B O 
lodged merit of Titian, Giorgione, or the beft of his cotem¬ 
poraries. . - . . _ 
BADIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and Old Mark of Brandenburg, feven 
miles weft of Stendal. 
BA'DIS, a fortrefs of Livonia, fubjeCt to Rudia. Lat. 
59.15. N. Ion. 23. 10. E. 
BADI'SIS,/. [from i 3 a.h&, to walk.] Walking; any 
motion of the legs. 
BA'DIUS (Conrad), and (Stephen Robert), his bro¬ 
ther, French refugees; celebrated as painters at Geneva, 
and Conrad as an author. The latter died in 1566. 
BAD'KIS, a town of Perlia, in the province of Kho- 
rafan, thirty -(1 x miles north of Herat. 
BAD'LY; adv. In a bad manner; not well: 
How goes the day with 11s ? O tell me, Hubert.— 
Badly, I fear. How fares your majefty ? Shakefpeare. 
BAD'NESS,y. Want of good qualities, either natural 
or moral; defert; depravity.—It was not your brother’s 
evil difpolition made him Leek his death ; but a provoking 
merit fet awork by a reproveable badnefs in himfelf. Shake- 
fpcare. —I did not fee how the badnefs of the weather could 
be the king’s fault. Addifan. 
B ADO'GI, a town of Ruflia, on the north coat! of lake 
Bielo, in the government of Novgorod, 196 miles north- 
eaft of Novgorod. 
BADRACHIL'I.UM, a town of Hindoftan, in the Moo- 
dajee Boomfia country, feventy-two miles north-weft of 
Rajamundry, and fifty eaft of Byarem. 
BADRA'I, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia, 
ten miles north of Stephanowze. 
B ADULA'TO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Calabria Ultra: fourteen miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Squillace. 
B AE'CKIA,/ [fo named in honour of Abraham Baeck, 
a much-efteemed friend of Linnaeus’s, who received this 
plant from him, among others, in his Herbarium.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs oifandria, order monogynia, na¬ 
tural order of calycanthemse. The generic characters are 
.—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, funnel-form, five- 
toothed, permanent. Corolla: petals five, roundifh, pa¬ 
tulous, inferted into the calyx. Stamina: filaments eight, 
of which fix are equal, two folitary, very fliort, bent in ; 
antherae fubovate, fmall. Piftillum: germ roundifh ; ftyle 
filiform, fhoi ter than the corolla ; ftigma capitate. Pcri- 
carpium: capfule globular, crowned, four-celled, four- 
valved. Seeds: fome, roundifh, angular on one fide.— 
F.Jfential Chara&er. Calyx funnel-form, five-toothed; 
corolla five-petalled; capfule globular, four-celled, 
crowned. 
Only one fpecies, baeckia frutefeens. This is a fit rub 
which has the habit of fouthernwood, with wand-like 
brandies, andoppofite, fhort, fimple, twigs. Leaves op- 
pofite, linear, ftiarp, fmooth, quite entire. Flowers axil¬ 
lary, folitary, on a naked peduncle, the length of the flow¬ 
er, much fliorter than the leaves. Native of China, and 
called there tiongina. 
B A'EN, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia, fix- 
teen miles north-north-weft of Niemecz. 
By£OBO'TRYS,yi [l 3 a i®-, fmall, and fior^vc, a raceme, 
the fructifications being in thin racemes.] In botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx : perianthium double, exte¬ 
rior three-leaved; leaflets roundifh, concave, finaller; in¬ 
ferior one-leafed, bell-lhaped, fliort, inferior, growing to 
the germ, five-cleft; clefts ovate, permanent, converging 
after flowering, and crowning the fruit. Corolla: one- 
petalled, tubular ; tube very fliort; border five-cleft, e- 
re£t; clefts roundifh, very fhort. Stamina: filaments five, 
very fhort, in the middle of the tube ; antherte heart-fha- 
ped. Piftillum: germ globofe, half-fuperior; ftyle cy- 
lindric, very fliort, permanent; ftigma obtufe, tubercula- 
ted. Pericarpium: berry globofe, fomewhat dry, one- 
*elled, growing to the calyx. Seeds: feveral, angular, 
B A F 6u 
affixed to a columnar receptacle in the bottom of the ber¬ 
ry.— EJfcntial Character, Corolla: tubular, with a five- 
cleft border. Calyx: double; outer two-leafed; inner 
one-leafed, bell-fliaped; berry globofe, one-celled, grow¬ 
ing to the calyx, many-feeded. 
There is only one fpecies, called baeobotrys nemorialis. 
Native of the ifle of Tanna, in the South Seas. 
B/ETER'RE, an ancient town of the Tertofages in 
Gallia Narbonenfis; now Defers, on the eaft bank of the 
Obris, now Or bis or Orbe , in Lower Languedoc. 
BHS'TICA, a province of ancient Spain, fo called from 
the famed river Baitis, afterwards Tarteflus, now Guadai- 
quiver, or the great river. It was bounded on the weft 
by Lufitania; on the foilth, by the Mediterranean, and 
Sinus Guaditanus ; on the north, by the Cantabric Sea, 
now’ the bay of Bifcay. The province was divided in two 
by the river Baetis, on one fide of which, towards the 
Anas, were fituated the Turdetani, from wdience the king¬ 
dom was called Turdetania, though more generally known 
by the name of Beeturia. On the other fide were fituated 
the Baftuli, Baftetani, and Conteftani, along the Mediter¬ 
ranean coafts. The Baftuli were fuppofed to be of Phoe¬ 
nician extract, and dwelt along the coafts of the Mediter¬ 
ranean, till, driven from thence by the Moors, they fled 
into the mountainous parts of Gallicia, which they then 
called from their own name Bafulia. The Baftetani were 
feated higher up, on the fame coafts. The territories of 
both thefe made part of what has fince become the king¬ 
dom of Granada; in which there is a ridge of very high 
mountains, called, from the above-mentioned people, the 
Baftetanian mountains. Mention is alfo made of their ca¬ 
pital Bajletana ; a place of fuch ftrength, that king Ferdi¬ 
nand was fix months befieging it before he could take it 
from the Moors. The whole province of Baetica, accord¬ 
ing to the rnoft probable account, contained what is now 
called Andalufa, part of the kingdom of Granada, and the 
outward boundaries of Eftremadura. 
BHS'TIS, a river of Spain, now the Guadalquiver. 
BHsTU'LO, a town of ancient Spain, in the Terraco- 
nenlis; now' Bade/ona in Catalonia. 
BZSTY'LIA,/] anointed ftones, worfhipped by the 
Phoenicians, by the Greeks before the time of Cecrops, 
and by other barbarous nations. They were commonly of 
a black colour, and confecrated to fome god, as Saturn, 
Jupiter, &c. Some are of opinion that the true origin of 
thefe idols is to be derived from the pillar of ftone which 
Jacob ereiSted at Bethel, and which was afterwards wor- 
fliipped by the Jews. Thefe baetylia were much the ob¬ 
ject of the veneration of the ancient heathens. Many of 
their idols were no other. In reality, no fort of idol was 
more common in the eaftern countries, than that of oblong 
ftones erected, and hence termed by the Greeks, wove;, 
‘ pillars,’ In fome parts of Egypt they were planted on 
both tides of the highways. In the temple of Heliogabu- 
lus, in Syria, there was one pretended to have fallen from 
heaven. There was alfo a famous black ftone in Phrygia, 
laid to have fallen from heaven. The Romans fent tor it 
and the priefts belonging to it with much ceremony, Sci- 
pio Nafika being at the head of the embafly. 
B-Tl'ZA, a city of Andalufia, in Spain, feated on a 
high hill three miles from the Guadalquiver; it is the fee 
of a bithop, and has an univerfity founded by John d’A- 
vila. It was taken from the Moors about the end of the 
15th century. 
Bteza, a town of South America, in the country of 
Pern, built in the year 1559, by Gilles Ramira d’Avalos : 
eight leagues fouth-eaft of Quito. 
BfEZIL'LO, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, three 
leagues from Valladolid. 
BAF'FETAS, or BASTAS,yi a cloth made of coarfe i 
white cotton-thread, which comes from the Eaft Indies. 
That of Surat is the beft. 
BAF'FIN’s BAY, a gulph of North America, fo call¬ 
ed from Baffin, an Englishman, who difeovered it in 1616; 
extending about 230 leagues from eaft to weft, and 180 
from 
