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Anne's bounty, for the relief of curates dcpriveJ of thtir 

 curts on Recount of tlie rcfiJtnce of incumbents, in coiife- 

 qoencc of the att 43 Geo. III. c. 84. But no curate is 

 entitled to receive any allowance under tlie aft, who (hall 

 not produce to the faid governors a proper rccoinmendation 

 from the bifhop of the diocefe in which the cure is filuated, 

 and no allowance ftiall exceed three-fourths of the income 

 !oil. 



BOUPER, Lf , in Go^raphy, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Lower Pyrenees; 10 miles S. W. of 

 Ma'jleon. 



BOUQUENON, a town of France, in the department 

 of the MoTelle, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 Bitcheon the Sarre ; 5 It-agues S. W. of Ditche. 



BOUQJ'ETIN, in Zo:>!osy, the wild goat. SeeCAPR.\ 

 Ibft. 



BOUR, in Gtography, 3 town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 

 province of Caramania ; 4 miles S. E. of Akferai. 



BO UK AC, a town i:i the Arabian Irak ; ;o miles S. S. 

 E. of Baj,'dad. 



BOrRBACH, or GmnH-noiirlach, a town and caftle 

 of Gcrniaiiy, in the circle of Wellphalia, and principality 

 •if Naffaii-Dillenburg, near which is a k:.d mine ; 9 miles 

 \V. of Dillet;burg. 



BOURBON, Nicholas, in Biography, a famous L:itin 

 poet in the i6th century, was a native ot Vandeurc, near 

 Langrc; ; and appointed by Margaret de Valois preceptor 

 to her daughter, Jane d' Albert of Navarre, the mother of 

 kinc Henry IV. He died at Conde whither he had retired, 

 and where he had a benefice, about the year 1553. He wrote 

 eight books of" Epigrams," commended by Eiafmus, and a 

 poem on the forge entitled " Ferraria." He was diftinguifhed 

 for his knowledge of antiquity and of the Greek language. 



BouRBOS, Nicholas, a celebrated Latin and Greek 

 poet, was nephew of the former, and fon of a phyfician at 

 Bar-fur-Aube, where he was born about the year 1574. He 

 taught rhctonc in the colleges of Paris, and was nominated 

 by cardinal Du-Pcrron, in 161 1, profefior-royal in Greek 

 eloquence. He was canon of Orleans and of Langres, and 

 a pried of the orator)-, though he declined the title. In 

 i6;*-, he was admitted by cardinal Richelieu a member (f 

 the French academy, without foliciting the honour. He 

 died at the houfe of the fathers of the oratory in 1644. As 

 a Latin poet, he fuftained the higheft; rap.k in France, and 

 lias been thought, if not Giperior, equal to any who livtd in 

 the two laft centuries. In his'vcrfes he has combined a 

 Confiderable portion of poetic fire with elevation of ftyle 

 and fentiment ; and he has been charged with making 

 Lucan and Claudian, rather than Virgil, his models ; tlieir 

 manner being pi^jbably better adapted to the warmth of his 

 conceptions. His malter-riece is faid to be an " Impreca- 

 tion againil the parricide of Henry IV." His poems were 

 printed at Paris in 1651, izmo. Healfo wrote Greek, as 

 as well as Latin verfes, and in the latter language lome 

 pieces of profe. His tafte wa-> refined and accurate ; and 

 as he was much addicted to the ufe of wine, he expreffed 

 his contempt of the French poetry, by faying, " When I 

 read French verft;, 1 think I am drinking water." Al- 

 though he was afraid of llarving, 15,000 livres were found 

 in his ftrong b 'X at his death. Bourbon publifhed an 

 edition of St. Cyril's work againft the emperor Julian, with 

 a Latin tranflation. Nouv. Diet. Hift. 



Bourbon, ijte of, in Geography, lately called IJle de h Rt- 

 unton, an ifland of the Indian ocean, about 370 miles diftant 

 from the coail of Madagafcar to the eaft, and at the diftance 

 of about 90 miles to the weft of the ifle of France, was tirft 

 difcovercd by the Portugucfe, in 1545, who called it Maf- 



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earenkas, after the name of the commander of their fleet ; and 

 this appellation was afterwards corrupted into Mafcaraigne. 

 In 1642, Pronis, the commandant at Madagaicar, took 

 pofTeffion of the ifl.tnd for the French government ; and fevcn 

 years after, fays La Barthc, in his " Annalcs mantimes et 

 coloniales," but, according to others, in 1654, the nevr com- 

 mandant, M. dc Flancourt, took poffefiion of it again in the 

 nam- of his fovcrcign, and gave it the name of Bcvrloti. 

 He introduced into it domcftic animals, which multiplied 

 confidcrably ; and, on account of its fertihty, fcveial French- 

 men formed in it fcttl-.mcnts. In 1665, two (liips of De la 

 Plairc's fqnadron arrived here, and left Renaud, an " officer 

 d'adminiftration," together with 10 labourers. The French, 

 who, in J 671, efcaped the maflacre at Fovt Dauphin in 

 Madagafcar, fled to this illand ; and various fea-faring prr- 

 fons fettled in it, and employed themfelves in agriculti;re. 

 From the ifle of France to tliis ifland, the paffage may be 

 performed in a day, but the return often rcq-iircs a month. 

 It is about 40 miles in length, and 30 ia breadth. The 

 (horcs are exceedingly fteep, and cannot be approached ex- 

 cept by fniall vefTels, v.-ithout danger. On this account it 

 has few ports ; but round the iOiind there are fevcral good 

 roads where llilpa m.ay ride fecurdy. The foil is more fandy 

 than that of the iflc of Fratice ; and at fome dillaoce from the 

 Ihorc it is mixed with thole fmooth ftones, which cover the 

 bottom of the fea. In thofe parts, however, which admit 

 of cultiva*io-.i, the ground is excellent, and well watered by 

 vaiious llreams that are fupplied in fummer by the nieltmg 

 fnow, which in winter covers the tops of the mountains. 

 The foil, thus manured, thous;h not deep, is very fertile, 

 and produces Turkey corn and rice, twice a year, and of 

 the latter a great abundance. The mountains are very high ; 

 and the three inacceflible peaks, called the " Salaffes," are 

 faid to be l6oo toifes. In the fouthern part of the ifland 

 there is a tremendous volcano, the dillrift round which, 

 called " pays brulc," is entirely burnt up ; and there are 

 many gulleys, the declivities of which are fo fteep that they 

 cannot be cultivated. The ifland is divided into four quar- 

 ters. The firft is that of St. Paul, whicii is the largeft and 

 moll populous. Their houfes are built at the foot of a 

 fteep mountain, on both fide? of a frefh water lake. Their 

 plantations are on the top of a mountain, wh'ch they afcend 

 by a very fteep and toilfome paffage. On the fummit, 

 ho-.vever, is a fpacious plain, divided for the moft part into 

 plantations of rice, tobacco, corn, fngar canes, and fruit- 

 trees. The fea at the port of St. Paul is calmer, and the 

 anchoring ground more fecure than at St. Dennis ; never- 

 thelefs, mariners prefer the latter. The quarter of St. 

 Dennis lies 15 miles from that of St. Paul towards the eaft ; 

 and here the governor refides. Thisdillrift is more pleafant, 

 though lefs populous, than the other. The chief port in 

 the illand is that of St. Dennis, where a draw-bridge, fccurcd 

 by iron chains, has been conftrufted for the purpcfe of 

 enabling boats to land. This bridge extends more than 

 80 feet into the fea, and at the end of it is a ladder of iopes 

 by which people who wifh to go on fiiore muft afcerd ; iu 

 all other parts of the ifland they muft jump into the water. 

 At f.vo leagues from St. Dennis, proceeding along the fea- 

 coaft, is the quarter of St. Mary's, wh-ch is thinly 

 peopled. The laft and moft fruitful diftvift of the ifland i's 

 that of St. Sufanne, four leagues from St. Dennis ; the paf- 

 fage from one to the other having been with great labour 

 cut through a wood ; but the paffage fro.-n St. Dennis to 

 St. Paul is only by fea. 



The fl<y in this ifland is ferene, the atmofphere pure, and 

 the water falubrious. Although the climate is hot, the 

 breezes from the mountains ar^refrefiiing; and the'hurricants, 



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