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ftill retain in their hands fome eftates and funds which 
they held under the old government, although a confi- 
derable portion of thofe eftates and other funds has been 
plundered from them by the French. Thisfociety alfo 
fupports a fchool, where ftudcnts are gratuitoufly in- 
flruitled in mufic and drawing. 
The Genevefe are celebrated watch-makers, and linen- 
printers : the few emigrants who had perfeverance 
enough to fettle in Brullels and Conftance, after the re¬ 
volution of 17S2, introduced the arts of printing linens 
and of watch-making into thofe places. It was, proba¬ 
bly, in confequence of their fkill in thefe reipe^ts, that 
tlie Irilh parliament liftened to the propofal of eftablifh- 
ing a colony of Genevefe emigrants in that country, and 
voted fifty thoufand pounds towards defraying the e.x- 
pences of their journey, and of their fcttlement in the 
ifland. Here is alfo a large chocolate manufatlory. 
The police is ftridlly regulated here : the bridges are 
drawn up, and all the gates are fhut, at eight o’clock at 
night in winter, and at nine in fummer : after ten, no one 
is permitted to walk in the town without a light; any 
one, man, woman, or child, difregarding this prohibi¬ 
tion, is condudted to the guard-room, and takes a lodg¬ 
ing there for the night! 
Geneva is fituated feventy-two pods and a quarter 
fouth-ead from Paris, by Bourg-en-Brelfe and Mafon ; 
andfifty-eightby Dijon and Mount Jura. Lat. 46. ii.N. 
5- 55- W. Greenwich. 
GENE'VA (Lake of), a large lake, fituated between 
Swiderland and Savoy, in a valley which feparates the 
Alps from Mount Jura. It is in the diape of a crefeent; 
of which Swiffcrlaud forms the hollow, and Savoy the 
convex part ; its greated breadth is about twelve miles. 
The country on the fide of Savoy is full of high and 
craggy mountains ; but from Geneva to the environs of 
Laufanne it dopes to the margin of the lake, and is both 
rich and fertile. The banks rife confiderably in the 
neighbourhood of Laufanne, and form a mod beautiful 
terrace, with a rapid delcent a few miles beyond the 
town. A plain begins in the neighbourhood of Vevay, 
which continues for a confiderable didance beyond the 
end.of the lake, but contradts towards the water by the 
approach of the mountains. The lake at a didance ap¬ 
pears of a beautiful blue colour, and the water is very 
clear and tranfparent. Near Geneva the coad of the 
lake abounds with pebbles ; between that city and Lau¬ 
fanne it is fandy ; from thence to Chillon it is bounded 
by hard calcareous rocks; and the extremity of the 
Ihore is a mardi formed by mud colleiSted from the 
Rhone. The greated depth of this lake found by M. de 
Luc, is 160 fathoms. Here the birds called tippet grebes 
make theii' appearance in multitudes in December, and 
retire in February to other places where they breed. 
The lake of Geneva, like all others fituated between 
mountains, is fubjeiT to fudden dorms ; but it abounds 
in filh remarkable as well for their excellence as fize. 
GENE'VA, a lake in Upper Canada, which forms 
the vvedern extreuiity of lake Ontario; to which it is 
joined by a Ihort and narrow drait. 
GENE'VA, a pod-town of the American States, in 
■Onondage county. New York, on the great road from 
Albany to Niagara, fituated on the hank of the north- 
wed corner of Seneca lake, about feventy-four miles 
welt of Oneida callie, and ninety-two wed of Whitedown. 
GENEVIE'VE, orMissiRE, a village in Louifiana, 
on the wedern bank of the Millidippi, nearly oppofite 
to t!ic village of Kaflcalkias, twelve miles foutherly of 
Fort Chartres. 
GENEVIE'VE (religious of), a congregation of re¬ 
gular canons of the order of St. Auguliine, edablilhed 
in France; and is a reform of the Augudine canons. 
It was begun by St. Charles Faure, in the abbey of 
St. Vincent de Senlis, of which he was a member in the 
year 16 iS. In 1634, the abbey was made elective. The 
congregation takes its name from the abbey of St. Ge- 
■G E N 
nevieve, which is the chief of the order, and whofe a1r. 
bot is the general of the whole fraternity. The abbey 
itfelf took its name from St. Genevieve, the patronefs 
of the city ot Paris, who died in. 312, Five years after 
her death, Clovis ereffed the church of St. Genevieve, 
under the name and invocation of St. Peter, where her 
relics are dill preferved. 
GENEVIL'LIERS, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of Paris; three quarters of a league wed of St. 
Denis. 
GENEVOI'S, or Duchy of Geneva, a province 
of Savoy, bounded on the north by the Swifs territories, 
on the ead by Faucigny, on the fouth by Savoy Proper, 
and on tlie wed by France, from which it is feparated by 
the Rhone : Geneva and its territory formerly made a 
part of it. Annecy is the capital. It is now incorpo¬ 
rated with the empire of France. 
GENEU'RO, a mountain which divided Piedmont 
from the ancient Dauphiny, in the road from Brianjoii 
to Sufa. 
GEN'GENBACH, an imperial town of Germany, in 
Swabia, fituated on the Kinzig, in the Ortenau : twenty- 
two miles north of Friburg, and fifteen fouth-ead of 
Strafburg. Lat. 48. 24. N. Ion. 25. 41. E. Ferro. 
GENGISKHAN', Jenghiz-khan, or Zingis, a 
renowned emperor of the Moguls, who, after conquer¬ 
ing fouthern Ada, and awing China to peace by the ter¬ 
ror of his frov. n, being feized with a fever in confequence 
of extreme grief for the lofs of his favourite fon Tudii 
Khan, expired on his march into the latter'country, to¬ 
wards the end of tlie 623d year of the hegira, or A, D. 
1226, in the feventy-thud year of his age, and twenty- 
fifth of his reign. Thus he, who, without pity or re- 
morfe, had daughtered above two millions of the hu¬ 
man race,—had made fo many children fatherlefs, and 
fo many fathers childlefs,—could not furvive the lofs of 
one beloved fon, though he had three fons left to cherifli 
his declining age !—Aftonifiiing proof of exquifite fen- 
fibility and the mofi: favage ferocity dwelling in the fame 
bofoni. For his great exploits, fee the article Hin¬ 
doo s t a n . 
GE'NIAL, adj. \_genialis, Lat.] That which contri¬ 
butes to propagation : 
Creator Venus, genial pow’r of love. 
The blifs of men below and gods above ! Drydcn, 
That gives cheerfulnefs, or fupports life : 
Nor will the light of life continue long. 
But yields to double darknefs nigh at hand j 
So much I feel my fpirits droop. Milton. 
Natural; native.—It chiefly proceedeth from natural 
incapacity, and genial indifpofition. Brown. 
GE'NIALLY, adv. By genius ; naturally.—Some 
men are genially dlfpofed to fbme opinions, and naturally 
averfe to others. Glanville. —Gaily ; cheeriully. 
To GENl'CULATE, V. n. igeniculatum, To 
grow into joints. 
GENIC'ULATED,ar//. Igerticulatus, Lat.} Knotted; 
jointed.—A piece of fbme geniculated plant feeming to 
be part of a fugarcane. Woodward, 
GENICULA'TION, /. Igeniculatio, Lat.] Knotti- 
nefs ; the quality in plan.ts of having knots or joints. 
GE'NIRy', fpirits ordaemons, which, in fabulous hifio- 
ry, are faid to prelide over the affairs of men. See the 
articles Daemon, Daemoniac, and Demonoi.og y, in 
our fifth volume. 
GENILLE', a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre and Loire : one league north of Loches. 
GE'NIO,/. [Italian; genivs, Lat.] A man of a par¬ 
ticular turn of mind.—Some genios are not capable of 
pure a-ffebtion ; and a man is born with talents tor it as 
much as for poetry, or any other fcience. Taller. 
GENIOGLOS'SUS, /. [from y^veiov, the chin, and 
yXus-sru, Gr. the tongue.] A nuilcle fo named from its 
