ai4 B A V 
an ‘ allowance of provifions,’ and to battle to take that al¬ 
lowance. 
BATTO'LOGIST,/. [(S^tUo",©-, of (?«tB attus, 
and to fpeak.] A vain babbler. 
BATTO'LOGY, f. [battologie, Fr. baltologia, Lat. of 
Bx-fioT-oy.a, Gr. either of Battus a prince of the Cyrenians, 
who had a very flirill or fqueaking voice, or Battus a very 
filly poet, and Aoyo?, fpeech.] A vain foolifti repetition of 
the fame words over ann over again in the lame difcourfe ; 
a vain babbling. 
BAT'TORY,y. a name given by the Hans Towns to 
their magazines or factories abroad. 'I he chief of thefe 
battories are thofe at Archangel, Novogrod, Berghmen, 
Lilbon, Venice, and Antwerp. 
BA'tUA, Butua, Buthoe, or Buthoece, ancient¬ 
ly a town of Dalmatia, iitnated on the Adriatic ; now' By. 
doa, which fee. 
BAT'TUS, in fabulous hiflory, a famous herdfman, 
who was witnefs to the theft of Mercury, when he dole 
away feme of Apollo’s cattle. Mercury gave Batrus one 
of the fined cows that lie had taken, and made him pfo- 
mife that he fiiould keep this matter fecret; but, not alto¬ 
gether confiding in him, he pretended to retire, and came 
back foon after in another fiiape, and with another voice, 
offering him an ox and a cow if he would tell where the 
cattle were that he fought. Battus was tempted with the 
bribe, and laid open the whole affair; -upon which Mer¬ 
cury changed him into a touchfione, which difeovers the 
nature of the metal rubbed upon it. 
' BATTUSZA'NI, a town of European Turkey, in the 
• province of Moldavia, forty-four miles north-north-weft 
of JaflTy. ■ 
BAT'TY, adj. [from bat."] Belonging to a bat: 
Till o’er their brow s death, counterfeiting deep, 
With leaden legs and batty wings do:h creep. Shakefpeare. 
BATZ, a copper coin mixed with foine filver, and cur¬ 
rent at different rates, according to the alloy, in Nurem¬ 
berg, Bafil, Fribourg, Lucerne, and other cities of Germa¬ 
ny and Switzerland. 
BAVANY', a river of Hindodan, which runs into the 
Cauvery, feven miles north of Erroad, in Cointbetore. 
BAVA'RIA, a circle of Germany, is bounded on the 
north by Franconia and Bohemia, on the ead and fouth 
by the circle of Auftria, and on the wed by Suabia, and 
contains about 2830 fquare leagues. It receives its name 
from the duchy of Bavaria, which forms the greater part. 
It is compofed of twenty dates, divided into two benches, 
the one ecclefiadical, and the other fecular. Thefe dates 
are convoked by the duke of Bavaria, and the archbdhop 
of Saltzburgh, who direffl alternately ; the aflemblies are 
held generally at Ratifbon or WafTerburg, and they vote 
in the following order: the archbidiop of Saltzburg, dtike 
of Bavaria, bifhop of Freyling, duke of Neuburg and 
Sulzbacb, bifhop of Ratifbon, landgrave of Leuchtenberg, 
bifh 'p of Pallau, comte Sterndein, provod of Berchtholdf- 
aaden, comte of Haag, abbot of St. Emeran, comte of 
Ortenburg, abbot of Nieder-Munder, lord of Ehrerfels, 
abbot of Ober-Munder, lord of Salzburg and Pyrbaum, 
lord of Hohen-Waldek, lord of Breteneck, and town of 
Ratifbon. When the army of the empire is 40,000, this 
circle is'engaged to furnifh 800 horfemen, and 1494 foot, 
at its contingent. 
Bavaria, the eledlorate or duchy, comprehends the 
greater part of the circle, and has nearly the fame bounds, 
fixty leagues long, and forty broad, and is divided 'into 
Upper and Lower Bavaria, and Upper Palatinate. To¬ 
wards the fouth the country is mountainous, interfperfed 
with foreds, lakes, and vnoraffes, with padure-grounds, 
but few corn-fields; towards the north are found large and 
fertile plains, which produce plenty of corn; there are 
likewife many fait-works, medicinal fprings and baths; 
mines of copper, filver, and lead ; quarries of excellent 
matble ; plenty of game, fifh, and cattle. The principal 
B A U 
rivers are the Danube, Larch, Inn, Altmuhl, Nab, and 
Her; they count fixteen lakes of a larger fize, and 160 
fmaller; 275 rivers, great and fmall; 360 foreds, 720 
mountains, and a great number of fifh-ponds. They reck¬ 
on forty-eight cities, 123 townsj 1200 villages, 1000 cha¬ 
teaus or noblemen’s feats, eighty-lix convents, 1500 pa- 
rifltes, 23,709 churches, and about four millions of fouls. 
The revenues of the eleftor amount to about fix millions 
of imperial crowns; the military forces amount to about 
12,000 in time of peace, and rather more than double in 
time of wan The dates of Bavaria are compofed of pre¬ 
lates, nobles, cities, and towns, which are adembled by 
the deputies at Munich; but this feldoin happens. The 
dates of the Upper Palatinate have held no diet lince the 
year 1628. The inhabitants of the Upper and Lower Ba¬ 
varia are the mod zealous Catholics in Europe. There 
are however Home Protedants in the Upper Palatinate. 
The principal manufactures are coarfe doth, duff's of 
woollen, cotton and fiik deckings, velvet, carpets, &c. 
The principal exports are wheat, cattle, wood, fait, and 
iron; which employ and feed the inhabitants, and.enrich 
the prince. The elector holds the fifth place in the elec¬ 
torate college, and the fecond among the fecular debtors; 
he has a feat and the fir ft vote among the college of prin¬ 
ces. His afleffment in the matricula of the empire amounts 
to fixty ho.rfe, and 277 foot, or 1S 28 florins for the Roman 
month. To the chamber of Wetzlar he is ruled at 811 
rix-dollars, and fifty-eight kreutzers. 
Bavaria (Upper), is divided into two governments, 
or regencies, viz. that of Munich and Burkhaufen. 1 he 
principal towns of the former are Munich, Pfaffenhaufen, 
Abeniperg, Iugoldftadt, Donawert, Friedberg, Wilhem, 
and Waderburg ; of -the latter, Burkhaufen, Branau, and 
Scherdlng. 
Bavaria (Lower), is likewife divided into two govern¬ 
ments, viz. that of Landduiit, the principal towns of which 
are Landduiit, Aerding, Dingelfing, Landau, Vtlfhhofen, 
Offerhofen, and Molburg; and the government of Strau- 
bing, the principal places of which are Straubing, Cham, 
Kelheim, Dietfurt, Stadt-am-Hof, and Deckendorf. 
BA'VAROY,yi A kind of cloak or furtout: 
Let the loop’d bavaroy the fop embrace, 
Or his deep cloak be (patter’d o’er with lace. Gay. 
BAVAY', a town of France, in the department of the 
North, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of le 
<Tnefnoy. It was once a confiderable town, but is now 
{Scarcely more than a village : two leagues north-eaff of le 
Quefno'y, and eleven fouth-eaft of Lille. On the 17th of 
Mav, 1792, Bavay was attacked and plundered by a body 
of Auftrians, but foon relieved by marfhal Luckner. 
BAUBEE',y. [It is probably a corruption of the word 
baby , or babe, meaning the head or face that is damped on 
one fide of it.] A word ufed in Scotland, and the northern 
counties for a halfpenny : 
Though in the drawers of my japan bureau, 
To lady Gripeall I the Caefars {hew, 
’Tis equal to her ladyfhip or me 
A copper Otho, or a Scotch baubee. Bramjlcn. 
BAUBIGNY', a town of France, one league and a half 
north-eaff of Paris. 
BAUBU'LA, a river of Spain, in the province of Ar- 
rason, which runs into the Xalon, about a league below 
Calataiud. 
B AU'CIS, in fabulous hiftory, a poor aged woman who 
lived with her hufband- Philemon, ahnoft as old as herfelf, 
in a little hut. Jupiter, in a human form, accompanied 
by M-ercury, being defirous of vifiting Phrygia, was re¬ 
jected by all the inhabitants of the town near which Bau¬ 
cis and Philemon dwelt, who were the only perfons that 
received them with hofpitality. In order to reward them, 
Jupiter bade them follow him to the top of a high moun¬ 
tain; and, when they looked back, they faw not only the 
town but all the neighbourhood under water, except the 
little 
