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Gauze

a light, transparent silk or cotton stuff. Gauzes have been occasionally made of thread, but the name has always signified a silk fabric.

DE, a GAVARNIE (gä-vär-nē'), CASCADE waterfall in the Cirque de Gavarnie, Pyrenees. It is the second highest in Europe, being 1,385 feet in height.

Gavarnie

CIRQUE DE (sērk de), a natural amphitheater in the Pyrenees, 14 miles S. S. E. of Cauterets. It is 24 miles in width and 5,380 feet in height.

Gay Head

a promontory and lighthouse on the S. W. extremity of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

Geashill

a parish of Ireland, in Kings county; about 8 miles N. W. of Portarlington. It contains the ruins of a castle heroically defended during the civil war of 1641 by Lady Digby.

Geba

a Levitical town of Benjamin, situated 6 or 7 miles from Jerusalem, and not far from the N. border of the kingdom of Judah. Near Geba David defeated the Philistines (II Sam. v: 25).

Genoa

GULF OF, a large indentation in the N. shore of the Mediterranean, N. of Corsica, having between the towns of Oneglia on the W. and Spezia on the E. a width of nearly 90 miles, with a depth of about 30 miles.

Geok Tepe

a town and fortress of central Asia, oasis of the Akhal-Tekke- Turkomans, lon. 58° E., lat. 38° N. In 1879 the Russians under General Lomakine were defeated here with heavy loss, but January, 1881, it was stormed by General Skobeleff after a three weeks' siege, when about 8,000 fugitives were massacred, no quarter being given.

George

DAVID LLOYD. See LLOYD

George

DAVID. ress, born in New York City in 1880.

George's Channel

ST., the arm of the sea which separates Ireland from Wales S. of the Irish Sea. From Holyhead and Dublin on the N. to St. David's Head and Carnsore Point it extends about 100 miles, with a breadth varying from 50 to 70 miles.

Georgetown College

a coeduvational institution in Georgetown, Ky, founded in 1829 under the auspices of the Baptist Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 20; students, 416; president M. B Adams.

Germain-En-Laye

ST. (san-zher- The Forest of St. Germain, one of the finest of its kind in France, extends N. of the town, inclosed W., N., and E. by the Seine. It is 9 miles in length by 3 in breadth.