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Ballnjl allowed to the foUoiuing Ships, 



By tne I9tli Geo. 11. it is enafted, that if after June I, 

 1746, any mailer or oivner, or any perfon acting as madcr 

 of any (ti'ip or other velfel whatfoever, fhall call, throw out, 

 or unlade,' or if there fliall be thrown out, &:c. of any veffel, 

 being within any haven, port, road, channel, or navigable 

 river within England, any ballaft, rubbilli, gravel, earth, 

 ftone, wreck, or iiltli, but only upon the land, where the 

 tide or water never flows or runs; any one or more juftices 

 for the county or place where or near which the offence 

 fhall be committed, upon the information thereof, (hall fum- 

 mon or iffue his warrant for bringing the mailer or ovvner 

 of the veffel, or other perfon aiEling as fuch, before him ; 

 and upon appearance^or default, fhall proceed to examine 

 the matter of and upon proof made thereof, either by con- 

 fefhon of the party, or on view of the jullice, or upon the 

 oath of one or more creditable witneffes, he fliall convift the 

 faid mailer, &c. and fine him at his difcret'.on for every fuch 



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been employed in the education of James V., he was dillin- 

 guifhed by the favour and patronage of that prince, and ob- 

 tained extarordinary preferment in the church, as well as the 

 office of clerk of accounts, occupiedby his father Mr. Thomas 

 Ballenden of Auchinoul, in 1541. The work by which he 

 gained the highell reputation, was his tranflation of Hcftor 

 Bocthius oui of Latin into the Scots tongue, performed ()/ 

 the command of his royal mailer, int'tled, " The Hi'.lory 

 and Chronicles of Scotland, &c.," and publifhed in folio at 

 Edinburgh, A.D. 1536. This verfion, in wlnch^the tranf- 

 lator took the liberty of augmenting and amending ihe ori- 

 ginal as he thought proper, was well received both in 

 Scotland and England, and foon became the llandard of that 

 hillory. In the fucceeding reign, he was one of the lords 

 of fcfilon; and being a zealous Romauill, he afTiJuoufly 

 laboured, in conjuiition with Dr. Laing, to hinder the 

 progrefs of the reformation. His zeal involved him in dif- 

 putes, which obhjred him to quit Scotland, and remove to 

 Rome, where, it is faid, he died A.D. 1550. He was a 

 man of great parts, and one of the fiiiell poets of which his 

 country could boall. His works, that arc Hill extant, are 

 diftinguidied by that noble entliufiafm which is the foul of 

 poetry. His poem, intitled " Vertue and Vycc," was 

 addreffed to the monarch of the Scots, James V.; and his 

 other pieces, both printed and in MS. are now buried in ob- 

 livion. In Carmicliael's colkftion of Scottish poems, there 

 are fome of this author on various fubjefts. Biog. Brit. 



Ballenden Point, in Geography, a projetling point in 

 the bottom of Donegal bay, on the north-well coalt of 

 Ireland, fouth-vvell by fouth j fouth. 8 miles from Enifmurry 

 ifland. 



BALI.,ENESS Islands, are four fmall iflands on the 

 fouth of Troy ifland, off the N.W. point of Ireland, called 

 Beg, Dovvay, Bofm, and Maghere Welley. Between Troy 



offence any fum not exceeding 5I. nor under 50s. &c._; and jj^^- j ^^^^ Ballenefs, there is a good road and fafe anchorage 

 for want of fufficient diftrefs, the juftice 13 to_ commit the ^^.^^ ^ fo„thcrly or eafterly wmd. 



mafler, or perfon aftlng as fuch, and convifted as aforefaid, 

 to the common gaol or houfe of corredlion, for the fpace of 

 .two m.onths, or until payment of the penalties. 



Befides the above general act relating to ballaft, there are 

 the 6 Geo. II. c. 29. and the 32 Geo. II. which regulate 

 the baliafling of merchant veffclsin the river Thames, plac- 

 in'i- it under the direftion of the corporation of Trinity- 

 houfe. Elements and Pradice of Rigging and Seamanfliip, 

 vol. ii. p. 283, &c. 



Ballast, to trench the, denotes, to divide the ballafl 

 into two feveral paits or more, in the fliip's hold, com- 

 monly done to find a leak in the bottom of a Ihip, or to un- 

 dock her. 



Bm-last, the, fioots, that is, runs over from the one fide 

 to the other. Hence it is that corn, and all kinds of grain, 

 is dangerous lading, for that is apt to flioot. To prevent 

 which, they mcike policies, that is, bulk-heads of boards, to 



BALLENTAY Port, is about 2| leagues ea(l from 

 Skerries ifland, or port Rufch, upon the main, on the north 

 coaft of Ireland; fouth and fomevvhat weil from Rathlin 

 ifiand, and Dummer's rocks. 



BAELEROY, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Calvados, and chief place of a canton in the diltri6l of 

 Baycux, fix leagues fouth of Caen, and 2|S.S.W. of 

 Bavcux. 



BALLERUS, in Ichthyology, the name under which the 

 Gmelinian cypriniis lalus is noticed by Jonll. and other 

 old authors. 



Ballerus, a fpecies of Cyprinus, with forty rays in the 

 anal fin. Linnaeus Fn. Suec. This fifh inhabits the lakes 

 in fome parts of Europe, and near the Cafpian fea. The 

 head is fmall, obtufe, and brown in the front; cheeks and 

 gill-covers alternately blue, yellow, or red ; eves large ; iris 

 yellow, with two black fpots; jaws equal, lower one curved ; 



keep it up faft, that it may not nm from fide to fide, as the ^^^^ carinated; lateral line ftraight, variegated with brown 



dots; edges of the fins blue; dorfal fin placed farther back 

 from the head than the peftoral one; anal fin very broad; 

 tail lunated. Weight in general about a pound; depofits 

 an immenfe num.ber of eggs in April; grows flowly, is thin, 

 and covered with minute lax fcales; the colour above is 

 blackifh-blue, yellowifh on the fides, filvery below, and red- 

 di(h on the belly; flefh not very good. Bloch obfcrvcs that 



Ihip heels upon a tack. 



BALLA.STAGE. See Lastage. 



BALLATOONS, large, heavy luggage-boats, carrying 

 goods by the river from Allracan and tlie Cafpian fea to 

 Mofcow, Thefe vvdl carry from a liundred to two hun- 

 dred ton ; and have from a hundred to a hundred- and 

 ten, or twenty men employed to row, and tow them 

 along 



BALLENDEN, orBELLFNDEN,^/-yo/j«, \n Biography, 

 an elegant Scots writer ot the^fixteenth ^century, delecnded forty-one rays 



the number of rays in the anal fin amount to one more than 

 ii^i.-Lfs-az^,jirjom,inji,ography, Linr,a:us mentions, and characlerifes the fpecies as havin<r 

 ot the l.xteenth century deleended fony-one rays in the anal fin ; cyprinus pinna ani radiis ±7. 

 of an ancient and nonourable family in Scotland, was pro- Jjloch, 

 bably born and educated in France. Having in his youth BALLET, or Balet, Baletto, a kind of dramatic 

 fcrved in the court, and, as forae writers luggelt, having ^^^^^ reprefenting fome fabulous aflion or fubjeft, divided 



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