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GAN 
GAND'JA, Gangea, ;i town ot’Afia, inthc coim- 
ti;y of Georgia; lOo miles foiith-eaft of Teflis, Lat. 
41. -52. N. Ion. 65. 10. E. Ferro. 
GAN'DIA, a fcaport town of Spain, in the kingdom 
of Valencia, with a fniall nniverlily. The town declar¬ 
ed for the archduke in 1706, but wajs taken by the French, 
after tlie battle of Almanza : twenty-eight miles foutli 
of Valencia, and forty north-north-ealt of Alicant. Lat, 
3S. 58. N. Ion. i(). 29. FL Peak of Teneriffe. 
GANDICOT'TA, a celebrated hill fortrefs of Hin- 
dooftan, filuated on tlie fouth fide of the Pennar, on the 
I'ummit of a lofty mountain, with a deep precipice on 
one fide, and accefiiblc on tlie other only by an afeent of 
from feven to eiglit feet wide, with the river Pennar at the 
bottom. It was for ages thought to be impregnable, 
audits garrifon fet at defiance every attempt to reduce 
it. Yet in 1672 it was taken by the famous Emir Jumla, 
a general in the fervice of the king of Golconda ; but 
Thevenot informs us that it was effected by corrupting 
the governor. Eighty-feven miles wefi-north-weft of 
JSlellore, and thirty-three north-well of Cuddapa. Lat. 
J4. 45. N. Ion. 78. 29. E. Greenwich. 
GAN'DINA, a town of Italy, in the Bergamafeo, 
belonging to the date of Venice : ten miles north-ead ot 
Bergamo. 
GANDO'LA,y. in botany. SeeRASELLA. 
GANFIG AM', a town of the idand of Ceylon : fixty 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Columbo. 
GA'NET, or SoLAXD Goose, in ornithology. See 
Pelicanus. 
GA'NET ISLANDS, a cinder of fmall iflands, near 
the ead coad of Labrador. Lat. 54. N. Ion. 56. 10. W. 
Greenwich. 
YnGANG, v.n. igangert, Dut. ganjan. Sax. gang, 
Scot.] logo ; to walk; an old word nor now tiled, ex¬ 
cept ludicroufly.—Your flaunting beaus gang with their 
breads open. A'-buthnot. 
But let them gang alone. 
As they have brew’d, I'o let them bear blame. Spenfer. 
GANG, y. A number herding together ; a troop ; a 
company; a tribe ; a herd. It is feldorn tiled but in 
contempt or abhorrence.—As a gang of thieves were 
robbingahotife, a madiff fell a barking. L’EJirange. 
Admitted in among the gang, 
He a6ts and talks as they befriend him. Prior. 
GA'NG-BOARD, y. a fea term ; a plank with feve- 
ral cleats nailed to it for the convenience of going into or 
out of a boat where the water is not deep enough to float 
the boat clofe to the landing place. 
GA'NG-WEEK, y. \_q. d. going or walking week.] 
The time when the bounds of the parilhes are liidrated, 
or gone over by the paridi-officers ; rogation-xueek. 
GANGANEL'LI. See Clement XIV. vol. iv. 
p. 654. 
GANGA'RID^, in ancient hidory, a people near 
the mouths of the Ganges. They were fo powerful that 
Alexander did not dare to attack them. Some attribut¬ 
ed this to the wearinefs and indolence of Ids troops. 
They are placed by Valerias Flacctis among the del'erts 
of Scythia. JuJiin. 
GAN'GELF, a tow'n of Germany, in the circle of 
Wedphalia, and ducliy of Juliers: twelve miles fotith- 
foiith-ead of Ruremond. Lat. 51. 8. N, Ion. 23. 54. E.' 
Ferro. 
GAN'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Heraull, and chief place of a canton, in tire didricl 
of Montpellicn: feven leagues north of Montpellier, and 
fix and a half north-ead of Ledeve. 
GAN'GES, a noble river of Alia, the Nile of Flin- 
doodan, which rifes by two branches from tlie moun- 
tliins of Kentaiffe, in the country of Thibet ; thefe two 
branches take a v.ederly direction, inclining to the north, 
lor a courfe of about 300 miles in direct didance, wlien 
Vol. Vin, No. 499. 
GAN 
Miecting the great chain or ridge of mount Ilimmaleh, 
whicii extends from Cabul along the north of Hindoof- 
tan, and through 'I'liibet, the rivers are compelled to 
turn to th.c fouth, in wliidi. courle they unite tlieir wa¬ 
ters, and then form what is properly termed tlie river 
Ganges. 'I'his body of water now forces a pall'age 
through the ridge of mount Himmaleh, at the didance, 
poliibly, of one hundred miles below the jdace of its fird 
approach to it, and Tapping its foundation, ru/lits 
through a cavernous aperture, and precipitates itfelf in¬ 
to a vad bafon, which i-t lias worn in the rock, at the 
hither foot of the mountains. From this fecond fource 
(as it may be termed) of the Ganges, its courfe becomes 
more eadwyirdly than before, through the rugged coun¬ 
try of Sirinagur, until, at Hurdwar, it finally efcapes from 
the mountainous trait, in which it has wandered for 
about eight hilndred Britifii miles. At Hurdwar it 
opens itfelf a paffage througli mount Sewallick ; which 
is tlie chain of mountains tliat borders on the level coun¬ 
try, on tJie north of the province of Delhi. After en¬ 
tering Hindoodan, it pades by Anopdieer, Furruckabad, 
Canoga, Cavvnpour, Allaliabad, where it is joined by 
the Jumna, Merzapour, Chunar, Benares, Patna, thirty- 
dx miles above which it is joined by the Dewali, and 
fixteen miles above tlie fame town by the Soane, and op- 
pofite to it by the Gunduck. After leaving Patna, it 
paffes by Bar, Monghir, forty miles ead of wliich it is 
joined by tlie Cola, it then pades by Rajemal, forty- 
miles below which it is joined by a branch of the San- 
poo, or Teeda, and eighty miles below that by anothor 
braiicli of the lame river. Soon after which it divides 
into various branches, called the Mouths of the Ganges, 
winch empty tJiemfelves into the Buy of Bengal, in lat. 
21. 40. to 22. N. A circumdance attending the courfe 
of tlie Ganges and the Burrampooter rivers in refpeEt to 
each other is remarkably fingular. Ilfuing from oppo- 
dteddesof the lame ridge of mountains, they direct their 
courle towards oppodte quarters, till they are more 
than 1200 miles afunder, and afterwards meet in one 
point near the fea, after each has performed a winding 
courfe of more tlian 2000 miles. 
The multitude of rivers which fall into the Ganges 
from each dde of its banks, give it a matchlels inland 
navigation. Some of thefe rivers are equal in fize to 
the Rliine, and none' lefs than the Thames : it main¬ 
tains, in tlie parts already known, thirty thoufaiid boat¬ 
men, by their carriage of i'alt and food for ten millions 
of people in Bengal and its dependencies, which occa- 
lions a vad expenditure ; belities the exports and im¬ 
ports, the common interchange of ffivers articles with¬ 
in its limits, its fillieries, and its travellers ; which, all 
together, occalion annually a further circulation of at 
lead two millions of money. 
Jud before tlie periodical rains fet in, whicii is about 
- the middle ot July, the waters of the Ganges begin to 
increafe, dniilar to tliofe of the Nile, occalioned by the 
fnow on the tops of the hills from whence the river ili'ues 
(above thirteen hundred miles from the fea) being melted 
by the vertical fun ; as fooii as the rains commence it 
hourly Iwells, pouring witli the mod impetuous velocity, 
and tile river has tlie appearance of a lea, and in Come 
parts, where there happen to be rocks or very high hills 
on each fide pretty near the river, the water being tliere 
pent up, it riles to a prodigious heiglit, aud the current 
' is fo ftrong and rapid, that it is hardly poilible for any 
boat to dem it. After about two months, when lire vio¬ 
lence of the rain begins to fubfide, the water decreales 
almodasfuddenly as it arofe, and that which was of late 
one entire Iheet of water, except perhaps Ibme tops of 
trees, now appears a mod fertile country, covered with 
woods, corn-fields, and other plantations, and the dif¬ 
ferent arms which the river branches imo, prelent many 
little iflands, which in the rainy feafon appeared to have 
« no exiltence. Some of thefe illands produce three aud 
four crops yearly ; rice, which grows only when it is co- 
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