GAD 
Dabbir, Afhtaroth, Jazer or Jahfor, Dibbon, Aroer, Beth- 
Haran, and Enon, the place where John baptized; whic 
laft was on the eaft bank of Jordan, between that and Salim, 
about — miles §. of Scythopo 
n Mining, an a inrument ufed to dig out the ore. 
It is a “a frill unch of iron with a long handle of wood. 
One of the miners holds this in his hand, directing the point 
to a proper place, while the iene ftriking it with a large 
fledge hammer, drive it into the -v 
The working by this aieaieden is thence called gadi 
G Rural Economy, atermu . to fignify a of ih 
a leathern thong applied to the en and which was 
formerly much employed in drivin aa teams. In fom 
cafes it had 1 jeente a prick ‘fixe din the oe end of it 
in ye to force the animals more aia in their oe 
Gap-jly, in Entomology. See Ors 
GADAMIS, or Guepemes, in Cao hy, acountry of 
Africa, W. of Fezzan and 100 leagues from the Mediter- 
ranean ;. it is faid to ee 92 villages. ae capital bears 
the fame name. ° 40’. EF, lon 
A, in ince Ce ography, a ‘oun of Paleftine e, in 
the half tribe of Manaffeh, on ao other fide of Jordan, 6o 
ftadia from the lake of Tiberi It was the capit tal of Perza, 
and regarded, oe © Po olybius, as = ftrongeit town 
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are painted with much life and humour eer Dr. Freind, do 
no great honour to the charaéter of the profeffion in that 
rthelefs, he came forwards an univerfal genius ; 
befides affuming the characters of rt philologit 
Pp e undertook every thing that lay within 
1 furgery. 1S experience 
ert in bon 
omnis 
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defign, if God would give him — 
treatife of chiromancy ;’ ” but to vr unfpecka grief, this 
excellent comment upon ee lng i de was a 
great dealer in fae and fome ad atin were the moft 
fecret of fecrets, and did mira on But his chief itre alia 
lay in receipts, and without giving himfelf much trouble 
forming a judgment oe the nature of the cafe, he 
feemed to think that, if he c mutter up a good number 
of thefe, he fhould be able to enn any dutemper. He 
feems to have neglected na ttratagems, by which he ao 
furprife and impofe on. the credulity of mankind, 
have been very artful in laying baits for the ae the 
ladies, and the rich (pro delicatis, pro ie raesaat pro. 
vitibus ). en he was employed in attending - ng 
fon, in the fmall-pox, in order to flew his call in oma 
or " 
bores 
ay 
U al 
1 importance, 
‘wrapped up in fearlet, and every re about the bed to be oo 
the fame colour. This, he Saye made him recover eel 
out fo much as leaving one mark in his om 
mends it for an excellent mode of curing. Nevercels this 
man was praifed by Leland, Ovaringius ; others, as a 
profound ae al a fkilful phyficiay, an ae brighteit 
man of his ag 
His sae a which he produced while refident at Mer- 
face; and h 
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- Afia, on the ews fide of the mouth of the riv 
haan 
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7 nelica, 
Anglica eee Libris diftinéta, de morbis pariclaribus 
de Febribus, de. Chirurgia, de Pharmace 
Freind obferves, that John feems to have ae a eolledion 
ime, b the common peo ople in . parts of Eng- 
land, both in the uperttition way. Dr. oe 
remarks that the method of padics Freth from falt water 
by f Sir maple di diftillation (* in an alembic with a gentle heat”) i 
fam: 
miliarly mentioned by this author, even at fo remote a 
period. 
Aliouah devoted to the practice of his profeffion, he 
was prebendary of St. Paul’s, in the ftall of Ealdland. It 
feems probable from this iar other —— that the 
curement of a fine n the ch asa method } 
which the great ene ald the fervices of their phy 
ciaxs. See Freind, Hilt hyfic, partii. Aikin, 
graph. Mem. of Med. p. 9g. 
A , TADDEO, an hiftorical painter, who flourifhed 
at a very early period of the reftoration of the art. He was 
orn at Florence in 1300, avd became a difciple of Giotto, 
‘Hs 
cea is the altar piece in the nah of Spirito Santo . 
Arezzo ;. where he painted in frefco the Cr fcifixion of ou 
Sayiour. He died of a fever in 1350. 
E, in Geography, a river of En ngland, which rifes 
in the north part ot Hertfordfhire, andruns into the Co In, 
near Rickmanfworth 
DE USCH, heat of Germany, in the duchy of 
Mecklenburg ; 16 miles W.N.W. of Schwerin. N. lat 
53°45. E.long. 1 14: | 
CADELONITIS, in Ancient Geography oa country of 
er Halys, ac- 
Str 
Nj in n Gograp by, a town of Auttria, 10 ‘niles 
S.W. of Vien 
SONI, in ih a lesa people of the Britifh 
ifland of Albion, according to ; 
oe to 
GADE 
Camden to have poffeffed Ftotdale. Tie , Mers, an 
the Lothians. It is, however, mors pe de they 
were a {mall pe inhabiting the more defert and a be 
tainous parts of otdale and Northumberland. ‘Bax 
imagines that their name was a ived from the Britifh word 
* Gada,” pe figni fies tof 
GADER aa GCeagraphyy atown of Hindooftan, in 
Guzerat ; md nagar 
GADER OWS ane ae a sown > EPndsonsys in 
the Fg heat 317 D miles $.S E. of Tan 
ADERSLEBEN, a towa a. Ces in the prin- 
dey of f Halberfiads ; 20 miles T.. of Halberftadt. 
GADES, in Ancient Geography, Cadia, a town of 
Spaia, at the mouth of one of the arms of the river Boctis, 
his town feems to a pee baal a e elec ment ae 
the Phoenicians, and t 
previoully 
