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canal was made from this town to New Brifac on the’ Rhine, 
by order of Lewis X 
"QUE DRIER, DE Sr. Avusix, Henry-Micnmaer, in 
Biography, was born in the diocefe of Rouen in the year 
1695. He urfued his maturer ftudies at Paris, and was ad- 
mitted a member of the Sorbonne in the year 1723. 
1736 he was chofen librarian, and obtained 
preferment. He was very learn ed in the 
— languages, and was deeply {killed in a anid mo- 
He was held in high efteem, and for many years was 
cobfalled asa refolver of difficult cafes of vchitoed: He 
died in "yee oat. behind, as a memorial of his profound 
talents, red Hittory of the Two: Covenants,” 
which had ra publithed the year before his death, in feven 
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volumes, 12mo. This work is faid to be a good exhibition 
of the harmony of the Old and New Teftament hiftories, 
ith differtations, criticifms, and reflections. 
dw ns 
G EGUETENANGO, in Geography, a town of Mex- 
‘ico, in the province of Chiapa ; ; 120 miles S.E. of Chiapa. N. 
lat. 16° 20, W. long. 16.—Alfo, a river that runs into 
the Pacific ocean, N. lat. 15? 25’. W. long. 94° 37/. 
GUEGETLAN, a town of Mexico, the Gye of Soco- 
nufco, 
GUELDE RLAND, Ducuy of, formeely a province of 
the Netherlands, bounded on the N. by Overyffel, and the 
the bifhopric of Munfter and the 
eS. by the duchy of Juliers and 
n the department of 
hief place ofa canton in the diftri of Cleves. 
It is advantageoufly aie ae marfhes on the 
Niers, whofe waters fill the it was formerly fo 
ftrongly fortified as hard! ily tobe calieis; eacebe ee famine. 
In the 179 it was t ei ‘bythe Fieich, ant ak-the 
pachog® oop ceded to that country ; 72 miles S.E. of 
ees in 14 commun 
— 1556, and the canton 13,554 
= - Jat. 51° 31’. E. long. 3» 
* GUELPHS, or GuELrs, a celebrated faction in Italy, 
te Ge of the Gibelins. 
uelphs and ema. kept Germany and Italy in 
tation during three centuries. former 
oie he pretenfions of the 
is oe faid to have been foraed 
i < ng occafion ; the ad 
Conrad iit. tem ken ds doe of Bavaria from 7 
e of Bavaria ; Welfe, sifted by i 
Conrad, 
Guelfe, lived at Piftoye ; adding, that his 
brother, named Gibel, ee eee $; under 
which head the reader will find a more ar account 
origin and hiftory of thofe celebrated £ 
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afterwards other and 
and a 
river int 
ween Gregory a: 
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-GUELTAS, in Geography, a {mall ons in the Englith 
oe annel, bg the coatt of France. N, lat. 48° 51. “W, 
oig. 
SUEMENP), a town of France, i 
in the department of 
the Lower Loire, and chief 
lace of a canton, in the diftrid 
of grees ; 9miles N. of Blain. The place contains 3585, 
the canton 7300 inhabitants, on a terrr itory of 240 
kiliometres, in 5 co —Alfo, a town o France, in 
the department of Mo rbihan, and chief place of a canton, 
in the diftri& of Pontivy. The place contains 1 32 539 
the canton 14,667 inhabitants, on a territory of 297! kilio- 
metres, in g communes, 
GUEPARD, in Zoology, 
the Fetts jubata ; 3 which fee 
GUEPIER, in Ornithlegy 
the Meners apiafter ; which fee 
GUER, in reography, at 
ment of Morbihan, and 
diftri& of Ploermel, a 
the name given by Buffon to . 
the name ae by Buffon to 
oO} 
The place 
on a ter- 
n § communes.—. a river of 
Fade which runs 2a ‘& Englith channel, N. lat. 48° 
45. W. long. 3° 28', 
ep practi La: a town of France, in the department of 
the Loire, and chief place of a canton, in t 
diftri& "OF Savenay ; 36 miles W. of” antes. 
place contains 7222, 
a “'GUERCH iw? kiliometres, in 6 communes. 
ee contains 
on a territory 0} 
a town of France, 
bd chief place of 
; 9 miles S. of Vi 
a territory of oe oie in 
47° $7’. 
GUERCINO a Chee 
II communes. 
in Biography. See Bar- 
"GUERET, Gasrirt, a lawyer and man of letters, wa 
born at Paris in 1641, admitted an advocate in tale 
ment before he was was twenty years of age. He was diftin- 
guifhed at a much earlier 
of which the 
du But the works 
on which his literary ‘los is chiefly founded, are en- 
A “Te Brig and its nie be La rat 
Parlement,’’ ; 
nt of the in an a town of France, in the 
ment 
"Heme re eM phat ata 
“e i — year 1602 om Te 
