GED 
ie in this fatal eta by hanging up the creatures 
the ae and whipping them to enrage them: they col- 
a this in pro or welfele as it falls, and sea they te 
ufe it, os ane pace a weapon with it, 0 
part of the flefh, introduce the {malleit qc ee 
of it, and this is faidto be immediate deat 
ECKO, in Zoology, a {pecies of Lacerta, which dif- 
charges the poifonous juice above-mentioned. See Lacerta 
G aa 
ak : ar an Englifh name for thefmall 
fpecies o of Gis »» ufually fe ee fe or eles ck, and 
by authors ie minima. 
GEDAN, in Geography, a fimall “and i in i Red fea. 
N. lat. 16° 20’. 
Gepan, or Ziden, a town of Arabia; 30 miles 
S.S.E. of Jidd 
GEDDES, ALexanpmr, in Biography, was born at 
rradowl, in the county of Ba ae and in the parifh of 
Ruthven, September 4, 1737, old ityle. His. father’s 
name was Alexander Geddes, the “fecoad of four brothers. 
His mother’s maiden name was Janet Mitchel; fhe was born 
in Nether Dalachy, in the parifh of Bellay. They were 
a org but not opulent farmers, fuch as farmers are 
in that of the “a fubject to grievous oppreffions n 
from ae "landlords. n that ftation, however, they main- 
tained an excellent aes, and laboured nce to 
give an education to t eir children » far abov 
were familiar to hi 
eleventh year, he knew all its "hiftory by heart. He was 
afterwards fent to Scalan, an obfcure place of education in 
the Highlands, at which thofe young perfons were ee 
up, who had been devoted to the priefthood, an Oo were 
deftined to finifh their {tudies at a foreign a. 
on got at the head of the clafs; although 
there were two ae n it. Vieaire was then profeffor, 
and contracted a friendihip for him, which lafted all his life. 
At the beginning of the next f{chool-year, he fhould have 
entered into a courfe of philofophy ; but was perfuaded to 
ftudy philofophy at home at intervals, and to enter in divi- 
nity. He attended the le of M. M. Buré and De 
Saurent at the college of Navarre, and -of Ladvocat, for 
the Hebrew, at the Sorbonne. Ladvocat was ey | 
attentive . pee and wifhed mu uch to = im remain at 
d not remain leng in 
65, to Traquaire, 
quaire. 
to ae ty fatisfaGtion and moire ude, as having af. 
forded him much leifure for literary purfuits, and the ufe 
of a well-furnifhed library, admirably adapted to aflift-him 
GED 
He left Fag apd in the autumn of 
ay in “Angus, returned to 
in his — beak 
a few Weeks ft 
In the fummer of 1770, he 
aa and built a new “chapel on the fame {pot where 
the old one ftood; and foon after aie the old houfe 
and unfeigned regret of all thofe among whom he 
niftered. The attention which he paid to the inftru@tion of 
the young had never been furpaffed, and but rarely equalled, 
by = of his predeceffors 
came to London, aa ‘officia d for a few months as prieft 
in the Imperial Aaa. 8 a till it was ne ak 
at the end of the year 1780, by an order fr e 
Jofeph II. Dr. Geddes afterwards preache a arene 
. = ae in as ftreet, Lincoln’s-inn-Fields, till 
a when 
acquired a greets ae of the Latin language, fufficient . 
enable him are the two tranflations, he gave 
decided eee to the Vulgate. The Englith appeared 
to him rugged, conftrained, and often obfcure, where t 
Latin was imooth, eafy, and intelligible. 
he year 1762, he began to read the originals, wi 
thefe verfions conftantly ae him, when he quic 
The un mere ate ees =e he paid to the ancient verfions 
in the Polyglott contirmed him in the opinion, that a rictly 
literal verfion was not the incft proper to convey its meaning, 
and difplay its beauties, fince even tho i tranflators, who 
had the text to render, not into a different la anguage, but 
only into different dialects of the Geax! language, hee net 
emptied 
