BON 
BON'NY,/. among miners, a bed of ore, differing only 
from a f'quat as being round, whereas the Iquat is flat. See 
Sc^vat. 
BONNY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Loiret, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Gien ; 
containing about 1300 inhabitants: three leagues fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Gien. 
BON'NY-CLAB'B.ER,y; A word ufed in Ireland for 
four butter-milk. 
"BONONCI'NI (Giovanni), an eminent compofer of 
mufic, for fome time divided the opinions of the conofcenti 
of this kingdom with refpeft to the comparative merits of 
liimfelf and the great Handel, which gave occalion for the 
following epigram, faid to have been written by Dr. Swift: 
Some fay that fignior Bononcini 
Campar’d to Handel’s a meer ninny ; 
Others aver, that to him Handel 
Is fcarcely fit to hold the candle. 
Strange ! that fuch high difputes fhould b <3 
•Twixt Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee. 
There is an Italian opera publifhed with his name prefixed 
to it, intitled Pharnaces ; but whether the words, or only 
the mufic, are his compofition, is uncertain. 
BONO'NIA, anciently a town of Gallia Belgica, flip- 
pored to be the Portus Iccius of Caefar, and the GeJ/oriacum 
of Mela, and to have had three different names. Cluverius. 
Peutinger’s map exprefsly calls Gelforiacum Bononia, now 
Cologne. 
BONO'NIA, a town of Italy in the Gallia Cifpadana; 
ft name probably given by the Gauls, there being a Bononia 
in Gallia Belgica. Its ancient name, when in the hands of 
theTufcans, who were expelled by the Gauls, was Falfwa. 
In the 363d year of the city the Romans led a colony thi¬ 
ther; which, about the beginning of the Adtiac war, was 
increafed by Auguftus, and is the Colonia Bononienfis of Ta¬ 
citus, now Bologna. 
BONO'NIA, a townof Panonia Inferior, between Murfa 
to the north-weft, and Taurinum to the eaft. Another 
Bononia, a town of Moefia Superior, on the Danube; now 
Bodon in Bulgaria. 
BONOSIA'NI, or Bonosiaci, an ancient branch of 
Adoptiani, in the fourth century, leflaries denominated 
from their leader Bonofus, biihop of Nailfus. The Bono- 
jjani were prior to the Feliciani, and even to Neftorius ; 
whence fome rather confider them as a branch of Arians. 
They allowed Chrift to be no otherwife the fon of God 
than by adoption. 
BONO'SUS, founder of the above-mentioned fe£t, and 
known in church-hiftory as the heretical biihop of Nailfus 
in Dacia, though fome authors fay of Sardica, the metro¬ 
polis of that province. In 391, he was accufed of crimes 
againft the canons of the church, and was reported for 
lierefy at the council of Capua, which met the latter end 
of that year. The council committed the hearing of his 
caufe to the bifliops of Mecodon, his neighbours, under 
their metropolitan Anyfius bifhop of Thelfalonica. The 
bilhops aflembled, and Bonofus appeared before them ; 
but they were fo well convinced of the truth of the charge, 
that they immediately fufpended him from all epifcopal 
ftinftions : at the fame time writing a letter to Syricius 
bifhop of Rome, declaring their abhorrence of the detef- 
table error, ‘That the Virgin Mary fhould have other chil¬ 
dren than Chrift.’ Bonofus died A. D. 410; but his doc¬ 
trine did not die with him, being maintained by fome 200 
years after his death. 
BONPOURNIC'KEL,/. A coarfe kind of bread ufed 
in Weftphalia. 
BONS-HOM'MES, or Bon-hommes, a fort of her¬ 
mits of St. Auguftin, founded by F. de Paula. They were 
brought into England in 1283, by Edmund earl of Corn¬ 
wall, and fettled at Alhorug in Bucks, befides which they 
had one houfe more at Edingdon in Wiltfhire. They fol¬ 
lowed the rule of St. Auftin, and wore a blue habit. The 
name is faid to have arifen from Lewis XI. of. France, who 
Vo l. III. No. 124-, 
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ufed to call F. de Paula, prior of the order, ion honme. 
Till then they had been called the Minimi , or the order of 
Grammont. 
BONTEKO'E (Cornelius), a Dutch phyfician and pro- 
feffor at F'rankfort on the Oder, died in the flower of his 
age, left a treatife on tea, and another on t he climafterical 
year. Both were tranflated into French in 1690, 2-vcrls. 
i2mo. His works were publifhed at Amfterdam 1689, 4to. 
BON'TEMS (Madame), born at Paris in 1718, died in 
the lame city April 18, 1768, aged fifty. She received 
from nature a good underftanding, and an excellent tafte, 
which were cultivated by a fuitable education. She un- 
derftood the foreign languages, and was miflrefs of all the 
delicate turns of.her own. It is to her that the French 
are indebted for the tranflation, not lefs accurate than ele¬ 
gant, of Thomfon’s Seafons, 1739, l2mo. Though (lie 
had a great talent for wit, the only made ufe of it for dif- 
playing that of others. She was not lefs efteemed for the 
qualities of her heart than thole of her mind. 
BON'THAIN, a townof the ifland of Celebes, fituated 
on the north-eaft part f of a large bay, which forms a fafc 
flielter for fhips, where wood and water may be had. Lat. 
5. 10. S. Ion. 117. 28. E. Greenwich. 
BON'TIA, /'. [from Jacobus Bontius, a phyfician at Ba¬ 
tavia. He publifhed, De Medicina Indorum ] In botany, 
a genus of the clafs didynamia, order angiofpermia, natu¬ 
ral order perfonatae. The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium ,one-leafed, five-parted : leaflets blunt, up¬ 
right, permanent. Corolla : one-petalled, ringent; tube 
long, cylindric ; border gaping; upper lip upright, emar- 
ginate ; lower revolute, femitrifid, the fiz.e of the upper. 
Stamina: filaments four, fubulate, bending to the upper 
lip, the length of the corolla ; two higher ; antherae Am¬ 
ple. Piftillum : germ ovate ; ftyle fimple ; fituation and 
length of the ftamens ; ftigma bifid, blunt. Pericarpiumi 
drupe ovate, with the top oblique. Seeds : nut oval, one¬ 
edled, germinating.— EJfcntial CkaraEler. Calyx, five- 
parted; corolla, two-lipped; lower lip three-parted, re¬ 
volute; drupe ovate, one-feeded, with the end oblique. 
Only one fpecies, which is called bontia daplmoides, or 
Barbadoes wild .olive : leaves alternate, peduncles one- 
flowered. The leaves are thickifh, rather ft iff, very fmooth, 
green on both fides ; the lower ones very flightly toothed. 
Corolla yellowifh, with a line of dufky purple along the 
middle of the lower lip. Birds grow fat upon the fruits, 
but, unlefs the entrails are taken out as foon as the bird is 
killed, it becomes too bitter to be eaten. It flowered in 
Dr. Sherard’s garden at Eltham, in June 1723 : but it had 
been introduced into this country earlier, namely, in 1690, 
by Mr. Bentick. It is greatly cultivated in the gardens at 
Barbadoes, for making hedges, than which there is not a 
more proper plant for thofe hot countries, it being an ever¬ 
green, and of quick growth ; and, as this will very well 
bear cutting, it is formed into a very clofe thick hedge, 
which makes a beautiful appearance. In Europe it may. 
be raifed from feeds, which fhould be fown on a hot-bed 
early in the fpring, that the plants may acquire ftrengtft 
before winter. When the plants are come up, they niufl 
be tranfplanted out each into a feparate pot filled with 
light frefh earth, and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of 
tanner’s bark, obferving to water and fhade them until they 
have taken root: after which they mull have a large fliare 
of air in warm weather, and be often refrefhed with wa.‘ 
ter. In winter they muft be placed in the ftove, where 
they fhould have a moderate degree of warmth, and but 
little water during that feafon. In fummer they muft have 
a great fhare of air, but will not do well if expofed abroad, 
efpecially in cold fummers; fo that they fhould remain in 
the ftove among plants which require a large fhare of air, 
which may be admitted by opening the glaifes in very hot 
weather. With this management, thefe plants will pro¬ 
duce flowers and fruit in three or four years from feed. 
They may alfo be propagated by cuttings, which fhould 
be planted in the fummer. They muft be put into pots 
illed with light rich earth, and plunged into a moderate 
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