Baulois

A piece of punk stuff used by miners for firing a train. Baumee'an, or BAMIAN, a town of Cabul, and the Thebes of the East, in the country of the Hazanrehs, on the face of the Koh-i-Baba range of mountains, 56 m. W.N.W. of Cabul. Lat. 34° 34′ N.; Lon. 68° S' E. The valley, on one declivity of which it stands, contains many caves, dug in a sort of indurated clay and pebbles, and in which rings and relics, coins, ., bearing Cufic inscriptions, are found; but B. is chiefly celebrated for two gigantic male and female figures cut in alto - relievo , on the face of the mountain, and supposed to be Buddhic. The male is the largest, and about 120 feet high. but is considerably mutilated. They are not mentioned by any of the historians of Alexander the Great, but are referred to by those of Timour the Great.