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BALTIMORE, Lord, governor of New- | BANDA NIAM-NIAM, Central African | BANKING, III. 315; communistic views

foundland, IV. 713; XVII. 385; his settlement of Maryland, xv. 605; his relations with Penn, XVIII. 495. BALTIMORITE, mineral, XVI. 414.

tribes, XVII. 473.

BANDA ORIENTAL (Uruguay), country, South America, XXIV. 14; invasion of, by Brazil, II. 491.

BALUCHES, race of people, Asia, I. 235; | BANDAR-ABBAS (Bender Abbasi), town,

III. 303.

BALUCHISTAN, country, Asia, III. 299. BALUE, Jean, French cardinal, III. 303. BALUSAN, volcano, Philippines, XVIII. 749.

BALUZE, Étienne, French scholar, III.

304.

Persia, III. 557; XVIII. 620, 627. BANDELLO, Matteo, Italian novelist, III. 310; XIII. 510.

of, VI. 214; in United States, XXIII. 766, 776.

BANKIVA JUNGLE FOWL, XIX. 644. BANK OF ENGLAND, III. 316, 329; founding of, XI. 386; XVIII. 359; its relations with the Mint, XVI. 485. BANK OF FRANCE, origin of, XIV. 367. BANKRUPTCY, in law, III. 341.

BANDE NERE, Giovanni delle (Medici), | BANKS, of Newfoundland, XVII. 382.
XV. 787.

BANDERESI, mediæval Roman officials,
XX. 802.

BALZAC, Honoré de, French novelist, BANDICOOT, marsupial mammal, Aus

III. 304; IX. 679.

Jean Louis Guez de, French writer,

III. 305; IX. 659.

BAM, town, Persia, XVIII. 627, 628. BAMBA, province of Congo, Africa, III. 305.

-, town, Niger, Africa, XVII. 500. BAMBARA, people, Senegambia, XXI.

662.

BAMBARRA, country and town, Soudan, Africa, III. 305; I. 271; XXII. 279. BAMBERG, town, Bavaria, III. 305; sculptures in cathedral, XXI. 564; university, XXIII. 846. BAMBOROUGH, village, England, III. 306.

BAMBOO, plant, III. 305; XI. 54; its use

in wicker-work, III. 423. BAMBOUK, Country, West Africa, III. 306.

BAMIAN, ancient town, Afghanistan, III. 307; caves of, I. 244.

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BANDINI, Angelo Maria, Italian writer, BANMO (Bhamo), town, Burmah, III. III. 310. 627.

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Salustio Antonio, Italian economist, BANN, river, Ireland, III. 346. XIX. 362; XXII. 43. BANNACKS, American Indians, XII. 832.

BAND OF HOPE SOCIETIES (Temper- BANNATYNE, George, early Scottish ance), XXIII. 159. writer, XXI. 542.

BANDOL, town, France, XXIV. 69. BANDON, town, Ireland, III. 311; river, VI 403.

BANDRA, town, India, XXIII. 221. BANDUNG, town, Java, XIII. 606. BANFF, town, Scotland, III. 311. BANFFSHIRE, County, Scotland, III. 311; area and population, XXI. 528; repre sentation, XXIII. 727.

BANG, Stephensen, Norse writer, XVII. 589.

BANNER, of knight, XIV. 117; military, IX. 276.

BANNERET, Knight, grade of knighthood, III. 346; XIV. 117, 119. BANNOCKBURN, town, Scotland, III. 347; XXII. 554; battle of (1314), VII. 683; VIII. 313; XX. 594; XXI. 488. BANNOVALLUM (Horncastle), Roman fort, Lincolnshire, England, XII. 170. BANNS, Marriage, XV. 566. BANNU, district, India, XX. 109.

BAM-I-DUNIA, plateau, Central Asia, BANGALORE, town, India, III. 313; BANQUETERS, The, comedy of Aristo

XVIII. 102.

BAMLITE, mineral, XVI. 408.

BAMPTON, John, English divine, founder

of Bampton Lectures, III. 307. BAMPUR, town, Persia, XVIII. 627. BANANA, plant and fruit, 111. 307; XIX. 176; introduction of, into Polynesia, XIX. 419.

town, Loango, Africa, XIV. 743. BANAS, river, Rajputana, India, xx. 260; XXII. 98.

BANASA, town, Mauretania, Africa, xv. 637.

BANAT, district, Hungary, III. 308; XVI. 295.

BANAZ OVA, plateau, Asia Minor, XVIII. 853.

BANBRIDGE, town, Ireland, III. 308. BANBURY, town, England, III. 308. BANCA, island, Indian Archipelago, III. 308; birds of, III. 763; tin, XVI. 469. BANCROFT, George, American historian, I. 723.

Richard, archbishop of Canterbury, III. 308.

BAND, in architecture, II. 460.
BANDA, district, India, III. 309.

ISLANDS, Indian Archipelago, III. 309; nutmegs of, XVII. 666. BAND AMIR, river, Persia, XXI. 829.

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BANGKOK, town, Siam, III. 313; XXI. 852.

BANGOR, town, Ireland, III. 314.

town, Maine, U.S.A., III. 314. town, Wales, III. 314; University College at, XXIII. 856.

BANSWARA, tributary state, India, III.

347; XX. 260.

BANTAM, residency, Java, XIII. 605; town, III. 347.

FOWLS, poultry, XIX. 646. BANTING, William, on corpulence, VI. 436.

BANGORIAN CONTROVERSY, VI. 328; BANTRY, town, Ireland, III. 347.

XII. 29.

BANGWEOLO, Lake, Central Africa, I.
248; XXIV. 763; discovery of, by
Livingstone, XIV. 722.
BANIALUKA, town, Turkey, III. 314.
BANIANA (Baena), ancient town, Spain,

III. 229.

BANIER, Abbé, on mythology, XVII. 137.
BANIM, Johnand Michael, Irish novelists,
III. 314.
BANJARMASSIN,

district and town,
Borneo, III. 315; river, IV. 56.
BANK AND BANKING, III. 315.
BANKA (Banca, q.v.), island, Indian
Archipelago, III. 308.

BANK CLEARING HOUSE, London, 1. 91. BANKEN VELD, district of Transvaal, South Africa, XXIII. 518.

BANTU, groups of Negroes, XII. 312; XVII. 319; XXII. 729; languages, XIII. 820; XVII. 318; XVIII. 780; XXII. 729; XXIV. 827.

BANU, district, India, III. 347.

NADIR, Jewish family in Medina, XVI. 556.

BANVILLE, Théodore de, French critic, XIV. 206.

BANYAK ISLANDS, Sumatra, XXII. 639. BANYAN, tree, III. 348; IV. 94.

BANYANS, race, Mozambique, XVII. 7. BANYUMAS, town, Java, XIII. 606. BANYUWANGI, town, Java, XIII. 606. BAOBAB, tree, I. 268; IX. 408; XXI. 662; XXII. 278.

BAPHOMET, alleged symbol of Knights Templars, III. 348.

BAPTISM, Christian sacrament, III. 348; | BARBARELLA, Giorgio (Giorgione), | BARCHESTER TOWERS, Anthony Trol

XXI. 131, 139; Luther's views on, XV. 78; St Paul's doctrine, XVIII. 428; Quaker doctrine, XX. 150; registration of, XX. 343; sponsors at, XXII. 429.

BAPTIST, John the, XIII. 709. BAPTISTERY, chapel for baptism, III. 352; IX. 361; in the Catacombs, v.

211.

BAPTISTS, religious denomination, III. 353.

Freewill, in America, IX. 762. BAQUEROS, nomadic clan, Asturias, II. 824.

BAR, at mouth of a river, X. 277; XX. 575.

town, Russian Poland, III. 356; confederation of (1768), XIX. 297.

The legal, Costumes of, VI. 476. BARA, tribe, Madagascar, XV. 171. BARABA, steppe, Siberia, XXIII. 429. BARA BANKI, district, India, III. 357. BARABA TARTARS, Ural-Altaic tribe, XXIII. 70.

BARA-BUDUR, Temple of, Java, XIII. 609.

BARADA, river, Damascus, VI. 790. BARADEUS, Jacobus, Syrian monk, founder of the Jacobite sect, VI. 354; XIII. 539; XXII. 832.

BARADLA, stalactite grotto, Hungary, 1.

420.

BARAHAT, town, India, III. 357.
BARAK, river, India, xv. 489.
BARAKHATTA, town, India, XX. 272.
BARAKISH, Minæan town, Arabia, XXIV.
740.

BAR ALI, Syriac lexicographer, XXII. 847.

Italian painter, X. 607.

BARBARIAN, origin of the name, III. 463.

LAWS, Teutonic codes, XXI. 212. BARBARO, Venetian envoy to Persia, XVIII. 633.

BARBAROSSA, Aruch and Khair ed-Din, Turkish corsairs, III. 362; 1. 565; XXI. 621, 643.

- (Frederick I.), emperor, IX. 729; X. 489; XIII. 374; his struggle with Adrian IV., I. 165; his homage to Alexander III., I. 487; in Italy, XIII. 472; his patronage of Bologna university, XXIII. 833. BARBARY, country, North Africa, III. 363; I. 265.

BARBASTELLE BAT, XV. 410. BARBASTRO, town, Spain, III. 363. BARBAULD, Anna Letitia, English writer, III. 363.

BARBEL, fish, XII. 692; angling for, II. 42; Indian, XV. 285. BARBER, III. 363

lope's novel, XXIII. 585. BARCLAY, Alexander, English poet, III. 368; XVIII. 345.

David, Scottish Quaker, XX. 152. John, author of Argenis, III. 369. John, founder of a Scottish sect, III. 369.

John, Scottish anatomist, III. 369. J. G., his observatory at Leyton, Essex, England, XVII. 711.

Robert, Scottish Quaker and writer, III. 369; XVIII. 496; XX. 148. William, Scottish jurist, III. 370; XXI. 543.

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BARBERI, races of riderless horses, at BARDAS, Caesar, regent of Constantinople,

Rome, V. 124.

-, Philip de, inquisitor, XIII. 93. BARBERINI, Italian family, III. 363. Maffeo (Pope Urban VIII.), 11I. 363; XXIV. 9.

BARBERINO, Francesco da, Italian writer, XIII. 501.

BARBER OF SEVILLE, Rossini's opera, XX. 861.

XVIII. 819.

BAR-DEISAN (Bardesanes), Gnostic and Syriac writer, III. 370; X. 703; xxII. 827; XXIV. 38.

BARDEN TOWER, Yorkshire, England, XXIV. 749.

BARDESANES, Gnostic and Syriac writer,

III. 370; X. 703; XXII. 827; his relations to Valentinianism, XXIV. 38.

BARBERTON, town, Transvaal, Africa, BARDIA, island, Malay Peninsula, xv.

XXIII. 518.

BARBET, bird, XX. 101.

BARBETS (Camisards), Huguenot sect,
IV. 743.

BARAMAHAL, tract in Salem district, BARBETTE, in fortification, IX. 432.

India, XXI. 210.

BARAMGALI, fort, Kashmir, XIV. II. BARAMINDANA, prince of Mandingo, Africa, XV. 475.

BARANGAR, town, India, XXIII. 673. BARANTE, Amable G. P., French statesman and historian, III. 357. BARANYA, province, Hungary, III. 357. BARANZANO, Jean Antoine, Italian scientist, III. 358.

BARASAT, town, India, III. 358; XXIII. 673.

BARAT, Tibetan festive exhibition, XIV.
501.
BARATIÈRE, John Philip, precocious
scholar, III. 358.

BARATYNSKI, Jewgenij Abramovitch,
Russian poet, III. 358.
BARBA, district, Central Africa, IV. 54.
BARBACENA, town, Brazil, 111. 358.
BARBADOS, island, West Indies, III. 358;
XXIV. 510.

LEG, or Elephantiasis, disease, VIII. 126.

BAR BAHLUL, Syriac lexicographer, XXII. 849.

WAR-SHIPS, XVII. 286. BARBEYRAC, Jean, French jurist, III. 363.

BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Rossini's opera, xx. 861.

BARBIERI, Giovanni Francesco (Guercino), Italian painter, III. 364.

Paolo Antonio, Italian painter, III.

364. BARBO, Pietro (Pope Paul II.), XVIII. 430.

BARBOSA DU BOCAGE, Portuguese poet, XIX. 557.

BARBOUR, John, Scottish poet, III. 364; VIII. 395.

BARBUDA, island, West Indies, III. 366.

BARCA (El-Medinah), ancient town, Cyrenaica, North Africa, III. 366. -, district, North Africa, III. 366; XXIII. 574. BARCELONA, province, Spain, XXII. 298. town, Spain, III. 366; XXII. 298; libraries of, XIV. 549; siege of (1705), XVIII. 701.

County of, Spain, XXII. 311.

321.

BARDIGLIO, kind of Italian marble, xv. 528.

BARDILI, Christoph Gottfried, German metaphysician, III. 371.

BARDO, town, Tunis, XXIII. 622.
BARDS, III. 370; early British, II. 650;
early Irish, XIII. 250; Welsh, V. 318;
VII. 791.

BARDSEY, island, Wales, III. 371.
BARDULUM (Barletta), ancient town,
Italy, III. 376.

BARDWAN, district and town, India, III. 371.

BARDYLIS, Illyrian chief, XII. 709. BARÉGES, town, France, III. 372; mineral water of, XVI. 435. BAREILLY, district and town, India, III. 372.

BARELI, or Bareilly, district and town, India, III. 372.

BARENTS, William, Dutch navigator, X. 184; XIX. 317.

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BARETTIER (Baratière), John Philip, | BARLOW, Peter, English mathematician, | BARONIUS, Cæsar, church historian, III.

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BARGAGLI, Scipione, Sienese writer, BARMECIDES, Persian family, III. 377; BAROSSA, town, South Australia, XXII. XXII. 43.

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humorist, III. 374. BAR-HEBRÆUS (Abulfaragius), Syriac and Arabic writer, 1. 60; XXII. 853; XXIII. 5.

BARI, Mola di, town, Italy, XVI. 608. Terra di, province and town, Italy, III. 374.

BARI DOAB, tract, Punjab, India, XX. 107.

BAR-IDTA, Syriac writer, XXII. 838.
BARINAS, town, Venezuela, XXIV. 140.
BARISAL, town, India, III. 248.
BARISAN MOUNTAINS, Sumatra, XXII.
638.
BARISANOS, Italian metal-worker, XVI.
760.

BARITO, river, Borneo, IV. 56.
BARIUM, chemical element, v. 525.

(Bari), ancient town, Italy, III. 375. BARK, of trees, IV. 101; used in tanning, XIV. 381.

BARKAYA, Simeon, Syriac writer, XXII. 838.

BARKER, Robert, inventor of panoramas,

XVIII. 214.

XVI. 581.

BARMEN, town, Rhenish Prussia, III. 377; XX. 16.

BARMOUTH, town, Wales, XVI. 39. BARNABAS, St Paul's companion, III. 377; XVIII. 417.

-, Epistle of, early Christian work, II. 197; its relation to the Gospels, X. 815.

BARNABITE MONKS, XVI. 711. BARNABY RUDGE, Dickens's novel, VII. 176.

BARNACLES, their distribution, VII. 279. BARNARD, Henry, American educationist, VII. 679.

CASTLE, town, England, 111. 378. BARNAUL, town, Siberia, III. 378; xxII. 11; XXIII. 439.

BARNAVE, Antoine Pierre, French orator, III. 378.

BARNES, Albert, American expositor, III. 379.

418.

Joshua, English scholar, III. 379. Thomas, English journalist, XVII.

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England, XVII. 557.

Thomas, English writer on angling, BARNUEVO, Pedro de Peralta y, Peru

XXIV. 342.

BARKHANS,

sand-dunes, Syr-Daria, BARNWELL CASTLE, Northampton,

Asia, XXII. 820.

BARKING, town, England, III. 375. BARKIYAROK, Seljuk ruler, XXI. 635. BARKOMETER, hydrometer for tan liquors, XIV. 383.

BARLAAM, monk, condemns Hesychasm in Greek Church, XI. 782.

AND JOSAPHAT, Sts, Story of, III. 375; XX. 636. BAR-LE-DUC, town, France, III. 356. BARLETTA, town, Italy, III. 376. BARLEY, cereal plant, III. 376; use of, in brewing, IV. 266; culture of, 1. 358; experiments in manuring, XV. 507.

SUGAR, confection, VI. 257. BAR-LINES, in music, XVII. 82. BARLINGS OXNEY, abbey, Lincolnshire, England, XIV. 656.

BARLOW, Sir George, governor-general of India, XII. 805.

Joel, American poet, III. 377.

284.

BAROZZI, or Barocchio, Giacomo da Vignola, Italian architect, III. 380. BARQUISIMETO, town, Venezuela, III. 389; XXIV. 140.

BARR, town, Alsace, Germany, III. 390. -, town, India, XVIII. 409. BARRA, island, Hebrides, Scotland, III. 390; XI. 607.

BARRACKPUR, subdivision and town, India, III. 390.

BARRACKS, for soldiers, III. 390; of the
British army, II. 587; ventilation of,
XXIV. 160.

BARRAL, aeronaut, I. 195.
BARRANCAS, valleys, Spain, XXII. 294.
BARRANDE, Joachim, his theory of fossil
colonies, X. 323.

BARRAS, Comte de, French Revolu-
tionist, III. 392.
BARREL-MAKING, VI. 338.
BARREL ORGAN, XVII. 106.
BARRERE, Pierre, on birds, XVIII. 5.
BARRETT, Elizabeth (Mrs Browning),
English poetess, IV. 391.

-, George, his annuity tables, II. 81. BARRHEAD, town, Scotland, III. 392. BARRI, Girald de (Giraldus Cambrensis), ecclesiastic and historian, III. 392. BARRIER ACT, of the Scottish Church (1639), XIX. 682.

BARRIER REEFS, X. 257; VI. 378. BARRINGTON, First Viscount, theɔlogian, III. 393.

Second Viscount, III. 393.

Hon. Daines, naturalist, III. 393.

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BARRISTERS, English legal pleaders, III. 394; XIII. 87.

BAROCCHIO, Giacomo da Vignola, BARROCOE, settlement, West Africa,
Italian architect, III. 380.

BAROCCI, or Baroccio, Federigo, Italian BARRON'S LOCK, XIV. 744-
painter, III. 380.

BARODA, town, India, III. 380.

X. 755.

BARROS, João de, Portuguese historian,

III. 395; XIX. 557.

171.

BAROLO, Marchesa di, Italian prison BARROW, river, Ireland, XIII. 216; xx.
reformer, XVIII. 478.
BAROLUM (Barletta), ancient town,
Italy, III. 376.

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BARROWS, sepulchral mounds, III. 397; | BARTON, Benjamin Smith, American

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BARSAUMA, Syriac writer, XXII. 830, BARYTA, or Barytes, oxide of barium, 831.

BARSI, town, India, XXI. 832.
BARSOVITE, mineral, XVI. 420.
BAR-SUR-AUBE, town, France, III. 356.
BAR-SUR-ORNAIN, town, France, III.
356.

BAR-SUR-SEINE, town, France, III. 357.
BART, or Barth, Jean, French admiral,
III. 401.

BARTAN, town, Asiatic Turkey, III. 401. BARTANG, river, Turkestan, XVIII. 103. BARTAS, Guillaume de Salluste du, French poet, III. 401.

III. 406; in glass manufacture, x. 664.
MICA, mineral, XVI. 413.
WHITE, pigment, XIX. 86.
BARYTE, mineral, XVI. 400.
BARYTO-CALCITE, mineral, XVI. 398.
BARYTO-CELESTINE, mineral, XVI. 400.
BASALT, variety of rocks, X. 235.
BASCINET, headpiece, XI. 637.
BASE, in architecture, II. 460.

in chemistry, V. 477, 486.
BALL, game, III. 406.

BASEDOW, Johann Bernhard, German educationist, III. 407; VII. 676.

BARTFELD, or Bartfa, town, Hungary, BASEL (Bâle, or Basle), canton, Switzer-
III. 401.

BARTH, Heinrich, African explorer, III. 401; I. 247.

Jean, French admiral, III. 401. BARTHÉLEMY, Auguste Marseille,

French writer, III. 401.

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St, Massacre of, IX. 561; V. 412. BARTIZAN, in architecture, II. 460. BARTLETT, A. D., on the structure of birds, XVIII. 25.

BARTOLINI, Lorenzo, Italian sculptor,

III. 403. BARTOLOMMEO DI S. MARCO (Baccio della Porta), Italian painter, III. 194; his influence on Raphael, XX. 275. BARTOLOZZI, Francesco, Italian engraver, III. 403.

BARTOLUS, Italian jurist, III. 403. BARTON, Andrew, Scottish sea captain, XXI, 496.

land, III. 408; XXII. 778, 791.

town, Switzerland, XXII. 778, 789; council of (1431-43), III. 409; XIX. 502; XX. 320; treaty of (1795), I. 471; libraries, XIV. 548; university, XXIII. 842, 851.

CONFESSION (1531), XV. 83. BASE LINE, Measurement of, in surveying, X. 163; XXII. 696, 704. BASEMENT, in architecture, II. 460. BASE OF SUPPLY, in war, XXIV. 350. BASHAN, Country of Scripture, in Syria,

III. 410.

BASHFORTH, Prof., on the velocity of projectiles, XI. 302.

BASHGALIS, tribe, Afghanistan, XIII. 822. BASHI-BAZOUKS, Turkish irregular soldiery, II. 618.

BASHKIR-MESCHERYAKS, people, Rus sia, XVI. 46.

BASHKIRS, people, Russia, III. 411; XXI. 79.

BASIL SHUISKI, Russian revolutionist, XXI. 95.

BASILEUS, title of Greek archon, II. 476. BASILIA (Basel), ancient town, Switzerland, III. 408.

BASILICA, Greek code of laws, III. 419; Dorotheus's scholia on, VII. 369.

BASILICAS, in architecture, III. 412; II. 421; of Italy, II. 434; Roman, XX. 816, 823.

BASILICATA, province, Italy, III. 420. BASILICON DORON, book by James VI. of Scotland, XIII. 558; XXI. 509. BASILICUS, Jacob, Moldavian pretender, XXI. 19.

BASILIDES, Gnostic teacher, III. 420; X. 703; his connexion with Neoplatonism, XVII. 335.

BASILISK, fabulous animal, III. 421; VI. 98.

BASILIUS (Basil I.), emperor of the East, XI. 116; his code of law, III. 419. BASINGSTOKE, town, England, III. 421. BASKERVILLE, John, English printer, III. 421.

BASKET, III. 421.

BASKING-SHARK, XXI. 777; XII. 646. BASLE (Basel, q.v.), canton and town, Switzerland, III. 408.

BASMANOFF, Russian general, XXI. 94. BASNAGE, Jacques, Protestant pastor, III. 423.

BASODINE, mountain, Switzerland, XXIII. 351.

BASOMMATOPHORA, suborder of Mollusca, XVI. 660.

BASQUE PROVINCES, Spain, III. 423; XXII. 298.

BASQUES, European race, XII. 605; their language, III. 424; XVIII. 780; dictionaries of the language, VII. 188; their prehistoric origin, V. 269; X. 111. BASRA, province, Asiatic Turkey, XVI. 51; XXIII. 653; (Bussorah), town, IV. 577; VIII. 671; province and town under the caliphs, XVI. 562, 590; Moslem theological school of, XVI. 592.

BAS RELIEFS, in sculpture, IX. 205; Greek, II. 352.

BASS, George, Australasian explorer, III.

104.

& Co.'s BREWERIES, Burton, England, IV. 265, 572.

BASHMURIC, Egyptian dialect, VI. 355; BASSÆ, ruins, Greece, XVIII. 735.

XI. 799.

BASIDIOMYCETES, order of Fungi, IX. 832; XXIV. 127.

BASIL, the Great, early theologian, III. 412; his monastic rule, XVI. 700.

bishops of Ancyra and Seleucia, III. 412.

or Basilius, I., emperor of the East, III. 419; XI. 116.

II., emperor, XI. 116.
prince of Russia, XXI. 91.
culinary herb, XII. 289.

BASSAHIR, state, India, III. 424.
BASSAM, Grand, river and settlement,
West Africa, X. 755-
BASSANO, town, Italy, III. 424.

Giacomo da Ponte, Italian painter, III. 424.

BASSANTIE, James, Scottish astronomer,
XXI. 543.

BASSEIN, district, India, III. 425; town,
III. 425; XXIII. 221.
BASSELIN, Olivier, French poet, III.
425.

BASSES-ALPES, department, France, 1. 599.

BATAGUR, genus of chelonian reptiles, | BATISCAN, river, Canada, XX. 165.
XXIII. 457.
BATIUSHKOFF,

BASSES-PYRÉNÉES, department, France, BATAK LANGUAGE, III. 442.
XX. 126.

BASSET, or Outcrop, in geology, X. 298.
BASSE TERRE, district and town, Guade-
loupe, West Indies, XI. 230.
BASSETERRE, town, St Christopher,
West Indies, XXI. 159.

BASSET HORN, musical instrument,

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BATALA, town, India, XI. 331.

BATALDEN, island, Norway, XVII. 576. BATANEA, ancient province, Syria, III.

410.

BATANES, islands, Philippines, XVIII. 751.

BATANG, island, Malay Peninsula,
XV. 321.

town, Tibet, XXIII. 342.
LUPAR, river, Borneo, XXI. 306.

BASSI, Laura Maria Caterina, learned BATAVI, Germanic tribe, XII. 69. Italian lady, III. 425.

BASSIANUS, Joannes, Italian jurist, III.

425.

Varius Avitus (Heliogabalus), emperor of Rome, XI. 632.

BASSIGNY, district, France, xv. 561. BASSO DA CAMERA, musical instrument, XXIV. 245.

BASSOON, musical instrument, III. 425; XVII. 707.

BASSORA (Bussorah), town, Asiatic Turkey, IV. 577; VIII. 671; XVI. 562, 590; gum of, XI. 276.

BASS ROCK, islet, Firth of Forth, Scotland, III. 424.

BASS'S STRAITS, Australia, III. 424. BASSUS, Cæsius, Roman poet, XVIII. 662.

BASS WOOD, tree, United States, XXIII. 808.

BAST, bark of lime tree, XIV. 648.

(Bubastis), Egyptian divinity, IV. 408; VII. 718.

BASTAR, feudatory state, India, III. 425. BASTARD, III. 426.

OF ORLEANS (Dunois), French general, VII. 544.

BASTEI, mountain, Saxony, XXI. 357. BASTI, district and town, India, III. 428.

BASTIA, town, Corsica, III. 428.

BASTIANINI, Italian sculptor, XXI. 570.
BASTIAT, Frédéric, French political
economist, III. 428; XIX. 385.
BASTIE, Sieur Antoine d'Arces de la,
French envoy in Scotland, XXI. 497.
BASTILLE, fortress, Paris, III. 429; XXIII.
289; its fall, IX. 598; the Man of the
Iron Mask in, XIII. 360.
BASTION, in fortification, IX. 434, 440.
BASTITE, mineral, XVI. 415.
BASTNAESITE, mineral, XVI. 383.
BASTWICK, John, English physician and
anti-Catholic, III. 430.
BASURHAT, town, India, XXIII. 673.
BASUTOS, South-African tribe, v. 47;
XXIII. 518; languages of, XXIV. 828.
BAT, chiropterous mammal, III. 431;
XV. 405; hibernation of, XI. 788; sense
of touch in, XXIII. 479; in Sumatra,
XXII. 640.

Fox, IX. 352; XXII. 640.
Vampire, XXIV. 52.

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BATAVIA, town, Java, III. 431; XIII. 606; library at, XIV. 534, 549. BATAVIAN REPUBLIC, Netherlands (1795), XII. 82.

BATCHIAN, island, Indian Archipelago, XIII. 692.

BATCHING, in jute manufacture, XIII. 802.

BATEGNIUS (Al-Battani), Arabian mathe

matician, I. 449; xvI. 596; xxIII. 561. BATEMAN, John, colonizer of Victoria, Australia, XXIV. 218.

poet, XXI. 107.

Constantine, Russian

BATLEY, town, England, XXIV. 748. BATMAN SU, affluent of Tigris, XXIII. 387.

BATNA, town, Algeria, XIV. 238. BATOIDEI, group of fishes, XII. 686; xx. 299.

BATONI, Pompeo Girolamo, Italian painter, III. 442.

BATON-ROUGE, town, Louisiana, U.S.A., III. 442; XV. 21.

BATORY, Stephen, king of Poland and ruler of Transylvania, XII. 369; XIX. 293; XXI. 92. BATOUM, seaport, Transcaucasia, Russia, III. 446; XXIII. 514; ceded to Russia (1878), XXIII. 653. BATRACHIANS, group of animals, I. 750; XX. 432.

BATRACHUS, Greek architect, III. 442. BATSHA, Tong-King, peculiarity of tides at, XIV. 606.

BATTA, Negro tribe, Sokoto, Africa, XXII. 248.

J. F., on Loch Katrine aqueduct, BATTA FUOCO, Matteo, Corsican politiII. 226. cian, XVII. 193. BATES, William, English Nonconformist BATTAKS (Battas, q.v.), race of people, divine, III. 432.

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Sumatra, III. 442; XXII. 640. BATTALION, body of infantry, III.

442.

BATTAS, or Battaks, race of people, Sumatra, III. 442; XXII. 640; their cannibalism, IV. 808.

BATTER, in architecture, II. 460. BATTERING RAM, military engine, III. 443.

BATTERSEA, district, London, XIV. 822. BATTERY, of artillery, III. 443; II. 662; coast batteries, IX. 451.

electric, VIII. 13, 90; galvanic, VIII. 92.

in law, II. 724. BATTEUX, Charles, French writer on art, III. 443; I. 220.

BATTHYANI, Count Louis, Hungarian leader, XII. 371.

BATTIADE, dynasty of Libyan kings, III. 446.

BATTICALOA, town, Ceylon, III. 443.
BATTIKS, Javanese cloth, XIII. 604.
BATTLE, engagement between armies,
III. 443; XXIV. 361.

town, England, III. 445.
Ordeal of, XVII. 820.

AXE, weapon of war, II. 555. HARBOUR, fishing station, Labrador, XIV. 175.

BATTLEMENT, in architecture, 11. 460. BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, Swift's work, XXII. 762; Wotton's share in the controversy, XXIV. 685.

BATTLE OF THE STANDARD (1138), XVII. 555.

BATTLE OF THE STANDARD, Leonardo da Vinci's picture, XIV. 459.

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