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BOTZEN. Set Bolzano. 



BOTZENBURG. .Sec Boitzenburc. 



BOVA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and 

 ■province of Calabria Ultra, the lee of a billiop, fuflVagan of 

 Reggio, fituate on the hrow of a hill, at the foot of the 

 Apennines, near the fea ; 20 miles S.E. of Regpio. Being 

 out of the way of trade and thoroughfare, this place can 

 boall neither of wealth nor agriculture. The villagers in its 

 vicinity carry corn, clieefe, and cattle to Reggio ; but that 

 being a poor mart, has but fmal; demands, and a little circu- 

 lation of money. Moll of the inhabitants are of Greek 

 origin and rife ; and emigrated from Albania a few centu- 

 ries ago. Their common language is Albanefe, wiiich is a 

 dialeft quite different from the modern Greek and Sclavonian 

 languages ; and though known in Europe for more than a 

 thoufand years, and fpoken by all the nations round Albania, 

 itjU remains without an alphabet, and many of its founds are 

 not to be accurately exprelFcd either by Latin or Greek 

 lettcrf. Hence it may be inferred, that it is a mixture of 

 the dialefts of thofe Tartarian hordes that overran Macedo- 

 nia and Greece in the 8th century ; to which medley the in- 

 tercourfe with Germans, Italians, and crufadcrs, has added a 

 variety of foreign terms. The men can fpeak C'alabrefe ; 

 but the women, who neither buy nor fell, underfland no 

 tongue but their own, which they pronoimce with great 

 fweetncfs of accent. Swinburne's Travels in the two Sicilies, 

 vol. ii. p. 241, &c. 



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

 Lower Loire, and chief place .if a canton in the dillrift of 

 'Nantes ; 8 miles S.W. ot NantcJ. 



BOUAJ.I, a town of Africa, the capital of Loango, fo 

 called by the French. 



BOVATA tenw., in Anc'ient Latu JVriters, fignifies an 

 oxgate of land, or fo much as may be ploughed in a year 

 with one ox ; by fome reckoned at liftcen acres, by others at 

 eighteen, by others at twenty, and by others at thirteen or 

 twenty (hillings yearly rent. 



This is otherwife called io-jntus, and lovariala term. 



BOUATI, in Botany. Rumphius Amb. 2. tab. 41. 

 Bofc in Nouveau Diftioimaire d'Hilloire Naturelle. Clafs, 

 hexandria digynia. 



Gen. Char. C<j/. perianth fmall, tripartite, pubefcent, ca- 

 ducous. C')r. petals three, obloncr, pointed, concave, 

 longer than the calyx, i'/am. fix. P//?. germ fuperior, oval, 

 comprelTed, villofe, dimpled at its lummit ; lligmas two, 

 feflile, obtufe. Per. a caplule neariy heart-fliaped, com- 

 prelTed, fmooth, (harp-edged, dimpled at its fummit, and 

 divided into two cells, eacli of which contains a fingle oval 

 feed. 



It is a fmail tree which grows in the Eaft Indies, is ex- 

 tremely bitter in all its parts, and is given with fuccefs in 

 fevers. It is alfo ufed as a reiterative, and an antidote to 

 poifons. 



BOUBI, in Ornithology, the name given by the French 

 navigators to the booby of the E:igli(h. See BooBV. 



BOUBIL, the name by which the Chhicfe at Canton de- 

 nominate the crying-thru(h, tiirdiis canonis. In other parts 

 of China, the fame bird palTes under the title of lua-meiv. 

 Sonnerat tells us, this is the only linging bird that is 

 known to inhabit the vail empire of China, where it is occa- 

 fionally kept in cages, for the fake of aniufement, by the fair 

 fex. It fublifts on rice, worms, infetls, &c. The fame 

 bird is alfo called ban'iahbou. See Canorus. 



BouBSL, Bouhil de la Chine, the name given by Sonnerat 

 fo the turdus bulil of Gmelin, and ehaunt'mg-ihrujh of La- 

 tham. See BuBiL. 



EOUBOU. I^ Vaillant, in his Hiftory of the Birds of 



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Africa, bcftows this name on a fpecies of Turdi s, the male 

 of which has a remarkable ])cculiar note, nf-mbjing the word 

 hduhou, often repeated. 'I'liis bird was iitcvioudy dtt'cribed 

 by BulFon, umUt the title of Male noir el i/iinc d'/lhifinie : 

 it is alfo the liirdus irlljinpu-Hs ot Gmelin. 



BOUBOUT, one of the fynonymous names of the 

 hoopoe, or hoop, the upiipa epopt of Linnius. See 

 E p n I" s . 



BOUC, in Zoology, Geyjfet bock, Oefn. fynonymous 

 names of the goat, capru hirciis. lluuc d' AjViqiie, is 

 ciipra dcpnjfi ; and bone dejiidn (of BufTon) is copra renter fa 

 of Linnxus ; the WWr(w_^o<// ot I'tnnant. 



Bouc l')amoifcau, the Frene+i name of the Linnn>an an- 

 tilupe grimmia i called alfo by them grimniL, and Chivre de 

 grimme. 



Bo vc-EJ?ii'm, or Bnucjlchi, the names of the wild goat 

 {capra ibex of Linn.), in old French writers. The word is 

 of German origin, being derived from boei, or bone, and fleet., 

 a rock or Hone ; in French, lorn: de rocher ; or, as we flionld 

 render it, the rock, or mountain goat. X\\\M Ma, baue dis 

 rochers, houquetin, bouc faimage, &:c. 



BOUCCANE'GRE, m Ichthyology, one of the fynony- 

 mous names oi fpanis pngel. See Pagkl. 



BOUCARUE, or BucARDE, in Conchology. Sec Car- 

 DIUM, the cockle. 



BOUCHAIN, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the North, and chief place of a canton in the 

 dillridl of Douay, feated on the Scheldt, and carrying on a 

 coTiliderable trade in corn and cattle. The place contains 

 1,128, and the canton 13,509, inhabitants; the tervitory 

 comprehends i 52^ kiliometres and 20 communes. Bouchaiu 

 is a (hong town ; it was taken by the duke of Marlborough 

 in 171 I, after a fiege of 30 days, retaken in the following 

 year by marefchal Villars, and invclfed by the Auftrians irv 

 1793, but foon relieved ; 3 leagues S. W. of Valenciennes, 

 and ih N.N.E. of Cambray. 



BOUCHARDON, Edme, in Biography, an eminent 

 French fculptor, was born in 1698 at Chaumont in Batfigny,. 

 where his father was a fculptor and architcdl : and educated 

 at Paris, in the fchool of Coultou the younger. At Rome, 

 whither he removed as the king's penlioner, to which his 

 merit advanced him, he cultivated, with affidufty and (uccefs, 

 his talent for defign, by copying the precious remains of an- 

 tiquity, as well as the works of modern paijiters. He after- 

 wards Icttled at Paris, and, notwithftanding his fingular fim- 

 plicity of character, became eminently diilinguithed, fo tlxat 

 he was employed in feveral works of importance ; the prin- 

 cipal of which are the fountain in the rue de Crenelle, faux- 

 bourg St. Germain ; a ftatue of Love niaknig a bow of the 

 club of Hercides, with the arm? of Mars ; and the equellrian 

 (latue of Lewis XV. at Paris. In 1736, he was appointed 

 dcilgner to the Academy of Belles Lettres : and, in 1744, 

 he was admitted into the Academy of Painting, of which 

 he was made protelTor in 1746. Having acquired a decent 

 fortune, by his induilry and regularity, and attained high 

 eminence in his art, he died in 1762. His compofitions are 

 formed in the flyle of fimpic antiquity, and more admired for 

 corrtftnefs and good taife, than for force of expreflion or 

 vigour of imagination. His drawings are highly efteemed ;. 

 they have furniflicd various engravings ; and a Treatife on 

 Anatomy, for the ufe of artilts, publilhtd by Huquieres iii. 

 1741, is illullrated with figures by his hand. The chief 

 amufemcnt of this artill was mulic, which he performed in a 

 mallerly (lyle. D'Argenville's Vies de Sculpteurs. Gen. 

 Biog. 



BOUCHARI, or PouCHARi, zUo Boutcier, Bouchcrify 

 Sec. in Ornithology: Thefe are the common names of the 



grey- 



