in zoology. See Vespertilio.

**Bat-Fowling**, a method of catching birds in the night, by lighting some straw, or torches, near the place where they are at roost; for upon beating them up, they fly to the flame, where being amazed, they are easily caught in nets, or beat down with bushes fixed to the end of poles, &c.

**Bat**, **Bate**, or **Batz**, a small copper coin, mixed with a little silver, current in several cities of Germany; it is worth four cruziers. It is also a coin in Switzerland, current at five livres, or 100 sols, French money.

**Batable Ground**, that land which lay between Scotland and England, when the kingdoms were divided, to which both nations pretended a right.

**Batacalo**, a small kingdom on the coast of Malabar in the East Indies. It had a very large town of the same name; but there is nothing now left, except 11 or 12 small pagodas covered with copper and stone. The country produces a good deal of pepper; the English formerly had a factory here; but were all massacred by the natives, because one of their bull-dogs had killed a consecrated cow.

**Batacalo**, a fortified town and castle on the east coast of the island of Ceylon in the East Indies. The Dutch drove away the Portuguese, and possessed themselves of part of the adjacent country. E. Long. 18°. N. Lat. 7°. 55'.

**Batanists**, or **Batenites**. See Batenites.

**Batasek**, a town of lower Hungary, seated on the Danube, in E. Long. 19°. 50'. N. Lat. 46°. 30'.

**Batava**, (Cupra understood), a citadel of Vindelicia, so called from the Cohors Batava, in garrison under the commander in Rhaetia; now Paffau; being first