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clofe under the fliore. The harbour lies about the middle 
of this land ; the entrance is a little more than a quarter of 
a mile broad, and lies weft-north-weft. On the banks are 
great quantities of oyfters, mufcles, cockles, and other 
lliell-fifti, which feem to be the principal fubfiftence of the 
favages, who go into fltoal water with their little canoes, 
and pick them out with their hands. Lat. 34. S. Ion. 208. 
37. W. Greenwich. For an account of the fettlement at 
Botany-bay, and Port Jackfon, fee New-IIolland. 
BOTAR'GO,/ [botaigue, Fr. boltarga, It. botarga, Sp. ] 
A faufage made of eggs, and the blood of a fea-mullet, 
a large fi(h, common in the Mediterranean. The beft kind 
comes from Tunis in Barbary. It mu ft be chofen dry and 
redd till. The people of Piovence in France life a great 
deal of it, the common way of eating it being with olive 
oil and lemon juice. There is a great confumption of bo- 
targo throughout all the Levant. 
BOTCH,/! [ bozza , pronounced botza, Ital.] A fwel- 
ling or eruptive decoloration of the fkitm— Botches and 
blains muft all his flefh unbofs. Milton. —A part in any 
work ill fimlhed, fo as to appear worfe than the reft. An 
adfeititious, adventitious, part, clumfily added. — If both 
thofe words are not notorious botches, I am deceived, though 
the French tranflafor thinks otherwife. Dryden. 
To BOTCH, v. a. To mend or patch clothes clumfily. 
.—Their coats, from botching newly brought, are torn. 
Dryden.— To mend any thing aukwardly : 
To botch up what th’ had torn and rent, 
Religion, and the government. Hudibras. 
To put together unfuitably, or unlkilfully; to make up 
of unfuitable pieces : 
For tr.eafon botch'd in rlume will be thy bane ; 
Rhime is the rock on which thou art to wreck. Dryden. 
To mark with botches : 
Young Hylas, botch'd with ftains too foul to name, 
In cradle here renews his youthful frame. Garth. 
BOTCH'ER,/. A mender of old clothes; the fame to 
a taylor as a cobler to a fhoemaker.—He was a botcher's 
prentice in Paris, from whence he was whipt for getting 
the ftieriff’s fool with ch.ild. Shakefpea-re. 
BOT'CIIY, adj. Marked with botches. 
BOTE,/, [hote, Sax.] A recommence, fatisfaclion, or 
.amends. 1 he Saxon bote is fynonimous to the word ejlovers. 
See Common of Estovers. Houfe-bote is a fufficient 
allowance of wood to repair, or burn, in the houfe; which 
latter is fometimes called jire-bote. Plough-bote, and cart- 
bote, are wood to be employed in making and repairing 
all inftruments of hufbandry : and hav-bote or hedge-bote, 
is wood for repairing of hays, hedges, or fences, 2 Comm. 
.25. Hence alfo comes man-bote, compenfation or amends 
fora man fiain, &c. In king Ina’s laws it is declared what 
rate was ordained for expiation of this offence, according 
to the quality of the perfon fiain. Lamb, c.99. From hence 
likewife we have our common phrafe, to boot, i. e. compen- 
falionis gratia. 
BOTE'LESS,/. In the charter of Hen. I. to Thomas 
archbiftiop of York, it is faid, that no judgment or fum 
of money ftiall acquit him that commits facrilege ; but lie 
is in Englifh called botchfs, viz. without emendation. Lib. 
Albuspenes cap. deSuthnct. int. Plac. Trin, nEdw, II. Ebfir. 
48. We retain the word ftiil in common fpeech ; as, it is 
bootelejs to attempt luch a thing; that is, it is in vain to 
attempt it. 
BOTELLA'RI A,/. A buttery or cellar, in which the 
buts and bottles of wine, and other liquors, are depofited. 
BOTERNHO'FEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Holftein : rrine miles fouth-fouth-weft of Nordrop. 
BOTE'TOURT, a county of Virginia, in the United 
States of North America. 
BOTES'D ALE, or Buddesdale, a fmall town in Suf¬ 
folk, pleafantly feated on the turnpike-road from Bury St. 
Edmund’s to Norwich. It is diftant from Norwich twen- 
ty-feven miles, Yatmouth forty, Bury fix teen, and from 
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London eighty-eight. It has a market on Thurfdays; and 
two yearly fairs, one on Holy Thurfday for cattle and toys; 
the other for hiring fervants, three weeks from Michael¬ 
mas. It was formerly called Botolph’s Dale, from a chapel 
dedicated to St. Botolph. Here is a free grammar-fehool, 
founded in the reign of queen Elizabeth, by Sir Nicholas 
Bacon;, the matter and ufher of which are defied out of 
Benet-college, Cambridge, where Sir Nicholas was edu¬ 
cated. Sir Nicholas alfo bequeathed 20I. a year to the 
faid college, for fix fcholars out of this fchool. Botefdale 
is a reflory annexed to Redgrave, whofe parifh-church, 
diftant about two miles, is worthy the attention of the cu¬ 
rious. There are monuments, which, for beauty of mar¬ 
ble and fculpture, are not exceeded by any in the king¬ 
dom ; one of which is to the memory of the afore-men¬ 
tioned Sir Nicholas Bacon ; another to that great expoun¬ 
der of the law, lord chief juftice Holt. The church has 
been lately adorned with a neat new fteeple of white bricks. 
BOTH, adj. [ batu, batwa, Sax.] The two; as well the 
one as the other. Etl'un S 3 I'autre, Fr. It is uled only of two: 
Which of them (hall I take ? 
Both? one > or neither ? neither caii be enjoy’d, 
If both remain alive. Shakifpcare. 
BOTH, conj. As well : it has the conjunction and to 
correlpond witli it.—A great multitude both of the Jews 
and alfo of the Greeks believed. Adis. 
BOl H (John and Andrew), Flemifh painters, and pu¬ 
pils ot Bloemart. The union of thefe brothers was very 
lingular; they were infeparable in their (Indies, travels, 
and paintings. John painted the landfcape part of their 
pictures in the manner of Lorrain, and Andrew the figures 
and animals in the ftyle of Bamboche. They both died 
in 1630. John’s tafte in landfcape is elegant; his ideas are 
grand ; his compolition beautiful ; and his execution rich 
and mafterly in the higheft degree. 
BOIII, a river of Germany, in the circle of Bavaria, 
which runs into the Inn, near Scherding. . 
B 01 ll'LAN (Ibn), a Chriltiarr phyfician of Bagdat, 
cotemporary and antagonift of Ibn Rpdhwan. They were 
continually fparring at each other in their Writings. Ibn 
Bothlan, that he might be perfonally acquainted with his 
adverfary, made a voyage into dEgypt, A.D. 1047. He 
was of a good exterior, eloquent, and well verfed in the 
belles-lettres. On the other hand, Ibn Rodhwan was of 
a dark and ugly countenance, on account of which he had 
written a book to prove that it was not neceftary for a phy¬ 
fician to be handiome. Ibn Bothlan ufed to call him the 
crocodile. He wrote the following works : Kenafch, or a 
compendium of medicine for the convents ; Inftriictions 
how to buy Slaves and make- Profit by them ; Tables of 
Health; Of the Difeafesof Phyficians; Introduflion to the 
Art of Medicine; Dawatol Athcbbai , the Religion of Phy¬ 
ficians ; Of the Cure of a Child who had the Stone. 
BOTH'NIA (Ey.fi), a province of Sweden, fituated on 
the eaft fide ot the Gulf of Bothnia, bounded on the north 
by Swediih Lapland, on the eaft by Ruftiy, on the’fouth 
by Finland, and on the weft by tine Gulf of Bothnia : a- 
bout 100 leagues in length, and from twenty-to feventy in 
breadth. Towards the fouth, and on the lea : coaft, the 
land is low and rnarfhy. The fummers- are often fo cold 
as fo deftroy great part of their crops. -Eighty’ thoufand 
inhabitants, divided into twenty-eight parifhes, are fpread 
over this large fpace, their cattle are fmall, and bears nu¬ 
merous. Their falmon-fhhery is abundant, and that of pearls 
oftentimes fuccefsful. The principal exports are-timber, 
butter, whale-oil, pitch, and tar, See. The principal towns 
are Cajana, or Cajaneborg, Utea, and Chriftinefladt, See . 
There are fevetal rivers, which empty themfelvesinto tlte 
Gulf of Bothnia, White Sea, aud Gulf of Finland. 
BOTH'NIA (Weft), a province of Sweden, fituated on 
the weft fide of the Gulf of Bothnia, bounded on the north 
and weft by Lapland, on the fouth by Angermania, and 
on the eaft by the Gulf of Bothnia. The country is fer¬ 
tile, but fudden Rolls in the month of July oftentimes de- 
