B O M 
BOMBY'CINOUS, or Bombycine,/ [bomlycinus , of 
hombycts , genit. of bomby . x , Lat. a (ilk-worm, 
Gr-] Made of filk, (ilk yarn, or filken clotli. 
BOMBY'LIUS,/ [from to refound.] A vef- 
fel with a narrow neck, which guggles in the emiffion of 
its contents. 
BOMBY'LIUS,/. in entomology, a genus of infects 
belonging to the order of diptera : the diftinguifhing cha- 
rafters of which are : a roftrum very long, Cetaceous, and 
porrefled, formed by two horizontal valves; antennas 
which are bent, fetaceous, and of a conic form ; three 
ftemmata, and two lpread wings. There are five Ipecies 
viz. i. The medius, the probofeis of which is black and 
(lender, fometiines divided into two at the extremity, 
which extends nearly three-fourths of the animal’s length : 
the le^s are of the fame colour, (lender, and long in pro¬ 
portion to the fize of the infeCt. The body is (hort and 
truncated; the ground-colour black, but covered exter¬ 
nally with dun-coloured tufty brown ; the wings are un- 
ufually long, dark, and dotted with brown. 2. The ma¬ 
jor, with black wings. 3. The minor, with unfpotted 
wings. 4. The ater, with red wings, but a little blackilh 
at the bafe ; and green feet. The above four are natives 
of Europe. 5. The capenfis, with the wings fpotted with 
black, an afti-coloured body, and white behind. It is a 
native of the Cape of Good Hope. The Britifh infcfls of 
of this genus, in the month of April, are feen hovering 
about the garden-flowers, generally in damp fituations. 
Even when in the a£f of Tipping the nedtareous dew from 
plants, they do not fettle, but keep conftantly buzzing 
upon die wing. They have no fling, and may be handled 
with impunity. From their buzzing noife they derive 
their generic name. 
BOME'NE, a feaport town of the date of Zealand, in 
the ifland of Schowen, with a fortrefs : one league caft of 
Brower (haven. 
BOMIL'CAR, aCarthagenian general, Ton of Amilcar. 
He was fufpedted of confpiracy with Agathocles, and hung 
in the forum, where he had received all his dignity. JuJliri. 
An African, for Come time theinftrument of all Jugunha’s 
cruelties. He confpired againfl Jugurtha, who put him 
to death, Sallujl . 
BO'MING, an ifland of Afia, in the mouth of the Gan¬ 
ges. Lat. 22.45. N. Ion. 91. 25. W. Greenwich. 
BOM'MEL, a town of Guelderland, in Holland, in the 
ifland of Overflakee : (even miles wed of Willemfladt. It 
was taken by the French republican army on the 6th of 
Oilobcr, 1794. 
BOM'MEL, a ftrong town of the duchy of GuelderS, 
fituated on the Wahal, in the i(le of Bommelweert; firfl 
ftirrounded with a wall by Otho III. count of-Guelders, 
in the year 1229 : fixty miles north-eaft of Antwerp, and 
feven north of Bois-le-Duc. 
BOMMELWEE'RT, called by Cxfar Infuba Batavo - 
rum , is an ifland, formed by the waters of the Meufe and 
the Wahal, about five leagues in length, from L-oveflein, 
^veft to fort St. Andrew eaft, its breadth where vvidefl 
hardly two. It is governed by a dyegrave, appointed by 
the eftates-general, and is well defended by the three forts 
of St. Andrew, Voorn, and Crevecoeur. The firfl has 
five baftions, and was built in 1599, by the admiral of 
Aragon, and the cardinal Andrew of Auftria, lieutenant- 
general of the Spanifh forces; the fecond is fituated in a 
final 1 ifland, called Voorn , at the eaft end of Bommelweert, 
and was conff rubied by the prince of Orange, anti thence 
fometimes called fort Naflau. The third is at the fonth 
fide of the ifland, towards Bois-le-Duc. Thefe three forts 
were conftrained to furrender to prince Maurice, in the 
year 1600, merely from the foldiers not being paid. The 
fort of Crevecceur furrendered without refiflance on the 
24th of March, and that of Sr. Andre on the 8th of May, 
the garrifon being bribed by the prince, who paid the fol- 
,diets 125,000 florins. In 1672, the French took the iflahd 
under niarfhal Turcnne, but, after defiroying the fo.rtifi- 
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Cations, abandoned it the year following. The comte 
Charles de Manfvelt, palling this ifland in the commence¬ 
ment ot the religious difputes with fome Spanifli troops, 
was furrounded by feveral (hips of the Hollanders, under 
the command of comte Hohenlo, who ordered the dikes 
to be opened, which totally inundated the ifland, Co that 
the Spaniards were obliged to retire to the citadel, where 
they mu ft have miferably perifhed, if the coming on of a 
hidden froft had not obliged the comte to abandon the 
(iege, and leave them at liberty to retire. In memory of 
this miraculous retreat, a chapel was built at Bruflels, in 
honour of the immaculate conception of the Virgin, next 
the Dominican church, which being beaten down by 
bombs, and burned, in 1695, was aftenvards rebuilt w ith 
greater magnificence. The ifland belongs to the province 
of Guelderland, except the town of Louveflein, which, 
with a very (mail diftricf at the weftern end of the illand, 
belongs to Holland. 
BOMO'A, a town of North America, in New' Navarre : 
ten miles fouth of Cinaloa. 
BOMO'NICI, in German antiquity, young men of La- 
cedemon, who contended at the facrifices of Diana which 
of them was able to endure molt ladies, being fcourged 
before the altar of this goddefs. 
BOMRAU'ZE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic ; 
fifty miles weft-north-vveft of Madras, and thirty-five north 
of Arcot. 
BO'MY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of St. Omer : eight miles fouth-vveft of Aire. 
BON de Str HILAIRE (Francois Xavier/ firfl: hono¬ 
rary prefident of the chamber of accounts at Montpelier; • 
and to the abilities of a magiftrate he added tlioie of a 
Icholar. The academy of inscriptions and the royal (ocie- 
ties of London and of Montpelier, informed of his merit, 
gave him a fellowfiiip among them. This learned perfo- 
nage died in 1761, after having publiflied feveral works :■ 
1. Memoire fur les Marrons d’Inde, 12100. 2. Diflerta- 
tion fur l’Utilife de la Soie des Araignees. 
BON,/ in botany. See Coffea. 
BO'NA, a river of North America, which runs into the 
bay of Campechy, twenty-five miles weft from the mouth 
of the river Tabafco. 
BO'NA, by the Moors called Balcderna, a feaport of 
the kingdom of Algiers in Africa, fituated in lat. 36. 4. 
N. Ion. 24. 5. E. Ferro. It was formerly rich and popu. 
lous, capital of the province of the fame name under 
the kingdom of Conftantina, and is fuppofed by fome 
to be the ancient Hippo, once the feat of the great St. 
Auftin, and a fea-port built by the Romans. Bona waS 
taken by the pirate Barbarofla, but as quickly loft, and 
recovered by its old mafters the Tunifeens, who Toon after 
loft it again. It is defended by a little fort, in which is a 
garrifon of about 300 Turks, under the command of an 
aga, who is governor of the town, 
BO'NA (John), a cardinal, famous for piety and learn¬ 
ing, was defeended from a noble family, and born at 
Mondovi, in Piedmont, on the joth of Oblober, 1609. 
He was devoted to folitude, and had a contempt of the 
world from his infancy. At fifteen years of age he retired 
to a monaftery near Pignerol, belonging to the begging 
friars of the order of St. Bernard ; and in 1651 was made 
general of his order. Pope Alexander VII. prelied him 
to continue in this office, and ufed fome means to prevail 
with him : but Bonadefired foearneftly to be difeharged, 
that the pope at length fuftered him to refign. He did it 
however upon this condition, that Bona ftiohld not deparc 
from Rome ; and, to reconcile him to it, gave him feveral 
very confiderablc places. Clement IX. continued him in 
thefe places, conferred upon him new ones, and made him 
a cardinal, 1111669. This pontiff'dying (bon after, many 
people wiftied that Bona might fucceed him in the holy 
fee ; and a certain jefuit made the follow ing epigram upon 
the occafioti; 
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