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'fticep, which is fometimes extremely deflruftivo to them. 

 It is fiiggeftcd in the Bath papers as firil Ihewing ilielf, by 

 a dropping of the ears, and frequent rubhing of the tail ; 

 but not to liave any relation or affinity to giddincfs, as the 

 (lieep do not run round as in that difeafe. It appears to 

 have the greatcft refemblanee tn the diforder called the ftag- 

 gers in lambs ; but differs infomuch, as that the ilaggery 

 Iambs dilplay wcaknefs before, and of courfe fall in that 

 direction, wliilo the goggly Ihcep fliew weaknels behind, 

 and when forced to run fall backwards. Sheep under this 

 diforder conllantly get poorer and poorer, and become more 

 weak, until they are not able to drag their limbs after them, 

 and confeqiiently die. Some have contended that it is a 

 difeafe of tiic paralytic kind, and that the feat of the com- 

 plaint is in the fpinal marrow. It was formerly eitlier 

 wholly unknown, oi unattended to by llieep-farmers, as it is 

 never mentioned. 



Hitherto no fatisfactory method of cure has been pointed 

 out for the difeafe, but warmth and frequent change of paf- 

 ture have been found beneficial in it. 



Gog(;les, in Surgery, are inilrumcnts ufed for curing 

 fquinting, or that dillortion of the eyes whicii occafions 

 this diforder. They are ihort conical tubes, compoled of 

 ivory ftained black, with a thin plate of the fame ivory 

 fixed in the tubes near their anterior extremities. Through 

 the centre of each of thefe plates is a fmall circular hole, 

 about the fize of the pupil of the eye, for the tranfmiffion 

 of the rays of light. Tliefe goggles mull be continually 

 worn in the day-time, till the mufcles of the eye are brought 

 to aft regularly and uniformly, fo as to direct the pupil 

 ftraight forwards ; and by thefe means tlie cure will be fooner 

 cr later effefted. Warner on the Eye, p. 32. 



GOGMOW, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Oude ; 35 miles N. of Maniakpour. 



GOGO. See GoGA. 



GOGODUNGA, a town of Bengal, on a fmall idand 

 formed by a branch of the Hoogly ; 45 miles S. of Cal- 

 cutta. 



GOGOROMOW, a town of Guzcrat, on the coafl ; 

 50 miles W. S. W. of Noanagur. 



GOGRA, alfo called Dewah and Soorjetu, a river of 

 Hindoollan, which proceeds from a lake named Lanke- 

 Dhe, having to the E. of it another larger lake, named 

 Manfawar, both fituated on the weftern fide of Thibet, 

 and forces its way through the vaft ridge called Himmaleh, 

 and afterwards joins the Ganges. See Dewah. 



GOGUET, ANTONy-YvE.s, in Biography, was born 

 at Paris in 1 7 1 6, where his father was an advocate. He 

 himfelf became a counfellor to the parliament. By clofe 

 iludy and by gr< at affiduity in his purfuits, he produced in 

 the year 1758, a work that has obtained a high reputation, 

 and which has been tranllated into the Enghlh and other 

 languages. It is entitled " Origine des Loix, des Arts, 

 des Sciences, et de leur Progres chez les anciens Peuples," 

 in three volumes 4to. It was printed in 177S, in fix vo- 

 lumes i2mo. This work treats of the origin and progreis 

 of human knowledge, from the creation to the age of 

 Cyrus, and difplays much erudition in hiltorical difculiions, 

 thou'i-li i,-fs of fcience and philofophy than might have been 

 •xpeited. He died of tiie fmall-pox almoll immediately 

 after the publication of this valuable work. He was a man 

 of much private worth, modell and unalfuming. He had 

 'begun another work on the Origin and Prugrefs of the 

 LawSj Arts, Sciences, &c. in France, from the com- 

 mencement of th- monarchy. 



GOHANNA, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 EallogiiUn ; 54 miles W.S.W" of UeUu. 



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GOHEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Baliar; 3J miles 

 W.N.W. of Saferam. 



GOHUD, a circar of Hindooftan, in the foubah of 

 Agra, lying on the riglit iide of the river .Tumnah. It i^ 

 bounded on the N. by the Chumbal, on the E. by Dooab 

 and Oude, on the S. by Bundelcund, and on the W. by 

 Rantampour and Cottah. — Alio, a town of this circar, the 

 revenues of which are eftimated at 20 or 30 lacks of rupees 

 per annum; 55 miles S. E. of Agra. N. lat. 26 24'. E< 

 long. 78 44'. 



GOJAK, a town of Croatia, on the river Mrefnitza; iS 

 miles S. of Carllladt. 



GOJAM, a province of AbyfTmia, about 80 miles in 

 length, and 40 in breadth. It is a very flat country, alto- 

 gether appropriated to pafture; it has few mountains, but 

 thefe are very high, and are chiefly on the banks of the 

 Nile, to the fout/i, which river furrounds the province. 

 Gojam is full of great herds of cattle, which are the largeft 

 in the high parts of Abyflinia. The country is populous, 

 but the men are in the loweit eftiniation as foldiers. The 

 Jefuits were fettled in many convents throughout the pro- 

 vince, and are held in the utmoll deteftation. The monks 

 are thofe of St. Eitftatius, which may be called the Low 

 Church of Abyflinia; they are faid to be much inclined to 

 turbulence in religious matters, and are, therefore, always 

 made tools by diicontented people who have no religion at 

 all. On the SE of Gojam is Damot; which fee. Bruce. 



GO.IAS. See GoVA.s. 



GOIAVA, a town of Africa, on the Grain coaft ; 25 

 miles S.E. of Grand Sefto. 



GOJEIDA, or GoGiDA, a town of Algiers ; go miles 

 S.E. of Oran. 



GOING, in the Manege, called in French a//iuri?, is the 

 pace or gait of a horfe. 



GOlT, GuKT, Gorl, I. eat, &c. arc names for a dit^h 

 or trench for conveying water, uled by engineers and miners 

 of diflerent dillricfs. 



GOITO, in Geography, a town of Italy, in the depart- 

 ment of the Mincio, lituated on the river Mincio, between 

 the lake of Mantua and that of Garda; 9 miles N.N.W. of 

 Mantua. 



GOITRE, or GouTiER, in Surgery, names fometimes 

 applied to a morbid enlargement of the thyroid gland. See 

 Bhonciiockle. 



Perfons labouring under this complaint are found in various 

 mountainous diftrifts of Europe, in China, in Bootan, and 

 many other regions of the Eaft, in Sumatra, &c. (See 

 CiiETlNS.) Turner, in his " Account of an Embafl^- to 

 Tibet,'' fays, that in Bengal this unfightly tumour is 

 known by tlie name of " Ghcig," and " Aubi," and in 

 Bootan is called " Ba,'' or " Ke Ba," the neck-fwelling, 

 and that it form.s itfelf immediately belov,- the cLin, extend- 

 ing from ear to ear, and fometimes growing to fuch an enor- 

 mous fize, as to hang from the throat dow n upon the brcaft. 

 It is particularlv obleivable, he fays, among the inhabitants 

 of the hills of Bootan, immediately bordering upon Bengal, 

 and in the traft of low country watered by the rivers that 

 flow from them to the fouth, beyond the fpace of a degree 

 of latitude. The fame malady prevails among the people 

 inhabiting tlie Morung, Nipal, and Ahr.ora liills, which, 

 joined to thofe of Bootan, run in continuaticn, and bound, 

 to tlie northward, that cxtenlive traft of low land embraced 

 by the Ganges and tlie Berhampooter. The fame difeafe is 

 alfo more particuhu'ly met with in the low laids adjoining to 

 thefe hills. From the frimtier of Adam, N. lat. 27 . E, 

 long, gi ', it is to be traced through Bljnev, Gooch Bahar, 

 Rungpore, Dinagcpore, Purnca, Tirrooto, and Betlah,' 

 3 along 



