GAJ 
its f{carlet fruit, which is fearcely half fo large as ‘in 
at, and not obovate, but elliptical, inclining to glo- 
Ole. - 
. G. sy ri 
merous. Glumes all acute. Nuts broadly elliptical, 
ointed, polifhed. Stamens three. Stigmas undivided.— 
Native’ of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land. 
The panicle has the habit of the ae firft a aaa but is {maller 
and paler. The fruit is fhining and very black. Leaves 
fmooth at the back. ccording to Mr. + ene who ae 
examined the living flowers, their itamens are but three, 
the ftigmas are fimple, yet there can be no doubt pets 
= genus. 
°§ 
Qu b 
G. trifida. Billard. Nov. Holl. 8g. t. 116. 
Coase hexandra; Brown Nov. “Holl. ve 1. 238. 
Panicles denfe, capitate. Glumes all pointed. ae nearly 
Stigmas undivided —Native of “Van 
nd. Remarkable for the pare panicles. 
The ae is faid to be blueifh. 
, in Mineralogy, one of the reeently difcover- 
ed reman ae of which Mefirs. Eckeberg and Vauquelin 
have given the analyfes. It is found maffive and in fmall and 
ane ed oétohedral cryftals, imbedded in a talcofe 
he colour is defcribed as greenifh-black, 
ian and perfect liver-brown in the imperfect fpecimens 
bave had an opportunity of examining ; nor were we able 
’ to difcover a metallic luftre as mentioned by Jater- 
nally it is dull. éture imperfe&tly conchoidal. Hard- 
nefs fufficiently great to feratch quartz. It is infufible be- 
fore the blow-pipe, except here ape Resa on the furfac 
Small ae >» which becomes, cked and white. It 
does n magnetic aa ae ecific gravity, ac- 
ae ‘s Hatiy, - 6969. 
The conic parts of 4 
nite are thus ftate 
Eckeberg Vauquelin, 
Alumine Alumine 42 
Silica 4 Silica 4 
Oxyd of zine 24 Oxyd of zinc 28 
Iron 9 Sulphur 17 
Lofs. E xyd of iron 5 
Parts not ated on 4 
TOO. — 
100 
The quantity = = a ae seca on by’ Vauquelin 
‘was not ae allow him H 
ee ae zinc exits | in tt in le ee of blende, 
and Onale | it pene ioe the alumine and filica are united 
ar this fulphuret of zin 
ati refers this fbfaney with a query, 
. - a 
min gi {t contribute to {well its fynonomy, which, 
confidering the recency of the difcovery of this foffil, is al- 
ready fu ici iently enriched by the propofed appellations of 
Pilon le fahlunite, automalite, and zinciferous corun- 
dum, which laft, by the mus o a French. Journal, has been 
converted into corindon fangu 
>in Geography,. a un “Of ee in the department 
of the Panaro ; 20 miles S. of Mod 
Brown 239.—Panicles {picate, nu-- 
reenifh-. 
GAT 
- GAIANITES, Gatanitm, a fect of ancient hetetice, 
iprang - the Eutychians. 
T was of an older ftanding = Gaian, a bifhop of 
Aina in the fixth eeraael fro om, however, they 
took their name. The red to ee nares of Julian Ha- 
licarnaffeus, the chief of ae price and Phantaftici ; 
and came, at length, to be denominated Gaianites, upon 
Gaian’s puttin iimfelf at their head. They denied that 
Jefus Chrift, ae the hypoftatical union, was fubjeét to any 
of the.infirmities of human nature. 
GA >in Geography, a town al Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Gohud ; 12 miles N. of Narw 
EN, a town of tua the palatinate of Culm ; 
five miles N. E. of Strafbur 
AIDEROPSARUS, in Jc brhyology. name given by 
fome to a fifh of the truttaceous kind, c the Medi- 
.terranean, and more ufually called altri 
GAIDRONISI, or Garrurronest, i. e. Affes’ ifland, in 
eography, a {mall ifland in the Mediterranean, near the fouth 
a of Candia ; a mere rock, producing only a few branches 
of a and inhabited cee’ by wild pigeons. It was forti- 
fied by Patroclus, an 
by ore his:name, was ne 
aie by the er ota to aft the Athenian again Ant 
gonus, the fon of Demetrius. N. lat. 34° 48". E. ince 
25° ‘45! 
Cake a town of eee in the circar of 
O great a regard ~~ ; 
ay he Sty confulted him on fubjeéts of mare 
and made him his firft alm He was author of many 
ne t of oa were more or lefa connected with — 
logy. Of thefe, the moft important confift o 
taries ? upon the different books of the New Teftamen ae in- 
which he ar the die fenfe by a kind of paraphrafe. 
He is applaude pin on account of his deep learning 
and folid aden on ene ing of his writin net, fays, «his 
notes will be found of adm ae - to tho 
read the text of the New Teft t, and to 
mn of it without {topping at “ ‘Gieult places, and with- 
ut having recourfe to largercommentaries.’’ His Scholia on 
fe four evangelifts and on the Acts of the Apoftles, are in- 
ferted in the Biblia Magna of Father John de la Hay 
oreri. 
GAI LDORF, or Garenponp, in Geocraphy, a town 
] pectaegl in the lordthip of a on oo Kocher ; 
s W.S.W. of Anfpach. N. 9°. E. long. 
GAILLAC, a town of France, and zie place ed 
a diftri€t in the department of the Tar ted on 
Tarn, which is here navigable ; 27 miles N. rE Touloufe, 
The place, which has con fiderable trade, “ne fumes from 
its environs good wine, contains 6,465, and the: canton: 
13,364 inhabitants, on a territory of 217% ene mii 
. 
$ 
communes 
at, 43° oe 
N, atown e, in the department id 
Eure,.and chief place . a a in the diftri& of — 
ers 5. * 
