GAU 
ight bars, and the fecond contains eight, twelve, or mores 
with a minim, or two crotchets, or notes of 
3 and ends with the fall of 
nal of the mode. 
ts of Corelli, Albinoni, Vivaldi and others of 
the Italians, oncioad with thefe rules as far as they relate 
_ tothe meafure, the number of bars in each ftrain, and the 
cadences ; but in refpect to the initial notes of the air they 
deviate from it; for they fometimes begin ies a whole bar, 
and fometimes with an odd quaver. Cotg in his Dic- 
sae a Gavote akind of Brawle, ned commonly 
AUPP, Jo eae in Li Nie a 
Lindau, in Swabi lay 
went ae univerfity of Jena, where he took the degree of 
d became a confiderable proficient in mathematics. 
After this he {pent fome time in different German univerfities, 
improving himfelf in theology and baa aaa and then 
Nar capt a and London. 93 he was admitted 
o the offic ini i 
ie - attained fuch a rank among the ee of a 
s to be honoured by the ace : man ye ia 
moft canes mathematicians in foreign coun sa 
practical mechanic, as Bien as an ae illaftrator of the ‘higher 
branches of fcience, any of the inftruments which he 
made ufe of in a pie or. en in his experimental re- 
fearches, were conftructed by himfelf. He had begun the 
erection of an Sia. but death terminate } his labours in 
38. He was the author of «© Gnomonica Mechanica Uni- 
verfalis :’ d nd calculations and defcrip- 
tions of ee of other eo el treatifes, and of 
ermons. s Ep 
were received by the 
li 
of thofe learned focieties. : 
G , or ZOuF, in ari acity of Afia, and capital 
of a {mall kingdom or flate, in the fouthern part of Greater 
Bucharia, feparated by mountains from Cant a Candahar. 
This city was taken by Mamood I., and in roog annexed 
with its territory to Ghizni. It is fa: ef to be now fubject to the 
kingdom of ae 150 miles S.W. of Bal lat 
34° 40’. E. long. 63° 54’. The mountains of Gaur 
N. and N. W. of Candahar, ar are Mak ably the 
of antiquity ; and they have 
_ Caucafus » as ce ancients ane 
GA RA, in Botany, from yauzo-, pompous and elated; a 
Linn. Gen hreb. 250. Willd, 
n the 
Poca: 
onnection with the chain of 
a ‘Linn. Onagra, 
Cal. Per bod of one fuperior, irae: 3 
tube cylindvical, long, thickeft at the bafe, containi 
obfolete, oblong, —— ena 3 limb in four deep, 
biennial plant in our ss owering from 
when th mn 
four yea 
GAU 
oblo ong, acute, reflexed fegment Cor. Petals four, 
inferted i into the tube of the a epione, directed towards 
the upper fide, equal, with narrow claws. m. Filaments 
eight, thread-fhaped, br err ae vards the extremity, with 
an obfolete, = neGariferous gland withinfide of pal 
bafe of each; oblong, verfatile. erme 
erior, oblong, of four cells, with the ea of feveral feeds 
affixed to the central columnar receptacle; ftyle thread- 
{preading. Peric. 
its-angles dilated and compreffed, of four cells, three of 
which are aac! abortive. Seed folitary, oblong, angular. 
h. Calyx four-cleft, tubular. Corolla of four pe- 
an canned upwar Drupa dry, inferior, quadrangular. 
. biennts. Linn. Sp. Pl. 493. Curt. Mag. t. 389.— 
henge: lanceolate. Stem herbaceous. Stamens and ityle 
pendulous.—Native of Virginia and hay hae A hardy 
ult to Oc 
er, an en the ei is favourable, a pagating 
icfelf copioufly by feed. The /lem rifes to the height of fix 
or eight feet, and is leafy, much branched. Leaves alternate, 
foft, bluntly toothed. Flowers extremely numerous, in denfe 
corymbofe terminal clufters, leant con{picuous on ac- 
count of their red calyx and white 
2. G. fruticofa. Jacq. Te. 
linear-lanceolate. Stem 
—Lea 
ves 
quarter fo large, whofe corolla is not fo much expanded, and 
whofe ftamens and hele are prorinent, not pendulous, The 
colours of the parts agre 
The Gaura ae a “Willdenow and Cavanilles, figured. 
in Curt. Mag. t. 388. by the name of pe cokaie anomala, is, 
rding to oe account 
mem in 
latter its flower perfectly accords. "Curtis s hint of its eine 
‘dead a genus diftinct from, hoth, is perhaps. neareft the 
trut 
URA, in Geography, atown of. — in the jurifdic- 
tion Of ancays containing a about o houfes, and twa 
i fituated in a fertile country, a atered by a river 
of t me name. nief commerce is in falt and falt beef. 
mA ‘fons, in Ancient Geography, a mountain men- 
aoe in the Itinerary of Jerufalem, between 
us, and Lucus, fituated, as M. D’Anville conjectures, in 
anohi 
GAURANUM PRoMONTORIUM, a promontory of 
Affyria, near the mouth of the Tigris. 
GAVRAY, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 
ment of the Channel, ug ae oa = a et in the diftri& 
re ica eu 3 9 mi ace con- 
1823, andt eaten a 506 inhabitants, on a territo- 
ns ae. 1624 Pieae res, in 15 co 
GAURBEND. Coan END. 
GAURIANISI, a “Gmall ifland in the Spies Archi- 
pelago, W. of Andros. N. lat. 37°52'. E. long. 24° 50’. 
GAURITZ River, ariver of 2 on an fouth 
oaft of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, which is a 
colle@ion of water from the Great Karroo plains, the Black 
mountains, andthe chain that ors pa she and neareft to 
northward of this chain 
r, though in the 
rent, In the rainy feafon it is confidered as the moft rapid 
and 
