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we cannot i refpeCting its genus. 
Willdenow’s fuggetti 
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LOPPE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 
department of the L Lower mn and chief place of a canton 
in the diftri@ of Maeftricht. The place contains 1318, and 
the canton pte bitants, on a territory of 137% ki- 
liometres, in 11 c unes, 
GALOTS, the | lowell of the falls on the river St Law 
rence, in Canada, between which and the neck of iad 
merce ie Galette, are an excellent country and forefts, 
Ts, JLfle aux, an ifland in the river o a 
3 league beyond | aux Ss in N. lat. 
GALOUW 
HALVAH, a town of the coun- | 
try of Nubia, feated on ean Nile. 
GALSTA, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland ; 
23 miles E.N.E. of Uddevalla. 
GALT 
S, mountains of Ireland, Ss the cou 
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n of Sardinia, weed the fee of 
dec ae 14 miles S. of Lod 
N, a ee ifland on be ie fide Ws _ gulf of 
Bothnia. N. 62° ie 
Lewes, in Bos ao Ay, from whofe nam 
the di rag of Galvanifm was given to a fuppofed new 
nciple in nature, which has been alfo called animal elec- 
nerves of a fro ing not far In- 
flantly the mufcles of the limb, were agitated with ftrong 
convulfions. ‘Tt eriment was repeated, act afcer- 
the 
tained; and a lon experiments, ' ingenioull 
varied, were put in execution, by which he inveltigated the 
aw of nature, of which accident had thus given him a 
e. His firft aera on the fubje€t was printed 
for the inftitute at Bologna in 1791, anden aa “ Ay thee 
‘ Galvani de viribus Electricitatis i in re Mufculari Com 
mentarius.”? 
This work immediately excited the attention 
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of philofophers both in Italy and ed oe see hie? 
n th 
n con june ion with tie ape hae inquiries, the duties: 
of his alia tip p, and his emplo a= as a furgeon and 
accouche eur, i i 
s, which were spublitied } in. 
the Memoirs of the. Taftitute ‘of Bologna, he 
of moft amiable charater 
in ig eed life, and poffeffed of pao fenfibility, infomuch 
that the death of his wife, in 1790, threw him into a pro- 
found alae a . is early impreffions on the fubject of 
feligio nm remained u e was a 
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new conftitution of the Cif-alpine republic, and was coafe-. 
uently deprived of his pofts and dignities. In a fate of 
melancholy and poverty he retir of his. 
rother James, a man of very refpectable character, and fell 
hae afhamed of their condu& towards fuc an, d 
a decree for his reftoration to his td ai chair and its: 
eulinenes but it was now too He expired on the 
5th of November 1798. Gen. Blogs ' 
‘ GALVANIC Bartery. 
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electrical phenomena arifing ion the chemical agency of 
certain ge hie different fluids. 
e w the numerous s fa&ts which have — added. 
to the inoue a Galvani, his difcoveries sui very {ma 
part of the great mafs. i how colleet that on 
inveftigation began with him, a 
omote 
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ao 
ie 
Some ha eateft merit to 
_ fignior Volta, who was the difcoverer of the means of multi- 
plying the effets, which Galvani produced by a fimple me- 
tallic communication ;. but furely Galvani ie the greateft 
cam, fince Volta ny improved upon. what he had dif- 
' cOvere 
s he more Piel pein himfelf by setae 
_ that from whatever fource the eleGtricity was drawn the effect: 
was the fame. 
n one inftance, however, he found that by the mere agency: 
_of a metallic fubftance, where he had no reafon to fulpect 
ag prefence of remy on ‘the limbs = a nia) killed 
frog were convu aking a er “of experi~- 
ments, he afc te that the ‘convulfions w were aie He only 
when diffirilar metals w loyed. 
The experiments of Gavea were repeated by ead i 
Jofophers. 
