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Tallies more miM and falubrious. This country prodiicej 

 wood in confiderable quantities, excellent wine, rye, barley, 

 and miiltt ; but not much wheat. It has good pafliircs, 

 <jiurr!cs of n\arhlo, and medicinal fprinjrs. The mountains 

 of Bigorre conTift of fchift, marble, and granite. See Py- 

 renees. The inhabitants of this diilrift pofTefs a peculiar 

 and chara.fteri'iic phyfio^niMriy, in wliich they all refemble 

 one another : they are healthy and active, lively and chcar- 

 fiil, and unite impetuous courage with (Ircngth and agslity. 

 The impetuolity of their temper renders their languaf;c va- 

 pid, padionate, and full of protcllations ; and they fonie- 

 times firk the voice an o6tave below the natural key, that 

 they mav fiiddenly raife it to the (h;upeft note. Their ideas 

 abound with imagery ; and their gellures are quick and 

 violent. Thry are dilUnguifhed by their gcnerofity and 

 beneficence. They praftife the (ling from their infancy, and 

 can di-aw a how hefure- they fpeak ; and thofe pcrfons are 

 regarded as the moll accomplilhed, who are moll: (killed in 

 leaping, riding, and throwing the bar. The education of 

 the Bigoircfe, who are not hulbandmen, is conducted with 

 a view to the church ; and they boaft of many eminent per- 

 foris in fcience and literature. 



BIGO r, a perfon fooliflily obllinate, or perverfely at- 

 tached to an opinion. ' The word is formed from the 

 German ley, and Got, or the Englilll hy-God. Camden 

 relates, that the Normans were ftvit c:illcd Bigots, on occa- 

 fion of their duke Rolio ; who receiving GifTa, daiigli- 

 ter of kinjT Charhs, in marriage, and with her the in- 

 veftiture of the duktdom, refufcci to kifs the king's foot in 

 token of fubi'Ction, unlefs he would hold it out for that 

 purpofe ; and being urged to it by thofe prefent, anfwered 

 baftily, " No, by God ;" whereupon the kine, turning 

 about, called hxm Bigot ; which name has palfed from him 

 to his people. 



Bigot, Emeric, in Biography, an eminent pnimotcr of 

 literature, v/as born at Rouen in 1626; and forming an 

 early attachment to liter;iture, he declined all publ c bufi- 

 ucfs, and employed himfclf in augmenting a larire library 

 bequeathed to him by his father, and in corrcfpondence and 

 converfation with perfons of learning. Few pcrfons con- 

 ciliated, by the modeily of his temper, by the frienddiip 

 and fuavlty of his manners, and by his love of peace and en- 

 deavours to maintain it, a greater number of friends, who 

 refpefted and efteemed him. In various parts of Europe 

 through which he travelled, he formed conneftion« with 

 littrary men ; but his mod intimate friends of tiiis defcrip- 

 tion were Menage and Nicholas Heinfuis. Although he 

 Jiftinguiflicd himfelf by aiding others in their literary per- 

 formances, the only work he ptiblifhed in liis own name was 

 the- Greek text of Palladius's life of St. Chryfollom, found 

 in the grand duke's library at Florence, to which he an- 

 nexed a Latin tranflation. Having entailed his valuable 

 I'hrar)- on his family, in order to prevent its difperfion, he 

 died at Rouen in 1689. However, uotwitliilanding his 

 precaution, his library was publicly fold at Paris in 1706. 

 Gen. Dia. 



- Bigot, in Italian ligonlia, in Commerce, is ufed to denote 

 a Venetian liqu'd mcafure, containing the !"ourth part of the 

 a::if'or.'i, or half the l/ool. 



BIG Rock, in Geography, a large rock on the S.E. 

 I ank of Au Vav.c river in America ; about 3 m.iles N.E. from 

 its month in the M^ffifippi, and about 8 mdes S.E. from cape 

 St. Antonio on that river. 



Bio Rock Brunch^ the north-ea'^ern head branch of 

 Alleghany rivir. The branch called Bijr Hole Town joins 

 It. and forms the Alleghany, 85 miles N-E. from, and above, 

 Venango fort. 8 



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Dig Salt Lid-, a gan-ifon in the (late of TeneiTec, near the 

 Salt lick, on Cumberland rivei", 115 miles from Knoxville ; 

 80 from S.W. point on Clinch river, 33 from Bledfoe lick, 

 and 68 from Nafliville. 



Big Sandy River, or Toltervy, rifes near the fource of 

 Cumberland river, and feparating Virginia from Kentucky, 

 <iifcharges itfelf into the Ohio, oppotite to the French pur- 

 chafe of Galiopolis, in about N.lat, 38° 30'. Vancouver's and 

 Harmar's forts Hand on this river. On its banks are feveral 

 fait licks and fprings. Little Sandy is a (hort fmall river, 

 which falls into the Ohio, about 20 miles weft of Big 

 Sandy river, in the county of Mafon, Kentucky. 



Bi'GUBA, a town of North Africa, feated on the river 

 Rio Grand.-. N.lat. i l" 15'. VV. long. 13° 35'. 



BIGUTTATAi in Entomology, a fpecies of Silpha, 

 met with at Upfal. This is totally lerrugmous, with a pale 

 line and fpot on the wing-cafes. Thunberg. Nov. Ad. 

 Stockh. 



BiGUTTATA, a fpecies of Cassida, with a yellow thorax ; 

 reddilh wing-cafes; black margin, and two yellow fpots. 

 Fahricius. This infert inhabits Cayenne. 



BiGUTTATA, a fpecies of Coccinella, defcribcd by 

 Fabricius. It is rufous, with two yellow fpots. The 

 country is unkown. Size fmall ; thorax gloffy and black, 

 with the fides yellow. 



BiGUTTATA, a fpecies of Can THARis, found in gardens in 

 Europe. The thorax is black in the middle ; wing-cafes 

 fliort, black, and yellow at the tip. Linn. Fn. Suec. ' Fa- 

 bricius. This is Telepborus niger, fcmoribus jlavis, elytris apice 

 h.iicis of Degeer. 



BiGUTTATA, ,a fpecies of Buprestis, with verj' entire^ 

 linear, green wing-cafis, with a white dot; abdomen 

 blue, with three white dots. Fabricius, &c. Inhabits Eng- 

 land. 



BiGUTTATA, a fpecies of Cicada (Cereopis), of a black 

 colour, Ipotted with yellow ; wmg-cafes brown, with a 

 white marsrinal fpot. Inhabits Germanv. Fahricius. 



BiGt ttata, a fpecies of Cicada {Ranatra 1 abr. ) that 

 is found in Europe. It is black, with a patch of fanguineous 

 red on each liJe of the thonx. Fabricius. 



BiGUTTATA, a fpecies of Vespa, of the fmall fize, that 

 inhabits China. It.is black, and Ipotted with yellow ; mar- 

 gin ot the fegments, and two dots of yellow on the fecond 

 one. Fabricius. 



BiGUTTATA, a fpecies of Scolia, of a black colour, 

 with two tranfverfe white dots on the abdomen ; wings 

 bhick. A fmall fpecies, and inhabits Spain. Fabri- 

 cius. 



BIGUTTATOR, a fpecies of Ichneumon, defcribed 

 by Thunberg. It is black, with two dots on the fcutel. 

 Found at Upfal. 



BIGUTTATUS, a fpecies of Curculio, that is found 

 in Germany. It is black, with elevated dots on the wing- 

 calts ; abdomen and pollerior legs yellow. Fabricius. 



BiGUTTATus, a fpecies of Cryptocephalus, of a black 

 colour, with the head, tip of the wingcafes, and legs yellow. 

 Gmelin. A native of Auftri?. 



Biguttatus, a fpecies ofCARABUs, that lives under the 

 bark of trees in Sweden, and is defcrihed by Thunberg. The 

 head is roundilh and bralTy ; wing-cafes black, with' a pale 

 fpot at the apex. 



Biguttatus, a fpecies of Dytiscus, defcribed by 

 IJnnxus as a native of Europe. This is black ; legs, 

 end of the abdomen, antcnnx, mouth, two dots between 

 the eyes, thorax, and wing-cafes teltaccous, the latter 

 fpotted with brown ; in the middle of the thorax two black 

 Ipots, 



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