GAL 
veffels, and many of the manipulations, of dyers who oe 
their profit in this oxydating p rocefs carried on in the a 
. Ber thollet ee admits 
this effect to the ener te of oe ca itfelf, and the 
velopement of fome of its charcoal. 
Such are the general properties of gallic acid procured 
in the moift way. M. Bouillon La Grange has eae out a 
few inftances in which the acid obtained a fublim 
menti t e 
ing. The fublimed acid is lefs ac 
to pear) folutions ha gaat of different = 
folution is darkened b oxymuriatic acid. It imparts va- 
riable dienes to fulphat of iron, and it does not ee 
elatine. It moreover appears to contain a little ae 
oil, which by diffolving the acid in water, ether, or ong 
folution of pot-afh, feparates, becomes fenible to a fmelk 
and isfeen fwimmin ng ¢ on the i of the 
hese nature o acid is et fatisfactoxily deter- 
ned. The nie ae Re rae is, that it is a fim- 
He acid, but fee are 
e forhe chemifts who maintain it to be 
a compound one;'M. Bouillon La Grange has endeavoured 
to fhew that the cryftallized acid Lato in the moift way 
is compofed of acetic acid, tannin, and extrattivé, and 
that the acid obtained by fublimation i is merely acetic acid 
guments for this 
the fub- 
ts pureft seal and thefe are — wn 
alone in the labora aoe a the c mitt but in Samamanal 
with other: iaagr wale = is of ener ve and important ap- 
plications in the art See the re ase and 
‘Crell’s Chemical Journal, 
he mules eee vol. i, 
ne 458. Phil. 
, tom, xvii. 
pene de Chimie, tom. 60. 
Elemens de aa tom. iii. 
nals of t 
Mag. vol. Xxiil. 
ee Cuurcu denotes the church of era ; 
or the affembly or convocation’of the prelates of Franc 
M. du Pin‘has an exprefs treatife of the liberties oe the 
Gallican church. See CHuRcH. 
Gatxican Breviary | cae the breviary ufed by the 
church of dele epee in eel which the modern writers 
call Breviarium Gz 
The reafon, no doubt, i is its having been introduced by 
St. Gerlan made bifhop of Agrigentum, after 
earl Roger had been a out of Sicily by the Saracens ; 
and by the other French bifhops, whom the Norman princes 
ee thither. See Breviary. 
LicAN Liturgy isthe manner of performing divine fer- 
vice: ae obferved, in the Gauls. 
GAL 
F. Ms abillon fhews wherein it eee from the Roman hie 
— es 5 & 
Lican MM. af. 
GAL LLICIA, or ee in Geography, ja uaa of 
Spain, fituated at the north-weft angle of the country, an 
orming a very irregular kind of cua ilateral. Gi the north 
and weitit is bounded by the. Atlantic ocean; on the eaft by 
peas and Leon, and on the fouth by the Portuguefe 
 aotaa of T'rras-los-Montes' and Entre-douro-e-Minho. 
mean extent is eee 46 leagues from north to fouth, 
and 140 leagues from eaft t This country took its 
name from its cece cheb itante the Callaici, whence have 
been formed the names of Gall icia. 
Hee in the ile e of Teonge ers. efe dilordere, how- 
ever, were ter are by Ferdinand and Ifabella, who civi- 
lized the country, and entered into an engagement with the 
Gallicians, that their kingdom fhould alwa, ays preferve its 
title. It is at aes the moft populous province in Spain. 
This country is, in general, very mountainous ; interfected 
with beautiful valleys, and bounded by {mall plains; the 
mountains are for 'the moft part well wooded, and abound 
in game. e lands produce fome wheat and oats, a great 
quantity of maize, millet, flax, hemp, pulfe, lemons, and 
other fruit, and in fome places w 
nut, and hazle trees are numerous, 
many horned cattle and mules. One 
to 
people have {earcely a property. 
of mountains, 
verfes, on 
forming cape Finifterre. e mountains of this 
branch have different names ; the mo contiderable of which 
is the Sierra de Mondonnedo, of great extent, occupying 
the whole ot of the north-eaft of Gallicia towdrds 
weitern . er they are more than 40, hae 
general ae are ote 7 fall. hofe that chiefly deferve no- 
tice are, Mari 
> ] a 
Its principal rivers are the Eo, or Rio de 
Miranda, which feparates the frontiers of Aftur 
a, and Caftropol in Afturia; the Ulla o 
Ilia, which od Ks ‘cour of 23 ear frem the north-eaft. 
to the fouth-weft ; the Tambra, or T'amaris, 
the name i 
he ks, purf 
es 
pies ‘he eatt to ae north-eaft ; the Minho, which rifes 3 in 
the eaft of the Sierra Mondonnedo, and after receiving 
5 feveral 
