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bakkuk, Obadiah, and the firft five chapters of Daniel. 
4. A Commentary on the firft ten chapters of the Gof- 
pel of St. Matthew. 5. Critical Remarks on the Epif- 
tles to the Romans, the Coloffians, the Hebrews, and 
the firft and fecond Epiftles of St.John. 6. An Eccle- 
fiaftical Hiftory. 7. A Chronology of the Evangelic 
Kiftory. 8. Theological Problems. 9. Thefes. 10. 
Deputations, &c. 
GRYNAU', a town of SwitTerland, in the canton of 
Glaris, fituated on the lake of Zurich : three miles 
weft of Utznach. 
GRYNE'UM, or Gr ynium, in ancient geography, 
a town near Cla£omenae, where Apollo had a temple 
with an oracle, on account of which he is called Gry - 
naus . Strabo. 
GRY'PHITES, f. in natural hiftory, the crow’s 
ftone, an oblong foflile fliell, very narrow at the head, 
and becoming gradually wider to the extremity, where 
it ends in a circular limb ; the head or beak is hooked, 
or bent inward. They are found in our gravel or clay 
pits in many counties. 
GRYPH'IUS (Chriftian), a celebrated writer, born 
at Frauenftadt in Silefia, in 1649. His father, Andrew, 
was a celebrated German dramatic writer. Chriftian 
became profeflbf of eloquence at Brefiau in 1674, and 
was made principal and profeflbr of the Magdalen col¬ 
lege, in the fame city, in 1686, and afterwards libra¬ 
rian. He was a man of very extenfive erudition, and 
E o fiefled a number of languages, ancient and modern. 
e died in 1706, having, juft before he expired, caufed 
to be performed in his chamber a piece of poetry of his 
own, fet to mulic, expreflive of the confolation received 
by the dying from meditating on the death of Chrift. 
His principal works are, 1. Poems in German, 8vo. 
much efteemed. 2. A Hiftory of the Orders of Knight¬ 
hood, in German, 8vo. 3. A Treatife on the Origin 
and Progrefs of the German Language, 8vo. 4. Dijfer- 
tatio de Scriptoribus Hijloriam Saculi XVII. illujlrantibus , 8vo. 
He alfo wrote in the Leiplic Journal. 
GRYPH'IUS (Sebaftian), a learned printer of the. 
fixteenth century, native of Reutlingen in Suabia. He 
fettled at Lyons, and obtained great reputation for the* 
beauty and accuracy of his impreflions. He was him- 
felf well acquainted with the learned languages, and 
employed men of erudition as his correctors. Conrad 
Gefner and Julius Scaliger have both addrefted him in 
terms of great commendation. One of his fineft books 
is a Latin Bible, in two vols. folio, 1550, printed in the 
Jargeft types then feen. He alfo printed Greek and tie- 
brew excellently. He died in 1556, at the age of fixty- 
three. His fon Antony, who fucceeded him, fupported 
the reputation of the office. 
GRYPH'IUS, [yguw»o$, Gr. from ygvirou, to incur- 
vate.] An in.ftrument bent like a griffin’s talons for 
extracting a mole from the uterus. 
GRY'PHUS, f. A kind of riddle, an enigma. Not 
much ufed. 
GR if'SINGARDE, a town of Norway, in the diocefe 
of Drontheim : feventy-fix miles fouth-eaft of Drontheim. 
GRY'SON, a county of the American States, in Vir¬ 
ginia, taken from Montgomery, which bounds it on the 
north. It has the ftate of North Carolina fouth, Henry 
and Wythe counties on the eaft and weft. 
GSCHWEND, a town of Germany, in the archdu¬ 
chy of Auftria : five miles weft of Steyr. 
GSU'VIE, a town of Arabia Felix: fixteen miles, 
fouth of Loheia. 
GU'A, a town of the ifland of Cuba : thirty-fix miles 
fouth-weft of Bayamo. 
GU'A (Le), a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diltrict of Marennes : two leagues and three quarters 
fouth-eaft of Marennes, and four and a half weft of 
Saintes. 
GUA'BI-POCA'CA-BI'B A. She Mimosa vaga. 
GUACA'NA, a village in New Spain, near themoun- 
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tain Jeruyo, which was deftroyed.by a volcano in that 
mountain, in 1760. 
GUACA'PA, a river of North America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Nicaragua, which runs into the Pacific Ocean. 
GUA'CHO, a fea-port of Peru, in the audience of 
Lima, between the ifiand of St. Martin and Callao. 
GUACOCIN'GA, atownof Mexico, in the province 
of Tlafcala, containing about fix^hundred inhabitants, 
among which are oiie hundred Spaniards 
GUADADAR', a river of Spain, which runs into 
the Guadalentin at Lorca. 
GUADAGNO'LI (Philip), an Italian monk and 
learned oriental fcholar,. born at Magliano about the 
year 1596. When fixteen years of age, he entered 
among the regular clerks minors, and made his profef- 
fion at Rome in 1612. His genius led him to the ftudy 
of languages, to which he devoted himfelf with fuch 
ardour, that he became a proficient in the Greek, He¬ 
brew, Chaldee, Syriac, Perfic, and Arabic, tongues, but 
chiefly excelled in the laft. He filled with reputation 
the chair of profeflbr of Arabic and Chaldee in the col¬ 
lege of Wifdom ; and in proof of his intimate acquaint-’ 
ance with the former language, pronounced an oration 
in it before queen Chriftina of Sweden, in 1636. Incon- 
lequence of a petition prefented to pope Urban V111. by 
fome eaftern biftiops, that they might be furniffied with 
a correCt Arabic verfion of the whole Bible, the college 
de propaganda fide determined to comply with their de¬ 
fire, and fixed upon the archbiffiop of Damafcus, and 
father Guadagnoli, to undertake that weighty talk ; 
but, after a ffiort time, the principal labour of the work 
devolved on the latter. This grand defign almoft 
wholly employed him for twenty-leyen years, and was 
not completed before 1649. The tranilation made its 
appearance at Rome in 1671, in 3 vols. folio. In 1631 
father Guadagnoli publilhed, Apologia pro Religione Chrifii- 
ana, &c. 4to. in anfwer to the objections of Ahmed Ben 
Zin Alabedin, a learned Perfian. He alfo wrote another 
work in Arabic, entitled, Confiderations againft the Ma¬ 
hometan Religion, which was printed at Rome in 1649, 
and is employed in ffiewing that the Koran is a mere 
rhapfody of impoftures and falfehoods. Befides the ar¬ 
ticles above-mentioned, he publilhed at Rome, in 1642, 
a very methodical grammar of the Arabic language, en¬ 
titled, Breves Injlitutiones Lingua Arabica, folio ; and he had 
alfo compiled a dictionary in that language, which he; 
leftbehind him in manufeript. He died at Rome in 1656. 
GUADAl'RA, a river of Spain, which runs into the 
GuaJalquiver a little below Seville. 
GUADALA'J ARA, or Guadalaxara, a pro¬ 
vince in the audience of Galicia, in Old Mexico or New 
Spain, and its capital, an epifcopal city of the fame 
name, both large and beautiful. The city was built 
anno 1331, by one of the family of the Guzmans; and 
the bilhopric, which was before fettled at Compoftella, 
was tranilated thither in 1370. It is fituated on a delight¬ 
ful and fertile plain, watered with feveral ftreams and 
fountains, not far from Baranja river. The air of the 
country is temperate, and the foil fo fertile, that it 
yields one hundred to one ; and all the fruits of Europe 
grow in luxuriance and abundance. Lat. 20. 30. Yv . 
Ion. 104. 49. The province is watered by the Guada¬ 
laxara river. 
GUADALA'J ARA, a town of Spain, in New Caf- 
tile, fituated on the Henares, containing nine parilh 
churches, fourteen conyents, feveral hofpitals, and 
hardly three thoufand inhabitants. The duke of Ri- 
percla eftablifhed a linen manufacture, which has not 
the fubftance of the cloth made in Holland, but the co¬ 
lour is good : twenty-two miles eaft of Madrid. Lat. 
40. 35. N. Ion. 13. 14. E. Peak of Teneriffe. 
GUADALA'J ARA, a river of Spain, which runs 
into the lea between Gibraltar and Marbella. 
GUADALA'J ARA de BU'GA, a town of South 
America, in the province of Popayan ; twelve leagues 
north-weft of Popayan. 
GUADALAVIAR; 
