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fion of malting ; or tlie fame fiibflance is lodgrd in, or 

 united with, the bulk of the cotyledons, as in tlie legumi- 

 Tiouj tribe. If the albumen happens to fuffer chemical de- 

 terioration, by keeping or otherwife, the feed germinates 

 ir.ore feebly, or rot at all. Hence gardeners prefer old 

 feeds of melons and cucumbers, as producing Icfs luxuriant 

 plants, and more fruit in proportion. We prefume the 

 confequences of keeping afFecl the chemical qualities of the 

 albumen before the vital principle fu.Ters, becaufe of the 

 f lecefs of recent French ch:m;(b, v.ho by the copious ap- 

 plication of oxygen rellore their original nature. See this 

 v.hole fubjecl more fully detailed in the TranfaAions of the 

 Linniean Society, vol. 9. p. 20.4. — 217. S. 



GERMISCH, in Geography, a town of Germany, in 

 the bilhopric of Freyfing ; 21 miles S. of 'Weilhaim. 



GERlklONrO, Anastasio, in Biojmp/jj, was born at 

 Sala, in Piedmont, in 1551 ; his education was almo'l en- 

 tirely neglected till he had attained the age of manhood. 

 Feeling, at this period, his own deliciencv, he applied him- 

 fclf with fa much diligence, that in the courfe of a few 

 months he felt equal to engage in the lludy of the law. He 

 took his degree at the univertity of Turin, and was ap- 

 . pointed to the profeflbrihip of the canon-law, an office 

 which he held, in conjunction with other polls of honour and 

 emolument, till his archbifkop was created a cardinal ; he 

 then accompanied him to Rome, and acquired the eileem cf 

 Sixtus y. and the fucceeding pontiffs. He was appointed 

 by Clement VHI. to affift in compiling'-the feventh book 

 of decretals, in which were inferted the decrees of the 

 council of Trent, with explanations. After this he was 

 entrulled by the dukes of Urbino and Savoy ^^^th the ma- 



Daeeraent of their concerns at the fee of Rome. So hisfh 



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was his reputation, that two biflioprics were offered him 



which he reiufed, but at len^jth accepted of the ?.rchbi(liopric 

 of Tarantafia, in Savoy. He was next fent embaffador, by 

 duke Charles iEnianuel, to the court of Madrid, where he 

 died in 1627. Befides his notes on the Decretals, and other 

 fmallcr pieces on the Digeil and Code, he pibliihcd " De 

 Sacrorum immunitatibus Lib. tres, &c." printed at the Vai- 

 can, 1 59 1 ; — " Pomeridianx ft-ffiones in quibus Latinoe Lin- 

 guae diguitas defenditur," &c. His writings are highly 

 c'lleem.ed for the purity of the language and the accuracy 



• of the reafoning. Moreri. 



GERMS, in Geography, a town of Auftria ; 62 miles . 

 W.N.W. of Vienna. N. lat. 48' 32'. E. long. 15'. 



GERMUK, a town of Ailatic Turkey; 45 miles W. 

 of Diarbekir. 



GERN, a town of Ruffia, in the government of Tala ; 

 28 miles W.S.W. of Tula. — Alfo, a town of Bavaria; 15 

 uiDes W.N.W. of Braunau. 



GERNACH, a town of Germanv, in the principality 

 if Wurzburg ; 5 miles W.N.W. of Geroldflioien. 



GERNOl, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Kolivan, feated on the Irtifch ; 204 miles S.^\'. of Ko- 

 livan. N. lat. 51^ 44'. E. long. 78 14. 



GERKOL-\RSKOI, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the go- 

 vernment of Kolivan, on the Irtifch ; 196 r.;iles W.S.W. 

 .of Kolivan. N. lat. 52 30'. E. long. 7- 14'. 



GERNORIETZKGI, a fortrefs of Riiflia, in the go- 

 Ternment of Kolivan, on the Irtifch, 180 miles WjSjW. 

 of Kolivan. N. lat. 52 45?. E. long. 77 14'. 



GERNRODE, a town of Germany, in the principality 



of Anhalt Bemburg, in wliich was an abbey faunded in 96c, 



-.and richly endowed for ladies, by Gero, auirgrave of Lu- 



.ialia, which was fecularized in favour of the houfe of An- 



• halt, at the peace of Wellphalia ; 30 miles W. of Ddiau. 

 N. lit. 51-45'. E. long, u'' 20'. 



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GERNSHEIM, or Geken-.^heim, a town of" Gtrmany 

 given, in 1802, to the landgrave of Hefie barmftadt ; hi 

 miles E.S.E. of Mentz. 



GERNYOSZEG, a town of Tmnfilvania, on the 

 river Maros ; ro miles S.W. of Kcrcfztur. 



GEROCOMIA, of y'.fx-,, aged, and zojiifv, / ehri/h; 

 a term ufed by the ancients for that fort of medicinal 

 praclice which treated of the proper regimen to be cb- 

 lerved in old age. 



GEROD.\, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 territory of Eiclisfe'd, with a rich Benedictine abbey ; eight 

 miles N.E of Duderlladt. 



GERODOT, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Aube ; nine miles E. of Troves. 



GEROLDSHOFEN, a town of Germany, in the 

 bidiopric of Wurzburg ; 20 miles N.E. of Wurzburg. 



GEROLDSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the county 

 of Katzenelnbogen ; feven miles S. of Nallede. 



GEROLSTEIN, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Sarre, and chief place of a canton, in the diflrict 

 of Prum ; 24 miles N. of Treves. The place contains 350, 

 and the canton 2892 inhabitants, in 29 communes. N lat. 

 50' 16'. E. long. 6 38'. 



GERON Point, a cape of Ireland, in the county of 

 Antrim, on the eaft coaft. W. long. 5-' 50'. N. lat. 



55" 3'- 



GERONA, or GlROXSE, Lat. Gerum'a, a town of 

 Spain, in the province of Catalonia, the fee of a bifhop, fuf- 

 fragan of Tarragona. This is a fortified town, of nearly a 

 triangular form, iituated on tlie fide and at the foot of a 

 ileep mountain ; the river Tar runs through it. The ftrevts 

 are naiTow and crowded, but the houfes are tolerably well 

 built. It has feveral churches and convents ; and its popu- 

 lation amoiuits to about 14,000 perfons, a fourth of wliicli 

 number confiils of priells, monks and nuns, fchola'S and 

 lludents. Several provincial councils l-.ave been held in tliis 

 place, one in 517, another in 106S, &c. The trade of this 

 town is inconfiderable, and its only mannfaclorics confift of 

 a few looms for ftockings, c'oarfe cloths, and woollen and 

 cotton lluiTs. The cathedral and collegiate churches arc 

 the two moft remarkable edillccs in Gironne. The trcafury 

 of tl;e cathedral is richly funiiihed with chahces, erodes, 

 (lirines, rehcs, &c. of gold and filver fet with jewels. In 

 the Capuchin convent there is an Arabian bath, conilrufted 

 in the moft elegant ilyle, and confilling of columns ftanding 

 on an oftagon llylobate, or low-bafo, encircling a refervoir 

 to contain water. The univerfity of Gironne, founded in 

 1 52 1 by Philip II., was aboliflied in 1715 by Philip V. 

 After the fuppreffion of the Jefuits, pviblic inihuction was 

 concenti-ated in one college, accommodating 9CO lludents, 

 who are taught the Latin grammar, rhetoric, philofophy, 

 and theology. Tlie hbrgry is felecl and extenlive. Schools 

 are kept by the community of the Beguine nuns for the gra- 

 tuitous iiiilruction of poor girls ; 47 miles N.E. f^f ) arce- 

 lona. N. b.tT 42 10'. . E.. long. 2 35'. 



GERONIMO, St., a town of Mexico, inNewBifcayj 

 90 miles N. of Parral 



GERONTE, a fmall iiland in the Mediterranean, near 

 the coail of Natolia. N. lat. 36" 20'. E. long. 30^ 4'. 



GERONTES, in Antiquity, a kind of judges, or ma^rif- 

 trates, in ancient Sparta, anfwering to what tlie Areopagites 

 were at Athens. Sec AiiEgp.tGUS. 



The word is formed of Gi-eek, •ys.i'v, which fignihes old 

 man. Whence alfo the words geronik, fomeihing belonging 

 to an old man ; and gercniccn, a famous bock among the 

 modern Greeks, containing the lives of the ajicieiit morOcs. 



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