G R A 
810 G R 
A 
Sp. Gra’-'ity. 
Brafs call — — 
— 
8396 
Brafs in wire — — 
8544 
Iron call — 
7207 
Ditto in bar —■ 
7-788 
Steel foft, and not hammered 
7840 
Steel hardened ' — 
— 
7816 
Tin, Englilh, fufed — 
— 
7291 
Ditto hammered — 
7299 
Malacca tin fufed — 
7296 
The fame hammered ~ 
7306 
Bifmuth •— — 
9S23 - 
Nickel — —. 
_ 
8660 
Arfenic, the reorulus ■— 
5763 
Cobalt — —- 
7812 
Zinc — — — 
7191 
Antimony — — 
6702 
Manganefe —- 
_ 
6S50 
Wolfran •— — 
17600 
Diamond —- 
3251 
Ruby _ — 
4283 
Ruby Spinell — —- 
— 
3760 
Topaz, oriental — 
— 
4011 
Ditto Brafilian — — 
3536 
Ditto Saxon —- 
3564 
Sappiiire, oriental — 
• — 
3994 
Emerald — — 
— 
2775 
A.damahtine fpar — 
4180 
Roek cryftal from Madagafcar 
2653 
Quartz — — 
2654 
Agate — — 
— 
2590 
Onyx — — 
2376 
Mufeevy talc — — 
2792 
Common Hate — 
2672 
Calcareous fpar —- — 
2715 
Alaballer — — 
2730 
White marble — 
2716 
Li me Hones, from — 
1386 
Ditto, to — — 
2390 
Ponderous fpar — — 
4474 
Fl'-.or fpar — — 
3180 
Pumice-ftone — 
— 
914 
Green glafs — — 
2620 
Englilh crown-glafs — 
— 
2520 
White flint-glafs, Englifti - 
3290 
Another piece — ’ — 
3216 
While flint lenfes — 
— 
3437 
White glafs, French — 
2892 
Glafs of S. Gobin ■— 
— 
2488 
Brim Hone — — 
1990 
Piiofphorus — 
— 
1714 
Yellow amber — — 
1078 
Diftilled or rain water 
— 
1000 
Sea water —- — 
1026 
Common fpirit of wine 
— 
837 
Alcohol — — 
820 
Vitriolic ether — 
— 
739 
Nitrous — — 
909 
Marine — — 
— 
730 
Acetous — — 
866 
Concentrated vitriolic acid 
2125 
Ditto nitrous acid — 
— 
1580 
Ditto'rnarine acid — 
— 
1194 
Fluor acid — — 
1500 
Oil of olives — 
915 
Ditto of fweet almonds — 
917 
Linfeed oil — — 
940 
Naptha — — 
708 
Guntelaftic — 
— 
393 
Camphor — — 
989 
Yellow wax —■ 
— 
965 
White ditto — — 
969 
Spermaceti — 
943 
I'aliow —• — 
942 
Heart of oak — 
1170 
Cork -— . 
W. lb. Averd. 
0-30367 
0-30903 
O’-isos’] 
o '28 i 68 
0-28356 
0-28270 
0-26371 
0-26400 
0-26382 
0-26486 
0-35329 
0-31323 
0-20844 
0-28255 
0-26009 
0-24240 
0*24776 
0-63657 
0*11759 
0-15491 
0-13600 
0-14507 
0-11718 
o-12891 
0-14446 
o-10057 
0-15118 
0-09596 
0-09599 
0-09368 
0-09537 
o-IOO98 
0-09664 
0-09820 
0-09874 
0-09823 
0-05113 
0-08644 
0-16182 
0-II502 
0-03306 
0-09476 
0-09115 
O-11 900 
0-11632 
0-12431 
0-10460 
0-09COO 
0-07198 
0-06199 
0-03899 
0-03617 
0-03711 
0-03027 
0-02960 
0-02673 
0-03288 
0-02640 
0-03132 
0-07686 
0-05714 
0-04319 
0-05425 
0-03309 
0-03316 
o 03400 
0-02561 
0-03375 
0-03577 
0-03490 
0-03505 
0-03411 
0-03407 
0-04232 
0.01868 
GRAUL'HET, a town of France, in tlie depart, 
ment of the Tarn, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dilhiiT of Lavaiir : three leagues north-eafl of Lavaur, 
and five north-weft of Caftres. 
GRAUNT (John), famous for introducing the fci- 
ence of political arithmetic, born in London in 1620.- 
The bills of mortality of the city of London afforded 
him a fubjedl of fpeculation, from which he was con¬ 
vinced that feveral inferences might be drawn of moral 
and political importance. He employed much induftry 
in collefling the proper materials, from which lie com- 
pofed a work entitled Natural and Political Obferva- 
tions made upon the Bills of Mortality, &c. Lond. 
1661, 4to. This was fo well received that it pafFed 
through five editions in fifteen years, and it obtained 
for the author admifiion into the Royal Society, upon 
the particular recommendation of the king. It is pro, 
bable tliat his friend fir William Petty, fo well known 
for his calculations, aflifted him in this work. He con¬ 
tinued to make additions to his obfervations, as well as 
to purfue his ftudies on other topics, till his death in 
1674. 
GR AUSZYSZ'KI, a town of Poland, in the palati- 
aute of Wilna: tvventy.-eight miles fouth-eaft of Wilna. 
GRA'VY, f. The ferous juice that runs from flelh 
not much dried by the fire.—Meat we love half raw, 
with the blood trickling down from it, delicately term¬ 
ing it tho gravy, which in truth looks more like an icho¬ 
rous or raw bloody tnatter. Harvey. 
GRAY, adj. [gpteg. Sax. grau, Dan. graau, 
Dutch.] White with a mixture of black.— Theie gray 
and dun colours may be produced by mixing whites and 
blacks. Newton. 
They left me then, when the ^ray-headed even. 
Like a lad votarift in palmer’s weed. 
Role from the hindmoft wheels of Phoebus’ wain. Milton, 
White or hoary with old age.—Living creatures gene¬ 
rally do change their hair with age, turning to be gray ; 
as is feen in men, though fome earlier and fome later; 
in horfes, that are dappled and turned white ; in old 
fquirrels that turn grifly, and many others. Bacon, 
Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mix’d, 
Allemble. Milton. 
Dark, like the opening or clofe of day j of the colour of 
allies.—Our women’s names are more gracious than 
their Caecilia, that is, ^ray eyed. Camden. 
Thegray-ey’d morn fmiles on the frowning night, 
Cheq’ring the eaftern clouds with llreaks oflight. Shak, 
GRAY,^. A gray colour: 
Down funk the fun, the clofing hour of day 
Came onward, mantled o’er with duflcy gray. Parnel. 
GRAY,yi A badger. Ainfworth. 
GRAY, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftridf, in the department of the Upper Sadne, on the 
Sadne, navigable for boats to Lyons, whither the inha¬ 
bitants fend grain and iron, which form the chief arti¬ 
cles of commerce. The fortifications have been dci 
ftroyed; feven polls fouth-fouth-eaft of Langres, and 
forty-one fouth-fouth-eaft of Paris. Lat. 47.27. N. Ion. 
23. 15. E. Ferro. 
GRAY, a poll tov/n of the American States, in the 
diltricl of Maine, in Cumberland county, fifteen miles 
north by weft of Portland, incorporated in 1778. 
GRAY (Jane). See Grey. 
GRAY (Thoiiias), an admired Englifii poet, born in 
I.ondon in 1716. He was fent by his parents to lay in 
the iundamental ftock of claflical literature at Eton 
fchool. In 1734 he removed to the univerlity of Cam¬ 
bridge, and entered as a penfioner in St. Peter’s college. 
He firft appeared as a poet among the univerlity-con- 
gratuiators of the marriage of the prince of VFales, and 
his verles-were elleemed the belt of the academical col¬ 
lection. He quitted college in 1738, and occupied a 
fet 
