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LEFT BORDEB STATES 116 BORGIA Delaware and Raritan canal, and the Pennsylvania railroad; 57 miles S. W. of New York City. It is noted as being a former residence of Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I. and for many years the house and grounds belonging to the estate possessed much interest for the tourist. The city is the seat of the Bordentown Military Institute, and other educational institutions. There are steam forge and iron works, foundry and ma- chine shops, worsted mills, canning fac- tories, a shipyard and other industries. Pop. (1910) 4,250; (1920) 4,371. BORDER STATES, a name applied during the American Civil War to Dela- ware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, because they lay on the border line between the Free and the Slave States. BORE, or EAGRE, a sudden influx of the tide into the estuary of a river from the sea, the inflowing water rising to a considerable height and advancing like a wall against the current. The most cele- brated bores in the Old World are those of the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra. The last is said to rise to a height of 12 feet. In some rivers in Brazil it rises to the height of 12 to 16 feet. In Great Britain the bore is observed more es- pecially in the Severn, Trent, Wye, and Solway. BORE, in metallurgy, a tool bored to fit the shank of a forged nail, and adapted to hold it while the head is brought to shape by the hammer. The depression in the face of the bore is adapted to the shape required of the chamfered under part of the head. The word is also applied to the cavity of a steam engine cylinder, pump barrel, pipe, cannon, barrel of a firearm, etc. In me- chanics it is expressed in inches of diam- eter; in cannon formerly in the weight in pounds of solid round shot adapted thereto, but since the introduction of modem rifled ordnance of the breech- loading pattern, the bore of cannon is always expressed in inches of diameter or in the equivalent of inches. BOREAS, a bellowing wind ; the north- em wind; a cold northerly wind. In mythology, the son of Astraeus and Eos, usually worshipped as the god of the north wind. The assiduity with which the worship of Boreas was cultivated at Athens proceeded from gratitude, the north wind having on one occasion de- stroyed the fleet of the Persians when meditating the invasion of Attica. A similar cause induced the inhabitants of Megalopolis to consider Boreas as their peculiar divinity, in whose honor they in- stituted an annual festival. Boreas was usually represented with wings dripping with golden dewdrops, and the train of his gannent sweeping along the ground. BORECOLE, a variety of bvassica olerdcea, a cabbage with the leaves curled or wrinkled, and having no disposition to form into a hard head. BORER, a name common to many in- sects of the Linnaean genus ptimis, the tribe ptiniores of Latrielle, coleopterous insects of small size, the larvae of which — small, white, soft, wormlike creatures^ with six minute feet — are furnished with strong, cutting jaws, by means of which they eat their way in old wood and simi- lar substances, boring little holes as if made with a fine drill. More usually ap- plied to the larvas of the longieorn beetles. Borers are very destructive to fruit and ornamental trees. BORGHESE (bor-ge'ze), a Roman family, originally of Sienna, where it held the highest offices from the middle of the 15th century. Pope Paul V., who be- longed to this family, and ascended the Papal chair in 1605, loaded his relations with honors and riches. He bestowed, among other gifts, the principality of Sulmone on Marco Antonio Borghese, the son of his brother Giovanni Battista, from whom is descended the present Borghese family. Borghese, Camillo, Prince, was born in 1775; died in 1832. When the French invaded Italy he en- tered their service, and, in 1803, he mar- ried Marie Pauline, the sister of Napo- leon (born at Ajaccio, 1780, died at Flor- ence, 1825). In 1806 he was created Duke of Guastalla, and was appointed Governor-General of the provinces be- yond the Alps. He fixed his court at Turin, and became very popular among the Piedmontese. After the abdication of Napoleon he broke up all connection with the Bonaparte family, and sep- arated from his wife. The Borghese Palace at Rome was begun in 1590, and completed by Paul V. It contains one of the richest collections of art in the city. BORGIA, CESARE (bor'je-a), the natural son of Pope Alexander VI., and of a Roman lady named Vanozza, born in 1478. He was raised to the rank of v Cardinal in 1492, but afterward divested himself of the office, and was made Due de Valentinois by Louis XII. In 1499 he married a daughter of King John of Navarre, and accompanied Louis XII. to Italy. He then, at the head of a body of mercenaries, carried on a series of