GAB 
el in the fame ae is cee ut, or G fol-re It 
alled wf, or e firft note of the ie evar rd. 
(se TInXACUORD. cs i is called fo, as sth of the natural 
hexachord of C ; and re, as the 2d of the molle flere 
of F. G gives a name to the clef in which almoft 
treble parts are written for inftruments ; as the violin, flute, 
clarinct, and hautbdis: it is called by the Italians chiave di 
4 
violine, and is placed on the fecond line thus: — 
Di uring the 17th century, and part of the laft, the oo 
placed this clef on the firft line, and ufed no other treble 
clef ; whence it was called the French cle emimiani, in 
his bet book of folos, has ufed it, to fave leger lines, in very 
hig rh pa ar 
"The key of G, with a minor or flat thicd, is called by 
the serial G molle. 
A-BOAT, in Engineer -y, is the name of a fort of veffels 
which navigate the Clyde river. 
A , in sole Geography, a town of Afia, in 
Ptolem 
E, in Canaply a town of Norway, in the 
diocefe of Agger huus; 56 miles N.W. of Chriftiania, 
GABA,i 
Coelefyria. 
GAAR 
in Ancient a) » a town of Paleftine, in the - 
ribe of Benjami . Jofh. x QO, a ae ie Judea, 
in the tribe of 7 abulon ; Gigstes ae according to reese at 
iemel, between = Polen ais a Cefare 
NIA, a country of Afia, in Ces, 
- fituated at the foot of mount Taurus, and adapted merely to 
aa 
AF,a ey of a fituated between the Maf- 
fagete and Sogdiar Arr 
A A, a mee of Phonicia, fituated 18 miles from 
Laodicea, on the fea-coaft, at ate > mount Cafius.— 
Allo, an epifcopal town of Afia, 
GABALA, In eae a nen - Arabia Felix; 64 
miles N. me ae 
LECA, + in rusinias Geography, a town of Hil- 
pania rierragonentie, at e diftance from the fea, in the 
country of the Varduli. Sele ny 
E, a Mediterranean town of Med Ptol. 
GABALE, in a rythology, a ley wor hppa re caer 
under the figure of a lion, with a radiant he is 
thus repre feted on many els of ( Cameallne 
TAB or GABALLI, in Ancient ia » a people 
of Gaul, who vhelonge d to Aquitania Prima 
GA A, one of ae rape ed a towns of Galilee ; ;: 
. the other two were Sephoris and Tib 
,ARDINE, ae ‘he Taliaa: pcunita. has been 
. fometimes ufed to denote a coarfe frock, or mean drefs. In 
this fenfe it is ufed by Shakfpeare in his Tempelt oe Mer- 
chant of Venice, and by Butler in his Hudibras, boo 
ABARON, in pag tina a ay on the S. W. of bone 
burg, on the ifland o 
GABARRET, a eee 7 ae in the department of 
he idee and eae place of a canton, in the diftric&t a 
s 
e place contains 605, and t Seni 
7882 inhabitants, on a territory of 480 Sine, in 19 
communes. 
GABASALKYI, a town of Ruffia, in the 
Viborg, or Wiburgh; 36 miles N. - Serdopo 
ABBARA, a name which the Egyptians gave aed 
— bodies which they kept by in inftead of burying 
the 
“s 
5 ia of 
Th at people, out of a cuftom which they had received 
from their anceltors, and which arofe, in fome meafure, 
GAB 
from the pofition of their country, ae is geeneg to the 
aaa of the ile, ufed ie Wrap up the 
houfes: 
aa ur. ee as and’ Mummy.) And 
t. Augultine tells s 
aa cxx. de dive a 
makes mention of the fame thing, lib. vii. cap. 16.. 
jie he relates, that in the time of ha a gabbara 
was brought from Arabia, almott ten feet lox 
The word is Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrey, formed of 
_ §, gaber, a man, and denctes an embalmed bod 
ABBIANI, Axtoxto Dominico, in Bio iogr a a 
F 
alee of hiftory and portraits, born at Florence in 1652 
thefe, 
were what they calied gabbaras. 
cap. 12 
oO s. 
are not i 
etter period. His mek fame 
oftello, — was never co 
chumacher of Co iain who ae the above na 
to it, derived from its ance in point of colour and 
fracture to fome varieties a: the ferpentine rocks, called 
I 
ts colour’is blueith or greenifh-grey, as aig to 
leek-green, and alfo greyiih mountain gree It has 
found maifive an diffeminated. | faintly plrmmeeang. 
or dull; not greafy to the a Fracture clofe, even, or 
flat conchoidal, a {plintery, in ve manner of horn- 
fton rag ric sade angular, with pretty 
tharp and eee tranflucent e 
It gives no fparks with eh and though it feratches 
glals, is likewile feratched by this la atter, and by the knife. 
it is not eafily frangible : when triturated it yields a white 
powder. Specific gravity 2.947. 
Before the blow-pipe it a lofes its colour and 
ira mes white: and farther urged by the heat of the flame, 
t fufes without ebullition a aw ie opaque or faintly 
eles pearl. With borax it dd a clear but rather 
veficular pearl. 
e blueith-grey Niue which is found in the Kenlig 
mine at Arendal in Nor 
fcaly lime-ftone hat of greyifh mountain green colour 
ccurs at F in Norway, diffeminated in a 
compofed of common prions common and labrador feld- 
a ath. accompanied by fpe ecular iron and 
t 
This fubftance, not being analyfed, its nature'is not’ yet 
exactly known. Some mineralogilts fufpe€ it to be nearly 
a to that kind of meagre nephrite, called feld/path tenace 
"GABBULA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, 
in 
