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little hut, which was changed into a temple. Jupiter pro- 
mifed to grant them whatever they deiired, and thefe good 
people only w filled to be attendants in the temple, and to 
die both at the fame time. Their willies were accomplilh- 
ed ; and when they arrived at a great old age, and were 
tired of life, as they were one day talking at the gate of 
the temple, Philemon perceived Baucis to be turning into 
a lime-tree, and (he was aftonifhed to fee Philemon chan¬ 
ging into an oak; upon which they bade each other their 
laft adieu. Gvid. 
BAUCO'NICA, anciently a town of the Vaiigiones in 
Gallia Belgica ; nine miles from Mogontiacum, and eleven 
from Borbitomaglim; now fuppofed to be Oppenkcim, in 
the palatinate of the Rhine, and lituated on that river. 
BAUD, a town of France, in the department of Mor- 
bihan, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of Pon- 
tivy, three leagues and a half eaft-north-eaft of Hennebon, 
and three and three-quarters Couth of Pontivy. 
B AUDANVIL'LIER, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dillridl of Blamont: four leagues north of St. Diey, and 
one and three-quarters Couth of Blamont. 
BAUDELO'T (Charles Crefar), a learned advocate in 
the parliament of Paris, diftinguiftied by his (kill in an¬ 
cient monuments, was received into the Academy of Belles 
Lettres in 1705. He wrote a treatife on the Advantages 
of Travelling; many letters and dilfertations on Medals, 
Sic. and died in 1722, aged feventy-four. 
B AU'DEK.IN,y'. [baldicum, and baldekinum,~\ Cloth of 
baudtkin , or gold; it is (aid to be the richelt cloth, now 
called brocade, made with gold and (ilk, or tiffue, upon 
which figures in (ilk, &c. were embroidered. 
B AUD PER (Michael), of Languedoc, lived in the reign 
of Louis XIII. and publifhed feveral books, which pro¬ 
cured him the character of a copious author; among them 
are, 1. An Inventory of the General Hiftory of the Turks. 
2. Hiftory of the Seraglio. 3. Religion of the Turks. 4* 
Court of the King of China. 5. Life of Cardinal Xime- 
nes, &c. 
BAU'DIUS (Dominic), profeftbr of hiftory in the uni- 
verfity of Leyden, born at Lifle the 8th of Auguft,. 1561. 
He began his ftudies at Aix-la-Chapelle, and continued 
them at Leyden. He removed from thence to Geneva, 
where he ftudied divinity. After refiding here fome time, 
he returned to Ghent, and from thence to Leyden, where 
he applied t,o the civil law, and was admitted doftor of 
law in June 1585. Soon-after his admiffion, he accompa¬ 
nied the ambafladors from the States to England; where 
he became acquainted with feveral perfons of diftindlion, 
particularly the famous Sir Philip Sidney. He was ad¬ 
mitted advocate at the Plague the 5th of January, 1587; 
but, being foon tired of the bar, lie travelled into France, 
where he remained ten years. He was much elfeemed in 
that kingdom. Achilles de Harlai, firft prefident of the 
parliament, got him admitted advocate of the parliament 
of Paris in the year 1592. In 1602, he came to England 
with Chriftopher de Harlai, the prefident’s fon, who was 
lent ambafth'dor to the court of London by Henry the Great. 
The fame year Baudius having been named profeffor of 
eloquence at Leyden, lie went and fettled in that univerfi- 
ty. He read leisures on hiftory after the death of Mo¬ 
rula, and was permitted alfo to do the fame on the civil 
law. In 1611, the States conferred upon him the office of 
hiftoriographer in conjunction with Meurfms ; and in con- 
fequence thereof he wrote the Hiftory of the Truce. Bau- 
dius was an excellent Latin poet. The firft: edition of his 
poems was printed in 1587 : they confift of verfes of all 
the different meafures. He publi(lied feparately a book 
of iambics in 1591, dedicated to cardinal Bourbon. Some 
of his poems he dedicated to the king of England, and 
others to the prince of Wales. He died at Leyden in 1613. 
BAUDOBRPGA, anciently a town of the Treviri in 
Germany ; now Boppart, in the deflorate of Triers. 
B'AUDRAND' (Michael Anthony), a celebrated geo¬ 
grapher, born at Paris in 1633. Pie travelled into feveral 
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countries; and then applied himfelf to the improvemenf 
of Ferrarius’s Geographical Diftionary. He wrote, r. 
Notes to Papirius Malfo’s Defcription of the Rivers of 
France. 2. A Geographical and Hiftofical Dictionary. 
3. Chriftian Geography, or an Account of the Arclibi- 
(hoprics and Biftioprics of the whole World. He died at 
Paris in 1700. 
BAUiiRWITZ', a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Jagerndorf, on the river Zinna, ten miles north-welt of 
Ratibor. 
BAUGE,yi a drugget manufactured in Burgundy, with 
thread l’pun thick, and coarle wool. 
Bauge', a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftriCf; in the department of the Mayne and Loire, fitua- 
ted on the river Coeinon; before the revolution the feat 
of a governor, and a royal juftice : it contains about 4000 
inhabitants, and is fix leagues eaft-north-eaft of Angers. 
In the year 1421, while Henry V. was purfuing his cam¬ 
paign in France, he difpatched the duke of Clarence with 
10,000 men to take this town ; where the duke found fome 
Scotch troops, witii whom he engaged; and, being out¬ 
numbered by the enemy, the duke was killed,'and his men 
for the moft part made prifoners. Lat.47.3i-N. Ion. 17. 
33. E. Ferro. 
BAU'PIIN (John), an eminent botanift, was born the 
middle of the fixteenth century. He took his doctor's de¬ 
gree in phyfic in 1562, and afterwards became principal 
phyfician to Frederic duke of Wirtemberg. The moft 
confiderable of his works is his Univerfal Hiftory of Plants. 
Bauhin (Cafpar, or Gafpar), younger brother to the- 
preceding, was born at Bafil in 1550; and diftinguiftied 
himfelf by his (kill in anatomy and botany. In 13,80, lie 
was chofen profeftbr of thefe fciences at Bafil; and, in 
1614, was made profeftbr of phyfic, and firft phyfician of 
that city, which he held till his death, which happened in; 
1623, at the age of fixty-three. He wrote, 1. Anatomi¬ 
cal Inftitutions ; 2. Prodromus Theatri Botanici; and ci¬ 
ther works. 
B AUH IN'r A,yi [fo named by Plunder in honour of 
the two famous botanifts John and Cafpar Bauhin. ] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs aecandria, order monogynia, na¬ 
tural order lomentaceae. The generic characters are—• 
Calyx : perianthium oblong, gaping longitudinally on tlie 
lower fide, reclining on the other, gaping alfo five wavs-at 
the bafe, with five cohering leaflets above, deciduous.. 
Corolla : petals five, oblong, waved, with attenuated re¬ 
flected tops, expanding; the lower ones a little larger, the 
upper one more diftant, all with claws placed on the ca¬ 
lyx. Stamina : filaments ten, declining, ftiorter than the 
corolla, the tenth much theTongeft; antherae ovate, al¬ 
ways on the tenth, feldom on the reft. Piftillum : germ 
oblong, fitting on a pedicel; ftyle filiform, declining; ftig. 
ma obtufe, riling. Pericarpium: legume long, fubco- 
lumnar, one-ceiled. Seeds : many, roundilh, comprefted, 
placed according to the length of the legume.— EJJlntial 
Char abler. Calyx five-cleft, deciduous; petals expand¬ 
ing, oblong, with claws, the upper one more diftant, all in¬ 
fected into the calyx. 
Species. 1. Bauhinia fcandens, or climbing mountain 
ebony: ftem cirrhiferous. This rifes with many tender 
ftalks, which put out tendrils, and fallen themfelves to the 
. neighbouring trees, whereby they rife to a great height. 
Leaves fix inches long, and three inches and a -half broad 
in the middle, deeply cut into two pointed lobes, each ha¬ 
ving three prominent ribs running longitudinally. It is 
a native of both Indies, and has not produced flowers in 
England. The feeds were fent to Mr. Miller from Cam- 
peachy, probably before the year 1752. The flowers are 
at firft whitifh, but turn to a yellowifh colour. They feem. 
to appear but feldom even in-their place of natural growth. 
The fruit is (lender and flat, half a foot or a palm in length, 
and an inch in breadth, hard, finboth, very dark brown;, 
it contains fix or eight flat bony feeds, black, with a fil- 
very border. 
2. Bauhinia aculeata, or prickly-ftalked mountain ebo¬ 
ny s 
