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 and 240 broad, and is surrounded on all sides by inaccessible rocks, excepting in one small place to the east north-east, contained between two points, one of which is high and the other flat, and covered with a bank of sand. This place forms a natural and secure harbour. A late director of the island, M. de St Jean, erected a new fort, and several buildings, discovered springs of good water, and planted a variety of vegetables and fruit trees. The air is cool and temperate during the whole of the year ; and the inhabitants are refreshed by alternate breezes from the land and sea.
This island was ceded to the Dutch in 1617, by Biran, king of Cape Verd. It was immediately strengthened by
Nassau Fort on the north-west, and afterwards by Orange Fort, a little nearer the shore. In 1663, Admiral Holmes took it from the Dutch. In 1665, it was retaken by Ruy ter ; but in 1677 it was taken, after some resistance, by the French under the Count D'Estrees. The English took the island from the French in 1692, and restored it in 1693. Since that time it continued in the possession of the French, with a few interruptions, and was guaranteed to them by the treaty of 1783. It was taken by the British in the late war. West Long. 17° 24' 45", and North Lat. 14° 40' id'. Those who wish for very particular information respecting Goree, may consult Prelong's Memoire sur Goree, in the ?nnales de Chimie for 1793.