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weft, to wliich they gave the name of NafTau Fort; but, 
finding that this fituation did not command the har¬ 
bour, they ereffed anotlier fortification, called Orange 
Fort, foniewhjit nearer the fliore. This eftablifliment 
they kept till they were driven out by admiral Holmes, 
in 1663, w'lio placed an Englifli'garrifon in it. Two 
years after, it was retaken by De Ruyter, when Mr. 
Abercroinby, the governor, and garrilon, were forced 
to furrender prifoners of war. Upon this the Dutch 
augmented the fortifications, and the ifland enjoyed a 
perfeft tranquillity till 1677, when a French fquadron, 
commanded by the count d’Eftrees, arrived off the har¬ 
bour, on the 30th of Oifober. Next day, Flapfar, the 
Dutch governor, was fummoned to furrender, and on 
his refufal, the cou-nt made preparations to bombard 
Orange Fort, which obliged the garrifon to evacuate it, 
and retire to Fort Nalfau, vrliere they expedfed to capi¬ 
tulate upon honourable terras, though they were loon 
forced to furrender at difcretion. The next year M. du 
Caffe arrived at Goree with a forty-gun fliip, and fo. 
lemnly took poffeliion of the ifland in the name of the 
French Senegal company, and concluded a treaty with 
the king and negroes of the neighbouring country, on 
the fame conditions the Dutch enjoyed while they pof- 
fefled the ifland. As this meafure, which he had taken 
voluntarily, was approved on his return by the court, 
he was fent back the following year in quality of go¬ 
vernor, with prefents to the negro kings ; and the fame 
year this conqueft was fecured to the company by the 
treaty of Nimrnegen. No fooner were the French in 
full polfeflion, than they fet to work, in repairing and 
adding new works to both the forts, calling the lower 
fort Vermandois, and the higher St. Michael. Before 
the year 1681, feveral unfuccefsful attempts were made 
by the Dutch to recover a place of fuch importance to 
trade ; but all of them proved abortive. This famous 
negro fettleraent was taken by the Englifli in 1758, by 
a fquadi on under the command of commodore Keppel ; 
and it was for cruelties exercifed in this garrifon, that 
governor Wall fuft'ered death before Newgate, on the 
28th of January, 1802. Lat. 14. 40. N. Ion. 17. 30. 
-W. Greenwich. 
GO'REY. See Newborough. 
GO'REY MOUNTAINS, mountains of Ireland, in 
the county of Donegal: fourteen miles fouth-weft of 
Londonderry. 
GOR'GA, a river of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, W'hich runs into the Liban, in the province of Ca¬ 
labria Citra. 
GOR'GAST, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and Middle Mark of Brandenburg: 
four miles W'eft of Cuftrin. 
GORGE, y. [French. J The throat ; the fwallow.— 
How abhorred in my imagination it is: my gorge I'ifes 
at it. Shakefpeare. 
[In architecture.] The narrowed part of the Tufcan 
or Doric capitals, lying above the fliaft of the pillar, 
between the aftragal and the annulets. 
[In fortification.] I'he entrance into a baftion, or a 
ravelin, or other out-work. See Fortification.— 
A ftrait or narrow palTage betwe.en hills and mountains. 
Tb GORGE, v.n. [;gorgrr, Fr.] To fill up the throat; 
to glut; to fatiate.— Gorge with my blood thy barbarous 
appetite. Dryden. 
Nor would his flaughter’d army now have lain 
On Afric’s fands, disfigur’d with their wounds. 
To gorge the wolves and vultures of Numidia. Addifon. 
To fwallow ; as, The fifli has gorged the hook. 
GOR'GE, a daughter of CEneus king of Calydon, 
by Aithfea daughter of Thellius. She married Andre- 
mon, by whom fhe had Oxilus, wiio headed the Hera- 
♦ clidae, when they made an attempt upon Peloponnels , 
PavJ'anias .—One of the Danaides. 
GOR'GED, adj. Having a gorge or throat; 
G O R 
Look up a height, the {hxiW-gorged lark fo far 
Cannot be feen or heard. Shakefpeare. 
GOR'GEOUS, adj. ^gorgias, old French. Skinner.'] 
Fine; fplendid ; glittering m various colours; Ihowy ; 
magnificent : 
O, that deceit fhould dwell 
In fuch a gorgeous palace ! Shakefpeare. 
GOR'GEOUSLY, adj. Splendidly; magnificently; 
finely.—The duke, one foleinn day gorgeoujiy clad in a 
fait all over fpread with diamonds, loft one of them. 
Wotton. 
GOR'GEOUSNESS, f. Splendour; magnificence; 
fliow. 
GOR'GET, f. The piece of armour that defends the 
throat: 
About his neck a threefold gorget. 
As rough as trebled leathern target. Hudibras. 
GOR'GIAS. A man’s name, i Mac. 
GOR'GIAS, a celebrated fophift and orator, fur- 
named Leontinus, becaufe born at Leontium in Sicily. 
He was fent by his countrymen to folicit the affiftance 
ot the Athenians againll the Syrac'ufans; and through 
the force of his eloquence was fuccefsful in his em- 
balTy. His reputation w^as in confequence prodigious. 
He w'as highly venerated in Leontium, his native city ; 
and money was coined witli his name upon it. In the 
latter part of his life he eftabliftied himfelf at Athens ; 
and lived till he had attained the great age of one hun¬ 
dred and five years; and after his death, a golden ftatue 
was erected in his honour at Delphi. Hermogenes has 
preferved a fragment of his writing, from which w'e fee 
fomething of his ftyle and manner. It is rather quaint 
and artificial ; full of antithefis and pointed expreflion ; 
and fliews how far the Grecian fubtilty had at that time 
carried the exercife and ftudy of their language. Fie 
died in the year 400 before Chrift. 
GORGOGLIO'NE, a town of Italy, in the kingdom 
of Naples, and province of Bafilicata : fifteen miles eaft 
of Venofa. 
GORGO'NA, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, 
about fixteen miles from the coaft of Tufcany; cele¬ 
brated for the anchovy filhery on its coafts. Lat. 43. 22. 
N. Ion. 27.41. E. Ferro. 
GORGO'NA, an ifland in the Pacific Ocean, about 
fix leagues from the coaft of Peru : ten miles in circum¬ 
ference. Lat. 3. 6. N. Ion. 77. 52. W. Greenwich. 
GORGO'NES, in mythology, three celebrated lifters, 
daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, whofe names were 
Stheno, Euryale, and Medufa, all immortal except 
Medufa. According to the mythologifts, thq^ir hairs 
were intwined with ierpents, their hands were of brafs, 
their body covered with impenetrable fcales, and their 
teeth were as long as the tulks of a wild boar, and they 
turned to ftones all thofe on whom they fixed their eyes. 
Medul'a alone had ferpents in her hair, according to 
Ovid, and this proceeded from the refentment of Mi¬ 
nerva, in whofe temple Medufa had gratified the paf- 
fion of Neptune, who was enamoured of the beautiful 
colour of iier locks, which the goddefs changed into 
ferpents. ^Efchylus fays, that they had only one tooth 
and one eye between them, of which they had the uie 
each in her turn ; and accordingly it was at the time 
that they were exchanging the eye that Perfeus attacked 
them, and cut off Medufa’s head'. According to iome 
authors, Perfeus, when he went to the conqueft of the 
Gorgons, was armed with an inftrument like a Icytheby 
Mercury, and provided with a looking-glals by Mi¬ 
nerva, befides winged Ihoes, and a helmet of Pluto, 
which rendered all objefts clearly viiible and open to 
the-view, while the perfon who wore it remained to¬ 
tally invifible. With weapons like thefe, Perfeus ob¬ 
tained an eafy viftory ; and after his conqueft, returned 
his^arms to the different deities, whofe favours and af- 
filtance 
