G O A 



G O A 



tiigucft;, one of the bell in India ; it is fortified with many 

 caltlcs and towers, and furniihed with abundance of good 

 cannon. Beyond thefe cailles the channel becomes narrow, 

 ilraitening lometimes to one, fometimes to two miles, and 

 its banks are planted with the belt fruits and fined trees 

 which India affords. Eight miles up the channel is the 

 town of Goa. About the middle of this diftance is a palace. 



and his'apoftles • others boafted that tln^- had deduced navigation. In the months of April and May the weather 

 their fentmients horn iecret dodlrines of Chrill, concealed is fultry, but from Oclober to March it is very n.u- 

 from th.- vulgar ; others aftrmcd, that they arrived at fupe- derate. _ , . , r , ,. r r , 



rior degrees of- wifdom by an innate vigour of ranid ; and Goa, a city and capital of the Portuguefe fettlements in 



others afferted, that they were indruftcd iu thefem.yllerious India, the feat of a viceroy, and fee of an archbifliop, 

 parts of theological fcience by Theudas, a difciple of St. taken by the Portuguefe general Albuberque in ^151-) 

 Paul and bv Matthias, one of the friends of our Lord, from a prince of Saracen extrailion. The port of Goa is 

 The 'tenets of the ancient Giioftics were revived in Spain, naturally, and ilill more by the improvements of the Por- 

 in the fourth century, by a feci called the PnfcUlianiJls. 

 ( See Molheim's Eccl.' Hift. vol. i.) 



The appellation Gnoftic fometimes alio occurs in a 

 good fenfe, in the ancient ecclefiartical writers, and 

 particularlv in Clemens Alexandrinu3, who, ;n the per- 

 fon of his Gnoftic, defcribcs the charatlers and qua- 

 lities of a perfeA Chriilian. This point he l.ibours in _ 

 tlie feventh book of his Stromata, where he fliews, that now ferving as a barrack lor the garnlon ; and here begins 

 none but tlie Gnoftic, or learned perlon, has any true reli- a ftrong broad v.all, two miles in length, which is a foot- 

 cion He affirms, that were it poffible for a knowledge of walk wiien the country is overflowed, and in the vicinity of 

 God to be feparated from eternal falvation, the Gnollic it a great quantity of fait is colledled. This channel, which 

 would make no fcruple to choofe the knowledge ; and that forms fo excellent a port, runs many miles into the country,, 

 if God would promife him impunity in doing of any thing dividing it into feveral fruitful illaiids and peninfulas, which 

 he has once fpoken an-ainft, or offer him heaven on thoie plentifully furnilh the city with ncceiTaries. Adjoining to 

 terms he would never alter a whit of his meafures. this port is tlie haven of Murmugon, fbrmed by the other 

 In this fenfe the father ufes Gnollics, in oppofition to the channel, that runs between the ifland of Goa and pcninfula of 

 heretics of the fame name ; affirming, that the true Gnoftic Salfete, and affords a fafe retreat to the Portuguefe and 

 is grown old in the ftudy of the holy feripture ; and that other fhips, when they are (liut out of the port by the fands 

 he preferves the orthodox doftrine of the apoftles, and of which are brought down by the river Mandova, in confe- 

 the church ; whereas the falfe Gnoftic ab.mdons all th.e quence of the firll rains of June, and till the paffage is 

 apoftolical traditions, as imagining hiinfelf wifer than the opened in Oftober. ^ This port of Murmugon is defended 

 apoftles. ^y * caftle on the ifland of Salfete, and a good garrifon. 

 At length the name Gnoftic, which originally was the At the fouth entrance into the channel are the ruins of Old 

 moft glorious, became infamous, by the idle opinions and Goa ; and from thence to the new city is a commodious 

 diffolute lives of the perlbns who bore it ; much as, in the road, elegantly adorned with trees for fruit and (hade, 

 prefent age, it has fared with the name quK'i''Jl, pidij}, S:c. Tiie walls of the new^ city, which is decaying, include a 

 GNU.^in Zoology, a Ipecies of Antelope, having horns fpace of 12 miles in circuit; and the pubHc ftruftures that 



great JNamaquas. .- . , - _ - 



Hope. It feeds in large flocks in the plains : is exceedingly fine features ; here are alfo many negro flaves, and Pagans 



fierce, very fwift, and fights with its horns ; it frequently drops of different nations. As to the character of the inhabitants, 



on its knees, runs quickly in that pofture, furrowing the the men are faid to be, for the moft part, proud, indolent, 



grouad with its horns and legs. It is a fingular animal, having jealous, revengeful, and indigent ; the women lazy, lafcivious, 



the body hke a horfe, with a thick bull-like head, elegant and as well ikilled in poiioning as any in the world ; — 



taper legs hke a deer, and the lachrymal furrows of the .-\n- 215 miles S.S.E. from Bombay. The inquifition, formerly 



telope tribe. It is about 61- feet long, and 3^ high at the exifting in this place, is now abohflied. N. lat. 15° 28 2c". 



fhoulders ; of a rufty brown colour, having its hair tipt with E. long. 73' 45' 45". 



white, but on the breaft and fore-legs long and black ; the GoA, or Gocch, a kingdom on the weft and fouth-wefl 



head is laro-e and clumfy, with a fquare mouth and broad coaft of the ifland_ of Celebes, which, after various conflicts 



flaps over its noftrils ; on the chin and gullet is a long hang- and revolutions, is now dependent on the kingdom of Boni. 



ing beard, or bunch of white liairs ; the neck is fliort, tliick, The capital of the fame name fta.ids on a little ifland, on the 



and fomeuhat arched, with an ere£t afli-coloured mane ; the banks of a river, whence the kingdom derives its denomina- 



tail is lonn-, white, and flowing like that of a horfe ; the feet tion. It was built about the fame period as Samboupo 



have only one fpurious hoof on each. The flefh is reckoned and Tello ; and was taken by the Dutch in 1778. S. lat. 



very good. ... 5 '^2'. E. long. 1 19 51'. 



GO s fometimes iifed in La'W, in a fpecial fignification. GOACHO, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Lima, near 



Thus, lo TO without day, m\d io ^0 to GoJ, denote as much the Pacific ocean; 65 miles N.N.W. of Lima. S. lat. 



as to be dilmifted the court, and to be acquitted. 11. 



GOA, in Geography, an ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, GOAD, in Rural Economy, a term applied to a pointed 



near the weft coaft of Hindooftan, ieparated from the con- inftrument, by which oxen are driven when employed in team- 



tinent bv a river called " Mandova ;" about eight leagues labour. It has frequently,, likewife, a leather thong at- 



in circumference. The foil, efpecially in the vallies, is fer- tachcd to the contrary end of it, fo as to form a fort of 



tile ; the trees are always covered with leaves, flowers, and whip. 



fruit; and fprings in abundance ilTue from the mountains. GOAFFI, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the king- 



The rainy feafon continues here from .tune till September dom of Mandinga, on the Senegal. 



or OAober ; and the land-floods bring down fuch quantities _GOAHIROS, a nation of South America, fituated be- 



6f mud and fand as ftop up the haven and impede the twecji the jurifdiction of Maracaibo and the Rio, or river 



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