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bed is in a proper temperature of warmth, the plants 
fhould be\'arefully taken up with balls of earth to their 
roots, and each planted into a I'eparate pot, obfervinji' 
to fhade them till they have taken new root; afterward 
they mu ft be treated in the fame manner as other ten¬ 
der exotic plants. When the plants have filled thefe 
pots with tiieir roots, they fliould be lhaken out of the 
pots, and their roots on the outlide of the ball of earth 
mufl: be carefully pared off; then they fhould be put 
into pots a lize larger, and, when there is convenieucy 
of a deep frame to plunge the pots into another gentle 
hot-bed, it will bring the plants early to flower, and 
caiife tiiem to grow much larger than thole which are 
placed abroad. In July the plants fhould be inured 
gradually to bear the open air, into which they may be 
removed about the middle of that month, and inter¬ 
mixed with other annual plants to adorn the pleafure- 
garden ; but it will be proper to keep a plant or two 
of each fort in flielter .for feeds,-b.ecaufe when the au- 
Tunm proves cold or wet, thole plants which are ex- 
pofed abroad, feldom produce good feeds. The fifth 
fort will live two or three years in a Hove ; and the 
feeds will fomctimes ripen in England. See Illece- 
BRUM. 
•GOM'RON. See Gambron. 
GOMS, a town of Swifferland, which gives name to 
one of the departments of the Valais: th.irty-three 
miles eaft of Sion. 
GONAG'RA, J. [from the Greek yow, the knee, 
and o-ypa, a capture.] The gout in tite knees. 
GONATVES (Les), a feaport town of the ifland of 
St. Domingo, with an excellent harbour. Here is a 
medicinal fpring ; and, in the year 1772, baths were 
eredted, with lodgings to accommodate company, and 
an hofpital for foldiers and failors. Lat. 19. 36. N. 
Ion. 54. 40. W. Ferro. 
GONA'PI, or Gounong-Api, one of the Bandas or 
Spice 1 Hands belonging to the Dutch, fituated in the 
EaHern Indian Sea, in the middle of which is a volcano. 
Tliis ifland, from having been overwhelmed with burn¬ 
ing lava, is become wholly uninhabited. In 1621, its 
volcano emitted fire, fmoke, and cinders ; and had, per¬ 
haps, long before left neither w’oods, fruits, nor water. 
The eruptions continued at times fo violent as to carry 
defolation to part of the neighbouring ifland of Banda, 
overwhelming the woods and loftieH trees, and to fling 
Hones of three or four tons weight from one ifland to 
the other. In the Phil. Tranf. Abridg. vol. ii. p.393, 
is an accotint of a moH horrible eruption of this moun¬ 
tain in November 1694, attended with noifes like the 
difcharge of artillery. It caH up fuch a quantity of 
Hones, as entirely to fill a noted fifhing place in the 
neighbouring fea of the depth of forty fathoms, fo as 
to leave it entirely dry. The fame voltime fully ac¬ 
counts for the appearance of thefe iflands, and the 
Banda, fo graphically defcribed by the abbe Raynal, 
who thus fpeaks of them : “The Banda, or Spice Iflands, 
leem to have been thrown up by the fea, and may with 
reafon be fuppofed to be the eft'edl of fome fubterra- 
neous fire. Lofty mountains, the fummits of which are 
loH in the clouds, enormous rocks heaped one upon 
another, horrid and deep caverns, torrents which pre¬ 
cipitate themfelves with extreme violence, volcanoes 
perpetually announcing impending deHruction ; are the 
phenomena that give rife to this idea, or aflill in con¬ 
firming the rife of thefe barren rocks, fertile only in 
Ipiceries.” 
In i693 and 1694, feveral other iflands, as if by mu¬ 
tual confent, raged with volcanic fury. The mountains 
of Celebes, Sorea, Ternate, Banda, and Neyra, at one 
and the fame time, caH up fire, lava, afhes, cinders, 
and boiling water. There was no approaching the wa¬ 
ter by realon of the exceffive heat. In Sorea the ground 
funk in and difcovered a great lake ; 
Vox,. VIII. No. 535. 
A fiery deluge, fed 
With ever-burning fulphur unconfum’d : 
Which, fpreading farther and farther, threatening the 
whole ifland, terrified the inhabitants To much, that 
they unanimou.fly tranfported themfelves to Banda, 
leaving their moveables behind for want of vcflels. 
All thefe iflands are fubjeil to terrible earthquakes, 
which afl'eft the fea fo greatly as particularly to endan¬ 
ger the fliips lying at anchor in the contiguous harbour. 
See the article Banda Islands, vol. ii. p. 666. 
GONAQUA'IS, a tribe or nation of Africa, border¬ 
ing on the Cape of Good-Hope. See Hottentots, 
GONAR'CHA, y, in antiquity, a dial delineated In 
feveral furfaces. 
GONATOCAR'PUS, y. [from ytiw, yorafloj, Gi". the 
knee, and KcepTro;, fruit. ] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
tetrandria, order monogynia. The generic characters 
are—Calyx : none. Corolla : four-cleft, permanent. 
Stamina : filaments four, inferted into the corolla. 
Piftillum : germ inferior; Hyle fingle. Pericarpium : 
drupe fubglobular, eight-cornered, crowned with the 
permanent corolla, one-celled. Seed fingle.— EJfcntial 
CharaBer. Corolla, four-cleft; drupe, eight-cornered, 
one-feeded. 
Gonatocarpus micranthus, a fingle fpecies. Root fi¬ 
brous, annual ; Hem one or more, four-cornered, de¬ 
cumbent at the bafe, branched at the top, fcarcely a 
fpan in height ; leaves oppofite, on very fhort petioles, 
ovate, acute, ferrate, fmooth, fpreading, a line in 
length ; flowers on the branches in fpikes, remote, 
moHly on one fide, drooping, minute. Found by Thun- 
berg abundantly about Nagafaki, flowering in AuguH, 
GONA'VE (La), an ifland in the WeH Indies, thirty 
miles long, and five wide, near the weH coaH of St. Do¬ 
mingo. Lat. 18.51. N. Ion. 73.4. W. Greenwich. - 
GON'CELIN, a town of France, in the department 
of the Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridl 
of Grenoble: four leagues and a half north-north-weH 
of Grenoble. 
GON'DAR, a town of Africa, and capital of Abyfli- 
nia, fituated on a hill of confiderable height, furroutided 
on every fide by a deep valley. It confiHs of ten thou- 
fand families in time of peace; the houfes are chiefly 
of clay, the roofs thatched in the form of cones, which 
is always the conHruCtion within the tropical rains. 
On the weH end of the town is the king’s houfe, for¬ 
merly a Hrudlure of confiderable confequence ; it was 
a fquare building, flanked with fquare towers ; it was 
formerly four Hories high, and, from the top of it, had 
a magnificent view of all the country fouthward to the 
lake Tzama. Great part of this houfe is now in ruins, 
having been burnt at difi'erent times ; but there is Hill 
ample lodging in the two loweH floors of it; the au¬ 
dience chamber being above one hundred and twenty 
feet long. The palace, and all its contiguous build¬ 
ings, are furrounded by a fubHantial Hone wall, thirty 
feet high, with battlements upon the outer wall, and a 
parapet roof between the outer and inner, by which 
you can go along the whole and look into the Hreet. 
There appears to have never been any embrafures for 
cannon, and the four fides of this wall are above an 
Englifli utile and a half in length. 
GON'DEBAUD, or Gundojjald, third king of the 
Burgundians, deferves to be recorded as a legiflavor. 
H c was one of the fons either of Gondicaire or of his 
foil Gundiac, and by the maflacre of his brother Chil- 
peric, after civil war between them, obtained the 
crown of Burgundy in 491. In the firH year of his 
reign, ipider pretence of afliHing Odoacer againH Theo- 
doric king of the OHrogoths, he enteied Italy, and car¬ 
rying fire and fword tl.rough ^Emilia and Liguria, as 
narrated in the article France ; which fee. He reigned 
with great clemency over the Burgundian nation, which 
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