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BOR f GD St. DONI'NO, a town of Ita!v, in (he duchy 
of Piacenza, fituatcd on the Stirone; it owes its founda¬ 
tion to the death of St. Drmino, who was beheaded here 
in 304. Pilgrims coming to his tomb built a church, houfes 
were added, and increafed to a town. It is now the lee 
of a biftiop, fuftragauof Bologna, and contains a cathedral, 
four pariih churches, fix convents, and a college; twelve 
miles north-well of Parma, and eighteen lbuth-eall of 
Piacenza. 
BOR'GO di St. SEPOL'CRO, a town of Italy, in the 
duchy of Tufcanv, fituated near the fource of the Tiber, 
with a fort built on a rock. It contains four churches, and 
feveral convents: forty-eight miles eaft-fouih-ealt of Flore- 
nac, and twelve north-eaft of Arezzo. 
BOR'GO di SE'SIA, a town of Italy, fituated in the 
duchy of Milan, called Val At Sofia, belonging to Pied¬ 
mont: twenty-two miles north-weft of Novara, and fifty 
north-north-eaft of Turin. 
BOR'GO di VAL di TA'RO, a town of Italy, in the 
duchy of Parma, and capital of the Val di Taro: thirty- 
five miles fouth of Cremona, and twenty-three fouth-weft 
of Parma. 
BORGOGNO'NE, a celebrated painter, whofe true 
name was Giacomo Carteffi ; but he is commonly called Bor- 
gognone, from the country where he was born, about the 
year 1665. He was much admired for his grand manner 
of painting battles. Pie had for Ieveral years been conver- 
fant in military affairs, was an officer oi confiderable rank 
in the army, made the camp his fchool, and formed all his 
ideas from what he had feen performed in the field. His 
ftyle is roughly noble, full of fire and fpirit, and there are a 
few prints etched by his own hand. Towards the clofe of 
his life he retired to the Jefuits’ convent in Rome, where 
he is faid to have taken lanftuary to rid hts hands of an ill 
bargain of a wife ; but, happily furviving her, he lived in 
great efteem and honour till after the year 167 5. 
BORG'STALL, a town and bailiwic of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and Old Marck of Brandenburg: 
twelve miles fouth-weft of Stendal. 
BO'RIA, or Borja, a town of Spain, in the country 
of Arragon, fituated in one of the mod agreeable lpots in 
the whole province. It contains three parifh-churches, one 
of which is parochial, three convents, and an holpital: thirty- 
four miles weft-north-weft of SaragolTa, and twenty-four 
north of Calataiud. 
BORJOK'FIT. a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Podolia : twenty-eight miles eaft of Kaminiec. 
BO'RIQUEN. See Bieka 
BORIQUET'TA, a province of South America, in the 
country of Terra Firrna. 
BORISOGLIEB'SK, a town of Ruifia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Jariflavl: twenty miles weft of Jariilavl, and thirty- 
two eaft-fouth-eaft of Peterlburg. 
BORISOGLIEB'SK, a town-of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tambov: feventy-two miles fouth-iouth-eaft of 
Tambov, and 644 fouth-fouth-eaft of Peterlburg. 
BORISOGIEBSKAI’A, a fortrefs of Ruffia, on the 
Dnieper, in the government of Ekaterinoflav ; forty-eight 
miles.north-weft of Ekaterinoflav. 
BORIS'THENES, the ancient name of the largeft river 
of Sarmatia Europea, thus deferibed by Mela, who copies 
from Plerodotus: “It runs through a cognominal people, 
is the mod pleafant of all the rivers of Scythia, and calmer 
than all of them in its courle, and very agreeable to drink : 
it feeds very rich paftures, and produces large fifli of the 
beft flavour, and without bones ; it comes a great way, riling 
from fprings unknown ; its courle is a dtllance of forty days, 
and fo far it is navigable.” Now called the Dnieper or 
Hie per. 
BO'RITH, f. [ms Heb.] A fort of foap, which fullers 
ufe in fcouring cloths. 
BQR'KAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Lariftaii: 
fixty-four miles fouth-weft of Lar. 
BOR'KELO, fee Borck£lo. 
BOR 
BORKZOW'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Podolia : twenty miles well-north-weft of Kaminiec. 
BOR'LASE (Dr. Edmund), an eminent phyfician and 
Engliffi writer in the leventeenth century, was the fon of 
Sir John Borlafe, mailer of the ordnance, and one of the-' 
lords juftices of Ireland in 1C43. He ft'udied in Dublin 
college, and afterwards at the univerfity of Leyden, at which 
place he took the degree of doctor of phyfic. He after¬ 
wards praftified phyfic with great fuccels in the city of 
Cheltcr, and was incorporated doftor of the faculty in the 
univerfity of Oxford. Among the books which he wrote, 
are the following. 1. Latham Spaw in Lancalhire, with 
fome remarkable Cafes and Cures performed by it. 2. The 
Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England. 3. The 
Hiftory of the Irilh Rebellion. 4. Brief Reflections on the 
Earl of Caftlehaven’s Memoirs, &c. He died about the 
year 1682. 
BOR'LASE (William), a very learned writer, of an 
ancient family in Cornwall, born at Pendeen near St. Juft, 
February 2, 1696. He was put early to fchool at Pen¬ 
zance, and in 1709 removed to Plymouth. March 1713, 
he was entered of Exeter college, Oxford ; and, June 1719, 
took a mafter of arts degree. In 1720, he was ordained 
a prieft ; and, in 1722, in diluted to the reftory of Ludgvan- 
in Cornwall. In 1732, the lord chancellor King prelented 
him to the vicarage of St. Juft, his native pariih ; and this, 
with the reftory aforefaid, were all the preferments he 
ever had. In 1750 he was admitted a fellow of the 
Royal Society; and, in 1753, publilhed in folio at Oxford 
his Antiquities of Cornwall; a fecond edition of which was 
pubiiffied, in the fame form, at London, 1769, with this 
title, “ Antiquities, hiftot ical and monumental, of the Coun¬ 
ty of Cornwall; confiding of feveral elfays on the ancient 
inhabitants, Druid luperllition, cuftoms and remains of 
the mod remote antiquity in Britain, and the Britilb ides, 
exemplified and proved by monuments now extant in Corn¬ 
wall and the Scilly iflands; with a Vocabulary of the 
Cornu-Britilh Language.” His next publication was, Ob- 
fervations on the Ancient and Prelent State of the Iflands 
of Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of Great 
Britain; Oxford, 1756, qto. In 1758 came out his Natural 
Hiftory of Cornwall; Oxford, folio. After thefe publications, 
he lent a variety of folfils and remains of antiquity, which 
he had deferibed in his works, to be repofited in the Alh- 
molean mufeum : for which he received the thanks of the 
univerfity, November 18, 1758; and, March 1766, the 
degree of doftor of laws. He died in 1772, aged fe- 
venty-feven, leaving two ions out of fix, whom he had 
by a lady he married in 1724. Befides his literary con- 
neftions with manv ingenious and learned men, he had a 
particular correlbondence with Mr. Pope; and there is 
llill exilling a large colleftion of letters written by that poet 
to Dr. Borlafe. He furniihed Pope with many of the ma¬ 
terials which formed his grotto at Twickenham, confin¬ 
ing of curious folfils; and there may at prefent be feen 
Dr. Borlafe’s name, compofed of cryftals, in the grotto. 
On which occafion Pope fays to Borlafe in a letter, “ I am 
much obliged to you for your valuable colleftion of Cornilfi 
diamonds: I have placed them where they may- bell ref 
prefent yourfelf, in a Jhade , but flining ;’ ’ alluding to the 
oblcurity of the doftor’s fituation, and the brilliancy of his 
talents. Befides the above writings, he lent-many curious 
papers to the Philolophical Tranfaftions, and had in contem¬ 
plation feveral other works. 
BOR'MES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Var, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Hieres, 
on the coaft of the Mediterranean, near a flat lhore, which 
lerves for a port, whither the veflels which cannot reach the 
Gulf of Hieres before a tempeft retire: three leagues eaft of 
Hieres, and eight north-well of Frejus. 
BORMl'DA, or Bormia, a river of Italy, which runs 
into the Tanaro near Alexandria. 
BOR'MIO, a county of the country of the Grifons, on 
the confines of the Tyrolefe, about ten leagues long, and 
nearly 
