province of Sweden, at the end of the gulf of the same name. It is divided into two parts called east and west Bothnia, the former of which belongs to Finland. West Bothnia is full of mountains; the earth is sandy, and yet a scarcity of provisions is seldom known. Cattle and game are so common, salmon and a sort of herrings to plenty, and the trade of skins is so gainful, that the inhabitants can command what they want from their neighbours. There are only two towns worth mentioning, viz. Tornoea and Umea. The inhabitants of this province are Protestants; and are a civil well-behaved people.

Botrys, Botrus, or Bofra, in Ancient Geography, a town of Phoenicia, on the Mediterranean, built by Saturn, (a proof at least of antiquity); twelve miles to the north of Byblus, and twenty to the south of Tripolis. Now almost in ruins, and called Boteron, or Boturn, (Postellus). E. Long. 37° 30'. N. Lat. 34° 6'.

Bott, among bone-lace weavers, a kind of round cushion of light matter placed on the knee, whereon they work or weave their lace with bobbins, &c.

Bott, in Zoology. See Botts.

Botticelli, Sandro, or Alessandro, born at Florence in 1437, learned the rudiments of painting under Filippo Lippi. He executed several pictures for Pope Sixtus IV. and others for the city of Florence: for these he received large sums of money, all of which he expended, and died at last in great distress, aged 78. He was not only a painter but a man of letters. Baldini, according to the general report, communicated to him the secret of engraving, then newly discovered by Finiguerra their townman. The famous edition of Dante's Poem of Hell, printed at Florence by Nicholo Lorenzo della Magna, A.D. 1481, and to which, according to some authors, Botticelli undertook to write notes, was evidently intended to have been ornamented with prints, one for each canto; and these prints (as many of them as were finished) were designed, if not engraved, by Botticelli. It is remarkable, that the two first plates only were printed upon the leaves of the book, and for want of a blank space at the head of the first canto, the plate belonging to it is placed at the bottom of the page. Blank spaces are left for all the rest; that as many of them as were finished might be pasted on. Mr Wilbraham possesses the finest copy of this book extant in any private library; and the number of prints in it amounts to nineteen. The two first, as usual, are printed on the leaves; and the other seventeen, which follow regularly, are pasted on the blank spaces; and these apparently were all that Botticelli ever executed. About the the year 1460, it is said that he engraved a set of plates, representing the Prophets and Sibyls. Bafan tells us that he marked these plates with a monogram composed of an A and a B joined together.