GAT! 
The {ubjeGts he chofe for se oie ara were generally 
a ea to w ‘hich his own tafte knew how to 
ive expre and value. en a rifing mound 
n, or near it 5 aie a cow or 
cry one’s gr 7 tw 
ice is on * Bea with his feeling and tafte, does he always 
produce a pleafing picture. In his se pictures the fame 
taite prevailed, cote girl; a fhepherd’s boy; awood- 
man; with very flight mat ee in the background, were 
treated by him with fo much character, yet fo much ele- 
gance, that they never fail to delight 
e was an sa mufician, p! ela with exquifite tafte 
ates violin. mind and manners were urbane and kind. 
If he fele€ted for a exercife of ie Bee an infant from a 
cottage, all the tenants of the humble roof generally par- 
ticipated i in the profits of his picture ; and fome of them 
quently found in his habitation a permanent abode. 
liberality was not confined to this alone ; needy relatives a 
unfortunate friends were further incumbrances on.a sal 
that could not deny; and owing to this generofity of t 
per, that affluence was not left to his re which fo face 
merit might promife, and fuch real worth deferve. He died, 
fincerely regretted S every lover of art, in 1788, aged 61, 
leaving behind him a very numerous body of works, both 
pictures and drawings; which are now fcattered over ee 
part - this country. 
sBoROUGH, in Ge osrap hy, a market town of Lin- 
the ecaitern bank of the 
In the 
o this 
ttream, eas unites w 
and Chefterfield aaa a ee e trade in corn an 
other commoditie es is carrie 
ing to ancient hi fon ry, it is related that king 
aah anchored near this town swith feveral Danifh icees 
is depredatory expeditions to. Britain. _ 
of Worcetter alfo ftates, that the fame monarch was mur- 
dered at this place. Leland defcribes an old ae 
in the fouth part of the town, wherein, according to tradi- 
tion, feveral Danes were interred. In the | . pe d- 
w I., William de aie nt lor manor, 
obtained a charter, or ae : anh for oe 
a fair here. During the cal wars heewecn king Char 
and the aes this town was much injured by ra 
contending partie 
church is a modern pile of irregular building. 
1791 a fine ftone bridge, with three clliptical arches, was 
raifed over the river ‘Trent. 
Jar ee 
afcribes it = ‘ihn of pad 
ears of a lat 
William a ies was a native of this place. 
He was an ambaflador from king Edward I., and for his 
zealous defence of the pope’s infallibility, was, by Boni- 
face VIII. preferred to the fee of Worcefter, when he 
juke oe Lancafter, but it = 
GAL 
died, eee 1308. Simon Patrick, bifhop of Ely, wa 
born here in 1626, and died in-1707. About half a me 
north of i town are fome embankments, called « the Caftle 
Hills.” Thefe are faid to have been firft formed by the 
Romans, and afterwards eee a enlarged by the Danes. 
See Beauties of England, vo 
A A, i in Uae Hiftory, a genus of 
the nla order of fe eptaria, divided by partitions of earthy 
matte 
GAIRSA, in Geography, one of the imaller Orkney 
iflands, N.E. of Pomona. N. lat. 58° 51’. W. long 2° sx’, 
ye eran a town of the Sachs of Stirias 12 miles 
E. of Rottenm 
AIT, as “applied to horfes, is a term that ni a their 
method i going, or what is fometimes called t 
IT, in sek ral Econcm Ys is the name of a 
door, made ufe 
fure, &e. . a s a common field ; 
and the going of a cow, or other hes in a fummer ae 
A fingle thest of corn ‘bound near the top, and fet upon its 
butt end to dry, is likew _ in ime places called a gait. See 
ATE and Harve ofing Gira 
GAITE a: iort of ioiter dafhes, pearred made of 
cloth, which are eit ther ong and reaching t e knee, or 
fhort, and ciel extendin ng jutt oa e the ankle. 
GAL, St.. See 
GALA Water, in Geogr 
which runs into the T'weed, 
in Roxburghhhire 
GALABA, in nt Aacien Geography, a {mall town of Afia, 
fituated in the mountains, whence the river Calabas fprung. 
in nig he Antiquities, a {tony 
fubftance eg aloatl deferih bed by different authors o ate 
uity, who agree in any other point refpeCting its 
characters but eer of its producing, when broken and tri+ 
turated with water, a white fluid, comparable to milk (yza«). 
This latter circumftance has likewile given rife to the ap- 
pellations of galaxia, leucogza, leucographa, expreflive of 
that quality; and it was alfo called, or rather confounded 
aphy, a river of Scotland, 
about 2 miles above Melrofs, 
with re 
its property of increafin urfe ung on 
the necks of children a or promoting falivatzo on snd denti- 
tion. Sir John Hill, ever ready to defcribe what had not 
come ase! his obfervation, acquaints us that the gala¢tites 
of the ent writers is a very hard and dry- fubftance, 
like an “indurated clay, of a clofe texture, very 
heavy, and in colour of a pale-grey without the leaft admix- 
ture of any 0 nge; that it is of a lefs even furface 
n the morochtus, and lefs hard; that it melts but flowly 
in the mouth, and leaves fomethin a luf{cious fweetnefs 
on the tongue ; at . does not adhere to the lips, nor 
din burning becomes of a pure white. 
This defcription is ac applicable, in all its parts, to an 
one mineral {ubftance we are acquainted with; while the de- 
e e of difcriminating na- 
tural ubjects was sine unkno aan and when fimilarity in 
fome uneflential external character was deemed fufficient to 
apply one and the fame name to things not bearing any af- 
ra to each other. 
Some of the nay writers on mineralogy have confider- 
ed galactites as the fame with morochtus, which is fuppofed 
to be the pulenlae variety of carbonate of lime, called 
mountain- 
