GOT 
wool Is picked, and afterwards cleared from the feeds 
by a machine called a gin, compofed of two or tliree 
fmootli wooden rollers of about one inch diameter, 
ranged horizontally, clofe and parallel to each other, 
in a frame; at each extremity they are toothed or chan¬ 
nelled longitudinally, correfponding one with the other ; 
and the central roller, being moved with a trcadel or 
foot-lath, refembling that of a knife-:;rinder, makes the 
other two revolve in contrary dire£tiQns. The cotton 
is laid, in fmall qtiahtities at a time, upon thefe rollers, 
whilfl: they are in motion, and, readily palling between 
tltem, drojts intoafack, placed tinderneath to receive it, 
leaving th.e feeds, which are too large to pafs with it, 
behind. I'he cotton thus difeharged from the feeds, is 
afterwards hand-picked, and cleanfed thoroughly trom 
any little particles of the pods or other fu.bftances which 
may be adhering to it. It is then (lowed in large bags, 
where it is well trod down, that it may lie clofe and 
compact ; and the better to anfwcr this ptirpofe, fome 
w'ater is every now and then fprinkled upon tlie outfide 
of the bag ; the marketable weiglit of which is uftially 
three hundred pounds. An acre may be expected to 
prodtice from two hundred and forty pounds to that 
qtiantity ; or two hundred and levenly pounds on an 
average. See Bombax. 
GOS'TADT, or Jott'stadt, or Jo'sephstadt, 
a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and 
circle of Erzgeburg ; eight miles fouth of Wolkenllein. 
GOS'TENHOF, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Franconia, and territory of Ntiremberg, lituated near 
Nuremberg. 
GOS'Sl ING, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Atifria : two miles eaft-north-eaft of Zifterldorfr, 
GOS'TITZ, a town of Silelia, in tiie principality of 
Neiife : two miles fouth of Patl'clikau. 
GOSTY'NEN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Rawa ; this town is remarkable for having been the pri- 
fon of Demetritis Sttlki, czar of Mufeovy, who was 
confined to the day of his death in the citadel; thirty- 
fix miles north of Rawa. 
GOS'ZITZ, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and circle of Neulladt : tliree miles welt of 
Ziegenbruck. 
( 30 T, pret. [from the verb get.'] They began to rea- 
fon about the means how the idA got thither. Woodiuard. 
Thefe regions and this realm my w’ars have got ; 
This mournftil empire is the loler’s lot. Dryden. 
GOT, part. pajf. of get. —If he behaves himfelf fo 
when lie depends on us for his daily bread, can any man 
fay what he will do when lie is^oiabove tlie world ? Ar- 
hithnot. 
Thou wert from ^Etna’s burning entrails torn. 
Got by fierce whirlwinds, and in thunder born. Pope. 
GO'TER, J. A large fwelling in the neck. See 
Goitre. —One of our countrymen in travelling over 
the Alps was detained by a fever in one of thole vil¬ 
lages, where every grown pcrfoii has that lort of fvvell- 
ings in the neck, which th y call goters. Spence's Criio. 
GOTH (Stephen), archbilhop of (Jpfal in Oweden, in 
the lixteenth century. He concurred in the meaiures 
adopted by king Jolin, infenlibly to reftore popery in 
that cotuitry. I'or this purpoie iie gave liis lanCtion to 
a new liturgy, which, under the pretence of bringing 
the Lutheran church more near to the limplicity of the 
earlier ages of the gofpel, artfully allimilated the doc¬ 
trines and ceremonies of worlliip to thole of Rome, with 
the omillion of fome particular forms and exprefiions 
which would have too plainly difclol’ed the objebf in 
view. This liturgy was ordered to be ufed in all tlie 
churches; btit it threw the kingdom into confuficn, and 
had nearly produced a civil war; fo that the king was 
obliged to rclinqnilh ins fcheme, and the liturgy was 
GOT 703 
ftipprelTed. It lias now become an objeft of enriofity 
among colle£lors, and is entitled, Litnrgia Surceance Ec- 
clcjta, &c. cvni Prapfationc & Noil’s Laiirentii Upfalienfis EpiJ'co- 
pi ; 1 57 t), 4 to. 
GO'THA, or Saxe-Gotha, a principality of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Upper Saxony, botinded on the 
nortli by the eleftorate of Saxony, on tlie eall by the 
dticliy ot Weimar, on the fouth by the county of Hen- 
neberg, and on the well by the principality of Eifenach. 
The country abounds in grain and frtiit ; the fouthern 
divifion contains a part of the foreft of Thuringia, and 
fome mine works. The whole duchy contains twelve 
tow'iis, and more than two luindred churches. The 
Hate confills of three dalles, that is, of the counts, the 
nobility, and fome towns, which are convoked by the 
prince. The dtikes are defeended from the grandfon of 
John William Ernell the Pious, whofe fons formed fe- 
ven different branches, fome of which are extimft. 
Gotha was the principal. The others which yet remtiin 
tire Saxe-Meinungen, Saxe-Hilburgh.iufen, and Saxe- 
Satilleld. ■ I'he Roman month is forty-eight florins 
twenty kruitzers, and tax to the imperial chamber fixiy- 
two rix-dollars (ixiy-fotir krtiitzers. 'I'he dtike main¬ 
tains a guard of 160 men, two regiments, each compofed 
of 800 men, and a corps of artillery. The principal 
rivers are the Leine and the Neilfe. 
GO'THA, a city of Germany, and capital of the princi¬ 
pality of the fame name, feated on a riling ground, 
near the Leine, from which, in 1369, the landgrtive, 
Balthafar, drew one branch near the town ; but duke 
Ernell improved tliis work, and conveyed it through all 
the (Ireets, by means of Hone canals. Gotha is one of 
the beft and handfomefl towns in Tliuiingia. In 1715, 
in the town, and without the gates, were 1030 lioufes 
paying loot and lot, and within its walls are nine liun- 
dred and fix, exclufive of a great many otliefs wliich 
Hand on the ramparts. In it is alfo an hofpital for the 
foldiery, with two fchools for children defeended from 
them, and the barracks, in the largelt of which tire ca¬ 
dets are inftrticfeu in the leveral branches of the mili¬ 
tary art. Here is likewife a foundery for cannon and 
bells, &c. with two churches, a good academy, a liotife 
of correclicn, an hofpital for widows, and anoth.cr for 
orphans. 'I’he inhabitants derive not their fublillence 
fiom the refidence of tlie court, but carry on a confider- 
able trade in woollen manufactures, as ;ilfo in wood and 
beer ; and, exclufive of tlie profits arifing to them from 
agriculture, receive farther advantages from its being 
the tlioroughfare from Leipzig to Upper Germany. 
Gotlia fuffered greatly by fire in the years 1207, 1545, 
1632, 1646, and 1665; but the houfes deflroytd in the 
lalt of tliefe years have been all rebuilt of (tone, and of the 
lame height. On a hill above tlie town Hands tlie ducal 
relidenc'e, called Friedeiillein, which was begun in 1643, 
by duke Ernefl: the Pious, on the fitc of the caflle of 
Grimmenltein, which,- in 1567, was totally razed by Aii- 
gullus I. eledtor of Saxony, who, in conlequence of the 
ban ilfued againll duke John Frederic II. had made 
himlelf mafter both of this place and the town. Frieden- 
llein has been fortified by permiflion of Ferdinand III. 
In it is a well provided armoury, with a valuable libra¬ 
ry, a fine mtileum of natural curiofities, and one of the 
mofl: valuable cabinets of medals in Etirope: thirteen 
miles fouth-weli: of Erfurt. Lat.50.46.N, Ion. 28. 17. 
E. Ferro. 
GO''rHA, a river of Sw'eden, which runs from the 
Wenner Lake into the fea, near Gothenburg. The na¬ 
vigation of this river, which connects the Ipacious lake 
’VVenner with the fea, is interrtipted at 'I rolliLitta, about 
fifteen miles from Gothenburg, by a fuccellion of fright- 
ftil cataracts and ra})ids. Nothing on this fide of tlie 
Atlantic can exceed the wild lublimity of the feenery. 
A vaft body of water, almolt of the w hole of the Gotha, 
pent into a narrow channel, precipitates itfelf witli aw- 
