GAU 
and dangerous river in the whole country. Its mouth opens 
into the fea, where the coaft is ftraight, andit is croffed by 
a bar of find: aces in fummer, is generally dry. 
‘RES, or rather Gavres, or Gabres. See Ga- 
BRES 
in Campania. 
GAUSAPHNA, a town of Africa Propria, named alfo 
Gazauphala. Pto 
GA ANNY, i in pire ae atown of Hindooftan, 
in the circar a Gohud ; gom of Narna. 
A ced Rites in India ane a pafs 
through aoe or a landing place on the of a 
river ; but ina more extenfive feefe it is applied to the moun- 
tains ‘themfelye s; and as the Myfore country is 
table land, or tract-elevated above the reft of the penta 
the term is particularly applied to that country. 
Gauts, peculiarly fo called, are ranges of mountains, 
which run along the eaft and weft c oalts of the Deccan; 
the oe being called by ag natives the mountains of Silk. 
hien. Thefe m 
particularly on the wer fide, ee the fea, 
it were, a itupendous wall of mountains, and (upped ing, 
whole extent, denoting literally the 
er Gauts ;” or perhaps more correctly 
the countries lying above or below the Gauts. 
fula it is applied in contradiftinétion to “* Payen- or 
the ** Lower Gauts ;’”’ but in the — it feems to be ufed 
_ only as a proper name. Oppo ofite to Paniany, on the wettern 
coaft, there 1 r interruption of the mountains, 
i 
m more than 70 miles, and commonly about 40; and 
within oné {mall {pace only. This range approaches within 
fix miles. The r idge, which we are now defcribing, does 
not terminate ina point or promontory, when it approaches 
the Tapty, or Surat river; but, departing from its meridional 
courte, bends eaftward, in a wavy line, parallel to the river, 
and is afterwards loft among the hills, in the neighbourhood 
h 
of Burhanpour. e Tapty, it 
ee feveral ou or defce (that 1s, gauts) towards 
that river ; pile e the country into which the paffes d 
ve 
feend + was ee ae named Candeifh, or the low country. 
The ridge alfo feems to abate of its great height, after ta 
ing the parallel of Baffeen, northward. (See Bue- 
LANA. 
This famous Apennine marks, perhaps with more preci- 
fion, as Mr. Rennell obferves, than any- o 
whatever, the line of fummer and winter 
and wet, and extends 13 degrees of latitude. 
precife aes of thefe mountains nas not 
reat body of c 
and accordingly the alternate N.E. a We winds, called 
the monfoons, occafion a rain te on. on one fide of the 
: that is, on the windward fide. 
.M 
confiderable quantity of rain falls in a upper région 
table land of eae hone but it is Tappofed that ‘this 
within the 
GAURUS, i in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Italy, . 
It would : 
GAW 
tered tract, though at leaft 200 miles to the leeward of the 
— It has been, till of late, a general opinion, that 
e Gauts extended from the Northern, or Bootan mountains, 
7 aa i 3 aay occafioned a diverfity of feafons at 
But the der 
my > 
of ae rere for in ie parallel of Surat ce 
a . part 
SP gee by a wall 
caufe fee the 
of m 
Rennel?? 8 Men 
GAUTHIER, or GavLtizr, Joun Baptist, in Bio- 
graphy, was born at Louviers, in the diocefe of Evreux, 
in the year 1685. He was from early life attached to the 
ftudy of theology, but, in obedience to tl:e wifhes of his 
parents, he riapaote the ftudy of the law; finding, how- 
ever, his diflike to that ftudy Ceeacune ele, he was per- 
mitted to follow his pleaeoes and entered, in t 
His diligence and ability at- 
Normand, bifho: of a 
tion of junior ecclefiaftics. 
tracted the mae of M. . 
who took him into his fam 
uvre hg ¥ 
bifhop oulogne. By that prelate he was — into 
priefts’ orders, and after t 
taking his degrees in law, he 
ted to the canonry of his cathedral: he che 
m his proétor, and vicar-general, becaufe Gauthier’s 
ae proved a bar to his elevation in the church. 
From this time M. Gauthier was the bofom friend of his 
patron and leer who, ina great meafure, {ubmitted 
himfelf to -his advice in the concerns of his diocefe. 
bifhop likewife eid himfelf of sy pen in various pu 
cations, par ticu arly i in the “* Letters and Memoirs,”’ 
he printed during his difpute witn che archbifhop o 
eath of M. de Langle, Gauthier entered 
F er, a 
all ecclefiaftical ened his private chaplain, and confiden- 
tial fecretary. He then went to Paris, iaeeay he ae a 
remainder of his days in literary employme He di 
1755, in confequence of an injury which he (ine cs ‘he 
overthrow of a carriage as he was travel! rom ee 
to Paris, when he was feventy-one years o ae 
ications were extremely numerous, chiefly on theological 
fubjets. The titles of them all are given in Moreri, 
which the reader is referred. 
TY, in Geography, a town of Bengal; 28 miles 
W. of Nagore 
GAUTUMPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 
20 miles W. of Corah. ' 
GAW Mining, fignifies a Fault, in Fae of York~ 
fhire and fome other places. See that artic 
GAWA. 
