GEL 
was pr actifed long before he wrote, was a cuftom more pe- 
culiarly belonging to the Scythians and Sarmatians ee 
other performed this opera 
e French, x is S obferved, call a geld- 
ing. “ un cheval On ae that n Hungarian horfe, 
He oe feems to indicate, that the ae firft learned the 
Polan 
any animal that is offered to them, which they 2 for a al 
reward, It is faid, that they co s far a Baltic 
every fummer, and that they are = pie in ae bu- 
fines. 
ow a name given by fome to the philofopher’s 
{ton 
GELE! E Ciaupe, in Biography, a land{cape painter, 
whofe works entitle him to the foremott rank in his clafs. 
ewasanativeof Lorraine, the name of Claude 
e Lorraine which he is better known than y his own, 
Noiwithflanding the extraordinary brilliancy of his talent, 
to painting, an developed in procefs of 
i » and ore by le e grandeur an 
correctnefs with which he feleéted and imitated the w 
of nature, he appears to have been with difficulty brought 
forward at firft in the art. os original eflays of ingenuity 
were in the habit o ee to w bilan occupation he 
ferved w hee thence, and 
oo 
o Ou 
ne ; and never seas more 
ile : 
His courfe of ftudy was the moit rational and ufeful that 
can be ad ds He conftantly d recourfe to nature her- 
felf. His continual examination of eff 
canop 
It was fee he eonftant! ¥ ue fketching whatever was 
beautiful or grand ; ea the forms of natural objects, 
and noting their conan as they varied wit - the changes of 
light and thade ; of combination with other 
reflections from furrounding objects; or ae alone, and 
trating the pe ethered ray tinged with their own pe- 
culiar hue his purpofe he frequently continued 
abroad from fan-rife, till the ae 9) ae ll 
hr a unwilling aly t pr iusased from his contem 
baa wheth er arifing on cies and va- 
ning or the morning ae rom ee 
pefiechions ad retractions of ght s and hat he would do 
this with the clearnefs a precifion of a man of {eience. 
The earnefinels with which i fought ‘Ss pene his pice 
ook poffeffion of - 
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tures, is evident in the labour he beftowed upon them. 
produce the furface they bear, 
lour are nece 
ho 
nd not unfrequencty alter- 
fla they perfe€lly cor- 
effet of nature was his objet; and a perfect harmony of 
colour, of courfe the means he employed. No one, except 
it be our own Wilfo 
the effe& of eg eer fo » enveloped his objects with air, and 
reliev ed them fo t 
obj nae in the remote 
parts, as completely to ier eed the underftanding when feen 
i tances. His colouri 
moft fubtle sa fe the refult of space of Nes co- 
lour, o neon over another 
me means ; 
t P yt 
Sextremely difficult to co It is not Bis t 
he luftre which is fo re-eminent i n his piu effected 
t the purity o 
his hues, the breadth of his chiaro-fc is flies 
ht, refleGting and difpenfing 
appear to poffefs an inherent li ig 
i ers, as well as on the objects 
upon the eyes of the behol 
in the ies es. 
he a pear of his larger works are principall 
ications ns of the {eenery foaming Rom csi Oi pice 
refi ded. 
s to what 
eying the 
oO fie and iia in re vegetable creation ; 
ne i i 
His c 
lets a gene. 
= oo a a peculiar, form of the human figure for his 
The. Goes of men and atimals which he introduced into 
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