[Ballantine, Serjeant], distinguished counsel in celebrated criminal cases (1812-1887).
[Ball`antyne, James], a native of Kelso, became a printer in Edinburgh, printed all Sir Walter Scott's works; failed in business, a failure in which Scott was seriously implicated (1772-1833).
[Ballantyne, John], brother of preceding, a confidant of Sir Walter's in the matter of the anonymity of the Waverley Novels; an inimitable story-teller and mimic, very much to the delight of Sir Walter (1774-1821).
[Ballarat`] (40), a town in Victoria, and since 1851 the second city in the province, about 100 m. NW. of Melbourne; the centre of the chief gold-fields in the colony, the precious metal being at first washed out of the soil, and now crushed out of the quartz rocks and dug out of deep mines; it is the seat of both a Roman Catholic and a Church of England bishopric.
[Ball`ater], a clean Aberdeenshire village on the Dee, a favourite summer resort, stands 668 ft. above sea-level.
[Balmat, Jacques], of Chamounix, a celebrated Alpine guide (1796-1834).
[Balmawhapple], a prejudiced Scotch clergyman in "Waverley."
[Bal`mez], an able Spanish Journalist, author of "Protestantism and Catholicism compared in their Effects on the Civilisation of Europe" (1810-1848).
[Balmor`al], a castle on the upper valley of the Dee, at the foot of Braemar, 52½ m. from Aberdeen, 9 m. from Ballater; the Highland residence of Queen Victoria, on a site which took the fancy of both the Queen and the Prince Consort on their first visit to the Highlands.
[Balmung], the sharp-cutting sword of Siegfried, so sharp that a smith cut in two by it did not know he was so cut till he began to move, when he fell in pieces.