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fnitny, Poland, and the Low-countries, in wliich iie fpent 
fourteen years. In 1534 he vifited the univerfity of Pa¬ 
dua, in wliich he (Iiidied four years under Lazaro Buo- 
naniico ; and he contrafted a friendfliip in Italy with 
the cardinals Benibo, Sadolet, and Madrutio. He af¬ 
terwards purfued his ftudics at Louvain, w here he ciil. 
tivated the acquaintance of all the men of learning in 
thofe parts, and acquired a tafle for miific, poetry, and 
polite literature. He married at the Hague, atid then 
hxed his refidence at Louvain, which city he was a prin- 
tipal means of defending againft the attack of Martin 
van RolTem. He was, however, feized upon by the 
enemy, under pretence of a violation of the truce, and 
obliged to ranlbin himfelf. In an advanced age he was 
recalled by the king of Portugal in order to be em- 
P'loyed in writing the hiftory of that country; but he 
loiind the archives in fuch a confufed (late, that he was 
unable to finiHi more than a very fmall part of his talk. 
Jn confequence of fome calumnious accufation, he was 
arrerted, and obliged to plead his caufe in fetters. He 
was at length allowed to return to his own houfe, w'here 
he was found dead one morning with his body half 
burnt, probably from the accident of falling into the 
fire in a fit. The works of Damian a Goez are : i. Le- 
gatw magni Indorum Imperatoris ad Emanuelem Lvjitanice Re- 
gein, 1532. 2. Fidcs, Rcligio, Morejque, yEthiopum. 3. 
Hifpaniie Laudatio. 4. Urbis Lovankvjis Objidio. 5. Com¬ 
ment. Rcrum Gejlarum in India a I.ufitanis. 6. Urbis Ulyffipo. 
nenjis Dyferiptio. 7. Hijloria del Rey Dom Manuel. 8. Chro¬ 
nica de Principe D. Juao II. 
GOE'ZE (John Anguftus Ephraim), a celebrated na¬ 
tural id, born at Afclierleben in 1731. Having receiv'ed 
the rudiments of his education in the fchool of that 
place, he was fent to the univerfity of Halle, where he 
applied chiefly to theology ; and foon after hi'a return, 
in 1751, he obtained an appointment as a preacher at 
Qtiedlingbnrg, which he retained till the period of his 
death. In confequence of fome accidental circum- 
Itances, he began, about the fortieth year of his age, to 
turn his attention to natural hidory. Becoming pof- 
lefled of a compound microfeope condru6led by Hotf- 
nian of Leipfic, he began to colleft objebts of various 
kinds ; and every thing curious that fell in hjs way was 
lubjecled to examination. His microfcopic refearches 
conducled him to the dudy of the natural hidory of 
infects. He wrote down his obfervations for his own 
private life, and caiifed many of the objects he faw to 
be corredtly delineated. He tranflated Bonnet’s Trea- 
tife on Inlebtology, which was the firft work he pub- 
lilhed, ;ind which met with a favourable reception from 
naturalids. Alter this period he publidied various pa¬ 
pers in the Berlin Mifcelhiny. He made himfelf com¬ 
pletely acquainted with the Linnrean arrangement of in¬ 
fects; ^fter which he piiblilhed his ICntomoIogical Col. 
leittions, intended as a fupplement to Linnaius, which 
appeared between 1771 and 1781, in four p:irts, and 
whic h excited the adonidiment of thofe bed’acquainted 
■with the fiibjeitt. I he fame plan he afterwards adopted 
in regard to other clalles of the animal kingdom. His 
friend Dr. Wagler, of Brunfwick, who during the latter 
pjirt of his life had applied to microfcopical obferva¬ 
tions, being a gre.ft anatoiiiid, recommended to him an 
examination of the intedincs of animal bodies, as likely 
to aiiord a new field for his refearches. Goeze was 
Itruck with this idea ; and by an indefatigable ufe of 
every opportunity of difl'eition which came in his way, 
he became polfelled of a multitude of intedinal worms 
from the human body ; and in a few years he had a molt 
valuable cotleflion, which he daily increafed by dif- 
fectiug the iatefiines of quadrupeds, fidi, and birds. 
All curious objects he prepared with great dexterity, 
examined with the utmoft care, and caufed drawings to 
be made of them. This gave rife to his- celebrated 
woik on the natural hidory of intedinal worms, Ver- 
/iich iiber die Naturgejchichte der Eingewcidc-WurmcTf pub- 
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lilhed, ill quarto, in 1782, with forty-four platr-s. This 
original work, on a fubjeft of fo much curiofity and 
importance to the medical art, contrl’outed not a little 
to increafe his reputation as a naturalid. About the 
year 1783 the etiucation of liis children induced him to 
publifli fome fmall works on natural hidory and other 
branches of knowledge conncftccl with it. _^eing an 
agreeable writer, thefe produHions were well received, 
and particularly on account of the fiinple and fainilisr 
manner in which he inculcates the principles of religion 
and morality. Wlien he had conirounicatcd to the pub¬ 
lic the rcfult of Jiis obfervations on intedinal worms, he 
fent the colledlion to Pavia, where it was fold for a 
thoufand dollars, as he found liimfelf incapable, on ac 
count of age and infirmity, to continue his labours in 
that department. A few weeks after ihe bargain was 
concliicied, he received a letter from Dr. Hunter, who 
offered him i8co dollars for the colieition ; but this 
offe r arrived too late. Goeze had long lud'ered under 
a difordcr of the died, d'liis weaknel's, as he liad to 
preach every Sunday, made him wifli for fome duty that 
required lei's exertion. This wifli was gratified by the 
intcreflof Anna Amelia, fider of Frederic the Great, 
who paid him a vilit to fee his natural curioiities ; he 
obtained the diaconate of the principal church of Qued- 
lingburg, and he entered on his new office witli the 
hope of living feme years in the bofom of peace and 
tranquillity ; but his diibrder increafing, he died on tlie 
27th of June, 1786. 
GOFF, or Golf, /] A very ancient Englifh game at 
ball, performed witli a liglit bar, about four feet in 
length, faced with horn and backed with lead in tlie 
curvature. The ball is a little one, but exceedingly 
hard, being made with leather and fluffed with feathers. 
There are generally two players, who have each of then), 
his bat and ball. The game confifls in driving the ball 
into certain holes made in the ground, which he who 
achieves the fooncfl, or in the fewefl number of flrokcs, 
obtains the vidlory. It ffiould feem that goff was a 
fafliionable game among the nobility at the commence¬ 
ment of the fevcnteentli century, and it was one of the 
exercifes w'ith which prince Henry, eldcfl fon to James I. 
occafionally amufed himfelf, as we learn from the fol¬ 
lowing anecdote recorded by a perfon who was prcfeiit|- 
“ At another time jilaying at guff, the prince lifting up 
his goff-club to flrike tiie ball ; one Itandiiig by laid to 
him, Beware that you hit not maftcr Newten ; wiiere- 
w’ith he, drawing back his hand, faid. Had I done lo, 
I had but paid my debts.” 
GOFFS'TOWKh a town of the American States, in 
Hillffioroiigh county, New Hampfbire, on the wellern 
bank of JVIerrimack river, three miles from Anuitkcag 
Falls, and lixty weft of Portfmouth. It was incorpo¬ 
rated in i7di, and contains by tlv.’ cenfus 1,275 inhabi¬ 
tants. Some pieces of baked earthenware have been 
dug up in this tow’nfhip, from wiiich it is fuppofed that 
the Indians had learned the pottei’s act; but of w hat 
antiquity thefe remnants are, is uncertain. 
GOG, and MA'GOG, two names ufually joined to¬ 
gether in Scripture; Ezek. xxxviii. 2, 3, &c. xxxix. 
j, 2, See. Rev, xx. 8. Mofes fpeaks of Magog the fbn 
of Japhet, but fays nothing of Gcg; Gen. x. 2. 1 Ckr. i. 
5. Gog was prince of Magog, according to Ezekiel. 
Magog fignifies the country or people, and Gog the 
king of that country, d he generality of the ancients 
made Magog the father of the Scytliians and Tartars; 
and ieveral interpreters' difeov'ered many footfteps of 
their name in the provinces of Great I'artary. Others 
have been of opinion that the Perfians were the dc- 
feendants of Magog ; and fome have imagined that the 
Goths were defeended from Gog and Magog ; and that 
the wars deferibed by Ezekiel, and undertaken by Gop, 
are no other than thofe w Inch the Goths carried on 'in 
the fifth age againft the Roman empire. Mr. Bryant, 
in his Analyfis of Ancient Mythology, has Ihewn that 
Magog 
