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quill ; and at this time compofcrs being fcarce, he gained 

 fome reputation among tliofc of Flanders, with very little 

 genius. ^ For after performing the tedious ta/k of feoring 

 the mufic of the na;nia on .Tulquin, we found its chief merit 

 to confill in imitations of his admirable mailer. Tins com- 

 pofition was in the third ecclefiaRical mode of E, with a mi- 

 nor fecond, as well as third ; which M. Blainville fome 

 years ago wiflied to pafs on the public for a third or new- 

 key, different from the major and minor, which comprife 

 all fccular mufic at prefent. And it is extraordinary, that 

 this pretenfion Ihould have had any abettors in a Roman Ca- 

 tholic country, where old compoiitions in this mode are 

 daily performed in cathedrals and collegiate churches. How- 

 ever, it was a matter of wonder and debate, during fome 

 tiniV, in France. Sec Mercure de France, 175 1, and Did. 

 de Mui". par Rouffeau, art. Mode. 



GOMBERVILLE, Makin- Le Roi, Smir ck, a man 

 of letters, was born at Chevreufe, in the diocefe of Paris. 

 He became diilinguifhed at the age of fourteen by a collec- 

 tion of quatrains in honour of old age. In 1635 he was fo 

 much diftinguiflied for a literary reputation, that lie was of 

 the number aflembled by cardinal Richlieu for the purpofe 

 of founding the French academy. He had publilhed ro-- 

 mances and works of a light nature, of which he aft-er- 

 wards fcemed to beafliamed, for at the age of forty-live he 

 formed the refolution of confecrating his pen to religion. 

 He even adopted a penitentiary courfe of. life, and is men- 

 tioned by fome of his contemporaries as having joined the 

 Chriilian virtues to thofe of morality. H.? died in 1674,- 

 leaving behind him many works, of which perhaps the beii is 

 a " Difcours fur les V-ertus et Ics Vices de I'Hilloire et 

 de la Maniere de bien ecrire.'' This is ■ deemed a fenfible 

 and very judicious performance. Moreri. 



GOMBEY, in Geography, a- town of Africa, in Boton- 

 ga, on theZambezc. S.lat. i8\ -E. long. 36 ' 3'. 



GOMBEZCALA, a town of Perlia, in the province of 

 Farfiilan ; 1 00 miles N.N. W. of Schiras. 



GOMBIN, Gambix, or Gabln, a town of Poland, in 

 the duchy of Warfaw, fituatcd on the river Biura ; 34 

 miles N.N.E. of Rawa. 



GOMBRON. See G.UMnnox. 



GOMER, in Scripture Hiftory, the fon of Japheth 

 (Gen. X. 2.) and, according to Jofephus, father to the peo- 

 ple of Galatia. The ancient inliabitaiits of that country 

 were called Gomares before the Galatians feizcd pofTeffion 

 of it. The Chaldee places Gomer in Africa ; Bociiart in 

 Phrygia, becaufe Phrygia, in Greek, has the fame fignifi- 

 cation (a coal) as Gomcr, in Hebrew and Syriac. Others 

 are of opinion that the ancient Cimbri, or Cimmerians, fprung 

 from Gomer, and probably from them the W'elOi, called 

 Cymri. It is not improbable, that Gomer, or the Gome- 

 rites, his defcendants, peopled likewife Germ.any and 

 Gaul ; the name German not differing much from Gomerim. 

 Cluvier (Germ. Antiq. Li. c. 5. 6.) conjecturing that the 

 ancient Ccltica comprehended Illyria, Germany, Gaul, 

 Spain, and the Britifii ides, as all ihefe people anciently 

 fpoke the fame language, farther fuppofes, that Gomer, or 

 lu.> family, peopled the countries iuAfia, between the Paro- 

 pamifus and mount Imaus, and between the confluence of 

 the Oxus and Oby ; whence thefe people are called Gomares 

 by Ptolemy (1. vi. c. 17.) and Tvlela (1. i. c. 2.). 



Go.NtF.K, or Omer, an Hebrew meafure. See CoRUS. 



GOMER A, or Velez de Peoxon, iu Geography, a caftle 

 of Africa, in the country of Fez, buiic on a rock near the 

 coall of the Mediterranean. Before tins fortrifs there was 

 anciently a city, called " Bedis,.'^ fvpuofed to have been 

 fouad' d by the Carthaginians. The Am'';'-, called it Bells and 



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\'eli.-, whence \"eles. Thefe two places, furroiinded by moun- 

 tains andforefts, were fupporttd by tlie building of (hips for 

 fi(hing and piracy, before they were taken by the Spaniard?. 

 — Alio, a river of Fez, which run^ into the llraits of Gibral- 

 tar, near the above-mentioned fortrefs. 



Go.MF.riA, or Gomara, one of the Canary iflands, about 

 20 miles long and 10 broad, having a capital of the fame 

 name, htuated on the eall coall, with a good harbour. Thr 

 illand is fertile and well cultivated, and produces fugar-caiics 

 and vines in abundance, as well as filk, together with fufficient 

 corn for the fupply of the inhabitants, who amount to about 

 70CO; 18 miles S.W. of TenerifTc. N. lat, 2^ 6'. W. 

 lung. 17' 8'. 



GOMETRA, one of the weftcrn iflands of Scotland. 

 This is a fmall illand at the weft end of Ulva, tolerably fer- 

 tile, but without wood. 



GOMEZ DE CiviDAD Real, Alvarez, in Biography, 

 a modern Latin poet, was born in 1488 at Guadalaxara in 

 Spain. He was page of honour to archduke Charles, after- 

 wards emperor. As an author, which entitles him to a place 

 in this work, he poffeifed a great facility in wTiting Latin 

 verfe, which is feen by his " Thalia Chriftiana," or the 

 triumph of Jefus Chrift , in twenty-five books : " Mufa 

 Paulina," or the epillles of St. Paul, in elegiac verfe : the 

 Proverbs of Solomon, and other works of a fimilar kind. 

 His work on the order of the Golden Fleece, entitled " De 

 Principis Burgundi Militia qnam X'elleris aurei vocant," is 

 reckoned his maftcr-piece. The fubjedl which he chofe in 

 this inftance was more favourable to poetry than the others. 

 Moreri. 



Gomez de Castro, Alvarez, a native of St. Eulalia, 

 near Toledo, was eductitcd at Alcala, where he obtained a high 

 chnraillcr for diligence and real learning. He was patro- 

 nized byPhilip H., who engaged him to prepare an edition 

 of the works of Ifidore, which death prevented him from 

 completing. He was author of many works ; but the chief, 

 and that which is moll elteemed, is a " Life of Cardinal 

 Ximenes," inferted in a colle(5t'.on of tlie writers on SpanilH 

 hiftory. Gomez died in 1580, at the age of 65. Mo- 

 reri. 



Gomez, Magdalen-Axgelica Poissox, born at Pari* 

 in 16S4, was the daughter of Paul Poiflbn, an aftor. Her 

 fertile pen produced a great variety of romances and other 

 works of the entertaining kind. The principal aiv, " Les 

 Journees Amufantes," in eight volumes. " Anecdotes 

 Perfanes," "two vols. " Hill. Secrete de la Conqvi^te de 

 Grenade." " Hilloire du Comte d'Oxford avec jfelle. 

 d'Eullachede St. Pierre." " Les cent Nouvelles." She 

 died in 1770, at the age of 86. 



Go-MEZ, Seb.\sti.\no, a Mulatto flave of the Spaniih. 

 painter Murillio, who employed his leifure hours in painting, 

 and obtained conlidcrable fuccefs. The city of Seville is, 

 or was, adonied with many of his works : the mod confpi- 

 cuous among them were a " Madonna with the Infant," in 

 the portico of Lof. Mercenaries Defcalxos, and the " Fla- 

 gellation of Cl.riit," at the Capuchins. It is not known at 

 what period he died ; but he is faid to have i'urvivcd Uis 

 mailer, whofe deccafe happened in the year 1685. 



GOMGAH, in Geogr,7p/jy, a town of Hindooftan, iu the 

 circar of Surgooja ; 22 miles S.W. of Siirg^ja. 



GOMI, a town of the pi-oviuce of Guricl, on the Black 

 fea. 



GOMMERN, a town of Saxony, on the Elbe ; 3 miles 

 E. of Magdeburg. 



GOMNIALPAR, a town of Hindooflan, in the circar 

 of Guntoor ; I c miles E. of Imiaconda. 



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