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BOKROMEO BOS 109 to Syria, to collect MSS. for it. He added to it a printing establishment, and founded acad- emies, schools, and charitable institutions. BORROMEO, St. Charles. Sisterhood of, a religious association founded in 1652 by the abb<5 d'Es- tival, for educational and charitable purposes. It has its chief organization at Nancy, in Lor- raine. A religious association of St. Charles Borromeo was founded in Bonn in 1846, for the distribution of Roman Catholic publications. BORROMINI, Francesco, an Italian architect, born at Bissone in 1599, died in Rome in 1667. He studied sculpture and architecture for about seven years in Milan, and then went to Rome, where he was employed under his kinsman, Carlo Maderno, in finishing St. Peter's. On the death of Maderno he continued at work under Bernini. He became capricious and fantastic in his designs, and killed himself in a fit of insanity. BORROW, George, an English author, born near Norwich in February, 1803. He is the son of an officer in the army, and received his early education at various schools in England and at the high school in Edinburgh. At the age of 15 he was articled to a solicitor in Norwich, but soon turned his attention to philology, studying especially the language and habits of the gypsies, with whom he led a wandering life for some years. In 1833 he entered the service of the British and foreign Bible society, and was sent to Russia. Here he edited the New Testament in the Mantchoo language, and published a book which he called " The Targum," containing metrical transla- tions from 30 languages. He then went to Spain, where he mingled with the gypsies, translated the Gospel of Luke into their lan- guage, edited a translation of the New Testa- ment into Spanish, and was thrown into prison for circulating the Bible. Having returned to England, he published in 1841 " The Zincali : an Account of the Gypsies in Spain," with a collection of their songs and a vocabulary of their language. In 1843 he published " The Bible in Spain," a narrative of his personal adventures. He afterward travelled for some time in Turkey and Wallachia. In 1851 he published "Lavengro: the Scholar, the Gypsy, and the Priest," a work autobiographical in form, but apparently containing much fiction. In 1857 he published " The Romany Rye," a sequel to "Lavengro;" and in 1862 "Wild Wales:" He has also contributed much, both in prose and verse, to various periodicals. BORSi, a village of Hungary, in the county of Marmaros, 45 m. S. E. of Szigeth, at the entrance of a gorge leading into Bukowina; pop. in 1870, 5,503. In the neighborhood are some mines of gold, argentiferous lead, and copper. BORSOD, a N. county of Hungary, bounded E. in part by the Theiss and the Hernad, and traversed by the Sajo ; area, 1,370 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 195,037, chiefly Magyars. The soil is mountainous or hilly in the northwest, and level in the east and south. Cattle are reared in great numbers on extensive pastures. Bor- sod wheat is celebrated, and the county is called Little Hungary on account of its extra- ordinary productiveness in the principal staples of the country. The forests contain various kinds of timber and plenty of game. The vine culture is extensive. Minerals abound, and iron is worked to a large extent, and partly converted into steel. The county contains a number of large and over 170 small villages, and derives its name from that of Borsod, 5 m. 5. of Szendro, which contains a Protestant church and an old castle. Capital, Miskolcz. BORY DE SAINT VINCENT, Jean Baptist* George Marie, a French naturalist, born at Agen in 1780, died in Paris, Dec. 22, 1846. He visited Mau- ritius and Bourbon in 1800, explored St. Helena and various other African islands, and on his return published Essais sur les lies Fortunees et V antique Atlantide (4to, Paris, 1803), and an illustrated Voyage dans les quatre princi- pals iles des mers d'Afrique (3 vols. 8vo, 1804). He served in the French army under Davoust, Ney, and Soult, the last of whom sub- sequently employed him in the ministry of war. Exiled after the restoration, and hunted by the police through many of the states of Europe, he remained a fugitive till 1820, during which time he assisted in editing the Annales gene- rales des sciences physiques at Brussels, and wrote his Voyage souterrain, describing the subterranean quarries of Maestricht. In 1829 he was chief of an official scientific expedition to the Morea and the Cyclades, and was the sole author of the botanical portion of the Expedition scientifique de Moree (1832 et seq. besides writing with Chaubard the Nomelle floredu Peloponnese et des Cyclades (1838). He was in the war department in 1830, and rose to the rank of marechal de camp in the corps of engineers. In 1839 he was appointed chief of a scientific expedition to Algeria. He was the principal editor of the Dictionnaire clas- sique de VTiistoire naturelle, writing nearly half of the first 10 volumes. He wrote two works on Spain, a history of microscopic animals, and IShomme, essai zoologique sur le genre humain (2 vols., 2d ed., Paris, 1827), the last being one of his most original productions. BORYSTHENES. See DNIEPER. BOS, Lambert, a Dutch philologist, born at Workum, Friesland, Nov. 23, 1670, died Jan. 6, 1717. He was instructed by his father in Greek and Latin, and studied philology and oriental languages at Franeker, where he be- came professor of Greek. His principal works are Ellipses Oraecte (1702) and Vetus Testa- mentum ex Versione Septuaginta Interpretum (1709; new ed., 5 vols., Oxford, 1805). BOS, Boseh, or Boson, Micron} inns, surnamed the Joyous, a Flemish artist, born at Bois-le- Duc after the middle of the 15th century, died in the early part of the 16th. Few particulars of his life are known. He excelled in painting demons, monsters, infernal scenes, and similar