Gk 0’ 
Dutchman; the wrongs whichhe had received from a tyran- 
nical government, and the flights which he had experienced 
from thofe who ought to have afforded him an afylum againit 
his avowed enemies, feem to have made a deep and latting 
impreffion on his mind, and to have rendered him indifferent 
to his country’s concerns. After having difcharged the 
duties of this office above eleven years, he obtained his recal, 
and fet out, by way of Holland, to give to the queen an ac- 
count of his miffion. He left France in _ {pring of 1645, 
and proceeded to’ Holland, where he was now received with 
— honour. ‘The cit of ‘Aimfendars abertaaed him at 
ubec, where he had 
eden, and 
Chriftina was eager to fee him, not 
y as her pega = as a man, highly diftinguithed i in 
the republic of let and fhe gave him a long audience, 
repaired to Stockholm. 
onl 
gav 
nog — he was aie “Tatishied. He hoped for a — 
8 long fervices, but received only compliments ; 
would willingly hats entered on fome new esate but 
ould obtain none: he requefted therefore a paflport 
he might return to his own country; this fmall boon was Toe 
fufed, in the hope, that he would confent to remain at the 
rt of Sweden as counfellor to the queen. He at length 
-fer out eich the formality of a callgiir, but the news of 
his departure being carried to Chriftina, fhe os are him to 
pos SF another i ges which he readi 
y ha 
{oon to encounter a violent ftorm, which obliged hina to go 
on fhore, at a {mall diftance from Dantzic. From thence 
te travelled pe land to ea where he died on the 28th 
of ft gk y was carried to Delft, to be 
bpviched of his anceftors. ‘Three fons, one 
laughter, and his wife furvived him. ~Few writers have dif- 
ee eo in more branches of literature than 
at work, * On 8 » aes of — and 
of na- 
ni 
divine, Grotins is known by his w 
the Truth of the Chri 
dated into all languages. He is "alts 
commentator on the Scriptures, 
GROTON, in = ee » a town of America, in the 
—* 15-miles N.E. of 
tants.—Alfo, a 
ermont; on crnereeire.r 
river, 
su ibabitants.—Alfo, a poft-town in Middlefes 
county, ee 35 miles N.W. of Bolton; con- 
“ On 
” which ‘al pes tranf- 
greatly efteemed asa 
eee a town of Serving 15 miles S. of Bel- 
GROTTA, a town of It the department f the 
"Bast retry N.W at, the de : 
town of Naj 
“Ore aa ae 
ARDA, a town of | in Prin- 
ines 12 ieee ges 
802 inhabitants.—A fo, a townthip i in New London have 
GRO 
GROTTA Sr. LORIA, a town of Naples: 3 in Capt 
tanata; 12 miles W of Masfredon nia. 
GROTTARIT, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra; 
fix saa N. of Gierace 
GRO 
TGAYU, or -CaOrTK Av, a town of Silefia, and 
capital + a circle in the principality of Neiffe, fituated on 
the river neon 14 miles N. of Neiffe. N. lat. 50° 37’. 
E. long. 17° 
GROT TO, or peste he in haat J! iffory, a large 
deep cavern, or den in a mountain ox 
The word is Téatlnes grotia, form eae eae ng to Me- 
nage, &c. from the Latin érypla : Du Cange ebferves, that 
grotto was ufed in the fame fenfe in the corrupt Latin: 
The ancient anchorets retired into dens and grottos, to 
apply themfelves the more attentively to meditation. 
key ‘ Elden: ee Pool’s a and the Devil’ $ 
iT key-hole, on the fouth fide of Mendip- 
hills, is in the fall of thofe’ hills, which is befet all tains 
with rocks, and has near it a precipitate defcent of near 
net fathoms depth, at the bottom of which there con- 
tinually iffues from the rocks a confiderable current of water. 
‘The naked rocks above the entrance fhew themfelves about 
thirty fathoms high, and the whole afcent of the hill above 
is about a mil i 
om: 
ocks, and then preffing through the clefts of 
them, difcharges fel into the valley. 
3% cavern is’ well ftored — eels,~ and 
has fome trouts in it; and thefe cannot have come from 
Goat Nea. aoe 
In the Philofophical TranlaBions, Bs 48. p. 223. 
we —— an account of a fubt » OY caverns, 
near Weredale, about twenty miles fouth-welt. of New 
caflle, 
‘Elden-hole is a e Sagscta di es ae three 
miles from ei tag eigen! z3 al wonders sed 
uP on td pre a 
Pas 
drew... But he wight eaty aan 
