GUA 
ten by Metaftafio, and fet by Jomelli, in _ among 
many other admirable compofitions, Guarducci had an air of 
fapplicatton, through which were heard Phelbs cries of the bso 
ft for peace and bread, ina diftant chorus, fung extremely 
; this was juftly admired for its new and fine effect. 
after he had quitted this country, when we called 
ona him in 1770, at 1 apeapowrg in the way to Rome, 
he had built himfelf a very niles: fitted it up in 
the Englith manner, with ood ae. He had previoufly pur- 
chafed a winter houfe in Tnenie. and built this at Monte- 
fiafcone, the place of his birth, to retire to in fummer, and 
to receive his mother, and his brothers and fifters ; it is 
fpeét of the country, as far as Aquapendente, and a grea 
terbo, and the c leading to 
He faid, the et had “ia quel the sig ies and intended 
finging no, more § in public s would have a lofs to his 
country ; as we found that ie was then allowed by the Italians 
the firl ‘place among all the fingers of that period; and at 
Rome, they continued to {peak of his ‘abet oes in Pic- 
_ cim’s “ Didone Abbandonata’’ with ra 
But ci this ed Abby ste and worthy 
man, a r he had retreated age, and imagined 
who, becoming a bankrupt, left him without a ducat to Bais 
on his eftablifhment for his family or his own fupport ! 
relate this melancholy {tory as si labour beacon to future great 
perf 
Pa 
theatrical 
acquired and ac 
fafhion, -and sitivabtiek 
"GUAREA, j in Sh a barbarous word, from Guar. 
tree by the inhabitants of Cube 
Willd. 
Lamarck. Illuftr.. t: 3or.—Clafs 
» Odandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Trihilate, Linn. 
erianth inferior, of one leaf, in four 
etals 
i the 
neCtary. Pif. n globofe, ftanding on a cylindrical 
receptacle, crowned with a glandular~border ; ftyle thread 
fhaped, prominent; ftigma capitate, depreffed, undivided. 
Peric. Capfule globofe, umbilicated, with four furrows from 
centre, of four cells, and four thick hard Seeds 
folitary, oblong, ed with a {carlet arillus. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx four-cleft. Pet Net 
al, — the gre on its ar 
by Linus a the fg on of F. All a furgeon 
travelled i ve se Americ isd eas ise 
‘eae him man feriptions, wit mens, o! 
This getters Sia hew to he late’ profeltor Allemand cit 
of een. See ALEAMANDA, 
GUA 
.G; frichilinader. Linn. Mant. 228. Cavan. Diff, 366% 
t. ails Swartz. Obf. 146. (Trichilia Guara; Linn. § 
Pl. 551, excluding Browne's fynonym. Me ‘lia Guha: ; 
Jacq. Amer. 126. t. 176. f.°37. Eleutheria arborea ; 
Browne Bt 369. Lauro affinis arbor, &c. eygator 
or Mufk ; Sloane Jam. v. 2. 24. t. 170. f. 1 ui- 
— nucis de Scplendts foliis major ; ; Plum. Ic. 139, peg f 
e fyn are t. 147. 3 Pis. Bras. 79. t 
a phisy th e only known feceieti 4 is a tree of praderar’. ~ 
rowing in Brazil, Jamaica, and other parts of the 
Yahed. e bark and wood, as well as parts of the 
plant, are faid to fmell Rrongly of mufk, and the wood 
abounds with a bitter refiny which, as well as its mufky 
flavour, renders it totally unfit for making rum cafks.. The 
leaves ave large and handfome, abruptly shh compofed: 
of three or four pair of elli ptical, pointed, entire, {mooth 
leaflets. Flowers whitifh, in axillary branched clufters, often 
a — ng. Capfule nearly globular, bigger than a hazel 
Dif fays the bark of the root is an active and dangerous 
purge, and Browne, that the powder of the bark in generak 
is uled by the i aX of Jamaica as an emetic. 
« GUARGA, in Geography, a river of Africa, in the king- 
dom of = w hich? i into the Seba; 30 miles E.N.E. 0 
ahmo 
GUARIBA, in Zoology. See Sita Beelzebul. 
GUARICO, otherwile called Cape Francots, in Gre- 
graphy, a town that lies on the N. W. fide of the ifland 
St. Domingo, im N. lat. 19° 45’ 48", and 7 
the meridian of Paris, according to the Sets of Don 
George Juan, taken on the The town is about one- 
third of a league in length, and contains between 13 and 15 
hundred inhabitants, i, i are a mixture of Europeans, white 
creoles, negroes, mulattoes and cafts ; the latter being the: 
Since a dreadful fire, which deftroyed the 
town, the houfes, which were conttruéted of wood, are now 
built of ftone, and in general they have only a ground floor. 
The town contains, efides a.parith church, a college of 
Jefuits, a nunnery of Urfulines, a convent, and a {pacious 
hofpital. The adjacent country is well cultivated, and laid 
out in plantations of fugar, indigo, tobacco, and coffee. 
trade carried on from this port was formerly = 
3 
and -dyfenteries. e a shang open to the E. and 
. is very fecure, ions inclofed by a ridge of rocks, which 
fence it againit the ee of the fea. 
GU RIN 
the year ee 
me joined t 
. pi amber ee 
bour on the co a of « A He- 
ifhed pests his death, 1 in two 
AS titled « Lexicon Hebraicum Pic aaty which 
¢c. Guarin epoplerel that of it w 
hes to the end of the letter rg remain 
Gates On SEM Le tg and othace 3 belonging to the con- 
St. 
ays in Ps 
La Paz; 
Erol a toven of Per, inthe dice of 
60 miles N. N. W. of La Paz. 
, Was born at Ferrara 
educated i arate gt in ae native. 
yo or ears the pro- 
of belles lettres, — “Ate age a tity he entered into 
