GEE 
GEDINGOOMA, atown of Africa, in Kaarta; 30 
miles N.W. of Kemmoo. 
GEDINNE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Sambre and Meufe, and chief placé of a canton in the dif- 
trict of St. Hubert. e place contains a and the can- 
ton 6340 inhabitants, on a territory of 3473 ki ponerse in 
32 communes 
GEDOYN, Nicnoias, in Biography, a French abbe, 
-was born at Orleans in 1667. He’ was educated at the Je- 
fie college in Paris, and afterwards entered their fociety, 
which he remained ten years. e then quitted it, an 
apart in the world as a man of gallantry a letters, oe 
a wit. He was a Nee the ce elebra ted Ninon 
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alfo of the French academy. ies died in 1744, leaving 0 
behind him the . o a man of nig | in tegrity, of 
great urbanity and ca € was a great admirer of 
antiquity, and held ail attempts in poetry and on aa as 
mafter-pieces s of the ancients. 
a collection of diate 
cs: a 
: his verfion of the firft is ac- 
moft elegant performances of the kind ; 
and his tranflation of Paufanias is alfo elegant, and is en- 
tiched w ith learned notes. Moreri. 
GEDROSIA, in Ancient Geography, an extenfive pro- 
vince of Afia, bounded on th 
vince of India, and on be » by the Indian ocean is 
now ole Makran ; fee. Its chief river was the 
iS 5 its rincipal cities were Polis, Arbis, and Cuni. 
nzi, and the Rhamne ¢ as eight pro 
vinces or fat pl tee containing twelve confi ee towns. 
Marcian of binge and Ptolemy epee in this os fa- 
us emporium, aa yurarnwy Abevny O the © Haven of 
”? 
Women 
a Mahometan ; bounded on the. 
Defert, on the E. by ffnoo, on the S ia pe on 
the W. by oetaeah ; of a {quare form, about 60 miles 
each une N. 14° 50' to 16°, W. long. 9° 40' to 
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GEDW WABENEN, a town of ead in the province 
of Oberland; 6 miles N.W. of Paffenhei 
GEEL, Jouy Vax, in Bis graphy, an “hiftorical painter 
ef the Dutch f{chool :— of thofe imitators of Metzu, 
fter, but 
more to 
in his eae nes of impofitio ateurs 
of painting yea zeal furpafies their knowledge. The ar- 
i€tures, and his eolee ur and. character of 
r GHEELE, 
Brabant 3 ice N.W. on 
GEEMSKERSKOL Nos, a ae on the eaft coaft of 
Nova Zemb'a. N. lat. 77° 10". E. long. 77°14 
GEEONG, ans - the ifland of a N. lat. 
go io’. E. long. 
GEER, CuHarR_es 3 Des in Bi se Ae agree naturalift, 
defcended from an ancient noble Dutch family, eftablifhed 
in Sweden, in the time fs Guftavus Adolphus, an indivi- 
GEE 
dual of which, pens into that country various im. 
provements in the manufatures and mechanical arts, par 
Eolas in the ekes of cafting a working in brafs, and 
on that account was-ennobled, The fubjeé of this article 
was born in 1720, and in his fourth year accompanied his 
obi to ae from which he feria to Sweden at 
he age of eighteen. At this period i‘. had made very con- 
fiderable progre ae in his ftudies in natural hiltory under 
Linneus and other celebrated profeffors ; and by the death 
se his ae he came into poffeffion of a confiderable fhare 
n the iron works o i i 
difficult and cies to keep them 
at and mo ortant fervice to thefe mines by th 
vity with which i pron noted the i nape povements made ia acs 
machinery. his 
property, but the riches which he aed a is genius 
and induftry, he privately fhared with the poor, and built 
r repaired Spalaaee and eftablifhed ate {chools. His 
es time he devoted to the ftudy of the minuter parts of 
creation, which, bY ie help of _glafies, he carried to a great 
degree of perfe€tion. In the year 1 fas appointed 
marfhal of the court, and are of the Polar ftar, and in 
1772 he was made commander of the order of Vafa, with 
the grand crofs, and in a nionths he was raifed to the 
dignity of baron n March 1778, neg a that 
time the oe olume a cs ae upon infects in refs, 
Geer had caufed his obfervations on this fu biel t . bei in- 
ferted in ‘ie Tranfactions of the Learned Societies; but as 
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the title of «* Memoires pour ferv 
aaa years afterwards the (on volume neers and 
g thegfeventh and laft was publifhed. On account of 
hie extenfiv® knowledge of entomology he was called the 
Swedifh Reaumur. He was ~~ re of “An — ‘on the 
procreation of Infeéts,’’ and alfo of many papers in the 
tranfactiens of the academies of Stockholm and 1 Upfal. 
en. Biog. 
Grrr, in Mining, fignifies the feagh or refufe {par 
and other matters from a mineral vein. 
Geer-barrel, is the tub or barrel in which the {par or ore 
is up the fhaft from ce mine, and diicharged on the 
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GEER ABAR, - eee a town of Bengal; 8 
miles N.W. of Koon 
GEERAR, aiaee of Hindooftan, in Oude; 21 miles 
N.E. of Notchegon 
ZRING, in Rural Economy, 2 aterm applied provin- 
cially to the ladders and fide-rails of a waggon or large 
cart. 
ERS, aterm fignifying the harnefs or trappings of 
— or team-horfes. 
in ae are two pieces of wood fet up like a 
St. (ene s crofs, x5 at each a of amine- ae and 
TOWSE aaa 
GEERs, ina Ship. "ae J EERS. 
GEERVLIET, in Geogra by, a town of Holland, in 
the ifland of Putten; 5 miles from = Brill, 
> a well taona fort o See Goo 
GEESEH, in Geography, a vilage of Abyfiinia, near 
the fource of the Nile. N. lat. 10° 59. E. loag. 86° 
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GEESTE, a river of Bremen, which fills the ditches of 
Cailfburg, and runs a little below into the Weler. 
GEETE, 
