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that a log of wood is not one ; and hence, if fuch a fyftem 
of religion became univerfally eftablifhed among mankind, 
it would be impoflible ever afterwards to eradicate it. In¬ 
deed, that the fcheme of Babel, whatever it was, could 
have been put into execution by man, feems evident from 
the interpolition of the Deity on the occafion ; forwe can¬ 
not fuppofe that he would have worked a miracle on pur- 
pofe to defeat that which would have defeated itfelf if he 
had let it alone: and he exprefsly fays, ‘ That now no¬ 
thing could be reflrained from them ;’ which intimates ve- 
i$ r plainly, that, had this fcheme gone on, the plan which 
God had laid for the government of the world would have 
been totally fruftrated: and, agreeable to this hypothecs, 
Dr. Tennifon luppofes that the tower was of a pyramidal 
form, in imitation of the fpires of flame; and that it was 
erected in honour of rhe fun, as being the mod probable 
caufe of drying up the flood. 
As to the materials made ufe of in the building of this 
tower, the Scripture informs us that they were bricks and 
dime or bitumen. According to an eaflern tradition, 
three years were takeij up in making the bricks, each of 
which was thirteen cubits long, ten broad, and five thick. 
Oriental writers fay, that the city was 313 fathoms in 
length, and 151 in breadth ; that the walls were 5533 fa¬ 
thoms high, and thirty-three in breadth ; and that the 
tower itfelf was no lefs than 10,000 fathoms, or twelve 
miles high. Even St. Jerome affirms from the teftinYony 
of eye-witnefles, who as he fays had examined the re¬ 
mains of the tower, that it was four miles high ; but Ado 
makes the height to have been no lefs than 5000 miles. 
The only account of its dimenfions which can be at all 
depended upon (fuppofing it to have been the fame which 
afterwards flood in the midft of the city of Babylon, and 
round which Nebuchadnezzar built the temple of Belus), 
is that given under the article Babylon. 
BA'BEL-MAN'DEL, a narrow flraight between tl>» 
Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, formed by the projecting 
land of Arabia in Afia, and Abyftinia in Africa. 
Babel-Mandel, an ifland, in the ftraights fo called 
at the entrance of the Red Sea, between the coafi: of Ara¬ 
bia on the eaft, and the coafi of Abyffinia on the weft; 
about five miles in circumference, but barren, and almoft 
uninhabited, lat. 44. 28. N. Ion. 44. 30. E. Greenwich. 
B ABENHAU'SEN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Swabia ; a lordfhip belonging to the counts of Fugger, 
on the Gunz, twenty-fix miles, wefi-fouth-weft of Augf- 
burg, and fixteen fouth-eaft of Ulm. Lat. 48.11. N. Ion. 
27. 53. E. Ferro. 
B A'BENSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in tire government of 
Archangel, ninety miles 1 fouth-fouth-weft of Kola. 
B A'BERY,yi Finery to pleafe a babe or child. 
BA '31 A, a river of Ruffian Lapland, which runs into 
the White Sea, fix miles fouth of Pialitza. 
B A'B ICA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Minfk, 
eight miles eaft of Mozyr. 
BABIN', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lublin, 
eight miles fouth-weft of Lublin. 
Babin, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Braclaw, 
twenty-eight miles north-eaft of Braclaw. 
Babin, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Belcz, 
thirty-fix miles eaft: of Belcz. 
BABI'NA (Commonwealth of), a fociety ludicroufly 
fo called, which was founded in Poland, in the reign of 
Sigifnuind-Auguftus, in the fixteenth century. It took 
its rife from fome gentlemen, inhabitants of Lublin, who 
had agreed to meet at a place called Babina merely for the 
purpofes of mirth and jollity. In time their number in- 
created, and they formed themfelves into a regular go¬ 
vernment, under the prefidency of a king, fenate, and 
chief magiftrates. The magiftrates were elefted from 
fomething which appeared ridiculous in the charadler or 
condudl of any of the members. For infiance, if any 
erfon was meddling or officious, he was created an arch- 
ifltop ; a blundering or deputations member was pro¬ 
moted to the fpeaker’s chair; a cowardly boalfer of his 
BAB 
©Wn courage was honoured with the commiffion of ge- 
neralilftmo. Thofe who declined the office for which they 
were declared qualified, were perfecuted with' hillings, 
and abandoned by the fociety. Thus every vice and eve¬ 
ry foible was attacked with ridicule ; and Babina became 
the terror, the admiration, and the reformer, of the Po- 
lifli nation : genius- flourifhed, wit was cultivated, and 
the abides which bad crept into government and fociety 
were corrected by the judicious application of good-hu¬ 
moured fatire. Never did any inftitution of this nature 
become fo general or fo ufeful; but at length it degene¬ 
rated into a fet of buffoons who ridiculed every thing fa- 
cred or profane. Not the leaf! remnant of the fociety 
now remains, thot»fjh ft was honoured with extraordinary 
privileges by tire kings of Poland. 
BA'BINGTON (Gervafe), bifhop of Worcefter, was’ 
born, according to Fuller, in Nottinghamllrire ; but in 
what year is uncertain. He was tent to Trinity College, 
Cambridge, of which be was made fellow ; and, in 1578, 
was incorporated mailer of arts at Oxford. He appears, 
however, to have made Cambridge the place of his refi- 
dence, where he became an eminent preacher; and was 
made domeftic chaplain to Henry earl of Pembroke. In 
this ftation he is fuppofed to have aflifted the countefs in 
her tranllation of the Pfalms. In 15S8 he was inftalled 
prebend of Hereford, and in 1391 confecrated bifhop of 
Landalf. In 1594 he was tranfiated to the fee of Exeter, 
and thence to Worcefter in 1597. About this time he 
xvas made queen's counfel for the marfhes of Wales. He 
was a confiderable benefactor to the library belonging to 
the cathedral of Worcefter, where he was buried in May 
1610 without a monument. He had the character of a 
learned and pious man. His works were printed in folio 
and quarto in 1615, and again in fblio in 1637, under this 
title : Comfortable Notes upon the Five Books of Moles. 
An Expofition upon the Creed, the Ten Commandments, 
and the Lord’s Prayer ; and Three Sermons, &c. 
B ARINOVITS'CHI, a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Mogilev, fixty miles N. of Mogilev, and 308 S. 
of Peterfburg. Lat. 54. 52. N. Ion. 48. E. Ferro. 
BA'BISH, adj. Childifh.—If he be bafhful,. and will 
foon blufh, tltey call him a babijk ancbill brought up thing,, 
Afcham. 
B ABITZ', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Czaflau, 
five miles weft-norfh-weft of Teutfch Brod. 
BABOEUF', a town of France, in the department of 
the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the dift'riCt of 
Noyon, two miles eaft-north-eaft of Noyon. 
BABOON',/ - , \_babuin , or babouin, Fr. Some derive it 
of a. babe, with the termination ou, q. d. a great babe, from 
its refemblance to mankind. ] A monkey of the largeft kind. 
For the natural hiftory of this animal, fee Simia. 
BABO'RA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Lem¬ 
berg, twelve miles fouth of Lemberg. 
BA'BRA, a town of North America, in the country of 
New Navarre, 205 miles fouth of Cafa Grand. 
BABUYA'NES, a clufter of fix or feven fmall iflands, 
about ten leagues north of the ifle of Lucon, in the Pacific 
Ocean. One of them contains about 500 inhabitants ; the 
chief produce is wax, ebony, bananas, cocoas, and plantains. 
BABUY'CA, a town of North America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Culiacan, fixty-miles north-north-eafi of Culiacan. 
B ABUZICA'RIUS,yi [from to fpeak inarti¬ 
culately.] The incubus or night-mare; fo called becaufe 
in this diforder the perfon is apt to make an inarticulate 
and confufed noife. 
B A'BY,yi A child ; an infant. A fmall image in imi¬ 
tation of a child, which girls play with, called a doll. 
BA'BYLON, the capital of the ancient kingdom of 
Babylonia or Chaldaea, and fuppofed to have (food in lat!. 
32.0.N. Ion. 44. o. E. Semiramis is faid by fome, and 
Belus by others, to have founded this city. But, by 
whomfoever it was founded, Nebuchadnezzar was the 
perfon who put the lafl: hand to it, and made it one of the 
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