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"Gleet, (lie winter’s froft, without protection: And this ren- of the valley are a number of ftone erodes, fome of Glenoidee
feJh4** ^ers the ^ow'ng t^ie fce^s ‘n a warm border, under an which are curioufly carved, but without any inferip- ..jj.
hedge, in a well fheltered place neceffary; for there tions. In the north-weft corner of the cemetery be- G f
thefe ftirubs will endure our winters, even when feed- longing to the cathedral ftands a round tower, 95
lings, and fo will require no farther trouble; nay,
though the tops thould be nipped, they will (hoot out
again lower, and will foon overcome it. It will be
proper to let them remain two years in the feed-bed
before they are planted out in the nurfery. The fpring
is the heft time for the work. Their diftances thould
be one foot by two ; the rows thould be dug between
every winter; and, being weeded in fummer, here
they may remain, with no other particular care, until
feet high, and 15 in diameter ; and in the cemetery of
a fmall church, on the fouth fide of the river, near
the great lake, called the Rhefeart church, are fume
tombs, with Irith inferiptions, belonging to the
O’Tools. In a perpendicular projecting rock on the
fouth fide of the great lake, 30 yards above the fur-
face of the water, is the celebrated bed of St Kevin,
hewn out of the rock, exceedingly difficult of accefs and
terrible in profpeCt. Among!! the ruins have been dif-
fthey are fet out to remain. Thefe trees are late in covered a number of ftones, curioufly carved, and con-
the fpring before they exhibit their leaves, but keep taining inferiptions in the Latin, Greek, and Iriih
fhooting long in the autumn. languages. As this city was in , a valley, furrounded
2. The other fpecies is the inermis, the ftem of on all fides, except the eaft, by high, barren, and in-
which is unarmed or without thorns. It is a native of acceffible mountains, the artificial roads leading there-
Scuth America, and in this country requires to be to are by no means the leaft curious part of the
kept in a ftove.
GLEET, in medicine, the flux of a thin limpid
humour from the urethra. See the Index fubjoined to
Medicine.
GLENDALAGH, otherwife called the Seven
Rhurches, anciently a celebrated town of . Ireland,
fituated five miles north weft of Rothdrum, in the
•county of Wicklow, and province of Leinfter. The
Eame fignifies “ the valley of the two lakes.” In
this valley, furrounded by high and almoft inaccef-
ble mountains, St Kevin or Cavan, called alfo St
Coemgene, about the middle of the 6th century, found¬
ed a monaftery, which in a fhort time from the fanc-
tity of its founder was much reforted to, and at
length became a bifhoprick and a religious city. St
Kevin died 3d June 618, aged 120; and on that
day annually numbers of perfons flock to the Seven
Churches to celebrate the feftival of that venerated
feint. During the middle ages the city of Glen-
dalagh, called by Hovedon Epifcopatus Biflagnienjis,
was held in great efteem, and received feveral valuable
donations and privileges, its epifcopal jurifdiftion ex¬
tending to the walls of Dublin,—About the middle
of the 12th century, on fome account or other, it
mains; the principal is that leading into the county
of Kildare through Glendafon. This road for near
two miles is yet perfedl, compofed of ftones placed on
their edges, making a firm and durable pavement, a-
bout 10 feet broad. At a fmall diftance from St Ke¬
vin’s bed, on the fame fide of the mountain, are to be
feen the ruins of a fmall ftone building called Saint Kel¬
vin's cell.
, GLENOIDES, the name of two cavities, or fmal!
depreffions, in the inferior part of the firft vertebra of
the neck.
GLICAS, or Glycas, (Michael), a Greek hifto-
rian about the middle of the 15th century, lived in
Sicily, and wrote Annals of what pafled from the crea¬
tion of the world to the death of Alexis Comnenus,
in 1118. Leunclavius added to it a fifth part, which
carries it down to the taking of Conftantinople. Gli-
cas was alfo the author of feveral ufeful and curious
letters.
GLIMMER, or Glist. See Mjca.
GLINUS, in botany: A genus of the pentagynia
order, belonging to the decandria clafs of plants ; and
in the natural method ranking under the 22d clafs,
Carjophyllei. The calyx is pentaphyllous ; there is no
much negle&ed by the clergy ; and became, inftead of corolla ; the neftarium is Compofed of bifid briftles; the
a holy city, a den of thieves, wherefore Cardinal Pa-
piro, in 1214, united it to the fee of Dublin, which n-
nion was confirmed by king John. The O’Tools, chiefs
of Firthuathal, however, by the affiftance of the Pope,
continued long after this period to eletft bilhops and
abbots to Glendalagh, though they had neither reve¬
nues or authority, beyond the diftridt of Tuathal,
which was the weftern part of the county of Wicklow ;
tn confequence of which the city was fuffered to decay,
and had become nearly a defart, in 1497* when Dem¬
capfule is quinqueangular, quinquelocular, quinqueval-
ved, and polyfpermous.
GLIRES, the name of Linnaeus’s fourth order of
mammalia. See Zoology.
GLISSON (Francis), a learned Englifti phyfician
in the 17th century, was educated at Cambridge, and
was made regius profeflbr of that univerfity. In 1634
he was admitted a fellow of the college of phyficians in
London. During the civil wars, he pradtifed phyfic
at Colchefter, and afterwards fettled in London. He
nis White, the laft titular bilhop, furrendered his right greatly improved phyfic by his anatomical difledtions
in the cathedral church of St Patrick, Dublin. From
the ruins of this ancient city Hill remaining, it ap¬
pears to have been a place of confequence, and to have
contained feven churches and religious houfes; fmall
indeed, but built in a neat elegant ftyle, in imitation
and obfervations, and made feveral new difeoveries of
Angular ufe towards eftablifhing a rational pradtice. He
wrote, v. De rachitide, &c. 2. De lymphaduBis nuper
repertis ; with the Anatomica prolegomena, fS5 Anatomia
hepatis. 3. De naturae fiubjlantia energetica; feu de via
of the Greek architecture : the cathedral, the walls of vita naturae, ejufque tribusprimis facultatilus, &c. quarto,
which are yet Handing, was dedicated to St Peter and 4. Traci at us de ventriculo Lf mtejlinis, &c. The world
•St Paul. South of the cathedral ftands a fmall church is obliged to him for the capfula communis, or vagina
tfoofed with ftone, nearly entire ; and in feveral parts porta.
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GLISTER,