G R E 



of France, &c. So the Englifli frcqiiently fay, Edward 

 tlic great, or the great Edward ; William the great, mean- 

 ing king William III. or the great William The French 

 fay Louis the great, le rri^n//, fpeaking of Louis XIV. 

 Giles of Paris fays, Ciiarlcmagne hrll got the furnanie great 

 from the tallnefs and eminence of his llature. Helgaud adds, 

 that Hugh the great of France was thus denominated on ac- 

 count of his great piety, goodnefs. Sec, 



Gkeat is alfo applied to feveral officers who have pre- 

 eminence over others. Thus we fay, the lord great cham- 

 berlain ; the great marflial of Po'and, Sec. 



Cheat CircL-s of thefpkre. See Great CiRCLE. 



Gkeat Circle faUing. See Sailimj. 



Gv.e.x\: Apparatus. See Appauatiis. 



Gkeat Artery. See Aktehy. 



Great Bairam. See BAiiiAir. 



Great Bank of Neivfomidlaud, in Geography. Sec Bank. 

 It lies between 41 " and 50- 24' N. lat., and between 49' 45', 

 and 54 4S' W. long. 



Great Barrington. See Barrinoton. The number of 

 inhabitants by a late ellimate is 1754. 



Great Biiy, a bay of North America, at the mouth of 

 the Pifcataqua river, between Portfmouth and Exeter, in the 

 ftate of New Hampfliire. 



Great Bear lake. See Bear lake. 



Great Bear. See Uuka major. 



Great Cape, in Geography, a Cape of Upper Canada, 

 where lake Superior dcfcends into the narrows of the fall 

 Si. Mary. 



Great Diachylon. See Diachylon. 



Great Egg harbour, Sec. in Geography. See HLgg hariour 

 river. 



Great Famine, a river of America, in New York, which 

 rifes in the mountains near the fource of the river Oneida, and 

 runs N. W. by W. to lake Ontario. 



Great Gun. See Cannon and Gun. 



Great Intervals, in Mafic, fignify the fame, with Holden 

 and fome other writers, as greater and major do with the 

 generaUtv of muficians, and is applied to the intervals mark- 

 ed with Roman capitals, as II, III, V, VI, VII, Sic. See 

 Greater. 



Great I/land, in Geography, a fmall idand in the Eaft 

 Indian fea, near the N. coail of the illand of Flores. S. lat; 

 7 " 59'. E. long. 120' 54'. — Alfo, an ifland in the river Nia- 

 gara, between lake Erie and lake Ontario. N. lat. 53^. W. 

 long. 78° 59 . — Alfo, an ifland of Ireland, in the county of 

 Cork, being the largeft of the iflands formed by the river 

 Lee in Cork harbour ; on it is the flourifliing town of Cove. 

 — Alfo, an idand in Pifcataqua harbour, Now Hampfhire, in 

 the United States. 



Great Kanhaway. See Kanhaway. 



Great Letters. See C.triiAL.s. 



Great ATafs. See Mas.-^. 



Great Mecatina. See Mecwtina. 



Gre.vt Oilave, in Mufic, is applied by the Germans, ac- 

 cording to their tablature, or notation of muiieal notes, to 

 the oflave, or rather feptave, begiiiiiitig with C on the fccond 

 leger line below the bafs ftave, and ending with B on the 

 fecond line, or mi of Guido, and to wliicli they excluhvely 

 apply the Roman capitals C, 13, E, F, G, A, B. See Dr. 

 Calleott's Muficnl Grammar, art. 34. See alfo S.mai-I- 

 Octavk, Once-.marked Oilave, and Twick-marked Oc- 

 tave. 



The objeft of this tablature is, to enable mufical notes to 

 be written or printed without clefs or lines and fpaces in a 

 ftave. 



Great OJlccrs. See Ofpicer. 



G R E 



CiZ.t\.T Pelican Ifland. See Pelican". 



Great Repeat. See Repeat. 



Great Ridge, in Geography, one of the ridges of the 

 Alleghany mountains, which (eparates the waters of the Sa- 

 vannah and Alatamaha. At the S.E. promontory of this ridge 

 is that extraordinary place called Bu-flaloe lick, diftant aboiit 

 80 miles from Auguita. It occupies feveral acres of ground. 

 A large cane fwanip and meadows, forming an immenfe plain, 

 lie S.E. of it, and in this fwamp Mr. Bai-trara apprehends that 

 the branches of the great Ogechee take their rife. The hck 

 is nearly level, and lies between the head of the cane fwamp 

 and the afccnt of the ridge. 



Gre.\t River, a river of Virginia, which runs into the 



Staunton river. N. lat. 36 '46'. W. long. 79" 12' Alfo, a 



river of Canada, which runs into the river St. Lawrence, 20 

 miles below Quebec. 



Great River. See Rio Grande. 



Gu^\T Scale, m Mvjic. The late fir Marmaduke Overend, 

 after a life almoil fpent in reiearches into the nature and pro- 

 portion of mulical intervals, fuc^eeded, to the fatisfaftion of 

 Dr. Boyce, his intimate friend, to whom his labours were 

 fubmitted, in unravelling the myileries of the Greek fcales of 

 mufic, as he lays, in a paper on the great fcale, in his 

 quarto manufcripts, vol. ii. page 113 to 133, uow in the; 

 libraiy of the Royal Inilitution, which is thus entitled, iifz. 

 " All the Greek fcales of mufic combined, with the diato- 

 nic inteufe, extended in the acumen and gravitas, with their 

 remifiions and intenfions to double flats and double iliarps 

 in each ; iirit reilored, elucidated, and calculated, by Mar- 

 maduke Overend, Ifleworth 1779." In pages 143 to 14JJ 

 of the fame volume of MS. we find alfo the feveral ratios 

 of this fcale in their leaft terms, and the indices of the com- 

 ponent primes, of one oftave of the acumen and the gra- 

 vitas with the fynemmenons, tha remifiions, &c. This fcale, 

 which contains 86 notes within the ottave, is a great mufical 

 curiolity, which we are forry that our limits will not admit 

 of inferting : by the notice here taken of it, the curious 

 may refi)rt to the manufcripts themfelves for further fatis- 

 faftion. See Greek Scale. 



Great Seal. See Se.\l. 



Gre.'VT Sixth, Redundant, in Mufic, or redundant great 

 fixth, according to Holden, is the inverfiou of the deficient lefs 

 third of his fcales (i), and has a ratio of /,, ::= 475.947C9S 

 -1- 9_/" 4- 41 m in Farcy's notation, its common logarithm 

 being .7659167.9396, its Euler's log. or decimal of the 

 oftave -- .7776075, and it contains 43.38868 major commas. 

 This interval does not belong to the received or diatonie 

 fyllem, having the number 7 in its ratio. 



Gre.vt Sodus. See Sodus. 



GlKi',\r-Third, in Mufic, probable, according to Holden 's 

 new and fjiiciful lytlem, is the ratio which the mind " pro- 

 bably' conceives (page 371 of his " EiTa)'') as pertaining 

 to tlic major third in the common chord minor, and, to 

 which lie alfigns the numbers '.-, ^ 206.270982 1 -|- 4_/ + 

 18m in the new notation: its common logarithtu is 

 .8985423 5924 and that of Euler, . 3370^550, it alfo contains 

 18.80576 major commas; it is far removed from the receiv- 

 ed or diatonic fyilem of intervals, as involving the prime 

 number 19, and yet it is one of thofe which refp It from carl 

 Stanhope's directions for t-niing; it i; the lelTercqua!-be-iting 

 biequal third of his lordihip, fee Equal Be.\t:.\;;. Mr. 

 Holden, at page 384 of his effay, relates an experiment in 

 which this third proved an " intolerable difcord," which is 

 more than might be expcftcd, from the temperament of 

 rather more than y", ihs of a comma, which it has. 



Great Tithes. See Tithe.s. 



GiiiiAT Wardrobe. See Wardrobe. 



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