G O M 
of fcjunding tlie lilrench academy. He is mentioned in 
higli terms of commendation by Klechier, v. lio fpeaksof 
him as having joined the chriftian virtues to thofe of 
morality. He died in 1^)74. His works'are : i. Porjits 
Diverfes, in the collecHon of Lomenie de lirienne; of 
thefe, his fonnets on tlie Holy Sacrament, and on Soli¬ 
tude, arc thought excellent. 2'. Romances, viz. Polex- 
andre •, La Cylherea ; I,a Jeune Akidiane ; thefe were tor a 
time pofHilaf. 3. Dijemrs fur ks Fertus & Us Vkts de dLL’f- 
toi're, L 3 de la Maniere de bien e'errre; a lentible and ju¬ 
dicious performance. 4. An edition of the Memoir'S of 
the Duke de Nevers, with additions. 5. A Relation of 
the River of the Amazo'ns, from tlie Sjianifli. 6. I.a 
DoBrine dcs Meurs, tirie de la Phikjaphie des Lstoiques\ a work 
more in re'queft for its hundred plates, than tor the hun¬ 
dred difeourfes illulfrating them. 
GOMBEZCA'LA, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Farliftan; one hundred miles north-north-wed of 
Schiras. 
GOM'BIN, or Gambin, or Gabin, a town of Po¬ 
land, in the palatinate of Rawa, liiuated on the Biura 
river : thirty-four miles north-north-eaft of Rawa. 
GOMBROO N. See Gambhon. 
GOME,yi a provincial term for the tar or black greafe 
of a cart-wheel. 
GOMEG'NltS, a town of Hanaut : four miles eaft 
of le Quefnoy. 
GO'MER, [ims, Heb. confuining. ] A man’s name ; 
a fon of Japhet. Alfo a Jewith meafure of dry things, 
containing five hundred and ten pints, one I'olid inch, and 
two hundred and eleven decimal parts. 
GOM'ERA, or Velez de Gomera, or Velez de 
Pegnon, a fortrefs of Africa, built on a rock near the 
coalt of the Mediterranean, in the kingdom of Fez ; 
eighty-five miles wed of Melilla, and fifty-five ead of 
Tetuan. 
GOM'ERA, a river of Africa, w'hich runs into the 
Straits of Gibraltar, near Velez de Gomera, in the king¬ 
dom of Fez. 
GOM'ERA, a fmall ifiand of Scotland, near the wed 
coad of the illand ot Mull. 
GOM'FfRA, or Gomara, one of the Canary iflands, 
about twenty miles long, and ten wide, w'ith a capita! of 
the fame name. It is well cultivated and fertile, pro¬ 
ducing abundance of fugar-canes and wine, with corn 
■enough to fupply the want of tlie inhabitant.s. The 
town is fituated on the ead coad, and has a good har¬ 
bour, wl'.ere the Spanidi Wed India fleet dops to take 
in wine and fruits, and other provifions of the country : 
fix leagues fouth-wed from the iliand of Tenerifte. Lat, 
a8.6. N . Ion. I 7. 8. W . Greenwich. 
GO'MEZ DE CIVIDaD REAL (Alvarez), a La¬ 
tin poet, inborn in 14S8, at Guadalaxara in Spain. He 
was page of honour to the archduke Charles, afterwards 
emperor. He married a natural daughter of the duke 
d’lnfantado, and died in 1558. Gomez polleired a great 
facility in vvriting Latin verie, which he proved by le- 
veral works of coiifiderable length. Thefeare, i. Thalia 
Chriftiana, or the 1 riumph of jefus Chrid, in twenty- 
five books; 2. Mufa Paidina, or tite Epill le's of St. P.iul, 
in elegiac verie ; 3. 'the Proverbs of Solomon; 4. The 
Seven Penitential Plalms ; 5. De Prindpis Burgundi Mili¬ 
tia quam Velleris aurei vacant, l.ib. V. I his lad poem, on 
the order of the Golden Fleece, is reckoned his mader- 
piece. Fie alfo compoled poems in the Spanilh lan¬ 
guage, but their reputation is not great. 
GO'MEZ DE CaS'IRO (Alv.irez), a native of St. 
Eulalia, near Toledo, w as educated at Alcala, where he 
obtained a high character for learning. He was recom¬ 
mended to Philip II. who engaged him to prepare an 
edition of the works ot St. Indore, which death pre¬ 
vented him from completing. he compofed feveral 
works in prole and verte, of which the mod edeemed is 
.a Lile of Cardinal Xiniencs, inlerted in a colleidicn.of 
G O M fill 
the writers on Spanilh hiftory. He died in 1580, at tlie 
age ot lixtv-five. 
GO'MEZ (Magdalen-Angelica PoilFon de), born at 
Paris in 1684, was the daughter of Paul Poifl'on, an ac¬ 
tor. Den Gabriel de Gomez, a Spanilh gentleman, 
mairied her with the hop s of finding a vefource againft 
indigence in her tiiients. She, on tlie other hand, took 
him tor a man of fortiine; but finding iier midake, die 
lat quietly down to obtain a livelihood by wiiting. Her 
tertile })cn poured forth a great variety of prodiuftions 
ot the gallant and romantic clal's, which were mucli read 
at the rime. Of thefe the principal are: i. I.es Journe'es 
Annijantcs, 8 vols. 121110. 2. Anecdotes Perfanes, 2 vols. 
121110. 3. Ihjl Secrete de la Conquete de Grenade. 4. Hijloire 
du Comte d'Oxford, avec cellc d'Eujlache de St. Pierre. 5. La 
Jeune Alcidiane. 6. Les Cent nouvelles Nouvcllrs, 8 vols. 
12010. Mad. tie Gomez alio wrote fome tragedies, but 
her genius; had not drength enough for this fpecies of 
compolition. She died at the age of eight^-(ix in 1770. 
GO'MI, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Se-tchuen : twelve miles wed-nortli-wed 
Kia-ting. 
GOM'MERN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and clecforate of Saxony, lltuated on tlie 
river Ehle: eight miles fouth-ead of Magdeburg, and 
twenty north-wed of Delfaii. Lat. 52. 5. iS. Ion. 29. 36. 
E. Ferro. 
GOM'MERVILLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment ot the Eure and l.oire, and chief ph.ceof a canton, 
in the didrict of Janville : tliree leagues and a halt noriit 
of Janville. 
GOMOR'RAH, or Gomor'rha, a city of Canaan, 
fituated in the vale of Siddini, or Sodom, (now the Dead 
Sea,) and ivas the feat of fome of the Canaanitifli kings, 
the lad of which was named Birlha. It was cledroyec'i (to¬ 
gether with Sodom, Admail and Zeboim), byfiieand 
brimdone rained as it were from lie.iven, in the days of 
the patriarch Abraham, and Lot. Gen. xiv. 2, 3, 10, 
xix. 24. 
GOMO'ZIA, yi in botany. SccNerteria. 
GOM'PHI, in ancient geography, a town of Tlieffaly, 
near the fpriiigs of the Peiieus. 
GOM'PHI A, /'. [from'yojMipo?, Gr. a nail, knob, or 
button, the flowers being of a rouiidifji form before they 
open.] In botany, a genus of the dais decandria, order 
moiiogynia. The generic rharaders are—Calyx : pe- 
rianthiuni five-leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, fharpifli, 
nerved, coloured, deciduous; two wdth a membrane on 
botli lides, one with a membrane on one fide only, and 
two without any. Corolla : petals five, i'preading, 
longer than the calyx, lomewhat unequal ; claws Ihorter 
tlian the c-ilyx, widening gradually into roundidi, flat, 
entire, lantinas. Stamina ; filaments ten, thick, aiigti- 
lar, very fhort; antheras upright, parallclopiped, drawn 
to a point at the top, gaping at the tip on the outlide 
with a double hole, Ihorter than the calyx. PilUllaiix; 
germ fitting on a Ihort, flefliy, angular, receptacle, five- 
cornered, and five-cleft; liyle longer tlian the iLimens, 
five-furrowed ; ftigiua lliarp. Pericarpium : berries 
from one to five, generally two, ovate, obliquely atte¬ 
nuated at the bale, lonieviha: coniprell'cd, obtiile, up¬ 
right, fitting on a very large globular receptacle (for 
receiving a iingle berry) or lobed for leveral berries, 
each fixed to each lobe. Seeds ; Iblitary, ovate.— 
EJftntial CharaBer. Calyx, five-leaved; corolla, five- 
petalled; berries, one to five, on a l.irge receptacle, 
feed, foiitary. 
Species. I. Gompliia anguftifolia, or rough-le.aved 
gomphia : leaves lanceolate, lerrate on the outlide; pa¬ 
nicle terminating; petals longer than tile calyx. 'I'his 
tree is only about twelve feet higli, witli a llender 
trunk; the bark is brownllh.red, tlie wood whitilli, 
witii a greenilh heart; the flowers are yellow, and have 
no I'cent. Native of the Eall Indies. 
3, Gomphia 
