Gnostics
Gnostics. See Ecclesiastical History. Goa, The Principal Portuguese Settlement In The East Indies, Is Situated In 15° 28' North Latitude, And 72° 45' East Longitude; And Is Built Upon An Island, Called By The Natives Tissoari, About 25 Or 30 Miles In Circumfe Rence. This Island Is Separated From The ...
Godfrey Burger
Burger, Godfrey A Popular German Poet, And Well Known In This Country As The Author Of The Celebrated Ballad Of Leonora, Was Born At Wolmerswendc, In The Principality Of Halberstadt, On The 1st Of January, 1748. In His Infancy, As He Himself Informs Us, He Dis Played No Uncommon Indications ...
Goiutz
Goiutz, Goat, Or Gonitl.t, Is A Town Of Germany, Situated In A District Of The Same Name. The Town Is Hand Some, And Is Picturesquely Situated On The River Lisonzo. A Great Number Of The Houses Are Good, And Belong To No Ble Families. It Has Seven Convents, Nine Chapels, ...
Golconda
Golconda, A Province Of Deccan, A District In In Dia, Comprehends The Tract Of Country Between The Rivers Kistnah And Godavery In 17° North Latitude; And Extends About 200 Miles From North To South, And 220 From West To East. It Is Bounded On The North By Berar, On The ...
Gold Beating
Gold-beating Is The Art Of Reducing Gold To Extreme Ly Thin Leaves, For The Purposes Of Gilding. The Gold Em Ployed For This Purpose Must He Pure. It Should Be Melt Ed In A Crucible, With A Small Quantity Of Borax, And Cast Into Small Bars, Or Thin Flat Ingots, ...
Golf
Golf, Is An Ingenious Field Game, Played With Bats Or Dubs, And Balls, And A Favourite Amusement In Scotland. When Or By Whom It Was First Introduced, Is Not Ascer Tained; But We Find That As Early As The Fifteenth Century, It Was So Much In Vogue As To Be ...
Gondar
Gondar, The Capital City Of Abyssinia, Is Situated In 12° 34' 30" North Latitude, And 37° 33' East Longitude From Greenwich. It Is Placed Upon A Hill Of Considerable Height, The Top Of Which Is Nearly Plain, And Which Is Sur Rounded On Every Side By A Deep Valley. The ...
Gong
Gong, Is The Name Of An Instrument Used Among The Chinese For Producing Loud Sounds By Percussion. It Is A Large Circular Instrument, Somewhat Resembling A Tam Bourine. It Is Entirely Made Of Metal, And Has Its Face Somewhat Convex. The Metal, Which Resembles Bronze, Bears Numerous Marks Of The ...
Gonorrhoea
Gonorrhoea. See Medicine And Surgery. Gores, Is An Island In The Atlantic, On The West Coast Of Africa. It Is About 30 Leagues From Senegal, About One League From The Terra Firma Of Cape Verd, And About 3 Leagues From That Cape Itself. The Island Is About 800 Yards Long ...
Gosport
Gosport, Is A Seaport Town Of England, In Hampshire, Situated On The West Side Of Portsmouth Harbour. This Town, Which Flourishes Particularly In Times Of War, Consists Of A Principal Street, Extending Westward From The Harbour To The Fortification, With The Obstruction Only Of The Market House, And Of Other ...
Gotha
Gotha, Anciently Grimmestein, And Afterwards Fried-. Enstein, Is A Town Of Germany In Upper Saxony, Situated On An Eminence Near The Leine, Which Supplies The Town With Water, Conveyed To It In Stone Canals. Gotha Is One Of The Handsomest Towns Of Thuringia. The Ducal Palace Stands On A Height ...
Goura
Goura, Steph. Columba, Lin. &e. Lopdyrus, Bill Of Moderate Length, Very Slender, Slighly Inflated Towards The Tip, The Upper Mandible Channelled On The Sides, And Its Tip Bent Down ; Nostrils Covered Above With Feathers, And Placed In A Fissure ; Wings Short, And Round Ed ; Tarsi Long, And ...
Government
Government, In Political Science, Sometimes Signifies The Act Of Carrying The National Affairs Into Execution ; Some Times The Person Or Persons Who, As A Separate Branch Of The Constitution, Are Lawfully Charged With That Function ; And Sometimes It Imports The Whole Frame Of The Civil Po Lity. In ...
Government Of Senegal
Senegal, Government Of, Is The Name Given By The French To Their Settlement On The Island, At The Mouth Of The Above River. This Settlement Was Found Ed In 1637, Under Louis Xiv. And The Fort Thus Re Ceived The Name Of Fort Louis. Although The Island Is Merely A ...
Graduation
Graduation Is The Name Given To The Most Delicate, Dif Ficult, And Important Branch Of Mathematical Instrument Making : It Gives To The Instrument The Means Of Ascer Taining The Dimensions Of Objects, Or Their Distance Irom Each Other, According To Its Nature, Whether Linear Or An Gular Measure Is ...
Graham
Graham, Jamus, Marquis Of Montrose, An Eminent Soldier In The Reigns Of Charles I. And C Lit Ios Ii. And Dis Tinguished By His Enterprises Against The Covenanters In Scotland. Having Been Treated With Some Disrespect By The King, Charles I. He Was At First Attached To The Cause Of ...
Gralle
Gralle, Or Waders-. Bill Of Various Forms, But Most Frequently Straight, Pro Longed In A Conical Direction, And Compressed, More Rarely Depressed, Or Flat ; Legs Slender, Long, More Or Less Naked Above The Knee, And Furnished Sometimes With Three, But More Frequently With Four, Toes, Or At Least The ...
Granada
Granada., A Celebrated City In Spain, And Capital Of The Province Of That Name, Is Pleasantly Situated On Two Small Hills, At The Extremity Of A Beautiful And Extensive Plain. It Was Built By The Moors In The Tenth Century, And Was Finally Reduced By The Spanish Armies In 1492, ...
Granada
Granada, A Province Of Spain, Sometimes Called Upper Andalusia, Is Bounded On The East And South By Murcia And The Mediterranean, And On The West And North By Andalusia. It Is Situated Between 36° 20' And 38° North Latitude, And Between 5° 5' And 1° 30' West Longitude From Greenwich. ...
Grand Canary
Canary, Grand, One Of The Canary Islands, Which Gives The General Appellation To The Groupc, Lies Between The Islands Of Tcneriffe And Forte Ventura, And About 100 Miles North-west From Cape Bojador On The African Coast. It Received The Epithet Of Grand From John De Betancour, Not On Account Of ...
Grange
Grange, Josent-lours L.t,* A Celebrated Mathema Tician And Natural Philosopher, Was Born At Turin, On The 25th Of November, 1736. He Was The Son Of Joseph Lou Is La Grange, Treasurer Of War, And Of Marie-therese Gros, Only Daughter Of A Rich Physician Of Cambiano. His Father Was Rich, And ...
Grantham
Grantham, A Town Of England In Lincolnshire, Is Situated On The River Witham, Near The Ancient Roman Road, Called Ermine Street. The Town, Which Is Neat And Clean, And Contains Many Excellent Houses, Consists Of Four Principal Streets, Called Westgate, Watergate, Cas Tlegate, And Swinegate. The Church, Which'is Elegantly Built ...
Granville Sharpe
Sharpe, Granville, Celebrated For His Unwea Ried Exertions In The Great Cause Of The Abolition Of The Slave Trade, Was Born In 1734, And Was The Son Of Mark Sharpe, Archdeacon Of Northumberland, And The Grandson Of John Sharpe, Archbishop Of York. He Was Educated For The Bar, But He ...
Graphy
Graphy. The Reflecting Goniometers Of Dr Wollaston And Dr Brewster Were Invented Nearly About The Same Time, With Out Any Communication Between Their Respective Authors ; But Though These Instruments Resemble One Another In So Far As They Both Make Use Of The Principle Of Reflex Ion, Yet They Chiller ...
Grave Harmonics
Harmonics, Grave. These Are Low Sounds, Of Small Intensity Or Loudness, Which, If Attentively Observed By Au Experienced Ear, Will Be Heard To Accompany Every Accurate Or Perfect Consonance Of Two Sounds, Whose Ra Tio Is Expressible In Small Numbers, Whether The Same May Be Composed Of The Diatonic 'mimes ...
Gravesend
Gravesend, Is A Town Of England, In The County Of Kent, Built On A Gentle Declivity, On The Banks Of The Thames. It Consists Of Several Narrow Streets, The Best Of Which Are The One On The Great London Road, And Ano Ther Acright Angles To It, Leading To The ...
Gray
Gray, Tfromas, An Eminent English Poet, Was Born At Cornhill In London, On The 20th Of December 1716. His Father, Philip Gray, Was A Money Scrivener Of The City. His Mother, Whose Maiden Name Was Dorothy An Trobus, Was, Owing To The Bad Usage Of Her Husband, Obli Ged To ...
Greasp
Greasp.. A Nasty Name For A Nasty Disorder, Con Sisting In An Undue Issue Of A Peculiar, Greasy, Of Fensive Matter, From The Hollow Part We Denomi Nate The Heel. There Is, In A State Of Health, A Con Tinual Oozing From This Part, Of A Secretion Of A Ceruminous ...
Great Yarmouth
Yarmouth, Great, A Seaport Town Of England In The County Of Norfolk, Is Surrounded On The South And East By The Sea, And Is Situated On The East Side Of The Yare, Over Which There Is A Handsome Stone Draw-bridge, Which Connects It With Suffolk. The Town Is An Oblong ...
Greece The
Greece The Most Celebrated Country Of Antiquity, Was Of Very Inconsiderable Extent, And Scarcely Equalled In Size The Half Of England. It Is Comprehended Between 36° And 41° Of North Latitude; And Is Bounded On All Sides By The Sea, Except On The North, Where It Borders Upon Epirus And ...
Greek
Greek Mow, Ancient. It Appears From The Wri Tings Of Aristoxenus, The Earliest Writer On The Music Of The Greeks Whose Works Are Extant, That Before His Time, Their Scale Of Music Had Been Extended To Two Octaves, By The Raising Of A Major Tone, And Then Three Succeeding Minor ...
Greene Nathaniel
Greene (nathaniel,) A Major-general Of The Army Of The United States, Was Born In Warwick, Rhode Island, About The Year 1740. His Parents Were Quakers. His Fa Ther Was An Anchor-smith, Who Was Concerned In Some Va Luable Iron Works, And Transacted Much Business. While He Was A Boy, He ...
Greenland
Greenland Is The Most Northern Country Of The Wes Tern Hemisphere Of The Globe. It Reaches As Far As The Land Is Discovered, From Cape Farewell, In Latitude 59° 30' To The 78th Degree Of North Latitude. Its Eastern Coast Runs North-east Towards Spitzbergen, And Is Bounded By The Atlantic ...