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advaocfd to its relief, and was then b. fieging tiie prince’s 
army. GertrudenVuirg was Aimmcned by the Frencli 
republicans the latter end of February, 1793, and fur- 
rendered after three days bombardment ; it was eva¬ 
luated fcon after. I'lie officers who furrendered'the 
fort were afterw<-rds tried on a fufpicion of niifconduCf, 
bu't were acquitted with honour. It was again r.aken by 
the French in 1795 : ten miles fouth-ealf of Dort, and 
Teven north-eaff of Breda. Lat. 51.42. N. Ion. 22. 19. 
Ff. Ferro. 
GKR'VAIS (Armand-Francis), abbot of the monaf- 
tery of I.a 'I'rappe, born at Paris ab-out the year 1660. 
He received his clallical education at the college of the 
Jeluits, and w hen lie was fifteen years of age entered 
among the b'are-footed Caimtelitcs. Fhn'ing, in 1745, 
publi/lied tJie firft voiuffie of a curious and interelfing 
General Hiflory of the Ciftercian Order in France, in 
wiiich a fevere attack was made upon the Bernardins, 
tlicy applied to the court, by which a letter of arreff 
was ilfued o\ii againft him, and he was immured within 
the abbey of Notre Dame des Reclus, in the diocefe of 
Ti'oyes, where he died in 1751, at th.e advanced age of 
iiinet)'-one ; greatly admired for his learning, and re- 
fpeffed for many virtues. He was the author of, i. The 
I.ite of St. Cyprian, 1717, 4to. 2. The Lives of Peter 
Abelard and Ids wife Heloife, &c. 1720, 2 vols. 121110. 
3. A Tranllation of the genuine Letters of Abelard and 
Heloife, taken from an ancient I.atin Manufeript, with 
Curious hiftorical andcritical Notes, 1723, 121110. 4. I’lie 
Fliffory of Suger, Abbot of St. Denys, &c. 172;, 3 vols. 
i2mo. 5. A Defence of the Abbe Ranee againfl tlie 
Invectives ot Father Vincent Thuiiler, inferted in the 
firft Volume of the pofthumous Works of Father Tvia- 
billon, 1725, lamo. 6. The Life of St. Ircniciis, 1723, 
2 vols. 121110. 7.__ The Life of Rutfinus, Prieft of the 
Church ot Aquilcia, 1724, 2 vols. 121110. 8. 1 'he Life 
of St. Paul the Apcftle of the Gentiles, &c. 1755, 
3 vols. 121110. 9. The Life of St. Fipiphaiiius, with an 
Analylis of his Works, &c. 1738,410. 10. The Life 
of St. Paulinus, Biftiop of Nola, 1743, 4to. 11. I'he 
Hiftory ot the Abbe Joachim, furnamed the Prophet, 
1745, 2 vols. 121110. 12. A critical Examination of tlie 
Lives of the Abbe Ranee, Reformer of the Abbey of 
La Trappe, written by MM. Maupou and Marfbllier, 
1744, 121110. Some treatifes againft Father Courayer, 
on the fubjeift: ot the Validity of Ifnglifti Ordinations, &c. 
GER'VAISE (Nic>liolas), a French eccleftaftic and 
mifiionary, the foil of a pliylician in Paris. . Before tlie 
age ot twenty he aceonipaiiied fome miflioiiaries to Siam, 
in which cauntr)' he remained four years, making him- 
felf acquainted with the Siarnefe langiuige and Jiiftory. 
Upon his return he publiftied Hijloirc Naturclk & Politique 
du Royaume de Siam, 4to. ifi88; and in the fame year he 
added, by way of fupplement, Defeription Hijloriquc du 
Royaume de Macai;ar, 4to. 16S8 ; 121110. Tliefe works 
bear the marks of a juvenile writer, but are not defti- 
tute of curious and valuable information. He then en¬ 
tered the church, and became a rector at Vannes in 
Brittany. The provoltfiiip of Suevre in the church of 
St. Martin at Tours was afterwards conferred upon him, 
on which account he drew up A Life of St. Martin, Bi- 
fhop of Tours, with a Hiftory of the Foundation of his 
Church, 4to. 1699. In 1715 lie publiftied A Hiftory of 
the Roman Senator Boethius, with an Analylis of his 
Works, and Notes and Dift'ertations hiftorical and theo¬ 
logical, 121110. About 1734, he went to Rome, where 
he was confecrated bifhon of Florren. He afterwards 
embarked for the place of liis million in Guiana, where, 
w'itJi all his ecclefiaftics, he was mafl'acred by the Ca- 
ribbee IndLins, in November, 1729, 
GER'VAS, [Tent. i.e. all fait.] A proper name of 
men. 
GER'VASE of Tii.burv, called Tilburenjis, an hif- 
terian of the thirteenth century, who took his name 
froiii Jiis native place, '1 ilbiiry in Eli'ex, and was nephew 
G E S 
to king Henry II. He was greatly in favour with th« 
emperor Otho IV. w'ho made him marfhal of the king¬ 
dom ot Arles. He wrote a large commentary on Geof¬ 
frey of Monmouth’s Britifti Hiftory, entitled lUuJlrationes 
Galfredi, and alfo a tripartite Fliftory of England. To 
him is likewife alcribed th.e compilation of the exch.e, 
quer book, entitled. Liber Niger Scaccarii, though, by 
Mr. Madox, who gave a correct edition of it, Richard 
Nelfon bifliop of London is fiippofed to have been its 
true autlior. Otlier works of Gervafe are : A Hiftory 
ot the Holy Land ; Origenes Burgundionum ■, hlirahilia Or- 
bis ; and a chronicle entitled Impcrialium Otiorum, l.ib. 111 . 
GF>R'UND,y. [_<^erundium, Lat.] In the Latin gram¬ 
mar, a kind of verbal noun, which governs cafes like a 
verb. See Gr.vmmar.—T here be'belonging to the in¬ 
finitive mood of verbs certain voices called gerunds, 
wliicli liave both the active and paffive fignification. 
Lilly .—1 he participle with tlie prepofition before it, 
and (till.retaining its government, anfwers to vvliat is 
called in Latin the gerund. Lowth. 
GERUN'DA, in ancient geography, a town of the 
Aufetani, in the Hither Spain, on the Ibutli or right fide 
ot the river Sambroca. Gerundenfes, the people. Now 
Gironne in Catalonia, on the Ter. 
GER'YON, in fabulous hiftory, a famous monfter, 
born from the union of Chryfaor with Callirhoe, and 
reprefented by the poets as having three bodies and 
three heads. He lived in the illaiid of Gadcs, where 
lie kept numerous flocks, which were guardetl by a two- 
headed dog, called Orthos, and by Eurythion. Her¬ 
cules, by order of PTiryfllieiis, went to Gades, and de- 
ftroyed Geryon, Orthos, and Eurythion, and carried 
away all his flocks and herds to Tirynthus. ILtfiod. 
GKR'ZAT, a town of France, in the dejiavtment of 
the Puy-de-D6me, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridl of Clermont ; four miles north-eaft of Clermont. 
GFiR'ZF-N, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Bavaria : feven miles fouth of Dingelfingen, and 
eleven call of Landfhut. 
GFiS'AMUND, a man’s name. 
GES'AS, a town of Silefla, in the principality of 
Neille : two miles and a lialf fouth-eaft from Patfehkau. 
GES'CHE Ei. AUBE, orGia Gir, /'. A new fpecies of 
grafs found by Mr. Bruce near Ras el Feel, on the bor¬ 
ders of Abyliinia. It begins to Ihoot in the end of 
April, and advances ipeedily to its full height, which 
is about tliree feet and a half. It is ripe in the begin¬ 
ning of May, and decays very foon afterwards. The 
leaf is long, pointed, narrow, and of adijlicate texture. 
The flock from which it Ihoots produces leaves in great 
abundance, which foon turn yellow and fall to the 
ground. Goats, the only cattle feen in that country, 
are very fond of it, and feem to prefer it to all other 
food. This fpecies of grals was thought a great acqui- 
lition by Mr. Bruce ; but we do not find that it has 
ever been cultivated for cattle in England. 
GESE'KE, a town of Germany, in the circle of tlie 
Lower Rhine, and duchy of Weftphalia ; nine miles 
ealt-fouth-eaft of Lipftadt, and fourteen north of Ruden. 
GE'SEM (Land of), probably the Land of Goflien 
in Egypt', fummoned by Nabuchodonofor king of AfTy- 
ria, to allift him againft: the Nledcs. Judith, \. 9. 
GE'SHUR, or Gesh URI, a part of Syria bordering 
upon tlie north of Paleftine, and comprifed in the ori¬ 
ginal boundaries of the Ifraelitifti territory; being af- 
ligned to tlie half-tribe of Manalfeh in Baftian, and was 
part of tlie inheritance of the family of Jair. Its na¬ 
tives, the Gefliurites, were not then expelled fromthence, 
but continued to dwell with tlie llraelites; and very 
probably, at fome fubfequent period, regained their in¬ 
dependence. For, in the reign of king David we read 
of a king of Geihiir n.imed Talniai, whofe da iigiiter 
David had married, and who proved the mother ot Ab- 
lalom. It was witii tiiis fame Talmai that Ablaiorn 
took refuge when he iiad alTallinated his brother Ani» 
non; 
