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entefed into the fervice cf cardinal Radzevil, accompanied 

 him to Rome, ai.d tncre ftiidied theology under Bcliarmin. 

 He afterwards trav-Utd into Poland, Livonia, and Ruffia, 

 and was in danger of loliug his feet by the froft in his 

 journey to Mofcow. Upon his return to the Low Coun- 

 tries, the duke of Panna appoint! d him fecretary to the 

 town-houfe of Antwerp. He died in 1609. His poetical 

 works, confilling of epigrams, elegies, heroic pocins, &;c. 

 were colleftcd, and printed at Coloijne in 1615. He has 

 been highly clteemed as a Latin pott by the critics of his 

 country, and called the " Btlgic Virgil." Gen. Did. 



BoCH, in Geo^rophy, a river of the Netherlands, which 

 runs irto the M^ufe, 5 milts below Dinant. 

 BOCHARIA. SeeBucHARiA. 



BOCHART, SAMihL in ^/o^raft/iy, a learnedorientallft, 

 was the fon of a miniiler of the reformed church at Rouen, 

 where he was born in iJCyQ. Having llutlitd polite litera- 

 ture at Pans, philofophy at Sedan, and divinity, with the 

 oriental laiignagcs, at Saiimur, and made a furprifing pro- 

 grefs at a very early age, he completrd his courle of oriental 

 literature under Erpcnius and Ludolf at Leyden. On his 

 return to France, he fettled as miniiler at Caen. In 164'j, 

 he publiflied liis " Phaleg" and " Canaan," the two 

 parts of his " Geographia Sacra," a work of very extraor- 

 dinary erudition and refearch, in which lie invei'tigatcs the 

 hiftory of the human race as recorded in the Bible, the 

 difperfion of mankind, and the oiigm of nations and lan- 

 guages, together v.ith a variety of collateral fubjeCts. Not- 

 withftanding the charge of fanciful interpretations and chi- 

 merical conicftures, which has been alleged againll fome 

 parts of this work, it has long maiatain-d a high degree 

 of reputati'jn, and furniihed an ample lupply of materials 

 for modern writers. In ilie progrefs ct this work, the 

 author was led to purfue a variety of inqinries concerning 

 the animals, vegetables, and minerals mentioned in the 

 facred writings, on which he intended to have compofed 

 diftinft treatifes ; but he only completed that relating to 

 animals, w!iich was printed at London in i66j, under the 

 title of " Hicrozoicon." In this work the errors are fuch 

 as muft unav(,idably occur at a period when the knowledge 

 of natural hiftory was very impertect, co;viparcd with that 

 of more moderr times. In compliance with the invitation 

 of queen Chriflina, Bochart vifited Sweden in 1652, ac- 

 companied by the learned Huet, who wrote an humourous 

 and elegant Latin poem on their journey. But finding 

 that the capricious levity of the SwtdilTi queen was not 

 fuited to his own gi-ave character, he returned to France in 

 1653, and refumed his former ftudies. He was a member 

 of the academy at Caen, and by his moderation and can- 

 dour, maintained the diftingiiifned reputation which he ac- 

 quired by his profound erudition, together with the cftecm 

 and refpeft of perfons of ail partita, till the time of his 

 death, which happened, in confrquence of an apopleftic 

 ftroke, during a diipatation with Huet in the iicademy. 

 May 16, 1667. I'tfi es the learned works already men- 

 tioned, Boch.irt left feveral dilTertations, particularly one, 

 in which he attempts to piove that jEneas never was in 

 Italy. His works were collected and printed by M. de 

 Vilkmandy at Leyden in lyia.in 3 vols, folio. Gen: Did. 



BOCHO, in Geograph'/, a town of Germany, in the cir- 

 cle of Upper Saxony, and principality of Querfurt, j miles 

 S. E. of Jii'erbock. 



BOC'iOLl.fCZE, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Sai.Qomirz, 20 miles E.-S.E. of Radom. 



BOCHOLT, or BocKOLT, a town of Germany, in a 

 prefefturaie of the fame name, in the bifhopric of Mun- 

 fter, and circle of Wellphalia ; feated en tlie Aa, and 



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having iron mines in its vicinity ; 36 miles W.S.W. cf 

 Munlier. 



BOCHOL^LT, or Bochout, a town of Flanders, 

 fituate on a canal cut from the Scheldt ; 4 miles N. W. of 

 Sas-Je-Gent. 



BOCK, Blauer Bock, in Zoology, a fynonymous name 

 of the blud antelope, anlilcpe leucopkaa. Kolbe. — Bock alfo 

 fignifies the male of the common goat. Gefn. Thitrb. 



BOCKA, or BucKAU, in Geography, a mine town of 

 Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxcny, and country of 

 Erzgeberg, 3 mi'es W. of Schwartzenberg. 



BOCKENBURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Wellphalia, and bifhopric of Minden, one mile from Minden. 



BOCKENHEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 the Upper Rhine, and county of Hanau-Muiizenberg ; z 

 miles W. N. W. of Franekfort on the Mayne. 



BOCK KORD, or Book-Hoard, in Jlnttquily, a place 

 where books, evidences, ot writings were kept. 



BOCKHORST, John Van, in Biography, ■a.-p^\nX.i:r oi 

 hiftory and portrait of the Flemilh fchool, was born at Muu- 

 ftcr, about the year 1610; and removing to Flanders, ac- 

 quired the art of dtfign and colouring in the fchocl of Jac- 

 ques Jordaens. He defigned well ; the heads oi his wom.en 

 are generally graceful, and thofe of his men diftinguiihed by 

 character : his tone of colouring fometiincs refemblcd that 

 of Rubens, but more frequently that of Vandyck. His 

 pitlures have great force and harmony, and his ikilf/l ma- 

 nagement of the chiaro-fcuro produces an agreeable effect. 

 An altar piece at the church of St. James in Ghent, le- 

 prefenting the martyrdom of this faint, and a pidture of the 

 Annunciation in another church, painted in 1664, arcdiftin- 

 guillitd performances of this mailer. l)efcam.ps. Pilking- 

 ton. 



BOCKI, in Geography, a fmall town of Poland, in Po- 

 dalachia, in the palatinate of Bielfk. 

 BOCKING. See Braintree. 



Bo c KING herring, in the Dutch Trade, fignifies the fame 

 with bloated herring among us. 



BOCK-KOGO, in Geography, a vaft peak of the Bren- 

 ner mountains in the Tyrol, riling little inferior to Gefrorn, 

 and in the fame latitude, but towards the well. 



BOCK-LAND, or Book-land, formerly denoted that 

 which we now call FREEH0LD-/a«(/, or CHARTER-tow.-;'; and 

 it was by that name diftinguifhed from FOLK-Zam/, which 

 was C0PYH0LD-/ani/. In Ancient Lazv-Wriiers, it denotes 

 a poflellion or inheritance held by evidence in writing. The 

 word was doubtlefs wntten boeh-land, quafi Icoh-laiid, anfwer- 

 ing to free land, or land held by book or charter, which v>-as 

 regarded as free property, and defcended to the heirs of the 

 polfelfor. It ilood oppofed to YOi.vi-lanJ, which was that 

 held without writing. 



BOCKUM, BocHUM, or Bocheim, in Geography, a 

 town and prefefturate of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 

 phalia, and county of Mark ; feated in a very fertile diftrict, 

 24 miles N. li. of DufTeldorp, and 35 N. of Cologn. 



BOCNIA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cra- 

 cow, famous for its falt-mines, firll difcovered in 125 1. 

 The fmall river called Raab, that falls into the Viftula, runs 

 near this town, which is furrounded with hills and emi- 

 nences. The falt-minc of Bocnia is in a narrow flip of land, 

 about 750 feet in breadth from north to louth, and about 

 10,000 feet in length from eaft to weft, and its greatell 

 depth below the furface is about lioo feet. The fait lies in 

 veins, and is fome what finer, efpecially at a certain depth, 

 than that of Wieiiczka. It is cut in fmall pieces, and put 

 up in cafks. Largepiecesof black wood have been fou id in 

 this nunc, which are incrufted with fait ; and likewife ala- 



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