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to fit from the t^th of April to the ift of June, and from 

 the 15th of OtSober to the 15th of December. The go- 

 vernment has the power of convoking them at pleafure. 

 For further particulars, fee Holland, and United Pro- 

 vinces. By the treaty of peace concluded at Amiens, 

 March 27, 1802, the Batavian republic cedes and guaran- 

 tees to his Britannic majeily, in full property and fovereignty, 

 all the pofleflions And cftablifhments in the ifland of Ceylon, 

 which before the war belonged to the repubhc of the Uni- 

 ted Provinces, or to the Dutch Eaft India company. 



BATAVIENSIS, m Entomology, a fpecies of Crypto- 

 CEPHALus ; the head, thorax, wing-cafes, and legs of which 

 are hvid. Hornft. Sch. Berl. Naturf. Inhabits Java. 



BATAVODURUM, in Jncicnt Geography, a town of 

 the Batavi, in the ifland called after their name. Accord- 

 ing to Tacitus, the Romans had a bridge in this place, and 

 the poft; was defended by a Roman legion, when the Ger- 

 mans, who reforted to the fuccour of Cerealis, were defirous 

 of penetrating into the island ; and here they were repulfcd 

 after great (laughter, and at length obliged to throw them- 

 felves precipitately into the river. Some have fuppofed 

 that this town was the fame with the modern Duerjlede ; 

 but others conjefture that it was not on the fame fide of 

 the river. 



BATAVORUM Insula, the ifland of the Batavi, was 

 formed by the Vahalis or Waal to the fouth, and a branch 

 of the Rhine to the north. This laft branch, and alfo the 

 Vahalis, rejoin afterwards, and form the Mola or Meufe. 

 According to Tacitus, the Rhine was divided at its entrance 

 into Batavia into two rivers : one of which retained its name, 

 and purfued its courfe through Germany, till it difcharged 

 itfelf into the ocean ; the other, wafhing the coad of Gaul, 

 with a broader and m.ore gentle ftream, was called Vahalis, 

 which on its joining the Mofa, affumed its name. From 

 this account it feems that the ifland of the Batavians was 

 bounded by the Ocean, the Rhine, and the Vahalis. Cxfar 

 extends it to the Mofa ; but Pliny's account coincides with 

 that of Tacitus. It appears, however, that this idand was 

 of greater extent in the time of Tacitus than in that of 

 Cjefar ; as Drufus, the father of Gernianicus, had by a new 

 canal conveyed the waters of the Rhine into the ocean at a 

 confiderable dillance to t!ie north of the former mouth of 

 that river. It is not certainly known who were the firll in- 

 habitants of this ifland. Some hittorians fay, that they had 

 been removed by the Cimbri and Teutonts, when they in- 

 vaded the Roman territories ; and it is not improbable that 

 the profpecl of a more commodious eftablifliment might in- 

 duce them to abandon a country which was^ conftantly ex- 

 poled to the inundations of the water that encompalfed it. 

 The Batavi, when driven from their own country by the 

 Catti, took pofTefTion of it, and became a very powerful 

 j)eople. A part of this country flill bears the name of Be- 

 iaiv, formed from- Batavi ; and is probably the fame with 

 the ancient " Infula Batavorum." This name, however, is 

 given only to the eaftern part of tlie ifland, and is the fame 

 with that which has ilie river Leek to the north, and Vahal 

 to the fouth, to ths north of Nimeguen. 



Batavorum Opp'iilum, Batenbourg, a town which fecms 

 to have been the Batavodurum of Ptolemy, but different 

 from that of Tacitus. Ptolemy places it upon the Mofa, 

 or Meufe ; and the Batavodurum of Tacitus was more to 

 the north upon the Rliine. 



BATBERGEN, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of Weftp'.ialia, and bilhopric of Ofnaburg. 



BATCH A JOVE, a town of Afia, in Armenia, 50 

 jnilcs fi.'Jth of Erivan. 



EATCHELOR. See Bachelor. 



Batchelor's i?u//9/i/, in Botany. See Lychnis. 



Batchelor's Pwr. SeeSoLASUM. 



Batch elor's /Jkrr, \\\ Geogr,-phy. See BACHELORS. 



BATCHURISCHKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Archangel, on the eaft coaft of the White Sea ; 

 8 miles north of Archangel. 



BATCOLE, or Batkul, a fea-port on the coaft of 

 Malabar, in the peninfula of India, lltuate between Onorc 

 and Barcelore. The Englidi had a faftory here till 1670, 

 when they were maffacred by the natives. It was ceded to 

 the Britifh by the treaty of 1799. N. lat. 13^ 58'. E. long, 



74° 37'- 



BATE, George, in Biography, bom at Maid's Mor. 

 ton, in Buckinghamfliire, in 1608, was fent to Oxford at 

 the age of 14 years, where he foon diftiuguifhed himfelf by 

 his diligence and application to ftudy ; and having made 

 choice of medicine for his profeflion, he was admitted to 

 praclice as foon as he had taken his degree of bacnelor in 

 that line. In 1637 he was made doftor in medicine ; and 

 when Charles the Firft kept his court at Oxford, he was ap- 

 pointed his phyfician. Removing foon after to London, he 

 was eletled fellow of the college of phyficians, and phyfician 

 to the Charter-houfe ; and conforming to the circumftance* 

 of the times, he foon obtained fuch favour with the ruling 

 party in the ftate, that he was fent to Scotland, in i65i» 

 in conjunftion with Dr. Wright, to attend Oliver Cromwell. 

 then confined there with an intermitting fever, and was ap- 

 pointed his firft phyfician. This, however, did not prevent 

 his being made phyfician to king Charles II. on his acceflion 

 to the throne, and being elefted fellow of the newly confti*. 

 tuted Royal Society. Thefe honours were procured him, 

 Anthony Wood fays, by a report induftvioufly circulated by 

 his friends, that he had haftened the death of the proteftor, 

 by adminiftering a deleterious medicine ; a ftory, which, if 

 believed, whatever reward it might otherwife have procured 

 him, would never have placed him in a confidential poft 

 about the perfon of the fovereign. He died in i 668, and 

 was buried in the chancel of All Saints church, at Kingfton 

 upon Thames, where a monument is erefted to the memory 

 of him and his wife, who died the year before. The only 

 medical work in which he engaged, was in contributing a 

 part towards a treatife " De Rachitide," publifhed by Dr. 

 GlifTon in 1650. His prefciiptions, colletled by Shipton, 

 an apothecary in London, were publifhed fome years after 

 his death, under the title of " Pharmacopseia Bateana," and 

 have paffed through many editions. He publifhed, in 1649, 

 " Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia, fimul ac juris 

 regii et parliamentarii, brevis narratio," i2mo. Paris. A 

 fecond part of this work was printed at London, in 1661. 

 In compoting this, he was affiiled by papers furnifhed by 

 the chancellor Hyde. A third part appeared in 1676, 

 written by Dr. Skiniitr. He is alfo faid to be the author of 

 the " Royal Apology, &c." 1647. Biog. Brit. 



Bate, in Ancient Geography, a village or canton of 

 Greece, in Attica, belonging to the tribe? of yEgeides, 

 where refided Abro, the commentator of Callias, who 

 wrote concerning feafls and facrifices, and Amynomachus, 

 to whom Epicurus bequeathed his property. Steph. Byz. 



Bate, or Bait, in Geography, one of the principal ports 

 in a diftrift of India, inhabited by a piratical tribe called 

 Sangarians, on the fouth coaft of the gulf of Cl'tch. The 

 other port is Aramroy. 



BATEAH, a town of North America, in the province 

 of Yucatan, 190 miles S.S.W. of Merida. 



BATEAU, in Na-vigalioii, a particular kind of boat, 

 very generally ufcd upon the large rivers and lakes in Ca- 

 nada. Its bottom is perfcftly flat, and each end very fharp 

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