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 BOOTHAUK BOPPAKD 87 dent, and some members of the cabinet. On the evening of April 14, 1865, the president was at the theatre in Washington. Booth gained access to his box, discharged a fatal pistol shot into the head of the president, and leaped upon the stage, breaking one of his legs. He reached the private entrance of the theatre, where a horse was in readiness for him, and with an accomplice rode 30 m. into Maryland. Here he stopped to have his fractured leg set by a physician, and then crossed the Potomac into Virginia. A party of pursuers overtook him before daybreak of the 26th at Garrett's farm, near Bowling Green, about 20 m. from Fredericksburg. He had taken refuge in a barn, and refusing to surrender, was shot, dying soon after. (See LINCOLN.) BOOTHil K, a fortified village of Afghanistan, 12 m. E. of Cabool, and at the commencement of a series of defiles between that place and Jelalabad. Here the Afghans made an attack upon the British army in January, 1842, during the disastrous retreat from Cabool, and liter- ally annihilated it. The pass of Boothauk is 5 m. long, and in its narrowest parts, where it is but 50 ft. wide, is hemmed in by perpendicular cliffs 500 ft. high. BOOTUBAY, a township of Lincoln co., Maine, on the coast, between the Damariscotta and Sheepscott rivers; pop. in 1870, 3,200. Its harbor is one of the best on the coast, and is never frozen over in the winter. The inhabi- tants are extensively engaged in ship building, the foreign and coasting trade, and the fish- eries. Ferries connect the town with Bristol and with Southport, an island in the bay. BOOTHIA FELIX, a peninsula forming the most northerly part of the North American continent, between lat. 69 and 75 N., and Ion. 92 and 97 W. It is connected with the mainland by the isthmus of Boothia. It was discovered by Oapt. James Ross, and named by him in honor of Sir Felix Booth. Ross here determined the position of the magnetic pole. BOOTHIA GILF, a continuation to the south- ward of Prince Regent inlet, in British Amer- ica. It separates Boothia Felix from Oockburn island and Melville peninsula, and is about 310 m. long and from 60 to 100 m. broad. BOOTON, an island in the eastern archipelago, S. E. of Celebes, lat. 5 S., Ion. 123 E., about 85 m. long by 20 m. wide. It is governed by its own prince ; the inhabitants are Mohamme- dans. The island is mountainous and woody, but portions are well cultivated. There is a bay on the E. side of the island, into which in calm weather vessels are liable to be drawn by the current, which is so strong that once fairly in, it is said, they can only escape in the western monsoon. The Dutch East India com- pany formerly maintained a settlement here. BOPP, Franz, a German philologist, born at Mentz, Sept. 14, 1791, died in Berlin, Oct. 23, 1867. He began his studies at Aschaifenburg, went to Paris in 1812, and devoted several years to the study of the oriental languages and literature, receiving encouragement and assistance from Chzy, Sylvestre de Sacy, and August Wilhelm von Schlegel. He afterward went to London to pursue his investigations, and finally passed some time at Gottingen, re- ceiving a small pension from the king of Ba- varia. On his return to Prussia in 1821 he was appointed professor of oriental languages in the university of Berlin, where he spent the remainder of his life. His first publication was a work on the Sanskrit verb, which was fol- lowed by a grammar and glossary of that lan- guage. He also published some Sanskrit po- ems and a portion of the epic Mahabharata, giving the original text with translations. The great work of his life, and one that may be said to have laid the foundation of the science of comparative philology, is his VergleieJiende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinucfien, Litauischen, Altslavischen, Goth- ischen und Deutschen (5 vols., Berlin, 1833-'52 ; new ed., entirely recast and enlarged by the addition of the Armenian, 1857). A third edi- tion was published after his death (1868-'71). In this work he traced back the Indo-European languages to their origin, and pointed out their present relations to each other. It has been translated into French and English. He wrote also on the relations of the Malayan and Poly- nesian languages to those of the Indo-European system, and on the Celtic, the Albanian, and the Caucasian languages. In honor of his memory the Bopp-Stiftung has been founded at Berlin, to promote the study of comparative philology. His library has been purchased by Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y. BOPPARD, or Boppart (anc. Baudolrica or Bontobrica), a walled town of Rhenish Prussia, Boppard. on the left bank of the Rhine, 9 m. S. of Cob- lentz; pop. in 1871, 4,977. It owed its origin to a fort supposed to have been built by Drn- sus. Its streets are narrow and antiquated,