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invafioiis. Some of tliefe maraiiders'having made an im-oaJ 

 into Lincolnniirc, Miircot, lord of Bourn, with his ii\imcr- 

 ous family and attendants ti'ainfd in arms, and about 2yo 

 men from Croyland abbey, marched againll them, and met 

 them at I^aundon, where a defperate battle enfued, which 

 terminated in favour of Marcnt and hi3 party. Bourn, as 

 its name implies, is fituated in a valley, and has a ftream 

 running through part of it, which turns three mills, very- 

 near its fource. Here is alfo a medicinal mineral fpring, the 

 waters of wliich are rather braekiOi, and are fou:;d to be 

 ferviceable in fome diforders. Here are fome tanneries, and 

 one parill\ church, a chapel, and two alms-houfcs. The 

 markets are weekly on Saturdays, and here are three annual 

 fairs. Veffels of about ten tons burthen convey articles of 

 commerce, &c. from this place to Spalding, Bollon, &c. 

 That diftinguilhcd ftatefman, fir W. Cecil, who was created 

 baron Burleigh, by queen Elizabeth, was born here in 1521, 

 ;vnd podefred this manor. At an inn in this town was 

 formerly a curious old portrait of queen Elizabeth, on 

 a panntl. Tiie town-hall w-as built by the above noble- 

 nan. The townCiip contains 282 houfes, and 1474 in- 

 habitants. 



At Stanefield, a village a little to the north, is a chalybe- 

 ate fprinf, and, according to J^r. Stukeiey, many Roman 

 coins have been found here. About four miles hence is 

 Grimfthorpe, a feat belonging to the duke of Ancafter. 

 The houfe, a magniiicent llruClure, Hands on a hill in the 

 midft of a large park, which, with its fine woods, and large 

 piece of water, conllitute many grand and beautiful fcenes. 

 " Grimllhorpe," fays Fuller, " I may call an extempore 

 ftrufture, got up on a fudden by Charles Brandon, duke of 

 Suffolk, to entertain king Henry VHI. in his progrefs into 

 thefe parts." Since the period of Fuller's writing, this 

 houfe has undei-gone many improving alterations, and is now 

 finiihed and fitted up in an elegant ilyle. Cough's edition 

 of Cambdeu's Britannia, vol. ii. Fuller's Church Hillory 

 of England. 



BOURNASEL, a town of France, in the department 

 of tl'.e Avevron, 4^ leagues N. W. of Rhode/.. 



BOURNEVILLE, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Eure ; 2 leagues N. W. of Pont Audemer. 



BOURNEZEAU, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Vendee ; 5 leagues N. W. of Fontcnay le Comte. 



BOURNIQUEL, a town of France in the department 

 of the Lot, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrift of 

 Montauban, feated on the louth fide of the Avcyroii ; 13 

 miles E. N. E. of Moutauban. 



B-OURNOU. See Bornou. 



BouRKOu, Great and Little, two capes at the commence- 

 ment of the road in the gulf of Salonica. This road, which 

 t-erminates at a fhoal, which is fituated at the head of the 

 gulf, affords good anchorage to fiiips of every fize, and a 

 Ittfe retreat to fleets. 



EOURO, one of the Moluccas or Spice iflands in the 

 Eaft Indies, lying between Ceram on the euft, and Celebes 

 on the weft ; its fiiape is oval, the longeft diameter extend- 

 ing eaft and weft ; about 90 miles in length by 50 in breadth. 

 This ifle was nominally lubjedt to the king of Ternat ; but 

 in 1660 the Dutch built a fort in the bay of Cagele, or 

 Caycli, at the north eaft end of the iOand, where the natives 

 who profefs the Mahometan religion have a mofque, whofe 

 roofs, gradually arifiiig in a regular gradation one above 

 another, prefent a very agreeable appearance ; and though 

 they burned the exterior woods, they feem to have improved 

 the induftry of the inhabitants. This ifland riles fuddenly 

 from a deep fea, being encompaffed as with a wall. Part 

 of its northern coalt is inhabited by a people who are fub- 



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jefts of the Dutch company, and are governed by their 

 " Oran-cayos," who have eueli a " d:ip," or deputy under 

 them. The interior pans, which confift of nioinilains fo 

 lofty, that they may be lometimes difcvird at the dillanee of 

 28 leagues, are the haunts of the " Alforcfi," or wild moun- 

 taineers. Tiie louth coaft is now dcferted, on account of 

 the continual invafions of the Papuas. 'J'he coaft, to the 

 eaft of the village of Caycli, is watered by a number of 

 fmall ftreams; but to tlie north-weft there is a very con- 

 fiderablc river, called by the natives " Aer-Beffar," which 

 difcharges itfclf into the road-ftead. This river is very deC]., 

 and for fome diftance from its mouth more than 70 feet broad. 

 On its borders is found the beautiful flirub, knoivn b;- the 

 name of " Portlandia grandiflora. The pebbles rolled 

 from the mountains by the rivulets are fragments of "quartz," 

 mixed with mica. Birds, efpecially paiTots, are fo numer- 

 ous, that the illand probably derives from tills circum.ftance 

 its name, whicii fignilies, in the Malayan language, a bird. 

 The woods alford abundance of deer, goats, and wild 

 boars. The civet weafel is found in this illand, and the 

 curious hog called babirouffa. A green ebony, and a 

 kind of iron wood, aic mentioned among the trees, and 

 feveral other kinds of wood, proper for inlaid work, mtich 

 valued by the Chinefc, and others ufcful for dying ; and it 

 is not improbable that the clove, and perhaps the nutmeg, 

 defy, in the receffes of the mountains, the uild avarice of 

 man. The fago tree grows here in great abundance, fupply- 

 ing the inhabitants with the principal means of their fub- 

 fiftence, as well as an article of exportation. The " Cayou 

 pouti," of the Malays (yl'/i7j.'f!/i:^z latifolia) grows in great 

 abundance upon the hills; and from this is olitained, by dif- 

 tillation, a great quantity of the oil of cajeput. Accoiding 

 to attronomical obfervations, made by thofe who ptn-fued the 

 voyage in fcarch of la Peroufe, at the village of Cayeli, its 

 latitude was 3° 21' 54" S. and longitude 127° 21' 6" E. 

 The dip of the magnetic needle was 20° ,50'. Its variation, 

 obferved on board, was o" 54' E. The higheft point in- 

 dicated by the thermometer (Reaumur's) on board was 23°, 

 and on fhore z z;"^ -f'^ths. The meicury in th* baromttcr vari- 

 ed only from 28 inches I line to 28 inches 2 lines. The time 

 of hiiih water on the full and change days-ivas three quar- 

 ters after eleven ; it then rofe to the perpendictilar heiglit of 

 6 feet. Voyages in fearch of la Pt-rouie, drawn up by M. 

 Labillarditre, vol. ii. p. .JoS, «c. Eng. cd. 



BouRO, is alfo a fmall ifland, north of the illand of Su- 

 matra ; •■; leagues N.E. of Acheeu. 



BOURON, a town of European Turkey, in Romania, 

 the fee of a Greek biftiop, feated on a lake of the fame name, 

 and I <; miles diftant from the coaft of the Archipelago. 



BOURRE, in Oi-iiill'o/ovy. According to Salerne, the 

 common or domeftic duck is called Lcunr in Normandy, and 

 the ducklings hr.urrct. 



BouRRE, in Zoology, is alio a word in ufe in France to 

 exprefs the hair of feveral quadrupeds, fuch as the ox, the 

 buflalo, the horfe, flag, &c. Thus alio they have the di- 

 ftiuiStion of bourre th lame for the woolly kinds, and lourie 

 de foie for that of a filky texture. 



BOURREE', Fr. the air of a dance fo called, is fup- 

 pofed to come from Auvergne, in which province it is lliil 

 in ufe. The tune is in common time, and begins with an 

 odd crotchet. Rouffcau. 



BOURRERIA, in Botany. See Ehretia. 



BOURRIQLIE, in Zoology, fynonyraous with Vantjfe, 

 the ftie-afs. 



BOURSAULT, Edme, in Biography, a French dra- 

 matic writer, was born in the province of Burgundy, in 

 i6j8 5 and by fingulai- alTidiuty, though his education was 

 T 2 altogether 



