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witliin the following boundaries, viz. beginning at the 
MdlifJippi river, where the northern boundary line of 
the Irate ftrikes the fame ; thence along tiie faid north, 
ern boundary line, due eaft to the Tenneffee river; 
thence along the faTd Tenneffee river to the mouth of 
Bear creek ; thence up Bear creek to where the parallel 
ot latitude, twenty-five Britifh fiatute miles fouth of 
the northern boundary line of the (late, interfefts the 
fame ; thence along tlie laft-mentioned parallel of lati¬ 
tude, acrofs Tombigbee or Twenty Mile creek, due 
wed to the MillifTippi river ; thence up the middle of 
th.e laid river, to the beginning ; (hall be fold to John B. 
Scot:, John C. Nightingale, and Wade Hamptoiij called 
The Upper ^UJjiJJippi Company.” 
4. “All tnat tract of land, including iflands, within 
tlte following boundaries, viz. beginning at the mouth 
of Bear creek, on the loath fide of Tenneffee river; 
thence up tiie faid creek to the mod fouthern fource 
thereof; thence due fouth to lat. 34. lO. N. thence due 
ead 120 miles ; thence a due north courfe to the Great 
Tennelfee river; tlience up tlie middle of the faid river 
to the northern boundary line of the date ; thence a 
due wed courfe along the faid line to where it interfedls 
the Great Tennelfee river, below tlie Mufcle Shoals ; 
thence up the laid river to the place of beginning; fliall 
be fold to Zachariah Cox, Mathias Maher, and their 
alfocidtcs, called The Tennejj'ee Company 
The lame law enacts alio, “that all lands lying wed- 
ward and Ibuthward of the ealtern boundary of the fe- 
veral companies’ purchafes, and not included therein, 
edimated at one-fourtli of the whole lands lying wed- 
ward and fouthward of the eadern boundary of tlie faid 
purchafes, and fuppofed to contain 7,250,000 acres, 
lhall be, and the fame is hereby declared to be, referved 
and let apart to and for the ufe and benefit of this date, 
to be granted out, or otherwile dil'pof'ed of, as future 
legillators may diredl.” 
GEOR'GIA, a townfhip of tlie American States, in 
Franklin county, Vermont. It is lituated on lake Cham¬ 
plain, oppolite to the north end of South Hero illand, 
and joins Milton on the fouth, and St. Alban’s on the 
north. La Moille river erodes the extremity of the 
loiith ead corner of this towndiip. 
GEOR'GIA (New), or South Georgia, an ifland 
in the South Atlantic Ocean, about thirty leagues in 
length, and ten in breadth. It abounds in bays and 
harbours; but the prodigious quantity of ice on the 
coad renders it inaccellible during a great part of the 
year, and even at other times the floating malfes of ice 
render the anchorage dangerous. The appearance of 
the land is the lame throughout; the lofty mountains 
towards the fouth are divided into numberlel's parts, 
and appear like flames of fire. Thecoads are bounded 
with high perpendicular rocks of ice, large portions of 
which frequently break off and fall into the vallies or 
into the fea, where they are moved about by the waves, 
and refemble liiiall detached iflands. The interior coun¬ 
try is not lefs lavage ; the I'ummits of the rocks are lod 
in the clouds, and the Vallies are covered with eternal 
iiiow : tliere is neither tree nor Ihrub. The only vege¬ 
tables difeovered w'ere a kind of coarfe grafs, a fpecies 
of burnet, and a plant like rnofs. The rocks are 
conipol'ed of a kind of Hate, of a blueifn-grey colour, 
difpol'ed in horizontal beds; many Ihining fragments of 
v/iiich cover the drand, and appear to have no mineral 
in tlie conipofition. In all the coad there was found 
neither river, nor frelh-water I'pring. A great number 
of lea-calves and lea-bears were found, and flocks of 
penguins, I'ome of which weighed thirty-eight pounds, 
and mcaliired three feet three inches long. The only 
birds feen on the land appeared to be a Ipecies of the 
lark: no quadruped was found, blit the dung of one 
was feen, I'uppoled to have belonged to a fox, or animal 
*f that kind. £111.54.30.8. Ion. 37. W. Greenwich, 
G E R 
GEORGIA'NA, a proper name for women. 
GEORGIA'NA, the name originally given in the 
charter to a large tracb of country in the province of 
Maine, in the American States. 
GEOR'GIANS, a fedt of heretics, fo called from 
one David G orge, born at Delft in Holland, who held 
that the law and gofpe! v/ere unpio.itable for the at. 
taining heaven, and that himfelf was the true Chridand 
Mefliali. 
GEOR'GIC, f. Gt. georgique,VT.'\ Some 
part of the fcience of hulbandry put into a pleafin"' 
drefs, and fet off with all the beauties and embellidil 
ments ot poetry. Hefiod and Virgil are the two greateft 
maders in this kind of poetry. 
GEOR'GIC, adj. Relating to the doftrine of affri. 
culture: ° 
Here I perufc the Mantuan’s drains. 
And learn the labours of Italian fwains. Gay. 
GEORGIEV', a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Caucafus : thirty-two miles wed-north-wed of Ekateri- 
nograd. 
GEORGl'NA, J. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
ngenefia, order polygamia i'uperflua. Generic cha- 
radier—Receptacle chaffy ; down o ; calyx double, the 
outer many-leaved ; inner one-leafed, eigiit-parted. 
Species, i. Georgina purpurea ; midrib of the leaves 
winged ; leaflets obovate, pointed, ferrate, fliining gla¬ 
brous underneath; outer calyx refledted. 2. G. rol'ea: 
midrib of the leaves naked; leaflets ovate, rather ob- 
tufe, obtulely ferrate, glabrous ; outer calyx fpreading. 
3. G. coccinea : midrib of the leaves naked; leaflets 
ovate, pointed, ferrate, roughilh underneath; outer ca¬ 
lyx fpreading. All natives of Mexico. 
GEOR'GITZ, a town of Walacliia: eighteen miles 
north-north-caft of Buchorefl, and twenty-four fouth- 
ead of Tergovido. 
GEOR'GIUM SI'DUS, the Georgian Planet. 
See the article Astronomy, vol. ii. p. 391. 
GEOS'COPY,yi [fromyrj, the earth, and O'y.O'TTECiJf Gr^ 
to view.] An obfervation of the different qualities of 
the earth. Scolt. 
GEOT'JC, adj. [from yvi, Gr.] Belonging to the 
earth ; terreflrial. Not muck iifed. 
GEOT'IC, or GUoty , f. A kind of magic; geo- 
mancy. Scott. 
GEPHY'RA, one of the cities of the Seleiicidae in 
Syria. Strabo. 
GEPHYR^E'I, a people of Plioenicia, who paffed 
with Cadmus into Boeotia, and from thence into Attica, 
Herodot. 5. c. 57. 
GEP'IDZE, or Gep'idi, in ancient geography, a 
Gothic people, who fettled in an illand at the mouth 
of the Vidula, which they called Gepidos. Procopitn. 
GE'RA, [Heb. a pilgrimage.] A man’s name. 
GE'RA, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and county of Reus, on the Elder. It was ra¬ 
vaged by the Bohemians, in 1449 : thirty miles fouth-. 
fouth-wed of Leiplic, and fixty-eight well of Drefden- 
Lat.50.49.N. Ion. 29. 44. E. Ferro. 
GERyE'STUS, in ancient geography, a port of Eu- 
bcea. Livy. 
GE'RAH, yi [Hebrew.] Tiie twentieth part of a 
fhekel; near three-halfpence Englidi. 
GE'RANGER, a town of Norway, in the diocefe 
of Droniheim : twenty-two miles Ibuth-fouth-wed of 
Romfdal. 
GERA'NIA, -a mountain between Megara and Co¬ 
rinth. 
GE'RANISjyi [from ye^avc^, Gr. a crane.] In fur- 
gery, a bandage for a fractured clavicle; fo called be- 
caufe it is lhaped like an extended crane. 
GERANI'TES, yi [from a crane.] In natu¬ 
ral hidory, an appellation given to fuch of the fernU 
I pellucid 
