BALAAM

a Midi jan it ish prophet, to whom ea nny of ce eee re <a ae, m curse the Israclites. Hie, evened: at last, to go with the amba adors to Balak, but was constrained to pronounce a Sa instead of a curse (Num. xxii.- xxiv.). BALAKLA’VA, a small port with s land-locked harbour, in the south-west of the Crimea, about six miles from Sevastopol. It formed the British base of operations during the Crime an War, and a valléy near the town was the scene of the charges of the “*‘ Heavy Brigade,” and of the * Six Hundred,” 25th October, 1854. _ [s. 61]