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tire to the Numidian dcfertj, Kaxing tirft exercifed tlio ty- 

 rant's policv, liy commanding the execution oi" Hildericand 

 his captive 'friends. Carthage fnbmitted to the viclorious 

 Celifarius; ,but Gllimer cullracd his tVattered force?, and 

 being joincd'by Zano, who had returned from Sardinia, a 

 fecoud atlion enfued, in wliich Zano loft his life, and Gili- 

 iner ac^aiii retreated. Tlic lofs of the African provmces iuc- 

 cceded, and the defeated king was forced to take rcfuj;c m 

 the inacceflible mountains of the interior of Nuraidia. Even 

 here, he was furrounded by a part of the Roman army un- 

 der Pharus, and reduced to the utmoll dhlrcfs, which to Inm 

 was pecuharly affliaive by its coutra'l with the luxury and 

 effeminacy in which ho had been accullomed to hve. So de- 

 plorable was his fituation, that he is reported to have applied 

 to Pharus for a lyre, a fponge, and a loaf of bread : the 

 firtt he faid was to footh his forrows ; the fecond to dry up 

 his tears : the third he alked as an humble delicacy, of which 

 ho had not tailed for a long time. His diftreffes at length 

 obliged him to fubmit to the conqueror ; he dcfcended from 

 the mountains, and followed Belifu-ius to Conftantinople, 

 marching in the train of iiis triumph ; on which occafion, 

 he fuffered neither tear nor figh to efcape, but frequently 

 exclaimed, in the language of Solomon, " Vanity of vani- 

 ties all is vanity!" The emperor received him with re- 

 fpeft, and fhewed him much attention and kindnefs : he 

 would have raifed the fallen monarch to the dignity of pa- 

 trician, could he have be?n perfuaded to renounce the Arun 

 doftrine, in which he had been educated. He was put in 

 poffeffion of a large eftate in Galatia, where, in the bofom 

 of his family, he ended his days in peace. The extinftion 

 of the Vandal kingdom in the perlon of Gilimer is to be 

 dated from the year 534. Gibbon. Univer. Hill. 



GILION, in Geography, an ifland in the Ealt-Indian fea, 

 about 36 miles in circumference. S. lat. 7- 6'. E. long. 



114 37'. ... r 



GILIS, St., a town of France, m the department ot 

 the Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 

 Termonde. The place contains 3228, and the canton 16,770 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 95 kiliometres, in fix com.- 



munes. . 



GILITZSTAIN, a town of the duchy of Cann'.hia ; 



10 miles E.N.E. of St. Veit. 



GILL, in Jgricu/lun, a term fomctnnes applied provni- 

 cially to the pair of wheels and frame on which timber is 

 conveyed. ^ • . 



Gill, John, in Biography, was born at Kettering, m 

 Northamptonlhire, in 1697, and difcovering, when very 

 young, an uncommon capacity for learning, his father, who 

 was a diffenter of the Baptill perfualion, fent him to a 

 grammar-fchool in the neiglibourhood, where he foon out- 

 ilript his companions in clafiical attainments. When he was 

 but eleven years of age he had read feveral of the common 

 fchool book's in Latin, and made a confiderable proficiency in 

 the Greek. Owing to the narrow circumftances of his pa- 

 rents he was put to bufinefs, but he did not fail to improve 

 his leifure moments by an attention to clafiical literature, fo 

 that bv the time when he had attained his nineteenth year he 

 had read all the Greek and Latin authors that had fallen in 

 his way, and had diligently ihidied logic, rhetoric, moral 

 and natural philofophy. He had likewife Hudied Hebrew 

 fo as to be able to read the Old Teftament in the original 

 with pleafure. In 1 716 he was baptized, and foon after 

 commenced preaching in private. He now removed to 

 Hio-ham Ferrers to profecute a regular courfe of lludies 

 under Mr. Davis, a man of cpnfiderabie learning, and 

 paftor of a baptill church in that place. His flay here was 

 Ihortj and after about a year he returned to his native town, 



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and became affiilant preacher to the congregation there;- 

 and in 17 19 he received and accepted an invitation to be- 

 come pallor of a baptill congregation in Southwark. 

 The duties of this fituation he difcharged with great fidelity 

 and ufefulnefs more tiiau half a century. He died in 1771 

 in the feveiity-fourth year of his age. His fentiments in 

 rehgion were llriftly Calviniftic ; and his moral conduft 

 was unimpeachable and truly exemplary. He was author of 

 many works, particularly of " An Expofition of the Old 

 and New Teftament ;" in nine volumes folio : " A body of 

 Divinity," in three volumes 410. ; " A Supplement to Mr. 

 Whifton's Elfay towards reftoring the true text of the Old 

 Teftament." In the year 1748, when he had publifhed the 

 third volume of his " Expofition of the New Teftament," 

 the degree of doftor of divinity was conferred upon him by 

 the univerfity of Aberdeen without his felicitation or know- 

 ledge : information of the fadl was communicated to him by 

 two of the learned profefibrs, who declared that his diploma 

 was prefented to him, " on account of his great knowledge 

 of the fcriptures, of the oriental languages, and of Jewidi 

 antiquities, of his learned defence of the fcriptures againft 

 Deifts and infidels, and the reputation gained by his other 

 works." Dr. Gill had, indeed, from the time of his fet- 

 thng in the metropolis, paid a moft unwearied attention to 

 the oriental languages : he had ftudied the writings of the 

 fathers, ecclefiallical hillory, the accounts of the rites and 

 curtoms of the eaftern nations, all which he knew were 

 adapted to enrich his ftores of biblical learning, and to 

 qualify him for the duties of his protelfion. Gen. Biog. 

 Gill, in Botany. See Glechoma. 



Gill, in Geography, a townftiip of America, in the Hate 

 of Maftachufetts and county of Hampftiire, fituatcd on 

 tlie W. bank of Connefticut river, 90 miles from Bofton ; 

 containing 700 inhabitants. 



Gill, or Btch, is a name in feveral' Enghfh counties for 

 a brook, rivulet, or fmall ftream of water. 



Gill, a meafnre of ale or beer, is i-4th of an ale 

 pint = 8.8125 cubic Englifli inches = 1.220779 "'i"*^ g'll* 

 := .0169084 cubic links. 



GiLi, of wine, cyder, oil, &c. = I -4th of a wine pint 

 = 7 21875 cubic Enghfh inches = .8191490 ale gills = 

 .0145307 cubic links. 



Gill, Scotch mcafure, = i-4th of amutchkin = i-i6th 

 of a Scotch pint, the cubic content of which varies mucb 

 in different places. See Scotch PiKT. 

 GILLAROO, Trout. See Tkout. 

 GILI>KM's Bay, in Geography, a bay on the S. coafl 

 of the ifland of St. Chriftopher ; two miles W. of Bafie- 

 terre. 



GILLE-LE-VICOMTE, St , a town of France, in 

 the department of the North Coafts ; fix mileS N.N.E, 

 of Guiuganip. 



GILLE-S-LES-BOUCHERIES, St, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Gard, and chief place of 

 a canton, in the diftritt of Nimes ; 10 miles SS.E. of 

 Nimes. The place contains 5374, and the canton 6557 in- 

 habitants, on a territory of 180 kiliometre.'!, in two com- 

 mune.s. 



GILLES-SUR-VIC, St., a town of France, in the 

 department of tiie Vendee, and chief place of a canton, in. 

 the diclricl of Les Sables-d'Olonnc ; 13 miles N.N.W. of 

 this latter town. The place contains 7 So, and the canton 

 12,335 inhabitants, on a territory of 432^ kiliometres, in 

 1 7 communes. 



GILLES, Peter, in B'logrnptjy, was bom at Albi in 

 1490, and became diltinguilhed as a fcholar and travelkr. 

 Having acquired an extenfive knowledge of the learned lah- 



giiage* 



