Bocholt

Bocholt (Boh'holt), a town of Prussia, on the Aa, 13 miles N. of Wesel by rail, with manufactures of cotton and machinery. Pop. 20,576.

Bochum

Bochum (Boh'hoom), a Prussian town, 35 m. NE. of Dusseldorf by rail. Besides great steel and iron works, it has manufactures of carpets, etc, with coal-mines near. Pop. 70,000.

Boddam

Boddam, a fishing-village of Aberdeenshire, 3 1/2 miles S. of Peterhead. Pop. 800.

Boden-See

Boden-See. See Constance, Lake of.

Bodmin

Bodmin, the county town of Cornwall, in the middle of the county, 30 miles NNW. of Plymouth. It arose out of a priory, founded in 936 or earlier; and till 1868 returned two members, then till 1885 one. Pop. 5500.

Bodyke

Bodyke, an estate in County Clare, 16 miles N. of Limerick, well known through its evictions (1887).

Bodys Island

Body's Island, a long, narrow strip of sand, off North Carolina, with a lighthouse (150 feet), the highest in the United States.

Bœotia

Bœotia, an ancient political division of Greece, now forming with Attica a province of the modern kingdom, with an area of 2472 sq. m., and a joint pop. of 314,000.

Boghaz-Keui

Boghaz-Keui (anc. Pteria), a village of Asia Minor, in Angora province, 150 miles S. of Sinope. In its vicinity is a vast ruined temple.

Bognor

Bognor, a Sussex watering-place, 9 1/2 miles SE. of Chichester by rail. Founded in 1786 by a London hatter, Sir R. Hotham, it has an iron pier (1865) 1000 feet long, and a good esplanade. Pop. 6200.

Bogodukhof

Bogodukhof, a cathedral town of Russia, 43 miles NW. of Kharkoff. Pop. 10,904.

Boguslav

Boguslav, a town of Russia, 70 miles SSE. of Kieff. Pop. 9030.

Bois-de-Boulogne

Bois-de-Boulogne. See Boulogne.

Boise

Boise (pron. Boiz; formerly called Boise City), the capital of Idaho, U.S., and a centre of the silver industry, near the Boise River, 520 miles NE. of San Francisco. Pop. 7311.

Bois-le-Duc

Bois-le-Duc (Bwah-leli-Duk'; Dutch 's Hertogen-bosch, ' Duke's Forest'), a Dutch city, capital of N. Brabant, at the junction of the Dommel and the Aa, 28 miles SSE. of Utrecht by rail. Strongly fortified till 1876, it is the seat of a Catholic archbishop, and has a very fine cathedral (1312-1498), arsenal, etc. Iron-founding, book-printing, the making of beer, spirits, woollens, cigars, jewellery, linen-thread, ribbons, and cutlery are industries. Bois-le-Duc was founded in 1184 by Godfrey III., Duke of Brabant, in a wood, hence its name. Surrendered to the Dutch in 1629, in 1794 it was taken by the French, in 1814 by the Prussians. Pop. 35,000.

Bojador

Bojador (Bo-ya-dor'), Cape, a headland on the west coast of Africa, in 26° 7' N. lat., 14° 29' W. long. The Portuguese doubled this cape in 1432.

Bojano

Bojano (Bo-yah'no), an Italian cathedral city, 13 miles SW. of Campobasso. Pop. 3506.

Bolan Pass

Bolan' Pass, a narrow, precipitous gorge, ascending nearly 55 miles north-westward to the broad plateau of Dasht-i-Bidaulat, in Beluchistan, and lying pretty directly between Sind and Kandahar. Its entrance and its outlet are respectively 800 and 5800 feet above the sea, it thus having an average gradient of fully 90 feet to the mile. Down the pass pours a torrent, now at many points bridged by a good military road; and in 1885-86 a military railway was laid. In parts of it there are three rails, the central one being toothed to catch a cogwheel on the engine. The route is highly defensible, and is commanded by the fortress at Quetta (since 1877 British), 25 miles from the upper end. It is overhung by eminences attaining a height of 800 feet.