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favour of the marcgrave. This, hovvev’ei*, v/as not able 
to retain him at a court, the pageantry of which he ufed 
to call fplendid miiery. In the fpring of 1756 he ob¬ 
tained leave to retire with a penfion, to which was after¬ 
wards added the rank of privy counfcllor ; and it was 
after this period that he began to diitinguifh hiinfelf as 
a philofopher, a naturalilf, and a writer. He removed 
with his family to the eftate of Greifcnftein, where he 
devoted the refidue of his life to the itudy of natural 
hiftory. He died on the 16th of June, 17S3, after a long 
and a tedious illnefs. His works arc, i. Das neuejle 
Avfdcm Reiche der Pjianzen, &c. The latell Difeoveries in 
the Vegetable Kingdom ; or, Obfervations on the Parts 
oi Fructification in Plants when in Bloom, and on the 
liifeits found in them ; together with fome Experiments 
on the Germ, and an Appendix of mifcellaneous Obfer¬ 
vations ; Nuremberg, 1764, folio, with coloured plates. 
2. Gefckichte dcr Gemeinoi Stubenjlicgc, &c. Hiflory ot the 
common Houfe-Fly; Nurem. 1764, with four coloured 
plates. 3. Mkrofcopifchc Entdeckungen bey den Pjianzen, ( 3 c. 
jMicrofcopical Obfervations on Plants, Flowers, Blof- 
foms, and other remarkable Objects ; Nurem. 1777, 4to. 
with coloured plates. 4. Abhandluns uber di Saamen-und 
infujions Tkierclicn, &c. Treatife on feminal Animalcula 
and infufion Animals ; Nurem. 1778, 4to. with coloured 
plates. 5. Verfuch einer Gefckichte der Blattldufe, ( 3 c. An 
EfTay towards a Hiftpry of the Tree-Loufe of the Elm; 
with four coloured plates, and a preface by profeffor 
Delius; Nurem, 1770, 4to. 6. Von. Entjhhung, Bildmig, 
Unibildung und Befimmmg des Erdkorpers, ( 3 c. On the Ori¬ 
gin and Formation of the Earth; DelFau, 1782, 8vo. 
7. Abhandlung vom ^onnen Mikrofcop, &c. A Treatife on the 
Soiarhlicrofcope, &:c. Nurem. 1781, 4to. V^on Gleichen 
was the author allb of various papers publifhed in the 
Tranfadtions of tne Friendly Searchers into Nature at 
Berlin, and in tlie Aifta Acad. Elect. Mog. 
GLEI'CHENBERG, a town of Germany, in the 
ducliy of Stiria : ten miles north of Rackllburg. 
GLEICHE'NIA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
cryptogamia, order iilices. The generic charadters are 
—-Frudtification three or four together, oval, fellile, half 
irnmerged in an Itemifpherical hollow of tlie fegments 
of the frond, one-celled, two-valved; feeds numerous, 
roundifh. 
Species, i. Gleichenia polypodioides: ribs of the 
fronds quite glabrous; capfules in threes. 2. Gleiche¬ 
nia circinata ; ribs of the frond pubefeent ; capfules 
four together. 
GLEI'CHENSTEiM, a town and cattle of Germany, 
m the circle of the Lower Rhine, and territory of Eichs- 
feld ; feven miles fouth-ealt of Heilligenitadt. 
GLEINCK, a tov/n of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auttria ; two miles north of Steyr. 
GLEIN'STOTTEN, a town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Stiria : fourteen miles fouth-ealt»of Voitfberg. 
GLEISS, a town of SwitTerland, in the Valais: twen- 
ly-tix miles eatt of Sion. 
GLEI'WITZ, or GcnviCE, a town of Silefia, in the 
.principality of Oppeln : thirty.lix miles fouth-eaft of 
Oppein, and twenty-three fouth of Lublenietz. 
GLEMS, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Enz, about two miles north from Mark Groningen, in 
the duch.y of Wurtemberg. 
GLEN, /i l^gUann, Erie.] A valley; a dale; a de- 
preliion between two liills : 
From me his madding mind is dart, 
And wooes the widow’s daughter of the Spenfer, 
A wide open fpace between hills, is called a vale. If 
it be of fmaller dimenlions, we call it a valley. But when 
this fpace is contracted to a ckafn, it becomes w glen. A 
glen therefore is molt commonly the offspring of a moun¬ 
tainous country; though it is fometimes found elfewhere, 
with its common accompaniments of woody banks, and 
a rivulet at tire bottom. Thefe cir.cumftauces, it is evi- 
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dent, admit an infinite variety of rural feenes. The glen 
may be more or lefs contracted ; it may form one fingle 
fweep, or its deviations may be irregular. The wood 
may confilt of full-grown trees, or of underwood, or of 
a mixture of both. The path, which winds through it, 
may run along the upper part, or the lower. Or, ladl)', 
tlie rivulet may foam among rocks, or it may murmur 
among pebbles, or it may form tranfparent pools, over¬ 
hung with wood ; or, which is often the cafe, it may be 
totally invifible, and an object only of the ear. The mott 
beautiful circumdances that attend the internal parts of 
a glen, are the glades, or openings, which are found in 
it. If the whole were a thicket, like the fdl-groxan copj'e, 
little beauty would refult. An agreeable fliade alone, 
in that cafe, mud fatisfy our expectations. But the 
glen, whofe furniture is commonly of more fortuitous 
growth than that of the copfe, and not fo fubjeCt to pe¬ 
riodical defalcations, exhibits generally more beautiful 
feenery. Particularly it abounds with fretjuent open¬ 
ings. The eye is carried down, from the higher grounds, 
to a fweep of the river—or to a little gudiing cafeado—• 
or to the face of adraCtured rock, garnifhed with hang¬ 
ing wood—or perhaps to a cottage, with its fcanty area 
of lawn falling to the river on one fide, and flieltered 
by a clump of oaks on the other ; while the fmoke,, 
wreathing behind the trees, difperfes, and lofes itfelf, 
as it gains the fummit of the glen. Or dill more beau¬ 
tifully perhaps the eye breaks out, at fome opening, 
into the country; enriched with all the varieties ofdif- 
tant landfcape—plains, and woods melting together—a 
winding river—blue mountains—or perhaps fome bay of 
the fea, with a little harbour and fiiipping.—Shanklin, 
in the Ifle of Wight, affords a driking example of this 
beautiful and romantic feenery. 
GLEN, a lake of Ireland, in the county of Donegal; 
twenty-tw’o miles w’ed-north-wed of Londonderry. 
GLEN AL'MOND, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth : eight miles north of Crieff. 
GLEN A'LOT, a vale of Scotland, in tlie county of 
Sutherland : fourteen miles nortli of Dornoch. 
GLEN ART'NEY, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth: four miles nortli-eaft of Callender. 
GLEN CAR'RELL, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Sutherland : twelve miles nortli of Dornoch. 
GLEN DER'BY, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth : ten miles north of Dunkeld. 
GLEN FI'CHAN, a vale of Scotland, in the weft 
part of tlie county of Argyle. 
GLEN FID'DICH, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Banff: twelve miles fouth-eaft of Iiiverary. 
GLEN FINE, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Argyle, north of Loch Fine. 
GLEN FIN'GLASS, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth. 
GLEN GAR'RY, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Invernefs, north of Loch Garry, 
GLEN GRU'DY, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Rofs, north of Loch Fainiifh. 
GLEN KIN'GLASS, a vale of Scotland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Argyle : twenty miles north of George’s Town. 
GLEN LED'NOOK, a vale of Scotland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Perth : ten miles north-weft of Crieff. 
GLEN LO'CHY, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Argyle, iiorth-eaft of Glenorchy. 
GLEN LY'ON, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Perth. 
GLEN MORIS'TON, a vale of Scotland, in the 
county of Invernefs: five miles weft of Fort Au- 
giiftiis. 
GLlsN MOY, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Angus, nortli-wclf of Brechin. 
GLEN MUIK, a vale of Scotland, in the county of 
Rofs. 
GLEN QUEICH, a vale of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth ; ten miles north of CrieftY 
GLEN 
