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GHENT

Volume 2 · 56 words · 1771 Edition

or Gaunt, a city and capital of Flanders, thirty miles north west of Brussels: E. long. 3° 36', N. lat. 51°.

It is a large fortified town, twelve miles in circumference, and defended by a citadel; and yet is a place of no great strength, by reason of the vast extent of ground it takes in.