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treadth, watered by the Rhine and other ftreams, and tound- 

 cd on the well by mount Jura, which yields Lxcellent paf- 

 tures. The principal .nrticles of trade are cheefe, win-, and 

 coal. It now forms a part of the department of lake Le- 

 nian. 



Gex, a town of France, in the department of Leman, 

 and chief place of a canton, in the diftritl of Geneva, fitu- 

 ated at the foot of mount St. Claude ; 9 miles N. N. W. of 

 Geneva. The place contains 2461, and the canton 9209 in- 

 habitants, on a territor)' of 2i2:j kiliometres, in 14 com- 



N. lat. 46' 20'. E. 



6 8', 



GEYER, a town of Germany, in the circle of Erz.ge- 

 burg, fituated in the midft of mines, and having manufac- 

 tures of vitriol, fulphur, alum, and arfenic ; 6 miles W. S. 

 W. of Wolkenllein. 



GEYERSBERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Konigingratz ; 28 miles E. N. E. of Chrudim. 



GEYRACH, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 9 miles 

 S. S. E. of CiUey. 



GEYSS, or Geysa, a town of Germany, in the biftop- 

 ric of Folda, fituated on the Ulller ; i^ miles N. E. of 

 Fulda. N. lat. jo'' 43'. E. long. 10^. 



GEYas Ruchai Jajfeleh, a mountain of Germany, which 

 feparates Upper Carniola from the county of Cilley ; 6 

 miles N. E of Stein. 



GEYSZING, New, a town of Saxony, in the margra- 

 viate of MeifTen ; 12 miles S. E. of Pilnitz. 



GEZAEL, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the Euplu3- 

 tes ; 1 20 miles W. N. W. of Baflbra. 



GEZAN, or D,SJESAK, a fea-port town of Arabia Felix, 

 in the principality of Abu-Arifch (fee Abu-Kv.\%cn) ; 23 

 miles W. of Abu-Arifch, the capital of the principality. 

 This province of Gezan, fituated on the Arabic gulf, and in 

 a fertile country, carries on a confiderable trade in fenna, of 

 which great plenty is furniflied by the circumjacent territory, 

 and alfo in coffee, which is brought liither from the moun- 

 tains of Hafchid-u-Bakil. It has a trade likewife with the 

 ports on the oppofite fide of the Arabic gulf; but has no in- 

 tercourfe with the fubjecls of the Imam. 



GEZEID, a town of Egypt, on the right bank of tlie 

 Nile ; 27 miles N. N. W. of Cairo. 



GEZIR.^., or Jassf.era, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 and capital of a pachalic, in the province of Diarbekir, on 

 the right bank of the Tigris. The wh.ole province of Diar- 

 bekir is alfo called " Al Gezira ;'" 75 miles S. E. of Diar- 

 bekir. N. lat. 37~ 16 . E. long. 40 42'. 



GEZIRA CuBRO-S, in the Materia MetCca of the Anci- 

 ents, a name given to talc by Avicenna, Serapion, and 

 others. Thefe authors do not give any explication of what 

 fort of fubftance they mean by this name, but feem to fup- 

 pofe it a thing univerfally known, and only give a hil of its 

 qualities. 



GEZIRAT AL Dahab, or Gezirnt JdJahah, or the 

 Golden IJland, in Geography, an iflaad in Lower Egypt, 

 formed by canals cut from the left bank of the Nile, oppy- 

 fite to Faoua. 



Gezir.\t al Teik, or IJland of Birds, an ifland in tlie Red 

 fea. N. lat. 22' 18'. E. long. 37" 56'. 



GEZULA, or Ge-SULA, an inland province of the empire 

 of Morocco, E. of the province of Suz, and N. of Vledde 

 N'^n : this, together with the province of Dra, lies iu the 

 vicinity of mount Atlas which, in this foutliern part of the 

 country, extends almoll to the fea. The inhabitants of this 

 province are confidered as the moft ancient people of Africa. 

 The country produces a great quantity of baik y, and affords 

 •pafture for cattle : it has mines of iron and copper, of which 

 are made various uteniils, that are exchajiged for cloth, fpices, 



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horfes, and other necefTarics. It has every year a fair, whick 

 lafls two months, for the fale and exchange of cattle and 

 merchandize in general. Tlie people are free, being allica 

 rather than fubjefts of Morocco. Th-'ir arms confift -of 

 fibres, large (harp two-edged fwords and knees. Thty are 

 numerous, but have no towns, and they generally live in 

 camps and villages. 



GFOLL, a town of Auftria ; 8 miles W. N. W. of 

 Cren-.?. 



GHALESKA, a town of Arabia Fe!ix> which was once 

 a famous city and fea-port, but now fu:ik into decay, about 

 20 cottages only remaining to (hew the phce wiiere it ftood, 

 and the inhabitants are provided only with dates, and the 

 milk and fledi of a few (hecp ; 20 miles S. of Hodeida. 



GHALGHULUWA, in Zoology, the Ceylonefe name 

 of a fpceies of Eaft Indian (erp^nt, a (nake of a pale brown, 

 variegated with tranfverfe ftreaks of white, and found amonfj 

 rocks and ftones. 



GHAN is a name given in Mufcovy to caravanferas. 



GHANA, as Edrifi and Abulfeda tall it, or GiiiSWY. 

 in Geography, a city and capitr.l of a kingdom in Africa, fitu- 

 ated nearly midway between the Indian fta and the Atlantic 

 on the E. and W. ; and between the Mediterranean and tlir 

 Ethiopic fcas on the N. and S. ; and, therefore, confidered 

 by major Rennell as the point on whicii tlie ceutral and 

 eajlcrn pofitions depend. Tliis country lies on the border* 

 ot the Neel-Abeed, or Guin river, and is bounded on the 

 N. by Calhna or Kaffina, on the E. by Wangara, on the S. by 

 Melli or Lamlem, and on the W. by Mekzara and Kallina. 

 The city is placed in Rennell's map on the portii bank of the 

 river. According to Edrifi, Giiana is di(lant 37 joumies 

 (each day's journey of Edrifi being about 19.06 geogra- 

 phical miles) from " Gcrma,'' through Agadez, or Agadoft. 

 Germa is an ancient and ruined citv of Fezzan, about four 

 journies E S. E. of Mourzouk, in N. lat. 27 25'. E. long. 

 16^ 20'. Agadez is 25 of Edril'i's journies from Gcrma, 

 bearing S. by W. or S. S. W. from the capital of Fezzan. 

 Ghana is 12 days of Edrili's fcide to the foutliwaid of Aga- 

 dez, or about 229 geographical miles. It appears that Ghana 

 lies fomewhat to the ealt of the line whieh paffes through 

 Agadez from Germ.a, and Mr. Renn^U has taken 700 as the 

 gcu.ral line of diftance from Germa to Ghana. Mr. Matra 

 was told, at Morocco, that Ghinny (Ghana cf Edrifi 1 wag 

 40 joumies from Kabra, tiie port of Tombutloo, along the 

 bank of the Niger. Thefc, taken at '.he caravan rate between 

 Fezzan and Egypt, Morocco and Jarra, See. that i«, at 16.3 

 per day, produce 652 geographical mile?;. The interfec- 

 tiou of this line with that from Gerir.a pl;:ces Ghinny in N. 

 lat. i6" id. E. long. 1 3" 2' ; in which polition it ftands at 

 760 miles from the citv of Benin, on the coail of Guinea. 

 For th...- further fettlement of this important point in adjuil- 

 ing the rr.ap of Africa, fe'e Rennell's Proceedings of th« 

 African AiTociation, p. 119, 8:c 



GHANARA, a city of Africa, the capital of Wan- 

 gara, fituated <m a river, wliich runs into the Niger, or rather 

 into a lake (the Lybia Palus of Ptolemv) formed by tliff 

 Niger. N. lat. 13' 40'. E long. 15 40. 



GHASSA, or Gassa, capital of a diftricl in the nor- 

 thern part of Bootan, in the Eail Indies, and the ftation of 

 a zinnpoon, or provincial governor. The higheft ir.ouiitaw 

 in its neighbourhood, whofc head is ctenislly covei-cd with 

 fnow, fends forth a fpring of water at its bareof fo great a 

 degree of I-.eat, that few uiv found capable of bearing, even 

 fora (hort time, 3;;y part of the body iinmerfed in it. It 

 is fituated near the fprinx-liead of Pa-tchicu river. N, lat. 



27- 53'. E. lon^. Sy' iS'. 



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