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•iiid to occafion a further wafte of a rib or wall of folid 

 c-oal, round each ftall or chamber, for excluding the 

 .lir, which would otherwife lire thefe wafle heaps. See 



GOBBINS. 



GOBELINS, a celebrated manufaftory, eftabllflu-d at 

 Paris, in the Fauxbourg St. Marcel, for the making of ta- 

 peftry, and other furniture for the ufe of the crown. The 

 lioufe where this manufactory is carried on was built by two 

 brothers, Giles and John Gobelins, both excellent dyers; 

 and the firfl that brought to Paris, in the reign of Francis I. 

 the fecretof dyeing that beautiful fcarlet colour ftill known 

 liy their name ; as well as the little river Bievre, on whofe 

 lidnks they fixed their dye-houfe ; and which is now known 

 by no other name than that of the river of the Gobe- 

 hns. 



It was in the year 1667 that this place, till then called 

 " Gobelins' Folly," changed its name into that of " Hotel 

 Royal des Gobelina,'' in confequence of an edift of Louis 

 X [V. Monf. Colbert having re-eftabliflied, and with new 

 magnificence enriched and completed the king's palaces, 

 particul.irly the Louvre and Thuilleries, began to think of 

 making furniture fuitable to the grandeur of thofe build- 

 i. gs: with this view he called together all the ablefl work- 

 men in the divers arts and manufaftures throughout the 

 kingdom ; particularly painters, tapeilry-makers, fculp- 

 »i>r.-, goldfn-.iths, ebonifts, &:c. and by fplendid offers, 

 ;v.-nlions, privileges, &c. called others from foreign na- 



;'JI.ci. 



And to render the intended eftabHtliment firm and lafting, 

 I,- brought the king to purchafe the Gobelins, for them to 

 ^^ork in, and draw up a fytlem of laws, or policy, in feven- 

 te.'n articles. 



By thefe it is provided, that the new manufaftory fliall 

 he under the adminitlration of the fuperintendant of the 

 k'lig's buildings, arts, &c. that the ordinary mailers there- 

 'f Ihall take cognizance of all adlions and proceflTes 

 brought againft any of the perfons in the faid manufac- 

 ' ory, their fervants and dependants ; that no other ta- 

 T^jltry work fiiall be imported from any other country, 

 ■• c. 



The Gobelins has ever fince remained the firft manufactory 

 ?f this kind in the world. The quantity of the fined and 

 1 iblell works that have been produced by it, and the number 

 of the beft workmen bred up therein, are incredible ; and 

 the prefent fiourifhing condition of the arts and nia- 

 utaftures of France is, in a great meafure, owing tliere- 



Tapeftry work, in particular, is their glory. During the 

 laperintendance of M. Colbert, and his fuccefibr hi. de 

 Louvois, the making of tapellry is faid to have been prac- 

 ^' ''1 "o a degree of perfettion, fcarce inferior to what v.as 

 done by the Englifli and French. 

 1 i\c battles of Alexander, the four feafons, four elements, 

 t'le king's palaces, and a ferics of the principal actions of the 

 ;:fe of Louis XIV. from the time of his marriage to the lirlt 



inqueft of Franche Comte, done from the deligns of M. 

 l.e Brun, director of the manufaQory of the Gobelins, are 

 1 ..iiler-pieces in their kind. 



GOBEMOUCH, the fy-cauher lizard, a fpecies of Ame 

 1 ;-an lizard that is always employed in catching of (lies. It 



die fmalleil of all the lizard kind, and is very beautiful, 

 Kj Ikin often appearing as if covered with leaf-gold, or leaf- 

 ijiver, and in fome otliers of a green, or red and gold, won- 

 (ieifuUy bright and beautiful. Tliey are not at all ihy or 

 trartnl of men, but as they do not hurt, fo liiey Item to 

 liread none ; they enter chambers and clofct.-., aiid do no fort 

 of damage, but dellroy the flies and other troublefome vcr- 



min ihcy find tliere. Their whole lives fecm fpent in the 

 chace of thefe inftfts, and it is a very pleaCng thing to ob- 

 ferve the various ways they have of catching them. They 

 are very cleanly crcntures, and may be fnffered to run over 

 the table at meal time ; where, if they fee a fly, they will 

 pnrfue it over the very hands or cloatli^ oF people, or Over 

 the diflies, without doing the leaft hurt. 



Notwithftanding their great beauty while alive, they are 

 only of a dufky grey when dead, all their other colour* im- 

 mediately vanifhing. 



GOBE-MOUCHE, in OrnilMo^, ?. name given bf 

 BuiTon to feveral fpecies of /.aniiis, Todas, 'I'urdui, Mufct- 

 ciipn, and Motadlla, which fee refpetlively. 



GOBIN, St., in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Aifiie ; celebrated for its maiiufaflure of 

 plate-glafs ; 4 miles S. of la Fere. See Gla.ss. 



GO BIO, in Ichthyology, a fpecies of Cotivs ; and al fo of 

 Cypr'niiis; which fee refpeclively. 



GOBIUS, a genus of the thoracic order, pofieffing, 

 according to Linnxus, the following cfTential charadVer. 

 Head fmall, eyes ;ipproximated, with two punfturcs be- 

 tween ; gill-membrane four-rayed ; body fir.all, comprelfed 

 on each tide, covered with fmall fcale , and fi nifhed with 

 a fmall tubercle behind the vent ; the ventral fins unite>l 

 into an oval or funnel fhape ; and the dorfal tins two i:f num- 

 ber. 



At the time Linnaeus wTote his Syflen-.a Natnrae, tlie above 

 charaifter was probably found fiifliciently explicit to embrace, 

 in a correct and lucid order, all the fpecies of this mtural 

 tribe of fifhes at that period k«iowii. This, however, it mufi 

 be confefTed, is not precifely the cafe at prefent. The num- 

 ber of fpecies has been materially augmented by the recent 

 difcoveries of nattiraliils, and among thefe are certain kinds 

 which exhibit differences efTentially dilTimilar from each other; 

 though flill, in the idea of the Liiinxan fludent, they can be 

 only referable to the genus G )bius ; while others, no lef* 

 intimately allied, cannot, without a palpable innovation on 

 tlie order of nature, be configned to that genus. The later 

 French writers, as Latrcille, Bofc and others, after the ex- 

 ample of Laccpede, divide the Linnian Gobii. an^ their 

 natural affinities, into four dillincl genera, namely, GoBIfy, 

 GoBioiDEs, GoBio.MOKUS, and GoBiOMOROii'Vs, an exten- 

 fion perhaps requillte, or at leafl admilTible. This extcnfion 

 is indeed, in our own opinion, rather defirable, and we refrain 

 from adopting it only to avoid that degree of perplexity 

 which might probably i-efult from the difperfion of t!ie fpe- 

 cies into the feveral dillinft articles, which would then be- 

 come neceffary. For this reafon, we propofe to concentrate 

 the whole in one point of view, obferving only to refer the 

 fpecies refpt-iJtiNcly to their different genera as we proceed, 

 and by this means leave it to the judgment of the reader, whc- 

 tlier thofe recently eftaMiihed genera ought to be in reality 

 conlidered cflential'ly diilinc\, or as only conftitutisg the na- 

 tural fubdivifions of the Linnnin genus Gobius. 



The habits of thefe tilhcs in general appear to correfpond; 

 they are chiefly inhabitants of waters contiguous to the 

 (liores, and lie concealed among the rocks, under itone.s ot 

 in the land and mud of feas and rivers : they feed on worms, 

 infects, and the fpann and fry of filhes ; and adhere linnly 

 to the rocks or oihcr hard fubHaiices by means oi their veo- 

 tr.d tins. 



Species. 



Genus Collus — I'entral fr.s un'tttd ; dirfjjins t-.y3. 

 f Section. Ptaurnlfus .itu.hrd cbjf to the body. 

 BoDO.AFiiTr. Rays of the iiiteror dorfa! Hn cirritoir. 

 the tliirJ verv long. Pallas. 



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