GUAYMAS 



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GUEBWILLER 



Guaymas. Seaport of Mexico, 

 in the state of Sonora. Situated in 

 the Gulf of California, it has a fine 

 natural harbour, affording secure 

 anchorage, and is connected by a 

 line to Nogales with the rly. sys- 

 tem of the U.S.A. It trades in the 

 produce of the locality, its chief 

 exports being gold, t silver, and 

 pearls. Pop. 8,650. " 



Gubbings OR GUBBENS (Dialect- 

 word, fish -parings). Contemptuous 

 name formerly given to an un- 

 civilized community in the vicinity 

 of Brent Tor, Devonshire. They 

 were reputed in Fuller's Worthies 

 of England, 1662, to have de- 

 scended from several social out- 

 casts two centuries earlier, and to 

 have multiplied without marriage. 

 They occupied mean hovels or 

 caves, subsisted on pilfered sheep, 

 and spoke a debased local dialect. 

 They developed great fleetness of 

 foot, revenged all wrongs, resisted 

 the civil power, and were governed 

 by an elected king of the Gubbings. 

 The tradition was graphically util- 

 ised in Kingsley's Westward Ho ! 

 The colloquialism " greedy Gub- 

 bins" as a variant for greedyguts 

 still lingers. See Doones, The. 



Gubbio. City of Italy. In the 

 prov. of Perugia, it is the ancient 

 Iguvium and the medieval Eugu- 

 bium. It lies at the base and on the 

 slopes of Monte Calvo, at an alt. of 

 1,600 ft., 26 m. S. of Urbino. The 

 city is typically medieval, with 

 many old palaces and churches. 

 The cathedral dates from the 13th 

 century, and the Gothic palace of 

 the dukes of Urbino was rebuilt in 

 Renaissance style. The municipal 

 palace contains . the Eugubine 

 Tables (q.v,). 



The Palazzo dei Consoli (1332- 

 46), a huge pinnacled building with 

 a tower, is now a national monu- 

 ment. Above this palace stands 

 the convent of Sant' Ubaldo. The 

 Festa dei Ceri (Feast of Candles) 

 is an interesting procession through 



the city to the convent, which 

 takes place annually on May 15. 

 Gubbio has long been famous for 

 its majolica ware. Pop. 27,397. 

 See Gubbio, L. McCracken, 1905. 



Guben. Town of Prussia. A 

 railway junction, it stands on the 

 Neisse, 22 m. from Frankfort-on- 

 Oder. It has some textile and 

 other industries, including the 

 making of hats and cloth, also 

 pottery, paper, etc., and its chief 

 buildings are churches, a museum, 

 etc. It is an old town and suffered 

 much in various wars. After being, 

 in turn, under the rule of Bohemia 

 and Saxony, it passed to Prussia 

 by the treaty of 1815. Pop. 38,590. 



Gubernatis, COUNT ANGELO DE 

 (1840-1913). Italian scholar and 

 critic. Born at Turin, April 7, 1840, 

 he became professor of Sanskrit at 

 Florence in 1863, but resigned the 

 position on marrying a relative of 

 Bakunin (q.v.), with whose revo- 

 lutionary theories he was, for a 

 time, impressed. He was, how- 

 ever, re-elected to the professorship 

 in 1867. In 1876 he was Italian 

 delegate at the International Con- 

 gress of Orientalists, and two years 

 later lectured on Manzoni at Ox- 

 ford. He founded the Indian 

 Museum at Florence, and in 1891 

 became professor of Sanskrit at 

 Rome. He died on Feb. 26, 1913. 

 His chief works include Zoological 

 Mythology, 1872; Mitologia Ve- 

 dica, 1874 ; La Mythologie des 

 Plantes, 1878-82 ; Manzoni, 1878 ; 

 Peregrinazioni Indiani, 1886-87 ; 

 La Serbie et les Serbes, 1897 ; and 

 La Roumanie et les Roumains, 



Gubbio, Italy. Church of S. Gio- 

 vanni Battista. On the left, part of 

 the Palazzo dei Consoli 



Gude, HANS FREDREK (1825- 

 1903). Norwegian painter. Born 

 in Christiania, March 13, 1825, he 

 studied under Schirmer and Achen- 

 bach, the latter of whom per- 

 suaded him to practise landscapes 

 instead of history. In 1854 he 

 became professor in the Academy 

 of Diisseldorf, in 1864 in that of 

 Karlsruhe, and in 1886 in that of 

 Berlin, where he died Aug. 17, 

 1903. His earlier pictures of the 

 scenery of the mountains and 

 fiords gave him a foremost place in 

 the Norwegian school. Among his 

 best works may be named Wed- 

 ding at Hardanger, Shipwrecked 

 Fishermen, Fishing by Night, The 

 Vikings' Ships in Sognefiord, The 

 Coast of Riigen, Funeral at 

 Sognefiord. 



Gudea. Sumerian ruler of La- 

 gash. He reigned about 2450 B.C. 

 He imported from distant lands 

 cedar beams, diorite, copper, and 

 gold, for adorning his buildings. 

 De Sarzec found beneath his tem- 

 ple of the moon-god Ningirsu many 

 headless diorite statues, one having 

 on the knees a drawing-board with 



a building plan. A head subse 

 quently found and refitted to its 

 torso revealed his portrait ; this 

 is now in Paris. See Babylonia. 



Guden. Largest river of Den- 

 mark, in Jutland. It traverses the 

 prov. of Viborg, and, flowing 

 N.E. falls into the Randers Fiord, 

 an opening of the Kattegat, 15m. 

 N.E. of Randers. Its length is 

 80 m. 



Gudgeon (Gobio). Genus of 

 small fresh-water fishes, of which 

 one species is common in most 



Gudgeon, a small fresh-water fish 



British rivers. It is related to the 

 carp, and has two small barbels 

 on the snout. It is usually found 

 on the gravelly bed of the stream, 

 is easily caught, and is fairly good 

 eating. 



Gudgeon Pin. Pin connecting 

 the piston-rod with the connecting- 

 rod at its small end, allowing the 

 latter freedom of movement. The 

 term is often applied to any such 

 connecting pin. See Engine ; 

 Steam Engine. 



Gudrun OR KUDRTTN. German 

 romantic epic. In its existing form 

 (13th century) it is of later date 

 than the Nibelungenlied, to which 

 in metrical form it is somewhat 

 similar. It deals with the romance 

 of the heroine whose name it bears, 

 daughter of a Friesland king, and 

 of her parents, and embodies many 

 legends of the North Sea and coasts 

 of Normandy. 



Guebwiller OR GEBWEILER. 

 Town of France, in Alsace-Lor- 

 raine. It is situated 14 m. S.S.W. 

 of Colmar at the entrance of the 

 valley of the Lauch, a stream 

 running down from the Vosges Mts. 

 The church of S. Leodegar, begun 

 in 1182, and restored in modern 

 times, deserves mention. The in- 

 dustries include the manufacture 

 of sugar, textiles, machinery, etc., 

 and near by is produced one of the 

 best brands of Alsatian wines. 

 Pop. 12,900. 



During the French advance into 

 Alsace at the opening of the Great 

 War, Guebwiller, with Mulhouse 

 and other places, was occupied by 

 the French, Aug. 20, 1914, for 

 the first time since 1871, but was 

 soon re-abandoned to the Germans. 

 It was restored to France in 1919, 

 under the terms of the peace 

 treaty. See Alsace, Campaigns in. 



