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was then lately received into the king's band, and his brother, 

 Anthony Bezozzi, attached to the court of the king of 

 Poland, had alfo a fon in the fervice of that of Dreiden, 

 where we heard him perform in 1772, and found him a 

 truly great performer. His me^a di voce, or fwell, was pro- 

 digious ; indeed he continued to augment the force of a tone 

 fo much, and fo long, that it was hardly poffible not to fear 

 for his lungs. His talte and ear were exceedingly delicate and 

 refined ; and he fcemed to pofiefs a happy and peculiar fa- 

 culty of tempering a continued tone to different bafes, 

 according to their fcveral relations : upon the whole, his 

 pci torir.ance was fo capital, that a hearer mud be extremely 

 talbdious not to receive from it a great degree of pteafure. 



BEZZAf<IA, Marcplla, in Gfography, a town of Italy, 

 m tlie kingdom of Naples, and country of Otranlo, 10 miles 

 N. E. of Tarei'.to. 



BHAG^'.'\GUR, a name formerly given to Hydrabad, 

 which fee. 



BHAKOR. See Behker. 



I'HARATA, a name given in the Sanikreet language to 

 Hindoilan. 



BKATGAX, a city of Afia, in the kingdom of Nepal ; 

 the capital of an i » '.ependcnt kingdon-. It contains about 

 12,000 families, extends towards the eaft to the diftance of 

 five or fix days' journey, a".d borders upon another nation, 

 alfo indepcFident, called " Ciratas," who profefs no religion. 

 See Nkpai- 



BHAVANT, the nan'.e of an ancient feflival, annvially 

 celebrated on the firll of May by the Gopas, and all otiicr 

 Hindoos who keep horned cattle for ufe or profit. On this 

 feail, they vifit gardens, ereCt a pole in the fields, and adorn 

 it with pendants and garland". Similar rites arc performed 

 by the fame clafs of people in England, where it is known 

 to be a relic of ancient fiipcrftition in that country. Hence 

 it (liould feem, fays colonel Pcarfe, that the religion of the 

 Eaft, and the old religion of Britain, had a llrong affinity. 

 Aliatic Ref. vol. ii. p. 333. 



BHEERAH, a place in Hindoflan, on the eaft fide of 

 the Behut river, where is a pafs over it, a little to the N. of 

 W. from Lahore, about 1 1 minutes north of its parallel, and 

 diilant from it 85-1 geographical miles. N. lat. 32° 5'. E. 

 long. 72° ij'. 



BI, orBiiA, a river of Ruffia, which, by uniting with the 

 Katunia, forms the river Oby. 



BIA, in Conchologw a name given by the Siamefe, to a 

 fort of little white ihcU, brought in vatl numbers from the 

 Maldive iflands, and ufed throughout moil part of the Eall 

 Indies for fmall money. Nine of thefe are tqual to the 

 French denier ; they are calhd coris or cowries, and belong 

 to the Cvpra:a genus of I^innoeus. 



BIABANA, in /Indent Gerjomphv, a town placed by 

 Ftolemy in the in-'rlor part of Araliia Felix. 



BI ACU LE ATUS, in Icklhyology, a fpcciesof Ba l i st e s, 

 having two vaitral fpines. Bloch. Gmel. &c. This is p'lf- 

 crj cernuttit of Willughby. It inhabits India, and is of an 

 elona;ated form, white, cinereous above, and rough to the 

 touch, being covered with very (hort, hirlute, or brilUy hairs. 

 It is a native. of the Eaft Indies, and, from the ilrufture of 

 the mouth, is a voracious kind, feeding probably on 

 marine worms and crabs. The Dutch call it Hoorn-vifih ; 

 and the French, Bal'ijle a deux piqunns, in allufion to the 

 two ventral fpines, which conftitute the Ipecific character 

 ofthefilh. 



BliEUM, from ,9ia, sppof.tton, in Rhetoric, denotes a kind 

 of counter-argument, whereby fomcthing alleged for the 

 advcrfary is retorted agaiiift him, and made to conclude a 

 different way ; for inftance, " OccidilH, quia adlljtifti inter- 



B I A 



fefto. — Immo quia adftiti intcrfcfto non occidi ; nam fi id 

 elTet, in fugara me conjeciffem," '■ You killed the perfon, 

 becaufe you were found ftanding by his body." ( Biicum.) 

 " Rather I did not kill him, becaufe I was found llandm? 

 by his body ; fince, in the other cafe, I (hould have fled 

 away." 



BivT. UM, in the Grecian Laws, was an aftion brought 

 againtt thofe who ra\i(hed women, or ufed violence to any 

 man's perfon. Potter, Archxol. lib. i. c. 24. 



Bi-tUM alfo denotes a kind of fahne or fea-wine, ufed by 

 the ancient Greeks in various diforders. It was made of 

 grapes gathered a little before ripe, and dried in the fun ; 

 then preffcd, the iuice put up in cafks, and mixed with a 

 large proportion of iea-water ; though Diofcorides fecms to 

 d.feribe it as made of grapes ftecped in fca-water, and then 

 prcffed. Gorr. Def. Med. p. 75. 



BIAFAR, or BiAFRA, in Geograpl-:, a populous and 

 powerful kingdom of Africa, fituatc welt of Mtdra and eaft 

 and fouth tall of Benin, from which it is fcparatcd by a 

 chain of mountains ; and ex^t ending beyond the fourth degree 

 of north latitude, to the coaft of the gulf of Guiena. It has 

 a capiial of the fame name ; and the bay on its coall is 

 called the bight of Biafra. The natives of this country, the 

 interior of which is little kaown, are idolaters, and much ad- 

 dicted to magic. Tluy are faid to be zealous in their wor- 

 (hip, and to facrifice their children to the devil. Biafra 

 is alio a fmnll dillrift of Africa, extending ah)ng the fea- 

 coafi, S.S.E. of the liver Gambia, over-againft the iflands 

 of Biffagos. 



BIAFORA, in the Cufoms of the Mlddk Age, a form of 

 ciy, or alarm to arms ; on the hearing whereof, the inhabi- 

 tants of towns or villages were to ifTue forth, a;id attend their 

 prince. The word lecms originally from Galcony ; and the 

 Italians even now, on a fuddcn mfurrcAion of the people, 

 commonly cry, J'iafora, by an ufual change of the letter B 

 into V. 



BIAGIO, St. in Geography, a town of Italy, in the 

 kingdom of Naples, and province of Calabria Ultra, 3I 

 milts W.S.W of Nicaftro. — Alfo, a town in the fame king- 

 dom, in the county of Molife, 8 miles N. E. of Mohfe. 



BIAJOS, the name by which the inhabitants of the 

 ifland ot Borneo are dillingirifhed. They are faid to offer 

 facrifices of fwect-fcented wood to one fupreme beneficent 

 deity, and thcfe fentiments of piety are accompanied by 

 laudable morals. See Banjermassing and Borneo. 



BIALA, a part of PrufTian Silelia, in the circle of Zulz. 

 — Alfo, a Imall town in the duchy of I.ithuain'a, belonging 

 to Pruflia, featfd on the government of Johannelburg, which 

 obtained its privileges in 1722. — Alfo, a town and river of 

 Poland, which runs into the Viftula, S. W. of Cracow. 

 N. lat. 49° 52'. E. long. 19'' 20'. 



BLVLACERKIEW, a fmall town of Poland, in the 

 Ukrain, featcd on the Rofs, a river of the palatinate of 

 Kiov, which difcharges itfclf into the Dnieper ; dillant 60 

 miles S.S.W. from Kiov. Here the Tartars were entirely 

 defeated in 7626. 



BIALAGRODKO, a fmall town of Poland, in the 

 palatinate of Kiov, feated on the Irpian, 14 miles S. \V, of 

 Kiov. 



BIAI>I.A, or BiALA, a town of Poland, in the palati- 

 nate of Brzelk or Birfetflc, 16 miles S. W. of Brzclk or Bir- 

 fetfl.-. N. lat. 52" 10'. E. long. 23° 25'. 



BIALLISTOCK, or Biai,vstok, a n.-at and well 

 built town of Poland, in the palatinate of Podalaehia, ruith 

 of Bielfl<, in N. lat. 53° 5'. E. long. 23° 32'. The ftrtet* 

 are broad, and th« houles, which are in general pla'ftcrid, 

 fland detached at uniform dillances. The fupirior ueatncf* 

 Pp 2 of 



