or GIRONNY,** in Heraldry, a coat of arms divided into girons, or triangular figures, meeting in the centre of the shield, and alternately colour and metal.

**GIRT,** the situation of a ship which is moored so strait by her cables, extending from the *hawse* to two distant anchors, as to be prevented from swinging or turning about according to any change of the wind or tide, to the current of which her head would otherwise be directed. The cables are extended in this manner, by a strong application of mechanical powers within the ship; so that when the veers, or endeavours to swing about, her side bears upon one of the cables, which catches on her heel, and interrupts her in the act of traversing. In this position she must ride with her broadside to the wind or current, till one or both of the cables are slackened.

**ISCO,** son of Himilco the Carthaginian general, was banished from Carthage by the influence of his enemies. Being afterwards recalled, he was made general in Sicily against the Corinthians, about 309 years before the Christian era, and by his success and intrepidity he obliged the enemies of his country to sue for peace. See Carthage.

**GISBOROUGH,** a town of England, in the west riding of Yorkshire, on the road from Whitby to Durham, 224 miles from London, and four miles from the mouth of the Tees, where is a bay and harbour for ships. It had formerly an abbey, which was once the common burial place of the nobility of these parts, and its church by the ruins seems to have been equal to the best cathedrals in England. The soil, besides its fertility in pasture and a constant verdure adorned with plenty of field flowers almost all the year, has earths of sundry colours, some iron, and mines of alum, which were first discovered in the reign of King James I., and have been since very much improved. Sir Paul Pindar, Gittith, who first farmed them, paid rents to the king £2,500 to the Earl Mulgrave 1640, and to Sir William Penniman 600L, and had moreover 800 men by sea and land in constant pay; yet he was a considerable gainer, because there was then scarce any other to be had, and the price was 26L a ton; but now there are several other alum works in this county, which have taken a great part of the trade from hence; so that the works here have for some years lain neglected.