B A U 



B A'U 



yet fufficientlf determined. The whole genui needs far- 

 ther invclligation. 



Propagation. — All tliefe plants, being natives of hot coun- 

 tries, will not thrive in England out of ihe bark-llove. 

 They are propagated by feeds, procured from their native 

 countries, whicli (liould be brought over in their pods. 

 Thefc mud be fown in pots filled with light frefh eartli, and 

 plunged into a moderate hotbed of tanner's bark ; and if the 

 feeds be good, they will come up in fix weeks, and in a month 

 after they (hould be carefully (haken out of the feed pot, 

 without injuring their roots, and each of them planted in 

 a fcparate fmall pot tilled with light loamy earth, and plunged 

 again into the hot-bed, rtiading them till they liavc taken 

 frefli root, and then admitting frefh air to them every day in 

 warm weather. In autumn they mull be placed in the bark- 

 ftove, and treated like other tender exotics, giving them but 

 little water in winter. As thcfe plants frequently flower in 

 winter, they defervea place in the Hove. Martyn's Miller's 



uia. 



BAVINS, in JVar, faggots, made of birch, heath, or 

 other fort of brufh-wood, that is both quickly fued and 

 tough, 2-i or 3 feet long, with the brufli-cnds all laid one 

 way, and the other ends tied with two bands. Tiiey are 

 dipped and fprinkltd with fulphur, like reeds, excepting only 

 that the brufli-ends only are dipped, and (hould be clofed to- 

 gether before they are fprinkled, to keep them more clofe, in 

 order to give a tlronger fire, and to keep the branches from 

 breaking off in fhiftingand liandling them. See Fascines. 

 B.-^ULA, in Ancient Geography, a diflrift of Italy in 

 Campania, between Baia; and the Lucrine lake, formed, ac- 

 cording to Tacitus, by the fea ; and the feat of many coun- 

 try houfes. 



BAULA3, in G:ojraphy, a town of Syria, 50 miles eaft 

 of Damafcus. 



BAULEM's Kill, a weftern \Tater of Hudfon's river, 8* 

 miles beluw Albany. 



BAULOT, or BEAULIEU, James, in Biography, of 

 mean and obfcure parentage, was born in the province of 

 Burgundy, in 1651. Becoming acquainted wiili Pauloni, 

 an Italian itinerant lithotomift, he travelled with him, as an 

 afTiftant, for Tome years ; but having at length, from obferya- 

 tion, acquired the art of cutting for the Hone, and of curing 

 ruptures, he f.-paratcd from him, and foon became celebrated 

 for his fkill in both thufe arts. Though illiterate, and totally 

 unacquainted v.i;h anatomy, yet he is faid to have confider- 

 ably improved on the method of operating ufed by his maf- 

 ter ; and even to have approached very near the mode now fol- 

 lowed by the moft celebrated furgeons. Following tlie lleps 

 of Pauloni, he vifited in turn all the principal cities on the 

 continent. In 1G97, he went to Paris, where he at firft 

 operated with hiccefs, but failing in fome cafes, he went to 

 Geneva, Aix-Ia-Chapel!e, and Aiu(lerd-un : in each of vl.ich 

 places he was much rcforted to ; for having both improved 

 his inftruments, and his mode of ufing them, he was now 

 generally fuccefsful. He next went to Strafburg, where he 

 cut fuccefsfully a great number of patients, then to Venice, 

 Padua, and Rome, evciy where acquiring additional fame 

 and reputation. He was of a fingular difpufition, and wore 

 a fort of monkifh habit, whence he became generally known 

 by the title of Friar James. He at length fettled in a vil- 

 lage near Befanjon, where he died, 1720, being f:xty-ninc 

 years of age. In gratitude for the numerous cures he had 

 performed at Amllerdam, the magiftvacy of that city caufed 

 his portr;iit to be engraved, and a medal to be llruck, bearing 

 for imprefs his bufl. HallerBib. Cliirurg. Gen. Biog. Did. 

 BAULTE, in Geography, a river of Pruffia, which runs 

 into the Frifch HafF, a little below Frauenbiirg. 



BAUM, in Botany. See Melissa. 



Baom, B.ijlard. See Melittis. 



Baum, Aiotucca. See MoLuccELLA. 



Bacm, Moldavian zni^Turley. See Dracocfpiialum, 



BAUM A, in Ancient Giography, a town of Ethiopia near 

 Egypt. Pliny. 



BAUM^E, an ancient town of Afia, in Mefopotamia, 

 fealcd, according to Ptolemy, on the Euphrates. 



BAUM AN, a remarkable cave in Loner Saxony, about i3 

 miles from Goflar; which has a narrow entrance, but within 

 is fpacious, and has many winding paths. The peafant* 

 travcrfe it in fearch of bones, which they fell for unicorn's 

 horns. Some fay that it extends as far as Goflar ; and fl<ele- 

 lons have been found in it, fuppofed to be thofe of men who 

 have been loft in its devious windings. 



BAUM.\NNIANA, in Entomology, a fpecies of Pha- 

 1, .EN A (7c//7/v.r) that inhabits Autlria. The anterior wings 

 are yellow, with two ferruginous anallomifing bands bor- 

 dered with filver: pollerior one interrupted. Fahricius. 



BAUME, Anthony, in Biography, chemilt and apo- 

 thecaiy, born at Senlis, February 26th, 1728. Applying' 

 carlv and diligently to the fludy of chemiflry and pharmacy, 

 he was fooVi dillingullhed for his fnperior attainments in thofe 

 arts. In 1752 he was received into the company of apothe- 

 caries at Paris, and in 1773 made a member of tlie Royal 

 Academy of Sciences. He was alio feveral years lefturer ill 

 chemiflry, an office he tilled with diflinguil'icd credit to 

 hi.mfelf, and advantage to his pupils. In 1757 lie publilhed, 

 in conjunclion with doftor Macqucr, " Plan d'un Couis do 

 Chymie experimentale et raifonnee, avec un diiconrs hifto- 

 rique lur la Chymie ;" 8vo. Paris. " Elemens de Pharmacie 

 theoiique ct pratique;" Paris 1762, 8vo. " Manuel de 

 Chymie, ou expofedes operations," &c. Paris, 1763, 8vo. 

 Thefe two works have paffed through feveral editions. He 

 alfo publiihed " Memoircs fur les Argilles, ou reciierches et 

 experiences chymiqucs ct phyfiques fur la nature des terre&j, 

 les plus propres a I'agriculture, et fur les moyens de lertilifer 

 celles qui font ileriles," Paris, 8vo. 1770, which was v.cU 

 received. Eloy Ditl. Hift. 



Baume, St. in Geography, a mountain of France in the 

 department of Var, between Aix, Marfeillts, and Toulon, 

 It is much frequented from a fupcrflitious notion that Mary 

 M.Tgdalen died in this place. 



Baume Bay. See Balsam Bay. 



BAUMER,JoHN^V^ILHAM, m BiograpBy, a German na- 

 turalifl and phylician, was born at Rhtweilerin 1719, ftudied 

 philofophy and medicine at Jena and Halle, and after having 

 been fettled as a clergyman, in 1743, at Krauthcim, returned 

 to Halle to fludy medicine, and in 1 7.1.S, took the degree 

 of dodtor in that fcience. He afterwards became firll pro- 

 feffor of medicine at Erfurt, where he died Augiift 4, 1788. 

 His principal works are " Natural Hiilnry of the Mmeral 

 Kingdom, particularly in regard to Tliuringia. Gotha, 1763, 

 1764, 2 vols. 8vo. " Hi'loria Naturalis lapidum pretioforum 

 on-.nium," &c. Frankfort, 1771, 8vo. " Fiindamenta politijE 

 medics," &c. " Frankfort and Lipf. 1777, Svo. " Fuii- 

 damenta Geographix et Hydrographix Subterranesc." Gif, 

 1779, Svo. and " Hilloria Naturalis Regni Mineralogici, 

 ad naturx duclutn tradita." 1780, 8vo. Gen. Biog. 



"BAUMES, Les Dames, or Baumes Les Nones, in 

 Geography, a town of France, and principal place of a diflriA 

 in the department of Doubs, on the river Doubs, 5 leagues 

 N. E. of Befan^on, and Sj N. of Pontailier. It derives its 

 origin from an abbey of canoneffes, which is faid to have 

 been founded in the 5th century, by St. Romain, abbot of 

 Condat. Others aifert that it was founded in the 7th cen- 

 tury. About 5 miles from this town is fhewn a remarkable 

 8 cavern. 



