GUL 
ib the ifland of Funen.—Alfo, a towa of the duchy of Hol- 
ftein; 20 miles S.S.W. of Oldeburg. 
GULE a Augufl, the day of St. Peter ad vincula, which 
on the firft of Augutt. 
It is c 
day was termed only the calends of Auguit ; it was on this 
oceafion called indifferently either the day of St, Peter 
ad vincula, from what wreught the miracle; or the gule 
of Auguit, from that part of the virgin whereon it was 
wrought. - 
‘mame to the rofe. 
tice. 
In engraving, gules is exprefled by perpendicular ftrokes 
drawn from the top of the efcutcheon to the bottom ; it 
8 alfo marked with the letter G. , 
» This colour is reputed a fymbol of charity, valour, har- 
dinefs, generofity ; and reprefents EN cinnabar, 
true fearlet. It is the firlt of all colours ufed in ar- 
hited and is of that account, that-anciently it was prohi- 
‘bited any perfon to wear gules in his coat-armour, unlefs he 
Wete a prince, or had permiflion from the prince. iy 
Spelman, in his Afpilogia, f ; 
a pilogia, fays, that this colour was par- 
ticularl honoured by the Romig; as it ha before 
the roja : 
y 
es tee denominated ruffati. Joan. de Bado Aureo adds, 
Searlet 2 ain ‘ fe _ the Greeks call Phenician, and we 
ae . lie th R § is 
blood iffue from woun ri = omans, to prevent feeing the 
infight. _. : 
oe effedt, gules has always been efteemed an imperial co- 
: the superike were cloathed, fhod, and had their apart- latin 
tures, and feals, with red; their ediéts, difpatches, figna- 
ve r : . 
ULF, or Guten, in Geocraph 
thie: Hy craphy, an arm or part of, the 
bay “ohm up within the land, and forming a. capacious 
Pies word comes from the French go/fe, and that from 
- thete fare &Y% Which fignify the fame. Some deduce 
| From, en toe Greek xodwos 5 which Guichart again 
the Hebrew 383, gobs Du Cange derives them 
barbarous Latin gulfum or gulfus, which fignify the 
were of red ink and red wax, whence the 
cut 
of Sidra, near Barbary ; the gulf 
rence, -of California; the gulf of Bengal, and thofe of Co- 
chinchina and. Kamtfchatka. 
A gulf is ftrictly diftinguifhed from a fea, becaufe the - 
latter is larger ; from a day or finus it is again diftinguithed, 
by its being greater than the fame. 
ome will have it effential to a gulf, to run into the land 
through a itrait or narrow paflage. 
The fea is always moft dangerous near gulfs, becaufe of 
the currents being penned up by the fhores. 
ULF, or GuLPH, in Mining, is one of thofe numerous 
appellations in different places, for a fiffure or Fault, fee 
that article. Ground that is broken, foft and mixed, is faid 
to be gulfy. 
Gur, or Trough, is applied to the funk pieces of ftrata 
wholly funk, and gravel occupies the place of what would 
otherwife have been a deep chafm or. a lake, it is called a - 
gravel gulf. 
A remarkable fhale gulf occurs in the town of Bux- 
ton in Derbyfhire, extending from the brook fouthward, 
up to Dr. Buxton’s houfe; thefe faults, and the great one 
in which they terminate, that bounds all the great Derby- 
fhire limeftone tract, on the north-weft and fouth, clearly 
Another remark- 
fore the mine-foughs entirely diverted the courfes of the 
{prings in all this diftriat. more remarkable fhale gulf 
than either of the former, occurs on;the north of Dowal in 
artington, entirely furrounded by four lime-ftone hills of 
confiderable height, (fee feGion in Phil. Mag. plate 2. 
vol. xxxi.), having fhake-holes and fwallows around it, which 
clearly point out the line of fault, which furrounds this piece 
of fhale, with its inferior ftrata, about a mi long and a 
i depreffed, or {unk it, about 5 or 6co 
Dowal is one of the moft furprifing 
ape Flor 
to the ifle of Sables and the banks of Newfoundland, where , 
it turns off and runs through the Weftern iflands 5 thence to 
; f Africa, and that coat in a fouthern di- 
on. i 
winds produce a contrary effect. 
fed to be occafioned by the trade. winds, that’ 
are conilantly driving water to the weftward, which, 
being compreffed in the | ulf of Mexico, finds a paffage 
between Florida and the xaese iflands, and runs to t 
north-eaft along the American coaft. ‘This hypothelis is 
confirmed by another wns is faid, that the Matai Pe, 
£23 7 gu 
ftream is fup 
