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Austrian frontier, and fighting 

 began N.E. of Czernowitz. 



Meanwhile a considerable battle 

 was being fought in the region of 

 the Styr, where Brusiloff was in 

 command, his purpose being to hold 

 the enemy and prevent him from 

 sending reinforcements to the S. 

 On Dec. 29 a fierce struggle de- 

 veloped near Chartoryisk, and on 

 Jan. 1, 1916, the Russians forced 

 a passage across the river. On Jan. 

 7 Brusiloff captured Chartoryisk, 

 and next day successfully dealt 

 with a strong counter-attack. 



After sanguinary encounters in 

 this area there came a lull, followed 

 on Feb. 9 by the brilliant capture 



GALILEE 



(ANCIENT) 



English Miles 



tinuance in 1904, 

 was called The 

 Daily Messenger. 

 Galilee. Prov. 



of N. Palestine. 

 Little is recorded 

 of it in O.T. days, 

 but after the 

 Captivity it was 

 ceded by the As- 

 syrians to the 

 Israelites and 

 soon became virtu- 

 ally a separate 

 nation, the inhabi- 

 tants being chiefly 

 Arabs, Syrians, 

 and Greeks. They 



were despised by 

 the Jews of the 

 S., and the fact 

 that Chris t's 

 home was in that 

 country was 

 made a reproach 

 to Him. Tiberias 

 was its chief city, 

 and it was a fer- 

 tile and populous 

 district, but is 

 now little better 

 than a wilderness 

 in many parts. 



Galilee, SKA OF. 

 Lake in Pales- 

 tine, also called 

 the lake of Tiber- 

 ias and the lake 

 of Gennesareth. 

 It is formed by an 

 expansion of the 

 Jordan, about 13 

 m. long by 8 m. 

 broad. Owing to 

 its situation 

 among steep hills 

 it is subject to 

 sudden and vio- 

 lent storms, to 

 which allusion 

 is made in the 

 Gospels. On its 

 shores stood 



Galilee, looking across the sea 



Ti'uerias 



Galilee. Map of the province in New Testament times 



various cities, in- 

 cluding Tiberias 



by the Russians of the Uscieczko and Capernaum, 

 bridgehead on the Dniester. There- 

 after trench warfare supervened, 

 with little change in the respective 

 fronts until the great offensive 

 'A the Russians under Brusiloff 

 which began in June. See Lutsk, 

 Battles of. 



Galignani, GIOVANNI ANTONIO 

 (1752-1821). Founder of a cele- 

 brated family of European pub- 

 lishers. Born in Brescia, he settled 

 in Paris and established an 

 English library there in 1800. In 



to large porches such as those to 

 be seen at Ely Cathedral and Lin- 

 coln Cathedral. See Ely. 



Galilei, GALILEO (1564-1642). 

 Italian astronomer. Born at 

 Pisa, Feb. 15, 1564, he was the 

 son of a Florentine nobleman, 

 who intended him to adopt medi- 

 cine as a pro- 

 fession. He en- 

 tered Pisa Uni- 

 versity in 1581, 

 but there he 

 soon followed 

 his natural in- 

 clinations, and 

 while still only 

 25 he became 

 professor of 

 mathematics, 

 o r k i n g on 

 dynamics from 

 1589-91. 

 Early distinguished by clarity 

 and originality of thought, his free 

 expressions of opinion won him 

 such unpopularity that he had to 

 resign. In 1592 he went as pro- 

 fessor of mathematics to Padua, 

 where he made a series of scientific 

 discoveries. A report from Flan- 

 ders in 1609 of the invention, by 

 Hans Lippersheym, of a glass 

 which made remote objects appear 

 near, led to his constructing a tele- 

 scope, and its first application to 

 astronomical observation. 



Trin. Coll., Camb. 



1814 he began the publication of 

 Galignani's Messenger, carried on 

 by his descendants until 1884, when 

 they disposed of the paper which 

 thenceforward, until its discon- 



the latter the scene 

 of so much of 

 Christ's ministry 

 that it was known 

 as His own city. 

 Of these cities only 

 Tiberias remains, 

 the sites of the 

 others having 

 been covered up. 



Galilee. Term 

 i n ecclesiastical 

 architecture. Its 

 origin is obscure. 

 It is applied to a 

 chapel at the west 

 end of Durham Ca- 

 thedral, and also 



Galilee cbapcl in Durham Cathedral looking south-east 



