GAR 
purfuit of fame and fortune. In this he was guided by great 
ae fenfe and eaare and a {pirit of order and economy. 
ith ihe imputation of avarice 5 but 
language, he had ee riors. 
able ; he compofed fome fmart epigrams, many pleafant and 
well adapted prologues, entertaining and 
and lively poems of humorous and familiar clafs.— 
Davies’ Life of Gar 
GARRIDER, in in, Gevgraphy, a ile of Hindooftan, in 
Guzerat ; 60 miles W.S.W. 
GARRISON, in the ae. f iS a body of forces 
pofed in a fortrefs, to defend it againft the enemy, or to 
town. 
the inhabitants in fubje€tion, or even to be fubfifted aie 
Ww 
the winter feafo 
u-Cange ses ‘the word from the corrupt Latin gar- 
: which the later writers ufed to fignify all manner of 
Ganson. arms, victuals, &c. cage for the defence of a 
place, and the fuftaining of a fie 
ifon, and winter quarters, are fometimes ufed indiffer- 
ently for the fame thing ; and foretimes they denote different 
things. the latter cafe, a garrifon is a ss wherein 
forces are maintained to fecure it, and where they keep regu- 
lar guards; as, a frontier town, a citadel, caftle, tower, 
&c. eg garrifon fhould always be ftronger than the 
townfme 
Winter quarters fignify a place where a number of forces 
are laid up in the winter feafon, without keeping the regular 
guard. The foldiers, aman like better to be in winter 
quarters than in garrifon 
Garnis oN Carriages 2 are thofe on ope all forts of gar- 
d. See T 
rifon pieces are mounte CARRI 
— Guns. See CANNON. 
nN Town, denotes generally a ftrong place in 
which 1 pene are quartered, and do duty, for its aia: 5 
keeping ftrong alee at each poit, and a main guard in, 
near the market-plac 
GARROWS, : Cue, a country of Afia, fituated 
between ae gee d Affam 
GARRULUS, in One iile. a fpecies of AMPEL 
which fee 
This hid is alfo denomin = ha Bohemicus 
i chattere ar 
reclinin backwards, and horay 
F the fecondarv feathers, 
3; the bill, throat, 
ee and ea are black. ‘The native country of thefe birds is 
Bohemia, from whence they wander over Europe, feeding 
dramatic pieces, 
GAR 
ri 
which they vifit annually, feeding on the berries of the moun- 
tain-afh, and as far fouth as Northumberland, making 
— of the white thorn their food. 
ULUs is a name given by Briffon to feveral {pecies of 
the Cory vus, whic 
8 Ar, eee is, a name given by Ray to the 
Coracras ea » which fee. 
GARRY, in Geography, a river of Scotland, which runs 
into the Tay, fix miles N. of Dunk 
GARSCHAW, a town of Pruffian Pomerelia; 16 miles 
S. of Dantzic. 
GARSDEN, a town of Samogitias 30 miles W. of 
Miedniki. 
G DT, a 2 of tan ga | of Wurz- 
urg; three miles $.8 of Schw eb 
: NG, a rate town, 
n the hundred of ior, ounty | 
f ita England, aoe only 62 houfes and 7317 
a is feated on the Made bank of the river 
yre,a 
and. undermined by an 
en down and rebuilt in the 
gtol. It was formerl pod to the’ 
aa a Cockerfand, and has chapels at Market-Gartta ang 
: ae 
lar. Ae i cotton and calico manufactory has been 
long efteblith fhed at Catteral, about two miles fouth of the: 
town; and at Seorton, ehice 1 iles; Dolph cae abe 
miles ; and Catitraw, feven ieee all to the north-e 
various ee aaa 3 and another mate three 
miles ri dusts 
Wit 
eftate e by m 
ay appear to pone re= 
boutthree miles W. of Garftang, is the eaft-fide of Pilling- 
Mofs, the fcene of a oe of w ich an account, to 
Wi 
