GAWN 
language purports lime-ftone in the form of f fand, is applied 
r. Kirwan to the third family of his firft clafs of the 
claro enus. Its colour is defcribed as yellowith 
ite. J.ultre reflected only from a few fhining particles, 
een on the edges. Inthe lump it cannot be broken 
ut by a hammer 3 aa {mall pieces of it fritter between the 
fingers, Specific gravity 2.742 Phofph pn when 
{eraped with a ete in the da a ‘Contains 47 cent. of 
ca Hy nic gas s almoft entirely foluble in aoe: acid, 
is fo snd on athe fhores of Rhagkery, a {mall ifland of the 
coatt of Antri rin 
offils whence it is probably h that variety of 
granular lime-fton e which has obtained te name of Dolo- 
: IMI 
GANIS STER, eae crowftone or galliard, o 
which we have given an account under the arte 
Crowsrone, isa ftone yer alt! aye it has the ap- 
pearance of a a ery hard grit-{tone, and is 
admirably adapted to the oa ng of roads when broken 
fufficiently Gaal neverthelefs contains fo large a portion 
of aan as to affimilate with the valuable fire-clay from 
whence it is dug, at Birkin-line i in Afhover, Crook’s-moor 
in Sheffield, and ‘other places in and near Derbyfhire ; and 
it has recently been applied, when pounded very fine an 
kneaded with water, to make A without the oe of clay 
or other fubftances) t crucibles for the Shefficld 
fteel-nakers’ ufe of any hich they have been ible hitherto 
to procure. This fact is not merely interefting to the me- 
tallurgii, as thofe who want veffels to ftand very intenfe de- 
Frc 0 » but has alfo fome geological importance, in 
— geveliing the ees uae a Mr. Far 
me pe 
Saree tae an a durable fone or rock. on which a La 
ean of coals immediately refts, in a 
or. ing ae | other collieries which have fallen under ee gen ne 
’s obfervation, or been the fubje 
it ne appears, that even = hard and 
mechanically reduced te. aftic rare foch as ail the 
clunches and other hard fae or hills of coal foon acquire 
by expofure to the air and rain, has the fame properties of an 
infulible fire-clay which diftinguith the — ae aac 
ee aps in this and every other part of t 
> GANKA, in esa oe hy, a town of Amba, | in the pro- 
~ vince of Oman . of Mafcate. 
KU, 2 7 town ah China, of the third rank, in the pro- 
-wince of Se-tchuen; 12 miles W.o 
. GAN- >a a 
Rocitcheous 35m 
nay eg a 
able fton 
es E. of eee 
Toe one of Frane rincipal ay of a 
diftriét, in the ies rtment o . ; 27 miles S. of 
Moulins. The place contains 5043, and the canton 12,521 
inhabitants, si a territ ory es ee kiliometres, in 12 com- 
munes, N. lat. 46 6'. g- 3° 16’. 
GANNELOR, a ‘mall iad in the gulf of St. Lau- 
rence, in N. lat. 48°, near Bir 
<a a town of Arba, 28 miles N.W. of 
sjeb 1 
° 37 
. G, a town ‘of China, of, the fecond ated in 
Yunnan, N. lat. 25° E. long. 102° 16's 
f Ho. 
wn of China, of the third rank, in 
GAN | 
: id R,a town of Hindooftan; 40 miles N.N.W., of 
elhi. 
ANOS, a town of European Turkey, in Romania, on 
the fea of Marmora; 32 mile es N. E. of Gallipoli, N. lat. 
40° 48', “l. long. 278 1 
GAN-PIN, atown of Cia, of - third rank, in Korie 
tcheou ; 20 miles N.E. of Ngan-chu 
GAN-PING, a town ‘s a Gf tie third rank, in Pe. 
tche-li; 12 miles N. o 
GANSIGNI, a ~ of. Hindoofan in “ circar of Au. 
tungabad 5 a6 miles 2 5. Aur 
GANT, a town of Coa in ae Tyrolefe ; 
miles W.N.W. of Landeck. 
GANTINGA, atown on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 
N. a o' 14’. E. long. 122° 6, 
or GauntLET, a large, ftrong glove, 
made to cover the arm, or hand, of a eae, armed at ail 
po oints. 
The word is derived ee Ge French gaatelet and that frora 
gand, gant, glove. 
re ganntlet was of iron, and the fingers plated. ‘The 
caflk and ae dh were always borne in the ancient marches 
in ceremony. ntlets were not introduced till about-the 
thirteenth centur 
he gantlet was 13 frequently thrown, like the glove, by 
way of challenge. 
n Surgery, is a kind of bandage for the 
hand, bene a one four or five yards long, wherewith 
fevei 
Celebes. 
G 
they bee up the hand, and all the fingers, one after 
anothe 
GANTI. OPE, a military punifhment. See Military 
ExecuT 
ANTLOPE, or rea dd ee pronounced gaunt 
let, is a nate ment for felo Hong me other heinous oe 
fence, in a fhip of war. For ¢ s purpofe, the whole 
fhip’s crew is difpofed in two is ftanding face to face 
on both fides of oe deck, fo as to form a lane, whereby 
to go forward on ie fae and return aft on the others 
forward between the two 
ide, a certain number of times, rarely exceeding three ; 
aie which every perfon gives him a ftripe as h 
alon is ai which is called « runping” the 
Gane is ee ited, except for fuch crimes as 
will pee excite a goon ntipathy among the feam 
ARA, in by, a a wn of thi pioeien. 14 i 
olconda; 10 miles N. SF Pty arab 
YE, a town of ils < ie third rank, in Se- 
tchuen; 10 miles W.o O. 
GANYME DE, Tr taeda? ele come in ide to 
exprefs a catamite, or bar daci oO. See Sop 
oe fay, that the Jupiter who ravithed Ganymede was 
‘Fantalus, king of Phrygia; the eagle expreffed the fwift- 
nefs wherewith he was carried off- 
Rs pee of Ganymede was tape colic from Greece 
and fet up in ae temple of Peace ;: and to this 
3 ravenal ele -when 
‘«‘ Nuper enim repeto ava Tals, et Ganymedem hie facis.”? 
GAOGA, 
