GAL. 
whofe form is that of the inverted boat. | ‘Mefirs.. de Ja Hire 
nown 
Memoirs of the Academy of Paris, 1692. a the 
{pecies of. thefe little animals, however, do mifchief to our 
saa: there are fome ea kinds of them, the value 
an nds ; were it 
or-cultivati The kermes, fo ‘well known by na 
though fo litile truly mare an) is of this kind, to which 
both the phyfician ‘and the dyer are fo greatly obliged. 
Reaurnur’s Hift. Infeéts, vol. iv. p. 1. 
r. Lifter was, Lag the firft difcoverer of the gall. 
ined and progal infect claffes: he found thefe animals on 
erry, vi ick and a other trees, and 
calls them atelle of thefe trees. He was well ap of 
ori 
prized 
gin, and in the yea on "difeovered that 
ome of them would ftrike a ae -red colour, with ley 
e experiment was 
the femiglobular fort, which he defcribes as ‘being entirely 
round, except when they are applied to the ies They 
were of the fize of half a large pea, of a : ue 
and of a thining furface, oe themfelves ts the se of 
the tree, as the lim pets to the rock 8, an were gene- 
rally fought after by ants aA vied vermin. 
' Gat, Peach-infid ee PEA 
GaLt, Shell-infe@. See Sunt. 
GaLL, Vine-infed. Vin 
GaLL-infea fo - male of the gall-i infeed {pecies. a : 
atwo-winged very particular kind. ‘There feem 
great ka ee ea beaeees thefe flies in all the gall infeet 
s, and that of the peach-gall-infe&t may ‘give a Paid 
reft, This little 8 ‘examined with 
the under part 
deftined to convey their nourifhment ; nothi eos a a 
refembles the trunks of ‘the other two-win no 
thing that can be compared to teeth. "Where the the ele i 
heric a black oie 
and in all ar veleubling eyes. “If thefe 
ae re very remarkably fituated 5 a jut over aoa 
them, on ie other fide of the ony and: near the bafes of the 
sailed there are two pane! ae a which indeed 
It fhould a that 
ing fi sae in the infed 
world, fince f mo a and but ae afford us inftances of 
it. Many of thefe may be feen, as foon as produced from 
their i he in a ftate to propagate their fpecies, and de- 
pofit their eggs; and this great end atchieved, they have no 
farther occafion for life, nor any. means for its fupport ; and 
probably the cafe js the fame with thefe flies, which, as foon 
‘gularity in this {pecies, aa they are produced from their 
fhell by their hin¢ler part firft, whereas all- other fpecies. of 
the ih a at flies are pestis with the forepart of their 
body firit; if ‘we cannot fay what may be the reafons 
for this foguaiy in the preduction. of this fy, we can 
u 
Cie 
as the anterior part of th 
eal ily opens to give a ae to the aioe fo the potterior 
part of this does. ‘Uhey “fem alto - to be more than ordi- 
narily flow in their getting out, fome of them having been ob- 
erved to be ten or twelve hour s, from t e time of the firft 
appearance of a piece of each wi ng | to a a enlarge: 
Reaumur’s Hift. Infect, 
Sara in Geog aphy, atown stAsebn Felix; 24 miles 
S.E. of Taa . 
GALLE: See GAL 
GALLAM, CaLaM, o or Fort St. Jofith in re 
a town of Africa, and capital of a kingdom called Kajaaga, 
and by the French Gallam, on the river Senegal. fort 
was built here by the French, who ceded itto the Englifhy, 
y the peace of Verfailles, in 1763; during t merican 
war it was taken by the oe but at = peace of 1783 
reftored to G reat Britain. N. lat. 14° 35’. W.. longs 
10° 
GALL AN, a {mall ifland on the coaft of Peru, in S. lati. 
14°, 5' miles N. of the high land Morro Vejo, or Old Man’s 
Head, affording between it and the high land an eligible 
ftation for veffels bound for Callao to éruife. 
GALI > ANTHONY, in Biography, was bor n a Rollo: 
peienare in 1646; he received the ufual education at the 
colle of Noyon, whence he was taken to be initiated into 
fome ae But he ented fo ftrong a turn for literature 
that it was determined he fhould proceed to Paris to purfue 
a regular courfe of ftudies. His affiduity and fuccefs were 
anfwerable to the expeCtations: formed of ‘him, amd he foon 
became’ diftinguifhéd for his knowledge in the ace lan- 
guages. _He was: ici ee oM. de Nointel’s e 
ri 
te re of infevipti ons mee sii ngs of the satghiies of t 
places through which he paffed.” In'1675 we fiid him again. 
at Paris intimately connected with Vaillant aut other medali 
ifts,;who formed fo’high an opinion of his talents that they en- 
gaged himin a fecon voyage to the Levant. In1679 he madé. 
a third voyage to ‘the fame,place at the expence of theFrench- 
Eaft India company, when-he perfected himfelf in his knowé 
ledge of the principal” oriental’ languages, ia qualified 
im for the office, which he undertook upon his-return, cf 
affiftant to Thevenot the king’s librarian, and Bt the: death. 
of d'Herbelot he — the public cation of his: “ Bib- 
lioth. Orientale,’’ and wrote a ‘preface ‘to it. “At the age 
of fixty-three he w "as poet royal prefeffor of Arabie ;. 
and in the year 1715, he died in the feventieth year of his 
age. He was a learned and induftrious man, fimple in his 
manners, carelefs in the ordinary affairs of life, and cages 
attached to the feveral purfuitsin whicli he enga 
moft popular work‘is his verfion of the Arabian aie whic 
is well known in every part of the eivilized worl 
author of. various other pieces tranflatedt'from the~ er ia 
mae and feveral j papers:t o be found:in the Memoirs of 
sags 
the Acaderny-o ‘of Infe criptions,. of which body he was'a moik 
ufefa band valuable member..- He has- papers, — re-. 
SpeGting 
