Genesee
a river of the United es, which rises in Pennsylvania, States, flows N. through New York, and falls into Lake Ontario 6 miles below Rochester, after a course of 145 miles. It is notable for its varied and romantic scenery, and its extrao extraordinary falls. These falls are five in number; three of them occur about 90 miles from the mouth of the river, and are respectively 60, 90, and 110 feet high. The other two are near Rochester , and are both about 100 feet high.
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Genesis
in mathematics, a term formerly used, meaning the same as generation. In the genesis of figures, the moving magnitude or point is called the describent; the guiding line of the motion is called the dirigent. In Scripture, the first book of the Pentateuch, of the Old Testament, and of the Bible. In the Hebrew original, la as well as in the Septuagint and all modern versions, it occupies this place. It is called in Hebrew bereshith, which is its initial word, correctly translated in the authorized English version, "In the beginning." The Jewish and, following it, the early Christian Church almost unanimously pronounced Moses the author of the work, deriving his knowledge of the events prior to his time either from direct revelation or from prior documents consulted under divine guidance. In A. D. 1753 Astruc, an eminent French medical professor, attempted to point out two such documents, distinguishable by the fact that in one the Divine Being is called almost always Elohim , while in the other he is named Jehovah. On the revival of this hypothesis in the 19th century, Hengstenberg and others contended against it, maintaining that in every case there was a reason why the Divine name which we find in the particular verse was chosen. Most critical scholars adhere to the opinion of the noted physician and theologist, Jean Astruc, and perpetually speak of the Elohist and the Jehovist.
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Geneva (City in Ontario co N Y)
a city in Ontario co., N. Y.; on Seneca Lake, the Seneca and Cayuga Canal, and the New York Central and the Lehigh Valley railroads; 50 miles S. E. of Rochester. It is the seat of Hobart College, the Geneva Medical College, and the State Agricultural Experiment Station, and has important manufactures, extensive waterworks, public library, high school, lights and street railroads, and National banks. Pop. (1910) 12,446; (1920) 14,648.
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Geneva Award
. See Alabama Claims; Arbitration
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Geneva Bible
a translation of the Bible into English, made and published at Geneva, chiefly by English Protestant refugees. It was the first English Bible which adopted the Roman instead of the obsolescent black type, and the first which recognized the division into verses; it was the first also which omitted the Apocrypha. From its stating, in Gen. iii: 7, that our first parents made themselves "breeches," it is sometimes called the Breeches Bible.
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Geneva Convention
. See Red Cross Society Geneva, Lake of, the largest body of water in Switzerland. It is known also as Lake Leman. It is about fifty miles in length and has the form of a new moon , with the points turned toward the south. Its greatest width is six miles; its surface is 1,230 feet above the sea level; its greatest depth is 1,014 feet. The lakes of Switzerland are usually greenish in hue, but the waters of Lake Geneva are of a deep blue. Sir Humphry Davy attributed this color to the presence of iodine, but his view is not now accepted. There are twenty-one different kinds of fish in the lake, but they are not abundant. Sailboats, with the peculiarly graceful lateen sail seldom seen away from the Mediterranean, are in use. The lake is never frozen over. Waterfowl winter here. The shore is, for the most part, a lofty mountain wall, or else it falls away in graceful slopes, clothed with vineyards and orchards and dotted with beautiful villages, rendering Lake Geneva one of the most picturesque bodies of water in Europe. Lying as it does in a great mountain cup, atmospheric pressure sometimes causes the waters to surge up unexpectedly in places to a height of several feet. Storms are numerous and dangerous, though nothing can be more charming than the surface of the lake in fine weather when pleasure steamers are abroad. See Chillon
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Gennesaret (LAKE OF China who had given)
LAKE OF China), who had given shelter to two was of his enemies. A great battle fought in which the King of Tangut was totally defeated with the loss of 300,000 some time in men. The victor remained which his newly subdued provinces, from to complete he also sent two of his sons his the conquest of northern China. At death in Mongolia, in 1227, his immense his four dominions were divided among sons. See
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Genoa
GULF OF, a large indentation in the N. shore of the Mediterhaving between ranean, N. of Corsica, the W. and the towns of Oneglia on width of nearly 90 Spezia on the E. a miles, with a depth of about 30 miles.
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Genoa
ITALY BERLIN, GERMANY
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Genre
zhon'r, in art, a term used to characterize paintings of everyday life. The subject of a genre painting is usually some cottage, village, or rural scene. Genre painting is not particularly modern. Pliny tells of a Grecian painter who won note during the reign of Alexander the Great by painting barbers, shoemakers, and the like at their work. Rembrandt in the Netherlands, Murillo in Spain, and Hogarth in London, were leaders of schools of painters that chose homely, everyday scenes. Of later artists noted for genre painting, Millais and Millet may be named. The reader should avoid the notion that genre paintings are inferior. Burns and Whittier chose everyday topics, but they are not humble poets. So, in the painter's art, genius glorifies the commonplace.
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Gens
in Roman antiquities, a class or house, the individuals composing to each which were termed in reference other Gentiles. Each gens was made up famof a certain number of branches or ilies (familiæ) and each familia was members. Sevcomposed of individual the curiæ eral gentes (plural) made up of each gens and tribes. The members bore a common name, as the Fabian gens, the Julian gens, etc., and were religious rites. united by certain common
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