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(Games.) A game played by 4 persons with two-packs of cards. It is the most complicated of all games of cards, and is said to have been introduced into France by Benjamin Franklin, who gave it the name of his native city. Boswell, JAMES, a Scottish gentleman b. at Edinburgh, 1740. He studied for the'bar and, in 1763, when visiting London, formed an acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, the great lexicographer. On his return from a tour in Italy, he published An Account of Corsica, with Memoirs of General Paoli, 8vo., a work containing a good deal of IMG:content-0719.png:[graphic] SUBWAY (UNDER CONSTRUCTION). interesting information, but displaying the ardent character and amusing egotism of the author in so singular a manner as to expose him to the satirical censure of the critics. In 1773, he accompanied his friend Johnson on a tour to the Scottish Highlands and the He brides, of which excursion he published A Journal , in 1785. Dr. Johnson died in 1784, and B. began to prepare for the pre memoirs of his "illustrious friend," for which he had been collecting materials during nearly the whole course of their intimacy. This work, entitled The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. , was published in 2 vols. 4to., in 1791, and has been repeatedly reprinted. The stores of literary anecdote in this production, the information it displays relative to the habits, manners, and conversation of Johnson, and the romantic attachment of the author to his subject, render this book one of the most entertaining pieces of biography in the English language. D. 1795. Bos'well, in Ohio , post-office of Mahoning co. Bos well i a, n. ( Bot . ) A genus of plants, order Amyridacea. The most important species is B. thurifer a, a tree which grows to a large size, in hilly situations, from the Coromandel coast to the central parts of India. This plant is the source of the valuable gum-resin known as Indian olibanum. B. papyri fer a , a native of Aby in i a, also yields a fragrant gum-resin, and is further remarkable on account of its inner bark, which peels off in thin white layers like paper.-See OLIBANUM.