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laft leaf. He ctiec!, a few days after his lady, on Janu¬ 
ary 30, 1735, in his fixty-eighth year. He had no male, 
ill'ue, but left four daughters. He is chiefly known as a 
writer of fongs and lliort amatory pieces, moll of which 
aie addrelfed to “Myra,” who was the countefs of 
Newburgli, liis youthful flame. They are not, how¬ 
ever, either highly poetictil or ftrongly expreflive of 
feeling. Of his other pieces. Dr. Johnfon charadlerifes 
Ilia ElTay on unnatural Flights in Poetry as poirelTing 
didadlic merit ; and his Britilh Enchanters as lively and 
pilealing, titough he acknowledges that it confounds the 
manners of different ages. He fpeaks favourably alfo 
of liis. Prolcgues and Epilogues, but they appear to 
rife little above tlte ufual llyle of tlujfe compolitions. 
GRAN'VILLE, a town of Fraace, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Saone, and cliief place of a canton, 
in the diflriiil of Vefoul: three leagues and a quarter 
fouth-wefl of Vefoul, and five eafl-north-eafl: of Gray. 
GRAN'VILLE, a county of the American States, in 
Tlillfnorough diftridl. North Carolina, has tlie hate of 
Virginia north, and contains 10,982 inhabitants. Chief 
tov.'n Willianilbiirg. 
GRAN'VILLE, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Annapolis county, Nova-Scotia. It lies on the north 
fide of Annapolis river, on the Bay of Fundy, and is 
thirty miles in length j firff fettled from New-England. 
GRAN'VILLE, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Flampfliire county, Mali'achiifetts, fourteen miles 
weft of Springfield. It was incorporated in 1754, and 
contains 1979 inhabitants. 
GRAN'VILLE, a townfliip of the American States, 
in Wafliington county,. New-York, containing 2240 in¬ 
habitants, of whom 422 are eledtors. 
GRANVILLE’S RIVER, a river of the ifland of 
Egnioiit, of New Guernfey, which runs into the fea. 
Lat. 10. 42. S. Ion. 163. 58. E. Greenwdeh. 
GRANULA'Rl A, y. in botany, a genus of the clafs 
crypiogamia, order fungi. Generic cliara6ters—Fun¬ 
gus rouiidifli, filled with granulations immerfed in a mu¬ 
cilage. There is but one fpecies, called Granularia pi- 
liformis. 
GRAN'ULrXRY, ad}. Small and compaft ; refem- 
bliiig a fmall grain or feed.—Small-coal, with fulpluir 
and nitre, proportionably mixed, tempered, and formed 
into granulary bodies, do make up that powder which is 
ufed for guns. Brown. 
To GRAN'LTLAl E, v. n. \_grannkr, Fr. granum, 
Lat.] To be formed into fmall grains.—The juice of 
grapes, infpifTated by granulates into fugar. Spratt. 
To GRAN ULATE, v. a. To break into liiiall mafles 
or granules. To raifeinto fmall afperities.—I have ob- 
ferved, in many birds, the gullet, before its entrance 
into the gizard, to be much dilated, and thick fet, or 
as it were granulated with a multitude of glandules, each 
whereof was provided with its excretory veffel. Ray, 
GRANULA/TION, f. \_granulation, ¥\\ {rom granu¬ 
late.1 1 he abt of pouring or agitating melted metal, lb 
that it may granulate or congetil into fmall grains,— 
Gunpowder and fome falts are laid to be granulated, from 
their rcfemblance to grain or feed. Quincy, —The aft of 
fhooting or breaking in fmall malfes.—Tents in wmunds, 
by refllting the growth of the little granulations of the 
flefli, in procefs of time harden them, and in that man¬ 
ner produce a fiftula. Sharp. 
'I'i’.e art of dividing metallic fubftances into grains or 
fmall particles, is of great importance in commerce ; and 
lias of late undergone confiderable improvement. Since 
the entire metals cannot be pulverifed, becaufe not fuf- 
liciently brittle, and lince the mechanical fubdivifion of 
tiieir parts is attended with much labour and difficulty, 
recourle is generally had to fulion ; and the iubdivifion 
is made at the inffant of congelation. This is done ei¬ 
ther by pouring the melted metal into water, or by agi- 
taiing it in a box until the moment of congelation, at 
which inftant the whole becomes converted into a pow- 
*ler. Thefe dift'erent proccOes are preferable the one 
to the other, according to the nature of the metallic 
fubftance. Thus gold, filver, copper, or iron, cannot 
be granulated by agitation, not only becaufc the great 
heat required for their fufion would be produftive of 
inconvenience, but likewife becaufe they poftefs a great 
degree of tenacity when heated almoft to melting. 
Lead, tin, and brafs, on the contrary, are very brittle 
when heated, and therefore beft granulated in this way. 
Various contrivances are ufed to prevent danger and in- 
fure fuccefs in the feveral manufaftories that require 
granulation. Copper is granulated for making brafs, 
by pouring it through a perforated ladle into a covered 
veffel of water with a moveable falfe bottom. A com¬ 
pound metal, confifting chiefly of lead, is poured into 
water through a perforated veffel of another kind, for 
making fmall fliot, in which the height above the fur- 
face of the fluid is faid to require particular adjiiftinent; 
but in the new manufaftory of patent (hot the height is 
very great, being upwards of one hundred feet. 
GRAN'ULE,/i [from Lat.] A fmall com- 
paft particle.—With an excellent microfeope, where 
the naked eye did fee but a green powder, the affifted 
eye could difeern particular granules, fome blue, and 
fome yellow. Boyle. 
GRAN'ULOUS, adj. Full of little grains. 
GRAN'ZA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Mogadoxa. 
GRAN'ZOW, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and Ucker Mark of Brandenburgh ; 
eight miles fouth-eaft of Prenzlow. 
GRAPE, y. [_grappc, Yr. krappe, Dutch.] Tlie fruit 
of the vine, growing in cluflers ; the fruit from which 
wine is exprclfed. For the natural hiftory and culture 
of the plant, and the fpecies from which the different 
kinds of wine are manufaftured, fee the article Vitis. 
—Thou flialt not glean thy vineyard, neither flialt thou 
gather every grape of thy. vineyard; thou flialt leave 
them for the poor and ftranger. Lev. xix- 10. 
Here are the vines in early flow’r defery’d, 
Here grapes difcolour’d on the funny fide. Pope. 
GRAPE (Hyacinth), f. in botany. See Hya- 
ciNTHUs. GRAPE (Sea), fee Ephedra, GRAPE 
(Sea-Side), fee Coccoloba. 
GRAPE-SHOT, f. In artillery, a combination of 
fmall fliOt, put into a thick canvas bag, and corded 
ftrongly together, fo as to form a kind of cylinder, 
whole diameter is equal to that of the ball adapted to 
the cannon. 
GR A'PE-STONE, y. The Hone or feed contained in 
the grape : 
When obedient nature knows his will, 
A fly, z. grape-fione, or a hair, can kill. Prior, 
GRA'PHIC, or Graphical, adj. [yfupiy.a^, of 
yfupu, Gr. todeferibe.] Well delineated.—Write with 
a needle, or bodkin, or knife, when the fruit or trees 
are young ; for as they grow, fo the letters will grow 
more large and graphical. Bacon. 
He can 
Find all our atoms from a point t’ a fpan : 
Our clofeft creeks and corners ; and can trace 
Each line, as it wevt graphic, in the face. B, Jonfon. 
GRA'PHICALLY, adv. In pifturefque manner 5 
with good delcription or delineation.—The hyena odo- 
rata, or civet cat, graphically deferibed by Callellus. 
Brown. 
tfRAPH'ICE, y graphic.'\ The aft of draw- 
iitg, the atl of painting to the file. Not much ufed. Scott. 
GRAPHIS'CUS, ly^cttpio-y-oq, Gr. from y^oetpoc, a ftyle 
or dart.] A furgical inftrument to er traft darts. 
GRA'PHITES. See Mineralogy. 
GRA'PhlUM, y. [from Gr. to write.] The 
ftyle or iron pen with w'hich the ancients wrote on plates 
covered w'ith wax. 
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