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tone being immediately put down again, and covered witli a 

 plaller. 



The South Down (hcep farmers, when the animals ai-e af- 

 fected in this way, fay they ?ivc paler ijh. 



Various other modes of cure have been propofed, but 

 they do not fecm worthy of much attention. Sse SiiEi!!'. 

 ■ GlUIy^, \\\ Jnclfnt Geography, See Jidda. 

 ' GIDDATOOR, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in the circar of Cicacole ; i6 miles S.W. of Coflimcotta. 



GIDDINESS, in Mcclldne, a fenfalion as if the objeas 

 ■furrounjing the perfon were in a llatc of circumgyration, 

 or whirling motion, accompanied with an inability to main- 

 tain the ereft pofture, or to move forward in a llraight line : 

 in technical language this is denominated Vertigo ; which 

 fee. 



GIDDRI, in Geography, a town of Albania; 8 miles 

 N. of AlefTio. 



GIDEA, a river of Sweden, which rifes in the Lapp- 

 mark of Afele, and tra%-erling Angermanland, runs into the 

 gulf of Bothnia. N. lat. i6 20'. E. long. 18 54'. 



GIDELI, a town of Candahar ; 50 miles S.E. of Ca- 

 bul. 



GIDID, a town of Africa, in Dar-fiir, nearly S.E. and 

 about 22 miles from Cobbc, on the road from Cobbe to 

 Ril. This town has a competent fupply of water ; and yet 

 the Fukkara, who poffefs it, are fuppofed to be fo deftitute 

 of hofpitality, that they will hardly fnrnifli a travellei: fuf- 

 ficient to allay his thirft. In this town are many houfes, 

 and fome of them belong to merchants who derive their ori- 

 gin from the eaft ward,— Alfo, a town of Nubia ; 35 miles 

 S. of Gerri. 



GIDI-SHEHRI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Nato- 

 lia ; 8 miles S. of Beifliehri. 



G ID OLA, a town of RufTia, in the government of Wi- 

 burg ; 20 miles N. of Wiburg. 



GIECH, a town of Germany, in the bifhopric of Bam- 

 berg; 7 miles N. of Bamberg. 



GIEDKULISZKI, a town of Samogltia ; 24 miles S. 

 of RoCennc. 



GIEDROYCE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Wilna ; 24 miles N.N. W. of Wilna. 



GIEDUNGEN, a town of Norway, in the dioccfe of 

 Chrifiian(lac!t ; iS miles N.W. of Stavanger. 



GIEGUZIN, a town of Lithuania; 15 miles S. of 

 Wilkom.iers. 



GIEK, in Botany, the Ceylon name of afmall fruit, dc- 

 fcribedby Gxrtner v. 2. 486. t. 180, of which nothing 

 more is known. The nucleus is Angularly pitted, like a Ru- 

 lus, but if the figure be in all points correct, it cannot be 

 a grain of the fruit of that genus. The internal parts, which 

 were decayed, might have afcertained fomethmg decifive, 

 cfpecially the fituation of the embryo. 



GIELLUM, in Geography, a town of Norway, in the 

 diocefe of Aggerhuus ; 53 miles N. of Chrilliania. 



GIEN, a town of France, and principal place of a dif- 

 tria, in the department of the Loiret, feated en the Loire ; 

 32 miles S.E. of Orleans. The place contain.^ 5'I7> ^"d 

 the canton 11,366 inhabitants, on a territory of 410 kilio- 

 metres, in II communes. N. lat. 48 45'. E. long. 10^ 



GIENE'. See Kene. 



GIENSOR, a town of Africa ; 10 miles S. of Tri- 

 poli. 



GIER, a river of France, which runs into the Rhone, 

 1 2 miles below Lyons. 



GIERACE, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, the 

 fee of a bi.'hop, fuffragSn of Reggio ; contahiing 13 



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churches, and 4 monallerics. Near it are fome fulpluircous 

 baths; 34 miles N. of Reggio. N. lat. 38^ 6'. E. long. 

 16 30'. — Alfo, a town of Sicily, in tlie valley of Demo- 

 na ; 30 miles S.W. of Miftretta. N. lat. 37 '48'. E. long. 14" 

 22'. 



GIERANONY, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Wilna ; 20 miles N.E. of Lida. 



GIERGA, a town of Bengal ; 48 miles S.E. of Doe- 

 fa. 



GIESIM, a town of Nubia, between 'Sennaar and Abyf- 

 fmia ; ico miles E.S.E. of Sennaar. N. hit. 13° 16', 

 E. long. 35-^ 15'. 



GIESSEN, a ftrong town of Germany, in the princi- 

 pality of Upper Hefle, fituated in a fertile country, on 

 the Lahn. It is defended by a good citadel and arfenal. 

 An univerfity was founded here in the year 1605 ; 36 miles 

 N.E.ofMentz. N. lat. 50"^ 35'. E. long. 8 43'. 



GIEZIN, a town of Samogitia ; 22 miles E S.E. of Ro- 

 fienne. 



GIFF.;E, a term in Surgery, fignifying fwellings behind 

 the ears. 



GIFFEN, HuBEKT, in Biography, a lawyer and philo- 

 logift, was a native of Gueldies in France. He I'udied at 

 different univerfities, as thofe at Louvain, Paris, and Or- 

 leans, and in 1567 he took his degrees in the law. He 

 went to Venice in tlie train of the French ambaflador, and 

 from thence to Germany, and taught philoiophy and jm-ii- 

 prudence at Strafburg, Altdorf, and Ingollladt. He «as 

 educated in the principles of Proteftantifni, which he re- 

 nounced for the Calhohc religion previonlly to his being in- 

 vited to tlie imperial court, where the emperor Rodolph be- 

 llowed upon him fome important offices. Being fent into 

 Bohemia, he died at Prague in the year 1604, being abo-.it 

 feventy years of age. His principal works are " Comment. 

 de Imp. Juftiano :" " Index Hill. Rerum Romanorum ;'' 

 and notes and comments upon Arillotlo's politics, ethics ; 

 alfo upon Lucretius. Moreri. Bayle. 



GIFFT-MEHL, the name given by the German cie- 

 mifts and metallurgills to the firll appearance of arfenic, 

 or the grey flowers arifmg from the roafting of cobalt, and 

 fticking to the long wooden funnel, which they carry from 

 the furnaces. 



The word gifft-mehl is German, and fignifies poifonous 

 meal or flour. 



GIFHORN, in Geography, a town of Germany, in the 

 principality of Luneburg-Zell, feated on the Allier ; 19 

 miles E. of Zell. 



GIFONI, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra ; 7 miles 

 E. N. E. of Salerno. 



GIFT, or Grant, in Law, a m.ethod of transferring 

 perfonal property, anfwering in fome meafure to the convey- 

 ances of real eftates. Gifts and grants are thus to be dillin- 

 guidied from each otlier, that gifts are always gratuitoi\s, 

 whereas grants are upon fome confideration or equivalent. 

 With regard to their fub]ect-niatter, they rray be divided 

 into gifts or grants of chatttels real, and gifts or grants of 

 chattels ^f/y&W. Under the former clafs may be included 

 all leafes for years of land, aflignments, and furrenders of 

 thefeleafes; and all the other metiiods of conveying an eflate 

 Icfs than freehold ; though tliefe vci-y feldom carry the out- 

 ward appearance of a gift, hov.-ever freely beilowed ; being 

 ufuallv expreffed to be made in confideration of blood, or 

 natural aff^aion, cr of five or ten fhiilings nominally paid to 

 the grantor; and in cafe of leaies, always referving a rent, 

 though it be but a pepper-corn ; — any of which confidera- 

 tions will, in the eye of tlie law, convert the gift, if execut- 

 ed, into a grant ; if not executed, into a conlraiit. 



Grants 



