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ii'S Saints," ill two vols. 410. " Supplement to Moreri'S 

 Didiouai-y," two vols, folio. " Bibliotheque dts Ecrivaiiis 

 Ecclclialliqucs,'' three vols. 8vo. " Difcours fur le Renou- 

 vcUcmi-nt Jl'S Etudes depuis le xiv Siecle." " De I'Etat 

 tL"S Sciences en France depuis la Mort de Charlemagne 

 infqu'a cellc du Roi Robert." This difFcrtatiun obtained 

 for the author the prize of the Academy of Belles Lettres, 

 and he was complimented by a deputation from that body, 

 defiring permilfion to nominate him to the vacant place of 

 the deceafed abbe Vertot. Goujet was likcwife author of 

 " Bibliotheque Fran9oife, ou Hilloiredela Litterature Fran- 

 (joife," 18 volumes i2mo. which is reckoned lis moll valua- 

 ble work. Moreri. 



GOUJIN, ill Geography, a town of Portugal, in the 

 province of Beira ; 12 miles S.W. of St. Joao de Pef- 

 qucir.i. 



GOVINPOUR, a town of Hindooftaa, in Bahar ; 26 

 miles S. of Bahar. — Alfo, a town of Bengal ; 10 miles W. 

 of Nuldingah. 



GOULAMCONDA.atownof Hindooftan,in the My- 

 fore; 9 miles S. of Gooty. 



GOULART, Sl.MON, in Biography, a French Proteftant 

 divine, was born at Senlis in 1543. He began his iludies 

 late in life, but by perfevering induilry, he made a great pro- 

 ficiency in the learned languages, and was chofen paftor of 

 the church of which Calvin had been miniller. Here he 

 difcharged the duties of his office with much diligence and 

 fnccefs, till within a few years of his death, which took 

 place in 1628, when he was about 85 years of age. He 

 edited many works, performing at the fame time the bufinefs 

 wf a commentator. Among thefe were the " Works of 

 Plutarch ;'' " St. Cyprian's Works;" " Seneca's Works," 

 &c. He made a collettion of " Remarkable Hiftories" in 

 2 vols. 8vo., and wrote feveral pieces relating to the hif- 

 tory of his own times. The melt intorefting and curious of 

 the latter defcription is his " CoUeftion of the moll memo- 

 rable events which occurred during the League, with notes 

 and original documents,'' in fix vols. 410. Many of his 

 pieces were anonymous, but to thefe he nfually affixed the 

 initials S. G. S. fignifying " Simon Goulart Scnlilien.'^ 

 He liad fuch an cxtenfive acquaintance with the hteratiire of 

 his time, and knew fo well to whom different publications, 

 that were printed without the writer's name, were to be at- 

 tributed, that Henry III. of France, being dehrous of 

 knowing who was the author of a piece publidied under the 

 aii'umed name of Stephanus Junius Brutus, and intended to 

 propagate republican doftrines, fent a perfon to Geneva to 

 enquire into the matter of Goulart, but the latter refufed to 

 communicate the faft, for fear of expofing the author to fe- 

 riows injury. Moreri. Bayle. 



GOULDSBOROUGH Harbour, in Geography, a 

 harbour of the United States of America, in the dilirift of 

 Main. N. hit. 44" 25'. W. long. 67" 53'. 



GOULERGAUT, a town of Thibet; 28 miles S. of 

 Deuprag. 



GOULOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Sanore ; 18 miles N. of Sanore. 



GOULSTON, Theodore, in Biography, was the fon 

 of William, reelor of Wymondham, and was born in 

 Nurlhanriptonftiire. He became probationer fcUow of Mer- 

 ton -ollege, Oxford, in 1596: and, afler applying himfilf to 

 the Itudy or phyfic in this univerfity, he pratlifed for a time 

 with confidera'ble reputation at Wymondham and its 

 neighbourhood. At length, after taking his dodlor's degree 

 in 1610, h? removed to London, and became a fellow of the 

 College of Phyficians, and afterwards cenfor. He relided 

 Id the parifii of St. Mai-tiu's, near Ludgate, and was in 



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great efteem, as well for clafTical learning and theology, «l 

 tor the practice of his profcfiion. He died in the year 1632 ; 

 and by an article in his will tellified fuch regard to the inte- 

 rells of medicine, as entitles him to grateful commemoration. 

 This was a bequell of 200 pounds, to purchafe a rent charge 

 for the maintenance of an annual pathological lefture within 

 the College of Phyficians, to be read by one of the four 

 youngeft doftors of the College. The public has been in- 

 debted on feveral occafions to this inilitution for ingenious 

 dilfertations, delivered as Gulftonian Leftnres ; as thofe of 

 Dr. Mufgrave ; Dr. Fordycc's Treatife on Digeftioa ; 

 &c. 



Dr. Goulfton publiflied the following works. " Verfio 

 Latina et Paraphrafis in Ariftotelis Rhetoricam." Lond. 

 1 619, &c. " Ariftotehs de Poetica Liber, Latine conver- 

 fus et AnnlyticaMethodo illuftratiis." Lond 1623. And 

 after his death, his intimate friend Thomas Gataker, B. D. 

 publillied his " Veriio, varix Leftioaes ei Annotationes 

 Criticfc in opufcula varia Galeni." Lond, 1640. Aikin, 

 Biograph. Mem. of Med. 



GOUMEL, in Geography, a town of Africa, and capital 

 jof the country of the Foulahs, and refidence ot the Siratik. 

 N. lat. 16' 16'. W. long, n^ 32'. 



GOUNDA, a town of Hindooilan, in Oude ; 32 miles 

 E.N.E. of Manickpour. 



GO\]Vlh.,'m Botany. See Glossopetalum. 



GOUPIL, James, in Biography, a phyfician of the 

 fixteenth century, was born in the province of Poitou. He 

 acquired a conliderable knowledge of the ancient languages, 

 and afterwards directed his Iludies to medicine, in the fchools 

 of Paris, where he graduated in 1547. His talents attratled 

 the attention of the court, and he was appointed by Henry 

 H. to the profelforfliip of medicine in the royal college, ia 

 '555' ^ vacancy being occafioned by the death of Sylvius. 

 He is principally known as an editor and annotator of the 

 writings of Diofcorides, Alexander Trallian, Aftuarius, 

 and fome other Greek writers ; and he was engaged in the 

 fame labour, in refpetl to fome of the writings of Hippo- 

 crates, vilien his iludies were terminated by death, in ij68. 



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GOUR, called alfo Lucknouii, in Geography, the an- 

 cient capital of Bengal, luppofed to be the " Gangia 

 Regia" of Ptolemy, which flood on the left bank of the 

 Ganges, about 25 miles below Rajemul. N. lat. 24^ 53'. 

 E. long. 88-^ 14'. It was the capital of Bengal 730 years 

 B.C. and was repaired and beautified by Acbar, A. D.- 

 1575, who gave it the name of " Jennuteabad," which 

 name part of the circar in which it was iituated ftill bears. 

 It was defertcd, as it is faid, on account of the infalubrity 

 of its air. Taking the extent of the ruins of Gour at the 

 moll reafonable calculation, it is not lefs than 15 miles in 

 length, along the old bank of the Ganges, and from two to 

 three in breadth. Several villages Hand on part of its fcite ; 

 the remainder is either covered with thick forefts, the habi- 

 tations of tygers and other bealls of prey, or become arable 

 land, vvhofe foil is chiefly compofed of brick-duft. The 

 principal ruins are a mofque lined with black marble, elabo- 

 rately wrought ; and two gates of the citadel, which are 

 grand and lofty. The bricks, which continue to be an 

 article of merchandize, are of a peculiarly fohd and dura- 

 ble texture. 



GOURA, or Gura, a town of the duchy of Warfaw 

 on the Villula; 12 miles from Warfaw. ' 



GO"VRA, a town oi I'erfia, in the province of Irak ; 35 

 miles E. of Ifpahan. 



GOURAY, a cape on the E. coall of the ifland of 



Jerfey ; 4 miles E- of St. Helier. — Alfo, a town of Frauce, 



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