Great Fish River

A river in British North Synagogue holding rule in the Jewish nation is pure fic America which flows from the neighborhood of Great Slave Lake northeasterly into the Arctic Ocean. Great Fish River. A river in Cape Colony which rises in the Sneuwbergen Mountains and flows southerly into the Indian Ocean. Length, about 230 miles. Great Glen. A great depre ion traversing Scotland southwest and northeast, and marked by Lochs Linnhe, Eil, Lochy, and Ne , which are connected by the Caledonian Canal. Great Grimsby (grimz'bi). A seaport and parliamentary borough in Lincoln shire, England, situated on the Humber 16 miles southeast of Hull. It has important commerce and fisheries. Population (1891), 51,876. See Grim. Great Harry. The first war-ship of the British navy. She was built in 1488, in the reign of Henry VII.; was a three-master; and is said to have cost £14,000. She is supposed to have been burned accidentally at Woolwich in 1533. Great head (grat'hed), Henry. Born at Richmond, Yorkshire, Jan. 27, 1757: died 1816. The first succe ful constructor of life-boats. Great Head. A celebrated promontory in the eastern part of Mount Desert, Maine. Great heart (grat härt), Mr. In the second part of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progre ," the guide and valiant protector of Christian a and her children. Great Kanawha (ka-na'wä). A river in North tion. It has been proved in the clearest manner that the origin of the legend of the Great Synagogue lies in the account given in Neh. viii.-x. of the great convocation which met at Jerusalem and subscribed the covenants to observe the law. W. R. Smith, O. T. in the Jewish Ch., p. 156. Great Tom. A bell, weighing about 17,000 pounds, in the tower of the Tom Gate of Christ Church, Oxford. Every night at ten minutes past nine (closing time) it is tolled. Great Vehicle, The. [In Skt. Mahāyāna .] The name of the northern school of Buddhism. The formation of such a school followed the conversion of Ka nishka, the Indo-Scythian king of Kashmir, who reigned in the second half of the 1st century. In his reign a fourth council was held at Jalandhara in Kashmir. It consisted of 500 monks, who composed three Sanskrit works of the nature of commentaries on the three Pali Pitakas. (See Tripitaka .) These were the earliest books of the northern the Pali Canon of the south represented the doctrine proclaimed on the Ganges. Nepal, Tibet, China, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Japan follow the Great Vehicle; Ceylon, Burma, and Siam, the Little Vehicle (Hinayana), or southern school. which formulated its doctrines on the Indus, while Great Wall of China. See Wall of China . Greaves (grēvz), John. Born at Cole more, Hampshire, 1602: died at London, Oct. 8, 1652. An English antiquary, mathematician, and Orientalist. He became fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1624, and profe or of geometry in Gresham College, London, in 1630. He wrote "Discourse on the Roman Foot and Denarius" (1647), "Pyramidographia, or a Discourse of the Pyramids in Egypt" (1646), etc. Greaves, Sir Launce lot Greaves, Sir Launce lot. See Sir Launce lot Greaves, The History of . Grebo (grā bō), or Gedebo (ge-dā bō). A tribe of Liberia, West Africa, settled on both sides of the Cavalla River. The English sometimes call the Grebos Fish - Kru . They are closely allied to the Kru tribe, from whom they are separated by the Grand Se , Pikkaninny Se , and Taro tribes. They migrated from the interior to the coast at a comparatively recent period. France claims jurisdiction over the Grebos east of the Cavalla River, but this claim is not acknowledged by Liberia further west than the Pedro River. The Grebo language belongs with Kru and Ba a to a cluster called Mena by Fr. Müller. Grecian Coffee-house. A noted London coffeehouse in Devereux Court, on the left of E ex street. The wits of the last century congregated there. Grecian Daughter, The. A tragedy by Arthur Murphy, produced in 1772: a story of filial piety, the succe of which was greatly due to Spranger Barry and his wife. See Euphrasia and Barry , Spranger . Greece (grès). [ME. Grece, from OF. Grece, F. Grèce, Sp. Pg. It. Grecia , from L. Græcia (whence LGr. Γραικία), from Græcus, Greek, from Gr. Γραικός , pl. Γραικοί , orig. applied to the inhabitants of Epirus, etc. The common Greek name for the country was Hellas , 'Ελλάς; for the in habitants Hellenes , "Ελληνες. The AS. name was Crēca land, Greca land, Grēcland, D. Grieken land, G. Griechenland , land of the Greeks.] A country in southeastern Europe-(a) Ancient Greece: the country of the Hellenes. In the widest sense the name includes the Greek colonies in Asia Minor, Sicily, Africa, etc.; in its restricted and more usual meaning it is the peninsula south of the Cambunian Mountains, with the neighboring islands. Peninsular Greece comprised The aly, Epirus, Central Greece (including A carn an i a, Ætolia, Doris, Western Locris, Eastern Locris, Phocis, Bœotia, Attica, and Megaris), and Peloponnesus (including Corinthia, Sicyonia, Phliasia, Achaia, Elis, Arcadia, Argolis, Laconia, and Me enia). The chief islands were Crete, Rhodes, Cos, Samos, Chios, Lesbos, Tenedos, Imbros, Samothrace, Thasos, Lemnos, Scyros, Eubea, Salamis, Ægin a, the Cyclades, Thera, Cythera, and the Ionian Islands (including Zacynthos, Cephallenia, Ithaca, Leucas, Corcyra, etc.). Cyprus was sometimes included, and in later times Macedonia and Thrace. The surface is mostly mountainous. The following are some of the more important facts and incidents of ancient Greek history: Dorian invasion of the Peloponnesus about 1100 в. с.; commencement of the hegemony of Sparta 6th century; Persian wars 500 to about 449; hegemony trans ferred to Athens about 477; Peloponnesian war 431-404; hegemony of Sparta 404-371; of Thebes 371-362; hegemony of Macedon commenced 338; rise of Ætolian League and renewal of Achæan League about 280; independence of Greece proclaimed by Flam in in us 196; final subjection of Greece to Rome 146; Greece made (in great part) into the Roman province of Achaia 27 B. C. Greece formed part of the Eastern Empire. (See further below, and under the various cities; also Persian Wars and Peloponne sian War. (b) Modern Greece: a kingdom, capital Athens, lying between the Turkish empire on the north, and the sea on the east, south, and west, and including the Ionian Islands, Euboea, the Cyclades, and some smaller islands. It includes the ancient Peloponnesus, Central Greece, southeastern Epirus, and nearly all The aly; and contains 16 nomarchies: Attica and Bœotia, Eubœa and the Sporades, Phthiotis and Phocis, A carn an i a and Ætolia, Achaia and Elis, Arcadia, Laconia, Me enia, Argolis and Corinth, the Cyclades, Corfu, Cephalonia, Zacynthos, Arta, Tricala, and Lari a. The government is a hereditary constitutional monarchy, with a chamber of deputies (207 members). The prevailing religion is that of the Greek Church. The inhabitants are chiefly Greeks (with some Albanians and Wall a chi ans). In the later middle ages Greece was subject to the Venetians and other foreign rulers; it was conquered by Venice 1685-87, and reconquered by the Turks in 1715. More recent events are the revolution of 1821-29; the establishment of a kingdom in 1832; the revolution of 1843; the grant of a constitution in 1844; the revolution and the deposition of Otto in 1862; the election of George I. in 1863; the ce ion of Tartaric a andri arby 25,041 square miles. Population (1889), 2,187,208. Greek Empire. See Eastern Empire . Greek Independence, War of. The Greek revolts against the Turks, which broke out in the Morea, and in Wall a chia and Moldavia, in 1821. The war was noteworthy for the Greek exploits by sea, the aid rendered by Lord Byron and other Philhellenists, the Turkish atrocities in Chios, and the interference of the powers and their victory over the Turkish fleet at Navarino in 1827, and the final Ru o-Turkish war of 1828-29, which secured the independence of Greece. Greeley (gre'li). The capital of Weld County, northern Colorado, on a tributary of the South Platte. Population (1890), 2,395. Greeley, Horace. Born at Amherst, N. H., Feb. 3, 1811: died at Pleasantville, West chester County, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1872. A celebrated American journalist, author, and politician. He founded the New York "Tribune" in 1841; was a member of Congre from New York 1848-49; was a noted antislavery leader; and was the unsucce ful candidate of the Liberal-Republican and Democratic parties for the presi dency 1872. His chief work is "The American Conflict" (1864-66). IMG:content-0478.png:[blocks in formation] Greely (grēʻli), Adolphus Washington. Born 88° 9′ W. It is noted for its lumber trade. at New bury port, Ma ., March 27, 1844. An Population (1890), 9,069. army and attached to the signal service. In 1881 he was American Arctic explorer. He served as a volun- Green bush (grēn'büsh). A town in Ren elaer teer in the Union Army during the Civil War, at the close of which he was appointed a lieutenant in the regular appointed to the command of the expedition sent out by the government to establish an Arctic observing station, in accordance with the plan of the Hamburg International Geographical Congre of 1879, providing for the erection of a chain of 13 stations about the north pole by international concert. He sailed from St. John's, Newfoundland, with 24 men, in the Proteus July 7, 1881, and Aug. 12, 1881, reached Discovery Harbor, lat. 81° 44′ N., long. 64° 45' W., where he established his station. A detachment of his expedition under Lock wood and Brainard went to lat. 83° 24' N., long. 40° 46' W., May 15, 1882, a higher latitude than any before attained. Compelled by the failure of relief expeditions to reach him, he began to retreat southward Aug. 9, 1883, and was rescued at Cape Sabine by a relief expedition under Captain Win field Schley, June 22, 1884, after having lost 18 of his men. He was appointed chief of the signal-service corps with the rank