GAM 
‘befides the collegiate church a pace which is of 
Gothic e , three nunneries, three 
monatteries, commo bees For oi or three r 
of infantry, a charter {chool, and an hof 
oft and fair-town, and is fituated 102 miles weft from Dub- 
- 53° 14. W. long. 8° 5' from Greenwich. 
Robertfon’s Book of Roads. 
Gatway Bay, a large bay in the weft of aa Bae 
miles long 2) “and feven miles broad, the nort i 
has feveral fhoals and blind rocks, fome of : which are eid 
ags of Arran, but the north fide of it is fafer. The 
. ee ifles of Arran fhelter the entrance, and caule no lefs 
than four paflages into the ba 
GALWAY, a poft town of Avena in the county of Sara- 
toga, New York; W. of Ballitown, and containing 2310 
inhabitants. 
G. 
reg iments 
YBE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Africa 
A se fituated between the two Syrtes, according to 
Ptolemy. 
GALZHA, in Geography, a town of European Turkey, 
in Bulgaria, on the Black fea; 10 miles S. of Varna. 
GEL A, bet enon DI, in Biograph > a celebrated 
navigator, was abet ynes, a maritime town in the Por 
tuguefe province of "Alentejo ejo, and being of an enterprifing 
se he was ee dto the fea eae in which he foon di 
gui uifhed himfelf. When king Emanuel = . 
fh his difcoveries in the Eaft, Di Gama was fixed o 
fet fail ae 
ho fe) 
9. 
he was four months contendin oa Fe with contrary winds before he 
ope. At length he was wae 
the high fatisfaGtion to find a 
th zation, and engaged in a€tive 
Here he pro- 
cured a Mahometan a Mi conducted him to - a 
coaft, and on the 22 he arrived at 
was received in a frie aie manner by the prince, and ‘Gam 
condu€ted himfelf with fo much prudence and refolution i a 
his intercourfe with the natives, that 
phe his fhip with many of the moft valuable produétions 
of the Eaift. t lengt 
of his fuccefs, laid a plot for his deftru€tion ; upon 
covery of whic ae pe a embarked with al his tetas i 
ss 
and other naval commanders were fent out upon fimilar expe- 
ditions 
ama was employed in a fecond voyage, in which he 
had the command of a confiderable fleet, and was hon oured | 
he comm nee in 1502, he compelled tri 
liance with, the petty princes that he met with in his route : 
when he arrived at Cochin he received a deputation from the 
Chriftians of St.'Thomas, to whom he promifed proteCtion. 
a fleet to intercept them in t 
hoping, no 0 doubt, to put an end to their fan ee but 
Galway isa to 
- oe and literature that a was ee a 
he was allowed to. R 
the Mahometan merchants, Ragen 
GAM 
els he ree 
inded at Lifbon j in aa I 503. "The ucs 
wi ran n rocee 
in, was victorious again{t the peo i of Calicut, who at~ 
empted to fruftrate his defigns, and achieved other things of 
Ha ered when he died December 25, 1525. He left two 
fons, Don Stephen and Don Chriftopher,. who were after- 
wards viceroys of the Indies, and who are noticed with ap- 
plaufe and honour in hiftory. Robertfon’s. Hift. of Ame- 
rica. od. Univer. Hitt. 
MACHES, Srreruen Simon, was born at Meulan 
about the year 1672, and, being educated for the church, he 
obtained the office of canon of the Holy Crofs de la Breton- 
niere, and acquired fo much reputation by his proficiency in 
a ae - 
i 
nch Academy of Sci : ied 
565 in the 84th year of hie age] leavin ng behind him, beldes 
her works, ‘ Phyfical Aftronomy,” in two vols. gto. 
ee dee and Philofophical Differtations s “The ies 
of a Chriftian Philofopher ;”’ “ The 
guage reduced to their Principles.” 
mmended as deferving the aoe of every perfon who is 
aeaeoue of a good ftyle: it has been oo « i 
n h ee Nouv. Di 
ame » a town of Fra e, in the 
department of the eae and chief place of a sees in the 
dittri& of Abbeville ; 12 miles S. of Abbeville. The place 
contains 1037, and the canton 10/09 2 een on a terri- 
tory of 165 kiliometres, in 21 commu 
AMALA, or Gamat, in | head Coma. a town 
of Paleftine, beak Jordan, in the Gaulanitis, fo called be- 
caufe, being aoe ona high mountain, its fona refembled 
at of a came was part of the kingdom of Agrippa ; 
but as the cart so refufed to Eau to him, it was be- 
by t and aie oles iby the 
took and facke It 
ailed. 
IBA, a town of Titia,.< on: this fide of the 
Ganges, mentioned by Ptolem 
AMALIE ey eee rnamed. the Aged, in eof ture Biogras 
phy, an eminent Tewith rabbi in the firft a earner 
fuppofed to be St. Paul’s mafter, and een by 
Ads, xxii. 3, and in chap. v. 34, to ae “one of the couse 
a phatife and doétor of the law, had i 
ample evidence that Gamaliel was never converted, to Chrif~ 
tianity, as fome Chriftians, ‘frenaily of the church of Rome, 
have fondly and weakly: imagined. Indeed, from the acs 
count given of him b Paul in the paflage above cited, 
it be argued that he was ftill Jew; ot! 
_had not been to the purpofe to take notice of his education 
under ie in the critical circumftance in which he was then. 
fituat 
Gamaliel’s 
