GEN 



GEN 



■ferred to, differ only in fize, they have no gjneiical dif- 

 ference at all ; if they do differ clhervvife, they flioiild be 

 expreffed. What makes many of thefe names alfo more 

 intolerable ie, that they allude not to fidi, but to other 

 things fo different in tht-ir nature, that there muil needs be 

 many other more cdential varieties between them, belide 

 lize. 



Another general rule is, that fuch generical names as are 

 pure Latin, but are mere adjcrtives, are to be exploded, 

 there being no t^'al'on for ufmg them as fubflantives. 



A ninth general rule is, that fuch names as are formed of 

 Latin words, unknown to the ancient Romans, and formed 

 by the later writers, are to be expelled as barbarous, and 

 others of better credit placed in their (lead. 



Finally, fuch generical names as have been given to fifh 

 from the places where they are caught are to be rejected ; 

 of this kind are the fardella and fardina from the illand of 

 Sardinia, and the fturio from AiUiria, a province of Spain. 

 Thefe forts of names can convey no idea of the nature of 

 the fifli, and may belong as well to one genus as to another. 

 Artedi, Ichthyolog. p. lo. 69. 73. 79. 



Thefe rules of profcription banilbtd fo many of the re- 

 ceived generical names of filh, that it might be fuppofed 

 the whole number was cxhauiled, and all the nlli in the 

 world to be named anew. But this is not the cafe ; the 

 genera are in reality much fewer in number than they have 

 been iifually fuppofed, and therefore fewer words will ferve 

 to exprefs them, and there yet remain many truly Latin 

 words ufed by the ancient Romans, by which the far greater 

 part of the genera may be expreffed, and the few remaining 

 may be bell denominated by compound Greek words, ex- 

 prelTive of their real charafters. 



Among the true and genuine Latin, and Graeco-Latin 

 names of the genera of filh, are thefe : accipenfer, amia, 

 anthias, baliena, blennius, clupea, cobites, cyprinus, del- 

 phinus, elops, efox, exoccetus, gobius, labrus, lamia, lipa- 

 ris, mugil, mullus, mursena, perca, phyfeter, priilis, raja, 

 falmo, falpa, fcarus, fcomber, filurus, fparus, fqualus, thyn- 

 nus, torpedo, triton, turfio, uranofcopus, xiphias, zeus. 

 Thefe will go a great wav toward the naming of the true ge- 

 nera. Artedi has merited greatlv of the world, in thus re- 

 forming the names of fidi ; and the rules he has laid down, 

 thus given at large, may, with little variation, be made to 

 ferve for any other author, in whatever branch of know- 

 ledge he has occafiou to write. 



GENERIS Secundi. See SEcuNDt. 



GENEROSA, a Gentkivoman. See Gentlewoman and 

 Spiksteu. 



GENEROSITY, Order of, an order of knighthood, 

 eflablilhed in 1685, by Frederick III., eleClor of Branden- 

 burg and king of PrufTia, whilll he was clettoral prince. 

 The badge was a gold crofs of eight points enamelled azure, 

 bearing in the centre this infcription " L.\ GEKtuosiTi;,'' 

 and per>dent to a blue ribband. 



GENES AN, in Geography, a town in the Arabian Irakj 

 go miles S. of Bagdad. 



GENESAR, or Genesareth, called alfo Cmmth, and 

 afterwards Tiierias, a toun of Paledine on the lake of the 

 fame name, called alfo Sea of Galilee, which fee. 



GENESEE, a townthip of America, in the ftate of 

 New York, and county of Ontario, having 217 cleftors. 



Genesee Country, a large traft of land in the ilate of 

 New York, deriving its name from Genelfee, one of its rivers, 

 and bounded N. and N.W. by lake Ontario, S. by Penn- 

 fylvania, E. by the wcllern part of the military townfhips in 

 Onondago county, and W. by lake Erie and Niagara river. 

 This is a rich traft of country, and well watered by lakes 



and rivers, it is flattifh, its rivers are fluggifli, the foil ii 

 moift, and its lakes are numerous. 



Gexesee, or Gcnejfef River, rifes in PennfyKania, near the 

 mod elevated fpot of this ilate, where alfo the callernmoft 

 water of Alleghany river, and Pine creek, a water of Suf- 

 quehanna, and Tioga river rife. It has feveral falls, whicti 

 furnifli excellent m.ill-feats, that arc improved by the inha- 

 bitants. After a courfe of about 100 miles, chiefly N.E. 

 by N., it difcharsjes itfelf into lake Ontario, 4^ miles E. 

 of Irondequat, or Rundagut bay, and 80 miles E. from 

 the falls of Niagara. The fcttlements on this river, from 

 its mouth upwards, are Norlhlield, Northampton, Hart- 

 ford, Geneffee, and Williamflvargh. When the wcllern ca- 

 nals and locks are completed, there will not be any carrying 

 place betv.-een the city of New York and Vv''illiamfburglf. 

 Th.e Genefee flats lie on the borders of this river, about 

 20 miles in length and about four in breadth. Thefe ai"e 

 mollly the property of the Indians. 



Gene.ske, or C'tiejfec County, is bounded N. by lake Onta- 

 rio, W. by Niagara river and 1 ike Erie, S. by Pennfylvania, 

 and E. by the counties of Tioga and Orondago. It com- 

 prehends the counties of Ontario, Steuben, and Genefee, 

 and coi.tained, in the year iSoo, upwards of 17,000 per- 

 fons. This coimty is finely watered by the Genefee river 

 and its tributary flreams, feveral creeks, and alfo lakes, 

 which are from 20 to 40 miles in length. The fouthern 

 part is watered by feveral branches of the Sufquehanna. 

 This county is large, and comprehends the wt. ilern part of 

 the ftate of New York. 



GENESIS, in Biblical Hipry, the firft book of the Old 

 Teflament, containing the hiitory of the creation, and the 

 lives of the firft patriarchs. 



Tiie book of Genefis Hands at the head of the Pentateuch, 

 which fee. Its author is held to be Mofes : it contains the 

 relation of 2369 years, viz. from the beginning of the world 

 to the deatii of Jofeph. The Jews are forbid to read the 

 beginning of Genefis, and the beginning of Ezekiel, before 

 thirty years of age. 



The Hebrews called this book Bercfch'ith, becaufe it be- 

 gins with that v.'ord, which in their language fignifies in. 

 principio, or in the beginning The Greeks gave it t!ie name 

 Genefis, I'ltiTi:, q. d. produftion, generation, becaufe it bc' 

 gins with the hiftory of the production or generation of all 

 beings. 



This book, befides the hiftory of the creation, contains 

 an account of the original innocence and fall of m.an ; the 

 propagation of mankind ; the rife of religion ; the general 

 defection and corruption of the world ; the deluge ; the re- 

 ftoration of the world ; the divifion and peopling of the 

 earth ; and the hillory of tlse firft patriarchs to the death of 

 Jofeph. It was eafy for Mofes to be fatisficd of the truth 

 of what he deHvcrs in this book, becaufe it came down to 

 him through a few hands : for from Adam to Noah, there 

 was one man, I'.'s. Methufelah, who lived fo long as to fee 

 them both : in like manner Shem converfed with Noah and 

 Abraham ; Ifaac with Abraham and Jofeph, from whom 

 the records of this book might eafily be conveyed to Mofes 

 by Amram, who was contemporary with Jofeph., — Pa- 

 trick. 



Gk\esis, in Geometry, denotes the formation of a line, 

 plane, or folid, by the motion or flux of a point, line, or 

 furfa^e. See each refpeftivcly ; alfo Fluxion and Curve,, 

 and Geker,\tiox. 



The geneiis, or formation, e. gr. of a g'cbe or fphere, is 



conceived by fuppofing a femi-circle to revolve upon a right 



line, drawn from one cxtrenie thereof to the other, called 



its axis, or axis of circumvolution : the motion or revolution 



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