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BiGUTTATUS, a fpecies of Staphylinus, that inhabits 

 fome fhorcs of tiie Baltic fea. It is of a black colour, with 

 a fulvous fpot on each of the wing-cafes. Liuu. Fabr. 

 &c. 



BiGLTTATUs, a fpecies ofCiM EX {RotmiiIdlut),-6.eicnhed 

 by Liiiureus in his Fauna Suecica, by Scopoli, occ. 'It/is 

 black, with all the margins white, and a white fpot on the 

 wing-cafes. 



BIGUTTULUS, a fpecies of Gryllus [Locnjla), with 

 a cruciate thorax ; u ing-cafes clouded, and marked with an 

 oblong white fpot near tiie tip. Linn. Fn. Suec. &c. This 

 IS Acrydlum higutlalum of D>^;^eer. Very comm.on on fo.iie 

 barren lands in the north of Europe. 



BIHACS, BiHAT/., BiHiTZ, or ViHiTZ, in Geography, 

 a. town of Croatia, frated on the river Unna, belonging to 

 the Turks; 60 miles fouth of Carlfladt, and 180 \ycft of 

 Belgrade. N. lat. 44° 42'. E. long. 16^^20'. 

 BIHAI, in Bolany. See Stuelitzia. 

 BIHAMATA, in Entomology, a fpecies of HisPA, of an 

 oblong, depreffcd fliape, that inhabits India. It is fpecitically 

 defcribed as being unnrmed, black, fpotted with red ; fliells 

 truncated and honked. Giiielin. 



BiHAMATA, a fpecies of Formica, found in the ifland of 

 Joanna, having four fpines on tiie thorax, and two curved 

 ones on the petiole fcale. Fabricius, S:c. 



BIHAR, in Geography, an ancient town of Hungary, 

 giving name to a dillrid, iu which are alfo Debretzen, 

 Great \'aradcin, &c. 



BIHOR.EAU, in Ornithology, the name q{ Ardea nyffico- 

 rax, or Night heron, in Bufton's Hill, birds. Femelle i!e 

 Bihorcau of Buffoi', is ArJea grijia ; and Bihoureau de Cay- 

 enne of Buff, is Ardea cayennenfu of Gmelin. 



BIHRI, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in tlie country of 

 Lariffan, in the route trom llpahan to Orinus, 30 miles N.W. 

 of Lar. 



EIJINAGUR. SeeBiSNAGUR. 



EIJORE, called alfo Bejour and Bajour, the Bazira of 

 Alexander, a province of Hindoftaii, bounded on the louth 

 by Paidiawur, on the north by Kuttore, on the call by 

 Sewad and Beneer, which are feparated from it by the Pen- 

 jekoreh river, and on the well by Guznoorgul. This province, 

 according to the dimenfions Hated iu the Ayen Acbaree 

 (vol. ii. p. 192, &c. ) extends 25 cotTcs north and fouth, and 

 10 eall and well ; ditlant about 20 cofTes beyond the Cabul 

 river, and on its wcllern extreme about 30 colFcs from the 

 Indus. Bijore, as well as Sewad, is very mountainous, and 

 abounds with palTes and llrong fituations ; fo that their in- 

 habitants have not only held ihemfelves generally independent 

 of the Mogul emperors, but have occafionally made very 

 ferious inroads into their territories. In this province there 

 is at this day a tribe of Afghans, denominated Yuzuf-zyes, 

 which traces its origin to ce.tain perfor.s left there by Alex- 

 ander the Great, when he palled through this country. Both 

 Abul Fazil, the an'hor of the Ayen Acbaree, and Soojan 

 Rae, an eaftern hiltorian of good reputation, report this tra- 

 dition without any material alteration. The latter, indeed. 



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adds, that thefe Europeans, if we may call them fo, continued 

 to prcferve that afcendajicy over their neighbours which their 

 ancellors may be fnppofed to have poflefled, when they tirll 

 fettled here. Although we fhould rejeti this pedigree as 

 fabidous, yet the bare claim aigues the belief of the natives, 

 for which there mull have bec-n fome foundation, that Alex- 

 ander not only conquered Bijore, but alio transferred that 

 conquell to (o-re of his own countrymen. The people of 

 Bijore had like'A ife an high idea of Alexander's extenlive au- 

 thority ; and they denominated him the " Two-horned," 

 agreeably to the llriking emblem of power iu all the eaflern 



languages, (Ayen Acbaree, xi. 194.) Thefe Yuziifc-zycs, 

 fays Mahomed Cazim, quitted their ancient habitations be- 

 tween Ghiziii and Candnhar, and after various u:ifnccefsf\il 

 attempts to obtain a fcttlement in Cab"!, at the time when 

 Mirza Ulug Beig,.furnamcd Cabulfc, ruled that kingdom, 

 finally ellablifhed thcmfelves in Sewad and Bjorc ; which at 

 this period were governed by a dynafly of jriiiccs (lyled 

 " Sultani," who derived therr linenge from Alexander the 

 Great. Thi; Yuzuf-zyes poffefs, in addition to Sev.ad and 

 Bijore, tlie traftsfituated between thofe provir.ces, ard the 

 livers of Cabul and Indus ; the greateft part of which is de- 

 fcribed as a defcrt in the Ayen .'\cbaree, but by Bernoailii 

 as a foreft. In the time of Acbar,_ Zine Khan was fent to 

 challifcthem ; and he overran their whole territory, and eyen 

 penetrated to the borders of Cafligar, and took the (Irong 

 fort of KuHial, or Gnfhal, feated on a mc)iintaih-i7 maiclies 

 north of B:jore. About the year 1670, Aurungzebe found 

 it necelfary tochadife thefe Yuzfif-zyes ; iinct which period 

 the return of Nadir-Shah, in 1739, again brought them into 

 notice. To him they appeared formidable ; but he reduced 

 them to fubmillion ; and il they really engaged to fnppiv hi3 

 army with 30,000 men, the tribe mult have increafed fince 

 the time of Acbar, when Bijore contniiied only 39,000 

 and Sewad 40,000 families. Rennell's Mem. p. 159, &e. 



Bijore, the capital of the above-defcribed province, 

 fituated about 6 marches, or about 66 geographical miles, 

 from Nilab or Attock, and at 50 of the fame mile , north 

 a little ead from Paidiawur, and at the fayc dillance eaft 

 a little north from lalalabad. N. lat. 3-f° 7'. E.lo.ig. 



7°° 44'- . . . "! 



Bijore, the name of a river which rifesin the moimtains, 

 N.E. of Bijore, and palung by it, forms a junclion with the 

 Penjekoreh, Sewad, and Kameh, and falls into the Nilab, or 

 Sinde, at Attock. 



BUSK, a town and dillri£l of Siberia, in the government 

 of Kolyvan, feated on the river Bi, or Biia, which, by 

 uniting with the Katunia, forms the river Oby ; 150 miles 

 S.S.E. of Kolyvan. N. lat. 53° 31'. E. long. 84° 14'. 



BIJUGUM, Folium, in Botany, denotes a winged leaf, 

 bearing two pair o^ foUoIa. 



BIKBULAKOVA, in Geography, a town of Rnflia, iu 

 the government of Ufa, on the river Ik, So miles N.E. of 

 Orenburg. 



BIKILLAM, or Bfckalen, a fmall illand in the Red 

 fea, 8 leagues from the coaft of Arabia. N. lat. 16°. 

 E. long. 42'^ 25'. 



BIKOU, a town of Poland, in the p^atinate of Braclaw, 

 50 miles north of Braclaw. 



BILA, a river of Bohemia, which runs into the Moldaw 

 near Auflig. 



BiLA, yf//, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leitmeritz, 

 10 miles W.S.W. of Kamniz. 



BILjENA, or BiLBANA, in Anch-:t G'rgraply, a town of 

 Arabia Felix. Ptolemy. 



BILAN, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in tlic circle 

 of Chrndim, 5 miles welt of Ciirudini. _ 



BILANCIIS Deferendis, in Luw, a wtk direfted to 

 a corporation, for the carrying of weights to uieh a haven, 

 there to weigh the wool, which perlons by our arcient laws 

 were licenfed to tranfport. Reg. Oiig. 270. 



BILANDER, in Navigation, a fmall merchant-fliip with 

 two ir.afts ; dillinguidied from other velTelsofthe lame kind 

 by the form of the main-fail, which refcnibles a fettce-lail. 

 The head is bent to a yard, fimilur to. the mizcn-yard of a 

 (hip, and hangs to the main-mall, as a llijp's does to the 

 mizen-mall. This method of '"iggii'g l>as prxived incon- 

 venient, aud ii nov? feldom ufed, except bv the Dutch. 



Zaj ' B.ILANUS, 



