Ba'ba, Cape

(in Turkish, Baba-Bournou,) is the Cape Lectum of the Greeks. It is a rocky bold headland of Anatolia, north-west of the northern extremity of the Gulf of Adramati, the ancient Adramyttium, and between the islands of Lesbos (now Mitylene) and Tenedos, which preserves its ancient name. The cape, which is scarcely twelve miles distant from the northern extremity of Lesbos, is in 39° 30′ N. Lat., and 26° E. Lon. - A small town, called by the same name, and sometimes St. Mary's, stands on a shelving point of Cape Baba, immediately above the sea. Baba-Dagh, ( ba'ba - da,) a town of European Turkey, It has several mosques, and a considerable trade through the port of Kara Kerman, ceded to Roumania under Berlin treaty, 1878. P. 7,000. Babbage, CHARLES, P. R. 8., an eminent English ma thematic i an and mechanical inventor; в. 26th Dec., 1792. The laborious calculations nece ary in constructing tables of logarithms, early called his attention to the value of any invention which should substitute for mental calculation the more precise principle of mechanism. He commenced observations and experiments on this subject, and made a tour to the continent of Europe, with the view of studying the various pieces of mechanism employed in the arts. On his return he published his Economy of Manufactures and Machinery. This work Blanqui, the French economist, has described as a hymn to machinery. In 1828, B. was appointed Profe or of Mathematics at Cambridge University. In 1833, he introduced his calculating machine, which was at once adapted both to calculating and printing, and its value may be better estimated from the fact, that a table of logarithms of all natural numbers, ranging from 1 to 100,000, was produced, free from error, by its agency. B. is a member of nearly all the learned societies of Europe and America. His great work, already referred to, has been translated into most European languages, and has been reprinted in the U. States. B. was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society, and of the British A ociation for the Adv. of Science. D. 1871. Babahoyo, ( baba -ho'yo,) a town of S. America, in Ecuador, 20 m. N. of Guayaquil, on the Caracol. Bab-at-the-Bow's ter, n. ( Pastimes .) An old English dance, which somewhat resembles the cushion dance, q . v., save that a bolster, as the name indicates, supplies the place of the pillow. It is still danced in Scotland, and is always the winding up at "Kirns," and other merry-makings, as, in England, is Sir Roger De Coverley, that well known country-dance.