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with which the Dukes of Guise were conne61:ed, fee 
the article France, in our feventh volume. 
GUISE (William), a learned Englifli divine, born at 
Abload’s-court, near Gloucefter, in 1653. When fix- 
teen years of age he was entered a commoner of Oriel 
college, in Oxford, whence he afterwards removed to 
All-Souls college, of which lie was pliofen fellow. So 
considerable was his proficiency in the different branches 
of learning, that he acquired the reputation of being a 
firft-rate fcholar,and particularly converfant in oriental 
literature. But he had fcarcely begun to apply.his 
ftores of knowledge to the public fervice, before he 
was prematurely cut off by the final 1-pox in 1683, when 
only in the thirty-firft year of his age, to the deep re¬ 
gret of all who knew him, and the great lofs of the’ 
republic of letters. After his death Dr. Bernard, Sa- 
vilian profeffor of aftronomy at Oxford, publiflied from 
his manufcripts, Mifna Pars-, Ordinis primi Zeruim Tituli 
Septem. Laiine verj.it & Commentario illujlravit Guliclmvs 
Guifus, 1690, 4to. Piefixed to this tranflation and com¬ 
mentary, is Dr. Edward Pocock’s Latin verfion of 
Mofes Maimonides’s Prafatio in Seder Seraim. The coii- 
dudtors of the .ASet Erudit'orum, in the account which 
they gave of this work, pronounced the author to be 
“ a .man of profound learning, and an immortal orna¬ 
ment to the uni verftty of Oxford.” At the time of his 
death, lie was engaged in preparing for the prefs an edi¬ 
tion of Abuifeda’s Geography. 
GUlSiTDEN, a river of Ireland, which rifes in the 
county of Mayo, and runs into the Moy in the county 
of Galwqy. 
GUISO'NI, a town of the ifland of Corfica : fixteen 
miles fouth of Corte. 
GUISO'PA, a town of Spain, in the province of Ca¬ 
talonia : eight miles north of Cervera. 
GUITAR', f. [ghkara, Ital. guitarre, Fr.] A flringed 
inftrument of mu lie, firit ufed in Spain and Italy : 
Sallads and eggs, and lighter fare. 
Tune the Italian fpark’s guitar. Prior. 
GUIFTO'NE D’AREZ'ZO (Fra), an Italian poet, 
and citizen of the place whence he takes his name. 
Little is known of his life, further than that he was a 
brother of the military order of the Virgin Mary, 
otherwife called Guadenti, and that he polfeffed fo 
much of the piety of the times, as to be founder of the 
monaftery Degli Angioli of the Camaldolefe order in 
Florence. He died in 1294. He is faid to have been 
the firft who gave regularity to the Italian fonnet, and 
his poems were in great efteem, till the works of Dante 
and other more cultivated writers lelfened their reputa¬ 
tion. They are to be met with in feveral colledtions of 
ancient poetry. Forty- of his letters were publiflied by 
Bottari, at Rome, in 1745, with many illuftrations ; 
they are the olde/l written in the Italian language. 
GUJURAT', a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Lahore : fifty miles north of Lah'ore. Lat. 31.50. N. 
Ion. 72. 30. Ii. Greenwich. 
GU'L A,/. [Latin.] In anatomy, the oefopliagus or 
gullet ; that conduit by which animals take down food 
into the ftomach. -See Anatomy. 
GU'LA, Gueule, or GoLA,y. in archite6lure, a 
wavy lhember, whole contour reiembles the letter S, 
commonly called an ogee. 
GUL'BE, f. in architecture, the fame as gorge. 
GULCH, f. [from gulo, Lat.] A glutton : 
Thou muddy gulch, dar’ft look me in the face. 
While mine eyes fparkle with revengeful fire? Brewer. 
GULCH'IN, f. [dimin. oigulch.'] A little glutton. 
GUL'DE, a river of Denmark, which runs into the 
Scaggerac a few miles eaft-north-eaft from Randers. 
GUL'DENSTAEDT (John Anthony), profeflor of 
natural hiftory, and member of the imperial academy- 
of iciences, at Peteilburg, born at Riga in 1745. He 
received the rudiments of his education in that town, 
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and, having completed his fiudies at Frankfort on the 
Oder, w.as admitted in 1767 to the degree of dodfor of 
pliyfic in that univerfity. On account of his knowledge 
of foreign languages, and the progrefs he had made in 
natural hiftory, lie was confidered as a fit perfon to en¬ 
gage in the Ruffian expeditions planned by the imperial 
academy, at the defire of Catharine II. Being invited 
to Peterfburg, he arrived in that .city in 1768, was cre¬ 
ated adjundt of the academy, and in 1770 member of 
that fociety, and profeffor of natural liillory. In June, 
1768, be commenced his travels, and was abfent feven 
years. From Mafcow, where he continued till March 
1769, he pafled to Voronetz, Tzaritzin, Aftracan, and 
Kiflar, a fortrefs on the weftern fliore of the'Cafpian 
Sea, and clofe to the confines of Perfia. I11 1770, lie 
examined the diflriCts watered .by the rivers Terek, 
Sunfha, and Alkfai, in the eaftern extremity of Cauca- 
fus ; and, in the courfe of the following year, pene¬ 
trated into Offetia, in the highefl part of the fame 
mountain, where he collected vocabularies of the lan¬ 
guage, made enquiries into the hiftories of the different 
tribes, and difeovered among them fome traces of 
Chriflianity. Having then vifited Cabarda, and tlie 
northern chain of the Caucafus; he proceeded to Geor¬ 
gia, and was admitted to an-audience of prince Hera^ 
cliAs, who was encamped ten miles from Teflis. Gul- 
denftaedt accompanied prince Heraclius in a campaign 
along the banks of the river Koor, eighty miles into 
the interior of Georgia, and returned with him to 
Teflis. At this place he remained all the winter, em¬ 
ployed in examining the adjacent country. In the 
fpring he followed the prince to the province of Ka- 
ketia, and explored the fouthern diflriCts inhabited by 
the Turcoman Tartars. In July he went to Imeretia, a 
country which lies between the Cafpian and the Black 
Seas, and is bounded on the eafl by Georgia, on the 
north, by Offetia,. on the weft: by Mingrelia, and on the 
fouth by the Turkifli territories, which was under tlie 
dominion of the prince or czar Solomon. In the al- 
mofl unknown country of this prince, who from grati¬ 
tude to Rullia for having reinftatad him on the throne, 
after he had been driven from it, afforded Guldenftaedt 
every affiflance in his power, this learned traveller pe¬ 
netrated into the middle chain of the Caucafus, vifited 
the confines of Mingrelia, Middle Georgia, and Eaftern 
and Lower Imeretia ; and, after efcaping many imriii- 
nent dangers from banditti, fortunately returned to 
Kiflar, on the 18th of November, where he palled the 
winter, collecting various information concerning tlie 
neighbouring Tartar tribes of the Caucafus. In the 
fuinmer he made a tour to Cabarda Major, continued 
his courfe to Mount Belhtan, the higheft point of the 
firft ridge of the Caucafus, infpedted the mines of Mad- 
ftiar, and advanced as far as Tcherkalk on the Don, 
making excurfions thence to Azof and Taganroc, and 
then along the new limits to the Dnieper. This year’s 
route he finifhed at Krementfliuk in}the government of 
New Rulfia, and in the enfuing fpring was proceeding 
to Crim Tartary ; but, receiving an order of recal, he 
returned through the Ukraine to Mofcow and Peterff 
burg, where he arrived in March 1775. On his return 
he was employed in arranging his papers ; but before 
he could prepare them for the prefs, was feized with a 
violent fever, which carried him to the grave, in the 
month of March, 1781. 
GUL'DENSTEIN, a town of Denmark, in the ifland 
of Funen : three miles fouth-eaft of Bogenfee. 
GUL'DENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Holftein : twenty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Olden¬ 
burg. 
GULE of AUGUST, \Gula AugvJH,'Lax. Geule d’Aout, 
Fr.] In the Romifh church, the day of St. Peter ad Vin¬ 
cula, which is celebrated on the ill of Auguft, and called 
the Gule of Auguft, from the Lat. gula, a throat ; for this 
reafon, (as pretended) that Quirinus, a tribune, having 
a daughter who had a difeal’e in her throat, went to 
pope 
