GAR 
° 
be puni 
and the fheriff fhall anfwer fot him. 
5 Mod. 415, 416. 
The abufes of Saad and fheriffs’ officers towards the 
well reftrained 
| Hawk. 1 a 5> 6 
unfortunate perfons in their cuftody, are w 
and guarded again{t by ftatute 32 Geo. 
Gaolers are not jultified by law in ae a prifener 
wnlefs he is unruly, or has attempted anefcape. (2 Init 
g Inf. 34.) The humane language of our ancient law- 
givers . ; Me penta poenam fibi commifforum non augeant, 
mec €03 ant; fed omni ley ew — 9 
a debit exequa File Ie 
3 Intt. gt. 
f. 321, 2 
AONS, a certain order of Jewith doctors, who appear- 
ed in the Eaft after the clofing of the Talmud. The word 
ages fignifies ame Jfublime; as in the divinity {chools 
bcd 
e formerly had irrefragable, fublime, refolute, angelic, 
and fubtile doftors. The Gaons fucceeded the Se pase 6; 
or Opiners, done ginning o e fixth century. 
ar 
breach, or opening 
ina edge Go. sf a are capable of being 
repaired in many rc eee es according to their nature 
and circumftances ; but it is in general the beft done by hav- 
ing recourfe to living plants a eas fame kind as the hedge, 
and fui itec in fize to it. ade 
i igher Alps. 
The placecontains 8050, and the canton ee 3 inhabitants, on 
a territory of 200 kiliometres in 7 communes. Before. the 
revolution, it was the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of ‘Aix, and 
capital of aceunty called «« Gapengois,’’ about nine leagues 
, 
lon ee fix wide ; 345 miles S. of Grenoble. N. lat. 44° 34’. 
- 6° 10'. 
E. 
APSAL, or Hapsa, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 
paent of Rev. on a {mall gulf of the Baltic ; formerly the 
fee of a bifhop, ‘and fubje€ to the Danes, but in the beginning 
of the 18th aagtl annexed to = lay 36 miles W.S.W. 
of Revel. 9° g. 42° 
G ,a lake ie aad, in the county of Sligo, o 
the confines of t is an extenfive and reman- 
tic fheet of neers or fax an the Nae of Boyle. 
Gara, alake of Egypt; 12 miles 5. of Fayoum 
GARACHIO, a town on the weft coat of the ifle of 
Teneriffe. 
GARAFOA, Caper, a cape on the weft coaft of Africa. 
N. lat. 2° 40 
GAY, i : tebe pon ie name ofa rapacious bird 
er Mexico, of the r kite; its head and the tips of 
its wings are w iia ; “tt but "ort flights ; it is very 
fond of the eggs of tortoifes and crocodiles, a hunts the 
places where they have buried them in the fand 
Vou ° 
GAR 
GARAJAM, in Geagraply a river of Africa, which runs 
into the Atlantic, ie 
A, in ya Geography, atown of Africa, the 
metropolis of the people called Garamantes. 
xA ANTES, the pace inhabitants of an extenfive 
diftriG of Africa, fitdated t6 eS. E. of Getulia, and E. 
of the Nigrite. Although the limits of their co aad can- 
not be ea afcertained, there is reafon to believe, that 
it extended to the borders of the Proper Ethiopia, and that 
it comprehended ged ek dasa ecordin re 
Shaw, fome of the t Garamantes fpread ara bei 
over that track that included the ‘h ‘trike of Gad-dem 
Fezzan, and fom the more diftant cities and villages of ‘he 
kingdom of Tripoli Their country, whatever might be its 
extent, abounded with wild beaits ; and the inhabitants were 
fo favage, that sa fled at — fight of a perfon belonging 
to any other natio eftitute of arms, they made no effort 
or eee w ven they were attacked, and they wholly 
fecluded th with one r people. cy 
feem, seen to ole gradually advanced toa hile ttate 
of fociety, as they built towns, or rather dafhkras ; the prin- 
cipal of which were Garam 
8, an 
eae g ie dae ed 
ith the Car ieee, Arabs, Perfians, 
d, the caravans of the Carthaginians 
muft, in all probability, have pafied to Carthage from thofe 
~ Resear through the fandy deferts of the Gara- 
ante as been {aid that they, as well as the Per- 
fe san nd Ethiopians, fupplied the Carthaginians with a great 
number of valuable gems. Although it ae by the tef- 
timony of Herodotus, that the ancient Gar: tes were re- 
proached with cowardice, their ice a © have been 
of a different ig elas if we ely on the accounts 
acitus, and Felts Avienus. Some 
a like their beara 8 
others Gohabited ¢ 
which were difperfed over ee arched and tare ren alias 
The former lived fr ped and fupported themfelves by hunt- 
ing. The ares of the Garamantes, as well as Nig gritia, 
e 
2 they fem, wit e la cae or 
rather languages, {poken in thefe regions, bore a great athnity 
at firft to the Egyptian, Arabic, and Ethiopic, and at this 
time may poffibly a corrupted dialects of thefe tongues. 
As to their religion, they, in common with the Arabs, Indi- 
-ans, and Et ore OE {hipped J upiter mart reprefenting 
him s head, or at le ith r 
with a ra head, or alt w s horns, and had 
a temple ed to cae The women nen the Gara- 
mantes were ufed emo fo that _they feem - hank 
a may ~~ in procefs of time, as we learn from Pactun 
y feems to have prevailed among them. Ptol 
eee oerte ae they formed a large a 
extending themfelves from meunt ee to the lake 
morafs Nuba; and yet their affairs are fcarcely at all § te. 
corded i in hiftory. Mafiniffa, when expelled from his domi- 
. As the roads 
dered impaflable e by 
_the Romans ns had little “know of-them 2 after 
ublic. s Cornelius Balba 
nit 
