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rays, the firft of which is fhort and fpinous; and the tail 
contains twelve rays. 
Inhabits = feas a Europe, and is rarely, if ever, found 
n frefh wa The food of this fpecies confitts of the fry 
of fithes and worms. 
parts of Europe, not as an article of food, for it is feldom 
eaten; but, like the common frefh-water ftickleback, for the 
purpofe oe manure, and alfo for the fake of the oil, which it 
be in pete ance. 
Spines on the pofterior part of the head 
four, omewbat ferrated; the lateral ones as long as the 
belly. nel. 
A ane a: India. 
Acantuias. Four fmall rays before the dorfal fin ; gill. 
membrane three-rayed. line 
Inhabits the feas of Denmark. 
GAST i fometines called Gaftaldi, in BS ch 
a volur minous mu ian compoier, born 
vaggio, was aut thor of th ity different works; the tiles on 
dates of which m nin Draudius and Walther. Of 
thefe we have me fon ne ballads, printed at Antwerp, 
‘1596, under the following title: « Balletti a 5. co i verfi 
per cantare, fonare, e ballares; con una as de Cac- 
ciatori a 6. e un Concerto de’ This puts the 
derivation of our word baflad ont of al ke cnah ori- 
aa meant a ong th that was fung and danced at the fame 
. The 
Ful Gea ae we cine feen before the cultivation of eat for 
the ai he firft edition of aie ballads was publifhed 
at Ven 15913; many of them are called Fa /as, under 
which title our Morley, four years a publifhed fhort airs, 
in five parts: fo that it feems as if the name of Fa ia, filly 
as it is, was not ia eae “ngli 
e 
aes duke of Nemours, and nephew of ji 
Lewis XI. ing Frances 1 was born in 1488 The mo- 
outh, and - a 
i ee 2. 
retreating army, and m 
from his hore, oa killed i an e ae s pike 
aiek happened in his 24th year, more — erehdane! the 
joy arifing from the fuccefs. Morer 
GAST ONIA, in Botany, fo named by Commerfon and 
Juffieu, in honour of Gafton duke of Orleans, the fecond 
fon of Henry IV. of France. He = ae patron of os 
ane and ap ai the botanic gard ois, kno 
botanifts by the name of Sorts bk Bijnf “of which Morifon 
publi a catalogue. ue. This prin lan for a ge- 
al collection of drawings of plants, which was regularly 
coca after his death by the kings of France up to the 
revolution, and is ftill we believe in a progreflive ftate, con- 
Rituting one great ornament of the national library.—Juff, 
Lamarck. Diét. v. 2. 610. lafs and order, Do- 
ekeandria ee Nat. Ord. Hederacee, Linn. Arata, 
Gen, Ch. 
tire, fight! waved, Cor. 
at bafe, ey — ie Se 
in at the point. Stam. Filaments twelve, 
ailthaned : ies fhorter than the 
corolla, oblong, faceowed, of two lobes. Pi. Germen ovate, 
furrowed; ftyles ten or twelve, {mall and fhort; ftigmas 
iimple. Perit. Capfule?or berry? ovate, with ten or twelve 
Vou. XV. 
- is taken in great plenty in fome. 
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furrows and as many cells, crowned with the permanent ca- 
lyx.  Sceds folitary. 
Eff. Ch. Calyx of one leaf, fuperior, entire. Petals fix, 
broad at ’ bale. Fruit a ans cells. Seeds folitary. 
Forfter’s Po- 
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Fi ification. 
mblhiferovs tree of the ifle de Bourbon, called in that 
country J ois d’cponge, from its fpongy bark, and hence La- 
rck gives it the awkward fpecific name of cuts ifpo ngia. 
The leaves are pinnate, with a terminal leaflet often wanting ; 
leaflets two or three inches lon 
a in Asana or um 
rith yellow any a than in moft 1 
ie “phot, all equal a ie + J ues u fays ne on 
old tree pa a ve five petals an een ftamens ; on younger 
ie are a oe | to him 
for a fest Lamar s to have omitted this genus 
in his plates. . writer ‘confers the Nalugu, Rheede 
Hort. Mal. v. 2. 43. t. 26, other {pecies, which Lin- 
neus quotes for his Aralia inn and Juffieu is difpofed 
to refer to Aguilicia, that is, 
GASTORYF, in Cegraphy, a oo of ae in the 
circle of Leitmeritz; 8 miles S.I. of Leitm 
GASTOUNY, a oS SF Saeences Turkey, in the 
Morea ; i 12 miles E. of Chiarenz 
REL, Francis, in Baan hy, was 8 born at Slap- 
ton a ed rthamptonthire, about the year 2. 
and 1687 oe his degn ees of 
.an .A., andina ee time he was admitted to or 
ders, and became diftinguifhed as a preacher. In 16 he 
was appointed pr eacher to the. honourable fociety of Lincoln’s. 
Inn, Lon d to preach the 
le€ture founded by the Hon. . The difceurfes 
delivered on ies occafion he p 
rf Groun sand Prine iples m Duty. cheablithed.”" 
In the year 1 + publithed : another difcourfe as a fe 
t of the fame important yak entitled ‘* The chriftian 
appointed chaplain to the houfe of commo wo years 
fterwards he wags prefented by the queen = a canonry of 
Chrift-church in Ox bout this time he engaged in 
fiderations arate the Trinity, and the way of managin g 
that controverfy,’? which was fo well received that it quick- 
ly paffed through two editions, and in the third he fubjoined 
a vindication of it in reply to fome animadverfio He of Mr. 
Ration Collins in his « Efay concerning the ufe of Rea- 
: n.”’ In 1707 he publithed «The Chriftian fatlinecs, &e. 
ment.”? In e year 1711 
in een for the c re) P: 
pointed one of the queen’s chaplains. In 1714 he publithed 
his « Remarks upon pee rke’s Scripture Doétrine of the 
Trinity,’ and in the oe e year he was oiomeed to the 
bifhopric of Chefter, which occafioned the refignation of 
ffice as preacher at Lincoln’s Inn, though he was fill 
permitted to hold the canonry of Chrift-church i in commen. 
4S dam. 
