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BONER (or BONERIUS), See also:ULRICH (fl. 14th See also:century)  , See also:German-Swiss writer of fables, was See also:born in See also:Bern . He was descended of an old Bernese See also:family, and, as far as can be ascertained, took clerical orders and became a See also:monk; yet as it appears that he subsequently married, it is certain that he received the " See also:tonsure " only, and was thus entitled to the benefit of the clerici uxoriati, who, on divesting themselves of the clerical garb, could return to See also:secular See also:life . He is mentioned in records between 1324 and 1349, but neither before nor after these See also:dates . He wrote, in See also:Middle High German, a collection of fables entitled Der Edelstein (c . 1349), one See also:hundred in number, which were based principally on those of See also:Avianus (4th See also:century) and the Anonymus (edited by I . Nevelet, 161o) . This See also:work he dedicated to the Bernese patrician and poet, Johann von Rinkenberg, advocatus (See also:Vogt) of See also:Brienz (d. c . 1350) . It was printed in 1461 at See also:Bamberg; and it is claimed for it that it was the first See also:book See also:Bone oil, also known as See also:Dippel's oil, was originally produced by the See also:distillation of stags' horns; it is of See also:interest in the See also:history of See also:chemistry, since from it were isolated in 1846 by T . See also:Anderson See also:pyridine and some of its homologues.printed in the German See also:language . See also:Boner treats his See also:sources with considerable freedom and originality; he writes a clear and See also:simple See also:style, and the necessarily didactic See also:tone of the collection is relieved by touches of See also:humour . Der Edelstein has been edited by G .

F . Benecke (See also:

Berlin, 1816) and See also:Franz See also:Pfeiffer (See also:Leipzig, 1844) ; a See also:translation into See also:modern German by K . See also:Pannier will be found , in Reclam's Universal-Bibliothek (Leipzig, 1895) . See also G . E . See also:Lessing in Zur Geschichte and Literatur (Werke, ix.); C . Waas, See also:Die Quellen der Beispiele Boners (See also:Giessen, 1897) . BO'NESS, or BORROWSTOUNNESS, a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh and seaport of See also:Linlithgowshire, See also:Scotland . Pop . (1891) 6295; (1901) 9306 . It lies on the See also:southern See also:shore of the See also:Firth of Forth, 17 M . W. by N. of See also:Edinburgh, and 24 M. by See also:rail, being the See also:terminus of the See also:North See also:British railway's See also:branch See also:line from See also:Manuel .

In the 18th century it ranked next to See also:

Leith as a See also:port, but the growth of See also:Grangemouth, higher up the firth, seriously affected its See also:ship-ping See also:trade, which is, however, yet considerable, See also:coal and See also:pig-See also:iron forming the See also:principal exports, and See also:pit props from the Baltic the leading import . It has an extensive See also:harbour (the See also:area of the See also:dock being 74 acres) . The See also:great See also:industries are coal-miningsome of the pits extending for a See also:long distance beneath the firthiron-See also:founding (with several blast furnaces) and See also:engineering, but it has also important manufactures of See also:salt, See also:soap, See also:vitriol and other chemicals . See also:Shipbuilding and whaling are See also:extinct . Traces of the See also:wall of See also:Antoninus which ran through the See also:parish may still be made out, especially near Inveravon . Blackness, on the See also:coast farther See also:east, was the seaport of See also:Linlithgow till the rise of Bo'ness, but its small export trade now mainly consists of coal, bricks, tiles and See also:lime . Its See also:castle, See also:standing on a promontory, is of unknown See also:age . See also:James III. of Scotland is stated to have consigned certain of the insurgent nobles to its cells; and later it was used as a See also:prison in which many of the See also:Covenanters were immured . It was one of the four castles that had to be maintained by the Articles of See also:Union, but when its uselessness for defensive purposes became apparent, it was converted into an See also:ammunition See also:depot . Kinneil See also:House, 1 m. See also:south of Bo'ness, a seat of the See also:duke of See also:Hamilton, formerly a keep, was fortified by the See also:regent See also:Arran, plundered by the rebels in See also:Queen See also:Mary's reign, and reconstructed in the See also:time of See also:Charles II . Dr See also:John .See also:Roebuck (1718-1794), founder of the Carron Iron See also:Works, occupied it for several years from 1764 . It was here that, on his invitation, James See also:Watt constructed a See also:model of his See also:steam-See also:engine, which was tested in a now disused colliery .

Though Roebuck lost all his See also:

money in the coal-mines and salt works which he established at Bo'ness, the development of the See also:mineral resources of the See also:district may be regarded as due to him .

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