oer 
Fete ae diftri& about Athby 
sapiaicel* and numerous other cork beihy wid the 
Atill,. 
better could et procured. 
‘e portion of the argillaceous oie have but a 
flight att sofiSi to perifh or moulder when expofed, and 
‘can be ufed in walls and aiditiaty buildings ; ; others will perifh 
in a few years, and a large portion of what appears, when 
firft dug, at proper diftances below the furface, to be very 
d grit-ftone, will, after are) fhort time of expofure,.fall 
to a loamy or clayey fand; fuch very perifhable poe 
‘flrata, are called by the others ftone-binds, grey-beds, . & 
except about Newcaitle,. where they are denominated ak 
ftones. 
‘In fome places rads oe eos agee ree occur, as in 
‘the yellow, or magnefian lime-ltone rarge, near nsfield, ‘in 
Nottinghamfhire, and fuch are i touaitenet, — improperly, 
or gritty lime-ftones. See SAND-/fone. 
‘calfed Pre tone, 
GRITZGALLEN, a town of the ol of Cour- 
and; 20 miles 5. S. W; of Seelburg. 
“GRIVE, JOHN DE +8 in Biography 
wed a {tron 
, was born at Sedan 
inclination for the 
peri 
‘poft of profeffor of . theolegy in a houfe belonging to his 
il his mind was devoted to icientific 
at Cracow. 
urfuits, and being very Spe ra¢tical mathematics, 
he publifhed « A Blan of Paris,”’ which was ably and very 
accurately defigned : but was fpoiled in the engraving. 
determined i 
o 
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= 
sae 
The Gardens of Marly ;” and « A Survey of the Royal 
“Domains in the Vicinity of Paris ;” all which are well 
executed, and held in ee eftimation by connoiffeurs. H 
_publithed « ‘A Manual of Spherical Trigonometry,’ ”” and 
was <a geographer to the city of Paris. The la 
work which he iaertook was the Topography of Paris on 
a oe feale. But he died in 1757 teke had accom- 
Moreri 
TGRIVEL NT in Geography, atown of Walachin; 30 
$ 
gad Ol, a town of, Ruffia, in the province of 
Utting ; 96 miles E. of Lalfk 
GRIWHEE, a town of “Africa, on the flave-coaf. 
_N. lat. 6° 30’. E. long. 1° 16. 
GROAI, a town of Africa, on the ‘flave-coatt ; 10 
N. W. of Cape Palmas 
pe 
SROALS Tfle, a {mall ifland near the W. soniad Mies 
foundland. N. lat. 51°. W. long. 53° 50’. 
; sROAIX, a {mall gen 1 four miles and one 
anda a. wide, near the W France 
. coatt of depart. 
_ ment be Morbihan ; 18 miles N. Ne W. of Belle 5 century, 
har 39’. W. long. 3° 22". 
river Niemen 
was born at 
he Audie’ pate nt at Te Une et 
| GRO 
or Me aint ag in funting, a tern ufed for, the cry or 
noife of oe buc 
vo aT, an Englifh money of account, equal to four 
Prac 
=i nations, as the Dutch, Polanders, Saxons, Bohe- 
French, &c. have likewife their groats,, groote, 
groches, gros, &c. 
We had nos falver money in the Saxon times hidter ¢ than 
a penny ; nor after the conqueft, till Edward IIT. who 
pieces which went for 4d. a-piece 
the matter ftood till the reign of Henry VIII, who, in 
1505, firft coined fhillings. 
Groats, in Rural Economy, the {mall grains formed from 
oats by being cut in $e mill, after having the hufks or fhells 
taken off from the gra 
GROBIN, or ek tn in Gergraphys a town of the 
duchy of Courland ;. 28 miles S. S. W. of Goldingen 
GROCERS, by the flat. 37 Edward Il.-cap. 5. a term 
ufed for thofe wha engrofs merchandize. See ENGRosSING. 
But grocers are now thofe who deal in fugars, {pices, &c. 
and form one of.the incorporated companies of London. 
See CoMPANY. 
GRODEK,j in bperananins * a town of the duchy of War- 
; 40 miles 
-R O, the principal, though not the capital, town» 
of Lithuania, built upon an emipcnce, | overloo in 
principal 
lace, Sectors carriages 
The country ie (cad ex flax, hemp, ‘Sela. 
air, and ,wax, for t . fupply of the man Sy that 
employ thefe commo ities 5 ; but the filk, cotton, iron, co- 
lours, gold and filver for the eee. and thread 
from Bruffels for the lace are im fe manufac. 
cuurch have two; and the Jews here ag af 
140 miles N. E. of Warfaw. wi. tat. $3 4a. ei 
ageine 
GROEMS, a ‘town of the duchy of Holftein ; ten iniles 
S. of Cifmar. 
SRE eee the ig ee of the proj 
- that run acrofs the vall of Draker Rei, the iat 
is pr dcorn. See 
e province of 
