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GUA 
- GUANO adage ie Geigrephy, town of the ifland 
e Havannah 
of oer 8 miles S 
ANT eked ei “Peres in thie: bifhopric of Gua- 
man SS epiitl ‘of a jurifdiction of the fame name 3; 5 os es 
Guamanga. N. lat. 12° 30°. 
N.o _lon 
GUANTAJAYA, a town of Peru, in = pF bsetacs of 
Arica. In this intendancy, with its dependaney of Tacna, 
one mine of gold and twenty of filver were wrought in 
1791. the fame time no lefs a skies than nineteen of 
Guantajaya, or Huantajaya, in the a ated of Tac- 
na, is a recent difcovery. It is way See y fituated in a fandy 
lain, at a confiderable diftance fro untains ; and 
ie veins are faid to be fo eh Mis: ‘hey are cut 
ANAMO Bay, a bay on the S. seen of the 
ifland of Cuba. 
. long. 74°47 5 
GUANVACANA, a town of Pert, : in the. diocefe of 
3 E.S.E. of Guamanga. 
GUANUCO, or Huasuco, atown of Peru, and capi- 
tal of eee which SCE es wet miles N.E. 
uco ; the fir 
‘inthe broils of the Pizatfos and 
It was formerly a in hiee city, Aas is 
now, according to Alcedo, a mean village on the royal roa 
of the Incas, with ruins of a royal palace and temple of the 
and mild, the 
foil fertile, the fruits excellent, and the conferves teach 
efteemed at Lima church, three convents, and the 
“defeendants of the ee are funk into great poverty 5 
lat. 
ee of Lima. S. lat. 9’ 59’. W. long. 715° 
5 
Guaxuco River. See GUALAGA. 
sg 9 nag a river of Mexico, which runs into the 
Golfo Dolce at its mouth. 
GUAPERVA, in aie See a Arcua- 
S Lorsiod 7 
Guarerva is alfo — name of feveral “fpecies of Ba- 
: thus, the guaperva hiitrix of Willughby is the baliftes See 
aculeatus ; the guaperva peixe-porco © Marcgrave, &c. 
eva maxima caudata of Willughby and "Ray, 
caudam ftriata 
tes ens 3 rva Jata, 
atechty is he iites forci- 
GUAPURIUM, in Botany, from its Peruvian name 
a word too barbarous to be pes intoa regular 
fyftem of botany, and therefore, no doubt, one of thofe 
which Juffieu himfelf tells us in his pidacion'9 p- 24, note 
which they ot 
t he adopts only for a time, till the genera to w 
ertained. 
are finally afc ae och ame 24. seg and order, 
Gen, Ch ca Perianth pt Same Cor. 
Petals four. Filaments numerous ; anthers roundifh. 
bilicate 
«A forub ; the Leaves rincipal ches deciduous, 
Sf the ultimate ones oppofite, re gah age ees - 
? abruptly pinnate, {prin th pellucid $ 
Flowers in tufts cracked bark of the leaflefs 
prone The habit is that of a Pimia, but the germen 18 
bi faperior—Such is the account by 
ae et ad. She Ly et a dried {peci- 
| there is 
fo snc! hy is fo obfcure, en 
GU A’ 
tion of the drintion of the en, that it is impoffible 
fay whether this plant be of We tains genus or n & i 
Ay in Ornithology, the name of a Brafilian bird, 
called by Clufius numenius Indicus, or the Jndian curlew., 
See Tantaxus Ruber. 
Guana, in Ichthyology. See Scomper Cordyla. 
GUARACAPEMA, aname ufed by fome for the fifh 
more vend called the dorado. SeeCoryrnmna Equifelis. 
GUARACAYO, in a graphy, a town of S, America, 
in no ea of Quito ; 6», miles N.N.E. of Jaen. 
GUARACHIRI, a town. of Peru, and a tn of a 
jurifdiction i in the audience of Lima,¢ moun- 
tains, about fix leagues. FE. of Lima. ‘The alia in lower 
gr rounds are the only inhabited parts, and thefe, being very 
ertile, prodoce wheat, barley, maize, and other grain in 
ice. Its mountains have filver me ut yi 
of them si rb 50 miles E. of Lima. |S. lat. 1 
¢*. m0 long. 76° 1 
GUARANIA,a province of the viceroyalty of Buenos 
Ayres, ti called from the Guaranis, a tribe of Indian inha- 
bitants, who occupy about 30 villages, from the river Ta- 
biquari, in Paraguay, to the frontiers of Buenos Ayres, 
being men to the E. of the river Parana; the eaftern bor- 
ders of the Guaranis —— along Brazil, and on the W. 
they border on Para » Corrientes, and Santa Fé. As 
foon as a Guarano indian dies, his companions take up the 
ad corpfe, and throw it into the Oronoko, tied to a cord which 
they faften to a tree. Ou the following day they drag out 
the corpfe, when it is found to be a fkeleton, pitts clean 
and white, flripped of the fleth which has been devoured by 
. They then disjoint the bones, and lay them up cu- 
— in a bafket, which they hang from the roof of the 
ho 
BE a ia ot or WARRANTEE, in Lats a term 
ative to warrant, or warranter ; properly fignifying him 
whom the warranter undertakes to carte! 5 orf Slate from 
re pa 
GUARANTEE, is more frequently ufed for a warranter 
ora perfon who undertakes and obliges himfelf to fee a fe. 
cond perfon perform what he has itipulated to the third, 
ARRANTY. 
GUARANTHARA, in Geography, a river of the 
Brazil, ogre runs into the Atlantic, 5. lat. 7° 20". W. 
] 
“GC dina RANTY, in Politics, an mediato- 
ed ews th that 
rial or neutral fates, apa A Sp 3 
the articles of a particular be i nviolably obf erved. 
on both fi ns 
This engagement implies, that the guarantees are obliged 
to affitt the party invaded sone nn em treaty, againft the. 
injurious r3 Paw not if the war is occafioned an 
es nai tan n articles of iy | 
Puffendorf, Law rn Nature and in book viii. ch, 8, 
sig eee$ _ par not ee them 5. wn i 
te fe sco ake had likewitfe on : 
: a e an otis 
pest to Sen tat wie fa v8 ied bet si 
