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printed at Utrecht in 1698. The fecond was entitled “ De 
Diphthongis five Bivocalibus Differtatio philologica, in qua 
Literarum quarundarum fonus 
During the aie ee of thefe learned works, Mr. 
.Gataker had been almoft laid afide from his -paftoral du- 
ties by ill health ; but when he was able he gladly ares to 
the duties vol = ee till, by the rupture o - 
veffel, he o de clin ne the fervice of ae e pu ce. 
altogether, ae aoe ae his time almoft entirely in ftudy, 
2S in sais a a to the world a work or le ftyle 
ich gained him the character of 
cae one of the abled pilolgit . the age. ‘his was 
the precurfor to Of a fi 
of great ufe in cigeseee Phe fenfe oe diffi 
the Old and chy pide t, the primitive fathers, fodeai 
a dea authors both Greek and Latin, 
_ into w. hich i it was divided, 
the remainder were given to the world 
y his fon aes the odie 8 ve th. 
particularize all Mr. Gataker’s : 
in 1652 he publifhed his edition of Antoninus’s meditations, 
ae a very valuable pea ae difcourfe on the philofophy 
oics. ie the other London mini- 
Af 
the auity and bidity, of the 
bike ied ees ie oe Be , Ga- 
cemed : 
es 
“which is the moft remarkable, his aoe 3 piety and 
‘charity, his polite literature, or his humility and age 
in refufing preferm a ‘He is alee praifed by 
ayle, Colonius, and o Befides the as 
gees enumerated, he was ior of man 
of which are given in the Biog. Britannica, to which our 
readers are referred for iionscon re{pecting this worthy 
man and excellent divine 
G °, in Arsh eae: a large door, giving entrance 
into a city , town, caitle, palace, or ai contiderable build- 
re of or 
; apert paflage ches, 
ae ns he proportion of gate yas feven to twelve 
feet in width, and the height 14 the breadth. Where 
loaded carts of hay and ftraw re to pafs, the height may 
even be t less the breadth 
g of onions ‘were ma = them oS into 
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be lefs than feven feet broad, nor more than twelve; the 
height to be 14 the breadth. 
GaTE, in Rieal i 2 a frame of wood conftruéted 
-with a number of he and fixed in fuch a manner as to 
a 
alfo eae that the different parts be put a 
with confiderable accuracy and corre¢tnefs. In refpe& t 
durability, there can be no doubt but that oak is by much 
the beft fort of wood to be employed ; but fome of the-more 
light kinds of wood, fuch as thofe oe the deal, willow, and 
alder forts, anfwer the purpofe cea tact well, and are 
very durable, as, on account of their fetes: they do 
not deftroy themfelves fo much in ae . Itis found by 
-experience that the lighter gates can be made in their fore- 
parts, fo that they be fufficiently ftrong for the intended 
pare the better the ey anfwer. For this reafon, in fome 
cafes, as where horfes are chiefly to be confined, the top 
bars, by oo left of more it ui may admit of the 
th of gat s for general paroles moftly from 
eight and a half to nine eee and the heig a ae five to fix 
feet ; the bars being five or fix in number, en ach four or five 
inches in breadth. Hence they are frequently denominated 
five or fix-barred ase In cafes where fowls or other {ma 
animals are to be guarded againft, it is fometimes the cuftom 
to run a fmaller bar cae een the two lov wermoft ones, as by 
this means their paffage is prevented. 
In different fituations and diftricts gates are formed in very 
different manners, but thofe chiefly employed are of four 
anes are ia {wing Sead the ove gate, the flip-bar 
nd the wicket or turn-abou ach of thefe 
ie of gates ie likewife Ben varie a in their forms, as 
may be jeen in the annexed plate by the different figures. 
The moft fimple form of gate is oS of the flip-bar, 
which merely confifts in running three or four bars into the 
fixed po “A are moveable at pleafure, 
fo as to fo hi e pofts m 
either oe aces or fone: Gan firmly Gxed into the ground, 
and having proper holes formed in them for the reception of 
he bars. 
- oe of this fort is feen at fig. 1. in Plate (Agriculture) 
Tt has been obferved that this is perhaps the moft durable 
of any fort of gate, particularly — the gate-pofts are of 
dtone. The only objection that can be made to it is that 
of the trouble of opening and fhirtting: it, which, poe n per- 
aa Agia it in a hurry, renders it liable to be left 
cheapnefs and lafting property render it in — 
aie repel’ preferable to any other defcription of gat 
‘The only initances in which it does not perfedtly anfwer, are 
‘thofe near the verge of a farm, or-on the fide of a highwa ay 
or other public road, as it does not admit of being locked or. 
fecured as other ates are. In the whole of the interior of 
farms or eftates, it is, however, generally found the moft — 
‘cheap, convenient, and ufeful gate that can be emplo yed.by 
the far. 
The "fw ving gate is that which is next in the - fimplicity . 
its conftruétion. ‘This as very greatly in its = 
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