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B O L ( 57S ) B O L near the mouth of0 the river Spey, fituated in 20 23' aftringency. There are a great variety of thefe earths r the principal of which are the following. . W. long, and 57 40' N. lat. BOGARMITiE. See Bogomilt. x. Armenian bole, when pure, is of a bright red BOGDOI, a great nation of Tartary in Afia. The colour, with a tinge of yellow; It is one of the hardChinefe call them eaftern Tartars; and in the Mogul’s eft and moft compad of the bodies of this clafs, and country they are called Niuchi or Nuchi. not fmooth and gloffy like the others, but generally of BQGHO* or Bueil, a town in the county of Nice, in a rough dufty furface. It does not efFervefce .with Piedmont, fituated on the frontiers of France, about acids. twenty-five miles north-weft oFNice, in 6° 45' Ei 2. French bole is of a pale red colour, variegated long, and 440 ^ N. lat. with irregular fpecks of,white and yellow. It is much BGGOMILI, or Bogarmitje, in church-hiftory, a fofter than the Armenian, and flightly effervefces with fed of heretics, which fprung up about the year 1179. acids. 3. Bole of Blois is yellow, remarkably lighter than They thought that but feven books of the fcripture are to be received, that the ufe of churches, of the the moft of the other yellow earths, and effervefces facrament of the Lord’s fupper, and all prayer, ex- ftrongly with acids. cept the Lord’s prayer, 6ught to be abolilhed; that 4. Bohemian bole is of a yellow colour, with a the baptifm of Catholics is imperfect; that the per- caft of red, and generally of a flaky texture. It is ions of the Trinity are unequal, and that they often- not afted on by acids. 5. Lemnian earth is of a pale red colour, andflighttimes made themfelves vifible to thofe. of their fetft. They faid, that devils dwelt in the churches, and that iy effervefces with acids. 6. Silefian bole is of a browntfti yellow colour, and Satan had refided in the temple of Solomon from the acids have no fenfible effeds upon it. deftru&ion of Jerufalem to their own time. Thefe and other earths, made into little maffes, and BOGOTO, the capital of New Granada, in Terra Firftamped with certain impreflions, are called terra Jigil* ma, fituated in 740 W. long, and 40 N. lat. BOHEA, in commerce, one of the belt kinds of tea lata. Thefe earths have been recommended as aftrin. that come from China. There are three forts of it: gent, fudorific, and alexipharmic. But thefe, and the firft is bought at Canton for 80 tals per pice ; the many other virtues that have been afcribed to them, appear to have no foundation. They are ftill ufed in fecond for 45 ; and the third for 25. See Tea. BOHEMIA, a kingdom fubjeft to the houfe of Auftria, fluxes and complaints of the firft paffages. bounded by Saxony on the north, by Poland and Hun- BOLETUS, in botany, a genus of the cryptogamia gary on the eaft, by Auftria on the fouth, and by Ba- fungi clafs. This mulhroom is horizontal, fpungy, varia and part of Saxony on the weft. It lies between and porous below. There are 14 fpecies, of which feven are natives of Britain, viz. the fuberofus, or I2q and 170 E. long, and 48° and 520 N. lat. cork boletus; the fomentarius, or fpongy boletus; BOHEMIAN Bole. See B o l e . the verficolor, or ftriped boletus; the albus, or white BOHOL, one 0 of the Philippine iflands, in Afia; E. boletus ; the igniarius, or hard boletus, or touchwood ; long. 122 , N. lat. io°. BOJANO, a city of Molife, in the kingdom of Naples,0 the bovinus, or brown boletus; and the luteus, or about fifteen miles north of Benevento; E.. long. 15 yellow boletus. BOLINGBROKE, or Bullingbroke, a market2.c/, and N. lat. 410 20A. town of Lincolnfhire, about twenty-five BOJARS denote Ruffian noblemen. See Russia. 0 7 miles eaft of BOIGUACU, in zoology, a fynonime of the boa con- Lincoln; E. long. 15', N. lat 53 ij . BOLISLAW, a town of Bohemia, about thirty miles ftriiftor. See Boa. , BOIL, or Furuncle, in furgery. See Furuncle. north-eaft of Prague; E. long. 14° 40 > N.| lat. BOILING,, or Ebullition, the agitation of a fluid 50° 25'. body, arifing from the application of fire. See Che- BOLLARDS, large polls fet into the ground, on each fide of a dock. On docking or undocking fhips, large mistry. blocks are lafhed to them; and through thefe blocks BOIQUIRA, the American name for the rattle-fnake. de foignies, the foreft of Soignies, in the Auftrian are reeved the tranfporting hawfers to be brought to Netherlands, and province of Brabant, about three the capftons. BOLLITO, a name by which the Italians call a feamiles fouth-eaft of Bruffels. BOISLEDUC, called by the Dutch Hertogenbofch, a green colour in artificial cryftal. To prepare this coyou muff have in the furnace a pot filled with large fortified town of Dutch Brabant, fituated on the lour, river Bommel, about twenty-three miles north eaft of forty pound of good cryftal, firft carefully Ikimmed,.. boiled, and purified, without any manganefe: then Breda; E. long. 50 2o and N. lat. yi° 45'. muft have twelve ounces of the powder of fmalh BOKHARAH, Bocar, otRoghar, a city of Tartary, you in the country of theUfbecs, near Gihuri and Bikunt. leaves of copper, thrice calcined, half an ounce of BOLES are vifcid earths, lefs coherent and more fri- zaffer in powder; mix them together, and put them able than clay, more readily uniting with water, and at four times into the pot, that they may the better more freely fubfiding from it. They are foft and unc- mix with the gjafs, ftirring them well each time of tuous to the touch, adhere to the tongue, and by de- putting in the powder, for fear that it.fliould fwell too grees melt in the mouth, impreffing a light fenfe of much and run over. BOLOGNA.