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immediately following the 25th of rebruary, the 
average price of wheat, in the I.ondon corn-market, 
was about 94s. per quarter.—Thus wlieat bore a com¬ 
paratively low price when the amount of Bank notes in 
circulation was greater; and a comparatively high 
price when their amount was fmallcr. It bore the mo¬ 
derate price 57s. per quarter, at a time when the amount 
of Bank of England notes was very confiderable ; and 
in 1803, when the total id'ue of Bank notes amounted to 
the prodigious fum of 17,931,930!. the pirice of bread- 
corn exjierienced no advance. 
The commerce of Great Bi itain extends through the 
caftern and weltern hemifpheres of the globe, by means 
of the capital and credit of the country, the Ikill and in- 
duftry of its artizans and manufatturers, the number of 
its (liips and the character of its feamen, and the enter, 
prifing fpirit as well as eltabli/hed reputation of its 
merchants.- The number of regiftered veflels belong¬ 
ing to the Britidi dominions, and employed in trade, in 
j8o2,was 20,568, their tonnage 2,128,055, and the num¬ 
ber of feamen navigating the fame, 154,530. In 
1803, the number of veffels was 21,445; their tonnage 
2,238,249; and the number of 11100155,445; being an 
increafe of 877 fliips, of 110,194 tons, and of 915 men. 
—For particulars of the annual amount of Exports and 
Imports; value of the Landed Property or Rental of 
Great Britain ; general amount of Taxes, or public In¬ 
come and Expenditure; the military and maritime date 
of the country, laws, religion, cuftoms, manners. See. 
fee the article England, vol. vi. p. 796-808 ; and for 
the principles of its G lorious Constitution, lee 
the article Government, in tliis volume. 
GREAT FAM'INE, a river of North America, 
which rifes in the mountains near the fource of Oneida 
river, and flows norih-vveft-by-wed to I.ake Ontario. 
Its mouth is ten miles Ibuth-wellerly frofu the mouth of 
Black River. 
GREAT HARE,y. With hunters, a hare in the third 
year of her age. 
GRFfAT FiOUSF,, /; A cant term among country 
folks for the principal h.oufe in the parifh: 
That, will he, nil! he, to tJic greai hmife 
He went, as if the devil drove liim. Gray's Long Story, 
GREAT I'SLAND, an ifand of Ireland, fituated in 
the river Lee ; five miles long, and from one to three 
■wide: eight miles eaft of Cork. 
GREAT KAN'HAWAY, a river of North America, 
which flows through the eaitern bank of tlie Ohio, in 
lat. 39. 5. N. nearly, five hundred yards wide at its 
mouth. The current is gentle for about twelve miles, 
when it-becomes confiderably rapid for upwards of fixty 
miles farther, where commence the firii; falls, when it 
becomes impofiible to navigate it from the great num¬ 
ber of its caiaraRs. 
GREAT RIDGE, one ofthe ridges of the Alleghany 
Mountains, in North America, which feparate the wa¬ 
ters of the Savannah and Alatamaha. At the fouth- 
ealt promontory of the Great Ridge is that extraordi¬ 
nary place called Buffaloe Lick, jdiftant about eighty 
miles from Augulla. It occupies I'everal acres of ground. 
A large cane I'^'ampi and meadows, forming an immenfe 
plain, lie fouth-eafi from it; in this I wamp Mr. Bartram 
thinks the branches of the Great Ogeechee fake their 
rife. The Lick is nearly level, and lies between the 
head of the cane fwamp and the afeent of the Ridge. 
The earth, from the fiiperficies to an unknown depth, 
is an almolt white or cinereous coloured, tenacious, fat- 
tifh, clay, which all kinds of cattle lick into great caves, 
purfuing the delicious vein. Mr. Bartram could not 
difeover any thing faline in its talte, but an infipid 
fweetnefs. Horned cattle, horfes, and deer, are iinino. 
derately fond of it; infomuch that their excrement, 
■which almoft totally covers the earth to loine diftance 
round this place, appears to be peifett clay ; which 
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when dried by the fun and air, is almofi as hard as 
brick. 
GREAT SrZED, adj. Ofagreatfize: 
Thou grcat-fized coward. 
No fpace of earth Ihali funder our two hates. SSakefpeare. 
GRE.AT SPRINGS, is an amazing fountain of traqf- 
parent cool water, fituated near the road, about mid¬ 
way between Angufta and Savannah, in North America. 
It breaks fuddenly out of the earth at the bafis of a 
moderately elevated hill or bank, forming at once a 
bal'on near twenty yards over, afeending through a ho¬ 
rizontal bed of ioft rocks, chiefly a tefinceous concre¬ 
tion of broken, entire, and pulverized, fea-fhells, fand, 
Ac. conftituting a coarfe kind of lime-fione. The ebul¬ 
lition is copious, affive, and continual, over the ragged 
apertures in the rocks, which lie feven or eight feet 
below, iwelling the furface confiderably, immediately 
above it; the rvaters defeend fwiftly from the fountain, 
forming at once a large brook, fix or eight yards over, 
and five or fix feet deep. There are multitudesof fifh in 
the lountain of various tribes; chiefly the feveral fpe- 
cies of bream, trout, cat.fifh, and garr, which are be- 
lield continually afeending and defeending through the 
rocky apertures. Bartram, from whofe travels the above 
is taken, obferves, that he eroded no dream or brook 
of water within twelve or fifteen miles of this fountain, 
but had in view v^ad favannahs, fvvamps, and cane-mea¬ 
dows, wliich he conjebfures are tJie refervoirs which 
feed this deliglufui grotto. 
To GREAT'EN, v.a. To aggrandize; to enlarge ; 
to magnify. A word little ufed. —A favourite’s bufinefs 
is to pleal'e his king; a minider’s X.o great en and exalt 
him. Ken. 
GREAT'LY, adv. In a great decree.—Thy forrow 
I will multiply. Milton. —Nobly; illudrioully: 
Yet London, emprefs of the northern clime, 
By an high fate thou greatly didd expire. Drydea.' 
A'lagnanimoudy ; generoufly ; bravely: 
Where arc thefe bold intrepid fans of war, 
That greatly turn their backs upon the foe. 
And to their general lend a brave defiance. Addifon. 
GREAT'MAN’s BAY, a bay of Ireland, on the 
north coad of Galway Bay: fix miles north from the 
South Arran Iflands. 
GRE AT'NESS, yi Largenefs of quantity or number. 
Comparative quantity.—We can have no pofitive idea of 
any fpace or duration, which is not made up of and com- 
menfurate to repeated numbers of feet or yards, or days 
or years, and -whereby we judge of the greatnefs of chofe 
I'ort of quantities. Locke. —High degree of any quality.— 
Zeal in duties fliould be proportioned to the greatnefs 
of the reward and the certainty. Rogers. —High jjlace; 
dignity; power; influence; empire.—Farewell, a long 
farewell, to all my greatnefs. Sltakefpeare, 
Approaching oTra/nyi met liim with her charms 
Of pow’r and future date; 
He Ihook her from his arms. Dryden. 
Swelling pride; affected date.—My lord would have 
you know, that it is not of pride or greatnfs that he 
Cometh not aboard your ihips. Bacon. —Merit; magnani¬ 
mity; noblenefs of mind : 
Greatnefs of m.ind and noblenefs their feat 
Build in her lovelied. Milton. 
Grandeur; date; magnificence: 
Greatnefs with Timon dwells in fuch a draught, 
As bnngs all Brobdignag before your thought. Pope. 
GREAVE,_/'. [jpaep. Sax.] A grove : 
Yet, when Ihe fled into that covert 
He, her not finding, both them thus nigh dead did 
leave. Spenftr. 
I® A GREAVES, 
