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. GONAMBOUCH, in Ornltbolc^y. See Emberiza 

 Gri/.a. 



GONANPILLY, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 

 jn the circar of Eljore ; 1 8 miles N. E^ of Ellore. 



GONAPI, one of the fmaller Banda illands, in the 

 centre of « h;eh is a volcano. The only inhabitants are wild 

 l>ogs, cows and ferpcnts. S. lat. 4 10'. E. long. 130^ 



34'- 



GONARCHA, a term in the ancient diallnig. Mr. 



Perraiilt, in his notes on Vitruviiis, lib. ix. cap 9. takes 

 the gonarcha to have been a dial drawn on divers furtaces or 

 planes ; fome of which being horizontal, others vertical, 

 •bliquc, &c. formed divers angles. 



Whence the appellation, from yo-.i, knee, or yivis, angle. 

 GONARY, ill Geography, a town of Hindoollan, in the 

 Myforc ; 12 miles S. of Rydroog. 



GONAVE, La, an illand fnuated on the weft fide of 

 St. Domingo, about 147: leagues in length, and about three 

 ill breadth. This is called Grand Gonave by way of diilinc- 

 tion from Petit Gonave, another fmall idand about tivo 

 miles in each direction, feparated from the S.E. corner of 

 the former, by a channel three miles wide. Gonave is 13^ 

 leajjues W. by N W. from Port an Prince. N. lat. ?8 51'. 

 W. long. 73 40'. See St. Do.vriNC.o. 



GONAVES, a fea-port in the above-mentioned ifland, 

 at the head of a bay of its own name, on the N. fide of a 

 bay of Leogane. The harbour is excellent ; the town has 

 a medicinal fpring, and in 1 772 both were ercftcd with 

 lodging-lioufes for the accommodation of ihofe who refort 

 to it, and an hofpital for foldiers and failors. It lies on the 

 great road from Port de Paix to St. Mark, 16 leagues 

 ts.E. of the former. N. lat. 19" 22'. W. long. 73 ' 20'. 



GONCANAMA, a town of S. America, in the au- 

 dience of Quito ; 20 miles S. W. of Loxa. 



GONCELIN, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the diilricl; of 

 Grenoble ; 13 miles N.N.W. of Grenoble. The place con- 

 tains 1558, and the canton 10,259 inhabitants, "" * terri- 

 tory of 197I kiliometres, in 14 communes. 



GONDAR, the metropolis of Abyflinia, is fituated upon 

 a hill, elevated 8440 feet above the ocean, and confills of 

 about 10,000 families in times of peace. The houies are 

 ehicfiy conllrucled with clay, and th' roofs are thatched in 

 a conical fopn, which is the mode of building within the 

 tropical rains. On the well end of the town is the king's 

 houfe, formerly a ftrufture ef ccnfiderable importance ; it 

 was a fquare edifice, flanked with fquare towTrs ; formerly 

 four ftories high, and the top of it afforded a magnificent 

 view of the whole country S. of the lake Tzana. Although 

 tlie greatell part has been burnt at different times, there is 

 a^nple lodging in the two loweft floors of it ; the audience 

 chambers being above 120 feet long. Annexed to this 

 fuined palace are apartments, conftrufted by fucceeding 

 kings, aifo of clay, according to the fafnion of their own 

 country; for the palace itfelf, fays Bruce (Travels, vol. iii.) 

 was bulk by niafons from India in the time of Facilidas, and 

 by fuch Abyflinians as had been iniirufted in architeCfure 

 by the Jcfuits, without embracing their religion, and after- 

 wards remained in the country, unconnefted with the ex- 

 pulfion of the Portuguefc, dui-ing this prince's reign. The 

 palace and its contiguous buildings are iurrounded by a ftone 

 wall, 30 feet high, with baltleniciits upon the outer wall, 

 and a parapet roof between th.e outer and inner, by which 

 you may pafs along t!ie whole and have a view of the ftreet. 

 There never appear to have been any cmbiafures for cannon ; 

 the toiir fides of this wall are above l\ Engliill mile in 

 kiigth. The mountain, on which the town is iituated, is 

 S 



encompaffe.i on every fide by a deep valley, which has three 

 outlets ; the one to the foiith, to Dembea, Maitfliaw, and 

 the Agows, the fecond to the N. W , towards Sennaar over 

 the high mountain Debia Tzai, or the mountain of the Sun, 

 at the foot of which Kofcam, the palace of the Itcghe, is 

 fituated, as are alfo the low countries of Walkayt and Wal- 

 dubba ; th? third is to the N. to Woggora, over the high, 

 mountain Lamahnon, and fo on through Tigrc to the Red 

 fea. The river Kahha, coming from tiie mountain of the 

 Sun, runs through the valley, and covers all the foulh of 

 the town ; the Angrab, falling from Woggora, furrounds 

 it on the N.N.E.: thefe rivers join at the bottom of the 

 hill, about a quarter of a mile S. of the town. On an emi- 

 nence oppofite to Gondar, on the other fide of the river, is 

 a large town of Mahometans, conliftiiig of about IOC3 

 imufes. They are all aftive and laborious, and are em- 

 ployed in taking care of the baggage and field-equipage of 

 the king and nobility, when they take the field and return- 

 from it; but they never fight on either fide. N. lat. 12' 

 34' 30". E. long. 37^ 33'. 



GONDEBAUD, in Biography, third king of the Bur- 

 gundian.';, celebrated as a legidator among the barbarians 

 over whom he reigned as iovereign. He obtained the 

 crown in 491, and almoft immediately, v.nder pretence of af- 

 filling Odoaccr againil Theodoric, ent' red Italy, carrying 

 fire and fword through Emilia and Liguria, and made a 

 great number of captives, manv of whom he liberated with- 

 out ranfom, at the requeft of Epiphanius biftiop of Pavia. 

 He aifembled, in 499, a council at Lyons, in order to effect 

 a reconciliation between the Catholics and Arians. He was 

 himfelf an Arian, from habit and education ; but he was un- 

 able to effedt fo laudable a purpofe. About this time he 

 was attacked and defeated by Clovis king of the Franks ; 

 who made the Burgundian monarch his tributary. Clovis 

 returned to his own country, and Gondebaud revenged him- 

 felf upon his brother Godegefil, who had joined Clovis, fur- 

 prifcd him, and put him to death. From this periodhe reigned 

 in peace over liis people, whom he rendered flourifliing by 

 the arts of civilization, and by a regular fyftcm of laws. 

 Thefe, fays the hiftorian, wei-e in general founded on equi- 

 ty, and difplay much fagacity in preventing all caufcs of 

 dilpute ; ncverthelefs, they enjoin the barbarifm of judicial 

 combats, which the legiilator juftified as an inference from 

 the admitted doClrine of the interference cf a particular pro- 

 vidence in human affairs. The Burgundian code, called " La 

 loi Gombrette,'' has been pubhfhed in feveral cclleclicns cf 

 ancient laws. This prince died in 516, leaving behind him, 

 as memorials, letters upon theological fuhjects to Avitus,. 

 bilTiop of Vienne. Univcr. Hill. 



GONDEGAMA, or Gondlaco.m.ma, in Geography, a, 

 river of Hindooftan, which forms the nominal boi-.ndary o£ 

 the Carnutic, and difcharges itfelf into the fen at Mediptlly. 

 Combam, or Commum, is near its fource. It is lome- 

 times called Gilllgama, and Gunta-camma. 



GONDICOTTA, a town of Hindooftan, in Marawar; 

 3 3 miles N. of Trumian. 



GONDOL.'\, a little flat boat, very long and narrow,, 

 chiefly ufed at Venice to row on the canals. 



The word is \x.rsMw>, gonelola. Du Cange derives it from 

 the vulgar Greek Mui'i£>.x;, a bark, or litdi Jhip; I..aneclot 

 deduces it from ■jcvJi, a term in Athena-u.s for a fort of 

 vafe. 



The middle-fized gondolas are rpwards of thirty fbct 

 long, and four broad ; they always terminate at each end in a 

 very Iharp point, which is raifed perpendicularly to tlic full 

 Jieight of a man. 



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