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L, in Geography, a town of Holland, in the 
_ county of Zutphen, ftrongly fortified, fituated on the river 
Slinghe, whofe waters fill the ditclies around the fortifica- 
tions 5 19 miles E. of Zutphee. N. lat. 52° 5’. E. long. 
a’. 
GROMA, among the Romans, a way-wiler, or furvey- 
ing inftrument ; 3 whence thofe who ufed it were called gro- 
matict, and the place in the camp where it was kept, groma. 
Pitife. 
GROMI, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the go- 
vernment of Irkutfch; 112 miles N. of Ba alaganfkoi. 
GROMING, a town of the duchy of Sturia 5 35 miles 
. of Rottenmann 
GROMMETS, ina are ne wreaths, reese of 
a ftrand of rope, and ufed to faften the u 
ftay-fail to its refpeGive ftay, in different P 
means of the grommets the fai il is accordingly hoifted or 
pes Inftead of thefe, hanks have been lately intro- 
PHRENA,. 
GROMWELL, or Gromitt. 
GRONA, from ypu», a cavern. Lour 
Clafs and ede ages = Soames 
Li 
inn. Be. nofie, 
See Lrrnospermum. 
ureir. Cochinch. 459. 
Nat. Ord. Papilio- 
hollow beneath. | gia inear 
tidy, be ainal Ege Lan ritug of <x inhabitants of Co- 
ebinching: “o 
The flems are pee fomewhat 
ing. pew alternate, ftalked, ovate, entire. Stipulas awl. 
|. Flowers purple, in axi a 
varies “feikes. Braéeas pointed, ‘¢ wo-flowered, “Leu: : 
"GRONAU in Ys a kown.ok Wet 4, in the 
of erent S.S.W. of I aw sean 
Allo, ion in the a of Minter ay: miles N.W. 
- GRONDEUR, a name given by the French in Ame- 
, BRO 
rica to a fith which is commonly eaten there; the jaw: 
which have beer brought into Europe, and being = 
by Mr. Juffiew, were found befet in a remarkable man 
with teeth, which perfeétly refembled the bufonite, called 
srapandines, and by fome eS, si weacane in their 
foflile ftate, had been for fa accounted 
r toad-flones, as they are called, 
were placed more tow acm the middle; the largeft of all 
being placed i in two {traight rows, or lines, along the centre 
of each jaw. Each of thefe teeth i is articulated by a gom- 
phofis in the jaw, and when taken out, they all have that 
pessipes ia —o is found in the hinder part of the fofli 
one ets of thefe teeth have’ much the appear- 
ance Sok thiofe. gt whence teeth have been frequently 
sy and probably the fith fheds them open in the courfe 
of its life. Mem. Acad. Par. 1723 
GRONDINES, Les, in Geran, > town of Be ng 
on the river St. Lauren ce. N. 1 6° 36’. long. 
a g8". 
GRONES, a cape on the N.W. coatt of the ifland of, 
Jerfey ; fix miles N.W. of St. Aubin. 
GRONHAMN, a {mall ifland in the gulf of Bothnia. 
lat. 62° 
GRONINGEN, one of the ftates of Holland, Bounded 
on the N, by the German ocean, on the E. by Eaft Frief- 
land and dart en the S. by Overyffel,. and on the W 
by Friefland. § OLLAND- 
GroxINGEn, the capital of the ftate juft-mentioned, is 
a large, rich, ftrong, well-peopled, city; adorned with many 
éxcslient nies well peas and guar 
The port is 
ward, and = Duntter runs eaftward from it to the river 
Ems, duce its name from Grunnius, a comm ander 
pattures which oe di 
pede 7H at "Thi was “cindy a free aa on 
city 3 ; and it was likewife ere¢ted into 
French ; 81 miles W. of Bremen. 
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E. long. 6° 24. 
ous place, where ug for bu 
GRONOVIA, i ¥ Bt ie named Houtton, w 
engraved its parts of Bayi in one of his unpublithed 
eph 
plates, es rok. mire to the world by fir Jof 
in honour - John Fre se ag 
lees © Guoxovius.) Rel. H t. 7. This 5 
is but a copy, like fome. 3 ithe others, the ori 
bee Linn. Gen. 111. 
‘Dia. 
Pl. v. 1. 1176. Mart. Mill. V. 2. 94. «La 
marck, Iuitr. t. 144.—Cla order, Pentandria Mono~ 
gynia. ucurbitacea, Linn. J 
Ges, Ch. Cal. Sbgderrc of PN leaf, fuperior, bell-h 
coloured, perman more than ingmens way: ¢ lows. Z 
into five lel, sah a Pet 
five, fmall, {patulate, ‘ 
aws of | 
a bithopric. In Tae ° 
ng- 
A, in our Se herd a td pit, or bitumin. 
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of the Cad} but others derive it from the excellent green er 
