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BOU^SU, a town of France, in tSe i3op3ttrnJiit of J,:- 

 mnppe, and chief place of a canton, in the '.''ilhi.'^l of Mons ; 

 the town contains iSSi, and the canton i:!,5~i inhabitants; 

 ih'.' territory includes 82 J kiliomctrcs, and 1 ; communes. 



BOUSTROPHEDON, comp )u ;ded of (3y,-, buUock, and 

 fpsT'w, I turn, in Liti-raluri, is iifed in fp;akinT of the an- 

 cient m.^thod of vvritii)*; among th? Grt-'-ks, wherein the 

 lines wtrc cbnt'nned forwards and backwards, like the fur- 

 rows in plonijhing. 



Panfanias (li'-). v> c. 17. Eiiaca) mentions feveral ancient 

 infcriptions written in this manntr : tiie laws of Solon are 

 affo fi.id to hive been thus written ; wliich,- as the author 

 lail cit'jd jxpl:ii-:s it, is when the fecond line is turned, on the 

 contrary fide, beginiiincr at the end of the former, thus ; 

 EK AlOS AP 



PoHcr. Arch.Crrxc. lib. i. cap. 2C torn. i. 



BOUT, i.T Orni'hology. Under this name BnfFon defcribes 

 two birds of the CaoTopHAOA genus ; namely C. am, as !e 



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be cut t!own. The kirtj-j of Boyton i« cbl!,v'd to pr.v.'".!.- f.>r 

 liim j^uidcs and mterprclevs, and alfu vcfltls, if lie fhovid i..-.- J 

 them. Ihit as this contrail has not been legulaily fuifili' d, 

 the government in Inuia has thought proper to w'thhirld 

 this pecnniavy allowatice, ?.t leall for one year, in order to 

 induce this prince to adhere more rigiilly to his contra^^, 

 and to be more aftive in affilling the company to dellroy 

 this rich produfVion in his country, for the benefit of Am- 

 boyna and Banda. Tiio pafl'axc between Bonton and the 

 Toncan-bi-liis is the fecond dangerous part of the navigation 

 for fliips goir.g to the Moluccas or Spire iflands ; the ochcr 

 being that of the " Bud;;croons." The former channel is, 

 indeed, wider than the latter, being about i\ leagues in 

 breadth from the ncarelt part of Bouton to the wtfltrnmoft 

 of the Toucan-befTis ; but the danger is of longer duration, 

 on account of the numerous fmall iflands that form the 

 duller called the " Toucan-belTfs ;" all of which arc cither 

 connedtd or Airrounded by rocky flioals, over aild between 

 whick very rapid currents Lt ftrongly to the talhvard : be- 



pfl'i! bout d: Pciin ; and C. tvajor, as /^ grand bout de fides, a large and dangerous flat, called the " Hoefy/.er, 

 " or horfe-flioe, lies o:ie and a half or two kaints foiitli of 



them, upon which many veflels of the company have bee:i 

 wrecked. In the nahowtll part of the pall'age is alfo a buy 

 running into the land, weft and north, into which vefllls arc 

 in danger of being driven by the currents which fct into the 

 .bay, if the point oppofite Toucan-beffis be api)roached too 

 near in calm weather. From this bay there is no tfcapc till 

 the v.^cll monfoon fets in again ; and fome of the company's 

 fliips ha e been under a neceffity of remaining in it for five 

 or fix m .nths. From this circumftance, the navigators have 

 given it tlie name of" Dwaal," or Miftake-bay. The prin- 

 cipal town of this ifland is Callafnfurg, feated about a mils 

 from the- Tea, on the top of a hill, and furrounded by walL. 

 The inh.ibitants are fmall, but wcll-fhaped, and of a dark 

 olive complexion. Their honfcs are erected on polls; and 

 their rcligiun is Mahometanifm. Stavorinus's Voyages to the 



Pctun. 



BOUTA, in Anacnt Geography, a town of Africa, in 

 Libya Interior, near the fource of the river Cinipha, ac- 

 cording to Pcolcmy. 



BOUTADE, in Afiifc, an irregular flight or movement 

 ■without art or ftiidy. 



The word was alfo form-'rly ufcd for z folo on the inol d'l 

 gnmha, thus c.dled as beinr fuppofed to bo extemporary. 



Richelet fpeaks. of a dance called bou'.ndc, invented by 

 th.e famous Bocan, in the reign of Lewis XIII. fo called 

 from the briflc humourous mannei of its beginning ; but now 

 out of ufe. 



BOUTAEL, in Ichthyology, the local name of a certain 

 kind of fifli, that is faid to inhabit the lakes, ponds, and 

 Handing w-aters, in the Ea(£ Indies, where it is alfo called 

 tiie Neegen oogsn. Ray dcfcribes it under the name "f lam- 

 pttra Iiidlca. It is conjcftured that this mud b^ long to the 

 lamprey, or ^^/rcmjaon genus, from the accounts of authors 

 v/ho fpeakof it ; but whether really fo, or not, k is difficult 

 to determine. 



BOUT AN. in Grajrai/.y. See Bootan. 



BO UTANT, in Archtte3ure. An arc boutant is an- arch 



p. joo. S. lat. 5^. E. long. i2j' 



Eail Iiidiea, vol, 

 30' 



BouTON ch Camifilk, m Concholo^y, a trivial name in 

 France for trochus hib'io of Linna:us. 



BoiJTON de la Chine, the Linnxan trochus nllol'icus. 



BouTON de Rofc, a fpecies of Bulla, ornamented with 



r.rbuttrefs, ferving to fullain a vault ; and which is itfelf red bands, Oidla ciplujlr: oi lAnnxus. 



fiiftained by fom.e ilrnng wall, or mafliive pile. 



The word is French, and comes from the verb bouter, 

 to lilt, or abut, 



A p:Uar Boutant is a large ch'.in or pile of flone, made 

 to fuDport a wall, terrace, or vaults 



BOUTE', in the Manege. A horfe is called Louie, 

 when his legs are in a ftraight line from the knee to the coro- 

 net ; (hort-jointed horfes are moft apt toTje loute. 



Bouton terrejire, the common name of a tcrrcftrial fnail, 

 figured by D'Argcnvillc. It is the helix rotundata of Lin- 

 nxiis. 



BOUTONNE, in Geography, a river of France, which 

 runs into the Charente, 2 leagues E. of Rochfort ; palling 

 by St. Jean de Angdy, and navigable to that town. 



BOUTS-RiMES, a popular term in the French Poetry ; 

 fignifying certain rhymes, difpofed in order, and given to a 



BOUTKOUJ A, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the poet, together with a fubjeCt, to be filled up with verfcs 

 province of Ghilan ; 120 miles N.N.W. of Reflid. eriding in the fame words, and the fame order. The inven- 



BOUTON, or BooTON, one of the Molucca or rather tion of the bouts-rimes is owing to one Du Lot, a poet, in 



Ceiebefian iflands, in the Indian fea ; fituate about 12 miles 

 to the fouth-eaft of Celebes. It is a large and woody iOand, 

 and is a kingdom of itfelf, to which the neighbouring iflands 

 belong. The king of Bouton is in alliance with the Dutch 

 company, who pay him a yearly fiim of l^o rix-dollars, or 

 321. 14s. 6d. fterling, in new Dutch coin, upon condition, 

 that he fhould not only permit the extirpation by the C(;m- 

 pany of all the clove-trees in this and x\e neighbouring 

 iflands, but alfo aflTift them in efTefling it. For this purpofe, 

 the company annually fend out a ferjeant, who is ftyled the 

 extirpator," and who goes through all the woods in the 



the year 1649. In fixing t!ie bouts, it is ufual to chufe 

 fuch as fcem the remoteft, and have the lead connexion. 



Some good authors fancy, that thefe rhymes are of all 

 others the eaficft, that they aflill the invention, and furnifli 

 more new thoughts than any others. Sarraan has a poem 

 on the defeat of the bouts-rimes. The academy of Lan- 

 ternifls, at Thouloufe, have contributed towards keeping in 

 countenance the bouts-rimes, by propofing each year a fet 

 of fourteen, to be filled up on the glories of thq grand mo- 

 narque : the vidlorious fonnct to be rewarded with a fine 

 medal. An in(lan."c hereof may be given in the following 



iflands, a.ad caufes all the clove-trees wliich he meets with to one, filled up by P. Coir.rairt : 



Tout 



