GAN 
Georgia ; en miles S.E. of ‘Tefflis.. N. lat. 41° 32!/, 
E. long. 
GA DIA, a ; walled fea-port town of Goats in the pro- 
vince of Valencia, half a-league from the coaft, between the 
mouth of the mca and Cape e Mar rtin, © ivu le 
40 miles S.S.E. of the capital, in 3 fertile, aie and 
populous teiitory, ae {urrounded by a ridge of low hills, 
and wholly cultivated, except a low ibe a raat towards 
the coaft, which is ven inundated, cre oe palace is a 
magnificent edifice. - lat. 39 IQ. 
GANDICOTTA, a town and fortrels ‘of Hindooftan, 
ap neee on the top of a 
f the river Pennar. 
it is narrow, and formed i in the rock, by the fide of a fright- 
ful precipice. Below is a {mall plain, watered by a number 
of {prings, in which the inhabitants cultivate rice and 
millet. “We ar it isa diamond mine, 33 miles N. W. of Cud- 
dapa. N. lat. 44° gs’. E. long 73 29. 
GANDINA, a town of Italy, in the cli of the 
Adda and Oglio; ro miles N. f B 
GANDOLA 
Serio ; eight miles N.W. of B 
1, ariver of _AbyBinia, which runs into the 
Tacazé, 60 ‘miles S. of Dek 
GANE, a town of ‘Arabia Felix ; 3 150 miles N. of Mo- 
ei Aes acity of Africa, and capital of a country, go- 
verned by a fultan, fubje& to Houffan, on the N. fide of 
the Niger, near a lake. He aa aa cal's it Cano as miles 
E. of ‘Tombuctoo. N. lat. 16° 10. Ei. long. 12° 40 
oe. a town of the ifland of Coins 3 60 miles 
. S. E. of Col 
° GANET Iss pee a ates of {mall itends, near ithe 
eaft coait of Labrador. N. lat W. long. 56° 
GANEYGON, a tote of titdoottany in Dowlatabad ; 
33 miles S. W. of Amednagur. 
GANG, in the Sea Language, fignifies a crew. 
‘To man a boat is called, to put a gang of men’ (which: 
ae i 3 ees lies are rie called the pia s 
t 
ys fe in eb yale a aname give aby fore authors 
to a {ma the German mca d-fent in 
pic erie a ae - of the world. The more “afaal nam 
of this-fifh among writers is lavaretus. See Sal: ‘oO Lavaretus. 
Gana-ladder, in Ganals; a frame anfwering the fame € pure 
pofe as a Horfing-block, which fee 
GANGS-men, in Ciak matings is is a term for {mall companies 
of men who undertake the labour of digging, embanking, 
or puddling a canal, refervoir, &e, 
a 
Gaxc-waggon &c. are names ee the car- 
riagel a conferubied OF iron or wood, which are ufed 
for the. ough anée o Book on rail-ways or trath-roads. See 
‘CANAL, AIL- 
Cae. See Wa ER-gang. 
GANG-way, in Mining, pe a se audit, -or gate 
through, which the miners pafs underground; fometimes 
thefe are laid with iron or with wooden = for the trams 
or gang-waggon wheels to move.on, ith round 
logs of. wood acrofs, if the, floor i 13 “foft and fabjest to fwell, 
or palags, from o 
‘What 
“laid or | in the gang-way. © 
Gane-way allo cpa that part of a thip’ Ss: co both 
within and peer » by which the _Pallengers enter and de- 
one part of t 
he fhip to 
Sea 
»a town of i in the department of the , 
es or horfes... 
vay 18 appliéd to oi the feveral — ways, b 
fu 
oever is put in any-of thefe pallages, is “faid to be 
GAN 
part : it is for this purpofe provided with a hamaaee num. 
er of fteps, or sae nailed upon the fhip’s fide, nearly as 
low as ts furface of the water ; and eae ee furnifhed 
with a ladder. ene lower end projedts from the thip’ 8 fide, 
being fecured i in this pofition by iron braces. 
NGA, in Ornithology, a name given by Buffon to the 
TreTRAO Alcbata -which jee 
GANGACOTTY, in Geograph y,a town of Thibet ; 68 
miles S. of rene 
GANGALAGU TTA, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
circar of Cuddapa 5 ; 34 miles N. of Combam 
G. R, a town of Thibet ; 18 miles S. of 
Jhanfu-Jeung. 
ANGA. APATNAM, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
Carnatic, at the mouth of the Pennar ; 80 miles N. of Ma- 
dras. N. lat. 14°25’. E. long. Bo? . 
GANGARID <A, in Avtion Ceopra by, a people of 
India, near the mouth of the Ganges, to whom . Pr: olemy 
afligns a capital called Gangia Regia, on the cther Ede of 
= a placed by M. D'Anville in Jat. 24° 50' 
al 
© 
aes 
GANGARONO, a final ifland i in the gulf of Venice. 
N. lat. 44°. 12". 
GART, in | Mining, cles the fides or walls of the 
vein or. r working ; for wh hich alfo the terms fkirts,. vein-fkirts, 
woughs, &c. are ufed, in different mineral diftridts, See 
VEIN. 
GANGELT, in Geogr: aph by, a town * eae: in the de- 
partment of the: Roer, 12 miles of Ru:emornd. N. 
lat. so’ 58. E.long.5 509' 
GANGES, a town of — in the department of th re 
Herault, and chief place of a canton, in the diftri@ of Mont. 
pellier, and. 21:-miles N. of it. e place contains 3622, 
and the dean 7 339 nC on a territory: of 157§ itlio~ 
metr 
ANGE; a river of ‘A fia, which 3 in the language of Him. 
eet a is called Pudda, or Paddas and it is alio na amed Burra 
‘blance to 
eeranee of ther borders a iflanids, and. feelin, in the 
height to which their floods rife, with the periodical rains, 
The Ganges, as well as the Burrampooter, has-its fource in 
a vaft.mountains of Thibet ; and thefe tw wo rivers procced 
n oppofite direCtions, The former set ies Bigera of Hin- 
cmt n-by the weft, and purfues the ear rt-of its courfe 
through rugged vallies and detiles, and feldemn vilits the habi- 
tations of -men. ter wandering about 800 miles through 
thefe mountainous regions, it iffues forth a deity to the fuper- 
ftitious, yet gladdened, pee pe of Hindoeftan. From the 
fabulous account of its origin we learn, that it flows out of 
the foot of Befchan: ne on with Viftnou, or the preferving 
deity), whence, according to the Bramins, it has its-:name 
ne Pudda ;? - fignifying in the Shanfcrit janguage foot ; 
that in its: -courle to the plains of Hindooftan it paffes thr ough 
an immenfe rock, fhaped like a cow’s head. his river was 
nunknewn.to Herodotus, ashe does not mention : though it 
ajo 
ges, obferves, that the two’ branches of it, which fpring from 
the weftern fide of mount Kentaiffe, take their courfe weft- 
ward, inclining confiderably to the north for a.courfe of about 
300 
