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troverfialids. Many of his writings are efteemcd equally by 

 catholics and protcAaiits. Gen. Diift. Noiiv. Diet. Hlllor. 



Basnage de Bfauval, Henry, youn<rtr brother of the 

 preceding, was born at Rouen in 1659, and became a comifcl- 

 lor in tlie ])arliamc!it of Normandy. Attached to his re- 

 ■ligious proftlTion he quitted his profpfcts at tlie bar, and took. 

 refuge in Holland, where he publiflied in 1684, a fmall but 

 valuable trad " On Religions Toleration." He alfo wrote 

 a fequel to the " Noiivellcs de la Republique des Lettres" of 

 Baylc, undfr the title of " L'Hilloire des Ouvrages des Sa- 

 vans," coramenring in 168", concluded in 1709, and com- 

 prehending 24 vols. I 2 mo. This work is reckoned judicious 

 and impartial, but the writer's own rcileftions are lometinie.-. fo 

 intermixed with thofe of the authors whofc works he reviews, 

 that they cannot be eafily diftinguiflied. His new edition of 

 " Furetiere's Didionary," 3 vols. fol. was printed in I -01. 

 HediedatthcHaguein 1710. Gen.Dift. Nouv. Did. Hiltor. 



BASON, Pelvis, in Anatomy. See Pelvis. 



Bason-, or di/h, among Glafs Grimlers. I'titfe artificers 

 ufe various kinds of bafoiis, of copper, iron, &c. andofvari- 

 ovis forms, fome deeper, others fliailower, according to the 

 foci of the glafTes that are to be ground. In thtfe bafons 

 convex glafTcs are formed, as concave ones are formed on 

 fpheres or bowls. 



Glades are worked in bafons two ways. In the firft, the 

 bafon is fitted to the arbor, ortre« of a lath, and the glafs 

 (fixed with cement to a handle of wood) prefented and held 

 laft in the rigjht hand v.-ithin the bafon, while the proper 

 motion is given by the foot of the bafon. In the other the 

 bafon is fixj-d to a (land or block, and the glafs with its 

 wooden handle moved. The moveable bnfons are veiy finall, 

 feldom exceeding five or fix inches in diameter ; the others 

 are larger, fometimes above ten feet in diameter. After the 

 glafs has been ground in the bafon, it is brought fmoother 

 with i;reale a:ij tniery : and polilhed firll with tripoly, and 

 finillied with paper cemented to the bottom of the balon. Sec 



GaiNDING. 



Bason, among Haitcrs, is a large, round (hell, or cafe, or- 

 dinarily of iron, placed over a furnace ; wherein the matter 

 of the hat is moulded into form. 



The hatters have alfo bafons for the brims of hats, ufually 

 of lead, liaving an aperture in the middle, of a diameter iuf- 

 ficient for the larLjcli block to go through. 



Bason, in Hyilra:i!ics,'\s alfo ufcd on various occafions for 

 a fmall refervatory of water : as tlie bafon of a jet-d'-eau, or 

 fountain ; the bafon of a port, of a bath, &c. which laft Vi- 

 truvius calls labrum. Bafons are made either with clay, ce- 

 ment, or lead ; but they are moft ufually made with clay. 

 In the making of them this way, the dinmetermuft be made 

 four feet longer on each fide than the bafon is to be. This 

 ■will be taken up by the walls of clay. Tor the fame reafon, 

 it muft be dug two feet deeper than the intended depth of 

 the water ; becaufe it is to be laid over eiirhteen inches thick 

 with clay, and fix inches with travel and paving. The wall 

 is to be made witli (hards, rubbiili, or fiiiits, with the natural 

 earth for mortar : and the clay muft be well worked, and'trod 

 firmly down with the naked feet. 



The way of making them with cement is, to allow one foot 

 nine inches every way for the work ; then cut the banks per- 

 pendicularly, and rail'e a wall of mafonry a foot thick, made 

 of pebble ftones, or the like, laid in mortar of lime and fand : 

 the bottom is then to be covered to the fame thickncfs ; and 

 then the folid lining of the cement is to be backed up againft 

 the walls, and over the bottom. This is to be made of fmall 

 flints in beds of mortar made of lime and cement. When 

 this folid is eight inches thick, it muft be plaftered over the 

 whole farface with cement well lifted, before it be miscd 



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with the lime ; and with this it is to be wrought over fmooth 

 with a trowel. The proportion of tiiis cement (liould be two- 

 tliirds of the cement, or powdered tile, to one-third of lime ; 

 and this cement has the property of hardening fo under wa- 

 ter, tiiat it will become like (lone or marble, and it will not 

 be fubjeft to decay for a long time. 



After the finidiing, the bafon (hould, for four or five days, 

 be anointed over very often with oil, or bullock's blood, to 

 keep it iVom flawing or cracking in the drying ; and after 

 this, the wat':r (liould be let in as foon as may be. 



The leaded bafons are made with walls a foot thick, and a 

 bottom of half a foot. Tiitfe muft be of rubble ftones, ce- 

 mented with plaifter ; for l!ie lime will injure and eat the lead. 

 The fliects of lead are to be Iprcad over tliefc walls and bot- 

 tom, and feamed with folder. Thefe bafons, however, are 

 but little in ufe now, from the cxpence of making them, and 

 the danger of the lead being ftolen. 



The wafte pipes of fountains ought always to be made 

 large enough for fear of chonking. Wiien the wafte water 

 is to be carried <;(F into com.mou fewcrs, it mav be carried 

 away in drains, or earthen pipes ; but when it is to ferve for 

 bafons that lie below it, it is to be conveyed in leaden ones. 



Mliler. 



'i'here are divers forts of bafons; as 



Mmo^ Jigureci, that whole plan or circumference makes 

 feveral turns and return?, either ftraight, circular, or the like. 

 Such are moft of the bafonsof fountains at Rome. 



Bason luilh a lalujlrade, that wiiofe cavity is furrounded 

 with a baluftrade of ftone, marble, bVafs, or the like. 



Bason iv\;h a Innch, or hajfm a r'lgole, tiiat wh.ofe border 

 being of marble, or other ftone, has a trench cut in it, from 

 whence, at certain diftances, fprings out a thread of water, 

 which lines the trench, and forms a kind of nape or gargle 

 around the balufti.ide. Such is that of the fountain of the 

 rock of the Belvidere at Rome. 



Bason en coqmlk, that (haped like a fiiell. 



Bason is likewife ufed for a Dock. 



Bason of the fea. See Sea. 



Bason. /i/.'f by the, in Commerce, at Amftcrdam, isnfedfor 

 the public files made under the diredion ot the ven du meef- 

 ter ; thus called, by reafon that, before adjudging the lot or 

 commodity to the laft bidder, they ufually ftrike a brafs ba- 

 fon to give notice of it. 



Bason harh'jur, in Geography, lies on the eaft fide of Lake 

 Champlain, in the townlhip of Ferriiburg, and ftate of Ver- 

 mont, 4! miles fouth-wclltr'y from the mouth of Otttr creek. 



Basons of n balance, in Mechanics, two pieces of brafs, or 

 other matter, faftened to the extremities of the ftnngs ; the 

 one to hold the weight, the other the thing to be weighed. 



BASOVA, in Geography, a town of Siberia, on the ri- 

 ver Lena, 20 miles fouth of Orienga. 



BASOUDA, a large town of Hindoftan, belonging to 

 the dillrid of Biiilftli, in the route from Agra to Oujtin. 



BASQUES, Les, a country of France, before the re- 

 volution, fitnate between the fea, Spain, the river Adour, 

 and Beam towards the Pyrenean mountains, and compre- 

 hending Labour, Lower Navarre, and the diftrid of 

 Soule. 



BASQUE Road lies on the coaft of France, fouth-ca(t 

 from the ifland of Rhc, north-eaft from the iiland of Ole- 

 ron, north from the ifland d'Aix, and fouth from the weft 

 point of the entrance into Rochelle, and diredly weft with- 

 out the bay of Chatelailton. 



BASQUEVILLE, a town of France, in the departs 

 ment of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton in 

 the diftrid of Dieppe, 3 leagues S.S.W. of Dieppe, and 

 7i N.N.W. of Roueu, 



BASRAH. 



