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countsTor its efficacy in chronic rheumatifm ; and from 
its parting oft' by the pores of the lkin, he confiders it 
as a probable remedy in fome cutaneous diforders. In 
the London Difpenfatory there is a tindhire of gum 
guaiacum, Pulvis aloeticus cum guaico ; and the wood is 
an ingredient in decottum.farfaparilla: compof. The Edin¬ 
burgh college have directed an elixir to be prepared 
with rectified fpirit, or with the vinous fpirit of fal 
ammoniac • fome objedt to the fpirituous tindture, and 
Dr. Cullen prefers the diffufion of the gum in water. 
It is a native of the Weft Indies. In Jamaica it is 
abundant on the fouth fide, but it is feldom found in 
any other part of the irtand. 
2. Guaiacum fandtuin, or holy guaiacum : leaflets 
many pairs, obtufe. The fecond fort has many leaflets 
placed along the midrib by pairs; they are rounded 
and obtufe at their ends, but narrow at their bafe, of 
the fame confidence with thofe of the firft fort, but of 
a darker green colour; th? flowers are produced in 
loofe bunches towards the ends of the branches, are of 
a fine blue colour, and the petals are fringed on their 
edges. This is called, in fome of the irtands of the 
Weft Indies, bajlard lignum vita. 
3. Guaiacum Afrum, or African guaiacum : leaflets 
many pairs, acute. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
near Moffel-bay. Mr. Miller, in the feventh edition of 
his Diflionary (1759), fays it has been long an inhabi¬ 
tant of the curious gardens in England and Holland. 
See Schotja, which name was given to this plant by 
Jacquin, from Richard Vander Schot, his companion in 
his travels. 
4. Guaiacum dubium, or doubtful guaiacum : leaves 
conjugate, oblong-lanceolate, obtufe. Native of the 
irtand of Tongataboo, in the South Seas. 
Propagation and Culture. The two firft can only be 
propagated by feeds procured frelh from the countries 
where they grow naturally. As foon as they arrive, 
fow them in pots filled with light earth ; plunge them 
in a good hot-bed, and, if the feeds are good, they will 
appear in fix weeks or two months, and in fix weeks 
more they will be ftrong enough for tranfplanting ; 
then they fhould be carefully taken out of the feed- 
pots, fo as to preferve their roots as entire as poflible, 
and eath planted in feparate fmall pots filled with light 
earth, and plunged into a new hot-bed of tanners’ bark, 
where they muft be lhaded from the fun till they have 
taken frelh root; then they muft be treated in the fame 
manner as other tender exotic plants from warm coun¬ 
tries, admitting a JaVge lhare of free air to them when 
the weather is warm. They will require to be fre¬ 
quently refrelhed with 1 water alfo in warm weather, but 
it muft by given them with caution, for too much wet 
will infallibly deftrby them. While the plants are 
young, they may be kept during the fuminer feafon in 
a hot-bed of tanners’-bark under a frame; but in the 
autumn they.muft be removed into the bark-ftove, and 
plunged into the hot-bed of tan, where they lhould 
eonftantly remain, and muft be treated in the fame man¬ 
ner as other tender plants, being careful not to give 
them too much water in the winter, w hen it is very 
prejudicial to them; and in fummer they lhould have a 
large lhare of free air admitted to them every day. 
With this treatment. the plants will thrive very well; 
but, being plants of flow growth in their own country, 
cannot be expected to make great progrefs in Europe. 
In their native country they grow very readily from 
feed ; and feem fond of a dry foil with a hot expofure. 
The African fort will live in a good greenhoufe all the 
winter, but in fummer it muft be placed abroad with 
other greenhoufe plants. It is of a flow growth, and is 
with difficulty propagated by layers. 
GUAJA'VA,y. in botany. See Psidium. 
GUAJE'RA. See Chrysobalanus. 
GUAl'RA, a bay in Teria. Firma,. South .America, 
in the North Sea. 
GUAl'RA, a Spanilh province in the eaft divifion of 
G U A 
Paraguay, in South America. Its city is Cividad Real, 
called alfo Guaira, and Oliveros. 
GUALA'TA', a kingdom of Africa, fituated in the 
fouthern part of the defert of Zanhaga. 
GUAL'DO, a town of Italy, in the marquifate of 
Ancona, built in the year 1180 : ten miles north-weft of 
Nocera. 
GUAL'DO-PRIORA'TO (Galeazzo), a writer of 
hiftory, born at Vicenza in 1606. He became hiftorio- 
grapher to the emperor, and died in 1678. He wrote, 
in Italian, 1. The Hiftory of the Wars of Ferdinand II, 
and III. from 1630 to 1640, folio. 2. The Troubles 
of France, from 1648 to 1654, with the Continuation 
of the War between the two Crowns. 3. The Mi- 
niftry of Cardinal Mazarin, 3 vols. nmo. 4. A Re¬ 
lation of the Peace of the Pyrenees. 5. The Hiftory 
of the Emperor Leopold, 3 vols. folio. 
GUA'LEOR. bee Gwalior. 
GUALI'BI, a to-.1 of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Fez : thirty miles weft of Fez. 
GUALRAI'CO, a town of the ifland of Cuba: 
fifty-five miles weft-north-vveft of Villa-del-Principe. 
GUALTEI'RI, or GuaLtero, a town of Italy, in 
the Modenefe, and north part of the duchy of Reggio: 
four miles fouth-weft of Guaftalla, and thirteen north 
of Reggio. 
GUAT'TERUS (Rodolphus), a learned Swifs di¬ 
vine, born at Zurich in 1519. He purfued his ftudies 
in his native place, and became eminent for his acquaint¬ 
ance with the learned languages, the belles-letters, hif¬ 
tory, and theology, to the illuftration of which his 
other acquirements were chiefly rendered fubfervient. 
Having been admitted into the miniftry, he officiated as 
paftor at Zurich from the year 1542 to 1575, with great 
diligence and acceptability. Upon the death of Bul- 
linger, he was chofen principal minifter of the protef- 
tant church in that city and diftridl. He died there in 
1586, at feventy-feven years of age. He was the author 
of numerous works which difplay great learning and 
critical Ikill; among which are, Commentaries on the 
Pfalms, Ifaiah, the twelve minor prophets, the evan- 
gelifts Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the A£ts of the 
Apoftles, and the Epiftle to the Romans ; different 
treatifes in grammar, the belles-lettres, and hiftory; 
tranflations of Julius Pollux, and the Sermons of 
Theodoret on Providence; Homilies on the Book of 
Efther, &c. 
GU'AM, or Guahan, one of the Mariana or La- 
drone iflands, in the Eaftern Indian Sea, about thirty 
leagues in circumference. The ifland is fertile, with 
feveral good harbours, and a great number of fmall 
frelh-water rivers.- The Spaniards have a town, of 
which the houfes are built with ftone, and defended by 
two forts, and a garrifon of one hundred men. There 
are feveral other villages, fome of which contain about 
one hundred and thirty houfes, and the number of in¬ 
habitants in the whole ifland is eflimated at thirty thou- 
fand. The natives go naked, and never bury their 
dead, but leave them expofed to the air. Lat. 13. 25. N. 
Ion. 161. E. Ferro. See Mariana Islands. 
GUAMALI'ES, a diftridlof Peru, in the archbilhop- 
ric of-Lima, fituated in the centre of the Cordilleras, 
confequehtly its air very different. This jurifdiition 
begins eighty leagues north-eaft of Lima, and, its fttua- 
tion being rather cold than temperate, few places are 
fertile in its whole extent, which is above forty leagues. 
The Indian inhabitants of the towns apply themfelves 
to weaving, and make a great variety of baizes, ferges, 
and other fluffs, with which they carry on a very confi- 
derable trade with the other provinces deftitutjr of fuch 
manufaftures. 
GUAMAN'GA, a jurifdiftionof Peru, in abifliopric 
of the fame name. The foil is fertile in grain and fruit. 
The principal articles of commerce are cattle, hides, 
and fweetmeats. 
GUAMAN'GA, a town of South America, in Peru, 
the 
