GAH 
GAGNET, a town of Sweden, in Dalecarlia; 15 miles 
S. W. of Fahlua 
A ; Touy, in Biography, born and educated 
at Paris, was a diligent ftudent in the Hebrew and Arabic 
languages, in which - became a great adept. He was 
brought up in the Catholic faith, and when his fentiments 
chan ged in this refpeét, he left France and came to Eng- 
land, “where he foon acquired the friendfhip of many able and 
very learned aa among whom were archbifhop Sha 
clesfi raduated at Cam- 
bridge, and likewrife at Oxford, where he fixed his refidence 
for the fake of eonfulting the Bodleian ae ee and he fup- 
ported himfelf by teaching Hebrew. e publifhed, in 
1706, Jofeph Ben Gorion’s Hiftory of the Jews, in the ori- 
ginal Hebrew, ti a Latin tranflation and notes, in a 
quarto volume. 1717 he was tar slae to read the Ara- 
bic lecture at Oxford > the maa of Dr. Wallis, and upon 
his ety Rib chofen orthip in ee iad. which 
office with ne reputation tillhis death. He pub- 
lifhed es eens orks re{fpecting the phoey of Maho- 
met: thefe are, “ Ifmael Abulfeda de vita et rebus geltis 
Mohammedis, &c. Latine vertit, Prefatione et notis iluftra- 
vit Joh. Gagnier:’’ and “ La Vie de Mahomet, traduite et 
compilée de l’Alcoran, des Traditions anthentiques de la 
Sonna, et des meilleurs Auteurs Arabes 3 vols. 12mo. 
reheat bein in Ichthyology,a name given by the Spani- 
ards to a {peci sien acus, Or Pee nathus of Artedi. The 
sada Serene ant by it, is that called by A 
exagonal bodied Gara ent the pinnated tail; others 
call it the acus Ariftotelis, or acus fecunda, a hie French 
the trompette ; we call it fometimes the needle-fifh, fome- 
— the-trumpet-fifth, and fometimes the tobacco-pipe fifh. 
SYNGNA THUS. 
O, in Geography, a kingdom of Africa, with a town 
of the fame name, in oe Oo and: ertile and iden Se in 
corn, rice, and min at. I. long. 
RA, ariver of Hindooftan, w ne ot in the lofty 
weltern inouneate of Thibet, and after a courfe of between 
600 and 700 miles, nearly parallel on the eaft with that of 
the Ganges, pervading the province of ae flows into 
the Ganges near Chupra: it is now called S 
SUIMPAR, a town of Tindoattan | ‘ Coleone: ; 
15 miles W. S. W. of Hydrabad. 
IN, JLOBERT, 1 Biogr aphy » was born at oo 
in the diocefe of Amiens. He ft aad. ae Paris, took the de- 
gree of doctor of laws, and was foon after made ae feffor of 
canon law. In 1473, he was elected ened of the order of 
. in Italy, ene and England. 
e year I5o1 e was confidered one of the be 
iiuc of his age, yet his flyle is defe€tive in purity and ele- 
. e was author of many 8: t 
aaa are, I. 
Pharamundo ufque ad annum 
of Archbifhop ae tranflated from Latin into French 
by command - Charles VIII.”’ 3. “ Epiftole et Ora- 
tiones.”? 4. § © Puriate Conceptionis Virginis Marie.”’ 
He is tid to have an a French tranflation of ‘Czfar’s 
Commentarics. 
GA L, in Geography, 3 a river of ee which 
runs into the Danube ; eight s E. of Ren 
G LA, in Botany, a name given by ne writers to 
the colocafia, or great Egyptian ar 
AN, in ae ne a ows of Algiers; 60 
miles W.S. W. of Tub 
: or tne 
Compendium fuper Francorum geftis c 
1491.” ‘The Chroni 
1° 62. § 
GAH 
eae in Botany, named. by Forfter in honour of . 
y Gahn, a Swedifh botanift, whofe inaugural dif- 
Dr. Hen 
ee ee, i in the Fundamenta Agroftographia of Linneus. 
Forft. Gen. t. inn. Suppl. 31. Schreb. 235. 
es Sp. ie v. 2.244. Juff. 27, Brown Nov. ~ 
4. 
238. : “ila itr, t. 263. 
Cla and orice Hexandria Monogynia. 
marie, Linn. Cyperoidea, Jul. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Glumes numerous, imbricated on all 
fides, channelled, pointed, the upper, or innermott, largeft, 
permanent. Cor. none. Bees or brittles about “the bafe 
ofthe germen, none. Siam. Filaments fix, r arely but three, 
capillary, fhort, greatly elongated after flowering, and per- 
manent ; anthers linear, pen ted.. Pi. Germen oblon 
ftyle thread- ha a erect, longer than the calyx, Tee 
{tigmas two ach divifion, capillary, recurved, gaa fn 
ple. ut bon blong, angular, fmoot 
patfed et the permanent filaments. Seed folitary, trant 
verfely notched. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx of numerous imbricated glumes. Fila- 
ments elongated after flowering. Style three-cleft. Nut 
witha folitary tran{verfely notched feed. 
Obf. e have profited by the remarks of Mr. 
Brown and af Gartner, aflifted by our own examination of 
ertn 
Nat. Ord. ae 
terior more delicate fe 
cles, but we fufpe& not in nail. The home| are truly fi imple 
and diftinét, each refembling a {pikelet, but confifting of a 
rachis or receptacle clothed with imbricated fcales and 
nas with the organs of impregnation. 
- procera. Linn. Suppl. 211. Forft. Prod. 25. 
Nee Ad. Upf. v. 3. 178. - Panicles fpicate, numerous, 
elongated. Nut prifmatic, oblong.—- Native of New Zea- 
la hard, eto ee plant, three 
7 narrow, nnelled, rough. Pa- 
_ ae: aggregate, ay ats oon broad, long- 
bracteas, extending beyond the flowers. cee 
bra a prifmatic, equally tapering at both ends. Stigma 
deeply divided, The long, brown, permanent filaments are 
very remarkable. 
2. G. fchenoides. Forft. Prod. 26—Culm zig-zag. 
Panicies compound, ars calhege Nut ea ob- 
tufe; prifmatic at the e of Otah 
more nd crow ne ein 
braGteas. The broader blunt fruit at once diftinguifhes it 
Mr. Brown refers this {pecies to his new genus Lampocaryay 
in which the feed is not tranfverfely notched. 
g. G. pega Billard. Nov. Holl. v IIS. 
Brown. Nov. Holl. v. 1. 238. — Panicle ane com- 
— Pan 
pound. Nut nearly globular. Glumes obtufe. Permanent 
filaments Zi aes —Native of Van Diemen’s Land. The 
leaves of this are externally Aha h rough. - a large, 
ca aie iabase ai black panicle, and fhining brown 
fruit, refemble fome of the large copie ipcies of Holcus or 
Ande 0g The ae ers are very ta t their bafe, with 
numerous, gradually leflening, fcales. 
4s eucocarpas Brown 239. — “ Panicle repeatedly 
com ound, Glumes bluntifh. Nuts opaque, with an acute 
withered point.’?— Native of the fouth coaft of New Hol- 
land. 
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a 
Botany Bay. erb. Banks. — 
third oe but more Freie and beautiful on account of 
4A its 
