BOH 



BOH 



A.ccov(3!pg to the ftatement of M. Hoeck (ubi fupra), 

 Bohemia had, in 1787, 



Acre^. S;]. ToiiCi. 



1. Of ploughed land, - 3,609,360 - 776 



2. Ponds, - - 6^,1 ij - 1373 



3. Fields, ... 220,ij6 - 1393 



4. Meadows, - - 798,393 • io'6 



5. Gardens, - - 85,712 - 722 



6. Ma rlliy ground, - 65,515 - 970 



7. Failures and heaths, - 613,131 - 1209 



8. Vineyards, - - 4,482 - 671 



9. Woods, - - 2,319,811 - 557 



Total 7,785,655 



8738 



The territorial produce of grain, forage, vines, wood"", 

 and rivers, amounted, in 1789, to 30,057,939 florins. Of 

 cattle there were, in 1771, 97S9 oxen, 2338 bulls, 9688 

 cows, 2723 calves, 8452 fheep, 16,718 hogs, 564 he-goats, 

 v'75S (he-go3ts, and 533 alfcs. The produce of grain 

 amounted to two millions of minots (a minot being equal to 

 three bulheis) of wheat, ten millions of minots of grain, 

 four millions of minots of barley, and tight millions of mi- 

 nots of oats. In the Lft of natural productions are alfo to 

 be reckoned fruit-trees, hops, principally in the circle of 

 Saaz, flax, tobacco, faffron, poultr)', bees (of which, in 

 1791, there were 20,257 hives), tin (chiefly at Sciilacken- 

 walde, and there are ten mines of tin in the circle of Saaz, 

 and two in that of Leutmeritz), cobalt, 10,000 quintals in 

 the circle of Saaz, Clver, aluai, at Commothau, in 1788, 

 1,539 quintals. This author alfo ftates, that Bohemia had, 

 in 1782, 95 manufactures, which employed i.;9,6i3 work- 

 men. Thefe manufactures are of linen, wool, cotton, filk, 

 paper, glafs, leather. See. amounting in the whole to 

 35,645,447 fluriiis, of which flrangers take to the value of 

 11,840,737 florins. The articles of export, according to 

 his enumeration, are alum, Epfom-lalt, butter and greafe, 

 filh, flax, poultry, grain, mineral waters, hare-(kins, wood, 

 hop?, cobalt, hides and Ikins, fruit, horfes, pork, brim- 

 ftone, vitriol, game, flax, tin, dimity, articles in iron, arti- 

 cles in glafs, garnets, hats, linens, brafs, paper, pct-a(h, 

 aqua foitis, lace, cloth, and thread. The articles of import 

 are cotton, lead, white lead, books, iron, and iron articles, 

 colours, flax, jev.-ellery, fpicery, horned cattle from Hun- 

 gary, coffee, cotton, ftuffs, galls, merchrndife of Lyoni, 

 liqueurs, fiiks, Hungarian cattle to the value of 800,000 

 florins, and wine to the value of 500,000 florins. The ba- 

 lance of trade is faid to be in favour of the country. 

 M.Hoeck aifo informs us, that the revenues of the llate are 

 fifteen or lixteen millions ; but that the expences are fo high, 

 that out of this fum the furplus amounts only to 636,000 

 florins ; that tlic contribution in 1789 was ;, 646,01 7 florins, 

 and the tax on the Jews 216,006 florins ; and that the an- 

 nual revenue from the domains of the crown was, during the 

 life of Maria Terefa, 332,720 florins ; thefe domains are 

 now etlimattd at 177,774 acres. The number of foldiers 

 to be furnifhed by Bohemia, in time of peace, is 54,964 ; 

 -and, in time of war, 76,896. The capital city of Bohemia 

 is Prague ; which fee. 



Bohemia, a liroad navigable river of North America, 10 

 miles long, which runs W.N.W. into Elk rivtr, in Mary- 

 land, 1 1 miles below Elkton. 



BOHEMIAN, or Moravian, Brethren, in jCcc/t- 



Jiajlical Eijlory, is an appellation anciently given to the Pro- 



tellanti in Bohemia. By their adverfaries they were called 



Plcards, i.e. BfgbarJs. They were dcfcendtd from the 



better fort of Huffites, and were dilliuguiftied by feveral re- 



VOL. IV. 



ligious inflitutions of a fingular nature, and well adapted to 

 guard their community againll the re.^^ning vices and cor- 

 ruptions of the times ; and as foon as they heard of Luther's 

 delign of reforming the church, they fent deputies, in the 

 year (523, to recommend their.ftlves to his fricrndfliip and 

 ^ood ofSces. In fucceeding times, they continued to mam- 

 feil the fame zealous attachment to the Lutheran churches 

 in Saxony, and alfo to thofe that v^•ere founded in other 

 countries. Upon this their religious principles were exa- 

 mined, and nothing was found, either by Luther or his dif- 

 ciples, in their doctrine or difciphne, that was liable to cen- 

 fure. Their coiifcfilon of faith, though not altogether ap- 

 proved by this reformer, was regarded as an objeft of tole- 

 ration and indulgence. Ntverthclefs, the death of Luther, 

 and the expulfion of thefe brethren from their country, in 

 J 547, changed their religious connexions; and many of 

 them, more efpecially of tiiofe who retired into Poland, em- 

 braced the religious fentiments and difciphne of the reformed. 

 Their attachment to th.e Lutherans feemcd, however, to be 

 revived by the convention of Sendomir in 1570; but as the 

 articles o'i union, that were drawn up in that aflembly, foon 

 loft their authoiity, the Bohemians by degrees entered uni- 

 verfally into the communion of the Swifs church. This 

 union was at firll formed on the exprefs condition, that the 

 two churches (houlj continue to be governed by their refpec- 

 tive laivs and inllituticns, and iliould have feparate places of 

 pubhc worfliip ; but, in the following centur)-, nil remains of 

 diiTenllon were removed in the fynods held at .\ftrog, in 1620 

 and. 1627, and the two congregations were formed into one, 

 under the title of " The Church of the United Brethren." 

 In this coalition the reconciled parties (hewed to each other 

 reciprocal marks of toleration and indulgence : 'or the exter- 

 nal form of the church was modelled after the difciphne of 

 the Bohemian Brethren, and the articles of faith were taken 

 from the creed of the Calvinills. See Unitas Frairum. 



Lafitius has a treatife De Gcftis Fratrum Bchcmicorum. 

 Camerarius has alfo given the hiltory of the Bohemian bre- 

 thren, from whom eccleliaftical hiftonans have derived a large 

 train of fects, as the Huffites, Adamites, Taborites, Calixtins, 

 &:c. which fee relpeclivcly. 



Bohemian chatterer, \xi Ornithology, a bird of the Pnjferine 

 order, common in many parts of Europe, in Northern Alia, 

 and America. It fometimes vilits the iouthern parts of Bri- 

 tain in the winter. The common Englifli name of Bohemian 

 chatterer was impofcd upon this bird by old writers, under 

 the idea that it was peculiar to Boiiemia. Later authors call 

 it the IVaxen chatterer, from the horny appendages at the 

 extremity of the fecondaiy quill-feathers, which are of a 

 fcarlet colour, and in appearance bear fome relemblance to 

 fealing-wax. This is called Aii.pdis garrulus by Linnaeus. 

 Donov. Brit. Birds, &c. 



BOHEMICUS, the name of a fpecics of Falcon that 

 inhabits the mountains of Bohemia. The legs of this kind 

 are ycllowilh ; body above cinereous, beneath hoary white ; 

 live exterior quill-feathers black on the outfide ; orbits of the 

 eyes white. Gmel. Falco Bohemkus. Mofufe-habicht, mi/fy 

 lauce, Mayer, 



This bird is fcarccly a foot in length ; bill near the angles 

 of the mouth yellowifh ; irides yellow ; tail acute and long ; 

 legs thickifli, and feathered below the knees ; claws black 

 and roundilh. Feeds on mice. 



BOHKAT, in hhthyology, is the Arabic name of a fort 

 of Ray that inhabits the Red fea, and is defcribed by Foiikai 

 under the appellation of Raja djidilenjis. 



EOHME, in Geography, a river of Germany, which runs 

 into the AUer, 4 miles S. E. of Bethem, in the principality 

 of Luneburg-zell. 



4 X BOH- 



