74. 
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cient manu-fcripts among the libaries belonging to the 
different religious houfes in that province ; of which he 
found a confiderable number, and among others the trea- 
tife of Auguftine againft Julian, entitled Imperfettim 
Opus, which was the third copy of that work then known 
to exift in Europe. Of this manufcripf he fent an ac¬ 
curate tranfcript to his brethren at Paris,' who were en-^ 
gaged in editing St. Auguftirte’s works. From Ambour- 
nay his place' of.exile was changed to Fefcamp, and af¬ 
terwards to Rouen, where he died in 1715. He was the 
author of An Abridgment of the Bible, in the Form of 
familiar Queftions and Anfwers, with Illuftrations col¬ 
ie died from the Fathers and the bell Interpreters, 1707,' 
in 2 vols. ifmo. 
GUER'CHE (La), a town of France, and principal 
place of diifrict, in the department of the I He and Vi- 
laine : three leagues and a half fouth of Vitre, and fix 
and a half eaft-fouth-eaft of Rennes. Lat. 47. 57. N. 
Ion. 16. 26. E. Ferro. 
GUER'CFIE (La), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Cher, and chief place of a canton, in 
the^ department of Sancoins: feven miles north of 
Sancoins. 
GUER'CHE (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Iudre and Loire: eight leagues north- 
nortb-eaft of Poitiers;, and three north-weft of Preuilly. 
GUERCI'NO. See Barbieri, vol. ii. p. 713. 
GUER'DON,yi [guerdon, gardon, Fr.] A reward; a 
recornpenfe, in a good and bad fenfe. A word no longer 
in ufe. —He (hall by thy revenging hand, at once receive 
the juft guerdon of all his former villanies. Knolles. 
Fame is the fpurjthat the clear fpirit doth rife. 
To fcorh delights, and live laborious days, 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
And think to burft out into fudden blaze, 
Comes the blind fury, with til’ abhorred lheers. 
And flits the thin-fpun life. Milton . 
To GUER'DON, v.n. To reward, to recornpenfe. 
Bailey. 
■ G (JER'DONABLE, adv. Fit to be rewarded. 
GUER'DONLESS, adv. Unrewarded. 
GUER'ET, a town of France, and capital of the de¬ 
partment of tire Creufe, fituated near the fource of the 
Gartempe, between two mountains," at fome diftance 
from the Creufe. The air is thick, and gives the inha¬ 
bitants a heavy melancholy appearance ; the number is 
about three thoufand : nine pofts and a half north-north- 
eafl Limoges. Lat. 46 . 10. N. Ion. 19. 33. E. Ferro. 
GUER'ET (Gabriel), a man of letters, born at Paris 
in 1641, and admitted advocate of parliament in 1660. 
Pie made himfeJf known early by his literary publica¬ 
tions, the firft ot which was Les Sept Sages de la Grece. 
His Entretiens fur VEloquence de I'd Chaire & du Barreau con¬ 
tain judicious reflections, though it is difparaged By 
Voltaire. He obtained moft reputation for his two fa- 
tirical works, Le Parnajfe Refofme, and its fe’quel, La 
Guerre des Auteurs.. Of the fame clafs is La Carte de la Cow, 
an ingenious allegory ; and La Promenade de St. Cloud , in 
which Boileau was fatirifed. He was affociated with 
■Blondeau in the compilation of Le Journal du Palais , con- 
lifting of a weli-digefted collection of the arrets of the 
French parliaments; and he publifhed an edition of Le 
. Pretre’s Arrets Notables du Parlement, enriched with learn¬ 
ed notes and additions.' He died in 1688. 
GUERGE'LA, a town of Africa, in the country of 
Biledulgerid : eighty miles fouth of Mount of Atlas,. 
Lat. 31.45. N. Ion. 4. 30. E. Greenwich. 
GUER'iCKE (Otto)y a very eminent German expe¬ 
rimental piuloXapher, born in 1602,. and died at Ham¬ 
burg in 1686. He was counfellor to the eledtor of Bran¬ 
denburg, and burgomafter of Magdeburg ; but his me¬ 
mory derives greater honour from his philofophical dif- 
coveries than from the civil dignities to which he was 
railed. To him is to be attributed the invention of the 
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air-pump : for though Mr. Boyle had about the fame 
time made fome approaches towards a fimilar difcovery, 
yet he ingenuoufly acknowledged, in a letter to his ne¬ 
phew, lord Dungarvan, that the information which he 
received from Schottus’s Mechanica-Hydraulico-Pneumatica, 
publifhed in 1657, in which was an account of Gue¬ 
ricke’s experiments, firft enabled him to bring his de- 
fign to maturity. Guericke was alfo the inventor of 
the two brafs hemifphere.s, to illuftrate the preffure of 
the air, which, being applied to each other, and the 
air exhaufted, refilled the force of eight horfes to 
draw them afunder. He likewife invented an inftru- 
ment to flievv the variations in the Hate of the atmof- 
pliere, confiding of a tube, in which was a little image 
of glafs, which defcended in rainy or ftormy weather, 
and rofe again when the weather tended to be fine and 
fierene. This laft machine fell into diftife on the Inven¬ 
tion of tire barometer, and efpecially after the improve¬ 
ments' made in that dnftrument by Huygens and Amon- 
tons. He was the author of feveral treatifes in natural 
philofophy, the principal of which is entitled, Experi- 
-menta Magdeburgica, 1672, folio, and contains his experi¬ 
ments on a vacuum. 
GUERIGNY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Nyevre, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridl of Nevers:. eight miles north of Nevers. 
GUE'RITE,/. In fortification, a centry-box ; being 
a fmall tower of wood, or Hone, ufually placed on the 
point of a ballion, or on the angles of the lhoulder, to 
hold a centinel, who is to take care of the ditch, and 
watch againft a furprife. 
GUER'LESQUIN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Finifterre, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Morlaix : three leagues and a quarter 
fouth-eaft of Morlaix, and four and three’.quarters north 
of Carhaix. 
GUERMA'NGE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meurte, and chief place of a canton, .in 
the diftridt of Dieuze : one league and a quarter eaft of 
Dieuze, and three and a quarter weft of Sarburg. 
GUERNADU'A?, a town of the ifland of Cuba : 
thirty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Spirito Santo. 
GUERN'SEY, an ifland in the Englilh Channel, on 
the coaft of Normandy, fubje.ct to Great Britain,-but 
governed by its own laws,'which are a remnant of the 
old Norman, to which country the ifland formerly'be- 
longed ; but it is now made parcel of the county of' 
Hampfliire, and diocefe of Winchefter, although (he 
French language is there univerlally made.ufe of. It 
lies twenty leagues l'outh-weft from Weymouth in Dor- 
fetlbire, between eight and pine leagues weft from the 
coaft of Normandy, thirteen fouth of Bretagne, feven 
north-wmft from Jerfey, five fouth-weft from Alderney, 
and two leagues weft from Sarke. It extends from eaft 
to weft in the form of a harp, and is thirteen miles and a 
half from the fouth-weft to north-eaft, and twelve and 
a half, where broad eft, from eaft to weft ; its whole cir¬ 
cumference is laid to be a little more than thirty miles,., 
and contains thirty-two thoufand acres. The air is 
very healthy, and the foil naturally more rich and fer¬ 
tile than that of Jerfey ; but the inhabitants negledt the 
cultivation of the land for the fake of commerce ; they 
are, however, fufficiently fupplied with corn and cattle, 
both for their own ufe and that of their fliips. The 
ifland is well fortified by nature wftl^a ridge of rocks, 
one of which abounds with emery, ufed by lapi¬ 
daries in the polilhing of (tones, and by various other 
artificers. Here is a better harbour than any in Jerfey, 
which occafions its being more reforted to by mer¬ 
chants ; and on the fouth fide the (hore bends in the 
form of a crefcent, enclofing a bay capable of receiving 
very large fliips. The ifland is full of gardens and or¬ 
chards ; whence cider is fo plentiful, that the common 
people ufe it inftead of fmall-beer, but the more wealthy 
drink an inferior fort of French claret. 
There 
