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Mere will I dwell apart, 
In ghajljul ’tUl my la!t deep 
Do dole mine eyes, Spcri/er'i Pajlorals, 
GHAS'I'LINESS, y. Horror of countenance : rel'em- 
blance of a gholl ; palenefs. 
GHAST'LY, [saj-r, Sax.] Like a ghod ; hav¬ 
ing horror in the countenance ; pale; dreadful; difmal, 
—Thofe departed friends, whom at our lad reparation 
we fav/ disfigured by all the ghajlly horrors ot death,^ 
we lliall tlten fee afliding about the majedic throne of 
Chrid, with their once vile bodies transfigured into the 
iikenel's of his glorious body, mingling their glad ac¬ 
clamations vviili the liallelLijahs of thrones, principali¬ 
ties, and powers. Poyk. 
Why looks your grace fo heavily to-day ? 
—Oh ! I have pad a miferabie night; 
So full of ugly fights, of ghajlly 
So full of difmal terror was the time. Shakefpeare. 
Horrible; dtocking; dreadful: 
1, who make the triumph of to-day. 
May of to-morrow’s pomp one part appear, 
Ghajlly with wounds, and lifelefs on the bier! Prior. 
GHAST'NESS, / [gaft:. Sax.] Ghadlinefs ; hor¬ 
ror of look. Not vjed. 
Look you pcile, midrefs?— 
Do you perceive the ghajinejs of the eye ? Shakefpeare, 
GHAUTS, an extenfive chain of mountains in Hin- 
doodan, which rife to a furprifing height, and oppofe 
to the wedern country a mural front, interfedled with 
ghauts, i. e. pajfts. They are the fame which the Weldi 
call a bwlch. From tlie word ghaut, the whole chain 
derives its name. They give entrance from the coad 
into the lofty, fertile, and populous, plains ot boundlefs- 
viev,-, which they feem to fupport in the manner 
as biittredes'do a terrace, formed on an immenfe leale. 
Thefe run along the fea thore from Surat to Cape Co¬ 
morin, at fome places fixty miles didant, but generally 
about forty, and in one place not more than fix. They 
have klfer hills at their bafes, clothed with beautiful 
foreds, particularly of jhe valuable teek-tree. The 
plains are bled, from their falubrious fituation, with a 
cool and healthy air. From the fides of the mountains 
precipitate magnificent cataradfs, forming torrents and 
dreams, the means of facilitating the conveyance of the 
'timber, and of giving a thoufand pidfurefque feenes 
amidit the foreds. The Ghauts are didinguidied into 
the wedern and the eadern. The fird extend uninter¬ 
ruptedly from Surat to th.e pads of Palicaudchery, when 
near Coimbetore tliey luddenly turn, deeply undu. 
jating, to the nortlt. Then, at the pals of Gujethetty, 
they wind north and nortit-eaderly as high as Amboor 
and Mugglee, the lad about eiglity miles due w ed from 
Madras. From whence they feem to take a northerly 
courle fo as to comprehend Aurungabad, then crofs the 
Taptce, and continue wederly, at irregular didances 
from the river, till they arrive wltliin a diort fpace 
from Cape Comorin : thus they appear to form an in- 
furmountablc barrier between tlie Myfore country and 
the coad of Malabar. 
The whole chain, efpeeially in the Concan, has the 
effect of a connected wail, inaccedibie to the fummit, 
unlefs by paths worked by the hand of man ; and is 
not to be alcended even by a fmgle traveller, without 
the fatiguing labour of many hour-&.; deep precipices, 
roaring cataratts, and lioarfe reverberating echoes, ter- 
riiy the padenger on each fide ; often violent tornados 
anfe, and hurry men and cattle into the deep immea- 
furable abyfs.' But liaving attained the fummit, the 
trouble is repaid by tlie magnificent profpeft to the 
wed, of tile far fubjacent country, broken into hills, 
and clothed with beautiful vegetation ; the coad, the 
ifiands, and an immenfity of ocean. Thei'e Indian Apen- 
Hiaes m;uk vyiuh precilioa the limits of the winter and 
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fummer, or rather the wet and dry feafons, in India, 
They extend full thirteen degrees of latitude ; and, 
from their prodigious altitude, being from three to four 
thoufand feet high, they arred the great body of cloud's 
in their paiiage, and, according to the inonfoons, or pe¬ 
riodical winds from the north-cad or fouth-wed, give, 
alternately, a dry feafon to one fide, and a wet one to 
the other ; fome clouds indeed pafs over, which give a 
rainy feafon at a very confiderable didance to the lee¬ 
ward ; they being too high and too light to condenfe 
and fall in rain witliin a fmall didance of this great range. 
GHE'BRES, a religious fe< 5 t in Hindoodan, fimilarto 
the Perfees or wordiippers of fire. They profefs the 
doftrine of Zoroader, whom Bryant, fuppofes to have 
worfliipped the fun under the title of Zor-ader ; w hence 
the name. See Gabres, p. 151, of this volume. 
GHE'DI, a well-built little town between the N.t- 
viglio and Seriola, in Italy; with 3000 inhabitants. 
GHEI'RA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia: twenty miles foutli-wed of Degnizhi. 
GHEI'VE, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : twenty miles ead-north-ead of Ifnik. 
GHE'LEN (Sigifmond). See Gelenius, p. 291, of 
this volume. 
GHEME, a town of Italy, in the Novarefe : tliirteen 
miles north-north-wed of Novara. 
GHENT, a large and celebrated city, the capital of 
Flanders, fituated on the conflux of the rivers Scheldt, 
Lis, Moeze, and Lieve, which, with a great number of 
canals, cut through it every way, divide the town into 
twenty-fix fmall iflands. The Nervii chofe it for their 
city, and after them the Vandals, who gave it the name 
of Wanda, from whence the name of Gand, or Ghent, is 
probably derived. Odoacer, grand foreder of Flanders, 
liirrounded it with walls; dnee which it has been fre¬ 
quently enlarged, particularly in 1397, under Philip the 
Bold, twenty-fifth comte of Flanders. The inhabitants 
were always warlike, and they have had frequent wars 
both againd their neighbours and alfo againd their 
princes.—See tiie article Feanders, vol. vii. p.444. 
It is related, in the annals of the province, that, in 
the year 1381, dxty thoufand Flemings, under the con¬ 
duit of Pliilip d’Arteville, revolted againd Louis comte 
of Flanders, their fovereign. This prince demanded 
luccour of Charles VI. king of France, then a boy, who, 
by tlie advice of the duke of Burgundy, came to Cour- 
tray, in perfon, at the head of his army, and attacked 
the rebels at Rofebeeck, near that city, and killed forty 
thoufand of the Flemings, with Arteville their leader, 
Arteville was the I'oii of a brewer, and was at fird cem- 
pelled by force to join the malcontents, but being once 
engaged he ailed with great fpirit, though with too 
much cruelty, ordering no quarter to be given to the 
French, except to their little king Charles, whom he 
direiled, if taken, to be brought to him, that, being 
bred up at Ghent, he might learn to fpeakgood Flemidi. 
This atlion, on the part of the French, was followed by 
tJie mod outrageous ail of feverity. 
The emperor, Charles V. was born in this town the 
5th of February, 1500; but the inhabitants have little 
reafon to refpeil his memory, for, loading them with, 
frequent impofitions, they revolted in 1539, and de¬ 
manded fuccour of Francis I. king of France, who paid 
no attention to their requeds. 'I'he emperor departed 
from Spain, and, pading through Fi'ance, chadifed them 
with extreme rigour; he put to death fix and twenty of 
the principal citizens, baitidied a great number, connl- 
cated their efiates, took away their artillery, their arms, 
and their privileges, and condemned'them to pay a fine 
of more than twelve hundred thoufand crowns; ordered 
tlie magidrates to walk in public proceflion, with cords 
about tlieir necks ; and built a citadel to prevent them 
from again revolting; fo that from one ot the fined cities 
in Europe it became a perfeil folitude; dnee that time 
it has lod much of its ancient fpl'endour, but it is even 
now 
