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GAZELLE Scriptures. It is a little less than the roebuck in size, with round, black, lyrated horns, about 13 in. long, with 12 or 13 bars, and sharp points turned forward ; the general color is pale fulvous, extending down the front and outside of the limbs ; the lips, nose, buttocks, GEBWEILER 655 Common Gazelle (Gazella dorcas). under parts, and inside of legs white ; a rufous tint on the forehead, blackish in the middle, and white and black streaks on the nose ; eyes large, black, and lustrous. The horns in the female are more slender, and the points are turned inward; the mammas are two. This species seems to be confined to the N. side of the Atlas mountains, Egypt, Abyssinia, Syria, Arabia, and S. Persia. They feed generally at dawn and at evening, approaching water, it is said, only once in 24 hours ; they are hunted in various ways, and their flesh is excellent; they furnish food to great numbers of car- nivorous animals. The kevel (G. tievella, H. Smith) is by some considered a mere variety of the common gazelle ; it is about the same size, but the head is longer, the horns are Kevel (Gazella kevella). more robust and longer, the orbits larger, the eyes fuller, and the geographical distribution to the south of the Atlas ; the habits and gen- eral disposition of the colors are the same as in the common gazelle. The corinna, found in central Africa and described by Adanson, 349 VOL. vii. 42 appears to be one or the other of the prece- ding species. Other gazelles are the m'hor of Mr. Bennett, the nanguer of F. Cuvier, and the ariel or cora, which are also supposed by many to be varieties of the G. dorcas. Sommering's gazelle (G. Soemmeringii, Riipp.) is a very beautiful and delicate creature, about Sommering's Gazelle (Gazella Soemmeringii). 2|- ft. high at the shoulder; the color above is a reddish-gray Isabella color, the buttocks, lower parts, and inside of the limbs white, and the median line of the forehead to the nose brownish black ; it inhabits N. E. Africa. GEAUGA, a N". E. county of Ohio, drained by the sources of Ouyahoga, Grand, and Chagrin rivers; area, about 430 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 14,190. It has an undulating surface, admi- rably adapted to pasturage. Sandstone anl iron are abundant. The chief productions in 1870 were 64,815 bushels of wheat, 179,319 of Indian corn, 337,686 of oats, 185,731 of pota- toes, 493,180 Ibs. of flax, 377,941 of maple sugar, 105,811 of wool, 619,742 of butter, 458,- 834 of cheese, and 39,160 tons of hay. There were 4,622 horses, 18,674 milch cows, 7,267 other cattle, 19,818 sheep, and 4,344 swine; 6 manufactories of saddlery and harness, 12 of carriages and wagons, 8 of boxes, 27 of cheese, 4 flour mills, and 3 saw mills. Capital, Chardon. GEBELIN, Court de. See COUET DE GOBELIN. GEBER, Aba Mnsa Jaffar al-Sofi, founder of the school of Arabian chemists about the close of the 8th century, born in Thus, Persia, or, ac- cording to Abulfeda, in Harran, Mesopotamia. He is reckoned by Cardan as one of the twelve subtlest geniuses of the world, and his authority was unrivalled among the alchemists of the middle ages. His works, only fragments of which remain, contain the germs of the belief in the transmutation of metals, and in the uni- versal elixir, which he thought to be a solution of gold. They also contain curious and useful details concerning the nature, fusion, purifi- cation, and malleability of metals. They have all been translated into Latin (Dantzic, 1682), and into English by Russell (London, 1678). GEBWEILER (Fr. Guebwiller), a town of Germany, capital of a circle of Upper Alsace,