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EOELE-BOELE, in Geography, a diftrift of the iflaiid 

 of Celebes, fituattd in Ur- bay of Boiii, at and near a river of 

 the fame name. I'o the weft itbas Wauvvo Wotlc ; to the 

 fouth, the river Caffa ; to the north, the river Tanka ; and 

 to the eaft, the fliorts of the bay. It is fometimes called 

 7c/lcilimpoe, and has three chief townfliips, \iz. Boele boele, 

 Lamant, and Radja, which are all independent of each 

 other. The kings of Boni confider it as an appendage of 

 their crown. 



BOELE-COMBA, a territory of Celebes, which was 

 anciently a feparate kingdom, but in later times it was fub- 

 jugatcd by the MacafTer:; ; and is become one of the pro- 

 vinces belonging to the Dutch Eaft India company. It 

 ftretches from the river Kalcnkoiigang, which divides it from 

 Bontain, to Bera, or rather to the river Banipang, which 

 runs between them ; to the north of it lie the mountains of 

 Kyndang, which leparate it from Boni, or rather from the 

 highlanders of Touraayo ; and to the fouth, it is wafhed by 

 the fea. The land i> fertile in rice, and abounds in game and 

 extenfive forells ; but the timber is nnt adapted to the con- 

 ftruAion of houfes. When the weft monfoon renders it 



dangerous for ftitps to 



the road before Buele-Comba, 



they run into the rjver Kaleknngang, near the mouth of 

 which ftands the palifadoed fort Carolina, in which the refi- 

 dent of the Dutch Eaft India company, who is a junior 

 merchant, has his abode. Tlie province of Bera reaches 

 from the river Bampang eaftward, along the fca-coaft to the 

 point of Lafftm or I.affoa, and thence northward to the 

 point of Cadjang j Knd on the land fide, it borders upon 

 Boele-Comba, Tonrang, and Kadjang, belonginpr to Boele- 

 boele. This counti^ belongs to the Dutch company. It 

 is barren and rocky, but has fome woods which furnifli tim- 

 ber fit for building proas. The men are good warriors both 

 by fea and land ; the richcll are merchants ; and others em- 

 play themfelves in building proas, and in manufafturing a 

 fort of coarfe white cloth from the cotton which the place 

 fupplics. 



BOELON. See B^elon. 



EOEN, in Geography, a town of France in the depart- 

 inert of the Loire, and chief place of a canton in the dillridl 

 of Montbrifon, feated on an eminence near the river Lignon ; 

 6 leagues fouth of Roanne, and 3* north of Montbrifon. 

 The place contains 1220, and the canton 10,929 perfons ; 

 the territory comprehends 305 kiliomctres, and 22 com- 

 munes. 



BOEJSIAC, in Ichthyology, a fpecies of Bodiavus, de- 

 fcribed by Dr. Bloch. The body is of a clear olivaceous 

 colour, marked with fcven oblique brown bands ; and the 

 caudal fin is rounded. This fidi is mentioned as a na- 

 tive of the feas about Japan, where it is called yean boenac. 



There are feven rays in the gill membrane of this fpecies, 

 fifteen in the ptdioral fin, fix in the ventral fin, eleven in the 

 anal fin, fixteen in the caudal fin, and twenty-five in that on 

 the back. 



BOENASA, In yfncifrit Geography, a town of Cappado- 

 cia, in the interior of the Galatic Pontua. Ptolemy. 



"BOEON, a town placed by Ptolemy in the interior of the 

 Tauric Cherfonelus. 



BoEON, or.BcELo, a town of Greece, in the Doric region, 

 according to Thucydides, near mount Parnaffus. This was 

 OBe of the four cities which, according to Pliny, Strabo, and 

 Steph. Byz. gave the name e.f " Tctrapolis" to the country 

 pofTefl'ed by the Dorians, near mount Oeta. 



BOEONUS, Diu, an iftand of India, according to 

 the Pcriplus of the Erythraean fea, placed bv M. d'An- 

 Tilla at the foutb-weft evitraaee of the " Barygazenus 



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BCEOTIA, a name given to two ancient kingdoms ci' 

 Greece ; one founded, or rather reftored, by Cadmns, and 

 called by him I'jocotia, from the ox [los), which is faid to 

 have dnefted him to the place where he built the capital of 

 his kingdom, afterwards known by the name of Thebes ; 

 the other in ThelTaly, faid to have been founded by Bceotus, 

 the fon of Neptune, and brother of Qiolus, by Arne, the 

 daughter of Oiolus king of CElis. Tliis Bocotus, according to 

 Bryant (Anal. Anc. Myth, vol.ii. p. 326.), from whom the 

 Eccotians are fuppofed to be defcended, and from whom this 

 country is faid, by fome, to have derived its name, was an 

 imaginary perfonage, and merely a variation of Boutus and 

 Butus, the ark ; which in ancient times was inditierently 

 ftyled Theba, Argus, Aren, Butus, and Ba-otus. This 

 Boeotusof Greece, according to the mythology ot this writer, 

 is the lame with Boutus of Egypt, Baitr.s of Cyrene, and 

 Buto or Budde of the Indians. The hillory oi the origin 

 of this kingdom is intermixed with fables ; but it is more 

 certainly known, that the pofTefrors of this fettLnieiit held 

 it for more than 200 years; and that wlun they \4tre ex- 

 pelled from it by the Theffalians, they fijught a new efta- 

 blidiment in that country, which till tliat time had been 

 called Cadmeis, and which was then named Ijccutia. We arc 

 informed bv Diodorus and Homer, that tliefe Boeotians fig- 

 nalized themfelves at the Trojan war; and the latter adds», 

 that five of Boeotus's grandfons were the five cluefs who led 

 their Bceotian troops thither. Whatever be the true ety- 

 mology of the name Bocotia, given to this country, it was 

 dillinguilhed by feveral other appellations, according to its 

 fuppofed founders : thofe, who afcribed it to Og) ges, called 

 it Ogygia ; others called it Cadmcis, from Cadmus ; and 

 by others it was denominated Aonia, from Aon, the fon of 

 Neptune ; and Hyanthis, from Hvas, the fon of Atlas. It 

 is now called Straniulippa ; and Thebes, its ancient cnpital,. 

 Thive, and, corruptly by the Greeks, Stibes or Stives. 



It bordered on the eaft with Attica, and was in time 

 joined to it, being parted from it by the mountain Ciths- 

 ron ; on the north, it was bounded by the ftreight Euripus, 

 now caUed the Negropont ; on the weft it had the kingdom 

 of Phocis ; and on the fouth, the gulf of Corinth, its ut- 

 moil extent from eaft to weft was i'^ 10', and it was nearly 

 of the fame length from north to fouth, but approaching to 

 a point eaftward. Epiiotus, from Strabo, calls it /io»» Tfi- 

 SxXarlo;, fo/a trimaris, becaufe it was contiguous to three 

 feas ; and by means of its commodious havei:6 it could carry 

 on a commerce on one fide witli Italy, Sicily, and Africa ; 

 and on the other, with Egypt, the ifle of Cypi'U's, Mauri- 

 tania, and the Hellefpont. It had alfo the large lake Copaif, 

 and the two large rivers, the Afopus and Ifmeiius, bciides 

 other ftrenms, by which it was watered and rendered Icreile. 

 This country is partly hilly, efpecially Aonia, properly fo 

 called ; the reft is low and flat, and abounding v^ith excel- 

 lent pafturage and corn ; but the air was fo dcnfeand foggy, 

 that Horace thought it influenced the genius of the inhabit- 

 ants. The Boeotians, in general, were reckoned not to 

 pofl'tfs that penetration and vivacity, which charattcr.zed 

 the Athenians, whofe air was remarkably pure, tli)Ugh fc- 

 parated from them only by mount Cichx-ron ; but tiiis, per- 

 haps;, might have been attributed more to cdm :ti.:i thai, to 

 nature. As they employed their time more in b>. elily tha" in 

 mental exerci'es, they were deficient with refpctt to tl.at 

 facihty of cxprefTion, thofe ginces of elocuti. i., the know- 

 ledge derived from ftudy, a':d thofe pleafing in. nuers, wi,;i.li 

 are more the work of art thn.n nature. But it llioulu i.ot be 

 fuppofed, that Boeotia produced no men of genius. Several 

 Thebaiis have done honour to the fchool of SociVes. Epa- 

 miuondas was not lefs diftinguiftitd for Iiis knowledge than 

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