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you lofe two points, and mull return to your fpot again. 
10. After you have made the pals, and have taken a fort, 
you mutt return to your middle fpot again. 11. When 
you have taken a fort, you win four points. 12. If you do 
not take down your adverfary’s colours when you have 
taken his fort, you are obliged to take the fort again, and 
muff be.put back four points. 13. Millings at this game 
reckon nothing. 14. After you have regularly made the 
pals, you are not obliged to go through it again during the 
game. 15. In each fort the bell gives notice at being ta¬ 
ken ; which beil mult be made to ring by linking it with 
the ball, otherwife the fort is not taken. 16. The be- 
fieged may defgnd his forts, or may fend his attacking ball 
into the affaultei’s quarter to attack his forts. 17.. The 
belieger mull take his adverfary’s forts with his attacking 
ball. 18. If the belieger fhould take his adverfary’s fort 
with either of his defending balls, lie lofes two points, 
and returns to his fpot again. 19. If the ftriker plays 
witli either of his adverfary’s balls, he lofes two points, 
and, if he played on either of his own balls, it mud be put 
on its proper fpot again, if his adverfary requires it. 20. 
Either party may fend his defending ball or balls into his 
adverfary’s quarter, if he chafes. 21. After having taken 
the two advanced forts, you mud take the two other forts 
in the next angle which are called the referved torts, and 
laftly the grand fort. 22. He who does not take the forts 
according, to the above diredlion, and takes either of the 
lad for the fird, lofes two points, and mud return to the 
proper fpot again. 23. After a fort hath been taken, or 
a ball holed or forced over the table, the llriker is bound 
to place, or to fee the ball placed, on its proper fpot; and 
if he doth not, lie diall reckon nothing for any forts, &c. 
he diall take during the time the ball is out of its place. 
24. After having taken a fort either by dorm or other- 
ways, and his adverfary do take the faid ball out ot the 
•fort, to place it or otherways, and although he doth not 
take down his colours, neverthelefs the fort is deemed as 
taken, and the colours are to be taken down. Taking a 
fort by dorm is, when the party has made his utmod ef¬ 
fort to take it, but it is fo well defended and guarded by his 
adverfary, that he is obliged to have recourfe to ftrata- 
gem, that is, by laying his ball in a proper angle, and 
ftriking it againft the end cufhion, and bringing the ball 
back again into his adverfary’s fort. 2;. If the ftriker 
forces either of his adverfary’s balls into his own fort 
which has not been taken, he makes him a prifoner ot 
war, and wins fix points. 26. If the ftriker forces either 
of his adverfary’s balls into his own fort which lias not 
been taken, it is no prifoner of war, but the ftriker wins 
two points. 27. If the ftriker forces either of his adver- 
fary's bails into his adverfary’s fort, he wins two points. 
28. If the ftriker holes either of his adverfary’s balls, or 
two, Sec. for each ball fo holed he wins two points. 29. 
If the ftriker holes his own ball or balls, for each ball fo 
holed he lofes two points. 30. If the ftriker forces his ad¬ 
verfary’s ball or balls over the table, or on a fort or 
cufhion, for each ball he wins two points. 31. If the 
ftrrker forces his own ball or balls over the table, &c. for 
each ball he lofes two points. 32. If the ftriker forces his 
adverfary’s ball over the table, or on a fort or cufhion, or 
into a hole, and regularly takes his adverfary’s fort by the 
fame ftroke, he wins fix points. But if the linker's ball 
fhould go into a fort which hath been taken, or is out of 
the angle, he lofes two points. 33. If the ftriker holes 
ltis own or his adverfary’s ball, or forces them over 
the table or on a fort or cufhion, he lofes two points. 
34. If the ftriker forces his ball into any of his own or ad- 
verfary’o forts which hath been taken, or into any of ltis 
adverf.ry’s forts out of the angle, lie lofes two points. 
35. When a ball is holed or forced over the table, Sec. 
fuch ball is to be placed on its proper fpot; but, if it hap¬ 
pens that the fpot fhould be occupied by another ball, in 
fuch cafe the ball is to be placed behind it, but fo as not 
to touch. 36. Whoever takes a fort after it has been re¬ 
gularly taken, and the colours are down, lofes two points, 
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37.-When the ftriker’s adverfary’s ball is out of fight (that 
is, lying behind a fort fo that it cannot be feen), and the 
ftriker hath a fancy to ftrike the cufhion firft, and hit the 
ball backwards, by giving warning, faying, I do not fee, if 
he fhould hit ihe ball he wins two points ; but, if he do not 
hit the ball, he lofes two points. 3S. If the ftriker hit 
the ball, and holes his own ball, or forces it over the ta¬ 
ble, or on a fort or cufhion, or into either of his own forts, 
or into either of his adverlary’s forts, which hath been 
taken, 01* is out of the angle, he lofes two points, and 
fliall reckon nothing for hitting the ball. 39. if either of 
the adverfary’s balls fhould lie before either of rite ftriker’s 
forts, which hath not been taken, and, the ball being out of 
fight, he hath a fancy to ftrike the cufhion firft, and hit 
tlte ball backwards, to make a prifoner of war of his ad¬ 
verfary’s ball, by faying, t do not fee-, if he hit the ball, 
he wins two points, and, if he makes a prifoner of his ad¬ 
verfary’s ball, he wins fix points , more, and his adver¬ 
fary’s ball mud return to its proper fpot again. 40. When 
the ftriker gives warning, faying, I do not fee, his adverfary, 
or the difinterefted company, have aright to be judges 
thereof, or the marker, if any difpute fhould arife. 41. 
If the ftriker holes, &c. either of his adverfary’s defending 
balls, it is at his adverfary’s option to place tiie faid ball 
on either of the proper fpots, if they are both vacant. 
42. Whoever toucheth both balls with mace or cue, it is 
deemed a foul ftroke, and it is at his adverlary’s option 
either to break the balls, or to make him return to his 
proper fpot again. 43. 1 f the ftriker makes a foul ftroke, 
and holes his own ball, or forces it ove-r the table, &c. 
he lofes two points for each of his own balls fo holed, or 
forced over the table ; and it is at his adverfary’s option 
to part the balls, if lie pleafes. 44. If the ftriker moves 
the ball, it nut ft be put back to the place it was moved 
from, 45. Whoever blows on his adveifiiry’s or on his 
own ball when running, it is deemed foul. 46. If the 
ftriker, by blowing on his ow n ball, fhould put it out of 
its proper courfe, efpecially when running near a hole, lie 
lofes two points. 47. Whoever (tops a ball, with flick or 
otherwife, after the ftroke, it is deemed foul. 48. Who¬ 
ever plays with both feet off the ground, without perniif- 
fion from his adverfary, it is deemed foul. 49. To play 
upon a ball when running, it is deemed foul. 50. Who¬ 
ever retains his adverfary’s flick when playing, lofes.two 
points. 51. Whoever gets the firft twenty points (each 
fort being regularly taken is four points) wins the game. 
52. When four parties play a double match, he wlfo plays 
before his turn lofes. two points. The reft of the regula¬ 
tions are the lame as the rules for the white winning game. 
BILL 1 AT', a town of France, in the department of 
Ain, and chief place of a canton, in the diflriiSt of Nantua : 
two leagues and three quarters fouth-eaft of Nantua. 
BILLIGHE'IM, a town of Germany, in the palatinate 
of the Rhine : four miles fouth of Landau, and iixteen 
fouth-weft of Spire. 
BILI.IGRA'TZ, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carniola : four leagues north of Laubach. 
BILLIN'GEN, a town of the Netherlands, in the duchy 
of Luxemburg : twenty miles eaft of Spa. 
BIL'LINGHAM, a town of England, in the county 
of Northumberland, with a weekly market on Tuefday : 
thirteen miles and a half north of Hexham, and 297 and a 
half nprtli of London. 
BIL'LINGSPORT, a place on the river Delaware, in 
the (late of Pennfylvania, which, during the American 
war, was fortified for the defence of the river, and ckevaux 
de frizes of timber, headed with iron fpikes, funk to pre¬ 
vent the Britifh veffels from palling : twelve miles below 
Philadelphia. 
BIL'LIONS,yi bimillions, or twice millions, or (in nu¬ 
meration) it is numbers of millions ; fhewing that the 
word millions is twice mentioned, as 9,999,999,999. 
BIL'LITON, an ifland in the Indian ocean. I.at.3. 15. 
S. Greenwich, long. toS.E. 
BILLOM', a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrief, 
