Forrest, 1523; the
figurative meaning of limit, end or final destination comes from
Shakespeare's Hamlet, "the undiscovered country, from whose bourne no
traveller returns."

BOURNEMOUTH, a municipal and county borough and watering-place of
Hampshire, England, in the parliamentary borough of Christchurch,
107-1/2 m. S.W. by W. from London by the London & South-Western railway.
Pop. (1901) 59,762. It is beautifully situated on Poole Bay.
Considerable sandstone cliffs rise from the sandy beach, and are scored
with deep picturesque dells or chines. The town itself lies in and about
the valley of the Bourne stream. Its sheltered situation and desirable
winter climate began to attract notice about 1840; in 1855 a national
sanatorium for consumptive patients was erected by subscription; a pier
was opened in 1861, and in 1870 railway communication was afforded. The
climate is remarkably equable, being relatively warm in winter and cool
in summer; the average temperature in July is 61.7 deg. F., and in
January 40.3 deg. The town contains numerous handsome buildings,
including municipal buildings, churches, various places of
entertainment, sanatoria and hospitals, a public library and a science
and art school. Its suburbs have greatly extended along the sea front,
and the beautiful chines of Boscombe, Alum and Branksome have attracted
a large number of wealthy residents. There are piers at the town itself
and at Boscombe, and the bathing is excellent. The parks, gardens and
drives are extensive and pleasant. A service of electric tramways is
maintained, notable as being the first system installed in England with
a combination of the trolley and conduit principles of supplying
current. There are golf links in Meyrick and Queen's parks, both laid
out by the corporation, which has in other ways studied the
entertainment of visitors. The two railway stations are the Central and
West, and through communications with the north are maintained by the
Somerset & Dorset and Midland, and the Great Western and Great Central
railways. The town, which is of wholly modern and remarkably rapid
growth (for in the middle of the 19th century the population was less
than 1000), was incorporated in 1890, and became a county borough in
1900. The corporation consists of a mayor, 11 aldermen and 33
councillors. Area, 5769 acres.

BOURNONITE, a mineral species, a sulphantimonite of lead and copper with
the formula PbCuSbS3. It is of some i