Bolt.

4. The marriage of Bolfwert, Hendrix are the most cfteemed. the Virgin, a middling-fized upright plate, from the fame painter. Thofe impreffions are beit in which the word Antuerpie is not added to the name of Hendrix. 5. The adoration of the wife men, a middling-fized upright plate, from the fame. The good impreffions of this plate have the name of Vanden Enden. 6. The feaft of Herod, in which is reprefented the daughter of Herodias, prefenting the head of John the Baptift to her mother, a large plate, lengthwife, from the fame. 7. The miraculous diaught of fishes; a large print, lengthwife, on three plates, from the fame. 8. Chrift crowned with thorns; a large upright plate from Vandyck: An admirable print; with the name of Vanden Enden. 9. A crucifixion, where a figure appears. prefenting the fponge to Chrift, St John and the Virgin are ftanding at the foot of the cross, and Mary Magdalene is reclining towards it: A large upright plate, from Vandyck Of this admirable engraving there appear to have been four different impreffions; though Bafan mentions only three, and fays that in the firft the left hand of St John is hid. The chief marks of thofe impreffions are: In the 1ft, St John's left hand appears on the fhoulder of the Virgin (A). In the 2d impreffion, the hand is erafed: This Bafan calls the first impreffion; and it fells at a very high price. In the 3d impreflion, the hand is restored: In the 4th, it is again erafed: And in both, the short ftrokes upon the ground near the great toe of the figure who holds the fponge are croffed with fecond strokes; which cross-hatchings are not in the two first impreffions. There are feveral other crucifixions by the fame mafter after different designз. Pan playing upon his flute, from Jordaens, 11. Mercury and Argus, a large plate, lengthwife, from the fame. 12. A drunken Silenus, fupported by a fatyr, and another figure; a middling-lized upright plate from Rubens. Of thefe three laft, the impreffions without the addrefs of Bloteling are the best. 13. A chafe of lions; a large plate, lengthwife, from the 14. A variety of landscapes. fame.

Bolfwert. feffed of diftinguishing the different maffes of colours, have always been admired by the connoiffeurs, and give him a place in the number of thofe celebrated engravers, whofe prints ought to be confidered as models by all hiftorical engravers, who are defirous of rendering their works as ufeful as they are agreeable, and of acquiring a reputation as lafting as it is justly merited." He drew excellently, and without any manner of his own; for his prints are the exact tranfcripts of the pictures he engraved from. His beft works, though not always equally neat or finished, are always beautiful, and manifeft the hand of the mafter. Sometimes we find his engravings are in a bold, free, open ftyle: as the Brazen Serpent, the Marriage of the Virgin, &c. from Rubens. At other times they are very neat, and fweetly finished: as, the Crowning with Thorns, and the Crucifixion, &c. from Vandyck. Mr Strutt obferves, that his boldeft engravings are from Rubens, and his neatest from Vandyck and Jordans.- How greatly Bolfwert varied his manner of engraving appears from fome prints, which, like the greater part of thofe of his brother Boetius, bear great refemblance to the free engravings of the Bloemarts, and to thofe of Frederic Bloemart efpecially; and form a part of the plates for a large folio volume, entitled, Academie de L'effee, by Girard Thibault of Antwerp, where it was published, A. D. 1628; and to these he figns his name, "Scheltius," and fometimes "Schelderic Bolfwert," adding the word Bruxelle. His name is ufually affixed to his plates in this manner, "S. A. Bolfwert." It is very neceffary to caution the collectors of this mafter's works (thofe efpecially who are not very converfant with them), that many of them have been copied in a very careful manner, fo as eafily to deceive the unfkilful. Some of thefe copics, as the Marriage of the Virgin from Rubens, &c. are by Lauwers. But thole which are most likely to mislead, are by Ragot, a French engraver, employed by Mariette the printfelker, who frequently meeting with the reverfes or counterproofs from the prints of Bolfwert, gave them to the engraver; and he imitated them with the utinoft precifion. By this means the impreffions from the plate copied come upon the paper the fame way with the original. It is true, his name is ufually affixed at the bottom; but it is often cut off, and then the copy is not easily diftinguifhed from the original. Among other prints thus imitated by Ragot from Bolfwert, is Chrift crucified between the two Thieves, where the foldier is reprefented piercing his fide, from Rubens.

Among the variety of eftimable engravings by this great artist, the few following may be here mentioned. 1. The Brazen Serpent, a large plate, lengthwife, from Rubers. Thofe impreffions are the moft eftimable which have only the word Antuerpia at the right-hand corner, without the name of Giles Hendrix, which was afterwards inferted above it, and part of the fmall circle over the arms is left white. 2. Abraham offering his fon Ifaac, a large plate nearly fquare, from Theodore Rombout. 3. The education of the Virgin by Saint Anne, a middling-fized upright plate, from Rubens. Thofe impreffions without the name of

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BOLT, among builders, an iron-faftening fixed to doors and windows. They are generally diftinguished into three kinds, viz. plate, round, and fpring bolts.

BOLTS, in gunnery, are of several forts; as, 1. Tranfum-bolts, that go between the cheeks of a gun carriage, to ftrengthen the tranfums. 2. Prife bolts; the large knobs of iron on the cheeks of a carriage, which keep the hand-fpike from fliding, when it is poizing up the breech of a piece. 3. Traverse bolts; the two short bolts, that, being put one in each end of a mortar car4. Bracket-bolts; the riage, ferve to traverse her. bolts that go through the checks of a mortar, and by the help of quoins keep her fixed at the given elevaAnd, 5. Bed-bolts; the four bolts that faften. tion. the brackets of a mortar to the bed. BOLTS, in a fhip, are iron pins, of which there are feveral forts, according to their different makes and Such are drive-bolts, ufed to drive out others.. ufes. Ray-bolts, with jags or barba on each fide, to keep them from flying out of their holes. Clench-bolts, which are clenched with rivetting hammers. Forelock

bolts

bolts, which have at the end a forelock of iron driven in to keep them from ftarting back. Set-bolts, ufed for forcing the planks, and bringing them clofe toge ther. Fend or fender bolts, made with long and thick heads, and ftruck into the uttermoft bends of the fhip, to fave her fides from bruifes. And ring-bolts, ufed for bringing to of the planks, and thofe parts whereto are faftened the breeches and tackle of the guns. BOLT of Canvas, in commerce, the quantity of 28 ells.

BOLT-Rope, in naval affairs, a rope paffing round the fail, to which the edges of it are fewed, to prevent the fail from tearing: the bottom part of it is called the foot-rope; the fides, leeches; and if the fail be oblong or fquare, the upper part is called the head-rope. BOLTED FLOUR, that which has paffed thro' the bolters. See the following article.

BOLTER, or BOULTER, a kind of fieves for meal, having the bottoms made of woollen, hair, or even wire. The bakers use bolters which are worked by the hand; millers have a larger fort, wrought by the motion of the mill.

BOLTING, a term of art used in our inns of court, whereby is intended a private arguing of cafes. The manner of it at Gray's inn is thus: An ancient and two barrifters fit as judges; three ftudents bring each a cafe, out of which the judges choose one to be argued; which done, the ftudents firft argue it, and after them the barristers. It is inferior to mooting; and may be derived from the Saxon word bolt, "a house," because done privately in the house for inftruction. In Lincoln's inn, Mondays and Wednesdays are the bolting days in vacation time; and Tuesdays and Thursdays the moot days.

BOLTING, or Boulting, the act of feparating the flour from the bran, by means of a fieve or bolter. See BOLTER.

BOLTING-Cloth, or Belfter-cloth, fometimes alfo called bulting-cloth, denotes a linen or hair cloth for fifting meal or flour.

BOLTING Mill, a verfatile engine for fifting with more cafe and expedition. The cloth round this is called the bolter.

BOLTING, or Boulting, among fportfmen, fignifies roufing or diflodging a coney from its reiting place. They fay, to bolt a coney, fart a hare, rouse a buck,

&c.

BOLTON or BOULTON (Edmund), an ingenious Englifh antiquarian, who lived in the beginning of the 17th century. His moft confiderable work is that in titled Nero Cafar, or Monarchie depraved, dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham, lord-admiral, printed at London 1624, folio, and adorned with feveral curious and valuable medals. It is divided into 55 chapters, in fome of which are introduced curious remarks and obfervations. In the 24th and 25th chapters he gives an account of the revolt in Britain, against the Romans, under the conduct of Boadicea, which he introduces with a recapitulation of the affairs in Britain from the first entrance of the Romans into this ifland under Julius Cæfar, till the revolt in the reign of Nero. In chapter 36th he treats of the Eat-India trade in Nero's time, which was then carried on by the river Nile, and from thence by caravans over land to the Red Sea, and thence to the Indian ocean; the ready coin carried

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yearly from Rome upon this account amounting, according to Pliny s computation, to above L. 300,000 Sterling; and the ufual returns in December and January yielding in clear gain an hundred for one. fides this he wrote, 1. An English translation of Lucius Florus's Roman hiftory. 2. Hypercritica, or a rule of judgment for reading or writing our hiftories. 3. The elements of armories, &c.; and fome other works.

BOLTON, a town of Lanca.hire in England, feated on the river Croell, and pretty well built. It has a manufacture for fuftains, and the market is confiderable for cloth and provifions. W. Long. 2. 15. N. Lat. 53. 55.

BOLUS, in pharmacy, an extemporaneous form of a medicine, foft, coherent, a little thicker than honey, and the quantity of which is a little morfel or mouthful; for which reafon it is by fome called buccella.

BOMAL, a town of Luxemburg in the Austrian Netherlands, fituated on the river Ourt, in E. Long. 5. 30. N. Lat. 50. 20.

BOMB, in military affairs, a large fhell of caft iron, having a great vent to receive the fufee, which is made of wood. The thell being filled with gunpowder, the fufee is driven into the vent or aperture, within an inch of the head, and fastened with a cement made of quicklime, afhes, brick-duft, and fteel-filings, worked together in a glutinous water; or of four parts of pitch, two of colophony, one of turpentine, and one of wax. This tube is filled with a combuftible matter, made of two ounces of nitre, one of fulphur, and three of gunpowder-duft, well rammed. To preferve the fufee, they pitch it over, but uncafe it when they put the bomb into the mortar, and cover it with gunpowderduft; which having taken fire by the flash of the powder in the chamber of the mortar, burns all the time the bomb is in the air; and the compofition in the fusee being spent, it fires the powder in the bomb, which burfts with great force, blowing up whatever is about it. The great height a bomb goes in the air, and the force with which it falls, makes it go deep into the earth.

Bombs may be used without mortar-pieces, as was done by the Venetians at Candia, when the Turks had poffeffed themselves of the ditch, rolling down bombs upon them along a plank fet floping towards their works, with ledges on the fides, to keep the bomb right for ward. They are fometimes alfo buried under ground to blow up. See CAISSON.-Bombs came not into common ufe before the year 1634, and then only in the Dutch and Spanish armies. One Malthus an Englifh engineer is faid to have firit carried them into France, where they were put in ufe at the fiege of Collioufe. The French have lately invented a new fort of bombs of vaft weight called comminges.-The art of throwing bombs makes a branch of gunnery, founded on the theory of projectiles, and the laws and qualities of gunpowder. See GUNNERY, PROJECTILES, GUNPOWDER, &C.

BOMB-Cheft, is a kind of cheft filled ufually with bombs, fometimes only with gunpowder, placed under ground, to tear and blow it up in the air with those who ftand on it. Bomb-chefts were formerly much ufed to drive enemies from a poft they had seized or

were about to take poffeffion of: they were fet on fire by means of a fauciffee faltened at one end, but they are now much disused.

BOMB-Veels, which are fmall fhips formed for throwing bombs into a fortrefs, are faid to be the invention of M. Rayneau, and to have been firft ufed at the bombardment of Algiers. Till then it had been judged impracticable to bombard a place from the fea. See Ktch.

BOMBARD, apiece of ordnance anciently in ufe, exceedingly fhort and thick, and with a very large mouth. There have been bombards which have thrown a ball of 300 pound weight. They made ufe of cranes to load them. The bombard is by fome called bafilifk, and by the Dutch donder bass.

BOMBARDIER, a perfon employed about a mortar. His business is to drive the fufee, fix the fhell, and lead and fire the mortar.

BOMBARDIER, in zoology. See CARABUS. BOMBARDMENT, the havock committed in throwing bombs into a town or fortrefs.

BOMBARDO, a mufical inftrument of the wind kind, much the fame as the baffoon, and used as a bafs to the hautboy.

BOMBASINE, a name given to two forts of ftuffs, the one of filk, and the other croffed of cotton.

BOMBAST, in compofition, is a ferious endeavour, by ftrained defeription, to raife a low or familiar fubject beyond its rank; which, initead of being fublime, never fails to be ridiculous. The mind in fome animating paffions is indeed apt to magnify its objects beyond natural bounds: but fuch hyperbolical defcription has its limits; and, when carried beyond thefe, it degenerates into burlefque, as in the following example.

Sejanus.

Great and high,

The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
My roof receives me not; 'tis air I tread,
And at each step I feel my advanc'd head
Knock out a ftar in heaven.

SEJAN. of Ben. Johnfon, act 5. A writer who has no natural elevation of genius is extremely apt to deviate into bombait. He trains a bove his genius, and the violent effort he makes carries him generally beyond the bounds of propriety.

BOMBAX, or SILK-COTTON TREE: A genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the monodelphia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 37th order, Columnifera. The calyx is quinquefid: the ftamina are five or many: the capfule is ligneous, quinquelocular, and quinquevalved: the feeds are woolly, and the receptacle pentagonous.

Species. 1. The ceiba, with a prickly ftalk. 2. The pentandrum, with a smooth ftalk. 3. The heptaphyllum, with leaves cut into feven parts. The first and fecond forts grow naturally in both the Indies, where they arrive at a great magnitude, being fome of the largest trees in these parts; infomuch that Boiman fays he has feen in Guinea, trees of this kind fo widely diffufed that 20,000 armed men might stand under the branches of one. They generally grow with very ftraight ftems. Thofe of the firft fort are armed with fhort ftrong fpines; but the fecond hath very smooth ftems, which in the young plant are of a bright green; but after a few years they are covered with a grey

or afh-coloured bark, which turns brown as they Bombax, grow older. The branches toward the top are gar Bombay. nifhed with leaves compofed of five, feven, or nine oblong fmooth little leaves, which are fpear-shaped, and join to one common centre at their bafe, where they adhere to the long footftalk. The flower buds appear at the end of the branches; and foon after the flowers expand, which are compofed of five oblong purple petals, with a great number of ftamina in the centre : when thefe fall off, they are fucceeded by oval fruit as large as a fwan's egg, having a thick ligneous cover, which when ripe opens in five parts, and is full of a dark short cotton, inclofing many roundish feeds as large as fmall peas. The cotton of the third fort is of a fine purple colour, but the fize of the tree is not particularly mentioned by botanical writers. Befides thefe fpecies, Mr Miller mentions another which he faw in the gardens of the late duke of Richmond at Goodwood, and was raifed from feeds which came from the Eaft Indies. The ftem was very straight and fmooth, the leaves were produced round the top upon very long footitalks, each being compofed of feven or nine narrow filky fmall lobes, joined at their base to the footftalk in the fame manner as the firft and fecond; but they were much longer and reflected backward, fo that at first fight it appeared very different from either of them.

Culture. Thefe plants, being natives of warm climates, muft always be kept in a ftove. They are raised from feeds procured in the capfules from the places where they grow naturally. Thefe are to be fown in the fpring, in pots of light earth, plunged in a fubftantial hot-bed of dung or tan, where the plants will appear in three or four weeks. They must then be placed feparately in fmall pots, plunging them in the bark-bed, giving them fhade and water, and fhifting them occafionally into larger pots with fresh earth. They must be watered plentifully in fummer, but moderately in winter.

Ujes. The dark short cotton of the first two fpecies is ufed by the poorer inhabitants of thofe places where fuch trees grow to ftuff pillows or chairs, but is generally deemed unwholefome to lie upon. The beau tiful purple down of the third is fpun, wrought into clothes, and wore, without being dyed any other colour, by the inhabitants of the Spanish West Indies, where the tree naturally grows. Large pirogues, or canoes fit to carry a fail, are made both at Senegal, and in America, of the trunk of the filk-cotton tree, the wood of which is very light, and found unfit for any other purpose. In Columbus's firft voyage, fays Miller, it was reported that a canoe was feen at Cuba made of the hollowed trunk of one of thefe trees, which was 95 palms long, of a proportional width, and capable of containing 150 men.

BOMBAX, in zoology, a fynonime of a fpecies of CONUS.-Bombax is alfo ufed fometimes for filk or cotton; but the true botanic name of cotton is Gos SYPIUM. It is likewife applied by Linnaeus to fignity fuch infects as have incumbent wings, and feelers refembling a comb.

BOMBAY, an ifland in the East Indies near the coaft of Decan, fituated in N. Lat. 19. o. and E. Long. 73. 0. It has its prefent name from the Portuguese Buon-bahia, on account of the excellent bay

formed

Bombay. formed by it together with the winding of other iflands adjacent. The harbour is fpacious enough to contain any number of fhips, and has likewife excellent anchoring ground, affording alfo, by its land-locked fituation, a fhelter from any winds to which the mouth may be expofed.

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This ifland

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This ifland was formerly reckoned exceedingly unmore heal healthy, infomuch that it had the name of the burying ground of the English, though it is now fo far merly, and improved in this refpect as to be no worfe than any owhy. ther place in the East Indies under the fame parallel of latitude. The reafons of this unhealthinefs and the fubfequent improvements are enumerated by Mr Grofe. 1. The nature of the climate, and the precautions required by it, being lefs understood than they are at prefent. 2. Formerly there obtained a very pernicious practice of employing a fmall fry of fifh as manure for the cocoa-trees which grow in plenty on the island; though this has been denied by ethers, and perhaps with juftice, as the putrid effluvia of animal bodies feems See Agri-to be very effectually abforbed by the earth, when buried in it. All agree, however, that the habitations in the woods or cocoa-nut groves are unwholesome by reafon of the moisture and want of a free circulation of air. 3. Another caufe has been affigned for the fuperior healthiness of this ifland, viz. the leffening of the waters by the banking off a breach of the fea, though this does not appear fatisfactory to our author. There is ftill, fays he, a great body of falt water on the infide of the breach, the communication of which with the ocean being lefs free than before the breach was built, must be proportionably more apt to ftagnate, and to produce noxious vapours.

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Whatever may be the caufe, however, it is certain, that the island of Bombay no longer deferves its former character, provided a due degree of temperance be obferved; without which health cannot be expected in any warm climate.

The climate of Bombay feems to be drier than many other parts under the fame parallel. The rains last only four months of the year, but with fhort intermiffions. The fetting in of the rains is commonly ufhered in by a violent-thunder ftorm called there the Elephanta from its extraordinary violence. The air, however, is then agreeably cooled, and the exceffive heat, then nearly at its height, much moderated. The rains begin about the end of May, and go off in the beginning of September; after which there never falls any except a fhort tranfient fhower, and that but very rarely.

A very extraordinary circumftance is related by Mr the flag- Ives concerning the island of Bombay during the rainy nant pools feafon, viz. that, ten days after the rains fet in, every formed by pool and puddle fwarms with a fpecies of fifh about the rains. fix inches long and fomewhat refembling a mullet.

Such a phenomenon has occafioned various fpeculations. Some have imagined that the exhaling power of the fun is fo ftrong in the dry feasons as to be able to raise the spawn of these fishes into the atmosphere, and there fufpend and nourish it till the rains come on, when it drops down again in the state of living and perfectly formed fish. A lefs extravagant fuppofition is, that after the ponds become dry, the spawn may poffibly fall into deep fiffures below the apparent bottom, re

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maining there during the dry feafon, and being fup- Bombay. plied with a fufficient quantity of moisture to prevent it from corruption.

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The quantity of rain that falls at Bombay in one Account of feafon has been accurately measured by Mr Thomas, the quanti Mr Ives's predeceffor as hofpital furgeon. His ap- that falls paratus confifted of a lead cylinder about nine inches during the diameter, and as many deep, marked on the infide rainy fea with inches and tenths. To prevent the water from fun. fplashing over, he cut a hole two inches from the bottom, and placed the cylinder in a glazed earthen veffel; after which a wax-cloth was fecurely tied round it, fo as to cover the veffel, and prevent any water from getting in, excepting what paffed through the cylinder. When more than two inches fell, the hole in the fide was flopped with wax, and the water poured from the veffel into the cylinder to afcertain its quantity. It was kept in an open place free from houses, and measured at fix in the morning, noon, and fix in the evening. The following table fhows the quantity of rain, that fell from the 25th of May, when it firit began, though the fky looked cloudy over land from the beginning of the month. MAY 1756.

Days of

the month.

25

Quantity of

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8

JUNE.

9

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10

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12

13

14

4

15

9

16

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18

12

19

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20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

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Bombay.

Vegetable

SEPTEMBER.

the month.

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22

23

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24

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Whole quantity of rain in In.Tenths.

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44

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In this journal our author makes no mention of the elephanta above mentioned from Mr Grofe as the forerunner of the rainy feason, though he mentions a ftorm under that name on the 9th of October. It was an exceffive hard gale, with violent thunder, lightning, and rain; of which laft there fell two inches in no more than four hours. Neither is the quantity of thunder and lightning at all comparable to what people unacquainted with hot climates might be apt to expect. The only thunder-ftorms mentioned in the journal were on May 31ft, June 3d, 5th, 12th, 14th; September 7th, October 9th, an elephanta; and fome thunder on the 15th of the fame month.

The vegetable productions of Bombay are very inproductions fignificant. Mr Ives fays, that its "foil is fo barren of Bombay as not to produce any one thing worth mentioning" but afterwards informs us, that its "natural produce is the cocoa-nut tree, from which they extract a liquor called toddy. This is foft and mild when drunk immediately but if it ftands long, it gathers ftrength, and becomes very intoxicating; whence probably arofe the term to idy-headed. For each tree a tax of 20 8. a-year is paid to the company, which is appropriated towards maintaining the garrifon and fhips of war."

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Mr Grofe gives an account fomewhat different."The parts, or cocoa-nut groves, make the most confiderable part of the landed property, being planted wherever the fituation and foil is favourable to them. When a number of thefe groves lie contiguous to each other, they form what is called the woods; through which there is a due fpace left for roads and path ways, where one is pleasantly defended from the fun at all hours in the day. They are alfo thick fet with houfes belonging to the respective proprietors as well as with the huts of the poorer fort of people; but are very unwholesome for the reafons already given. As to the VOL. III. Part I.

"As to the rice fields, they differ in value, according to the finenefs and quantity of rice they produce.. The growth of this grain has a particularity not unworthy of notice, viz. that as it loves a watery foil, fo to whatever height the water rifes, wherever it is planted, the growth of the rice keeps measure with it, even to that of 12 and 14 feet; the fummit always appearing above the furface of the water. It is also remarked, that the eating of new rice affects the eyes. The fact is certain, though the phyfical reafon of it is unknown.

"Here and there are interfperfed fome few brab trees, or rather wild palm trees (the word brab being derived from brabo, which in the Portuguefe fignifies wild.) They bear an infipid kind of fruit, about the bigness of a common pear; but the chief profit from them is the toddy, or liquor drawn from them by incifions at the top, of which the arrack is reckoned better than that produced by the cocoa-nut trees. They are generally near the fea-fide, as they delight most in a fandy foil. It is on this tree that the toddy birds, fo called from their attachment to it, make their exquifitely curious nefts, wrought out of the thinneft reeds and filaments of branches, with an inimitable mechanifm. The birds themselves are about the fize of a partridge, but are of no value either for plumage, song,

Among the curiofities of Bombay Mr Ives mentions Curiofities a large terapin or land tortoife kept at the governor's in this houfe, the age of which was upwards of 200 years. Frogs, which abound every where through the East Indies, are very large at Bombay. Our author faw one that measured 22 inches from the extremities of the fore and hind feet when extended; and he fuppofes that its weight would not have been lefs than four or five pounds. On the fea-fhore round the island are a great variety of beautiful fhells, particularly the fort called ventle-traps or wendle-traps, held in great efteem among the ladies fome time ago. Several pounds Sterling are faid to have been given by a virtuofo for one of thefe fhells when the Commodore Leflie's collection of fhells was fold by auction.