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more > agreable vocal chaffe, than it {till ae on 
n 1728, he publifhed, by fubfcription, his mu he t to the 
ian of Adam and Eve, from Milton; this 1 is extremely 
well fet in the grave and oes er ef Steffani. ‘The re- 
citative is ftill in the more a t ftyle of Italy, in which 
there are formal clofes, ees with a fhake, inftead of 
the more pares cadence of modern recitation. 
. He compofed, in queen Anne’s time, for victories obtained 
by he a of Marlborough, a Te e Deum, and Jubilate, 
and three anthems, for St. 
In 1746, being in years, and not in fplendid circum- 
Rances, Rich, the patentee; propofed to let him have a be- 
- Fields; when this venerable 
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of tickets ; "and to wait for your 
be allowed perch of clergy—at your fune 
At this his laft benefit, among his — pecomeitens 
that were peered on the occafion, there was a piece for 
twenty-four baffoons and four double bafes! ‘This worthy 
mufician, who died in 1749, was certainly an excellent con- 
trapuntift 5 but with refpe& to his ia poate in general, 
we mult ‘confels, that we never faw more correétnefs, or lefs 
fancy and aeeary I in any author that we “ha ve aad 
_ of the laft century, Dr ‘Pepufch always excepted. 
ALLIARD, or Cae in Mufie and Dancing, a fort 
of dante, anciently i in great requeft ; confifting of very dif- 
ferent motions actions, fometimes procee ing: terra a 
xerra, or {moothly along ; omar pene ; fometimes 
along th e es and fometim 
The d is. French 
literally ignites Says “ci 
called Ram Ue 
~'Thoino 
vali i ia rather Italian: and 
This dance was alio 
Rome. 
fame fubilance a as gan ats crowitone 
cious ftone, ufwally | imbedded in oe and ding 
with lar sie and curious impreffions. of eae ables. See 
Crow-st 
GalLiany? s [fland, in Geography, a {mall ifland of Ame- 
rica, in So pee Carolina, | in the Santee. N, lat. 33° 30’. 
W. long. 80° 
NGAELIARDA, in the Jtalian Mufic, the name of. a. 
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tune that belongs to a dance called a galliard. The air of it 
is lively in “triple time. 
I nes Acide Gallique, Fr.  Galluffaures 
Gallapflfaure, G he infufion.of nut-galls had long 
racted the attention : Pare = had se the fubject 
of numerous experiments efor pro to contain 
alls affords with fulphat of iron is n 
attracted by the magnet 5 he likewife obferved that the 
black colour which it imparts to the acid folutions of iron 
is capable of being deftroyed and re-produced by the al- 
ternate application of alkalies andacids. ‘The academicians 
of Dijon went farther ; - they yieleaes that it reddened ve- 
getable blues, dideieas tron, decompofed the alkaline hy- 
dro-fulphurets, produced with ae ic folutions various co- 
oured precipitates, and, that when dittilled, the fluid pro- 
ve 
ftances with whic 
This he in a great meafure = 
made public in 1780. acid di fcovered by 
chouile, when its peculiar een was en a acquired, 
onaccount of the fubitance which firft caeneee it, the name 
: acid of galls, or 'gallic acid. s not confined alone 
o nut- galls ; ; be y of other gic vegetables are ca- 
pable of affordin 
eater method of obtaining the acid, is that dif- 
cover a by Sc Make an panes By ap een one 
part of ell eae Faced to arfe powder, in fix parts of 
cold water. At the end of * Gfteen Desk ie iy Clon 
and place it in a large vel, covered — of paper. 
in a warm room.. rt time, mouldy “ellicle wit 
appear on the furface of the liquid, ohh is to be oc 
fionally broken: as the operation proceeds, the oneal 
aftringent tafte — ae ha acid tafte becom mes more 
enfible. t the end of t 
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of the veffel will ‘be fe 0 n 
taining difperfed, fhining, granular, cryftals. - Separate this 
fediment, and cover it with rectified tly 
will be = which, evaporated, affords gallic acid in the 
form of ver grains. 
Scheele hora that gallic acid is volatilized by alow 
degree of heats; and, in diftilling nut-galls, he found the 
acid’ fublimed ond condenfed i 
which it always when prepared in the o 
He gr adually heated powdered nut-galls in a lar: lafs r 
tort, tilla fublimate arofe, which condenfed in brilicnt white 
3» -An iacieake of heat oceafions the deco 
and if 
the operation is long costinued 
- an oil diftils on over that diffolves the acid fublimate, and ren- 
This method, without great — 
rable to fail. Mi. Da avy re gear 
mea yreumatic 
The. ne chemift “oblerves, that it is time to ftop the o 
tion, when the cryftals formed i in the lower part of the retort 
begia to melt. 
ery commencement of the operation, by 
e pears ae {mell that is produce 
A variety of other methods have been propofed — he 
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