- 2 
€ up 
s judges, 
and obfcurity, till the breaking out 
Under th 
Cefar and P as y: e — ea e ca- 
pacity of lieutenant, and marching through Hlyricum, he 
acity 
was defeat 
and compelled to take refuge in Salona. 
furvive this difafter. — Hi ft. 
ed a great lofs by the people “of the province, 
He did not “ 
nine or 
Inte 
e appr roaches under 
cover, when they come pretty near the fortification 
They are commonly ufed in batteries to f{creen ‘the engi- 
neers, &c. in order to which one is placed on either fide each 
gun, only leaving room tor the muzzie to appear 
through. 
There is alfo a {maller fort of ae, about one foot 
n diameter at the top, and from eight 
e 
ver the mutketcers 5 3 being placed fo clofe as that a muf- 
ket can but juft peep through. 
They alfo ferve as a parapet on a lodgments, &c. 
where the ground proves too hard to dig into. 
and as much 
n trenches, - to cove them 
See Manri 
render the gabions “aelete, ea Eee to fet 
faa on fire, by throwing a faggots para! them 
GABISE, in Geography, atown of Afia eee in 
ot Conftantinople 
a vertical tria si sa plane 
Natolia 3 28 on es 5.1. 
v ArchiteGure, 18 
GABLE, 
wall, Sealy peed ga e@ the flank walls, and terminat- 
ing an end of the roof, which either covers the one. 
the coping of the eal e runs parallel to the plane of the a 
covers the ends of the flating or covermg. ‘The differ: 
ence between a gable sea pediment is this; a gable has no 
cornice, but a pediment is furrcunded with cornices, one of 
which is horizontal, and the other two equally inclined to it. 
See PEDIMENT. 
GABLE Land See Lanp-gabh 
Gasie Lad Feredand, in Cao Wy a. cape 
coat of the nee ifland of New Caan in “the South 
Pacific ocean. lat. 38° 15°. 
GABLENZ, a townof en in the circle of Erz- 
geburg; 6 miles N.N.W. of Zwickan. 
GABL CK, in Mining; is a large i iron crow or os 
™ {cea ier iailing large fones in a mine or quarry. 
inc of ee ee @orliapen of fire. 
GAB 
Coa hg artificial {purs of a game-cock. 
ABON, in Geography, a river of Africa, which rons 
into Othe Atlantic, near Cape St. Clara name to 
a yarey) oe which it pales, 
OONG, a {imall ifland in the Eaft Indian mae near 
° 9’. 
ay and gives 
the ce = coait the ifland of Palawan. N. lat 
E. long. 117° 2 
GABORY, a om on the S.E. coat of Cape Breton 
ifland; its entra ance is not more than 20 | 
ay, which is two leagues 
deep, affords good anchorage. 
ABOU, a country of Africa, between 
Benia and Da homy, ene 150 miles from the coaft; the 
chief trade confifts in flav 
ANTUICI, aa of; in Ancient G ee is 
Burlington bay, on ihe coait of Yorkfhire. 
RES, or Gavres, a ae feét in "Peri and 
India; called alfo Gebres, Gevres, ee Maar 
e Turks call the Chriftians Gabres, q. d. infidels, or 
epi of a f rather, as Leunclavius ob- 
ferves, Heathens, abre, among 
the Turks, having the ie Genii. as. Pagan, or Inh- 
‘del, among the Chriftians ; and denoting any thing not Ma- 
homet tan. 
In Perfia the word has a more peculiar ei iecranaea, 
bleh : is applied to a ee pan sau through the c 
an e the rem the ancient ae a or as 
See Fire, 
everla 
T i entertain the mott profound veneration for this a 
cient philofopher, whom they confider as the great prophet 
fent by God to communicate his law, and to initru& them in 
his v vill 
They have a fuburb at Ifpahan, which is called Gaurabad, 
or the town of the Gaurs, _— they are maar in ra 
meaneft and vileft drudgery : e of them are difper 
through other parts of Perfia ; be they principally seouad 
in Kerman, the moft barren province in the whole country, 
where the Mahometans allow ae oe and the exer 
cife of their religion. Several of t 
0 
ombay. They are a poor, ignorant, inofhenfive ns 
extremely feat con and zealous for their rites, rigorous 
in their morals, and honeft in their cat 8. They profefs 
to believe a refurre€tion and a future judgment, and to wor- 
fhip only one God. And though they perform their wor- 
fhip before fire, oS dire& their padbaie on a the rifing 
un, for whic ve an extraordinary veneration, yet 
they ftrenuoufly mes that they wor ene nthe, but that 
noft expreffive of the Dei 
thefe are the moft expre fy pe 
this reafon ee turn towar 
vices. See Thevenot’s and ooo Voyages, and 
Hyde’s Rel. Vet. Perf. cap. 
owever, fome have ipl that thefe are Perfians 
converted to Chriftianity, who, being afterwards left to 
themfelves, mingled their anci ient fuperititions with the 
truths and praéticcs of aren and fo formed for them. 
felves a réligion apart: and they allege that, throughout 
r 
difcern the marks and traces of Chriftianity, though grie~ 
voully defaced; the annunciation, the magi, the maifacre of 
the infants, our Saviour’s miracles, his perfecutions, afcen- 
fion, &c. 
BRI, in Aacient Geography a people of Sarmatia, 
near the Palus-Mzotides. -Pliny 
GABRIEL, 
