‘was advanced in the ftate 
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nothing is knows but -he was counfellor- “ the eleCtor of 
Brandenburg, and burgomatter, or conful of Magdeburg ; 
he i is, however, better known and more diftinguifhed by his 
hical difcoveries than by the honours to which he 
To him we are indebted for the 
aed of the air-pump, ee honour of which has fome- 
given to Mr. Boyle, but this excellent man 
readily acknowledged that he was picts * to the experi- 
ments of Guericke for bein -s able to 
oO 
an inftrument to fhew the ttediind | in the fiate of the atmo- 
fphere, which anfwered the er, ti 
more perfect inftrument was executed. 
treatifes in experimental pe ones the geal | 
of which is entitled “ Experimenta | burgica,’’ 1672. 
t Hamburgh in the year 1 1686. 
GUERITE, in Fortification, a centry- 
? who is to take care of the ditch, and watch againft a 
_GUERKIN, or Guerkxry, a kind of cucumbers for 
of Cuba; 32 miles E 8 
Ph te RNSEY, an “fland war within. the bay of 
ae ti- 
ntonine it is nam a Pat which 
rope through the languages of Fats been derived Garnfay, 
yy and Guernfey. This ifland, y> 
ig continent, As part of the duchy of Normandy, the 
were ve at the conqueft, in the crown of En 
Parcel ef which 
nch for their rearee: 
a Sopot on the S. and S.W., 
ka a ete profpects of the ocean, Jerfey, and 
eres 
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conn afcents of a granite sat ftrata, raifed, as it een by 
ike a volcanic 
in fome degree, fubje 
face of the ifland is "diverfified Z na at hills aiid vallies, 
covered with numerous enclofures, and feparated by intri- 
cate roads, and watered with feyeral-{treams, which, collected, 
turn over-fhot mills. Agriculture, the conftant employment 
of the inhabitants of the igen is carried on with care 
achines, every rood of 
ground in Guernfey may be faid es maintain itgman. The 
feats. of the gentry, . and the farm houfes and hehe ee 
antry, and the & 
thofe of other remote on 
“here ave ten parifhes in the ‘tends thofe of the yale are 
feparated by a fandy flat, covered forme » at high water, 
pad many hours, and called the Bray, having the bay of 
t. Sampfon, and another, called Grand Havrey at each _ 
extremity, where enbankments have been cait up, an under- 
ee of the prefent lieutenant-governor’s, which promifes 
to bring’ a contiderable tra¢t into cultivation. The @ 
of this ifland differs little from that of the weftern parts of 
glan fruits are generally very fine. Pigs are 
conitantly fed, during winter, with par raga Butter, pork, 
and veal, are in the hizheit puatentiens and the feas produ¢e 
an aoe fupply of fifh. 
the ~~ produdtions e found the fea-ear, 
a delicacy ; the beautiful thells of 
The ap 
by the fifhermen ; it has the peculiar property of beling she 
water through the whole length of its body at each re- 
fpiration, which it projects in one or two ns fr 
tail, and the protuberances at the fides are furnifhed with 
briitles inftead of feet. It is extremely tenacious of life ; 
and, on account of the changeable colours of the down with 
which it is covered, hi its epersppoick! habits, is intereft- 
ing and beau are alfo to be adhering to 
the rocks when the a is out, various fpecies of animal 
Thefe creatures, befides their 
as Pate 
remaining aflemblages of gate there 
Druids’ altars, by us anne pe 
Saeko. 
Ly 
; 
sa: Goneatey taker sho Fhe old Gothic inha 
ee ; Nz 
