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Anything counterfeit; spurious; not genu- Bohemian Brethren. See MORAVIAN BRETHREN. ine. (American.) Bogwangola, an inland town of Hindostan, pres. Bengal, 8 m. N.E. of Moor shed a bad; Lat. 24° 21' Ν., Lon. 88° 29' E. It is built entirely of bamboo, mats, and thatch, but po e es a considerable trade in grain. Bog'-wort, n. ( Bot .) See VACCINIUM. Bohain, ( bo - ang ' ,) a town of France, dep. Aisne, 16 m. N.N.E. of St. Quentin. Manf. German clocks, shawls, and gauzes. Рор . 5,556. Bohea, ( bō -he',) n. [From a mountain in China called Vou -y or Voo -y.] ( Com .) A sort of coarse or low-priced black tea from China, including Souchong, Pekoe , and Congou . Bohemond, or Boëmond, (bo'he-mond,) first sov- ereign of Antioch, was son of Robert Guiscard, and distinguished himself in the first crusade, in 1096. He besieged and took Antioch, of which he was made Prince by the Crusaders, and established there a little kingdom, which existed nearly 200 years. Besieged by the Sara- cens, he completely defeated them; but was soon after captured, and remained their prisoner two years. He subsequently visited Europe, married a daughter of the King of France, and got the emperor to acknowledge his title. Died in Italy, 1111. - Six princes of his name succeeded him in the sovereignty of Antioch, the last, B. VII., being dethroned in 1288. Bohermeen', a village of Ireland, co. Meath, 5 m. W.N. W. of Navan. Bohemia, (KINGDOM OF,) [Ger. Böhmen ; Boh. Czech , an inland country, occupying the centre of Europe, and forming an important division of the Austrian empire, between Lat. 48° 33′ and 51° 3′ N., and Lon. 12° 5′ and 16° 46' E.; having N.E. Pru ian Silesia, N. and N.W. Bo'hon, in Kentucky , a post-office of Mercer co. Saxony, S.W. Bavaria, and S. and S.E. the arch-duchy of Austria and Moravia. In shape it is an irregular room- boid; its greatest length E. and W. 200 m.; and breadth, N. to S., 170 m. Area . 20,285 sq. m.- Desc . B. is a basin surrounded on every side by mountain ranges, which in some parts rise to upwards of 5,000 ft. in height. The principal of these chains are the Fichtelgebirge, Erz- gebirge, (highest point, the Schwarzwald , about 4,000 ft.,) Mittelgebirge, Riesengebirge, and Sudetengebirge, the loftiest elevation of which, the Snow Cap , is from 5,200 to 5,400 feet high. The S.W. border is formed by the Böhmerwald , or Bohemian Forest mountains, which are wild and precipitous, and contrast remarkably with the Moravian chain in the S.E., which is of gentle as- cent, and separates the affluents of the Elbe from those of the Danube. B. is drained by the Elbe, and its afflu- ents the Moldau, Adler, Iser, Eger, . -Min . Coal, iron, and occasionally silver, are found. The mineral springs of Töplitz, Carlsbad, and Seidlitz, have a European reputa- tion.- Clim . Healthy, and, generally, inclining to cold. Soil and Agric. Very fertile, producing the cereals, hops, and flax and hemp, which latter articles form the staple industry of the country. Agriculture is, however, gen- erally in a backward state. The forests are extensive, and yield annually above 2,000,000 cubic fathoms of wood.- Manf . Linens, yarns, lace, woollens, paper, gla , beet-root sugar, metals, . Owing to the want of capi- tal, many of the great landed proprietors were obliged to engage in manufactures. Thus, Prince Kinsky, and Counts Harrach and Boucquoy, were the greatest gla manufacturers; Prince Auersperg manufactured sulphur, vitriol, and colors; Count Urbna and Prince Windisch- grätz, tin-plates; Count Thun, porcelain; Prince Lob- kowitz, earthenware; Prince Wal lens tein, beet-root su- gar, .- Inhab . About 2 of the inhabitants are Czechs of Slavonic origin; the remainder are Germans and Jews. The German population is more industrious, en- terprising, and intelligent, than the Slavonic. Both German and Bohemian are spoken by all cla es of s0- ciety. The people are handsome, gay, fond of music and dancing, and generally of more attractive manners than their Saxon neighbors. There is absolutely no middle cla , and with the exception of Prague, there are no great towns, as foci , whence intelligence and civilization are diffused over a country. The Bohemian character is, for morality, quite on a par with other countries. - Religion . Roman Catholic, but entire tolera- tion prevails. Education is well diffused, and a native literature is springing up. - Gort. B. is governed by an Austrian viceroy, and the country has its own repre- sentative diets. Pop ., 1890, 5,843,094. Cap . , Prague. B. is more densely populated than any other part of the Aus- tri an empire. Hist . After innumerable mutations, B. , with Hungary and Transylvania, fell, in 1526, under the dominion of Ferdinand of Austria, brother of Charles V., who had married the sister and heire of Louis, King of Bohemia and Hungary, killed at the battle of Mohacz. B. was at this period in the enjoyment of a comparatively free constitution, and three-fourths of the people were attached to the reformed faith. The attempts of the Austrian sovereigns to undermine the free institutions of the country, provoked a desperate contest, which contin- ued till 1620, when the Austrian troops totally defeated the Bohemians at the battle of We is sen berg, near Prague. The persecution which followed has seldom or never been surpa ed for atrocity. Many of the best and no- blest Bohemian citizens lost their lives on the scaffold, and you sands were exiled, and had their estates conf is- cated. The free constitution of the country was ann i- hilated; the Protestant religion all but extirpated; and such was the combined influence of ma acre and exile, that in 1637, the pop. did not exceed 780,000. Subse- quently, German emigration into this country received the sanction of the government, and in the reigns of Maria The res a and Joseph II. a new era began; and the milder and more liberal system of government which they introduced has since been followed up. B. was, in 1867, the theatre of the brief but decisive war between Austria and Pru ia. See Born. Bohemia, in Wisconsin, a village of La Cro e co. Bohemia Creek, in Maryland, emptying into Elk river. Bohemia Mills, in Maryland, a village of Cecil co. the inside of a horse's hough.