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Cod, 
Skilful navigators, 
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inftance of this kind; which originating in a body of pent-u 
waters, in the gulf of Mexico, is difc arged with fuch velo- 
‘city through .the ftraits of Bahama, that its motion is 
traceable through the Atlantic, to the banks of Newfound- 
land; and may po In a fimilar 
y W. from 
and Iceland. 
efca giick enough, by the ftrait of Dover, to allow of: 
the level bei f 
ai 
Pp from which 
it a acquires a higher level, fo, in a place where 
it ¢ De, fame. operation S a current; and 
v motion, or, in 
according to the height at which it is kept up 
I 1 further o 
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S 
we 
the courfe of ages, and withit the level of t i- 
terranean alfo ; fince the floor of the cathedral at Ravenna is 
now feveral f er with ré i 
ed to have been formerly, and fome tteps have been found ' 
it the rock of Malta, appa 
which are at prefent 
of this 
en 
lin in 1768, 
r. Thi 
which it runs; which mutt” 
; S.E: of Kanja 
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Is.° Newfoundland, near 
GUL 
W. of the gulf of 
and run down the gulf of Florida. (Phil. T 
P- 335+) Governor Pownal has given an elegant ma 
great eddy muft be pro 
in the Atlantic ocean between this gulf ftream and the 
welterly current produced by the tropical winds, and in this. 
eddy are found the immenfe fields of floating vegetables, 
the continent. 
Gutr, in Rural Economy, aterm provincially applied to. 
a mow, or bay-fullin a barn. : 
Gutr Stead, the name provincially ufed to a bay or divi-. 
fion of a barn, It is fometimes written goafsted and gaf~ 
tead. : 
GULFAR, ‘in Geography, a town of Portugal, in the 
ee 
| province of Beira; 13 miles N.E of Vifeu 
GULISTANI, a town of Perfian Armenia; 25 miles: 
GULKIRAS, a: town of Afatic ‘Tur ey, in the go- 
vernment of Sivas; 22 miles from Amafich. oA 
GULL, in Ornithology. See Larus. 
LL Land, in Geography, a {mall ifland on the coat of 
cape St. John.—Alfo, a fmall ifland. 
near the coatt North Carolina, in Pamlico found. 
N. lat. 35° 28. W. long. 76° > ae se 
GULLABGUNGE, a town of Hindooftan, ‘in the. 
circar of Bilfah; 15 miles N. of Bilfah. - 
GULLAPALOOR, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Rajamundry ; 30 miles’N.E. of Rajamundry. 
GULLARY, a town of Hindoottan, in Vifiapour ; 16: 
miles N.W. of Baddammy. : 
GULLET. See Gsopmacus. ofa 
GULLIES, in Geology, is aterm applied to the narrow; 
deep, and: fmall vallies tormed or deepened by torrents of - 
water on the higher parts of the ikirts of mountains. (Kir- 
wan cz 81.) Sometimes fuch are called. 
dingles, dumbles, ravines, &c. e gullies frequently pre-- 
fent ve opportunities fer examining the itratifi- 
mixture, which the matters difplaced by the waters from the: 
gullies hav ergone, ‘and the diftances to which they have 
o wards : much interefting information on 
which lubjeét, will be found in M. De Luc’s Elementary. 
Treatife on Geology, page goto 107, i 
Guus, 
