G L E 



This genus naturally divides itfelf into two fetlions. 

 The original Ghkhniic, of whicli there are five i'vecies, have 

 the uhinuitcbranchcs of their repeatedly forked lleiii pinnate, 

 their leaflets or pimi.t deeply piunatifid, with ihorl, triangular, 

 or rounded fegments, each i'egmcnt bearing a tingle dot 

 or fcries of capfules. Tlie Mertenf^ ha%e their ultimate 

 branches deeply pinnatilid, tlis fegments linear, with a 

 row of numerous dots on each fide of the midrib of each 

 focrment, efpecialiy at its lower half. Of thcfo we arc 

 ac^iuainteJ with five or fix fpecies, all natives ot the ball 

 or Weft Indies, or of New Holland and its neighbourhood. 

 GLEICHENSTEIN, in C-ogmp/iv, a town and caftlc 

 of Germany, in the territory ofEichsfeld; leven miles S.L. 

 of ?Ieilit;enlladt. r -- ■ ■ 



Gl.EINSTOLLEN, a town of the duchy ot btina ; 



lAmilesS. E. of Voitiherg. , , . , ,, , ■ . 



GEEISS, a town of Switzerland, in the \ alais ; 20 



miles E. of Sion. . ,., - . , 



GLEIWITZ, or Gi.iwicK, a town ot Silelia, in the 



principality of Oppchi : 20 miles N. E. of Ratilbou. N 

 lat. 50" 17'. E. long. It) 35' 



GLEN River, is a river of Lincolnfiiire, which rifes chapels which appear to be of later conllrnft 



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ftrcams fall into the valley, and, forming a junftion, afTumc 

 the name of Avonm<n-e. One of thefe itreams, called St. 

 Kevin's kecve, is ilill an objeft of fopcrftition ; weak and 

 fickly children being dipped in it every Sunday and Thnrf- 

 day before fun-rife, and on tlie third of Juno, which is 

 St. Kevin's day. The two lakes in the vale are divided 

 from each other by a rich meadow ; the reft of the foil is 

 fo rocky as to be incapable of tillage by the plough. The 

 names of the adjoining mountains, in which the word Derry 

 often occurs, are fuppofed to denote that tlioy were formerly 

 covered with wood ; at prefent they have only brown heath, 

 or more fable peat. Between the cathedral and upper lake 

 is a group of thorns of great fizc ; and near the cathedral 

 the trunk of an aged yew, which meafiires three yards in 

 diameter. From the remains of walls above, and the traces 

 of foundations below the furface of the earth, the town is 

 fuppofed to have been once pretty large, but the only ftreet 

 appearing is the road leading from the market place into the 

 conntv of Kildare. It is in good prcfervation, being paved 

 with tlones placed edgewife, and ten feet in breadth. There 

 are feven churches of conlideralile antiquity, and fome 



^ ■ St. 



near Roptlev, and purfues a courfe UL-arly S. S. E. to Brace- 

 brough, when, turning fuddcnly N. E., it palles to Kates 

 bridge and through the Fens, bv Surlleet, to the lea at 

 Fofdyke Wafli^for the greater part of its courfe 

 throun-h the Fens this river is naviirable for barges, a cir- 

 cumlbncc which was over-looked in compiling the^ alpha- 

 betical lift of inland navigatious in our article Can.il. 

 The fmall river or drain called the Bourne, which branches 

 from the Glen and proceeds up to Bourne town, is alto 



Kevin was the patron faint, and his iianie confequcntly rs 

 given to many of the furrounding objetts. He is faid to 

 have founded the town or monaftery in the fixth century ; 

 but Ecdwich attributes the creilion to the Oilmen, who 

 infellcd Ireland, in the ninth century. Some figures in a 

 chapel, containing the tomb of St. Kevin, funiifli tome plati- 

 lilile arguments in fupport of tliis opinion. There arc two 

 round towers at Glendalougli, botli of which are adjoining 

 churches, but neither the cathedral nor abbey has fuch an 



liavicrable for fome ditlance upwards. The South Forty- addition, though if a belfry were the objeft of thefe build 



foot" navigable drain commences very near to this riVL>r, 

 below the mouth of the Bourne, and proceeds by a cir- 

 cuitous route to Boilou. See Solth Fouty-foot. 



GLEN AA, a mountain in tlie county of Kerry, Ireland. 



See KlLLAIlSEY 



ings, the preference would probably liave been given to 

 them. Tiiefe towers were alfo, in Mr, Ledwich's opinion, 

 the work of the Oilmen. The arguments for and againil 

 this opinion will be confidered under the article Round 

 Towers. A monallcry having been founded here, and the 



GLEN^'^N Islands, a duller of fmall illands in the fuppofed miracles of St. Kevin having been proclaimed 



Atlantic near the coall of France. N. lat. 47 ' 43'. W. numbers flocked to liis flirine ; as Girald Cambrcniis fays, 



lone. %' ?" • '" what had been a barren wildernefs, were to be found, after 



GLEN ARM, a pofl. town of the county of Antrim, a few years, not only churches and good houfes, but much 



Ireland on the call coall of it, adjoining which is Glenarm wcaltli. According to tlie Irilh annals, the town thus 



caillc the feat of the coiuitefs of Antrim. The town is founded was often plundered by the piratical freebooters 



plcafantlv fituated on t!ie fea-iliore, near the bay of the of the north, who, as they fubfilled folely by depredations, 



fame name. It is 104 miles N. from Dubhn, and 24 N. without reluftance, frequently pillaged their own country- 



from Belfall. men. In 1162, Laurence O'Toole, afterwards archbifliop 



GLENAVY, a poll -town of the county of Antrim, of Dublin, was clefted abbot ; and in a few years after earl 



Ireland lituated near the e.ailern border of Lough Neagh. Strongbow granted the abbey and parfonage to Thomas, 



It is '7 miles N. from Dubhn on the road to Antrim. the nephew of Laurence. The charter is one of the moft 



GLENCOE, a vale of Scotland, in the county of Ar- valuable and ancient in Ireland, as it prcferves the pofiefTions, 



ir-le near Loch I.,even, where, in the year 1691, theinha- privileges, and immunitiej of the abbey. Previous to this, 



bitants were maffacred contrary to the faith of a royal pro- Glendalough had alfo had a bifliop ; but, in 1152, Cardinal 



climation • 1 7 miles N. of Inverary. Paparon endeavoured to unite it to the tee of Dublin. This 



GLENDAl^OETGH, Glandelough, or Glendalloch, was refilled, and, in 1179, pope Alexander III. confirmed 



commonly called the Sn'cn Churches, an interefling objeft to the city to its bilhop, laving the rights of the abbot. A 



travellers in the county of Wicklow, Ireland, 22 miles S. letter, written in i 214, is quoted by Ledwich, to fliew that 



from Dublin, and about feven or eight miles well from GLnidalongh was at that time become a nell of thieves and 



Rathdrum. Its name is derived, according to Mr. Ledwich, robbers. In the reign of king John, the fee was united to 



from its beinn- fituated in a valley with lakes, from gkii, a that of Dublin ; but the feft of the O'Tooles, who were very 



valley and locf}, a lake. That this was the true origin of powerful, kept it, in fome degree, independent until 1497, 



the name feems to be confirmed by Hovedcn, who was when the bilhop formally fnrrendered his right and claim in 



chaplain to Henry II., and who calls it equivalcntly in t!ic Chapter-lioufe of St. Patrick, Dublin. The Seven 



Latin Epifcopatus Billagnenfis, the bilhopric of the two Churches, when approached by the bridge of Derrybawn, 



lakes. Glendalough is furrounded on all fides, except to the form a very plfturelquc and plealiiig Icene. The bridge is 



eail by ftupendous mountains, whofe vatl perpendicular thrown over the Avonmore, and is compofed of three ellip- 



hcight throws a gloom on the vale below, well fuited to tic arches. Derrybawn, covered to a great extent with an 



infpire religious dread. From thefe, many mountain- oak coppice on one fide, and the huge broccagh on the 



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