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benJ of the wing, and IcfTer wing-coverts orange; greater 

 ■coverts and quills black; the firll tipped with v.liite, which 

 forms a white bar on the wing ; two middle tail feathers 

 black; four outer ones orange from the middle to the tips; 

 and the two next orange at the tip; legs and claws black. 

 The female, according to Buffon, has all the forepart: of a 

 fine black, like the male; tail the fame ; wing- coverts and 

 quills blackilh; and thofe parts of a dull red, which are of a 

 fine orange in the male. 



Baltimore, BaJiarJ. This is rather fhorter than the 

 true Baltimore. The bill is lead colour; forehead and 

 cheeks black and yellowi.li mixed; liind head and nnpe olive- 

 grey, marked with a few fpots of black; upper part of the 

 back dull black; lower part of the back, the rump, fore- 

 part of the n?ck, breaft, belly, fides, thighs, upper tail co- 

 -verts, and under the; wings, orange -yellow, brighteib on the 

 bread and tail-coverts; IcffCT- wing-coverts deep brown; the 

 greater the fame, tipped with dirty yellowiih white; quills 

 •brown, bordered on both edges with whitifh; the two 

 midule tail feathers are olive and black corfufedly mixed; 

 and the four outer ones of a yellowiih olive; legs and claws 

 bluciOi. 



This latter bird isdefcrlbed by Linnsns wnderthe fpecific 

 name of fpur'us. Dr. Latham, to whom we are indebted 

 for the preceding minute dcfcriptton, obfervts, that there 

 feems to be much confufiou and uncertainty between the 

 true and baftard Ealtimores ami tiieir fem.ales; and that at 

 lad they m.ay prove to be mere varieties of one fingle fpe- 

 cies; all perhaps referable to one or other fcx of the true 

 Baltimore, in different ftages of life. See Spurius 

 Oriohis. 



BALTINGLASS, in Geography, a town of Ireland, in 

 the county of Wicklow, twenty-five miles well from Wick- 



BALTISTAN. See Little Thibet. 



BALTRUM, an ifland in the German ocean, near the 

 coaft of Eaft Friefland, about 4 miles long, and about \\ 

 fcroad. N.lat. 53° 47'. E. long. 6^ 56'. 



B.ALTSHIK, a town of European Turkey, in the pro- 

 yince of Bulgaria, eighteen miles north-ea!l from Varna. 



Bx%.LTURTA, a fait lake of Afiatic RufTia, in the go- 

 vernment of Orenburg, 144 miles S.W. from Ufa. 



BALI^AR, Thomas, in Biography, the firft great 

 performer on the violin w-ho vilited this country from the 

 continent, whofe name appears in our mufical annals; and 

 the account, which Anthony Wood gives of this extraordi- 

 iiarv mulician, in his hfc written by himfcif, is fo charafter- 

 illicaliv. quaint, minute, and amuiing, that we fluill tranf- 

 cribe it in his own words ; as it will at once convey an idea 

 to tliC mulical r;;ader of the fuperiority of Baltzar's execu- 

 tion, and of the Itate of mufic at Oxford during the latter 

 end of the interregnum. 



« Thon:as Balt-^ar," fays Ant. Wood, " a Eubeeker 

 born, and the moll famous artill for the violin that the world 

 had yet proiUicc-d, was now (i6j8) in Oxon, and liiis day, 

 July 24,' A.W. was with him and Mr. Ed. Low, lately or- 

 ganill of Ch. Ch. at; the houfe of W.Il. Elhs. A.W. did 

 then and there, to his very great a'tonillimcnt, h.ar him 

 play on t';e violin. He then faw him run up his fingers to 

 the' end of the finger-board of the vi'.din, and run them 

 back iiifenfibly, and all with alacrity aud in very good tune, 

 which he nor any in England faw the like before. A. W. 

 c.itertaincd him a;;d Mr. Low with what tlie houfe could 

 ihen afford, and aftcrwaida he invited them to the tavcrne ; 

 but they being engaged in goe to other company, he could 

 no more heare him play or fee him play at that time. Af- 

 terwards he can;e to 0:1c of the v.-tekly n.cetingsot Mr. El- 



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lir's houfe, and he played to the wonder of all the auditory, 

 end txercifing his finger and inftrumcnt feveral ways to tl.e 

 utmoll of his power. Wilfon (Doftor) thereupon, the pub- 

 lic profelTor, the greateil judge of mufick that ever was, did, 

 after hii l.uiucurfonie way, (loop downs to Baltzar's feet, to 

 fee w hcther he had a hud on, that is to fay, to fee whether he 

 was a devil or not, bccaufe heaftcd beyond the parts of man. 



" About this time it wa'i that Dr. John V.'ilkins, after, 

 wards bifhop of Chcftcr, and called x\\<: fyirr I'lfbop, w ardcn 

 of Wadham, the greatift cnriofo of his time, invited bin: 

 and fome of the mulitians to his lodgings in that coll. pur- 

 pofcly to have a conftrt, and to fee and heare him play. 

 The inftrumerits and books were carried thither, but nor.c 

 could be perfuaded there to play againfl him in cor.fort on 

 tlie violin. At length the company perceiving A.W. (land- 

 ing behind in a corner ncare the dore, they haled him in 

 among them, and play, forfoolh, he mull again.d hiir. 

 Whereupon, he being not able to avoid it, he took up a vio- 

 lin, as poor IVoylu' did againd Achilles. He abalhc! at 

 it, yet honcur he got by pla)ing with and againd fuch a 

 grand mader as Baltzar was. Mr. Davis McU was accounted 

 hitherto the bed for t!ie violin in England ; b»t after Balf- 

 zar came into England, and (hewed his mod wonderful 

 parts on that inftrument, Mell was not fo admired, ytt he 

 played fweeter, was a well-bred gentleman, aud not given 

 to excefiive drinking as Balt/ar was." 



At the redoration of king Cliarlis H. Baltzar was placed 

 at the head of his majedy's new band of violins. His com- 

 positions have more force and variety in the.Ti, and confc- 

 quently required more hand to execute them, than anr mu- 

 lic then known for h.is inflrument ; as appears bv a M.S. 

 coUeftion of liis pieces, with which we were prefenttd by the 

 late Rev. Dr. Montagu North. 



Ant. Wood tells us, that this ct-lebrated -violirift died in 

 July 1663, and was buried in the cloifler belonging to St. 

 Peter's church, at We.lminder; and adds, that " this per- 

 fon being much beloved by all lovers of muftck, bis com- 

 pany v.as therefore defired ; and company, tfpecially mufi- 

 cal company, deligiiting in drinkiiig, made h-m drink more 

 than ordinary, vhich brought him tohis^rave." A.Wood'e 

 Life, p. 1 90. 



BALU, or Bauou. See B.ilt. 



BALUCLAVO, or Jamboi, a fea-port town of Crimea, 

 on the Black fea, with a fine harbour; the only ont on ihiis 

 fea capable of accommodating a large fleet. 



BALVE, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the circle 

 of the Lower Rhine, a feat of a bailiwick in the duchy of 

 Wcdphalia, feattd on the Hohn, i-c wiles S.W. from Arenf- 

 berg, and 3S N.E. fiom Cologn. 



BALUM.\ Point, lies on the weft coad of Africa, to 

 the fouth-eail from cape Roxo. N.lat- t2^. 



B.ALUS Head, the nonh-wcd point of the entrance 

 into Ball.ngi];cKiiigs bay, on tlie foulh-v^e-d coad of Lt- 

 land. 



B-'^LUZE, STErnrs', in Blogr,ifhy, was ^omat TulKs 

 in 1631, and as he advaiiced in yiars, diretlcd his particular 

 attention to maivufcripts, and to r.cw edition; of hooks, upon 

 which he bedov.ed much ttitical (l^'ill and ernditioc. Hi« 

 principal objitt, liov.vcr, wss ecclcfiaftical hifloty; and i» 

 this dep;ir;ineiit, fuch works r.sthe live* and letters of popes, 

 and other tininent crciefiaUics, hiftories of councils, and 

 homilies. In 1656 l.e was taken under the patronage of the 

 archbrdiop of Toulcufe, and he >va5, after his dcaih, libra- 

 rian to ihr fdCicus Colbert. The king created in his favour 

 a chair of cr.iion law ii. the rcyJ college, appointed him 'n- 

 fpeflor of the college, and granted him a penfion. Hi» 

 " Ger.ealf^g-cal !I;1lo;y »t the Houfe of A\ivergnc," w:it- 



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