GLOUCESTER. 



houfes and population have varied confiderably in different hay, corn, himher, butter, checfe, &.c. 



ages, according to the degree of fecurity or danger which 

 the inhabitiKits experienced : the progrefs has been fevcral 

 times interrupted by fires and civil commotions. vSincc the 

 fiege in 1643, the increafe has been regular. On the lalt 

 t-numeration, under the aft cf i8oi, the houfes, in the city 

 alone, amounted to 1368, the population to 7265: the 

 inhabitants of t!-.e fuburbs being 1500 more. Glouceller 

 is fituated ic6 milci W. from London. 



Among the more eminent natives of this city is Robert 

 of Glouceller, who wrote a chronicle ef Britain in verfe, 

 from the age of Brutus to his own time, the reign of 

 Henry 111. 



On the north-weft fide of Glouceller is the celebrated ifle 

 of Ahiev, a fmall traft, formed by the feparation of the 

 llream ef the Severn into two channels. This was the feene 

 cf a combat betv.'een Edmund Ironfidc and Canute the 

 Dane, in the year 1016. 



In the fouthern fuburbs of Giouccfler are the remains of 

 Lanthony priory, foimded in 1187. After the diffolution, 

 the monadic buildings were converted into the offices of a 

 farm. The only parts now left are a large barn, and the 

 principal entrance, or gateway ; on which are the arms, 

 amon"- others, of the Bohuns, earls of Hereford, who were 

 great bcnefaftors to the priory. Rudder's Hiftory, &c. of 

 Glouceller. B;-auties of England and Wales, vol. v. 



Glouc-f..stku r.iiil Btri/ey Cami/, is the parhamentary name 

 of a canal of very large dimenlions, following the E. fide 

 of the Severn river between Berkley and Glouceller, of 

 which Mr. Robert Mylne and Thomas Dadford were the 

 enc-ineers ; the other particulars will be found i.i our article 

 Can.^l. 



Gloucesteh, or Cape Ann, a townfliip of America, in 

 Effex county, Maffachufetts, whofe eaft point forms the 

 N. fide of the bay of ManTaehufctts. It contains 5313 in- 

 habitants, and is divided into five pai'ifhes, befides a lociety 

 ef Univerfalifts. It is a poft-town and a tov.m of entry. 

 The harbour is open and acceffihle to large fliips, and it 

 is one of the mod eonfiderable filhing towns in the conmion- 

 wealth. At the harbour, properly fo called, are fitted 

 out annually from 60 to 70 bankers, and from Squam and 

 Sandy bay, two fmall out-ports, the bay fiiliery is carried 

 on with great fpirit, and to a large amount. Thatcher's 

 illand, on which are two lights, lies clofe to the S.E. fide 

 of the townfhip, which is itfelf joined to the continent by 

 a bank of fand, that is rarely overflowed with the water. 

 Here is a fine white fand, fit for the manufafture of glafs. 

 The harbour is defended by a battery and citadel eretted 

 in 1795: — 16 miles N.E. by E. of Salem, and 34 N.E. 

 of Bollon. 



Glouce.ster, the N. wcdernmoft townfliip, and the 

 large'!-, in Providence county, Rhode illand, being \\\ 

 miles fquare, containing 40C9 inhabitants. 



Gloucester, the name of a county in New Jerfey, 

 bounded N. by Burlington county, S. by Salem, Cumber- 

 lur.d, and Cape May counties, E. by ihe Atlantic ocean, 

 and W. by Delaware river. Its length on the Delaware 

 IS about thirty miles, and on the fea it is about 22 miles. 

 Great and Little Egg harbour rivers are both nuvigable for 

 veffels of about 2CO tons about 20 miles from their mouths. 

 The flreams which- fall into Delaware river are navigable for 

 fmull velTels, a few miles up from their mouths, and afford 

 fome fhad, roach, herrings, snd per^h. Its adjacent iflands 

 are Red Bank, Pett, a"nd Old Man's creek. The foil 

 of the county is a mixture of fand and loam, and 

 the traft bordering on tlie Delaware is in a high ilate of 

 cultivation, The chief prcduflions are beef, pork, fifh', 



It id divided int" 



teiitownfhips, ivs. Woodbury, Waterford, Newtown, Glou- 

 celler townfliip, Gloucefi;cr town, Dcptford, Greenwich, 

 Woolwich, Egg harbour, and Galloway. Miilicus river di- 

 vides the county from Burlington, and is navigable 20 

 miles for veffels of 60 tons. Maurice river runs fouth- 

 erly about 40 miles through Cumberland county into Dela- 

 ware bar, and is navigable for veffels of ico tons 15 miles,, 

 and for Ihallops 10 miles further. It contains 16,115 inha- 

 bitants, of whom 61 are flaves. In this county are found 

 quantities of bog-iron ore, which is mannfaftured into pig^ 

 and bar iron, and hollow ware. Here is alfo a glafs- 

 houfe. The chief town is Woodbury, nine miles S. of 

 Pliiladelphia. 



Glol CE.STER, a fmall town in the above-mentioned county,- 

 on the E. fide of Delaware river, three miles below Phila- 

 delphia. — Alfo, a poll-town in Virginia, in the county of 

 its own name, on a point of land on the N. fide of York 

 river, 17 miles dillant from York town. 



GLOLCE.sTEn, a county in Virginia, fertile and well culti- 

 vated, bounded N. by Piankitank river, which feparates it 

 from Middlefcx, E. by Matthews county and Cliel'apeak 

 bay, N.W. by King and Queen, S. and S.W. by York 

 river, which divides it from York county. It is about 5J 

 miles long and 30 broad, and contains 3272 free inhabitants, 

 and 4909 flaves. The low lands produce excellent barley^ 

 and Indian corn, the ftaple produce of the county. 



Gloucester Houfe, a ftation belonging to the Hudfon- 

 bay company, fituated in New South Wales, on the N. fide 

 of the waters which form a communication through a chain- 

 of fmall lakes, between Winnipeg lake and Albany river. 

 Henley houfe lies N.E. of this, nearer the moutli of Al- 

 bany river in James's bay. N. lat. 54°. W. long 87" 30'. 

 GloucivSTER, a townfliip in the county of Dundas in 

 Upper Canada, which is the feventh in afcending the Otta- 

 wa river ; E. of, and contiguous to, the river Rondeau. 



Glouce.ster, Cape, a cape on the S. coaft of Terra del 

 Fuego. — Alfo, a high promontory on the E. coall of New 

 Holland. S. lat. 19^ 59'. E. long. 148' 11'. — Alfo, a 

 cape on the coall of New Britain. S. lat 5 54'. E. long. 

 148^ 15'. 



Gloucester IJland, an ifland in the S. Pacific ocean,- 

 about fix miles long, and from one to a quarter of a mile 

 broad, difcovered and fo called by captain Wallis m 1 767. 

 It is furrounded by rocks, full of trees, and inhabited by 

 perfons who appeared armed with long pikes or poles, but 

 deflitute of canoes. S. lat 19' 11'. W. long. 14c' 4'. 



Gloucester, Duh of, IJlanJs, two iflands in the S. 

 Pacific ocean, difcovered and fo called by Captain Car- 

 teret in 1 767, which were covered with trees, but ap- 

 peared to be uninhabited. The foutheiTimoll of them' 

 was a flip of land in the form of a half-moon, low, 

 flat, and fandy ; the appearance of it was pleafont, but it 

 had n-ither vegetables nor water ; but it abounded with- 

 birds, fo tame that they might be taken by the hand. The 

 other ifland veiy much rcfembled this, and is dillant from it 

 about five or fix leagues ; they lie W.N.W. and E. S. E. oi 

 each other. One of them is in S. lat. 20" 38'. W. long,. 

 146°: the other in S. lat. id'' 34'. W. long. 146' 15 ; the 

 variation 5 ' E. Thefe iflands are probably the land feen- 

 by Ouiros, as the fituation is nearly the fame. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE, one of the weflern coun- 

 ties of England, is furrounded by Herefordlhire, Oxford- 

 fhire, Bcrkfliire, Wiltlhire, Somerfetfhire, and Monmouth- 

 (hire. It compreh-ends an area of nearly ieventy miles in 

 one direction, by forty in a traufverfe line. This diflricl, 

 during the Romaa domination in Britain, \v,is much, occu- 



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