GEY 
work lie wns affifted by the manufcn'pfs of Belidor, 
v.hinh he found means to obtain, tliough titey liad been 
fuppreiTcd in Trance, after tlie deatJi of that celebrated 
engineer. This work, which appeared in lyyS, excited 
great attention ; and his Treatife on the Art of con- 
?'trii( 5 ling' Mines, the fird part of which was publifhed 
at Copeniiagen tlie fame year, was received with no IcTs 
approbation. Geufs alfo tranflated from Danifli into 
-Gei'inan Olafsen and Povelfen’s X'oyage to Iceland. It 
was publitlu'd at Copenhagen 1774-5, in 2 vols. 4to. 
He lent leveral valuable communications to Brelim’s 
Inqetiicur-und-Artillcrk Marrazin ; and gave an edition of 
Logarithm! Buggiani Numerorum ah Unitate ad 10000 ; & Si- 
nuiim. atque Tangentium ad fingula minuta prima, cum eorvndcm 
Dtjfereniiis. Havn. 17X4, 8vo. This ingenious mathema¬ 
tician died on the 29th of November, 1786. 
GEUSZ'NITZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and bifiiopric of Naiunbui g: three 
miles ea!l of Zeitz. 
GEUTZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and duchy of Anhalt Cdthen, near Cothen. 
GEW'GAW, J. fjejjajr. Sax. joyau, P'r.] A Ihowy 
trifle; a toy ; a bauble ; a fplendid plaything.—Prefer 
that which Providence has pronounced to be the Ihifl' 
ct life, before a glittering gewgaw that has no other va¬ 
lue than what vanity has fet upon it. L'FJlrange, 
Some loofe the bands 
Of ancient friendfhip, cancel nature’s laws 
Tor pageantry and tawdry gewgazvs. Philips, 
GEW'GAW., adj. Splendidly trifling ; fliowy with¬ 
out value.—Let him that would learn the happinefs of 
religion, fee the ^ioorgewgazu happinefs of Teliciana. Law. 
GEWINE'DA, J. [Saxon.] The ancient convention 
of the people, to decide a caufe : et pax qvam aldcrmanis 
Regis in quinque bergorum gewineda dabit emendatur iz libris. 
LL. ^dithelred. cap. i. 
GEWITNES'SA, /. The giving of evidence in our 
ancient Britilli law. Brampton. 
GEWO'LD (Chriflopher), a lawyer and hidorian of 
the leventeenth century, born in P'ranconia. He was 
one of the aulic counfellors of Maximilian fird eledtor 
of Bavaria, w ho confided to him the inl'pedlion of the 
archives of the duchy. Gewold profited of this ad¬ 
vantage to give to the public feveral hidoricai records 
before unknown. Of thefe were; i. Genealogia Serenif- 
Jimorum Bojaria Ducum, 1605, folio. ’1. Chronicon Mon 'af- 
lerii Reicherfpergenjis, &c. 16ii, 4to. This is inferted by 
Ludwig in his Scriptorcs Rerum Germankarum. 3. Henrici 
Monachi in Rebdorf Annales, 1618, 4to. 4. Wiguleei Hands 
Metropolis Salijburgcnfis, 1620. He alfo publifhed, 5. De- 
tineatie Norict veteris, cjufqne Confmium, 1619, 410. 6. Com- 
mentarius de Septemviratu Romani Imperii, 1621, 4to. 
GEX, before therevolution a linall country of France, 
fituated between Mount J lira, the Rhone, the lake of 
Geneva, and Sw’ilierland, ceded to P'rance, from the 
dukes of Savoy, in 1601. It now forms part of the 
department of the Ain. 
GEX, a town of France, and principal place of a 
didridf, in the department of the Ain, litiiated at the 
foot of the mountain of St. Claude: three leagues 
north-north-wed of Geneva, and twelve north-ead of 
Nantua. Lat.46.2i.N. Ion. 23. 44, E. Ferro. 
GE'YER, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and circle of Erzgeburg, fituated in the 
midd of mines. Here are maniifadtuies of vitriol, ful- 
phur, alum, and arfenic ; fix miles wed-fouth-wed of 
Wolkendein. 
GE'YERSBPIRG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle 
of K.onigingratz : twenty-eight miles ead-Iouth-ead of 
Konigingratz, and twenty-eight ead-north-ealt of Chru- 
d i m. 
GPIY'RACH, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Stiria: nine miles fouth-fouth-ead of Cilley. 
GEYSRUCK'EN JAF'FELAK, a mountain of Ger- 
V'oh. ViII. No, 524. 
G II A oil 
many, which feparates Upper Carnlola from the coiuuv 
of Cilley; fix miles nortU-ead of Stein. 
GJsYSS, or Gey'sa, a town of Germany, in tiu' ' ;r- 
cle of the Upper-Rhine, and bilhopric of Fuldi, !iti;- 
■ated on the Ulder ; fifteCii miles north-ead of P ulda, 
and twenty fouth-fouth-wed of Eifenac.h. 
^ CEYS'ZING, a town ol Gerniany, in the circle o! 
L'pper Saxony, and circle of ErzYcburg; two mile:, 
ead of Aitenberg. 
GPiZA'EL, a town of Afiatic Tuikev, in the' A-ra. 
bian Irak, on the Euphrates; one iiundred and twenty 
miles wed-north-wed of Badbra. 
GPiZ'AN, or Dsjesan, afeaport of Arabia Felix, on 
the Red Sea, which carries on a confidcrable trade in 
fena and codec ; twenty-three miles wed of Abu-Arifcl . 
/^V'ZP.R, or God, a city of Faledine, fituated in ti,c 
tribe of Ephraim, and a city of the Levites of the fa¬ 
mily of Kohath. It was the feat of one of the king-; 
ot Canaan, previous to its conqued by the Ifraeiites, 
the lad, of wJiich was named Horam ; and its inhabitants 
were jicrmitted to dw'cll wdth their conquerors, though 
lubject to tribute. In the reign of David, two battfes 
were taught with the Philidines at this place ; (compare 
2 Sam. xxi. iS, 19. and 1 Citron, xx. 4,5.) and in the 
reign ot Solomon it wa-s taken by the king of Egypt, 
who dedroyed it with fire, and flew the Canaanites that 
dwelt there ; this was for a prefent to his daughter, 
Solomon’s wife; though Solomon rebuilt it at the ex¬ 
pence of his own fubjeCts. Jofk.x. xvi. 10. xxi. 21. 
Judges, \. zc). i Kings, \x. 15-17. 
GEZIRAT', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Diarbekir; fixty miles fouth-ead of Diarbek. 
GPiZIRET'IDDAHAB', or Island of Gold, an 
ifland of Egypt, in the Nile ; two miles fouth of Foua. 
GEZ'ULA, or Gazula, a country of Africa, the 
mod fquthern province of the empire of Morocco. The 
inhabitants are confidered as the mod ancient people of 
Atrica; the country produces a great ^deal of barley, 
and padure for cattle ; there are miiues of iron and 
copper, of which they make various utenlils, which 
they exchange for cloth, fpices, horfes, and other 
things of which they dand in need. Strangers are well 
received, and every year there is a well-regulated fair, 
which continues two months, for the fale and exchange 
of cattle and merchandife in general. Thefe people 
are free, being allies rather than fubjedts of Morocco. 
I'heir arms confid of fabres, large lharp tivo-cdgcd 
fwords, and lances. They are numerous, but have" no 
tovvns, generally living in camps or villages. 
GFOLL, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Audria ; eight miles wed-north-wed of Crems. 
GHALEF'KA, a decayed town of Arabia Felix, once 
a flourifliing city, and the fea-port of Zebid, from which 
it is didant five miles. The harbour is now filled up, 
fo tliat no fliip, however fmall, can enter it. Not only 
has the lea receded, while the banks of coral are con¬ 
tinually augmenting ; but fuch a quantity of fand has 
been here accumulated by the drifting winds, tliat it 
adlually rifes into a hill of confiderable heiglit. 
GIIA'NA, or Ghin'ny, a llrong town of Africa, in 
the kingdom of Wangara, of which it is the capital, 
fituated on the Niger. Lat. 16. 10. N. Ion. 13. 2. VZ. 
Greenwich; according to major Rennel’s corretted 
datement in the Appendix to Park’s Travels, p. lix, 
GHAS'SAN, an ancient kingdom of Arabia, founded 
by the tribe of Azd, who fettled in Syria-Damalcus 
upon the banks of a river called GhalTan, whence the 
kingdom derived its name. Having expelled the Da- 
jaamian Arabs, who were of the tribe of Salih, they 
made themfel ves mailers of a very confiderable territorv, 
and edabiilhed a monarchy, whicli fublided, according 
to the mod accurate compulation, fix hundred and fix. 
teen years. 
GH AST'FUL, and pulle. Sax.] Dreary; 
difmal; melancholy ; fit tor walking ipirits. Obfolete. 
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