GAL 
Ohio, fituated on the hig oak of the river one nearly: 
90 miles below Mace a pes es below the mouth of 
Kanhaway ; faid te n about 100 houfes, 
and. particularly to Louifiana. ob- 
tained of Congrefs a grant of ene aac shout t 24 miles 
lower down ‘the river, oppofite to Little Sandy Creek, 
whither 8 removed. It is diftant about 240 miles E. 0 
perme and §59 59 5. W. of Philadelphia. N. lat. 38° 49! 
2". W. long. 83° 
LLIOT, a fmall galley ora ai = brigantine, built 
very flightly, and defigned only for c 
She hath but one maft, and can to h fail and row. She 
ufually ‘carries two or three pedreros, and hath fixteen or 
twenty oars 
Some alfo call the bomb-ketches galliots 
GALLI ele in Geography, a fea-port town of ri 
pean Turkey, in Romania, on the fea of Marmora, wit. 
good harbour ; “the refidence ofa pacha, and the fee of a a 
Greek bifhop, fuffragan of Heraclea; taken. from the 
Chriftians in the year 1357 by Soliman, 80 miles S. of 
dri 5. W...of Conftantinople. N. - lat. 
44". 
‘a fea-port town of Naples, in ung eee 
e fea and 
of Otranto. N. lat. 40°29’. E. long. 15> §8'. 
GALLIT RICHUM, in Botany, a name by which feveral 
authors call the orminum fativum,,or gar re 
_ GALLI 
en-c 
Ge in spate! Language, are large row-boats 
e built 
: ee 
GAL 
GAL 
galloglaffes, or galloglaflii, who ufe a very sa fort of 
k 
fos Heath called kern es. 
OM a de ato E Pe , on th 
Reap Gonna SEE tee 
GALLON is either a WM lee or a Weight, of both of 
—_ there are feveral diftin@ kinds in ufe in England, 
“Cuaien of Ale, Beer, or Vinegar Meafure, according t 
the aéts of the rath of Len VIleand tun or Che les TI, 
ay often called the Winchefter gallon, contains, or is equal 
o 4 ale quarts = 8 ale pints = 32 ale gills — 282 cubic 
ne Englifh = ca 1944 cubic feet = ahaa ag cubic 
ards = A Sager = 1.049107 dry gallons 
220779 W 
== .1311384 malt bu thel -5676408 cubic links. It has 
been ae that this vallon fhould hold 1oilb. of pure 
er? 
ere? ALLON of Malt, or Dry Meafure, = § of a malt buthel, 
papebee to the firft.and ‘fabfequent. aéts for levying a duty 
a making of malt ; it contains 2 pottles = quart 
gallons = .9531914 
It fe been faid. that this gallon holds 8lb. Troy of good 
dry — or 46080 of fuch grains of wheat, or 9.71871b. 
of pure w 
a “of Wine, opi Pialgh Oil, . oe. accent 
ing to the act of the 5th hap. &. 7. contains 
a inches =.1 waGbeG cubic feet = 0049 51 oe cubic 
yar ‘8191490 ale gallons = .8593750 dry gallons = 
i fe 
Is = = 4.6 
ees tg malt buthe 
aie ““Apote aks or Congius, . Pharma cy, = 8 
pints = 128 ounce-meafures = 102 m-meafures = 
231 cubic inches, or the wine gallon, as none In the 
“wfed in Indi like Grabs (which fee), tranflation of the Pharmacopeia by Dr. Powell, the gallon 
but of fmaller pees ee the ral ate rarely exceeding 70 OF ongius = 8 pints; the pint = 16 fluid-cunces 3 the 
‘tons. They have mafts, of w th zen is ‘ver fluid-ounce = 8 flu and the fluidrachm = 60 
flight ; the main-maft bears only one na which istriangular, minims. it meafures, the aeoly wine gallon 
and very lar peak. of it, when hoifted, being muc of the exchequer is divided into 61,440 now call 
higher than the matt itfelf. In general, thefe veflels are minims, accordi e gla afs meafures originally invented by 
covered with a {par-deck, made for lightnefs of flit bamboos; thelate Mr.'Timothy Lane, F.R.S. By 14 Ann, the wine 
have a-fixed deck, on _ they mount fix or eight pieces 
of cannon, from 2 to 4-pou. 
oars, and may be rowed fue miles 
GALLIUM. See —- 
‘ GALLO, or Punt sielinersslgn in Cais a {mall @ 
ifland in -the Pacific pee near the coaft of Peru, which 
farihes jveffels with wood and water, but is uninhabited. 
N. lat. 2° 28’. W. lo 
Canto, a country of pe in the Indian fe, about 
S. lat 
Garo, Cape, a cape on the N. coaft of Sicily. N. Jat. 
38° 17’. E. long. 13° 2 'W—Alfo, a mee on the S.c¢ 
the Morea. N. at. 36° 48". E. long. 2 
GALLOGLASSES, a kind of Sita or foldiery, in 
Ireland. 
Camden, in his “ Annals of “freland: an, 
that the Irith militia confifts of cav alfy, or Hormen, called 
. Won. XV. 
ers; they — 40 OF 50 ftout ; h 
an hou 
oatt of | 
P 
Pp» 792, relates, 
gallon is fixed at 231 cubic inches, and the weight of the 
ftandard exchequer gallon of water, at a temperature of 63° 
flure = 29. 
1e proportional meafures are as follow: viz. i pint = 
uid-ounces = = uidrachms = 7680 minims.; and 
serine =e aan chms = 480 minims: ‘and 1 flui- 
rachm = 
GALLon, Sete = 4 Scotch quarts = 8 ‘Scotch’ int 
= 16 chopins = 32 mutchkins = 128 Scotch gills. a ‘he 
pints in different parts of Scotland, or according to the deter- 
mination of different experimenters, (from whence they raife 
rs 
or deduce their other meafures of capacity, ) are-very. various ; 
-we have feen-796.48, 827.2, 828, 840, "B69. ity aes 
perhaps others, | at ifferent times, tated, as the number ‘Of 
Scotch sa inches in-their pint. 
XALLON, 4. A ty is Ding of* Honey at the cuttom. 
- Eddinet ny « Eflay 
6.8 7lbs, wolndupoite 
ort of N 
th de, 1803,”" p. 51, 
or gate: of a Winchefter ae ftricken or r level mea 
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