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and 20 feet wide, with 18 feet depth of water, and will contain 54 

 Rjuare-rigged ships ; at the quays there is sufficient accommodation 

 for 17 ships. The barge dock, or dock for country vessels, is 900 feet 

 long by 150 feet wide, and will contain 200 vessels averaging 50 or 60 

 tons each. There is a commodious dock for large steam-vessels, a dock 

 called the railway dock, a dry dock of large dimensions, and a patent 

 slip for repairing vessels. The basin or entrance harbour is 250 feet 

 long by 200 feet wide, with 9 feet depth of water. The custom-house 

 is a neat building. There are extensive warehouses for the bonding 

 of grain and merchandise of every description. For the reception of 

 timber under bond there are ponds capable of receiving upwards of 

 300 loads. Coal is largely exported coastwise, and a good deal is sent 

 to London. The number and tonnage of vessels registered as belonging 

 to the port on December Slst 1853 were as follows : — Sailing-vessels, 

 under 50 tons, 116, tonnage 8824 ; above 50 tons, 396, tonnage 25,041 : 

 steam-vessels, under 50 tons, 2, tonnage 27 ; above 50 tons, 7, tonnage 

 680. During the year 1853 there entered and cleared at the port in 

 the coasting trade, inwards, 1852 sailing-vessels, tonnage 106,172; 

 outwarda, 1888 sailing-vessels, tonnage 100,658, and 51 steam-vessels, 

 tonnage 7319. In the colonial and foreign trade there entered 83 

 British vessels, tonnage 7638, and 156 foreign vessels, tonnage 15,176; 

 with 72 British steam-vessels, tonnage 12,748, and 43 foreign steam- 

 vessels, tonnage 7568 : and there cleared 30 British saUing-vessela, 

 tonnage 2886, and 75 foreign, tonnage 7542 ; with 72 British steam- 

 vessels, tonnage 12,675, and 42 foreign, tonnage 7392. 



The gross amount of customs duties received at the port in 1851 

 waa S9,812{. Ship- and boat-building, sail-making, iron-foimding, 

 and agricultural machine-making employ many of the inhabitant.^. 

 Several corn-mills, some of them worked by steam, are in the neigh- 

 bourhood. There are in Goole a chapel of ease ; a handsome church 

 with a lofty tower, erected a few years ago at a cost of 8000t, of 

 which the Aire and Gaidar Navigation Company contributed 4500/. ; 

 chapels for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists; National and 

 Infant schools ; a Wesleyan day school ; a literary and scientific insti- 

 tution ; a savings bank, and several charitable societies. A weekly 

 market is held on Wednesday. The town ia lighted with gas. A 

 county court is held in Goole. 

 GOORIA. [GioBGiA.] 

 GORAM ISLANDS. [Ceram.] 

 GORBALS. [Olasoow.] 



GORKK is a small island near the west coast of Africa, to the south 

 of Cape Verd. It is separated from the continent by the Strait of 

 Dakar, which is about 3000 yards across. . The island, which is about 3 

 miles round and has a bold coast on idl sides except the north, con- 

 sists of volcanic rocks, partly covered with sand, with which has been 

 mixed vegetable mould, brought from the continent. At the north- 

 east extremity of the island there is a roadstead which affords good 

 ■belter for shipping for eight months in the year. Goree belongs to the 

 French, who have erected some fortifications and a town upon it. The 

 town of Goree is an entrepot for the gum, ivory, gold dust, oil, and 

 other products of the neighbouring parts of the continent of Africu 

 The island is deficient in wood and water, although part of it is 

 ■wampy. The total population is about 5000, all liberated or free 

 Africans, except about a score of Frenchmen who fill official or 

 mercantile situations on the island. 

 GOREE. [Georgia.] 



GOREV, county of Wexford, Ireland, a market-town and the seat 

 of a Poor-Law Union in the parish and barony of Gorey, is situated 

 about 28 miles N. by E. from Wexford, and 60 miles S. from Dublin. 

 The population of the town in 1851 was 2973, besides 1420 inmates 

 of the Union workhouse. Gorey Poor-Law Union comprises 25 

 electoral divisions, with an area of 129,704 acres, and a population in 

 1851 of 31,281. 



The town of Gorey was incorporated by charter of James I. when 

 it was callud Newborough, but this name has not been in general use. 

 The town consists of one street nearly a mile long, a shorter street 

 crossing it about the middle, and clusters of houses aroimd the point 

 of intersection. There are a court-house and a market-place. Besides 

 the Episcopal church, there are a Roman Catholic chapel, with a 

 nunnery attached, a National school, and a savings bank. Near the 

 town is a fever hospitaL The market ^n Saturday for agricultural 

 produce and poultry is well attended ; seven fairs are held in the 

 course of the year. Several fine mansions are in the vicinity. 

 (JOKKUM. [Holland.] 



(iOUI.lTZ. [LlK«NITZ.J 



(jURT, county of Oalway, Ireland, a market-town and the scat of a 

 Poor-Law Union in the parishes of Beagh, Kiltartan, and Kilmac- 

 duagh, is situated in 53" 4' N. lat, 8° 60' W. long., distant about. 18 

 miles S.E. by S. from Galway, and 125 miles W. by S. from Dublin. 

 The population of the town in 1851 was 2405, besides 2637 in the 

 Union workhouse. Gort Poor-Law Union comprises 20 electoral 

 divisions, with an area of 107,919 acres, and a population in 1851 of 

 26,2J47. 



The town of Gort is neat and tolerably regular. It is situated 

 in a plain, which is nearly surrounded by a mountainous country, 

 abounding with woo<l and water. Being remote from other market- 

 towns it has a considerable retail trade. The principal public buildings 

 an the pariah church, a Roman Catholic chapel, a duitrict brideweU, 



and au infantry barrack. Three annual fairs are held. A stream 

 from Loughcooter runs through the town of Gort to the Bay of Galway. 

 In its course from the lough, both before and after reaching Gort, tlie 

 stream seveitil times disappears, and finds it way for considerable 

 distances by subterraneous channels. Before reaching Gort it takes 

 the name of the Blackwater. 



GORTIN, county of Tyrone, Ireland, a village and the seat of a 

 Poor-Law Union in the parish of Lower Badony, is situated on the 

 Owenreagh rivulet in 54 43' N. lat., 7° 18' W. long., distant 8 miles 

 N.N.E. from Omagh, and 118 miles- N.N.W. from Dublin. The popu- 

 lation of the village in 1851 was 372, besides 241 in the Union work- 

 house. Gortin Poor-Law Union comprises 13 electoral divisions, with 

 an area of 111,319 acres, and a population in 1851 of 17,248. Gortiu 

 is situated in the midst of secluded and very picturesque mountain 

 scenery. Besides the parish chui-ch, there are here a dispensaiy, a 

 distillery, and the Union workhouse. 



GORTZ (Qoritz, Gorizia), a large circle in the Kustenland, or lUy- 

 rian Littoral, in Austria, was comprised in the former government of 

 Trieste. Its area is 1124 square miles. The population, according 

 to the census of the empire in 1850-51, was 192,511. The circle is 

 traversed by chains of the Alps in the north, which are' of calcareous 

 formation and well wooded, but a great part of the surface is level. 

 It is watered by the Isonzo and Idriza ; and produces wine, silk, 

 flax, hemp, fruit, timber, and a small quantity of corn. 



OORTZ, the chief town of the circle, is situated on the left bank 

 of the Isonzo, about 25 miles N.N.W. from Trieste, and contains about 

 10,000 inhabitants. The older part of the town is built on a hill, 

 part of which is occupied by an old castle, once the residence of the 

 counts of Gortz, now a prison ; this part is surrounded by walls. The 

 lower part of the town is modern and well built. Gijrtz is the seat 

 of a bishop, and has four churches besides the cathedral, an episcopal 

 palace, and seminary ; a college, town-hall, a theatre, a philosophical 

 academy, Piarist college, and several other schools, including one for 

 Jews. The barrack in the great square at the foot of the castle rook 

 was originally a Jesuits' college. The Attems family possesses the well- 

 known ' Roman Stone,' which affords evidence that the ancient Norica 

 stood in the vicinity of this town. Gortz has large silk factories, 

 dye-works, sugar-refineries, tan-yards, bleach-grounds for wax, &c. 

 Rosoglio is also one of its industrial products. There is a brisk 

 general trade. Charles X., ex-king of France died in 1836 in the 

 castle of Grafenburg, and is buried in the chapel of the convent of 

 Castagnovizza above the town. There is a good road from Gortz to 

 Trieste. 

 GOSFORD. [Cumberland.] 



GOSPORT, Hampshire, a mai'ket-town, sea-port, and fortified town 

 in the parish of Alverstoke, is situated on the western side of Ports- 

 mouth harbour, near its mouth, in 50" 48' N. lat., 1° 7' W. long., 

 distant 14 miles S.E. from Southampton, 77 miles S.W. from London 

 by road, and 89 miles by the London and South- Western railway. 

 The population of the town of Gosport in 1851 was 7414. The livings 

 are perpetual curacies in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. 

 The town is governed by ti-ustees, under an old Act of Parliament, 

 vacancies, when they occur, being filled up from the general body of 

 the inhabitants by vote of the surviving trustees. 



Gosport in the reign of Henry VIII. was a mere village, inhabited 

 by fishermen. It is now a place of considerable importance. The 

 town is well lighted with gas. Gosport has two churches, Holy 

 Trinity church, erected about 1680, a neat and spacious edifice, in 

 the south part of the town, and St. Matthew's church, erected in 

 1846. The Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholics 

 have places of worship ; there are National and British schools, two 

 Young Men's societies for religious and mental improvement, a savings 

 bank, an almshouse, and several charitable associations. A floating 

 bridge affords constant communication with Portsmouth, and a float- 

 ing pier enables passengers to embark on the Isle of Wight packets at 

 all times of the tide. The coasting trade is considerable. There are 

 several distilleries, and an extensive iron-foundry where chain-cables 

 and anchors are made. Saturday is the principal market-day; second- 

 ary markets are held on Tuesday and Thursday. Fairs are held on 

 May 4th and October 1 0th. 



About fifty years since Gosport was fortified by a line of bastions 

 extending from Weovil to Alverstoke. Within the lines is the Royal 

 Clarence Yard at Weovil, containing the brewery, the victualling 

 department, the establishment for baking biscuit by macliiuery, and 

 storehouses for provisions for the Royal Navy, Near the extremity 

 of the point of land which forms the west side of Portsmouth harbour 

 is situated the Royal Hospital of Haslar, erected between 1750 and 

 1762. At the northern extremity of the point of land on which 

 Haslar Hospital is built, an extremely strong fort and baiTacks have 

 been lately constructed for the protection of the entrance of Ports- 

 mouth harbour. A deep creek, which intervenes between Haslar and 

 Gosport, is spanned by a bridge. Bingham town is a populous suburb 

 of Gosport, containing many genteel residences ; and Anglesea, about 

 2 miles from Gosport, on Stoke's Bay, is a fashionable watering-place. 

 (Parliamentary Papers; Warner, Hampshire ; Land We Live In, 

 vol. i. ; CommMnication from GmpoH.) 

 GOSSELIES. [Hainault.] 

 GOTHA, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Gotha, which upon the 



