Bay Lake
a body of water in the northern part of Luzon, Philippine Islands. This lake is connected with Manila Bay by the Pasig river, and from its center rises a high volcanic island.
Bay Lake is about 20 miles in extent from N. to S., and about 47 miles from E. to W.
BAYLE (bal), PIERRE, a French critic and writer, the son of a Calvinist preacher, born at Carlat (Languedoc) in 1647; studied at Toulouse. He went to Paris in 1674, and was appointed Professor of Philosophy at Sedan. Six years after he removed to Rotterdam, where he filled a similar chair. The appearance of a comet, in 1680, induced him to publish, in 1682, his "Pensées Diverses sur la Comète," a work full of learning. It was followed by his "Critique Générale BAYLOR UNIVERSITY de l'Histoire du Calvinisme de Maimbourg." In 1684 he undertook a periodical work, "Nouvelles de la République des Lettres," containing notices of new books in theology, philosophy, history, and general literature. In 1693 Jurieu, a jealous theologian, succeeded in inducing the magistrates of Rotterdam to remove Bayle from his office. He now devoted all his attention to the composition of his "Dictionnaire Historique et Critique,” which he first published in 1696. It is a vast storehouse of facts, discussions and opinions, and though it was publicly censured by the Rotterdam consistory for its frequent impurities, its pervading scepticism, and tacit atheism, it long remained a favorite book both with literary men and with men of the world. The best editions are that of 1740, in four volumes folio (Amsterdam and Leyden), and that in 16 volumes, published in 1820-1824, at Paris. He died in Rotterdam, in 1706.