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piece recommended Bouhours fo eftefhially to the celebra¬ 
ted minifter Colbert, that he traded him with the educa¬ 
tion of his fon, the marquis of Segnelai. • He wrote after¬ 
wards feveral other works; the chief of which are, i, Re¬ 
marks and Doubts upon the French Language. 2. Dialogues 
upon the Art of thinking well in Works of Genius. 3. The 
Life of St. Ignatius. 4. The Art of plealing in Conver¬ 
sation. 5. The Life of St. Francis Xavier, Apoftle of the 
Indies and of Japan. This laft work was tranflated into 
Englifh by-Mr. Dryden, and publifhed in 1668. 
BOUJEI'AH, or Bu'gia, a fea-port town of Africa, 
in the country of Algiers. The harbour is large, and con¬ 
fined by a wall of Square (tone, and defended by two caf- 
tles : the principal trade of the inhabitants is ploughfhares, 
fpades, and other inftruments of agriculture, made of iron, 
obtained from mountains near the town : confiderable quan¬ 
tities of oil and wax are exported, the produce of the coun¬ 
try round about. In the year 1674, Sir Edward Sprag, 
who was fent with a fleet to chaftife the Algerines, directed 
a fire-fhip into the harbour, and burned feven veftels of 
from twenty-four to thirty-four guns ; the town and cattle 
were much damaged, and between 300 and 400 men killed. 
Lat. 37. 10. N. Ion. 5. 20. E. Greenwich. 
BOUILLAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Garonne : three leagues north-weft of Grenade. 
BOUILLAU'D (Ifmael), born at Loudun in 1605, of 
proteftant parents. Fie quitted that religion, and went 
over to the catholics. The belles-lettres, hiftory, mathe¬ 
matics, law, and divinity, alternately employed his (Indies. 
He retired when in years to the abbey of St. Vidtor, where 
he died Nov. 25, 1694, at the age of eighty. Fie was in 
correspondence with the learned of Italy, Germany, Po¬ 
land, and the Levant, with whom he made acquaintance 
on his travels in different countries. He had great merit, 
and equal modefty. He faid to onp of his friends who had 
been lavifh of his commendations on him, “ There is no¬ 
thing I dread fomuch as praife.” He publifhed, 1. Opus 
novum ad Arithmeticum Infinitorum, in fix books, 1682, 
folio. 2. Difcourfe on the Reformation of fome Religious 
Orders, &c. 3. An Hiftory of Ducas, in Greek, with a 
Latin verfion and learned notes, Louvre, 1649, folio. 
BOUIL'LE (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine : three leagues S. S.W. of Rouen. 
BOUIL'LE MENA'RD, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Maine and Loire, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftrift of Segre : two leagues N.W. of Segre. 
BOUILLON', a city and caftle of the Netherlands, fitu- 
ated in the duchy of Luxemburg, and capital of a duchy 
to which it gives name, built on a rock difficult of accefs, 
on the river Semoy, which foon after joins the Meufe. 
The famous Godfrey., general of the firft crufade, and firft 
king of Jerufalem, engaged the lordftiip of Bouillon to the 
bifhop of Liege for the fum of 1500 (ilver marks, on con¬ 
dition, if he returned, the eftate was to be returned to him, 
otherwife to remain with the church of Liege. In the fif¬ 
teenth century, Bouillon belonged to the count of Marck, 
by a treaty concluded at Tongres, The emperor Charles V. 
reftored it to the bifhop of Liege. The property was fe¬ 
veral times difputed between the bifhops of Liege and the 
defcendants of the houfe of Marck, in which the title of 
duke was inverted, till the French took it, in 1676, when 
Louis XIV. gave it to the duke of Bouillon. In the month 
of May, 1794, this town was taken by ftorm by general 
Beaulieu, after defeating a confiderable body of republi¬ 
cans, and given up to pillage; 1200 French are faid to 
have been killed, and 300 made prifoners, with fix pieces 
of cannon : fix miles north-north-eaft of Sedan, twelve 
ports fouth-fouth-eaft of Liege, and thirty-two eaft-north- 
eaft of Paris. 
BOUILLON', / in the manege, an excrefcence of flefh 
that grows either upon or juft by the fru(h, infomuch that 
the frufh (boots out, juft like a lump of flefh, and makes 
the horfe halt; and this is called the jlefli blowing vfon the 
frujli. Manege horfes, that never wet their feet, are fub- 
jedt to thefe excrefcences. which make them very lame. 
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BOUILLON', / [French.] Broth; foup; any thing 
made to be fupped': a term uled in cookery. 
BOUILLY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Aube, and chief'place.of a canton, in t he dill rich of Ervy ; 
feven miles Couth of Troves. 
BOVI'NA AFFKC'TIO, the dirtemper of black cattle. 
This difeafe among black cattle is cauled by a worm 
lodged between the (km and the flefh, and perforating the 
fame. Some confound this diforder with the dracuncr.lt, 
but they are very different. Something analogous to tb s 
diforder is a cutaneous one, with which fome fcorbtttic 
conftitutions are frequently affedled, and which feems to 
be owing to an obftrudlioii of the perlpirable matter which 
concretes in the pores of the (kin, and forms a febaceous 
fubftance refembling a worm, with a black head, which 
may be fqueezed out, and which fometimes caufes a final! 
fuppuration, and is difcharged with the pus. Avenzoar 
gives the following account of the bovina affedtio: “ Some, 
times a worm breeds between the (kin and the flefh; and, 
if this worm is not foon killed, the confequences may be 
pernicious. As foon as it is perceived, burn the adjacent 
part with a hot iron, fo that the heat may penetrate to the 
worm, in a degree fufficient to kill it. This done, drefs 
as is ufual after burns, and purge with aloes.” Here 
Avenzoar fpeaks of this diforder as in human fubjects. 
But the bovina in black cattle proceeds from the tarandi, 
a fly of the genus Oejlrus, which pitches on the back of 
thefe cattle, and with a kind of (ling, growing to its hind¬ 
er part, perforates them, and into each perforation intro¬ 
duces an egg, which fome time after gives birth to a worm, 
and this to a fly, which in due feafon is like its parent. 
When this fly pierces the (kin, it caufes fevere pain in the 
oxen. The worm, however, which is depolited, grows 
without any remarkable injury to the health of the animal; 
it never moves from its place, but in the following fpring 
it occafions a tumor, out of which it finds its way when 
dimmer approaches, and becomes a fly. See Oestrus. 
BOVI'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Capitanata ; the fee of a bifhop fuffragan 
of Benevento : twenty-eight miles E. N. E.'of Benevento. 
BOUIS'SE, a town of France, in the department of the 
. Aude, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridl of La 
Grade : three leagues Couth-weft of La Grade. 
BOVIS'TA,/. in botany. See Lycoperdon. 
BO'VIUM, anciently a town of the Silures, in Britain, 
fifteen miles to the fonth of Ifca Silurnm, or Caer-leon, 
in Monmouthrtiire : now Cowbridge ; or, according to 
Baudrand, Bangor, in Carnarvonfhire. 
BOULAI' (Casfar Egafle du), regifter and hiftoriogra- 
pher of the univerfity of Paris, was profelfor of rhetoric 
many years in the college of Navarre. He publifhed a 
treatife of rhetoric, intituled Speculum Eloquentue, which 
was valued. His Thefaui us Antiquitatum Romanarum, 
came out in folio at Paris, 1650. Several law cafes of his 
compofing have alfo been publiftied ; but the work for 
which he ought chiefly to be remembered is, The Hiftory 
of the Univerfity of Paris, which he publilhed in 6 vols. 
folio. Du Boulai died the 16th of Oftober, 1678. He 
was born in the village of St. Ellier, in the Lower Maine ; 
but we do not find in what year. 
BOULAINVIL'LIERS (Henry de), lord of St. Saife, 
and an eminent French writer, was defcended from a very 
ancient and noble family, and born at St. Saife in 1658. 
His education was among the fathers of the oratory, where 
lie difcovered from his infancy tliofe uncommon abilities 
for which he was afterwards diftinguiftied. He applied 
himfelf principally to the ftudy of hiftory ; and his per¬ 
formances in this way are confiderable. He was the an. 
;hor of a Hiftory of the Arabians; I'ourteen Letters upon 
the ancient Parliaments of France; a Hiftory of F'rance to 
the Reign of Charles VIII. the State of France, with hif- 
torical Memoirs concerning the ancient Government of 
that Monarchy to the Time of Hugh Capet; “ written 
(fays M. Montefquieu) with a fimplicity and honeft free¬ 
dom worthy of that ancient family from which their author 
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