Cae 
Tarn, on the S.E. by the ae of the Au 
Arriege, on the §. by Spain, and on the W. by the depart- 
ments of the Upper d It takes its 
= 
o8 fquare leagues, sre it contain 
iftricts: el-Sarr 
on 1,69) kiliometres, and 142 
communes ; bl aaaie a containing 53,356 inhabitants, 
955 kiliometres, 99 communes; Muret, including t 
78,905 inha ie 1, ieee kilometres, an ‘d 130 communes, and 
St. selarg having mechan inhabitants, 2 ; aah iome- 
tres, ‘and 234 communes. - Its contributions amount 
455545341 francs, and ne expences charged Ser it for ad- 
minitration, juttice, and public inftru€tion, amount to 
432,316 fr. 66 cent." This department, lying between Lot 
and the frontier: of Spain, eae hills, and tolerably 
fertile plains ; producing grain, » wine of an indiffer- 
ent quality, paitures, and confiderable forefts, with quarries 
arble, and minera prings.: 
Garonne and Lot. See Lor and Garoune. 
GAROSMUS, in anon: from yorpavs gar rum, the liquor 
of pickled fith, and o:un, a fmell. .Dodoen. Pempt. 616. 
AA name very ear applied - Valerius Cotas to the Chenopo- 
dium olidum, F\. Brit. 277. Engl. Bot. t. 1034, whofe into- 
lerable fetor, when the plant is touched, refembles corrupt- 
: Lobel relates a ftory of i its being peculiarly at- 
Coa 
~ 
ogs 
UAI, or iucshleey in Geography, a town 
of hes on the Grain ‘coaft, on the river St. Cle- 
ment. 
RRA, Lana A, or Neratte, in Ancient Geography, 
of Mauritania _Cefarienfis, mentioned by Ptolem ny 
few was fituated. peer? the N.E. of Victoria, and had bee 
epifconal. 
GARRACHICA, in Geography, a town of the ifland 
Teneriffe, which had formerly been a fea-port ; but the 
harbour being deftroyed by an earthquake and eruption of 
the volcano on the ages in eae the houfes are now built 
where the fhips la 
GARRACOU RY, a tovin of Hindooftan, in Marawar ; 
20 miles $.S.E.of Tru 
RRAF, town “Of Spain, i in Catalonia, near the fean 
ngland. See Gar 
AR D, nty -of Kentucky, ‘a an ay 
S. E. of Madifon om on the fouth fide of. Kemeke 
riy 
GARRAWAY, a town of Africa, on the Slave coat. 
N. lat. 4° 10’. W. long. 89. 
. GARREFIO, a town of France in the department of 
the Stura; 9 miles 
Rie ETS, the pean rooms of a houfe in whole 
ao a in the roof,.: When the ae a comes very low in.the 
as rrets, the angles are cut off by afhlering, fo as to have a 
Side ie cise on the ro 
GARRET sea in Geography an ifland: 3 in the 
eaftern Pacha, a abou miles 
habited by ‘blacks, who are- eee with lances, bows, an 
mle ; fituated to the north of New I: teland. 5. ats 
” 30! . E. ae 15k 257, 
in circumference, in-- 
GAR 
GARRIA, in a oo an epifcopal town of” 
Africa, inthe Byz 
CK, Davin, in Bigra hy, was born in Here 
ford inthe year 1716. He was defcended from a French a 
mily, who fled to ae ne on the revocation of the edi& of 
antes. Fis father was a captain in the army, and ufually 
refided at Litchfield, ine at the time of David's birth he 
was, e of his = efon, at Hereford. The 
outh was educated partly at the ia a aay at ae 
field, and partly under the celebrated 
in very eae hfe diftinguifhed by his prising and iby 
a great pafiion for the drama. When s but 
years of age, he engaged his young oe to aff in 
getting up and acting the Recruiting Officer, in which he 
took the part ips Rasa ite. It was not till he was 
ab s old, and after he had madea trial in bu- 
finefs, that he was ed under Dr. Johnfon to kee in 
polite literature. At this period the love _— the yaa ne 
taken fuch fir m pofleffion of the mind of 
rropolie about the anes 17375, arric at firft 
r. Colton, an eminent mathematician = 
Rochefter, with ae reales of obtaining - ome gene 
knowledge previo ufly t entering at the Temple. Aft ter 
this, by a change of Gani in his faaly, he entered 
into o partnerfhip with his brother in the wine trade, ° ‘which he 
foon reling 
vourite 
ame to London, and in On ake of ae fame year he made 
nis appearance at a theatre in Goodman’s Fields. He 
t the charaCter. of Richard III. as one 
requ dee ty of perfon which he di 
poflels ; while it would give {cope to all tl 
and changes of paffion in which his principal excellence ever 
confifted. His natural mode of recitation, ain anovelty 
in tragedy to a London audience, produced its intended ef- 
fe€t, and never was an audience betrayed into more hearty and 
urifeigned applaufe. The part was repeated for feveral fuc- 
ceffive nights, and was followed by others both in oa a) 
h,”? faysacritic, “¢ was the b 
ie attending the new aor, that the eftablifhed oa 
were deferted, and ftrings of carriages from the polite part 
of the town thronged the ftreets of the city.’” While he 
s Fields he appeared as a dramatic writer 
>) 
e full ig ne! 
Ir n bes fice was ade over to one theatre at 
Lane, and at the clofe of the feafon he went blin 
he was received with an admiration bordering upon extrava- 
gance. Here the theatre was fo crowded that an- epidemic 
difeafe, which broke out in that capital, was called the Gar- 
ick fever. Upon hi 
nifhin — serie one 
charaéters ont an aad Lothari ayia 
ae ever more am oughly adopt ted, for the ce, “the cha~ 
yaéters which he fultained ; and his attention to propriety was 
