GAT 
The douiaticns of gateways fhould always be well laid with 
fome folid material-of the itone kind. 
H, in Ancient Geogr re a.city of the Philiftines, 
one of their five fatrapies, or principalities, (1 Sam. vi. a7: 
w aa were fituated along the Mediterranean coatt, between 
that and the tribes of Simeon, Dan, and part of baa amin, 
eats from the fea-port of Jamnia to the month of the 
river eon. Gath, or Geth, was famous ee birth-place 
of Goliath; it was firft conquered by Dav Mm. XVil. 
4.) and continued  Lubjet to his fucceffers af a declenfion 
if the kingdom of Judah. (2 Sam. vii. 1. ) It was rebuilt 
and fortified by Rehoboam re Chron. xi. 8.) : and retaken 
y Uzaiah and Hezekiah. It was foes sheik five or~ 
fix miles S. of Jamnia, dita 14.5. of Joppa, and 32 W. 
of Jerufalem. Gath vy the mott fouthern city of the 
Philiftines, as Ekton, or eon: was the moft northern ; 
fo that Ekron and Gath are ee as i boundaries of 
their land. (1 Sam. vii. 2.) Jerom places. 
Gath 
rae ee or or GAT! 1-Epher, a town in vo diftri& of 
ee n Galilee, Be ha ey of the het Jona 
{2 Ki ee xiv see sess by Jofhua (xix. 13. ae Zebulun. 
Hie in his preface on Jonah fays, that it was two. aS 
m Sephoris, or Diocefi 
“GA tH-Rimmon, a oe ionene to Dan (Jofh. 
45.) by Jerom ro. miles from_Diofpolis, towards 
Eleutheropolis : it was given to the Korathites.—Alfo, 
city in the half- a a Manaffeh, on this fide of Jordans 
to (J asa a city. of 
eee given to ie ‘Korathites. 1 Chron: vi. 6¢ 
EZ, a town of bas Pigpeancuae in Arcadia, 
according to Paufan 
GATHEATES, a final river of coca in the fouthern 
part, which ran from fouth to north, and having received the 
Carsion, gchrge elt ae the Alpheus, over-again 
ore opolis. 
. fhip is faid to 
d of 
er. 
of: oe. N. lat. o 
GATINOIS; or pens a 
anes the ie tones In the 
of its own, and was afterwards joined 
times es hay partly Goeaged to. the government of Orleans, 
and par o the acai of the ifle of France, and was 
ditinguithed by the names of .“ Gatinois waar ap d 
‘« Gatinois Frangois,”” It now forms part o e depart- 
Mai are, ‘Se ine and. - fe, and oe 
ne Eaft Ind lan te 12 miles 
E. long. 1 
40 miles 5. of Mourzouk. 
GATSCH, a ee and cattle of Hungary ; ; 12 miles E. 
of Korpona. 
GATSEELA, a town of Bengal; 46 miles W. of 
Midnapour. 
5 or r Kattaos a toga of Afiica, in Fezzan ; 5° 
GAY 
cia a ftrait between the Frifch Haff and a. Ger- 
n fea. . 
CAT PAIR, in Oraitholey, a 1 {pecies 0 of eas. ae 
GATTAN, i Geography, a. town of Findootan in 
Allahabad ; 10 les north of Jionpo 
GATTAR, or Karrar, a fea- of Arabia,~in the 
province. of Lachfa, on the Perfian Pale oppotite to Bahh. 
rein; 40 miles S. of El-Catif. 
GATTINARO, a town of France, in the department 
of the Sefia, on the Sefia; 15 miles N. of Vercelli 
G 
of the ifland of Cyprus, 
phrurium”’ Ci 8 
and weit parts of it bei ing a mor afs, and on the eaft fide isa 
large falt lake, which j is “filled by the rains in — and is 
almoft dry in fummer. ‘The fouth part is a barren rocky 
foil, on which is.a ruinous uninhabited convent, called « St. 
= 
3 ed 
a; 
oe 
[o¥) 
wn = the county of Surry, 
a boro ae 
of fome extent and 
TTON,. 
England, has heen formerly. 
confequence ; b 
A. privileged few. of thefe, about feven, fend ¢ 
- This = — se ne its neighbours 
8 
hiegate owes. its 
ruin 3 the honor of bee repre in 1 porlament. It had 
once a caftle, fucceeded the manor-houfe.”? This is a 
na ihe alee feated in a fine park, which abounds with, 
plantations, and.is ornamented.with a lake of about forty. 
acres. The river Mole rifes in this parifh. . 
ey dep in Ichthyology, a {pecies of Blennins, 
with palmated {mall an es 
Artedi defcribes it, with tw 
anal fin confiiting of 23 fall coe 
diterranean and Atlantic: feas. . ery defcribes a iifh of 
this fpecies, which was found on the Anglefea coait. Its. 
aren was 74 inches; the body fmodth and compreffed cn 
; the belly a little estas and the vent, like 
oes ee ae crefted r, or © galeri laced v inder the 
ends of the pe€toral fins, The teeth ae almoit fetaceous 
and very clofe-fet; between the eyes was a {mall hollow, 
and above each, jutt on the fummit, was a narrow loofe 
aml trifurcated at the top, w which diftinguithes this 
» 
ct 
ct 
i] 
G 
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te 
o 
ad 
So 
“a 
of the ven mee a 
Gaw, Gou, or Gow, a termination in the Gee 
man language, fignifying country, canton, or diftrid. 
Gau Scherkie, in Geography, a town of Eg gypt, on the. 
right bank of the Nile, oppofite to Tahta, tuppofed by. 
Norden to be the ancient Diofpolis, | In this 
Bie ae 
vered by a fingle ftone refting upon columns. ‘ 
is well as Saha, and i it is ufed by the Arabs as a lodgment 
for their 
AV a in the Materia Wein: a name given by. 
fome of the old writers.to bdellium, particularly to. the , 
Arabian kind, which was the purett, and was eas in 
orm of {mall tears, and of a pale yellovrith colour 
GA AVALS, 
n orange ¢ 
