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"M-arck. " Leaves cordate, many-nerved, fniooth, a little 

 toothed ; fluu'ciii fmall, felTilc, teriiiiiuiting." Brafichea 

 Imooth and ;liigiilar ; leaves fcfiilc, acuminate ; flowtri two 

 or three together ; calyces fmooth, with pointed, not 

 fpinous teeth ; LMaftes i'ctaeeoiis. lo. B. perfo/iila. \YiIld. 

 (LaMarek llliul;. pi. 619.) " Leaves embracing the Hem, 

 very entire." Timn. Branches cyliiidric, angular towards 

 the end, witii Icattcrcd hairs ; leaves alternate, nerved, 

 veined, denticulate, fmooth, terminated by a fllort point 

 which bends outward, almoll ])£rfohate, terminating; flowers' 

 four or fix together in a kind of umbel, pcdiinclcd ; fcg- 

 jnents of the calyces very fliarp-pointed ; bradtes fetactous. 

 II. B. uiuhLua. WiUd. "Leaves embracing the ftem, 

 waved with a rellexed point." All the fpecies are natives 

 «f the cape of Good Hope. 



Propagation and Cidturf. Mr. Miller fi'.cceeded only by 

 laying down their young (hoots, which are commonly two 

 years before they are fit to be feparated from the old plant. 

 The bed time ior laying them down is the beginning of 

 September. B. cretiala was introduced into Kevv garden 

 Jrom the Cape in 1774, by F. MalTon. 



BoRBONiA, L<rvi\;ala, and Tomentofa. See Liparia. 



BoRBONiA, {Phimkr). See Rhus, Metopium, and 

 Heisteria Coccinea. "^ 



BoRBONiA AJlra, in AJlronomy, a denomination formerly 

 given by fome writers to the folar faculK, on a fnppofition 

 that they were fatellites, or fecondary planets. Ste Facul^'e. 



Fromundus mentions a Frencliman, named Tarde, who 

 liad written a book cxprefs under the title " Ailra Bor- 

 bonia." Phil. Tranf. N°,J3o. p. 287. 



BORBONICA, in Ornithology, a fpecies of Motacilla, 

 of a greyifh fnfcous colour, beneath a yeUowilh fordid grey ; 

 quill and tail-feathers brown, edged with grey. This is 

 thtjicedula lorbomca of Briifon. I3u(Ton calls it petit fimon, 

 ^■aAJiguer de rifle de Bourbon. It is the Bourbon v.<iirbler of 

 Latham. Inhabits the iflands of Bourbon and Mada- 

 gafcar. 



BORBONICUS, a fpecies of Turdus, of a cinereous 

 ohve colour ; crown black ; abdomen and vent olivaceous 

 yellow ; tail fufcous, with two obfoletc bands near the tip. 

 This inhabits the ifle of Bourbon. Its length is about 

 eight inches ; beak and legs yellowifh ; abdomen in the 

 middle white; quill-feathers brown, edged with reddifli. 

 This is the Bourbon thrujh of Latham. 



B0RB0RIT.3L, or BoRBORiANi,in EccJefiaJllcal Hlflory, 

 a branch of the ancient Gnoltics, in the i ith century, who, 

 to the other errors of that fed, added this, of denying a 

 future judgment. Their name is derived from /Soptojo,-, 

 _^filth, on account, as it is laid, of a cullom they ha-d of be- 

 fmearing their faces and bodies with it. Epiphan. Heref. 

 25, an. i6. Auguft. de Heref. c. 5. 



Some alio have given this appellation, by way of reproach, 

 to the Mennonites. 



BORBORUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Mace- 

 donia, which, according to Plutarch, encompaifed the city 

 of Pella. 



BORBORYGMUS, in Medicine, a term employed to 

 denote the rumbUng noife produced by air pent up in the 

 intellinal canal ; from Qofia^lli,:, Jlrepltum edo. It is a com- 

 mon fymptom in cafes of difordered bowels. 



BORBOTHA, in Ichthyology, a name given by fome 

 writers to the eel pout or burbot, gadus lota, or, as Willughby 

 names it, muJlellaJluviatHis. 



BORCANI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Apulia, 

 according to Phny. 



BORCETTE, in Geography, the chief place of a canton, 

 in the department of Roer, and diftridl of Aix-la-Chapelle ; 



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the place contains ,5554. and the canton 170^4 inhabitants ; 

 it has ■59 conimui'.cs. 



BORCH, a town of Germany, in the circle of Livvcr 

 Saxony, and duchy of Magdcinirg ; 4 leagues from Mag- 

 deburg. 



BORCHEN, or Bori:f.n-, a town of Gtrmany, in the 

 circle of Wellphalia, and bilhopric of MunlU'r, fcated on 

 the An, having a manufaauii of cloth ; 30 milts W. of 

 Mil niter. 



BOK( HLOF.N, or Lnos?., a townof Germany, in the 

 circle of Wellphalia, and bifiiopric of Liege, the' capital 

 of the county of Loofz ; 12 miles N. W. of Liege. 



BORCHOLZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of 

 Wellphalia, and bithopric of PaderLorn'; S miles N.N.W. 

 of Warburg. 



BORCHT, Henry Vandkb, in Biography, a paintev 

 and engraver, was born at Brud'els in l.ySj, became a dif- 

 ciple of Giles Valkenburgh, and completed !iis lludics ia 

 Italy. He was employed by the earl of Arundel in coUef'- 

 ing antique curiofities for iiis lorddiip in Italy, and retained 

 in his fervice as long as he lived. After the death of tills 

 noble pr.tron, he was employed by the prince of Wales, 

 afterwards Charles II., and continued for feveral years in 

 England, where his paintings were well ellccmed. But re- 

 tiring to Antwerp, he died therein 1660. His chief ex- 

 cellence confided in painting fruit and flowers. Among the 

 few etchings which he executed are the " Virgin and Child," 

 from Parmiginno, engraved at London and dated i6j7; a 

 " Dead Chrilt, fnpp.>rted by Jofeph of Arimathea," from 

 the fame mailer ; and " Apollo and Cupid," from Perin 

 del Vago. Pilkington and Strutt. 



BORCHWORM, or Borgworm, or Warem, in Geo- 

 graphy, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weftphaha, 

 and bifhopric of Liege ; 10 miles W, of Liege. 



BORCKELOE, or Borcklo, a town of the united 

 ftatcs of Holland, in the county of Zutphen, on the con- 

 fines of the bilhopric of Munfter, feated on the river Eeixkel ; 

 15 miles E. N. E. of Zutphen, and 42 W. N. W. of 

 Mnnller. 



BORCUM, a fmall ifland in the German ocean, near the 

 coaft of Eall FrieOand : about N. N. W. from the point of 

 Embden, at its S.W. entrance into the port and river, and 

 about 3 leagues N. E. by E. from the idand Ri.ttum. Be- 

 tween them is a channel called the Weft Channel of the 

 Embs. N. lat. 5,5° 36'. E. long. 6^ iS'. 



BORDA, Charles, in Biography, formerly Chevalier de 

 Borda, and a chef d' Efcadre, in the royal navy under the, old 

 French government, was born at Dax, May 4, 1733, and 

 diltinguidied himfelf in early life as an able mathematician. 

 Of his knowledge in this department of fcience ample evi- 

 dence may be found in the Memoirs of the Academy of 

 Sciences, for 1763 and 1767, of which he was admitted a 

 member in 1754. Thefe memoirs contain many excellent 

 papers, communicated by Borda, on different objefts of 

 hydraulics ; on the refiftance of fluids ; on water-wheels and 

 pumps ; on the projeftions of bombs ; on the method of 

 determining curve fines ; on the properties of maxima and 

 minima; and on the beft method of choofing by lot. In' 

 the years 1771 and 1772, he performed a voyage, by 

 command of the king, with Verdun de la Cranne and 

 Pingre, in the Flora frigate, in which he had the rank of 

 " lieutenant de Vaiffeau," to various parts of Europe, 

 Africa, and America, for the purpofe of improving the 

 fciences of geography and navigation, and of making expe- 

 riments with various nautical inllruments and time-pieces, 

 with a view of afcertaining accurate methods for determining 

 the longitude. The refidt of the obfervations of thefe three 



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