B A L 
4. Ballots fuaveolens, or fweet-fmelling black bore- 
hound : leaves cordate, fpikes leafy, calyxes truncate, 
awns linear. Root annual. Browne fays, that it com¬ 
monly rifes to the height of three or four feet; and that 
it is a grateful cephalic and alexipharmic. It is a very 
odorous D plant, and the people of St. Domingo ufe it in 
their warm baths. Native of the Weft Indies. 
5. Ballots difticha, or betony-leaved black horehound : 
whorls halved, two-pafted, halt-fpiked. Native ol the 
Eaft Indies. 
6. Ballota pilofa : leaves ovate, crenate, tomentoie ; 
whorls Irairy, calyxes ten-toothed. Stem perennial, four 
feet high, upright, but weak, ftrcaked, hairy, branched ; 
leaves acute ; flowers white, in hairy whorls. Native of 
Cochin-china. 
Propagation and Culture. The European forts, being com¬ 
mon (linking weeds, are never introduced into garden's. 
The third is hardy. The three laft require the protection 
of a ftove. Thev may all be increafed by feeds. 
BALLOTA'TION,/. The aft of voting by ballot.— 
The eleftion is intricate and curious, confiding of ten fe- 
veral ballotations. Wotton. 
BALLS, or Ballets, / in heraldry, a frequent bear¬ 
ing in coats of arms, ufuaily denominated, according to 
their colour, bezants, plates, hurts, &c. 
BALLYBAY', a town of Ireland, in.the county of 
Monaghan ; nine miles fouth of Monaghan. 
B ALLYC AS'TLE, a town of Ireland, in the county 
of Antrim, fituated on the eaft fide of a bay to which it 
gives name, with a good pier; there is alfo a colliery near 
it; thirty miles north of Antrim. Lat. 55. 12..N. Ion. 6. 
6. W. Greenwich. 
B ALLYCOT'TON, a bay in St. George’s Channel, on 
the fouth-weft coaft of Ireland, in the county of Cork, 
north-weft of Ballycotton ifland ; ten miles eaft of Cork 
harbour. 
Ballycotton, an ifland in St. George’s Channel, 
on the fouth-weft coaft of Ireland. Lat. 51. 50. N. Ion. 
7. co. W. Greenwich. 
B ALLYDO'NEGAN, a bay on the fouth coaft of Ire¬ 
land, in the county of Cork, on the fouth lide of the en¬ 
trance into Kenmure river. 
BALLYE'LA, a bay in the Atlantic Ocean, on the 
weft coaft of Ireland; twelve miles fouth-eaft of South 
Arran iflands. Lat. 52. 53. N. Ion. 9. 20. W. Greenwich. 
BALLYGEL'LY HEAD, a cape on the eaft coaft of 
Ireland, in the Irifh Sea. I.at. 54. 54. N. Ion. 5. 44. W. 
Greenwich. 
BAI.LYLA'NY, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic Ocean, 
near the weft coaft of Ireland. Lat. 53. 23. N. Ion. 10. 
16. W. Greenwich. ■ 
B ALLYME'NAH, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Antrim ; ten miles north of Antrim. 
BALLYQU 1 N'TON POINT, a cape on the eaft coaft 
of the county of Down, in Ireland, in the Irifh Sea, at the 
eaft of the entrance into Strangford Lough ; 7 miles eaft of 
Downpatrick. Lat. 54. 19. N,Ton. 5.26. W. Greenwich. 
B ALLYSH AN'NON, a fea-port town of Ireland, fitu- 
ated in a bay to which it gives name, open to the Atlan¬ 
tic Ocean, at the mouth of the river Erne, in the county 
of Donegal, with a good harbour, and conliderable trade. 
It is a borough town, and returns two members to the 
Irifh parliament ; forty miles fouth-weft of Londonderry. 
Lat. 54. 31. N. Ion. 8. 2. W. Greenwich. 
BALLYVAGHAN', a bay on the weftern coaft of Ire¬ 
land, and north part of the county of Clare, in the fouth 
part of Galway bay. 
BALM,/, \_baumc , Fr. lalfamum , Lat.] The fan or juice 
of a ffirub remarkably odoriferous: 
Balm trickles through the bleeding veins 
Of happy fhrubs in Idurnean plains. ' Dryden. 
Any valuable or fragrant ointment. Anything that foothes 
or mitigates pain: 
A tender fmile, our forrow’s only balm. Young. 
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To Balm, v. a. To anoint with balm, or with any thing ’ 
medicinal. To foothe ; to mitigate ; to aliiiage : 
Opprefled nature fleeps: * , 
This reft might yet have balm'd thy fenfes. Shakefpearc . 
Balm, a town of Germany, in the circle of jjpper 
Saxony, and Hinder Pomerania: fevcnteen miles';ftqitli- 
weft of Stargard, and feventeen fouth of Old Stettin. 
Lat. 53. 8. N. Ion,. 32. 34. E. Ferro. 
Balm,/ in botany. See Melissa. 
Balm of Gilead. See Amyris. 
BALMALA', a town of Africa, in the defert of Berdoa. 
BALMAMUT'; a town of Afiatic Turkey; twelve 
miles weft of Karahifar. 
BAL'MONT (Comtefte de St.), an extraordinary he¬ 
roine of the fixteertth century. The abbe Arnauld has 
left us the following memorial of her. “ In the year 
1638, this amazon of her time was confidered as a prodigy 
of courage and of virtue, uniting in her perfon all the 
valour of a determined foldier, and all the modefty of a 
truly Chriftian woman. She was of a very good family of 
Lorraine, and was born with a difpofition worthy of . her 
birth. The beauty of her face correfponded to that of 
her mind, but her fliape by no means agreed with it, be¬ 
ing fir.all and rather clumfy. Providence, who had de- 
ftined her for a.life more laborious than that which fe¬ 
males in general lead, had formed her more robuft and 
more able to bear bodily fatigue. It had infpired her 
with fo great a contempt for beauty, that when flie had 
the fmall-pox (he was as pleafed to be marked with it as 
other women are afflifted on a fimilar occalion. She was 
married to the Count de St. Balmont, who was not in¬ 
ferior to her either in birth or in merit. They lived to¬ 
gether very happily till the troubles that arofe in Lorraine 
obliged them to feparate. The count was conftantly em¬ 
ployed by the duke his fovereign in a manner fuitable to 
his rank and difpofition, except when lie once gave him 
the command of a poor feeble fortrefs, in which he had 
the affurance to refill the arms of Louis XIV. for feveral 
days together, at the rifle of being treated with the ex- 
tremeft feverity of military law, which denounces the moft 
degrading puniffiment againft all thofe officers who hold 
oiit without any prolpect of fuccefs. M. de Balmont 
went indeed farther, and added infolence to raffinefs; for, 
at every fliot of cannon that was fired at the fortrefs, he 
appeared at the windows, attended by fome fiddlers, who 
played by his fide. This madnefs (tor one cannot call it 
by a more gentle name) had nearly coft him very dear; 
for, when he was taken prifoner, it was agitated in the 
council of war, compofed of the officers whom he had 
treated with this contempt, whether he fliould not be 
hung up immediately; but regard was paid to his birth, 
and perhaps to his courage, however indifereet. Madame 
de St. Balmont remained upon his eftates to take care of 
them. Hitherto Ihe had only exerted her foldier-like dill 
pofition in hunting and (hooting (which is a kind of war), 
but very foon an opportunity prefented itfelf of realizing 
it, and it was this: an officer in the cavalry had taken up 
his quarters upon one of her hulband’s eftates, and. was 
living there at diferetion. Madame de St. Balmont fent 
him a very civil letter of complaint on his ill behaviour, 
which he treated with great contempt. Piqued at this, 
flie was refolved that he lhould give her fatisfadlion, and, 
merely confnlting her refentment, (lie wrote him a note 
figned Le Chevalier de St. Balmont. In this note (he ob- 
ferved to him, that the ungentleman-like manner in which 
he had behaved to his fifter-in-law obliged him to refent 
it, and that he would give him with his fword that fatis- 
fattion which his letter had refufed. The officer accepted 
the challenge, and repaired to the place appointed. Ma¬ 
dame de St. Balmont met him drefled in men’s clothes. 
They immediately drew their lwords, and the comtefte 
had the advantage of him ; when, after having difarmed 
him, (he faid, with a very gracious fmile, You thought, 
fir, I make no doubt, that you were fighting with Le Che- 
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