B O L 



B O L 



Bokhara. There was gold and copper coin ; and after 

 Nadir took this city, the Perfian and Indian filver became 

 common. The inhabitants were civilized, but perfidious. 

 In t'.,c; loth century it was dillinguilhcd by the manuiafture 

 of fine linen. N. lat. 29^ 24'. E. long. 62'. 



I'OKI, a river of Africa, which rifcs in the country 

 called Jallonkadov, between the heads of the Senegal and 

 JolMa, and joir . the Barchfing, or an arm of the Senegal, 

 inthedil-'^Tof Brooko, in N.lat. 13° 11'. W. long. 8° 31'. 



BO KIR A, a river of India, which runs into the fea, 

 JO miles W. of Junagur. 



BOKSAN, a town of Hungary, 10 miles fouth of 

 Lugos. 



BOL, Ferdikand, in Biography, a painter of hiftory 

 and portrait, was born at Dort in j6li, educated at Am- 

 fterdani, and placed as adifciple in the fchool of Rembrandt. 

 He was chieiiy diftiiiguilhtd by his portraits, which he 

 painted in a free, bold manner, but not with that clearncfs 

 of flefli, and remarkable relievo, for which his matter was 

 famous. His colouring was too much tinged with brown 

 in the carnations ; but with this exception, his portraits had 

 a great appearance of life and nature. Asa painter of hif- 

 tory, he manitelted a good tafte of compofition, as well as a 

 tolerable expreilion in fome of his figures ; but he was defi- 

 cient in grace and elegance. His " Appointmint of the 70 

 elders in the camp of the IfraeHtes," and " Mofes breaking 

 the tables of done," m the council chamber of Dort, are 

 well Jefigned and executed. In the chamber of the burgo- 

 maftcrs there is an hiftorical pifture of " Fabricius in the 

 camp of Pyrrhus," which is exceedingly admired. The 

 etchings of this artift are bold and free. The following, 

 from his own compofitions, are generally much efteemed ; 

 viz. " Abraham's Sacrifice," " St. Jerom, feated in a ca- 

 vern, holding a crucifix," and a " Philofopher, holding a 

 book." Bol died in 1681. Pilkington and Strutt. 



BoL, John, a painter of landfcapes, hiftoiy, and animals, 

 was born at Mechlin in 1534, and completed his ftudies at 

 Heidelberg. His fubjefts were views of feveral cities and 

 towns in the Low Countries, and different profpects of Am- 

 fterdam ; and in his piftures the vcflels, with the refleftions 

 of them from the water, are admirably executed. His in- 

 vention and compofition were very pleafing ; his colouring 

 poflclfes great harmony and union ; and his manner of 

 iketching and pencilling is broad and free. Van Mander 

 highly commends one oF the paintings of Bol, in dillemper, 

 the llory of which is " Dzdalus and Icarus." This artiil 

 etched a fet of landfcapes, which are " views in Holland," 

 in the ftyle of a matter. He died in 1593. Pilkington and 

 Strutt. 



BOL A, in Ancient Geography, a town of Italy, the capital 

 of the country of the uEqui, ntuate, according to Plutarch, 

 50 miles from Rome. Pliny places it in Latiura. See 



BOLABOLA, more ufually pronounced Borabora, 

 in Geography, one of the Society iflands in the fouthem 

 Pacific ocean, fituate four leagues N. W. of Otaha, and in- 

 ferior to it in extent, being about feven leagues in circum- 

 ference. The reef that Unrounds it is nearly full of iflets, 

 much larger than thole that are fcattertd among the rocks, 

 encloiing Otaha and Ulietea. It difi"ers from thofe illands, 

 and from Huaheine, in having only one harbour on its ccaft ; 

 whereas the (hores of the others, bei:ig llrongly indented, 

 form, like the coafts of Eimco, numerous places of Ihelter 

 for ftiipping. It isalfo diltinguilhed by a very lofty, double- 

 peaked mountain in its centre, and is more rude and craggy 

 than the other Society iflcs. Its eatlern fide appears barren ; 

 the wefttrn is more fertile j a low borii t, which funounds 



the whole, and alfo the iflands on the reef, are pro- 

 duftive and populous. Its earliell inhabitants are faid to 

 have been malefaftors banilhed from the neighbouring 

 iflands. As their nu- ber rapidly increafed, and their mili- 

 tary prowefs gained reputation, they eftablilhed their a^itho- 

 rity in Ulietea ajid Otaha, and alfo in Maurova and Too- 

 bae. Their conquefts acquired fo much refpcft, that the 

 fiippofed tutelary divinity of Bolabola, named Oora, or 

 Oraa, had been adopted by the people of Teiarraboo, in 

 preference to two imaginary deities whom they formerly 

 worfliipptd. The Bolabolan warriors are punfturcd in a 

 different manner from thofe of the more eallern iflands. 

 Bolabola was difcovercd by captain Cook, togetlier with the 

 group called by him the " Society Iflands," in July 1769; 

 but though he took poffcfTion of it in the king's name, he 

 did not land upon it either in liis firll or fccond voyage. 

 But in 1777, he landed on this illand, notwitflanding the 

 account which he had received of its inhabitants, and was 

 introduced to Opoone, who had been reprefented as a very- 

 formidable chief, but whom he found old and feeble, though 

 flill much efteemed arid feared. Opoone was fucceeded in 

 his government of this and the neighbouring iflands by his 

 daughter, who, in 1774, at the age of 12 years, had been 

 betrothed to a chief named Boba, who governed Otaha 

 under Opoone, and was dcfigned to fuccecd him in the 

 fovereignty. In 1791, when captain Edwards vifited Bola- 

 bola, a man named Tatahoo, had the chief authority. S. 

 lat. 16^ 32' 30". W. long. 151'^ 52'. MifFionary Voyage, 

 Introd. p. 41. 



BOLACA, mj^ncient Geography, a town of Pelopponefus, 

 in Trip:iylia, a country of Ehs. Polybius. 



BOLAVOSANSKA, in Geography, a town of Siberia,, 

 in the government of Irkutzk, 80 miles N. W. of 

 Ilini/k.. 



BOLBACH, a river of Germany, in the duchy of Stiria, 

 which rifes in a lake, 10 miles S. W. of Voitfberg, and runs 

 into the Sulm, near Wippelfpach. 



BOLBjE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia Minor, 

 in Caria, called alfo Heraclese. 



BOLBE, a marfli of Macedonia, near the Ionian fea, 

 before Apolljnia, according to Scylax. 



BOLBEC, or BoLLEBEC, in Geography, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Lower Seine, and chief 

 place of a canton, in the diilrift of Havre ; the place 

 contains 4921, and the canton 14,171 inhabitants; 

 the territory comprehends 105 kiliometres, and iS com- 

 munes. 



BOLBENA, in Ancient Geography, the rame of a coun- 

 try in Afia, in the Greater Armenia. Ptolemy, 



BOLBlTiXA, a town of Egypt, fituate near the 

 fecond mouth of the Nile, adjoining to the fpot where Ro« 

 fetta now ftands. 



BOLBITIKUM Oftwm, a name given by Ptolemy and 

 Pliny to thi- fecond mouth of the Nile, from that of the 

 town, Bolbitina, feated near the canal called " Tuli." The 

 Bolbitine branch is now called that of Rofetta, RolTetta, or 

 Rafchid, which fee. Strabo informs us (1. 17. torn. ii. 

 p. 1 153.) that, under the reign of Plarciiitichus, the Mile- 

 fians, with 30 veffels, landed at the Bolbitme, or Boibitic 

 branch, and there fortified themfelves. 



BOLBON'ACH, in Botany. See Lukaria. 

 EOLBULyc, in Ancient Geography, a name given \sf 

 Pliny to an ifland of Ana Minor, fituite on the coall of 

 Ionia. 



EOLC.A, in Geography, a branch of the Tyrolefe Alps, 

 fituate 50 miles N. W. of Venice, and noted for fcffil filh, 

 in argillaceous fcbiilus. . 



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