by the injullice, violence, and cruelty of 

 Carinus, tliey renewed their revolt, and they were command- 

 ed by two men, whofe names were ./Ehanus and Amandns, 

 each of whom had the boldnefs to affume the title of Au- 

 gullus. Max'mian, who was admitted by Dioclefian as a 

 colleague in the government, A. D. 286, fubducd the ba- 

 gaudx partly by clemency and partly by force. It does net 

 appear what became of the two chiefs of the rebels ; but 

 Salviaiius informs us, that the nam.e and the faction of the 

 bagaudx were revived in the fifth century. Crevicr's Hift. 

 Enip. vol. ix. p. 282. 



BAGAUZE, is the name which is given, in the An- 

 tilles iflands, to the fugar-canes after they have paffed 

 through the mill. They are dried, and ufed for boiling the 

 fugar. 



BAGDAD, in Geography, a large and populous city of 

 Afiatic Turkey, in that divifion of Diaibtck called Irak- 

 Arabi, is featcd on the eaftcrn banks of the Tigris, N. lat. 

 33° 22'. E. Umg. 44*^ 2 l'. It has been erroneoufly fuppofed 

 by fcveral geographers to be the old Babylon, though it 

 be at a dillance from the ruins of this ancient metropolis. 

 It is computed to be about 15CO paces in length, 7 or 800 

 in breadth, and 30CO in circumference. Mr. Jackfoii, in his 

 "Journey from India to England" in 1 797, fays, that it 

 extends three miles along the eaitern bank of the ri\cr ; and 

 tht length of the walls from the nver being about two miles, 

 it has the form of an oblong fquare. Its walls are all of 

 brick, with terraces and large towers at proper diftances, ia 

 form of baHions, and defended by about 60 pieces of cannon. 

 The caille is large, and flanked by fome fmall towers with 

 cannon ; and the garnfon ufually conClh of 900 foot, 4000 

 horfe, and 60 gunners. The number of inhabitants, if we 

 may credit the accounts of the Arabian writers, was formerly 

 jiery confiderable ; bnt it is now reduced to fifteen or twenty 

 thoufand, including thofe who live in a fuburb on the other fide 

 of the Tigris, at the end of the bridge of boats, which are fe- 

 parated every night to prevent furprife. But notwithlla"d- 

 in"' this number of inhabitants, the town has flill many emp- 

 ty fpaces within its walls, and it is for the moft part hut 

 indilferently built. Many of the public buildings, however, 

 fuch as the niofques,minartts, and luimmun.s. are conftruC^ed 

 of hewn ftone, and make a very handfome appearance. Here 

 is alfo an extmfive bazar, which is well fupplied with a va- 

 riety of articles. Several of thefe bu.ldings are arched, in 

 order to guard againll the exccfiive heat of the fun ; and as 

 fcorpions. tarantulas, and other noxious infeds, are ni.merous, 

 perfons, in order to avoid them, in the fumn-.er feafon, fleep 

 on t!>e lops of their houl<.s. The environs of Bagdad to the 



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