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GUAIACUM OFFICINALE s. Bot. Member of the zygophyllaceae family, which includes several species of American trees, whose wood is hard, heavy and resiniferous.
— Encycl. The main species of the genus Guaiacum is Guaiacum officinale, which is native to the Caribbean and Central America, and whose trunk can …Read more »

FUNCHAL, the capital of the Madeira island, on the South-East coast; pop. 23 000. It is built on a wide …Read more »

HARPA s. Moll. Genus of gastropod molluscs, family buccinidae, which includes about a dozen species living in the deep waters and muddy lands …Read more »

GRAPTOLITE s. (Gr. graphein, to write; lithos, rock). Genus of acaleph fossils, which includes at least 20 species found only in Silurian rocks …Read more »

GERASA (now Jerash), ruined city of Palestine, east of the Jordan, part of the former Decapolis, 80 km (49.7 miles) N-E. of Jerusalem, divided in two by the Golden River. Its most interesting ruins are the Corinthian temple, a triumphal arch, five or six other temples and two theaters, all made of marble, a nymphaeum, a small temple (with a semi-circular ionic colonnade), at which starts a street with a row of columns, that runs through …Read more »

Begun in this manner, the supper soon became a fete; no one tried to be witty, for no one failed in being so. La Fontaine forgot his Gorgny wine and allowed Vatel to reconcile him to the wines of the Rhone and those from the shores of Spain. The Abbe Fouquet became so kind and good-natured that Gourville said to him, “Take care, Monsieur l’Abbe ; if you are so tender, you will be eaten.”
The hours passed away so joyously, that …Read more »