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knowledge, and.a patron of the dolor’s Natural Hi dory 
of Jamaica]. In botany, a genus of the clafs dodecandria, 
order monogynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthiuiii of the fruit inferior, fix-leaved ; leaflets ovate, 
concave, expanding, the (ize of the flower. Perianthiimv 
of the flower fuperior; margin quite entire, hexangular, 
membranaceous. Corolla : petals fix, ovate, expanding, 
equal. Stamina: filaments twelve, Tubulate ereCt. An¬ 
thers triangular, depreffe'd, concatenated into a ring. Piftil- 
Jum : germ inferior, obovate, crowned with the margin 
of the calyx. Style Tubulate, the length of the flower. 
Stigma acute. Pericarpium: capfule obovate, fix-celled. 
Seeds very many.— EJJ'ential CharaBcr. Calyx inferior, fix- 
leaved ; fuperior entire. Petals fix. Capfules fix-celled, 
many-feeded. 
Species, i. Blakea frinervia : two-calycled ; leaves 
nervelefs, very finely firiated acrofs. This fpecies grows 
generally to the height of ten or fourteen feet; but rifes 
always higher when it remains a climber, in which (fate it 
continues fometimes. It is certainly one of the mod beau¬ 
tiful productions of America. It fupports itfelf for a time 
by the help of fome neighbouring fhrub. or tree, but it 
grows gradually more robuft, and at length acquires a 
pretty moderate ftem, which divides into a thoufand weak¬ 
ly declining branches, well fupplied with beautiful rofy 
bloffoms, on all Tides. Native of Jamaica, in cool, moift, 
Ihady, places. 
2. Blakea friplinervia : uncalycled ; leaves triple-nerved. 
This tree grows to the height of fixteen feet. Flowers 
the fize of a pomegranate, diftinCt, without any lower pe¬ 
rianthium ; feeds minute, fruitofa yellow colour, and fapid. 
Native of Surinam, where it was oblerved by Dalberg ; 
alfo of Guiana, where it flowers and fruits in May. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe trees have not been yet 
cultivated in Europe. In the Weft-Indies, the firft fpecies 
thrives belt on the fides of ponds or rivulets ; and .when 
planted in gardens, where it makes a very elegant appear¬ 
ance, it ought to be fupplied with tome fupport whilft it 
continues young and weakly. 
BLAKES,yi Cow-dung dried for fuel. 
BLA'MABLE, adj. Culpable; faulty. — Virtue is 
placed between two extremes, which are on both fides 
equally blamable. Dryden. 
BLA'MABI.ENESS,/! Fault; the Hate of being-liable 
to blame ; culpablenefs ; faultinefs. 
BLA'MABI-Y, adv. Culpably ; in a manner liable to 
cenfure.—A procefs may be carried on againfl a perfon, 
that is malicioufly or blamably abfent, even to a definitive 
fentence. Aylijfe. 
To BLAME, v. a. \_blamer, Fr.] To cenfure ; to charge 
with a fault : it generally implies a flight cenfure. 
Our pow’r 
Shall do a court’fy to our wrath, which men 
May blame , but not controul. Shakefpcare. 
To Blame has ufually the particle for before the fault. 
•—The reader mild not blame me for making life here all 
along of the word fentiment. Locke. —Sometimes, but 
rarely? with of. —Tomoreous he blamed of inconfiderate 
rafhnefs, for that he would bufy himfelf in matters not 
belonging to his vocation. Knolles. 
BLAME, f. Imputation of a fault.—In arms the praife 
of fuccefs is fhared among many ; yet the blame of mifad- 
ventures is charged upon one. Hayward. —Crime; that 
which produces or deferves cenfure. 
I unfpeak mine owm detraction ; here abjure 
The taints and blames I laid upon myfelf. Shakefpeare. 
There is a peculiar ftruClure of this word, in which it 
is not very evident whether it be a noun or a verb, but we 
conceive it to be the noun. To blame, in French a tort ; 
culpable ; worthy cf cenfure: 
You w’ere to blame, I mud be plain with you, 
To part To llightly with your wife’s firh gift, Shakefpcare . 
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BLA'MEFUL, adj. [from blame and full.'\ Criminal; 
guilty ; meriting blame. 
Blnnt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour, 
It ever lady wrong’d her lord To much., 
1 by mother took into her blameful bed- 
Some-dern untutor’d churl. Shakefpeare. 
BLA'MELESS, adj. Guiltlefs; innocent; exemptfrom 
cenfure or blame.—She found out the righteous, and pre¬ 
served him blamelefs unto God. Wifdom, x. 5.—Sometimes 
it is uTed with of .—We will be blamelefs of this thine oath. 
Jofiua, ii. 17. 
BLA'MEI.ESSLY, adv. Innocently ; without crime. 
BLA'MELESSNESS,y. Innocence; exemption from 
eenlure.—Having refolved, with him in Homer, that all is 
chargeable on Jupiter and fate, they infer, with him, the 
blamelejjnefs of the inferiour agent. Hammond. 
BLA'MER, f One that blames or finds fault; a cen¬ 
fure r. 
BLAMEWOR'THY, adj. [from blame and worthy. J 
Culpable ; blamable ; worthy of blame or cenfure.—Al¬ 
though the fame fiiould be blameworthy, yet this age hath 
forborn to incur the danger of any fuch blame. Hooker. 
BLA'MONT, a town of France, and principal plabe of 
a diftfiCl, in the Meurte : four leagues and a half ead of 
of Luneville, and eight and a half ead of Nancy. Lat. 
48. 35. N. Ion. 24. 30. E. Ferro. 
BLA'MONT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Doubs, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
St. Hypolite : three leagues fouth-wed of Porentrui, and 
one. and a half north of St. Hypolite. 
BLANC (Thomas le), a jefuit of Vitri, in Champagne, 
who died at Rheims in 1669. There are a great number 
of works by him, on the duties of the feveral conditions 
in life : le bon Valet; la bonne Servante ; le bon Vigne- 
ron ; le bon Laboureur ; le bon Artifan ; le bon Riche ; 
le bon Pauvre ; le bon Ecolier ; le Soldat genereux, &c. 
But the book that acquired him the greateft reputation is 
an ample commentary on the Pfalms, under this title: 
Anaiyfis Pfalmorum Davidicorum, Lyons, 1665, 6 vols. 
folio, reprinted at Cologne in 1681. The author does 
not confine himfelf to the literal fenfe; he enters into all 
the mydical applications of the different expofitors, and 
therefore one may well be ajlonijhed that he could crowd 
his matter into fix volumes folio! 
BLANC (John Bernard le), hidoriographer of build¬ 
ings of the academy deila Crufca, and of that of the Ar¬ 
cades at Rome, was born at Dijon, in 1707, of parents 
but ill provided with the goods of fortune. He went to 
Paris, where he gained friends and patrons. He then 
came to London, where he met with the fame advantage. 
In 1746, Maupertuis.offered him, on the part of the king, 
of Pruflia, a place fuitable to a man of letters, at the court 
of Berlin ; but, endued with philofophy and moderation, 
he preferred mediocrity at hometo flattering hopes abroad. 
Abbe le Blanc died in 1781. -His tragedy of Abenfaide, 
the fubjedt of which is very interefling, was well received 
at firft, notwithftanding the harfhnef;> of the verfification ; 
but it did not fupport this fuccefs, when revived on the 
ftage, in 1743* What 1110ft brought the abbe le Blanc in¬ 
to repute was the collection of his letters on the Engliih, 
1758, three vols, nmo. 
Mont- BLANC, a ftupendous mountain in Savoy, the 
higheft of the Alps, and encompalfed by tliofe wonderful 
collections of fnow and ice called the Glaciers. See Alps, 
vol. i. p. 370. The fummitof this mountain was deemed 
inacceftible before Dr. Paccard, a phvfician at Chamouni, 
•attempted to reach it in Auguft, 1786, and fucceeded in 
the attempt. Soon after, the fame undertaking was ac- 
complifhed by M. de Saulfure, v\ho has publifhed a nar¬ 
rative of the journey.—He arrived at Chamouni, at the 
foot of the mountain, in July, 1787; but bad weather 
prevented him from afeending until the 1 ft of Auguft, 
when he began his expedition, accompanied by a fervant 
and eighteen guides, who carried his phiiofopbical and. 
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