GRE 
= its prefident, and each league a fuperintendent, called 
he fu upreme authority is velted in the fynod, com- 
Botkd of the three deans, and the clergy of each exces and 
candidates for holy orders are examined before t 2. fynod, 
which affembles every year alternately in each fs #8 ‘three 
leagues umber of: refor churches’ in: the three 
to 1353 46in the Grey league, 53 in that 
and i in the — of ‘Ten jurifdiétions. 
SHE, ef. a flu Guating: —— 3- 
tribute of 500 plilipe! {a philip nes equal to 5s.) from the 
Valteline, om roo from Chiaven 4. A {mall fund, the 
of which is only pope vefted in the Enghih 
Phe ‘population of the Grifons may be ‘thus etti- 
mated: the G the league 
.of God’s Houfe.29,000,' and the league of Ten jurifdic- 
tions 15,000 : a 
ditants in the Va'teline, Chiavenna 
“popuiati ion of the Grifons and the fubjed countries, <a. 
amount to only 185,000" Slay or, — ance being made for 
deficiencies, will {earcel exceed 200 
of the Grifons is very eiuateathed: the only 
‘exports (thofe of the oe ae excepted ) are cheefe 
vand cattle. “They import grain, ri ftu 
. from a Re ‘from Swabia | and bye rol 5 falt oS = 
‘rolan 
Ee 
Como, by 
theGHps only planks, ‘ftones for building, and 
, eras langnages of the Grifons are the Italia 
sai . The Itali ti j 
rg de dialeét, ‘is fpoken ions the 
chiavo, and in the’ vallies 
Phe Geman is Koen shesephous te whole league ob the - 
ifdictions, a few villages ——_ -in the league of 
Sav haate, at Aves 
“Grey leagues in varions places. The 
es ‘<i » ar t 
n or Romanth is 
ongue a 
"yonet Te is divided into two ‘principal - 
ague, and the 
in the sew 
a - 
See Roma 
“thie'affaire of the 
ebigeveruuet, $0 
, butter and cheefe. 
pega commerce of the Grifons and ‘asp pe pro- . 
3 utinated 
among the greater: ‘part of the Gri- a oe te together, Of this ny of thorie there « are 
the one 
the other in that of God's ‘ei 
"Phe Koule'of Aula, “ig; modern times, has direted all Jing, 
the Grifons with 
=i rere ag of ae 5 filtratin 
rity. However, as ly as 1 ute. O6- Beater <5 
er Gites oe ca 
ancient 
‘convention in ag oe the general 5 
GRE 
diet, and to throw themfelves under - prowettos of France 4 
and this revolutios was accompanied with the ufual hors 
rors of pillage, banifhment, and bloo dfhed. Bonaparte had 
no fooner. concluded the armiftice with the ig avis _ me 
difmembered the “Valteline, Chiavenna, and 
annexed them to the :Cifalpine republic. This " parhdiig 
conduét roufed the indignation of the agen and ferved to 
favour the caufe of the anti rty, fo that, in 
a fubfequent ftage of the French aes bay they rejeéted the 
mandate of the French dire€tory to incorporate themfelves 
with the Helvetic republic, and re-eftablifhed me ancient 
government. However, on the renewal of hoftilities be- 
tween France and Auftria, the country of the Grifons be- 
came the-fcene of bloody contefts, and was alternately oc+ 
cupied by both armies, till at length it was conitrained ta 
fubmit to thespower of France, and to form the Gxteenth 
department or canton of Switzerland, according to the 
conftitution of May 1800, empowe ered t to. fend fix repre- 
fentatives to the diet. 
The-country of the Grifons is peut inter{perfed 
with vallies, which in fome parts a 
; The chief ae thefe vallies lie 
the Alps, which terminate at 
Cos, as ‘tine Rhine, the Inn, and the Adda. The 
vallies afford fome corn, but not fufficient for the. fupply of 
the inhabitants; the chief objects = attention to the fs 
are their fheep and cattle, from w they obtain excelleut 
"The eo furl good aes the 
hills fupply chefnuts, and the val roduce The 
mountains abound in 
ee qeeane wear linen and woollen cloth of their. 
fprings. 
own appa 
GR SEY, . a each the ifland of Java, and capital of . 
= kngiom ol the fame name. S. lat. 7° 5’. E. long. 112° 
GRIST denotes corn ground, or ready for grinding. | 
GRISTOW 
metals, cane fofiils, aca mineral . 
r grin 
5 in Geography, a {mallifland-in the circle of : 
Upper Saxony, fituated in the Direnow, between the town . : 
of Cammin and the ifland of Wollin, in Anterior Pomera- 
nia... N. lat. 53755’... E. long. 14° 40. 
GRIiTA,sba,a she of S$. America, in the province of 
the Caraccas ; fe miles $.S.W. of Merida. 
GRITHBR ECHE, in our O/d Writers, the fame ess 
‘breach of the peace. Inthisfenfe we find it mentione 
leg. Hen. I. cap. 36. 
emendabit. 
“ In caufis regiis gnithbreche 100 fol. : | 
_ comes from the Saxon, grithbryce, which gn tey: the a 
"GRITHSTOLE, a place of fandtuary. 
- FripsTore 
GRITS, in Natural Hiftory. See SAbUR e 
GRIT-STONE, is a ttone confifting of pest © of 6is8: 
many 
— 
Blount. See f. 
