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crowns, together with moft of his other property. He 
'died at Bcrthelden in 1627, having upon his death-hed 
received an invitation to the Greek and hiftory- profef, 
forflnp at Groningen. Of his works the principal are, 
j. A Collection of ancient Infcriptions,. folio, ifor, 
fince greatly augmented by Graevitis. 2. Sufpicionvm, 
Lib. IX. 1591, containing emendations and explanations 
of many writers. 3. Lampas fu Fax Artium, he The- 
faurus Criticus , 6 vols. 8vo. this is a digefted collection 
of the treatifes of various learned critics. 4. Ddid.ee 
Poetarum Gallorum , Italorum, Belgarum, Germanomm, Hun - 
garicorum, Scotorum, Danorum, 18 vols. 5. Floriltgium Mag¬ 
num. 6. Chronicon Chronicorum. 7. Llijloria Auguflce Script- 
tores, fol. net. varior. 
GRUT'LIN, a plain of Swiflerland, near the. lake of 
the four cantons, in the canton of Uri, remarkable for 
being the place where the three firft- cantons made a 
league for the defence of their liberty, in 1307. 
GRUYE'RES, a town of S.wifter land, formerly the 
capital of a confiderable county, now a bailiwick of 
. the canton of Friburg. In this diftricl; are made the 
celebrated Swifs cheefe,. called the cheefe of Gruyeresp 
which are exported to a very confiderable amount to 
Italy, France, Germany, and other countries : twenty- 
two miles eaft-nortk-eaft of Laufanne, and fifteen fouth- 
ef Friburg. 
GRUY'NING'EN, a tow r n of the ftate of Zealand,, 
in the ifland of South Beveland. 
GRUZI'NO, a town of Ruftia, in the government of 
Novgorod: forty miles north of Novgorod. 
GRY,y. [ ypv, Gr.] Any. thing of little value; as, 
the paring of the nails. 
GRY,y A meafiire containing one-tenth of aline. 
A line is one-tenth of a digit, and a digit is one-tenth 
of a foot, and a philosophical foot one-third of a pen-' 
dulum, whofe diadromes or vibrations, in the latitude 
of forty-five degrees, are each equal to one fecond of 
time, or one-fixtieth of a minute. 
GRYAL'VA, a river in the province of Chiapa, in 
New Spain, faid to breed certain amphibious beads not 
to be found in any other place. They refemble mon¬ 
keys, and are fpotted like tygers ; they hide themfe.lves 
generally under water, and if they fee any man or beaft 
lwim by, they twift their tails about a leg or arm to 
draw them to the bottom ; and yet it has. never been 
obferved that they eat them. Adams's American Gazetteer: 
GRY'HITTE, a town of Sweden, in the province of. 
Weftmanland: fifty-eight miles weft north-weft of Stro- 
emfholm. 
GRYL'LENBERG, or Grillenburg, a town of 
Germany, in the circle of Upper Saxony, and circle o"f 
Erzgeberg : fix miles eaft of Freyburg. 
GRYL'LUS,/. [ygvWio;, Gr. from ygviXify, to chirp.] 
In entomology, the l!ocusr ; a genus of the order he- 
miptera, including the Locufts, Crickets, Grafshoppers,. 
&c. Generic charafters : Head intiefted, armed with 
jaws ; feelers filiform ; antennae fetaceous or filiform ; 
wings four, deflefted, convolute; thelower ones plaited ; 
hind-legs formed for leaping : . claws double on all the 
feet. The in lefts, of this genus feed, on plants and herbs, 
except thofe of the divifion Truxalis, which prey on other 
infefts : the larvae and pupae refemble the perfeft infefts, 
relive chiefly under ground, and are fix-footed, voraci¬ 
ous and aftive : they were,the only animals of this clafs 
•which Mofes permitted the Ifraelites to eat, and are at 
prelent ufed as an article of food by the natives of Africa 
and India. The genus confifts of 252 fpecies, which are 
clafled in five feparate divifions or families, viz. 
1. Truxalis. Antennae enfiform ; head conic, lon¬ 
ger than the thorax. j. Gryllus nafutus : head conic ; 
body green. The mouth is placed at the bafe of the 
head; the antennae at the tip : the wings are lometimes 
hyaline.. Inhabits Africa. 
2. Gryllus conicus : head conic ; body brown ; half 
the.rib of the wing-cafes green, with aline of white 
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dots. Antennae browfi, longer than the thorax:, head 
brown, the fides green at the bafe ;• thorax- brown, 
flightly ftriate behind, with green fides-and dotfal fpot. 
Inhabits New Holland. 
3. Gryllus vittatus: head'prominent; body teftaceous ;• 
bead, thorax, and 1 hind-thighs, with a lateral filvery 
ftripe, Antennae teftaceous; the filvery (tripe is drawn 
through the head and thorax to the tip of the hind- 
thighs; hind-thighs with a bluilh fillet and a line of 
filvery dots. Inhabits China. 
4- Gryllus Hungaricus : head conic ; body green ; an¬ 
tennas- and legs teftaceous. Thorax with th,ree ruifed 
lines; wing-cafes with a ferruginous and black line be¬ 
yond the middle. Inhabits Hungary. 
5. Gryllus brevicornis : head a littlfe conic; body 
green: antennas comprefted, - as long as the thorax. 
This fpecies varies much in colour.. Inhabits America. 
6. Gryllus crenulatus : head a little prominent; body 
green; wings rofe-colour at the inner margin. Anten¬ 
na; green,.fometimes yellow at the bafe ; head and tho¬ 
rax lometimes variegated with yellow, the lateral edge 
crenulate;. wing-cafes acute, longer thair the body; 
wings white; legs yellowilh, with railed'white dots; 
the hind-ones green,, fmooth. Inhabits Tranquebar. 
7- Gryllus giganteus: green with two reddilh fillets; 
antennas ferruginous; thorax- with three raifed-lines. 
Inhabits America^. - 
8.. Gryllus oxycephalus: head fpatulate at the tip ;■ 
wing-cafes longer than the body, with a longitudinal' 
brown ftrealc ; wings yellowilh,. hyaline at the margin. 
Inhabits Southern Ruftia.. 
9. Gryllus foliaceus: wings yellowilh ; antennas fo- 
liaceous. Inhabits-A fia.. 
1 1. AceIydium. Thorax carinate : antennas filiform,, 
fliorter than the thorax; feelers equal. 10. Gryllus 
afer: fcutel flat, pointed, as longas the abdomen. Body 
dulky; thorax carinate 5. legs- blackilh ; hind-thighs 
comprefted carinate.. Inhabits Sierra.Leone.. 
11. Gryllus bipundtatus: dark brown; fcutel as long¬ 
as the abdomen. Wings none; thorax with a black 
rhombic fpot each fide ; a whitilh line fometimes runs 
from the front through the middle of the fcutel. lnha-~ 
bits Europe- 
12. Gryllus fabulatus: dark brown; fcutel longer 
than the abdomen. Refembles the laft; body l'ome- 
times grey, or brown. Inhabits Europe. 
rg. Gryllus opacus : chefnut or black; thorax cari¬ 
nate, lometimes at the fides, as long as the abdomen.. 
Inhabits Berlin. 
14. Gryllus bifafeiatus: brown fpotted with white,, 
with two lateral ochraceous bands. Inhabits Berlin. 
15. Gryllus bimaculatus: thorax brown, with an 
ochraceous lunule each fide. Inhabits Berlin. 
16. Grylliis granulatus : varied with grey green and 1 , 
blackilh,,rough with raifed dots and flattened at the 
fides ; thorax fuboval gibbous. Inhabits Berlin. 
17. Gryllus leucoftiftos : brown ; back of the thorax- 
and fcutel elevated and pale: fcutel with a white fpot 
each fide at the bafe. Inhabits Europe. 
18. Gryllus grifeu.s: grey 5 a black fpot each fide the 
bafe of the fcutel and behind the. lamina of the wings.-. 
Inhabits Europe. 
19. Gryllus binotatus : grey; a ferruginous fpot 
each fide the fcutel towards the.tip of the lamina ol tha¬ 
wings. . 
III. .Acheta. . Antennae fetaceous: feelers unequal; 
thorax rounded; tail with two briftles. 20. Gryllus 
gryllotalpa, the mole cricket: wings, when clofed, ter¬ 
minate in (lender tails longer than the abdomen: fore-feet 
palmate. It is of a very unpleafant form. Its head, in 
proportion to the fize of its body, is fmall and oblong, 
with four long thick palpi, and two long antennae as 
(lender as threads. Behind the antennae are fituated 
the eyes, and between thofe two eyes are feen three 
ftemmata or Idler eyes,. amounting to five in all, fet in- 
one. 
