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other, confines tlie view up the river to the valley ; at the 

 end of wliich tlie great round towc-r, and the otjier ruins, 

 appear to great advantage. As tlic new military road has 

 made Glendalough ealily acccfllble, it is frequently vifited 

 by travellers. Ledwich's Antiquities. 



GL.ENE, yxnn, properly fignifies the cavity or focket 

 of the eye. 



Glen'E is more frequently ufed by anatomifts for the flial- 

 lower caN-ities of bones, into which fome other bone is 

 received and articulated. 



By which it Hands diftinguiflied from cotyk or acetabulum, 

 which is a deeper cavity, intended by nature for the like 

 purpofe. 



GLENEGAD Head, in Geos,raphy, a cape of Ireland, 

 in the peninfula of Inis Lowen, county of Donegal. W. 

 long. 7 41' from Greenwich, N. lat. ^^"^ 20'. 



GLENGARRIFF, a harbour of Ireland, in the county 

 of Cork, on the north-eait part of Bantry-bay. The ar- 

 butus grows in this neighbourhood in great perfection. 



GLENGARY, the name of a county in Upper Canada, 

 bouEded on the E. by the line which feparates Upper from 

 Lower Canada ; on the S. by the river St. Lawrence ; and 

 on the W. by the townfliip of Cornwall, running N. 24^ 

 W., until it interfetts the Ottawa or Grand river, thence 

 defcending the faid river till it meets the fore-mentioned 

 feparating line. Glengary county comprehends all the 

 iflands contiguous to it in the river St. Lawrence. 



GLENICZA, a river of the duchy of Waifaw, which 

 runs into the Obra, near Koilen. 



GLENKEN'.s Canal, is the parliamentary name of an 

 inland navigation, made lince the year 1802, in Kirkcud- 

 bright county in Scotland. See Cakal. 



GLENLUCE, a town of Scotland, in the county of 

 Wigton, which fprang from an abbey of Cilicrtiaiis, 

 founded in 1190, called " Vallis Lucis.'' It is fituated at 

 the northern ^(.^^trenlity of a large bay to which it gives 

 name ; 18 miles W. of Wigton. N. lat. 54" 58'. W. long. 

 4° 27'. The bay extends on the S. coail of Scotland 

 from the Mull of Galloway to Burrowhead. N. lat. 54^ 

 50'. W. long. 4 50'. 



GLENMORE, a fmall ifland on the W. coall of Scot- 

 land, at the mouth of Loch Suart. N. lat. 56 38'. 



GLENOID, m Anatomy, ixom y^r.-.r, the articular cavity 

 of a lone, and ul^;, form, a term applied to certain arti- 

 cular furfaces, particularly where the hollow is not deep. 



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

 county of Tyrol ; 21 miles W. of Bolzano. 



GLESE, a river of Louiliana, which runs into the 

 Miihrippi, N. lat. 37= 15'. W. long. 90" 14'. 



GLESUM, or GL.i:suM, in Natural HiJlor\', a name 

 given by many of the ancients to the common yellow amber 

 or fuccinum. The word fi;em.s to have been originally 

 German, and to have bicn adopted by the Romans in their 

 conqueils in that part of the world. They fcem to have 

 uled the word in genenJ for any tranipareiit fubttance, 

 and thence to havT; applied it to amber as a tranfparent 

 llone. See Gl-.v.s.?. 



GLETCHERHORN, \n Geography. See .TrxopnAU. 



GLIANY, a town of Poland, in Galicia ; 20 miles E. 

 flf Ltmbi-rg. 



GLIESA, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia; 2j 

 irJles VV . N. \\. of Tornea. 



GLIGVI, a town of Alia, in Dagcftan ; 90 miles N. 

 of Tei'.is. 



GLIKEON, a town of European Turkey, i:i the pro- 

 ■■-ince ot Epire ; 26 miles W. of Arta. 



CLIMS Holm, one of the fmall Orkney iUands, which 



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affords padures ; 2 miles S. of Pomona, between that and 

 Barray. 



GLIMMER, or Cat-silver, m Mineralogy, accordingto 

 Dr. Woodward, " Method of Foffih," p 14, arc names for 

 Mica, wliich fee. Glift, fpangles, daze, and filvcr, are other 

 names by which the miners and quarrymcn dcfignate the 

 fhining plates of this fubftance v.hich they meet with dif- 

 pcrfcd in the earths and flones in their works. The late 

 Mr. \yilliam Martin obfcrvcs, " Outlines," p. 141, "Glim- 

 mer is frequently difpcrfed through the fand-ftones and 

 clay, forming vegetable petrifaftions, but never conRitutcS 

 their whole lubilance."' In Derby (hire, it is not uncommon 

 to find nodules, or round nefb or malTes of mica, in thin 

 and feparate plates, in the firft, or millftone grit, which 

 fall out on oipofure, and leave ;pherical holes, a circum- 

 Itance which has, according to Mr. Farcy, given rife to 

 rock-bafins or holes on the tops of large loofc blocks of 

 ftone wlu-re the water Hands in many inftanccs after rain, 

 but not perpetually, as the vulgar opinion is. See Rock- 

 Basin.s. 



GLINA, in Geography, a river of Croatia, which runs 

 into the Save ; 12 miles W. of Patrinia. 



GLINLOUGH, a lake of Ireland, in the northern 

 part of the county of Leitrim, from which a fmall river 

 (lows to Sligo bay. 



GLINNINO, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Novogorod, on the Mlla ; 12 miles vS. E. of Borovitchi. 



GLINSK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Tchernigof, on the river Sula ; 80 miles S. E. of Tcher- 

 nigof. 



GLINUS, in Botany, derives its name from -, >.;»^,- or 

 ■>^?lvo , a word ufed by Theophrallus, and denoting a kind 

 of maple, though we cannot trace any fimilil^ide between 

 that tree and the little herbaceous plant, to which the name 

 was applied by Loefling ; but it was adopted by Linnius. 

 — Linn. Gen. 243. Schrcb. 328. Locfl. Iter. 145. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 929. Mart. Mill. Dicl. v. 2. La- 

 marck Did;, v. 2. 728. Gxrtn. t. 130. JulT. 316.— Clafs 

 and order, Dodecandria Per.tagynia. Nat. Ord. Caryophyllei, 

 Linn. Ficoid-it, JufT. 



Gen.. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of five ovate, acute, 

 concave leaves, coloured within, permanent, and downy. 

 Cor. none ; neftarics about five, rcfembliiig narrow petals, 

 fhorter than the calyx, and unequally two or three-cleft. 

 Slam. Filaments about fifteen, awl-(haped, flat, as long as 

 the calyx ; anthers incumbent, oblong, comprcfled, two- 

 lobcd. Pifl. Germen of five fides ; ftpes fivo, (hort ; ftig- 

 mas . fimplc. Peric. Capfiile ovate, with five cells, five 

 fides, and five valves. iVc.v.'j- numerous, roundifh, in a fingle 

 row at the bafe of the valves, tubi-Tcled, each attached by 

 a long thrc.id-hke llalk. 



Eir. Ch. Calyx five-cloft. Corolla none. Nectaries 

 cloven brillles. Capfule five-cornered, five-celled, five-valvcd, 

 with many feeds. 



I. G. lotoides. Linn. Sp. PI. 663. Burni. Ind. 112. 

 t. 36. f. I. " Stem hairy. Leaves obovatc.'" — Native of 

 Spain, and found b)- IvOefling in a gravelly foil near Tala- 

 vera del Dadajoz, alio in a dried-up rivulet between Mcrida 

 and TruMilU). Root annual. Stems procumbent, jointed, 

 hairy. Leaves obovate, on foot-t'.alks. Fhtcrrs nearly 

 fefiilc, crowded together, fomctimcs on very fiioii hairy* 

 Ihtlks. A figure ot this fpecies is dellincd to appear in 

 the Flora Grxca, t. 472, from a drawing made at Sinyrn.i, 

 and from which it appears that what Gxrlner confidercd a< 

 jx-tals, are more probably nectaries, as not being estcrnal to 

 the llamens ; after idl, ' they ought perhaps to be called 

 Y y 2 /w/r« 



