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pylotis, gfaminis, popularis, fulminea, gloiiofx, cnni, ro- 

 lea, luforia, cribrum, libatrix, leftrix, credula, dominula, 

 hera, faiiguinolenta, ricini, crotalarias, colon, popiileti, 

 ancilla, confperfa, fuliginofa, ornatrix, priverna, francifca, 

 jefuita, viciella, veftita, mufcella, borabella, peftineUa, an- 

 nulata, grilta, jacobss, rubricollis, pulchella, bella, hif- 

 trio, and umber. To which are to be added bombyx iigura 

 Donov. Ind. Inf. ; hepialus mappa Donov. Brit. Inf. ; 

 coflus labyrinthicus, argenteus, fituratus, and ncbulofus, 

 Donov. Inf. New Holland. 



In adhering to the Fabrician fyftem, in preference to that 

 of Linnxus, we are to exclude from the foregoing liil of 

 bombyces the following fpecies: lagopus, roftrata, fagitta, 

 gemina, deflorata, and faga, all of which are to be referred 

 to the Fabrician genus hybL-ea : hnmuli, jodutta, liipulina, 

 hecta, obbqua, cama, crux teftudo, afe'la, bufo, and mappa, 

 fpecies of the hep'wlus genus of Fabricius : and cofTus, un- 

 'uiculatae, terebra, aefculi, fcalaris, pyrina, labyrinthicus, 

 ai-genteus, lituratus, and ncbulofus, which ftridly belong 

 to the Fabrician genus coffin. 



Bombyx is alfo a name given to the Silk-wov?!. 



Bombyx, in the indent Mujic, a kind of inftrument, 

 which, in Ariftotle's time, was made of a reed, calamus, 

 and, by reafon of its length, was dif&cult to play on. 



The word feems alfo to have been ufed for a key, or con- 

 trivarce for ftiutling and opening the holes of wind inftru- 

 ments. 



Bombyx, in the Ancient Naturali/Is, fignifies indifferently 

 either filk or cotton. 



BOiSIENE, in Geography, a port town of Zealand, one 

 of the provinces of Holland, on the north fliore of Schouwin 

 ifland, one league eaft of Brouwerfhaven. 



BOMING, an ifland of Afia, in the mouth of the 

 Ganges. N. lat. 22° 45'. E. long. 91° 25'. 



BOMIO, in Ancient Geography, a ftation near Axbridge, 

 according to Antonine's Itinerary ; but placed by Camden 

 and Gale at Boverton, in Glamorganfliire. 



BOMMEL, in Geography, a town of Holland, in the 

 iiland of Over-Flahee, 7 miles W. of Willemiladt. 



BoMMEL, a ftrong town of the duchy of Gueldres, feated 

 on the Wahal, in the ifland of Bommel-Waert, firft fur- 

 rounded with a wall by Otho III. count of Gutldres, in 

 1229 ; 60 miles N.E. of Antwerp, and 7 N. of Bois-le-Duc. 

 Eommcl was taken by the republican troops of France, 

 Oftober 4, 1794. 



BoMMEL-ZF^/iT/, a kind of ifland, in the province of 

 Gueldres, about five leagues in length from Louveftein N.W. 

 to Fort St. Andrew S.E., and two in its greateil breadth, 

 formed by the rivers Maes and Wahal. It is defended by 

 three forts, viz. St. Andrew, Voorn, and Crevecoeur. 

 The firft has five baftions, and was built in 1599 by the ad- 

 miral of Arragon, and the cardinal Andrew of Auftria, 

 lieutenant general of the Spaniih forces ; the fecond is fitu- 

 ated at a fmall ifland, called Voorn, at the eaft end of Bom- 

 mel-Waert, and was conftruAcd by the prince of Orange, 

 nnd on that account is fometimes called Fort Naflau ; and 

 the third is at the fouth fide of the ifland towards Bois-le- 

 l)uc. Thefe three forts were conftrained to furrender to 

 prince Maurice in the year 1600. In 1672, the French 

 took the ifland under marflial Turenne, who, after deftroy- 

 ing the fortifications, abandoned it in the following year. 

 At the commencement of the religious difputes, count 

 Charles dc Manfvelt, paffing this ifland with fome Spanifli 

 froops, was encompafled by feveral Dutch fliips under the 

 command of count Hohenlo, who ordered tlie dykes to be 

 opened, and thus totally inundated the ifland, fo that the 

 Spaniards v/ere obliged to retire to (he citadel, and would 



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have miferably periflied, if a fudden frofthad not conftrained 

 the count to abandon the ficge, and to allow them liberty 

 to retire. In commemoiation of this deh\erance a chapel 

 was built at Bruffels, in honour of the immaculate concep- 

 tion of tiie Virgin, next the Dominican church, which, being 

 deftr'oycd in i''-'95, was afterwards le-built with greater mag- 

 nificence. In 1794, the republican troops of Fi-ance, hav- 

 ing compelled the Dutch to abandon Bommel, overtook 

 them in their retreat, and compelled a great part of them to 

 furrender'. They afterwards availed themftlves of the frozen 

 ftate of the Wahal, and were making progrefs towards Gor- 

 cum and Calenberg ; but they were attacked by the Britifli 

 troops in conjunftion with the Heffians, and driven acrofi 

 the river-, with the lofs of a cunfiderable number of men and 

 four pieces of artillery. But this temporary fuccefs was of 

 no permanent avail for reftraining the progrefs of the Frencli 

 army. 



This ifland belonged to the province of Guelderland, ex- 

 cept the town of Louvellein, which, with a very fmall di- 

 ftrift at the weftern end of the ifland, belonged to Hol- 

 land. 



BOMO, in Ancient Geography, a name given to the ifland 

 of Euboea, from the cattle with which it was ftored ; the 

 ancient Arabian word homo, or bohmo, fignifying, according 

 to Hcfychius, cattle, or herds of cattle. This is, probably, 

 the moft ancient appellation ; the ifland having been firft 

 peopled, as Strabo informs us, by the inhabitants of Arabia 

 and Phoenice. 



BOMOA, in Geography, a town of North America, io 

 New Navarre, 10 miles S. of Cinaloa. 



BOMONICA, in Ani'iquiiy, an appellation given at 

 Sparta to the children, who, in the lacrifices of Diana, 

 ftrove who fliould receive the greateft number of ilripes with 

 rods, which they fometimes continued to do the whole day, 

 and even, as Plutarch relates, to death itfelf. 



The word is formed from (S^/xo,-, altar, and vixn, titdory ; 

 importing as much as I'lftor ad aras, or conqueror at tbt 

 e.liars. 



BOMPART, Marcellus, \a Biography, praftifed me- 

 dicine at Clermont Ferrand the early part of the feventeenth 

 century, and was aulic counfellor to the king. No memo- 

 nals of his life are known ; but his work " J* lifer Homo," 

 in which he gives a fuccinft account of all the principal 

 difeafes affli£iing the human frame, was much efteemed. It 

 was dedicated to Pietre, Riolan, and Guy Patin ; and to be 

 patronifed by them was highly creditable : alfo " Nouveau 

 Chafle Pcfte," Paris, 1630, Svo. ; and " Lettrcs d'lTrppo- 

 crates traduites et commentees," 1632, 8vo. Haller. Bib, 

 Med. Eloy. Dia. Hift. 



BOMPEL, in GeogropJiy, a town of Hindoftan, in the 

 Panjab, 15 cofles eaft of Seba, and j miles S.E. of Nadone, 

 a town on the Beyah. N. lat. 31° 55'. E. long. 75* 



57'- 



BOMRAUZE, a town of Hindoftan, in the Carnatie, 



58 miles W.N.W. of Madras, and 36 N. of Arcot. N. lat. 



13° 24'. E. long. 79° 38'. 



BOMY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 ftraits of Calais, and chief place of a canton in the diftriift 

 of St. Omei-, 8 miles S.W. of Aire. 



BON, John, Le, in Biography, a native of Anterville, 

 in Champagne, and eminent in his time for his knowledge 

 in medicine, phyfician to the king of France, and to the 

 cardinal de Gurfe, pirblilhed, in 1571, " Therapeia Puero- 

 rum," i6to. Paris, " induced to it," he fays, " by the ig. 

 norance of the furgeons, midwives, and tonfors, who at- 

 tended women iu child-birth. By their blunders and inex- 

 pertnefs iji their art, many women loft their lives, and many 

 j B children 



