G O S 
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tx. Gorteria cernua, or drooping gorteria : leaves ob- 
long, clafping, tooth-fpinous, fpreading, finooth ; ca¬ 
lyxes ciliate-'ferrate; flowers drooping. The bafe of 
the calyx is fingular, with ripe feeds, and releiiibles the 
fruit of Medicago. It flowers in May. 
j2. Gotteria I'.niflora, or one-flowered gorteria : leaves 
lanceolate, undivided, tomentofe underneath j ftenis one- 
flowered, depreffed. Steins a Ipan high, fiinple, hei- 
baceoiis, leafy on all Tides. Has the appearance ot G. 
rigens, and may perhaps be a variety ot it. 
13. Gorteria barbata, or bearded gorteria: leaves el- 
liptic-lanceolate, tooth-awned ; calyxes pedunclcd, ci- 
liate-fetaceoiis. Steins ditfuled, fiinple, white-tomen- 
tofe. Leaves oppofite or alternate, feflile, acute, Tinootli, 
marked with lines, awned at the end on both iides with 
four or five lateral teeth, white-tomcntofe underneath. 
Propdgation and CuhuTe. Mott ot thele plants may be 
increafed by cuttings, planted in a fliady border, during 
any of the fummer months ; afterwards they may be 
treated like other plants from the Cape. For this fee 
Arctotis, voI. ii. p. 130. The two annual torts iiiutt 
be propagated by feeds. The feventh fort is increafed 
by planting the final 1 heads at the end of the branches, 
in June and July: thefe niufl: be clofely covered with 
either bell or hand glalTes, and carefully fcreeiied from 
the fun. When they are well rooted, they tliould be 
put each into a finall pot, and in winter placed in an 
airy glafs cafe fecure from damp. This may ferve 
as a direction for any other forts, and indeed for niotl 
fltrubby plants, that will not take from cuttings in the 
ordinaiy tvay. See Atr.a.ctylis and Rohria. 
GORTT'NA, the name of a place mentioned i Macc. 
XV. 25. 
GORTIN'IANS, a feet in New England, not much 
dift'ering from our quakers, fo called from Samuel Gor- 
ten, who was banilhed thence about the year 1646. 
GORT'SCHITZ, a river of Germany, which runs 
into the Gurk, three miles fouth of Eberiiltein, in the 
duchy of Carinthia. 
GOR'TYN, orGoR'TYS, in ancient geography, an 
inland towm of Crete. It was on the inhabitants of this 
place, t^iat Hannibal, to fave his money, prattifed an 
artifice recorded in Cornelius Nepos. 
GORTYN'IA, in ancient geography, a town of Ar¬ 
cadia, in Peloponnefus. 
GO'RY, adj. Covered with congealed blood : 
When two boars with rankling malice met. 
Their gory Iides the frefli wounds fiercely fret. Spenfer. 
Why do’il thou fliake thy gory locks at me ? 
Thou can’ll not fay I did it. • Macbetk. 
Bloody; murtherous; fatal. Notinufe: 
The obligation of our blood forbids 
A gory emulation ’twixt us twain. Skakefpeare. 
GORZ,y. in botany. SeeULEX. 
GORZE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mozelle, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridl ot 
IVIetz : two leagues and a half fouth-well ot Metz, and 
three north-north-wefi: of Pont a Mouflbn. Lat. 49.3.N. 
Ion. 23.39. E. Ferro. 
GORZE'GNO, a town of It,aly, and capital of a 
marquifate, in the duchy of Montferrat, on the Bormi- 
da: fifteen miles eall of Bene, and thirteen fouth-eall of 
Alba. 
GORZ'KE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and principality of Magdeburg: thirty- 
four miles eall of Magdeburg. 
GOS, a river of Germany, which runs into the Ma- 
lentheim, three miles north-well of Gmund, in Carinthia. 
GOSCHGOSCHU'ENCK, a town of the American 
States, in the Delawares, lituated on the banks of the 
Ohio. ' Its na.ne fignifies the habitation of ozols, from the 
great number of thole birds which relort there. 
GOSCHU'TZ, a town of Siielia, in the principality 
GOS 6(9 
of Ocls: two miles north of Feftenburg, and feven well 
of Mittelwalde. 
GOSEj a river of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, which runs into the Ocker, near Gofslar. 
GO'iELBACH, a river of Germany, in tiie circle of 
Upper Saxony, vvliich runs into the Saale, near Merfe- 
burg, in Thuringia. 
GO'SELBERG, a mountain of Germany, in tlie 
duchy of Stiria: ten miles well of Landfperg. 
GOSELI'NT (Julian), an Italian writer, horn at Rome 
in 1525, of a family of Nizza della Paglia. He received 
Itis early education at the latter place, and at the age of 
fourteen returned to Rc.ue, where lie continued his llu- 
dies in the lioufe of the cardinal de Santa Fiora. When 
feventeen years old, lie was taken into the fervice of 
Ferdinand Gonzaga, viceroy of Skily. He accompanied 
that nobleman to his government of Milan in 1546, and 
became liis fecretary; in which office he was contintied 
under tlsree I'ucceeding governors, till liis death, in 1587. 
He obtained great reputation by Iiis writings, of which 
the principal are, i. The Life of Ferdinand Gonzaga, 
1379. 2. Three Confpiracies, viz. of the Pazzi and 
Salviati agaiiill the Medici; of Giovaii-Lnigi de’ !■ ielchi 
againll the Republic of Genoa; and of fome Placentines 
againlt their Duke Pietro-Luigi Faniefe. 3. Rime-, or, 
A Colle6lion of Poems; feveral times repripted. 4. 
Difeourfes. 3. Letters, See. alfo fome Latin Poems and 
Letters. 
GOS'HAWK,/". C50]-, goofe, and Jjapoc, Sax. a 
hawk.] A hawk of a large kind. See Falco, vol. vii. 
p. 186, and the correfpondent engraving. 
Such dread his awful vifage on tliem call; 
So feem poor doves i\X gojhawki fight aghail. Fairfax. 
GO'SI-iEN (Land of), a moll fertiledillrift of Egypt, 
lituated, according to Jabloulki and Michaelis, between 
Arabia Petrasa, and the eallein bank of the Nile. It is 
derived from the Hebrew vi or A Gejhem, raiir( or 
copious fpring; and is remarkable in Scripture as being 
the jilace afligned to the lioufe of Jagbb, during the fa¬ 
mine that prevailed in Egypt and the countries adja¬ 
cent ; tile particular circumllances that led to their fettle- 
meiit here are fufficiently known not to need any repeti¬ 
tion; fufiice it to fay, they liad dwelt here for the fpace 
of four hundred and thirty years when they were deli¬ 
vered under Mofes. Gen. xlv. 10. xlvii. 1-6, 27. Exod. 
xii. 40, 41.—Alfo, a part of Palelline fo called, JoJk. x. 
41. and xi. 16.—Alfo, tlie name of a city of Palelline, 
belonging to the tribe of Judah; lituated in the moun¬ 
tains of that province. Jq/h. xv. 31. 
GO'SHEN, a towafhip of the American States, in 
Hampfhire county, Madachufetts, between Cumming- 
ton and Conway, fourteen miles north of Northampton, 
and 112 wcll-by-north of Bolloii. It was incorporated 
in 1781, and contained 6S1 inhabitants. 
GO'SHEN, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Addifon county, Vermont, adjoining to Salifbury on the 
well, and twenty-one miles north-eall-by-ealt of Mount 
Independence. 
GO'SHEN, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Cheller county, Pennfylvaiiia. 
GO'SHEN, a town of the American States, in Litch¬ 
field county, Connedlicut, famous for the production of 
excellent cheefe. It is feven miles north-by-north-well 
of Litchfield, and fifty northward of Newhaven. 
GO'SHEN, aconfiderable town of tlie American States, 
in Orange county, New-York, about fifty-eight miles 
north of New-York city, twenty well-by-lbutli of New 
Windfor, and thirty well-by-lbuth of Filh-Kiil. This 
town is plcafantly lituated; has an academy, court-houle, 
and gaol; and contains, by the cenlus, 2,448 inhabitants ; 
of whom 316 are eleblors. 
GO'SHEN, a townihip of the American States, in 
the didribt of Maine, eiglit miles from Buckltown, on 
Penobfeot river., 
GOSH'GOSHINK, 
