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(e.v, but the goats are numerous. T!ie language ot the 

 country is ScUivonian, and the religion Roman Catholic. 



GoKiTZ, or Gorilla, a town of Germany, fituated in the 

 above-mentioned country, and divided into Upper and Lower 

 town; the form^T is ancient, leatcd on a mountain, and de- 

 fe 



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the year \^:i^ lie took the degree of doftor of phyfic ii/ 

 that city about 1540, and was appointed dean of the faculty 

 in 1548. He is faid to have polTeired both the learning and 

 fagacity requilite to form an accomplifhed phyfician, and to 

 have praftifed with great humanity and fuccefs. His works 



■i»ded by a caiUe ; the latter is iitualed on a plain on the contributed to fupport this reputation. The greater part 

 ver Lifonzo. Btlidps the church, fmce the year 1784, not of them conlills of commentaries on different portions of the 

 metropolitan, it has feven convents, nine chapels, and a col- writings of Hippocrates, Galen, and Nicander. During the 

 leg-.-. In 1 'O- it was taken by the French : 20 miles N.N.W. civil war, which was fatal to numerous men of letters, John de 

 of Trielte.' N. lat. 46 5'. E. long. 13' 33'. Gorris was Hopped by a party of foldiers, when on his 



GoRnz,ato\vn of i?randenburg, in the New Mark, feated journey to Melun to vifit the bifliop of Paris, and the fright 

 on the Oder, formerly the metropolis of the circle of which he fuftained is faid to have deprived him of his realon. 



This occurred in 1,61, and he lived many years in this de- 

 plorable condition, having died at Paris in 1577, at the age 

 of 72. 



His father, alfo John de Gorris, was a phyfician at 



Bourges, attained confidcrable eminence, and left two works, 



one on the general " praftice of medicine,'" dated 1555 ; the 



The country lies between the province of Oude and Thibet, other, a " collection of formulje,'' 1560, both in Latin. 



and is governed by a rain dependent of Thibet. — Alfo, a Eloy Dift.H^ft. 



Lebus. 



GORKA, a tov,-n of Hindooftan, iu Mewat ; 12 miles 

 S.S.W. of Cottilah. 



GORKAH, a town of Afia, fituated in the N.E. part 

 of the fmall Hate fo called, on the borders of Napaul ; 35 

 miles NAV. of Catinaiidu. N. lat. 28 25'. E. long 84^36' 



town of the duchv of Warfaw ; 40 mUes S. of Pofen. 



GORLjEUS', AnRAH.AM, m Biography, a celebrated 

 medallill, was born at Antwerp in 1549. He devoted him- 

 felf entirely to the collection of ancient medals, feals, rings, 

 and other curiol'ities. He died at Delft, where he fpent the 

 greatell part of his life, in the year 1609. His works are 

 entitled " Dacfyliotheca feu Annuloruni Sigillorumque e 

 Ferro, JExe, Argento, atque Auro Promptuarium : " " The- 

 faurus Numifmatum familiarum Rom. :' " Paralipomena 



GORRITI, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the river La 

 Plata. 



GORSA, a fmall ifland near the S. coaft of Cuba. N. 

 lat. 21-45'. W. long. 81- 25' 



GORSE. See FcRZE and Ulex. 



GORSIO, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in Helfmg- 

 laiid ; 30 miles W. of Hudwickfwall. 



GORT, a pod town of Ireland, in the county of Gal- 

 way. It Hands on an eminence, and is a dirty ftraggling 



Numifmatum.'' His works are highly valued by thofe who town, but can boaft of a few good houfes. Adjoining to it 



are the ruins of a caftle, and near it is Kilmacduagh, the fee ot 

 abifhop. Gort is 98 miles W. from Dublin. 



GORTER, John de, in Biography, a phyfician, who, 

 after having been a difciple of the celebrated Boerhaave, be- 

 came a dillinguifhed teacher of medicine at Harderwick, his 

 native place ; in confequence of which he was elected a mem- 

 ber of the academies of Peterfhurg, Rome, and Hacrlem, 

 and obtained the title of phyfician to Elizabeth, em- 

 prefs of all the Ruflias. He was the author of feveral works, 

 which are written with excellent method, and contain many 

 interefting and original obfervations. He died on the nth 

 of September, 1762, at the age of 74. — His works, the titles 

 ot which are enumerated by Eloy, relate to phyiiological and 

 praftical fubjefts, as well as to the pratlice of the ancients. 

 Eloy. Dia. Hill. 



GORTERIA, in Botansy named by Linnsus after Da- 

 vid De Gorter, profefTor of p'lyfic and botany :n the Dutch 



are addirtcd to thele Ihidies. Moreri. 



GORLITZ, in Geography, a town of Upper Lufatia, 

 feated on the river Neiife, and the firll town in the county 

 with regard to frze, population, and wealth. Within the 

 walls it has tlu-ee churches, and as many without. The 

 principal trade is brewing, with woollen and linen manufac- 

 tures. 50 miles E. of Drefden. N. lat. 51 9'. E. long. 



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COROCHOVETZ, a town of Ruflia, in the govern- 



mcnt of Vladimir ; 72 miles E. of Vladimir. N. lat. j6 10'. 



E.longr. 42 34'. 



GO'RODITSCHE, a town of RufTia, in the government 



of Penza; 32 miles E.S.E. of Penza. N. lat. 53 20'. 



E. long. 46 34'.— Alfo, a town in the government of Kiev, 



ii2 miles S.E of Kiev..N. lat. 49". E. long, 32' 54'- — Alfo, 



a town ill the government of Tobolflc, 20 miles E.S.E. of 



Enifeifk. 



GORODNIA, a town of RufTia, in the government of univerfity of Harderwick, author of feveral local Floras of 



Tver, on the Volga, 2,3 miles E. of Tver. 



GORODNITZSK, a tov.n of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Tchernigof, oa the Snov ; 32 miles N.N.E. of 

 Tchcrnigof. 



GORODOK, a tov.;n of Rufiia, in the government of 

 miles E. of Poletllc. N. lat. -^y 36'. E. long. 



Poletlk ; 36 



29 54'. 



GORON, a town of France, in the department of May- 

 enne, and chief place of a canton, in the dillritt of Mayenne ; 

 9 miles N.W. of Mayenne. The place contains 1800, and 

 the canton 1^,733 inhabitants, on a territory of 2CO kiKo- 

 metres, in 1 1 communes. 



GORONGX), a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian fea ; 20 

 miles S. of Gilolo. S. lat. 1-8'. E. long. 128 33'. 



GORONJ'ALE, or Goroxtako, a town on the E. 

 coaft of the island of Celebes; 



GORPETA, I :own of Hindooftan, in Berar ; 24 

 miles W. of Chandor. 



GORRIS, Joa.v DE; \xi Biography, was born St Paris in 



that neighbourhood, and of Elementa Botanica. He died 

 in 1783, aged ff6. (Dryandr. Bibl. Banks, v. 5. 256.) Linn.' 

 Gen. 441. Schreb. 576. Wi!ld. Sp. PI. v. 3. 2265. Mart., 

 Mill. Dift. v. 2. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 254. Juff. 1S2. 

 Gxrtn. t. 171. Lamarck. Illuftr. t. 702. (Gazania: La- 

 marck. lUullr. t. 702. Perfonaria ; ibid. t. 716.) Clals and 

 order, Synger.tfia Polygam'm-fniflraHea. Nat. Ord. Compojiu, 

 Linn. Corymhifer/i, Juif. 



Gen. Ch. Common calyx of one leaf, imbricated with fpi- 

 nous fcales, the innermoll gradually longer, ftraight, brillle- 

 Ihaped, rigid. Cor. compound, radiated. Florets of the 

 dillc numerous, perf^^cl, with a funnel-fliaped five-cleft co- 

 rolla ; thofe ofth? radius fewer, female, with a ligulate lan- 

 ceolate one. >.ijm. (in the perfieft florets only) Filaments 

 five, fliort ; anthers united into a cylindrical tube. Fi[l. 

 (of the perfect flora's) Gerraen hairy; ilyle thread-fhaped, 

 the length of its own little corolla; iligma cloven. In the 

 female florets the germi-n is obfolcte and abortive ; ilvle 

 none; iligma none. Poic. none, except the calyx, falhng- 



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