GAR 
a. canton, in the diftri€ of Aix; 4 miles S.S.E. of Aix 
The place ae 2279 a and the mone i 529) inhabitant, or 
a territory 0 4 kilometres, i ey 
GARD NT, in Her: aldry. 5 oman 
GARDE, in Geography, a town of Hinder Pomerania, on 
az frefh-water lake, abounding with fifh, near the fea; 13 
miles N.E. of Stolpe. 
GARDECAUT, or Garp pu Corp, in a watch, that 
which ftops the fufee, when wound up, and for that end is 
driven up by the ftring. Some call it guard-cock ; others, 
Derr 
GARDE EIAH, a town of Africa, the capital of — 
Mezzab 5 180 miles E. of Fighig. N. lat. 32’ 15’. 
long. 2” 30!. 
GARDELEBEN, or GarpELeGeEn, a town of the Old 
Mark of Brandenburg, containing four churches, four hof. 
pitals, and a manufacture of cloth 3 3 celebrated for its beer ; 
»2 miles W. of Berlin. N. lat. 52° 32. E. iene: a 
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nift and zoologilt, was 
N, ALEXANDER, in Biography, an eminent bo- 
Scotland 
Dr. Altton, and where, probably, he took the degree of’ 
doctor of phytic. 
South Carolina, i in 1752, and foon after married. From 
firft arrival in America he had betaken himfelf to the eft 
gation of the vegetable apr a oe Ch: a vi 
the affiftance of the works of Tournefort a ay; 
u eateft difficulty in afeer oe ‘his ditcoveres, 
aud efpecially in ebeen fuch lan eared nonde- 
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which ee ideas and fyitem of Tournefort in particular were 
accomm n the midft of this gl apaig ely Dr. Garden 
met with the F wndamenta Botanica and Cla sion! “um 
I} lora Virginica A Gron 
Thefe boo rn ally le firlt, delighted him fo aa, 
that he introduced himfelf to the corre efpondenc ce of Linnzeus 
in March, 1 
in which i expr i his admiration - the —— di- 
t e a journey through 
fome _ northern ie ices os ert Mr. Colden, ne 
New here, alfo, he became perfonally sequainted 
with ae rere jown Bartram, then juft returned from. 
an excurfion to the Blue mountains. Equally ftruck 
the knowledge and with the candour of thefe men, he be 
came oie atly attached to.them. Viri,”’ fays he, in the 
above letter, “* quorum ut fumma eft in arte fapie nae et in- 
duftria, fic et intemerata fides. 
——— anima, quales neque candidiores. 
Terra gulit.’’ 
He fettled as a phylician at — 
GAR 
He had fearcely difpatched this firft letter, when ‘he 
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ceived from Europe t 
e 
ardent botanift, the jes not only of Linnzus,. 
but of Canova. Collinfon, Ellis, and seesiceall; of moft 
other diftinguifhed naturaliits in various eels s of the a 
In his firtt o at sean 8 8, which sane mmu-. 
nicate to the great 5 name 
next, pe ich pee a Styrax, the levigatum of 
Kew. v. 2. Linnzus, however, was not at firft 
aware of this, and deftine:l the {uppofed new soem to com- 
memorate Dr. Hales; nor is it certain that he ever difco- 
ee his miftake after Ellis had. eftablithed a ule ‘diftin 
Hale he ta, like the Styrax in flower and habit, but male praies 
in t lea the H. tetraplera, and the leav ves, 
not he fruit, of 
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as anxious to obtain from Dr. Garden a know-. 
ledge of ce Nae aad efpecially the fifhes, of South Car O- 
ot 
lina, and in this he was n 
peculiarly 
dextrous at this'operation, fo as to preferve ne outline of 
fith, at make) impor rtant character, with b arcat U- 
Lacerta and Maren 710. Th Augule 1766, he wrote to Tons 
zeus in Englifh as follows. « It give es me much fatisfaction, 
ale t you pad fome pleafure in viewin 
We have nv hen ° his province... They live im 
dams and ponds of frefh water,. and in low marfhy grounds 
all over ‘the: ‘province. I } {een them of all fizes, from 
ver grow to abov : 
mot ; al all thefe are land animals, 
never ee a in water but when driven into it. 
think this being no /arva of any animal, 
In one that I opened 
entire eae in {pirits,, 
ioe the fkin, head, and ieee hei of the 
Pree ear i defired my etre to dafh the head. 
