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for the purpofi of fecuriiig their quarters, preventing fiir- 

 prifes, and obllrufiing fupplies. When an army doei not 

 encamp, but lies under arms all night, it is faid to 

 •' bivouacke." 



BLACKBURN, 1. zS, for 24 r. 23. Col. 2, 1. 4, 

 r. Blackburn townfhip contained, in 181 1, 2945 houfes, and 

 15,083 perfons ; 6953 being males, and 8 1 30 females : 45 

 families employed in agricuUure, and 2861 in trade and 

 manufaSures. 



BLACK-LAKE River, in Geography, -^ river of 

 Louifiana, that rifes in the fame ridge of hills with the 

 Saline, and uniting with it, joins the Rigolct de bon 

 Dieu, 8 miles N.E. of Natchitochez. Here the ftate of 

 Louifiana begins to rife into elevations of fome confiderable 

 note. The features of a mountainous country now pre- 

 fent themfelves, ledges of a loofe fand-ftone rock abound, 

 nodules of iron-ore are every where met with, and petri- 

 factions of the moll diveri'ihed forms are ftrewed over every 

 flope. Thefe petrifactions generally appear to have un- 

 dergone their change from ligneous to the fihceous ftate in 

 which they are found, and to have been imbofomed in an 

 argillaceous clay, which, by induration, inclofes them in its 

 mafs. Darby's Louifiana. 



BLACKLICK, a townfhip of Indiana, in the ftate of 

 Pennfylvania, having 965 inhabitants. 



BLACKROD, a townfliip of Bokon parifti, in the 

 hundred of Salford, and county of Lancafter, containing 

 373 houfes, and 21 11 perfons; I'/z. 1044 males, and 1065 

 females. SeeWiOAN, 



BLADEN, 1. 2, r. 5671 ; 1. 3, 1985. 

 ISLAFFERT, in Commerce, a fmall coin at Cologne ; 

 20 blafferts in account being = tlic rix-dollar fpecic, and 

 igi blafferts being the rix-dollar current ; 16 hlafterts =; 

 a rader florin ; 2\ blafferts = a (liilling ; and a blaffert = 

 4 albufes. There are filver blafferts, and half ditto. 

 BLAINVILLE, col. 2, 1. 19, r. Serre. 

 BLAIR, Robert, in Biography, a Scotch divine and 

 poet, was the eldeft fon of the Rev. David Blair, one of 

 the minifters of Edinburgh, and chaplain to the king ; and 

 the grandfon of the Rev. Robert Blair, minifter of the 

 gofpel at Bangor in Ireland, and afterwards at St. 

 Andrew's in Scotland, celebrated for his piety, ^nd for 

 his inflexible adherence to Preft)yterianifm, in oppofition 

 to thofe who endeavoured to eftablifti epifcopacy in Scot- 

 land. The fubjeft of the prefent article was born in 1699, 

 and after preparatory ftudies was ordained miniiter of Athel- 

 ftaneford, in Eaft Lothian, where he refided until his death, 

 Feb. 4, 1747. The late right hon. Robert Blair, prefident 

 of the court of felTion in Scotland, who died in 181 1, was 

 one of his fons, and Dr. Hugh Blair, (fee his article,) 

 was his coufin. His only literary produftion, we appre- 

 hend, was a poem, intitled " The Grave," which was long 

 difregarded, and which, though more lately recommended 

 to attention by Hervey, who firft phnted it, and Mr. 

 Pinkerton, in his " Letters of Literature," has no claim 

 on any high degree of commendation. It Is deftitute of 

 plan, unembelliflied by any of the ingenious graces of 

 poetry, and degraded by fatirical ilrokes on phyficians and 

 undertakers, warm expreftions, and ill-chofen epitiiets. 

 Upon being previoudy fubmittcd to Dr. Watts and Dr. 

 Doddridge, the author had no encouragement to publilh it : 

 however, it was printed at London in 1 743, and is perufed by 

 perfons of a ferious difpofition. Biog. Didt. by Chalmers. 

 BLAIZE, St., Cape, in Geography. See Mossel's Bay. 

 BLANDFORD, col. 2, 1. 30, r. contained, in 1811, 

 431 houfes, with 2425 inhabitants ; 1017 being males, and 

 1408 females. 



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Bl.AN-D>FOnD, in Anyerica, 1. 6, r. 1613. 

 BLANDFORDIA, in Botany, received its name from 

 the writer of the prefent article, in honour of his grace 

 George duke of Marlborough, at that time marquis of 

 Blandford, an honorary member of the Linnxan Society, 

 and one of the moil ardent botanifts and cultivators that this 

 country ever poffeffed in any rank of life. A genus belong- 

 ing to what Linnasus terms the Patrician order, was judged 

 peculiarly eligible for this purpofe ; nor can any one be 

 more diftinft, few more beautiful. — Sm. Exot. Bot. v. i. j. 

 Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. I. 295. Ait. Epit. 364. — 

 Clafs and order, Hexatulna Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Corona- 

 r'lic, Linn. Narc'iJJl, Juff. Hemerocallijea, Brown. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. none. Cor. of one petal, inferior, tubu- 

 lar, ftraight, with fix marginal lobes, regular, withering. 

 Slam. Filaments fix, thread-fliaped, inferted into the middle 

 of the tube, decurrent, ftiorter than the limb ; anthers ovate, 

 two-lobed, incumbent, attached by a hood at their bafe. 

 Pijl. Germen fuperior, ftalked, oblong, witii three angles, 

 and three intermediate furrows ; ftyle vertical, awl-ftiaped ; 

 ftigma fimple. Perlc. Capfule ftalked, prifmatic, of three 

 cells, burfting at their inner angles. Seeds numerous, oval, 

 inferted along the margins of each cell, imbricated, clothed 

 with denfe briftly hairs. 



Eft. Ch. Corolla inferior, funnel-ffiaped, ftraight, with fix 

 marginal fegments. Filaments inferted into the tube. Cap- 

 fule ftalked, prifmatic, of three cells. Seeds numerous, im- 

 bricated, briftly. 



1 . B. nobills. Scarlet Blandfordia. Exot. Bot. t. 4. 

 Br. n. I. Ait. Epit. 364. Curt. Mag. t. 2003. — " Brac- 

 teas but half the length of the partial ftalks while in flower. 

 Leaves narrow-linear." Br. — Native of the neighbourhood 

 of Port Jackfon. The root is woody and perennial. Leaves 

 all radical, four or five inches long, fcarcely half an inch 

 broad, entire, fmooth, coriaceous, tapering at the bafe into 

 fluathing footftalks. Flo<wer-j}alks radical, two or three 

 feet high, erect, round, each bearing a very handfome 

 corymbofe clujler, of drooping, {c3x\eX. Jloiuers ; yellow, and 

 marked with green, at the border ; each near an inch and a 

 half long, on a red partial ^a/i of the fame length, at whofe 

 bafe are two unequal, oppofite, tapering braSeas. Cap- 

 fule pointed, twice the length of the permanent withered 

 corolla. 



2. B. grandiflora. Large-flowered Blandfordia. Br. 

 n. 2. (Aletris punicea ; Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. 85. 

 t. III. ) — Bradeas nearly as long as the partial ftalks while 

 in flower ; the inner but one-third as large as the outer. — 

 Obfervcd at Port Jackfon by Mr. Brown, who is not quite 

 certain of Labillardiere's plant, found at Cape Van Diemen. 

 We have feen neither, but we fhould icarcely have thought 

 the latter could be diftinguifhed even from B. tiobiUs. 



Blandfordia cordata, Andr. Repof. t. 343. See 

 Galax. 



BLATTA, col. 2, 1. 29, after glgantea, add — called in 

 the Weft Indies drummer, from the noife it makes, hke a 

 fniart knocking with the knuckle upon the wainfcot ; 1. 36, 

 dele which fee refpeftively. 



BLAYNEY, Benjamin, D.D. in Biography, an eminent 

 Hebrew fcholar and critic, was educated at Oxford, and 

 graduated M.A. in 1753, at Worcefter college, and be- 

 coming afterwards feUow of Hertford college, took the 

 degree of B.D. in 1768, and of D.D. in 1787, in which 

 year he was appointed regius profeftor of Hebrew. As a 

 Scripture commentator and tranflator, he acquired very con- 

 fiderable reputation. The publications by which he was 

 diftinguiflied were, " A Differtation on Daniel's Prophecy 

 of Seventy Weeks," &c. 1775, 4to. ; " A New Tranftatioa 



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