town of Asia, 50 miles west from Agra, in the dominions of the Great Mogul, remarkable for its excellent indigo. E. Long. 77. 0. N. Lat. 26. 20.

Bianchi, Francesco, called Il Frari, an eminent painter, was born at Modena; and had the honour of being matter to one of the most esteemed painters that ever appeared, Antonio Corregio. His colouring was delicately fine; his attitudes full of grace; and his invention extremely grand. His works had an astonishing beauty, and are prized as highly as even those of Corregio. He died in 1520.

Bianchini, Francis, one of the most learned men of his time, was born at Verona in 1662, of a noble and ancient family. His taste for natural philosophy and mathematics induced him to establish the academy at Aletofili, at Verona. He went to Rome in 1684; and was made librarian to Cardinal Ottoboni, who was afterwards pope under the name of Alexander VIII. He also became canon of St Mary de la Rotonda, and at length of St Lawrence in Damaso. He was esteemed by the learned; and was a member of many academies. He published several ingenious dissertations, &c., and died in 1729, aged 67.