GAZ 
weight of a given volume at a certain gets and ies 
rature mult be previoufly known. This may be feen in a 
sea under the article Gas. a. mean preffure of the at- 
of mercury, and the 
mation: that is, the volume 
mutt be increafed if the eae is below g5°, and di- 
minifbed if above 55°, by the fraétional part above f{pecified. 
pail a I. 1—Required the a Sea of 1000 made inches of 
. at ihe fame time being 29.5 inches, and the Aone 
"Solin. Fer the real aie . 5 gas is 29.5 — 
aches = 27. Hence, 30 : 10 900 =< the 
slum of gas ers i 30 inches or ‘pref, Again 
62° — 55° ahs 4.5, which being 
saea from 00, ae 885. ae inches a gas at the com- 
on preflure and ea oes But cubic inches weigh 
a grains ; whence 885.5 X 31 or grains, as re- 
quired, 
Example 2-—Required the weight of 1000 cubic inches of 
common air in a water gazometer 3 the water within being 
3 inches below that without, the barometer at the fame 
time Pac 29.8, and the hemoneice 38°. 
ution - Here the real preflure of the gas is 29.8 + the 
profi of 3 inches of water; but 3 inches of water = 
-y.¢ inches of mercury = .22 2 inch. Whence the preffure 
= 30.62. And go: 1009:: 30.02: 0.7, the volume 
of reduced - 30 inches of f preffare. Again, 55° 
38° = 17°, and J tof 10 = 40.1, which being wiced 
to 1000.7, gives 1039. 8 cubic inches of eve at the common 
preflure and temperature = 322% Be ins 
ONS, in Pirgfeaien turfs, or pieces of frefh earth 
covered with eels cut in form of a wedge, about a foot 
and half a foot thick, to line or face the outfides of 
works made of earth, in order to keep up the fame and pre- 
vent ther mouldering. 
AZOPHYLACIUM, in the Jewifh Antiquities, ac- 
cording to the Greek etymology, of ype dake oo ny 
ere fe- 
fons, were ie DE. But the fignification of this 
phylacium, has been farther enlarged, fo as to preted ear 
the rooms where the provifions of the temple were laid u 
both for facrilices, and for the fupport and fuftenance ae 
the priefts, and in general this word is ufed for all the apart- 
ments of the temple. the Gofpel, by gazophy] lacium 
s of curious fubjects. 
or a colle&tion cf a 
Mark xii. 41, 43. uke xxi 
GAZOPHYLAX, Lafozr n Antiquity, an office 
who had the care a anagem ‘sf the treafure belon sates 
to the kings of Per 
AZDUA, in Conn -aphy, @ mountain of Ar abia; 60 miles 
E. of Mecca 
GAZUA 
mountains in, the viceroyalty of 
TI, a name given by the natives to a chain of 
La Plata, which is confi- 
GEA 
form, as there is no indication of a volcano. 
not to exceed 1000 feet in height. 
POUR, a circar, or province, of Hindooftan, 
bounded on the north-eaft by the Dewah, on the fouth b; 
the Ganges, and on the weit by Benares and Jionpour ; 
of a oe form, and about 180 miles in circumference. 
aie he capital of the forementioned circar, on 
the left bank 0 3 92 miles E. of Allahabad. 
N. lat. 25° o 2 48), 
It is fuppofed 
GAZZA, in Ornithology, the name o a fpecies of heron 
(Arpea alba), co n Italy, an 
thors ardea alba in ‘th 2 Ww 
body i is of a fnow white, its heak yellow, fe hea Gaon: 
its legs black, and the membranes about its 
though called large in comparifon of the leffer white one, 
it is {maller than the common nee heron. Its tail alfo is 
longer, and has no creft. It is fowietinies feen in 
England and has been mi niftaken for a common heron be- 
ome a white, as {parrows and other birds fome- 
res are. ee ERON. 
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A, Gi — of Verona, in Biography, 
a difciple of Becca, and an agreeable compofer in the ele- 
gant and graceful ftyle of his matter. He has cae raane more 
5 omic than ferious operas, and began to be ceda 
fician of taite and genius in 1771, when = bent intled 
“La Locanda,’”’ excited the attention - es the 
pubes ach have not been Sepsone ce ing 
compofed operas, chiefly one for Sete 
Gas of Italy. 
ETTA, in oe a name given by Gefner 
and ae to a {pecies of {mall white heron, fold in the 
markets of Italy, a feeming to be the ardea alba minor 
of authors, or i ea giovane ot the Venetians. See Gar 
ZETTA and 
ZZRETO, in Ichthyology, pe: name of a fith of the 
turdus or wraffe ki {pe 
caught in the 
Italy. »-and is confiderably 
thick, though broad ; its in are i ee and it has a large 
pu rple tubercle near the anus. It has only one back-fin 
which has twenty-four tibs or nerves, the firft ie of 
which are rigid and prickly, the reft fmooth and flexi 
GEA, in Ancient ss a town of Arabia, near oan 
Steph. yz. 
fome author to it {tone called be others encymonites te 
feems to have been the fame with our {parry incruft on 
che tc of caverns, &c. but the bee has been generally 
under “hood to mean the eagle-fton 
AR, or about your gear, at oy a command to work 
on all hands. 
GEARON or JARoon, in Ge eography, a town of Perfia, - 
in the province of Fartiftan, celebrated for its exc cellent 
fruits, raifins, ponie Brenaless dates, and quinces; 70 miles 
. of Schiras. 
GEASTRUM, in Botany, from yer, the earth, and asrey 
aftar. Perfoon Syn. Fung. 131. (Geafter; Mich. Gen. 
220. t. 100.) —Clafs aie ine eee oe Nat. 
Ord. Fungi; fect. Derm i, Per 
i founded this very natur cam on the Puff. balls 
Miche 
with a ftellated volva, Lycoperdon ftellatum of Linneus, and 
a Perfoon, in adopting it 
compound of another eftablifhed generic name, Afer. He 
gives the following generic character. 
Volya thin, evaneicent. Outer coat of the pevidium clover 
4Z2 flars 
