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finall impediment to its navigation at Baraconda, in the 
country of Woclli ; but although this is iifually termed a 
fall, Mr. Park was informed that it did not impede the 
pati'dge of canoes; fo tliat it ought more properly to be 
termed a rapide, according to the American phrafe; that 
is to fay, a flope, down which the water runs with more 
ordinary rapidity, but which does not, however, totally 
impede the palfage of canoes, or fmall boats. The Gam¬ 
bia abounds wi'h mimerous varieties of filh, fome of 
which are excellent food. At the entrance from the Tea, 
lharks are found in great abundance; and, higher up, al¬ 
ligators and the hippopotamus or river hcrfe are very 
luiinerons. 
GAM'BLER,yi [A cant word hr game or gamejlcr.~^ 
He wh.ofe pradtice it is to invite the unwary to game, in 
order to cheat thent. 
G AM BO GE,yi A concrete vegetable juice, the produce 
of an Eaft-Indian tree, called by the natives caracapulli, 
the cambogia gutta of Linnfcus; and is partly of a gum¬ 
my and partly of a refinous nature. It is brought to us 
cither inform of orbicular maffes, or of cylindrical rolls 
of various (izes ; and is of a denfe, compadf, and firm, tex¬ 
ture, and of a beautiful yellow. For many years it was 
ufed in medicine as a drafiic purge ; but being found to in¬ 
jure the (lomach, it has been abandoned in modern practice, 
it gives a beautiful and durable citron yellow flain to mar¬ 
ble, whetherrubbed in lubflanceon the hofltone,orapplied 
as dragon’s blood; or in form of a fpirituous tindture. 
When it is applied on cold marble, the Hone muft after¬ 
wards be heated to make the colour penetrate. It is now 
chiefly ufed as a pigment.—See the article Cambogia, 
vol. iii. 640. 
To GAM'BOL, v. n. \_gambiler^ To dance; to 
fkip ; to frifk ; to jump for joy ; to play merry frolics : 
The king of elfs, and little fairy queen, 
Gambol'd on heaths, and danc’d on ev’ry green. Drydcn,. 
To leap ; to Hart: 
’Tis not madnefs 
That I have utter’d ; bring me to the tefl, 
And I tire matter will record, w'hich madnefs 
Would from. Shakefpeare. 
GAM'BOL, yi A fkip ; a Iiop ; a leap for joy ; 
Bacchus througli the conquer’d Indies rode. 
And beaHs in gambols frifk’d before their honeH god. 
Dry den. 
A frolic ; a wild prank; 
For v\ ho did ever play gayubols^. 
With fuch unfufl'erable rambles ?. Hudibras. 
GAM'BOLD (John), a pious Englifli divine among 
the Moravian breth.ren, or fedb known by the name of 
Unitas Fratrum, He was born near Haverfordwell in 
Pembrokelhire, and became a- member of ChriH church 
college, in the univerfity of Oxford. Of that inHhution 
Ii.e was made one of the chaplains, and took his degree of 
M. A. in 1734. About the year 1739, he was prefented 
by Dr. Seeker, then biflrop ofO.xford, to the vicarage of 
Stanton Karcourt, in OxfordHiire. When Peter Boehler, 
a difciple of count ZinzenJorf, vifited Oxford in 1738, 
and held frequent conferences with John and Charles 
Welley, who were th.en laying the foundations of what 
was afterw'ards called mctkodifni, Mr. Ganibold inter¬ 
preted his difeourfes, which were delivered in the Latin 
language in certain meetings of learned and unlearned 
perions, who alFumed to themfelves the title of axjoak- 
entd people. From this time his mind appears to have 
been intluenced by an inclination towards the tenets of 
the Moravian fchool; and in 1742 he became fo tho- 
loughiy a convert and entluifiaH, that, without giving 
ajjy notice to his diocefan and patron, he deferted his 
tlock, and joined himlelf to the new left, which, by an 
M of the iegill.ature in 1749, 'A'as permitted, to ereft its 
GAM 
eftabliilimenls in this country. For many years he was 
the regular miniHer of the congregation fettled in Lon¬ 
don, and preached at the chapel of the brethren in Fet¬ 
ter-lane. In 1754 he was confecrated a bifliop at an Eng- 
liih provincial fynod held at Lindfay-houfe, Chelfea, and 
was greatly eHeemed for his piety and learning by feveritl. 
Englifh bilhops, who were his contemporaries in the uni. 
verfity of Oxford. In 1768 he retired tohisirative coun¬ 
try, where he died, at HaverfordweH, in 1771. Ashe 
was a good fcholar, the celebrated Mr. Bowyer frequently 
employed him in correfting the prefs; in which capacity 
he fuperintended the beautiful and very accurate edition 
of Lord Chancellor Bacon’s works in 17(15; and in 1767 
he was profelfedly the editor of David Crantz’s HiHory 
of Greenland, containing a defeription of tiie country and 
its inhabitants, and particularly of the miHion carried on 
for above thirty years by the Unitas Fratrum, &c. in two 
volumes 8vo. He was alfo the author of the followino- 
pieces : a neat edition of the Greek TeHament, but with” 
out his name, Textu per omnia NLilliano, cum Divifionc Perko- 
parum & Interpunblura-A.. Bengelii, 1742, in two volumes 
12010. A fliort Summary of CliriHian Doftrinein the way 
of QueHion and Anfwer, See. intended to (hew the con- 
fiiHency of his conneftion with, and rniniHry in, the church 
of the brethren, with a Heady attachment to the cluirch 
of England ; Maxims and Theological Ideas, collefted 
out of the feveral DiHertations and Difeourfes of count 
Zinzendorf, from 1738 till 1747 3 Sixteen Difeourfes on 
the fecond article of the Creed, preached at Berlin, by the 
Ordinary of the Brethren, 1752, i2mo. Twenty.one Dif¬ 
eourfes, or DiHertations upon the AugHnirg ConfeHion, 
tranHated from the high Dutch, 1753 ; The Martyrdom 
of Ignatius, a Tragedy, publiHied after his death by tlie 
Rev. Benjamin La Trobe, in 1773, with the Life of Igna- 
tins, &c. with fome fingle Sermons, and other devotional 
pieces. 
GAM'BON, a river of France, which runs into the 
Seine, near Andely. 
GAM'BREL, /. \^iron\ gamba, gambaretla, ItaL] The 
leg of a horfe.—What can be more admirable th.m for the 
principles of the fibres of a tendon to be fo mixed as to 
make it a foft body, and yet to have the Hrength of iron ? 
as appears by the weight which the tendon-, lying on a 
hoxh’s gambrel, doth then command, when he rears up 
with a man upon his back. Grexo. 
GAM'BRIA,y. [In old writings.] A kind of milita. 
ry boot. 
GAMBRO'N, orGoMBRON, or Goairon, a feaport 
town of Perfia, in the province of LariHan, called alfo 
Bender Abbas, famous throughout many ages, as the port 
of Schiras, and of all th» fouth of Perfia. Its trade was 
formerly very extenfive ; but at prefent it is very trifling, 
nor is. there a fingle European factory in the city. This 
decline has. been occafioned by the domeHic diHurbances 
in Perfia, and the wars and difputes between tlie French 
and the Englifh. The Dutch, for a while, continued to 
carry on a confiderable trade here ; but fince they formed 
a fettlement in the ifland of Karek, they have entirely de¬ 
ferted Gambron. Lat. 27. 20. N. Ion. 57. E. Greenwich. 
GAMBROVIS'SA, a town of Venetian IHria: nine 
miles eaH of Capo d’IHria. 
GAMEjy. a jeH, Iflandic.] Sport of any kind. 
—We have had paHimes here, and pleafinggawe. Shakefp, 
—JeH ; oppofed to earneH or i'erioufnefs : 
Then on her head they fet a garland.green. 
And crowned her ’twixt earneH and ’twixt Spenfer, 
Infolent merriment; fportive infulc: 
Do they not feek occafion of new quarrels, 
On my refufal, to dlHrels me more ; 
Or make ^ game of my calamities ? 
A fingle match at play. Advantage in play : 
Mutual vouchers for our fame we Hand, 
And play the ga/vteiiuo each other’s hand. 
Milton^ 
D.vden, 
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