in Fabulous History, an aged couple who dwelt in a cottage in Phrygia. Jupiter and Mercury, disguised as mortals, were well received by this venerable pair, after having been refused entertainment by every body else. To punish the people for their inhunansity, they laid the country under water, but removed Baucis and Philemon to the top of a mountain, where they saw the deluge, and their own little hut above the waters changed into a temple. Here the grateful gods promised to confer on their entertainers whatever boon they might solicit. They expressed a desire to officiate in this temple as priest and priestess, and to die at the same moment; both of which requests were granted. Ovid, Met. viii.

BAUDELOCQUE, Jean-Louis, an eminent French surgeon and accoucheur, appointed by Napoleon to attend the Empress Maria-Louisa in the latter capacity. He was the author of L'Art des Accouchements, and numerous other works on the diseases of women and children. He died in 1810, aged sixty-four.