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and has a length of 50 miles, a breadth of 3 to 10 miles, and an area, including marshes, 420 square miles. The water is slightly saline, abounds in fish. It is fed by the river Szala many small streams, and drains into the In 1865 it became nearly dry, but has filled, though a good deal of the swampy land been reclaimed. It is liable to peculiar dis apparently of subaqucous origin. Balbi, ADRIAN, born at Venice in 1782, and still young appointed profe or there of and natural philosophy. In 1820 he to Portugal and wrote a statistical work on country, which brought him into notice. In he published his Geographical Atlas, embracing latest speculations of Adelung and the German His Abridgment of Geography was a very popular work. He spent the last sixteen of his life at Padua, where he died in 1848, Balbi, GASPALD, a native of Venice, who, for purpose of trading in precious stones, started Aleppo in 1579 and travelled extensively in East, visiting Ormuz, Goa, Cochin, and Pegu. his return in 1588 he wrote a graphic and account of his journey, and soon after died. Balbo, CesARE, was born at Turin in 1789, being son of a high official at the Piedmontese court. 1798 he went to Paris, and at the age of 18 the service of Napoleon. After the fall of master he was employed by the government of in diplomatic mi ions to Paris and but lost his political status through the of 1821. Permitted to return to his in a mere private capacity, he devoted him to literature and produced a life of Dante, historical works, and e ays advocating the of Italy. He died in 1853. Balboa, Vasco NuNez ps, born in Estrema- Spain, in 1475, of a poor but noble family, in 1501 for the Spanish Main, to better his For nine years his history is obscure, but 1510 he accompanied Enciso from St. Domingo Darien, where he raised a settlement and was up in the wretched intrigues that always the Spanish explorers. In 1513, acting on information of a friendly cacique, he pushed ) southwards, and His but much he from However, maintained years. thought credit on and of Balbriggan was early 1697. after de upon acquitted ve els admiral mand he mander-in-chief was of summer year, Hardy, by not ship, 1,150 Alderney, John’s to with on pillars introduced ° Baaldak, adorned over durable in the the rich East, bald acc hi no don, structure son beautiful dreams, Balder. entered the continent of South America, was the first European to behold the Pacific.. kindly treatment of the Indians, and his firm judicious handling of his followers contributed towards his succe . On his return to Darien found that Pedrariaz (Davila) had been sent out Spain as governor with orders to arrest. him, friendly relations were established and with more or le constancy for two Then the jealousy of the governor, who ‘that Balboa was gaining independent and influence, led to the arrest of the latter an old charge. He was found guilty, condemned, beheaded at Ada, in 1517. Balbriggan, © watering place 21 miles E.N.E. Dublin. It gives its name to the well-known hosiery. Balchen, Jorn, a distinguished British admiral, born on February 2nd, 1669, and having, in life, entered the navy, became a captain in In 1707, as captain of the Chester, 50, he was, a gallant fight, taken prisoner by the Chevalier Forbin in the engagement off the Lizard, but trial by court-martial was most honourably of blame. He commanded many other with credit, but was not promoted rear until 1728. In 1731 he was second in com at the occupation of Leghorn; in 1733 was made a vice-admiral; in 1739 he was com in the Mediterranean; in 1743 he promoted to admiral; in 1744, while governor Green wich Hospital, he was knighted; and in the of the same year, being in his seventy-sixth he sailed with a fleet to relieve Sir Charles who was at the time blockaded in the Tagus the French. He executed his mi ion but did live to return. On October 7th, 1744, his flag the Victory, of 110 guns, with a crew of about officers and men, struck on the Caskets, off and every soul on board perished. Sir body was not recovered; but a monument his memory stands in Westminster Abbey. Balcony (Ital. balcone), a projecting gallery balustrade in front of the window, supported consoles or brackets fixed in the wall, or by resting on the ground below. It is first in Italian architecture. Baldachin, BALD ACC HI NO (probably from a medieval corruption of Bagdad), a richly canopy in the form of a tent or umbrella a throne, pulpit, or altar; frequently of some material, as that cast in bronze by Bernini St. Peter’s at Rome. The name is also given to canopy borne in Roman Catholic countries over priest who carries the Host. Canopies made of stuffs were frequently sent as presents in the whence the name. The proposal to erect a in St. Barnabas’ Church, Pimlico, Lonled to a legal decision (in 1873) that such a would be illegal in an Anglican church.