GAN 
fapply the acapecle in Bie bed ; and in fuch parts of the 
n both fides. Thefe are increafed 
y many. Aen a reels and at length acquire mould fuf- 
ficient for = purpofes of cultivation, Whilft the river is 
formin ng new iflands*in 
ones in oles parts 
Mr. Rennell, in accounting for the annual {welling and 
averflowing of the Ganges, obferves, that it owes its increafe 
as fae to the rain-water that falls in the mountains conti-. 
s to its fource, and to the fources of the gre at northern 
rivers ies fall into it, as to that which falls in A plains o 
in the mountains 
it rifes 15} feet out of 32 (the {um total of its rifing) by 
the latter end of June ; and it is w , that the rainy i 
on does not begin in moft of the flat countries till about 
is five inches i. 
he following t ae gradual increafe of the 
Saeko and its branche, according to obfervations made at 
a lingh 
AL Ie llin ashy. a 5 At Dacca 
; . Ft. Inch Ft. Inch. 
In May it _ - - 6.0 / 2 4 
- 9 6 _ 4 6 
July 12 6 5 6 
In the ‘arf half oe. Augutt 4 Oo I Il 
3 ° bales 3 
The quantity of the daily ee of the river is cy 
in the following proportion: during the latter half of Au- 
gui, ree to four inches ; 
rrom Séptember to the end of. N 
ftance is Ste a (3 “Mr. Rennell one the in- 
creafe of the Gangess. viz. that there is a difference in the 
quantity of the increafe.in places more or lefs remote from 
the fea, as exhibited in the preceding table. . 
nye confirmed ‘by repeated experiments, that from about 
e place where the ‘tide commencé 
feetly co 
. preferves ihe fame level at all feafons (under fimilar circum- 
ftances of tide), and neceffarily influences the level of all the’ 
waters that communicate with it, unlefs precipitated in the 
cataract. Could = fuppofe, for a.moment, that 
» Of 31 feet perpendicular, 
was continued all the way to re fea by fome Maatiga rt 
agency ; whenever that agency was eats theh 
eolumn would diffufe _ over t 
height would be 31 fe This pects correfponds to the 
fact. At the point of junction with the ang the height 
is the fame in both feafons at equal times of the tide.* 
At Luckipour, there is.a difference of about fix feet ‘between. 
one part, it is fweeping away old - 
5. yas in the 
It isa fact, he | 
" mentous parts a the limbs. 
ead of the : 
GAN 
act 143 and near 
tion 0 o feet, according to 
Thus far does-the ocean manifett its dominion in bot h 
fons; in the one 2 the ebbing and flowin of its tides ; and 
fame e proportion ; fo that i 
fon the height of the periodical flood may be hase by 
that of the bank. 
The quantity of water difcharged by the Canvas, in one 
fecond of time, during the dry feafon, is 80,000 cubic feet; 
but in the place where the experiment was made, the river, 
Gances, in pier peeariag Ganga, a ve 
; Mow ry 
large river in the ma of Taprobana, according to Ptolemy. 
It defcended from tains in the centre of the 
ifland, and ‘Hcherped Efelf i into a large bay fituated about 
the middle of the eaftern coa 
AnGES /flands, or North Natunas, in Geo ography, two 
{mall ifisnde ‘betw een the iflan oO ge and the gulf of 
iam. N. lat. ong. I 
GI, a town ‘of Sicily in. ae Siley of Demona ;: 
emis: W. of Miftretta. 
GAN-GIN, a town of China, of the third on in Hou- 
quang 3; 36 miles E S.E. of Heng-tche. 
GANGLION, (a primitive Greek word) denotes, ‘in. 
Anatomy, the {mall fwellings found in certain parts of the . 
nervous fyitem. ee the account of the -firudture of the 
nerves in the article reroll ad particular ganglions are 
deferibed in the article Ner 
GANGLION, in Surgery, is a so applied to a kind of tu- 
mour which generally forms upon the tendinous, or liga- 
The {welling is very promi- 
nent, and circumfcribed, ‘and is -always conneéted with. 
foine tendon, or aponeurofis underneath. The difeafe is 
e only i 
). A .- is fo much like an; 
encyfted tumour of the meliceri that many furgical. 
writers. have treated of fuch difeafes under the fame _ . 
