BAG 



afterwards iflues through mount Sewalick, at Hurdwar, the 

 lower Gangoutra. Of thcfe two ftreams Al'jcknundra ia 

 the largelt ; and at Sinnagur, fcated on its banks, being con- 

 fined in a channel lOO yards wide, it runs with aitonifiinig 

 rapidity, and is eroded by means of rope bridges of fingular 

 conllruAion. This river has its fource in the fnowy moun- 

 tains of Thibet; atid it is probably the fame river which 

 Du-Halde mentions under the name of Manchou. The 

 Baghvretty river has its fource far more remote; but the 

 direction of its courfe above the upper Gangoutra is un- 

 known. According to the information of Mr. Daniel, the 

 Bagtiyretty river feparates, at a confiderable diltance below 

 the Cow's Month, into two branches; tlie taft;rnmo(l of 

 which is faid to be the Alucknundra. But this depends 

 upon a vag'.'.e report of travellers, which, fays major 

 Reiniell, cannot be depended upon. Rennell's Memoir, 



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BAGIA, in indent Geography, a promontory of Cara- 



mania, near which was a rock confecrated to the fun. Pto- 

 lemy. 



Bag I A, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Farlillan, 120 miles north-eall of Schiras. 



BAGIENNA, in /Indent Geography, a town of Afia, 

 in Armenia Major. Ptolemy. 



B AGIEU, Jacqi'ES, in Biography, furgeon to a regiment 

 of cavalry, in the middle of the laft century, and author of 

 fevcral valuable works on chirurgical fubjefts, particularly 

 on the method of treating prun-diot wounds. He oppofes 

 the frequent amputation of limbs, fo common in France, and 

 reduces the cafes, rendering that operation neceffary, to a 

 very fmall number. He defends experience, as m.ore valu- 

 able than theory ; no courfe of reading, or ftudy, being com- 

 petent to fupply the place of prattice, the light or know- 

 ledge obtained from which is often incommunicable. He 

 commends Amb. Parey's praftice in gun-fliot wounds, of 

 firft ufing emollient applications, and then making large 

 openings for difcharging the confined matter. He does not 

 admit the efficacy of the Peruvian bark in checking the pro- 

 grefs of gangrene, which he thinks has its boundaries affixed 

 by nature. He is fuppofed, by Portal, to be the author of 

 " Lettre de M. Chirurgien de Province, a M. Chirurgien 

 • de Paris," 8vo. 1740. — Alfo, "Deux Lettres d'un Chirur- 

 gien de I'Armee, I'une fur plufiures chapitres du tr. de la gan- 

 grene de M. Quefnai, I'autre fur le tr. des armes a feu, de 

 M. Defportes;" Paris, 1750, izmo. " Nouvelle Lettre de 

 M. Bagieu, 5;c." 1751, l2mo. " Examendu Plutiturs par- 

 ties de la Chirurgie, &c." 2 vol. 1736. Haller Bib. 

 Chirurg. 



BAGISARA, in Andeni Geography, a port of Carmania. 

 Arrian. 



BAGISTANA, a town of Afia, in Upper Media, at 

 the foot of the mountains in which are the lources of the 

 river Gyndes; fouth-weft of Ecbatana. 



BAGISTANUS, a mountain of Afia, between Baby- 

 Ionia and Media, confecrated to Jupiter. Diod. Sicul. 



BAGITAN, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Segeftan, 1 10 miles north of Zareng. 



BAGIURA, a town of Egypt, twenty-five miles fouth 

 of Girge. 



BAGLAFECHTE, in Ornithology, the name of Gme- 

 lin's loxia phWippina, var. /S, in Bufton's hiftory of birds. 



BAGLANA, orBucLANEH, in Geography, a province 

 of the Mogul empire, in the peninfula of India, encompafTed 

 by Guzerat, Dowlatabad, and Candeifh. It is included 

 within a ridge of the Gauts, and is exceedingly mountainous, 

 but contains alfo many fertile and pleafant trafts. Few 

 countries polTefs greater advantages, with regard to natural 



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ftrength ; and thefe are augmented by no fewer than nine 

 ilrong fortrefTes, feattd on the fummiis of rocks, of whicli 

 Salheir and Mulhcir are accounted impregnable. Accord- 

 ing to Abdul Humeed, Baglana extended from the f(.a-coall 

 near Surat, which was its v/cftern boundary, to the borders 

 of Dowlatabad (or Aurungabad) eaftward ; being in length 

 100 common colfts, and in breadth, from Nadcrbar and 

 Snltanp.-uron the north, to Naffnck Ti-imbuek on the fouth, 

 70 cofles. Shahuawaz., though he agrees with Abdul Hu- 

 metd, with rLfpect to the length, allows about 30 for the 

 breadth; and major Rennell fays, that it certainly is not 70 

 coffes, and yet much more than 30, in ditlance between the 

 alfigncd limits on the north and fouth. It has owed its inde- 

 pendence, not merely to its natural ftrength, but to the addrefs 

 of its rajahs, who courted the princes of the kingdoms of 

 Gu/.trat, Dou!.;tabad, and Candeifh, by which it was fur- 

 rounded. Whenever the conqufll of it was attempted by 

 any one of thefe princes, the other two armed in its defence. 

 When the furrovuiding kingdoms fucceflively fell under the 

 Mogul power, the rajah, for the firll time, acknowledged a 

 fuperior, and vifited the court of Acbar. But even then 

 the Moguls contented themfelves merely with a tribute, 

 until the rapid progrefs of Aureng Zeb,-'s conquefts aiid 

 power in the Dcccan. Its revenue, previoufly to the 

 Mogul conqueft, was about 8o,oool. Rennell's Mem. 

 p. 259. _ 



BAGLIONE, CosTANZA, in Biography, a mofl pleaf- 

 ing finger, and excellent aftrefs, in the comic opeia at Milan, 

 in 1770, at the head of a Bolognefe mufical family, of which 

 fix fillers were all fingers, doubling the number of our 

 Abrams's, but not the merit. Three of thefe lifters went 

 afterwards to Paris, " who pKaftd tlivre IV. much (fays 

 M. La Borde), as to make us wifli to hi ar tlie reft." Eflai 

 fur la Mufique. 



BAGIjIVI, George, born, Haller favs. in Ragufa, a 

 city in Dalmatia, in the year 166S, applied himfelf early to 

 the ftudy of medicine. After attending the Itffcn.s of the 

 profefTors at Naples and at Padua, at which latter place he 

 graduated, to improve himfelf further, he travelled over Italy, 

 and fettling at length at Rome, viz. in 1692, was advanced 

 to the chair of protetfor of the theory of medicine and of 

 anatomy, by pope Innocent XII. to whom he dedicated his 

 firft work, " De Praxi Mcdica, ad prifcam obfervandi ra- 

 tionem revocanda;" hb.iv. printed in 1696, 8vo. 



In this work the author laments the degraded ftate of 

 medicine in his time, which he attributes to the negleft of 

 obfervation and experiment, and of the ftudy of the writings 

 of the ancient Greek phyficians, particularly of Hippocrates, 

 joined t ) an inordinate paffion for fpeculative reafoning. 

 He acknowledges, however, the improvements that had been 

 made in anatomy and phyfiology, and that the theory of the 

 moderns, founded on thefe improvements, far excelled the 

 hypothetical reafoning of the ancients; and thence conjec- 

 tures, that when we ftiall feduloufly bend our minds to 

 praftical obfervations, we fliall as far excel the ancients in 

 our knowledge of the true method of treating difeafes, as we 

 then excelled them in theory. 



Examining the queftion, whether theory or praftice con- 

 duce mott to a knowledge of the method of curing difeafes, 

 he determines in favour of praftice, but recommends both; 

 " QiiEEcumque," he fays (Opera omnia, 4to. p. 127.), " de 

 medicina meditatus fueiis, pro vcris non habeas, nifi prius 

 ad lydeum praxeos lapidem revocaveris; quod fi repetita 

 expericntia inveneris vera, pro veris femper habeto. De 

 bono, aut malo vino, judicare non poteris, nifi guftaveris; 

 perfeftus muficus non erit, nifi cecinerit ; nee miles flrenuus, 

 nifi bella gelFerit." Baghvi is accufed of plagiarifm, and 



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