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and entitled An Eflay on the Compofition and Manner 
of Writing of the Ancients, particularly Plato, 1748, 
Svo, Several other papers were left behind him in an 
imfinilhed date, which were defigned to form another 
volume. 
GED'DES (Michael), a learned Englifli divine, who 
flourifhed in the beginning of the eighteenth century. 
He was for fome time fettled at Lifbon, in the capacity 
of chaplain to the Englifli faftory in that city, the du¬ 
ties of which he difcharged from the year 1678 to 1688, 
when he returned to his native country, where he died 
in 1714. His works confifl: of, 1. The Hiflrory of the 
Church of Malabar, from the Time of its being difco- 
vered by the Portuguefe in 1501, and of the Synod of 
Diamper, celebrated in the year 1599 ; 1694, Svo. 2. 
The Church Hiftory of Ethiopia, including an Account 
of the two great Roman Miflions into that Empire, &c. 
1696, Svo. 3. The Council of Trent no free Aflembly; 
more fully difcovered by a Colleftion of Letters and 
Papers of the learned Dr. Vargas, and other great Mi- 
nilters, who aflifted at the faid Synod in confiderable 
Ports, &c. 1697, Svo. 4. Mifcellaneous Tradls, in three 
volumes, 1702, Svo. See. relating to fubjects in civil_ 
and eccleflartical hiflory, particularly that of Spain and 
Portugal, and to llie catholic controverfy ; and a poft- 
humous volume, entitled Several Trails againrt Popery, 
together with the Life of Don Alvaro de Luna, 1715, Svo. 
GE'DEON, a man’s name in the book of Judith. 
GE'DER, a city of Palertine, and the feat of one of 
the kings fubdued by Jofluia. Jofh. xii. 13. 
GED'ERAH, a city of Palertine, belonging to the 
. tribe of Judali ; fituated in the low parts of that pro¬ 
vince. Jofli. XV. 36. 
GED'ERN, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Upper Rhine, belonging to the prince of Stolberg: fe- 
ven miles north-eaft of Ortenburg, and twenty-four eart- 
jiorth-eart of Frankfort on the Maine. 
GED'EROTH, a city of Palertine, belonging to the 
tri’be of Judah; fituated in the low parts of that pro¬ 
vince. It was taken by the Phililtines In the reign of 
Ahaz king of Judah. Jofli. xv. 41. 2 Chron. xxviii. 18. 
GEDEROTHA'IM, a city of Palertine, belonging to 
the tribe of Judah; fituated in the low parts of that 
province. Jofh. xv. 36. 
GEDI'DA, a town of Arabia Deferta: fixty miles 
well of Ana. 
GE'DOR, a city of Palertine, belonging to the tribe 
of Judah; fituated in the mountains of that province. 
The Simeonites feized upon this place in the reign of 
Hezekiah, on account of the excellent pallure it was 
po lie fled of. Jofh. xv. 58, i Chron. iv. 39, 40, 41. 
GEDO'YN (Nicholas), a celebrated abbe, born at 
Orleans in 1667. He was educated at the Jefuits’ col¬ 
lege in Paris, and afterwards entered into the fociety, in 
tvliich he continued ten years. He then quilted it, and 
appeared in the world in the character of a man of let¬ 
ters. In order to improve himfelf in politenefs, he fre¬ 
quented the fchool of the celebrated Ninon de I'Enclos, 
who had the credit of forming fo many perfons of tarte 
and fafhion. He was prefented with a canonry of the 
Holy Chapel in 1711, and the abbacy of Notre-Dame de 
Beaugency in 1732. His literary reputation opened to 
him the doors of the academy of belles-lettres in 1711, 
and of the French academy in 1719. He died in 1744. 
The abbe Gedoyn obtained great applaufe by two tranf- 
lations, that of Quintilian, and of Paufanias. The firrt 
is accounted one of the mort elegant performances of the 
kind; but in avoiding a fervile tranfeription of his au¬ 
thor, he has fometimes indulged himfelf in deviations 
from his fenfe. The tranflation of Paufanias is alfo ele¬ 
gant, and is enriched with learned notes ; its exadlnefs 
has, however, been called in quertion. He likewife pub- 
lilhed LEuvres Diverfa, 1745, izmo. a colledtion of differ- 
tations on moral and literary topics; and he left in ma. 
GEE 
nufeript feveral curious diflertations, among which is an 
Examination of Milton’s Paradife Loll, which he de¬ 
cides to be a gloomy work; a fentcnce which reflects n® 
credit on his literary"acumen. 
GEE, a term ufed by waggoners to their horfes 
when they would have them go falter, or to the right 
hand. 
GEELE, or Gheele, or Ghele, a town of Brabant: 
ten miles north-wert of Diert. 
GEEMSKER'SKOI NOS, a cape on the eart coafl, 
of Nova Zembla. Lat.77.io.N. Ion. 95. E. Ferro. 
' GEEONG', a town of fjte illand of Borneo. Lat. 5. 
10. N. Ion. 117. 10. E. Greenwich. 
GEER. See Gear. 
GEER (Charles de), knight of the polar rtar, mem¬ 
ber of the academies of Stockholm and Upfal, and a 
celebrated naturalill, born in 1720, and in his fourth 
year accompanied his parents to Holland, from which 
he returned to Sweden at the age of eighteen. He rtu- 
died at Utrecht, and having conceived an early attach¬ 
ment to entomology, in confequence of fome filk-worms 
being prefented to him, his fondnefs for the rtudy of 
nature was confirmed by an acquaintance with the cele¬ 
brated Mufehenbroek. In the mean time he continued 
his rtudies at Upfal, under Klingenrtierna, Cellius, and 
Linn.'eus; and, on account of the great progref^s he 
made, he was allowed to undertake the management of 
his property four years fooner than he otherwife could 
have done. As he had a confiderable lhare in the iron 
works of Dannemora, and it was exceedingly difficult 
and expenfive to keep them free of water, he did a great 
fervice to thefe mines by the activity with v/hich he pro¬ 
moted the improvements in the machinery. About this 
period alfo he invented an apparatus for drying corn by 
the heat of the fmelting-houfes, which had been before 
loft, fo that from 12 to 14,000 tons of corn were dried 
annually in this manner at his works. The riches 
which he thus acquired he privately lhared with the 
poor; he alfo built or repaired churches, and eftablirtied 
various fchools. Though the direction of fo many ob- 
jedts required the greater part of his time and attention, 
he devoted his hours of recreation to the rtudy of in- 
fedlology, which, by means of his great penetration and 
the helps he employed, fuch as works, of every kind on 
the fubjecl, magnifying glafles, &c. he carried to a great 
degree of perfedtion. In 1761, he was appointed mar- 
flial of the court, and knight of the polar ftar; and in 
1772 he was made commander of the order of Vafa, with 
the grand crofs, and the year after, a baron. Through 
his life he was tormented with the gout, which, having 
attacked the vital parts, put an end to his exiflence on 
the 8th of March, 1778. De Geer had a ftrong attach¬ 
ment to natural hiftory from his youth, and particularly 
entomology. He caufed the obfervations he made to 
be inferted in the tranfadlions of learned focieties ; but 
as they daily increafed, he refolved to publifli them in 
feparate volumes, the firrt of which appeared in 1752, 
under the title of Memoires pour fervir a I'HiJloirt des Injiiies, 
with 37 plates. Nineteen years after, the lecond volume 
appeared; and in 1779, the feventh and laft. In this 
elaborate work the ingenious author has brought for¬ 
ward a great deal of new information in regard to infeits; 
and many of the figures were delineated by himfelf. But 
this work, confifting of feven large volumes quarto, witfi 
a great many plates, was exceedingly dear; and it had 
alfo become fcarce, for the greater part of the copies of 
the firrt volume were deftroyed by fire. This deficiency, 
however, was in fome meafure fupplied by a German 
tranflation, the produftion of the celebrated Goeze of 
Q.uedlingburg, and by thefe means the work was made 
much better known. The tranflator enriched it with a 
variety of notes, and confiderable additions, together 
with references to various other writers. ProfelTor Ret- 
zius, of Lund, has given a kind of extra6l from de Geer’s 
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