the ancient name of a province of Asia Minor, now called Amasia. It was bounded on the GAGES

Fig. 1. SEA GAGE.

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Fig. 3. BUCKET SEA GAGE.

Fig. 4. AQUEO MERCURIAL GAGE.

Fig. 5. WIND GAGE.

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Fig. 7. E H C A d c G X X D F B

FOUR-FOOT GAUGING ROD. the east by Cappadocia, on the west by Bithynia, on the south by Pamphylia, and on the north by the Euxine sea. It was the north part of Phrygia Magna; but upon being occupied by the Gauls was called Galatia; and because situated amidst Greek colonies, and itself mixed with Greeks, Gallograecia. Strabo calls it Galatia and Gallograecia; hence a twofold name of the people; Galates and Gallograeci. The Greeks called it Gallia Parva; to distinguish it from the Transp. lipina, both which they called Galatia. It was reduced under the subjection of the Romans in the time of Augustus, and is now in the hands of the Turks. Here St Paul founded a church, to which he directed that epistle which is still known by the name of the Epistle to the Galatians, and was written to reclaim them from the observation of Jewish ordinances, into which they had been seduced by some false teachers.