1778, and it was finally
closed in 1793. Basedow died at Magdeburg on the 25th of July 1790.

See H. Rathmann, _Beitraege zur Lebensgeschichte Basedows_ (Magdeburg,
1791); J. C. Meyer, _Leben, Charakter und Schriften Basedows_ (2 vols.,
Hamburg, 1791-1792); G. P. R. Hahn, _Basedow und sein Verhaltnis zu
Rousseau_ (Leipzig, 1885); A. Pinloche, _Basedow et le philanthropinisme_
(Paris, 1890); C. Goessgen, _Rousseau und Basedow_ (1891).

BASE FEE, in law, a freehold estate of inheritance which is limited or
qualified by the existence of certain conditions. In modern property law
the commonest example of a base fee is an estate created by a tenant in
tail, not in possession, who bars the entail without the consent of the
protector of the settlement. Though he bars his own issue, he cannot bar
any remainder or reversion, and the estate (_i.e._ the _base fee_) thus
created is determinable on the failure of his issue in tail. An example of
this kind of estate was introduced by George Eliot into the plot of _Felix
Holt_. Another example of a base fee is an estate descendible to heirs
general, but terminable on an uncertain event; for example, a grant of land
to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale. The estate terminates
whenever the prescribed qualification ceases. An early meaning of base fee
was an estate held not by free or military service, but by base service,
_i.e._ at the will of the lord.

BASEL (Fr. _Bale_), one of the most northerly of the Swiss cantons, and the
only one (save Schaffhausen) that includes any territory north of the
Rhine. It is traversed by the chain of the Jura, and is watered by the Birs
and the Ergolz, both tributaries (left) of the Rhine. It is traversed by
railways from Basel to Olten (25 m.) and to Laufen (14-1/4 m.), besides
local lines from Basel to Fluehen (8 m.) for the frequented pilgrimage
resort of Mariastein, and from Liestal to Waldenburg (8-3/4 m.), From 1803
to 1814 the canton was one of the six "Directorial" cantons of the
Confederation. Since 1833 it has been divided into two half cantons, with
independent constitutions.

One is that of Basel Stadt or Bale Ville, including, besides the city of
Basel, the three rural districts (all to the north of the Rhine) of Riehen,
Bettingen and Klein Hueningen (the latter now united to the city). The
total area of this half canton is 13.7 sq. m. only, of which 11 sq. m. are
classed as "productive," forests occupying 1.5 sq. m., but its