GAL 
wiake a gallon, in ealeulating the soap of veffels on the 
Tyne river. 
A Sage of wheat formerly (gth Hen. ITT. 51ft Hen. If. 
12th Hen. VII. &c.) or 8 pints, was 8lbs. Troy = 6. 5828lbs. 
of our uidipee weight. 
IUS, ANTHONY, in Biography, a native of 
e excelled in theology, 
known 
different Kinds of Cruelties inflicted by t 
tyrs of the primitive Church, ie with Engravings 
of the Inftruments of orture emade u by them.”’ This 
as well as Scar 
i t Rome, 
Cruciatibus, 
under the t a De Sa rtyr 
ra = Race gone eo 
Bayle. 
&e.”’ ilutrated with wood cuts. 
many editions on the continent. 
GALLOO, in a epe ons “of ‘Africa, i in Bambarra. 
N. lat. 14° 43’. W. long. 5 
GALLOON, in pe at "thick narrow kind of ferret 
ribband, or lace, ufed to edge or border cloa hs. 
he term is ordinarily Ge caiced of that _ of wool; 
fometimes that of ae or even gold o or filve: 
mot at on 
rd is borrowed otk the cer i sapere e; 
Some derive it from caballicare ; others 
he wor 
or marae to rut. 
from the Greek xarratewy or narra, to [pura horfe. 
In galloping, the horfe may lead with which fore-leg he 
isa ; the moft ufual way is that with the right, in whi 
ut which-foever it be, the 
‘cafe the gallop is faid to be juff ; 
i _the fame fide muft follow. it next, which forms 
an eve equal all 
eerie and the gallop to b 
the rider muft flay the horfe a little on the hand, and tin 
help him on = fpur on the céutrary fide to that on which. 
he is difunite 
However, ae ~ se not been always ftritly obferved ; 
for huiting hor e been trained to lead indifferently - 
with both legs, been it has been found, that a horfe 
“which has never been fuffered to gallop but with his right 
fore-leg, has been worn out on one fide, when he has ° een 
freth and found on the other. In order to make a i 
gallop ftraight forwards, the rider 
horfe together, without altering 
by re may be wv 
haunches. When horfes do not put out their ftrength 
— they fhould be gallopped brifkly, and then flow 
again by turns, aid they will thus be compelled to obey pial 
hand and heel. In ‘the flow 
it is fometimes neceflary to clofe the heels to the horfe’s fides, 
which is called pinchery ; but this fhould be done in fuch a 
fnafiner ds not to make the horfe abandon himfelf wpon the - 
called from the count of Ga 
es » a8 well as in the trot, ~ 
of-the fhips of the famous Spani 
GAL 
hand, and care sng = taken that he be uporr his haunches, 
and not upon ers: ana, therefore, when 
pinched, he fhould = kept in the hand, 
wall together, and make 
us econ quick and fenfible to the t If a 
as a mouth, gallop 
will oblige him to lean a little upon the ue in cides the 
better to put himfelf upon the haunche ; and nm elt fear 
Follow 
We fay, a hand-gallop, a ask bury-gall hool-galle 
&e. Poet h sghh : ode . ca i —_ 4 
call ws a gallop, ; "slop a a ; ve gloz Dif. 
op Iflands, in Geography, a P clalies of . — iNlands 
in the river St.-Lawrence. N. lat. 44° 55°. .-lon ng. 
iinet the Turkey, 3 in Ornithology, a fpecies of 
Meleagris 3 which fe 
GALLOPER, in + Artillery, is the nameof acarriage which 
ferves for a pound and a hi fe n. This carriage has fhafts 
ne 0 as - = drawn eat a limber, and is thought by fome: 
o be more convenient and preferable to other field carriages ; 
and i may may oe ‘ia ferve for our light three and fix pounders. 
ee 
GALLOT, in Ichthyology, the Wrafe. See Laprus 
GALLOWAY, in Geography, a diftri&t of Scotland, 
comprehends the two fhires or ftewartries of Kirkeudbright 
and Wigton ; al an account of which fee under their re- 
-{peCtive names 
» New, a royal burgh in the ftewartry of 
Kircudbright, 4 is feated in a vale, on the banks of sae Ken 
river. _ From its centrical {ituation its market is much fre- 
d -digni 
this place contained a inhabitants. 
GALLOW wofhip of “America, in Gloucetter 
county, New J 
eae ‘Mall of, a-cape of een on fins fouth 
coaft of the county of Wigton, at the e trance into 
Glenluce bay. N. lat. 54° 44’. W. long. 
ALLOWA 
6, 
Ys, is the name of a peculiar of hacks, fo 
re bred. 
coaft ; and coupling with ce ae of the country, | fur- 
-nithed the kingdom with their pofterity. ‘T’hey were muich 
efteemed, 
