BOD 



bafter. The mines, \\4iich are very dry, are under the di- 

 redlion of the magillrates of Wieliczka. The town is 20 

 miles E. of Cracow. 



BOCZEY KOWO, a fmall town of Lithuanian Ruflia, 

 in the palatine of Polock. 



BODiEUS A. Staph L, John, in Biography^ was born 

 at Amfterdam the beginning of the 17th century-, where, at 

 a proper age, he was admitted doftor in medicine, but at- 

 tached himfelf particularly to botany, in which he acquired 

 confiderable celebrity. He died in i6;6, at an early age, 

 leas'ing a work, on which he appeared to have bellowed much 

 labour, prepared for the prefs, which was publiftied fome 

 years after, viz. Joannes Bodsus, a Stapel, in Theophrafti 

 Hiiloriam Plantarum, fol. Amft. 1644. Eloy's Did. Hill. 

 Med. 



BODAISKA, in Geography, a town of Hungary, 7 

 miles W. of Patak. 



BODDAERTI, in Ichthyology, a name given to a fpecies 

 of ChvETODOn. This has the body variegated with brown 

 and blue bands, and the ventral fins armed with two fpines. 

 Schr. dcr. berl. naturf. Gmel. The habitat of this tilh is 

 unknown. 



BoDDAERTi, a fpecies of Gobi us, found in the Indian 

 ocean. Pallas defcribes it fpecifically as having the rays of 

 the anterio_£ dotrfal fin cirriform, and the third ray very long. 

 Tills fifli is fix inches in length ; the body blueiih brown, 

 pale and yellowilh beneath, of a convex fliape, tapering in a 

 flight degree towards the tail, and covered with fmall foft 

 fcales. The head is thick, blunt, fomewhat convex, and 

 fpotted with brown and white. Jaws nearly equal. Lips 

 thick and flefiiy : eyes vertical. Lateral line with fcarcely 

 perceptible papilla, and a few fnowy white fpot?. Each 

 ilde of the back marked with feven black fpots, and on the 

 fides below thele as many dots of white. Vent nearer the 

 head than the tail ; furrounded by a black circle, with a 

 conic peduncle behind. Dorfal fins blueilh-black, the an- 

 terior ones fpotted with white, the other with fctaceous rays, 

 and fix tranfverfe white lines between each ray. Peftoial 

 fin rounded. Tail blueifh white. In the firil dorfal fin five 

 rays, in the fecond twenty-five; peftoral twenty-one ; ven- 

 tral thirty-four ; anal twenty-five ; caudal eighteen. Pallas. 

 Gmel. &c. 



BODECKEN, in Geography, a town of Geimany, in the 

 circle of Weftphalia, and bifhopric of Paderbom, 4 miles 

 N. N. E. of Buren. 



BODEGAS, a town of North America, in the province 

 ofVerapaz, on the north-eaft coaft of Dolce-bay. N. lat. 15° 

 4o'.W. long. 75°35'. 



BODEGNE'E, a town of France, the principal place 

 of a canton, in the dillrift of Huy, and department of 

 Ourte; the place contains 320, and the canton 7422 per- 

 fons ; the territory comprehends 1071 kiliometres, and 17 

 communes. 



BODEGON, a town of Spain, in Andalufia, 4 leagues 

 from Seville. 



BODEKKER, in Biography, a painter of portraits, was 

 born in the country of Cleves, in 1660, and abandoning the 

 profeffion of mufic for which his father had intended him, 

 he was placed as a difciple, in the art of painting, under 

 John De Baan, at the Hague. He commenced the exer- 

 cife of his profeffion at Bois-le-Duc and Breda with great 

 reputation ; and having refided fome time at the Hague, he 

 clofed his hfe in 1727, at Amfterdam, where his perfoim- 

 ancels were much efteemed. Pilkington. 



BODENBURG, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of Lower Saxony, and bifliopric of Hildefheim ; 8 

 milesN.E. of Alfeld. 



BOD 



BODENETZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Chrudini ; 10 miles N. of Chrudim. 



BODENFELDE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Lower Saxony, and principality of Calenberg, feated on the 

 Wefer, in the quarter of Gottingen. 



BODENHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 

 of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Hefle, 18 mile* 

 E.N. E. ofCalTel. 



BODENI, in Andcnt Geogriiphy, a people of European 

 Sarmatia, according to Ptolemy. 



BODENLEICH, in Geogrujihy, a town of Germany, in 

 the circle of Lower Saxony, and principality of Luneburgh- 

 Zell ; 32 miles N. E. of Zell. 



BODEN-SEA, a name fometimes given to the gulf of 

 Bothnia, which fee. 



BODENSTEIN, Adam, in Biography, a celebrated 

 German phyfician, fon of a famous theologian, called trom 

 the place of his refideiice, Carloltadt, was born there ii\ 

 152^. He was a pupil, and ifienunus defender ot the doc- 

 trines of Paiacelfus, in which he appears to have placed ail 

 entire confidence. For a malignant fever raging at Bade, in 

 1577, he went there, armed v.itli a Tiieriaca, co.nipofed on the 

 principles of his mailer, with which he boafted he (hould be 

 able to fnbdue the fever ; but taking the infeftion, he fell 

 a facrifice to his credulity and temerity. Bcfides editing 

 feveral of the works ot Paraocliiis, he left the following^ 

 which were collected and publilhed in one volume tolio, at 

 Bafle, in 15S1. 



•' Epillola ad Fuggeros, in qua .\rgunienta Alchymiam 

 infirmantia, et confinnantiaadducnntur; quibus ct eam artent 

 efle veriffimam dcmonllratur ; lapifque vere inventus oftendi- 

 tur." " De Podagra prefeivatione, traftatus." " De herbis 

 duodecim zodiacl fignis, dicatis, 5:c." Adamus records bis 

 epitaph, placed on his monument, he fays, at his own deiire, 

 in which he is faid to have died, anno falutis, 1577, astatis 

 hcbdomada feptima, for feven times feven, or 49 year,;. Alfo 

 the following lines, in which Bodenilein is fuppofeJ to fay i 

 " Nfc omnia, nee omnes mihi 

 Placuere : quinam egoomnibub? 

 Non omnibus cous feiiex, 

 Non eremita fpagirus. 

 Nam tu viator omnibus ? 

 -Deo placere cura. Abi." 



Adami Mclch. Vitae Germ. Med. Haller Bib. Med. Eloy 

 Did. Hift. 



BODENWERDER, in Geography, a town of Germany, 

 in the circle of Lower Saxony-, and principality of Calen- 

 berg, fcatcd on the Wefer ; 16 miles S. of Hamelen. It 

 has lome trade with Bremen and Hamburg in coarfe linen. 



BODEN-ZEE, a name given by the Germans to the 

 fuperior hke of Conftance, which fee. 



BODERIA, or BoDOTRiA, in Ancient Geography, an 

 jeftuary mentioned by Ptole.Tiy in his dtfcription of Great 

 Britain, which is the prefent Firth of Forth in Scotland. 



BODGURV A, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in the province of Natolia, 2S miles N. N. W. of Kaftamoni. 



BODIANUS, or BoBiANUS, in jincient Geography, a 

 borougli of Italy, which was repsopled by a decree ot Julius 

 Cxfar. 



BoDiA>jus, Bodian, in Ichthyology, a genus of Thoracic 

 filhes, firft eftabliihed by Dr. Blo'ch, for the reception of 

 fuch fpecies of the two Li;ina:an genera Sparus and PtRCA, 

 as have certain charaders common to both, and are not 

 therefore fufficiently diilind to be divided ir.to two genera. 

 The charadcr of this new genus, as laid down in the firft 

 inilance, confilts in having the gill covers fcaly, armed, and 

 f mooth, or even at the edges. Un Jer this head Dr. Bloch 



dcfcribes 



