BOECE 82 BOERS lbs. oz. grs. ^. speciosa, the wild rhea, also yields a Water Ill ^ ^ very strong fiber, which is much used in «eiatine '.'.'.'.',.'. 12 the East. B. nivea, the tch<m ma oi the Albumen..'.'. .....'..'•■ ■■■■■• 430 Chinese, is now known to yield the_ fiber Fibrine t -it n i^sed in the manufacture of the beauti- Phoaphate of lime 5 1^ o j^j fabric Called Chinese grass cloth. Carbonate of lime •*■ ]i V! mi. j. • _j. x • r> Fluoride of calcium 3 The most important species, B. mvea or Chloride of sodium 3 376 tenacissivta, is best known by the more Shit of^odr'T; .•.•.•.•.;.■.• ? 17? common name. Ramie. JSosXteofloda : '. '. S I 4()o B<EOTIA (be-o'sha), a division of Sulphate of potash 400 ancient Greece, lying between Attica and Peroxide of iron 150 Phocis, and bounded E. and W. by the Phosphate of potash. 105 Euboean Sea and the Corinthian Gulf re- lluconT..!^^^'!^.^::: :::::■' Sol spectlvely, had an area of 1,119 square ^^^^.r^ /u • ■t-r-onrrr.-o miles. The whole country is surrounded BOECE, or BOYCE (j'Ois), HECTOR, ^ mountains, on the S. Mts. Cithseron a Scottish historian, bom m Dundee ^^^ Pames, on the W. Mt. Helicon, on about 1465. He studied first at Dundee, ^^^ j^ ^^^ Parnassus and the Opuntian and then at the ^jiiversity of Paiis, Mountains, which also closed it in on the where he became Professor of Philosophy ^ ^j^ . ^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^ephis- in the College ^^ M^^^^^g"' f^^^, J"? ^.^h^ «»«. the waters of which form Lake Co- acquaintance of Erasmus About 1500 he . -^^ g ^ ^ Asopus, which flows quitted Paris to assume the principalship f^t^ '^he Euboean Sea. Th4 inhabitants of the newly ^o^^in^ed university of King s ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ j^^^.^^ ^^ ^^^ College, Aberdeen. I^.^^?? aPP^«;^t *?^ towns formed a kind oi republic, of "History of Scotland" m Latin on which ^^^^^ ^j,^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^.^^ ^.^^ ^^^^_ his fame chiefly rests. In 1536 a trans- j^^^ndas and Pelopidas raised Thebes for lation of his history was pub i shed made ^ ^j^^ ^^ ^^^ ^.^^^^ ^^^j^ ^^ ^.^^^^^^ by John Ballentyne or Bellenden, for g^^^^^ The term Boeotian was used by James V. He died m l&db. ^j^^ Athenians as a synonym for dullness, BOEHME, JAKOB (be'me), a German but somewhat unjustly, since Hesiod, mystical writer, bom in 1575. He was Pindar, the poetess Corinna, and Plu- apprenticed to a shoemaker in his 14th tarch were Boeotians. Fop. about 70,000, year; and 10 years later he was settled mostly Albanians. at Gorlitz as a master tradesman, and .,^«„^„..„„ „^.,>,, .,,„ /, , .., married a butcher's daughter of the BOERHAAVE, HERMANN (ber-ha'- town. He was much persecuted by the ^e), a Dutch physician, born near Ley- religious authorities, and at his death den, in 1668. He was educated at the Uni- the rites of the Church were but grudg- Y^rsity of Leyden for the Church, but at ingly administered to him. He imagined 22 studied medicine. In 1709 he was ap- himself favored by divine inspiration, pointed Professor of Medicine and Bot- His first work appeared in 1616, and was ^"y- Practical Medicine and Chemistry called "Aurora." It contains his reve- were afterward assigned to him, and he lations on God, man, and nature. Among ""ed them with the greatest distinction his other works are "De tribus Prin- He became Rector of the University, and cipiis," "De Signatura Rerum," "Mys- was admitted to the French Academy of terium Magnum," etc. His writings all Sciences, and, m 1730, to the Royal Soci- aim at religious edification, but his phi- ^ty of London. He enjoyed a reputation losophy is very obscure and often fan- almost unparalleled ; his system was gen- tastic. A sect, taking their Yiame from orally adopted and patients went, or Boehme, was formed in England. He wrote, to him from all parts of Europe, died in 1624. "^s fame rests principally on his "Insti- -nrci-cT-.r-r.-.lxA j- i ^ , tutionos MedicsB," published in 1708, BCEHMERIA, a genus of plants, order translated into all European languages; urttcoce*. From several species valu- ^nd "Aphorismi de Cognoscendis et Cu- able fibers are obtained. B frutescens, y^ndis Morbis." He died in 1738. or puya, a plant growing wild m Nepaul and Sikkim, is the source of the cele- BOERS, a Dutch word meaning brated pooah fiber, which rivals the best farmers, and applied to the descendants European flax for tenacity. This species of the emigrants from Holland who made attains the height of six or eight feet; a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in but the stem is usually very slender. It 1652. They gradually subdued the Wil- is cut dov>rn for use when the seed is demess; planted trees; built farm houses formed; the bark is then peeled off, dried, and farms; and spread civilization over boiled with wood ashes, and beaten with an ever gi'owing territory. In 1796 the mallets, to separate its component fibers, settlement was seized by the British as
