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fe> the marble, this is called “ ’getting out 
the points,” which has been brought intense 
both in England and on the continent. The 
advantage of this instrument consists in its 
certainty and exactness, in its taking a cor- 
rect measurement in every direction, in its 
occupying a small compass, and that it may 
be transferred either to the model or the 
marble, without a separate instrument for 
each. In 1768, Mr. Bacon removed to the 
West end of the town and attended upon 
the Royal Academy, where he received his 
first instructions, having never before seen 
the art of modelling or sculpture regularly 
performed. In the following year the gold 
medal for sculpture, the first ever given by 
the society, was voted to Mr. Bacon. He 
became an associate of that body in the 
year 1770, and from this time his reputation 
was firmly established, and he obtained 
patronage of the highest rank. It would be 
needless to attempt an enumeration of the 
various works by which he attained to the 
first eminence in a very difficult pro- 
fession. The efforts of his genius are widely 
spread, and his name will longdive the pride 
of the country which gave him birth, and 
from which he had never occasion to travel 
for the improvement of his talents, or the 
cultivation of a fine taste. 
This distinguished artist was suddenly 
attacked with an inflammation in his bowels 
on the 4th of August, 1799, which termi- 
nated his life in little more than two days. 
He died August 7th, in the 59th year of his 
age; leaving behind him a character as 
great for integrity and virtue as he had ob- 
tained in his profession as a sculptor. He 
had been twice married, and left ten chil- 
dren and a widow to mourn the loss of a 
tender father and affectionate husband. 
Cecil’s Memoirs of Bacon. 
BACOPA, in botany, a genus of the Pen- 
tandria Monogynia class and order. Natu- 
ral order Succulenta: portulace® Jussieu. 
Essential' character; corolla with a short 
tube spreading at top ; stem inserted into 
the tube of the corolla; stigma headed; 
capsule one-celled. There is but one species, 
viz. the B. aquatica, which is a native of 
Cayenne, on the borders of rivulets, flower- 
ing and bearing fruit in December. The 
French call it herbe-aux-brulures, on account 
of its efficacy in curing burns. 
BACTRIS, in botany, a genus of 
plants of the Monoecia Hexandria class 
and order. Natural order of Palms. 
Essential character : male, calyx three- 
parted j corolla one-petalled, three- cleft ; 
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stamina six. Female, calyx one-leaved, 
three-toothed ; corolla one-petalled, three- 
toothed ; stigma obscurely three-cleft ; 
drupe coriaceous. There are two species, 
the minor and major, natives of Cartha- 
genia in South America. 
BADGE, in naval architecture, an orna- 
ment placed on the outside of small ships, 
very near the stern, containing either a 
window or the representation of one. 
B/ECKIA, in botany, so named in honour 
of Abraham Baeck, the intimate friend of 
Linnaeus, who received this plant from him ; 
of the Octandria Monogynia class and order. 
Natural order Calycanthemas ; Onagree 
Jussieu. Essential character : calyx funnel- 
form, five-toothed ; corolla five-petalled ; 
capsule globular, four-celled, crowned. 
There is one species, viz. B. frutes - ns, a 
shrub which has the habit of southernwood, 
with wand-like branches, and opposite short 
simple twigs. It is a native of China, and 
called their tiongina. 
BjEOBOTRYS, in botany, of the Pen- 
tandria Monogynia class and order. Essen- 
tial character ; corolla tubular, with a five- 
cleft border ; calyx double ; outer two- 
leaved ; inner one-leafed, bell-shaped ; berry 
globose, one-celled, growing to the calyx; 
many seeded. A single species, viz. the B. 
nemoralis, native of the Isle of Tanna in 
the South Seas. 
BAGGAGE, in military affairs, denotes 
the clothes, tents, utensils of divers sorts, 
provisions, and other necessaries belonging 
to an army. 
Before a march, the waggons with the 
baggage are marshalled according to the 
rank which the several regiments bear in 
the army ; being sometimes ordered to fol- 
low the respective columns of the army, 
sometimes to follow the artillery, and some- 
times to form a column by themselves. The 
general’s baggage marches first ; and each 
waggon has a flag, shewing the regiment to 
which it belongs. 
BAGPIPE, a musical instrument of the, 
wind kind, chiefly used in country places, 
especially in the north : it consists of two 
principal parts ; the first a leathern bag, 
which blows up like a foot-ball by means of 
a port-vent or little tube fitted to it, and 
stopped by a valve : the other part consists 
of three pipes or flutes, the first called the 
great pipe or drone, and the second the lit- 
tle one, which pass the wind out-only at the 
bottom ; the third has a reed and is played 
on by compressing the bag under the arm, 
when full, and opening or stopping the 
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