B L A 



B L A 



in the department oftheGironde, and chief place of a canton, near which, to the S. E., ilands the town of CompoftcUa, in 

 in the dillrid of Bourdeaux, five iniles north of Bourdeaux. the province of GaUcia, in New Spain. N. iat. 21° 20'. 

 The place contains 2003, and the canton 9304 inhabitants. W. long. 105° 12'. See Blaise. 



The territory comprehends 272 jkihome'ref.and gcomtnunes 

 BLANQUILLE, in Comma-ce, a fI.^all filver coin, equi- 

 valent to about II !-</. fterling, current in Morocco, and on 

 the coafts of Barbary. 



BLANZAC, in Geography, a to-.rn of France, in the 

 department of the Charente, an 1 chief place of a canton, in 

 the diftrirt of Angouleme, 4 leagues S. S. W. ofAngou- 

 leme. The place contains 545, and the canton 10,440 in- 

 habitants. Ttic territory includes 242^ kiliometres, and 20 

 communcf.— Alfo, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Gard, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of 

 Uzes, 3 miles S. S. W. of Uzes. 



BLAPS, ill Ent'jmolngy, one of the Fabrician genera of 

 coleopterous infeft?, the palpi of which are clavated, and four 

 in number ; jaws ilraight and bifid ; lip membranaceous and 

 cleft ; and the antenna moailiform at the tip. Fabrlcius 

 includes in this genus fome of the ten-lrhn's of Linnaeus, fuch 

 as tenebri'j gages and mortijaga. Gmelin adopts the genus 

 only as a fubdivifion of Pimelia, in the Sylh Nat. See Pi- 

 MELIA. 



Blas, a term, in the Helmontian philofophy, denoting 

 the local and alterative motion of the ftars ; from whofe 

 influence proceed changes of weather, feafons, ftorms, and 

 the like. 



In imitation oi \.hh bias Jlellarum, the fame author framed 

 another in animals, either natural, whereby each vifcus is 

 framed according to the model of its particular; or volun- 

 tary', which is directed to motion by the will. 



BLASCOa, in Ancient Geography, an ifland of Gaul, 

 mentioned by Pliny, fituate at the mouth of the Rhone. 



BLASE, St., in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 archduchy of Auilria, 8 miles S. W. of Steyr, 



•BL.'^.SENDORF, or Balasfalva, a' town of Tran- 

 fylvania, in the diftrift of Weiffenbourg, the refidence of the 

 bifliop of Walachia. 



BLASIA, from Blafio Biagi, an Italian monk, in Bo- 

 tany. Lin. Gen. n. 1 199. Mich. Gen. t. 7. Clafs, cryplogamia 

 alge. Species, i. B. pufilla. Lin. Spec. 1605. Hudf. 

 Angl. 519. Dill. t. 31. f. 7. Fl. dan. t. 45. The 

 dwarf blafia grows on the fides of ditches and brooks, and 



BLAPSIGONIA, compounded of /sXaTm., I hurt, and in moift fnady places in a fandy foil, in many parts of Eu 



70V11, brood ox'ijfue, a kind of difeafe, or defcft in bees, when 

 they negleft or fail to produce young, being wholly em- 

 ployed in making honey. 



BLARE, ill Commerce, a fmall copper coin, containing 

 a little mixture of filver, flruck at Bern, and valued at much 

 the fame with the Ratze in other places. 



BLARINGHEM, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the North, and chief place of a canton, 

 in the diftri£l of Hazebrouch, 2 leagues S. E. of St.Omer. 



BLARNEY, a fmall market town of the county of 

 Cork, and province of Munller, Ireland, fituatcd on a river 

 of the fame name, about 4 miles W. of the city of Cork 



rope ; with us on Hounflow-heath, and alfo near Manchef- 

 ter and Halifax. It flowers in the beginning of May. 



BLASII ZELLA, \n Geography, a fmall town of Ger- 

 many, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and principality of 

 Gotha, feparated in 1 640 from the bailiwick of Rcinhards- 

 brunn, and added to that of Schwarznot-wald, and famous 

 for its founder)- of fire-arms ; j 6 miles S. of Gotha. 



BLASIMONT, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 La Reole, 7 leagues E. of Blamoni, or 3^ N. of La Reole. 



BLASIUS, Gerard, in Biography, fon of Leonard, 

 phyfician at Amfterdam, who received pupils into his houfc. 



In the reign of queen Elizabeth, its caftlc was reckoned one to inftruft them in the knowledge of medicine, particularly 



of the ftronge ft fortrefles in Munfter, and it has often proved ' '' ' r . • . /■ . 



very troublesome to the inhabitants of Cork. It belonged 



formerly to the earls of Clancarty, but at prefent is the pro- 

 perty of Mr. Jeffries, whole father built the town, and ella- 



blifhtd feveral mnnufafturcs, of which Mr. A. Young has 



given a detail in the account of his tour through Ireland. 



Thefe eftablifhments, however, as ton generally happens in 



like cafes, have not been fuccefsfjl, and Blarney ir not at 



prefent the flouriHiing town, which Mr. Young's account 



would lead us to expetf. A paper-mill, a llamping-mill, a 



bleach-green, and one or two cotton manufactories Hill exill ; 



and many ftockings made in the neighbourhood are fold at 



the wecklv market and in Cork, but all may be confidered 



as on the decline. The caitle and the grounds about it have 



been coufiderably improved, and the couiitry around, a? 



well as the park, is well watered. There is a llone at one 



of the corners of the top of the cadle, which is fliewn to 



ftrangers, on account of a faying, that any perfon who has 



tilfed it is privileged to lie and flatter. The origin of this 



faying, which is often referred to, and from wliich Blarney 

 has become a vulgar fynonimc for flattery, the writer has 

 not been able to difcover. In the caftle there is an original 

 painting of Charles 12th of Sweden, at full length, drawn 

 in the drefs menti mcd by Voltaire, brought over by one of 

 the family who had been envoy to th-:t monarch. The ad- 

 joining country is mollly under corn ar.d pallure ; the foil is 

 a yellowilh clay, and is mottlv manured with iimc-ilone, of 

 which there is a vein that fupplies largt quantities. Smith's 

 Cork. Young. 



B LAS, St., a cape on the coaft of the North Pacific ocean, 

 Vol. 1\'. 



in the anatomy of brute animals, of which he diffefted a 

 great variety. It was this which probably inclined Gerard 

 to this branch of ftudy, and gave birth to feveral of his 

 works; fuch as his " Zootomix, feu Anatomes variorum Ani- 

 malium," publifhed 1676; " Obfervata anatomica, in ho- 

 mme, fimia, equo, vitulo, teftudine, echino, glire, ferpentc, 

 ardea, variifque animalibus aliis," Lugduni, 1674, &c. 



After making fome progrefs under his fatiitr, he went, 

 for further improvement, to Copenhagen, and at length to 

 Leyden, where he commenced doctor in medicine, about the 

 year 1646. He then returned to Amllerdam, where he ac- 

 quired fo much credit and reputation for his /l<ill in his pro- 

 ftlhon, that in 1660 he was made profeflor in medicine in 

 the fchools of that city, and loon after pliyfician to the 

 hofpital. 



■ Bcfides a variety of original works, Blafius publiflied new 

 editions ot parts of the works of Primerofe, TIj. Bartholine, 

 Licetus, Bellini, Borclli, and Willis, to moll of which he 

 gave notes and additional obfervatlons, containing fuch dif- 

 coverics on the fiib;efls treated of, as had been made fince 

 thole works had been originally publiihed. Of his original 

 works, bcfides tliofe mentioned above, we Ihall notice his 

 " Oratio de noviter inventis," AmiL 1659, 4to. " Obferva- 

 tiones m.edicje rariores, accedit triphcis monllri hilloria," 

 Am!f. 1667, 8vo. in fix books, containing accounts ot the 

 diflcction of numerous mr-rbid bodies, in one of which, the 

 fpleen, and in another the gall bladder, were found to be 

 mifplaced ; in one two ftoir.achs were found, in another 

 three telticles. " Anatome animalium terrdlrium variorum 

 volatilium, aquatihum, ferpculum, infcctorum, ovorumque 

 4 A. llrudui-am 



