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OOTSEELA, a town of Bengal; 48 miles W. of 

 Midnap'Uir. 



GOTTA, or GoTTO IJlarids, a cluftci- of fmall Japanefe 

 ilbnds. N. lilt. 50° 40'. E. loiijr. 13K40'. 



GOTTAUL, a town of Bengal ; 33 miles S. of Bnid- 

 wai-. N. lat. 22 42'. E. long, yy"" 5'. 



GOTTESBEIIG, a town of Sik-fia, in the pi-inci;)ality 

 oF Sehwoidnitz, near which arc two mines, one of gold, not 

 now worked, and another of coals. The manufacture of 

 tins town confitis of knit worlled ftockings. It contains 

 two churches; 12 miles S.W. of iSchweidnitz. N. lat. 50" 

 35'. E. long. 15- 54'. 



COTTEtiGAB, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Saat/. K. lat. 30'^ 22'. E. long. I2' 54'. 



GC3TTI,'ViNCKNT-LKWis, in Biiigfdphy, was born at Bo- 

 h)gi:u in the vcar 1664. At ii>vteen years of age he embraced 

 the erclefialHcul life among the Dominican monks, and when 

 !ie had completed his coi.rle of pliilofopliy at Bologna, he was 

 fent to llitdy theology for fonr years at Salaniar.ca in Spain. 

 Upon his return to Italy in 16S8, he was appointed pro- 

 felibr of pliilofopliy in tiie univerfity ot Bologna ; vnA ioon 

 recommended Idmfelf hv his talents and virtues to the polls 

 of prior and provincial of liis order. In 172S, pope Bene- 

 clift Xill. raifed him to the dignity of the purple ; and 

 three years afterwards ai)pointed him member of the con- 

 gregation for examining bidiops. So highly was he elleemed, 

 that in the lall conclave, which was held during his time, 

 lie had the fuffrages of a great number of the college for 

 las being raifed to the papal throne. He died at Rome in 

 1742, in his 79th year. His works, which are much valued 

 ( y the Catholics, particularly by thofe iii Italy, dilj)lay con- 

 f.deriible erudition and abilities. Of thele the principal are 

 " De vera Chrilli Ecclella," in three volumes ; " Thcologia 

 Schokdlico-doginatica, juxta Mentem divi Thomx Aqui- 

 natis, S:c." in i;x volumes 410,; " Colloquia Theologica-pole- 

 nu'ca, in tres claifes dillributa, &c." 4to. ; ''De Eligenda inter 

 DiffidentesChriftianosSentcntia," written in anfwertoa piece 

 with the fame title, by the celebrated .lohn le Clerc ; and 

 ,u. cl^' 



L'.jorate v\ork in defence of the truth of the Chrillian 

 r. ligion againit Atheiits, Idol.ittrs, Mahometans, Jews, S;c. 

 Ml 1 2 volumes. He was employed at the time of his death 

 ':-, writing " A Commentary on the book of Genefis." 

 Moreri. 



GOTTIGNIES, Gile.s-Fh.wcis, was born at BrufTels 

 '" the year 1 630, and entered into the order <>: tlie Jefuits 

 .-.[ Mechlin in 1653, whence he was fent to Rome, to purfue 

 );is tlieological Ihidies ; here he fpent the reil of his life 

 employed m teaching the mathematics, and writing different 

 work^ in that fcience. He died in 1689, when he was about 

 :i:<ty years of age. He was a coniiderable mathematician ! 

 .i r^r-at lover of pirre geometry, and had a diitalle to the 

 ;i!n-ebraic method of refolving problemiS; his works are very 

 laimerous, and have been highly commended for perfpicuity 

 ..nd prccifion. They relate to arithmetic and geometry ; to 

 I lie various parts of aflroiiomy, and other branches ot fpecu- 

 .i.tri-e and pri-.aic-.il mathematics. Moreri. 



GOTTIKGEN, or CJoetiisc.en, in Geography, a town 

 of the kingdom of \Ve!lpiialia, and p: iiicipal place of adillritl, 

 . :im'jd from it, is fituated in a fpacn>u3, pleafant, fertile valley, 

 un ii canal, branching from tiie river l.eine, and dividing the 

 own into t.Ke New town and Marfch. Tlie number of 

 '.ijufes is about icoo, containing about Scoo porfona ; the 

 .rreets are large and paved; it has five pariih churches, and 

 I :w for Calvimlls ; the Roman Catholics perform their reli- 

 g.ous fervice in a private lionie. The town is govvrmd by 

 ;. provolt, named by the fovcreign, burgo-mafters, and a 

 tvnod cbofen by the regency, aliilled by a councd. The 

 i.aiveriiiy of Goltiiigen claiajs peculiar notice ; it was founded 



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in 1734 by George II, king of England, and confccrated 

 on the 17th of September 1737, and by llic attention of it« 

 full curator, baron Mimchaufen, it has rifen to dillinguifhcd 

 reputation. It has a fplendid church, with its own pallor; 

 and it is accommodated with a ftately edifice of lloiie, the 

 gr(,unQ.fioor of which ferves as a hall for public leAures, 

 and the upper apartments are appropriated to the library-, 

 council-cliambcr, and other neceflary purpofts. Its library 

 is very large and \aluable, and it is called Uie " Bulowtan,' 

 froni a coUettiou of about io,030 volumes, with which it 

 originated, bequentli.d by baron Bulow for public ufe, and 

 granted by his heirs to the univerfity. A royal fociety of 

 fciences, foiinded in 1 75 1, and a royal German locii'ty, 

 form part of the umverlity. It has likewife a tine obfen'a- 

 tory, crcAed on a tower on the ramparts, witli a phyfic 

 garden, anatomical theatre, S:c. Tlie territory belonging 

 to the town is very confiderable ; 22 miles N. E. of Caffef 

 N.lat 51 31'. E. long. 9 52'. 



GOI'TO, a country of Africa, fituatcd to the foutli of 

 .Tinbali and Tombucloo, and the river Niger or .loliba, about 

 15° N. lat., and from o to 2^ E. long. It was formerly 

 divided into feveral petty ftates, under their own chiefs, but 

 it is now under the government of a king. Its chief town 

 is called MoofTceddoo, from the n;uiie of their firft mo- 

 narch. 



GOTTOLENGO, a town of Italy, in the department 

 oftheM, la; 15 miles S. of Brefcia. 

 GOTTO RP. See S1.ESWIC. 



GOTTSCHEE, a town of Middle Carniola ; 20 milee 

 S.S.E. of Laybach. N lat. 45 53'. E. long. 14° 48'. 



GOTZEL, a town of Bavaria; 36 miles E. of Ra- 

 tifbon. 



GO VAN, a town of Scotland, in LaHarkfhirc ; the po- . 

 pulation of wkich, in I'^oi, was 6701, of which 13 14 wen- 

 employed in trade and manufaftures ; four m.iks W. ot 

 Glalgow. 



GCVANDORE, a bay on tlie coaft of Chili. 

 GOUANIA, in Botany, was named by .Tacquin in ho- 

 nour of Anlliony Gouaii, a phylician and celebmtcd bo- 

 tanill of Montpellier, where he has long filled the botanical 

 chair, and, as far as we know, is ftill living, though at <i 

 very advanced age. He was the friend and correfpoiident of 

 Linnicus, and is the author of a Flora Moiifp/iluu, arranged' 

 according to what he himfeif calls a hvbrid fyllcm, the 

 outlines being on the principles of Tournefort, the fiibordi- 

 iKite fec^ions taken fro;ii the Linnian feMial fyflem. Tl.id 

 work appeared in 1765. Hehad pivvioi;ilv. in 1762, ptil - 

 lillied a Hxirliis M:ri/f>c!it:i/!s according to the lalt-mentiori( d 

 fyltem. Each work forms an oftavo volume. They are 

 chiefly remarkable for the fecoudary generic characters, tak< ci 

 from the habit, fiibjoined to the ellcntial ones which are 

 founded on the fruit iticat Ion. ProfefFor Gouan pjblifhcd. 

 alto a folio volume of Obfervatioiies Botanicx, with plates,. 

 illullrative of the plants of his neighbourhood ; ?<• \.e\\ as 

 a quarto in Latin and French on the metliodical arrangf- 

 ment, and generic charaAcrs at lengtli, of liihe'. — .lac^. 

 Amcr. 263. Linn. (rcn. 547. Schreb. -33. Mart. Mil'. 



Dia. v. 2. JulT. 3S1. Lamarck. Illuftr. t. S45 Clafs 



and order, Poly^.m.'ui ATonaLi, or rather Penlnnilria Mcno- 

 Syii'h Nat. Ord. Dunicf.c, Linn. Rlj,:mm, .luff. 



Gen. Ch. Cat. Perianth of 0110 leaf, lupcrior, funnel- 

 fliaped, tive-clett ; tube p •rmanent ; fegments of the limb 

 ovate, acute, ipreading, d'cid.ious. Cor. Petals five, oppo- 

 fite to the flamcns, hood-lliaped, elaftic. Stam. l-'ilaracnts 

 five, awl-lhaped, the length of the fegments of the calv.>{, 

 and alternate with them, infertcd into the tube; anthers 

 ronndiih, incumbent, lliekered by the petals. Pjjl. Ger- 

 men inferior, roundiih ; flyle awl-fl>aped, dividrd half-way 



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