® 
ek Y° 
the canton of are: on the Linth, where it at gi itfelf 
into the lake of Zurich, with a harbour for boa 
PHITES, a name given by Luid to a "Apis of 
foffil bivalve fhells, which are referred by = to ano- 
wm, and by haa ilite to oftrea. ve obtained the 
hites from a fuppefed aketobinee to the bill of 
‘fabulous bird ; but may, perhaps, be more aptly compar- — 
ed to an ancient bark with high and. curved ftern. 
sae de 
The 
bis 
and great numbers of them have been perforated part- 
be or ree’ through, appar =r by fome enbe phi the 
ag. vol. XXX 
was found in 
tag the itrata of Hae near Bath 3a figure 
of this fhell is given in Walcott’s « Petrifaétions found 
near Bath,” jig. 34, pages 25 and 51. 
"4th. In blue clay at Cheltenham, with belemnites : which 
perhaps may, however, be alluvial or move i 
P Chellart Siok Derby, are 
covered ya contiderable thicknefs oF alluvial clay, among 
many hites, apparent] 
from the clunch clay, are found ; and 1 So abtlefs fe fr ol 
* tha men oS ae the late Mr. William 
2 mén yp. 1 the fyftematic arrangement at the 
end of his ¢ spars eee vel. i, a me not from 
oe of on a be flrata. 
In stee Chriftan became profellor of 
‘Gomrte at Breflau, and was made, in 1686, principal 
ee of —— Ma — polleiret in the fame city, and 
- He was a man of extenfive erudition, 
was very lentrwed in the modern and ancient languages. 
died in 1705, having, juft before he expired, caufed to be 
in his chamber, piece of poetry is’ Own, 
to baile, « expreflive of the confolation received b the 
dying, from meditating on the dea 
author of s in 
Lan ertati 
oriam Seculi xvii. Shalbrentiie 3 
_{Sneeaies, Siteaemas, a learn inter, was a native 
9)- : 
: of 
N. Jat aa” te, 
fle 
adow. 
fiers who inceffantly beet He dene »* Day ns Night 
both which words are feminine in the Greek. hi 
turn on the refemblance of names; e.g. “ What ‘1s that 
which is at once found on the earth, in the fea, and in the 
heavens ?’? The dog, the et cad the ~ The names of 
thefe animals have been civ conftell ations. 
Others were formed by a slay ail on hetfdhs: fy lables, or words. 
‘Travels of Anacharfis, vol. vii. p. 116, 8vo 
GRYPO' SIS, an incurvation of the sails? _ The word is 
derived from | yeuTron, to incurvate. 
GRYS, in Coogr apy a river of Fari§' try which runs 
into lake Erie. 1°'45'. “W. lon "2". 
RYSINGA RDE’ atown of Nanay: in the diocefe 
of Drontheim ; 76 miles 8. a of Drontheim. 
GRYSON, a new cou of Virginia, ae from 
Montgomery, which nile it on the x Tt has the teste 
of N. Carolina S., of Henry and Wythe satin on the 
E. and W. 
GRYTSKAR, a fmall ifland on the FE.’ fide of the 
gulf of a N. lat. 62° 33'. E. long. 20° 
G-SOL -UT, the name of the cighth note, Anche to 
heed in the fceale of Guido. See Gammut, ScaLe, 
uIDO. 
GSUVIE, atownof Arabia Felix; 16 miles S. of Lo- 
ela. 
GUA, atown of the ifland of Cuba; 36 miles S.W. 
of Bayamo. 
A Suba, a river of rte which runs into the bay. 
A, a town Pere South ane Bie in the province of 
Paster 3°70 miles N_N.E. of 
GUACAGUACY, in Ornithology, the Brafilian name 
of a bird of the larus, or gull ki ind, the Laru s hibernus 3 
which fee. 
Eck ate in Geography, a town of Mexico 5 7° 
miles E.S.E. of Guatimala.—Alfo, a river ee Mexico, i in 
Nicaragua, which int “the Pacific ocea 
GUACARA, a a of S. Asset in the province 
of Caraccas ; 65 miles SW. of Leon de Caraccas. 
GUACARI, in Tebbyolgy See Loricaria Plecofte- 
ACATARA, in Geography, a town ot S. Ame 
ed GU merica, 
re pectttingen, in cpries but he Gincclfed his profe: “ffion at inthe province of Taeuin man, chiefly inhabited by Indians, 
‘¥ons, an.t obtained t reputation for the beauty and ac- under the os of an Indian magiftrate ; 50 mifes N. 
acy of his works. He was very converfant in the learned of St. Salvador de Ju 
pigtages, and employed men of eruditi rs. © GUACHIAYACE Us Wtown of a mae in the 
hist Scaliger, and Conrad Gefner thought highly of audience of Quito; 60 miles E.S.E. of Macas. 
alents, Sat of his fineft works is a Latin bible, in two - GUACHO, a na of ae 1, in the 0 audience of 
in ¥ lar d in Lima, Sittween the ifland of St. Martin an 
*556> at the age of about ‘ixty nee ny ; GUACHUCO, a town 1 of New Mezco, in Nw Na- 
seers 2, a name of a vase varre 
frame deferibed| by Ambrele Pare, and ufed for ex _GUACOCINGA, a towt of Mexico, in the provin 
Y uterus. 
by fa PHUS, in Savy ia _ of crooked pincers ufed 
stl ee or'Griphut, is alo a ‘kind of enigma, or an’ 
given 
defcription of 
-_ The word ve Qestignifies a ne net,andacco 
ae a enigmatic 
rdingly nil tapeigl 
ical gueftions which were dd races, 5 
_—! about 605 inhabitants, de i 
t 100 are 
GuacorirLs OTITLAN, a town of Mexico, i in i New Bifeay ; ; 
S. of Parral 
GUACUCUIA, in Ichthyol ay the name of a ver x 
‘ +d 
remarkable Bratilian  fith, called by fome the 
aguaticus, or water-bat. See Lopnius w,, neville 
= Ke re SD AONI: 
