a county of South Wales, said to have derived its name from a contraction of the Welsh words Gwlad Morgan, or "the county of Morgan," and supposed to have been thus called from a prince of this part of the country, said to have been killed 820 years before the birth of our Saviour: but some other writers derive the name from the word Mor, which in the British tongue signifies the sea; this being a maritime county. It is bounded on the south and part of the west, by Bristol channel; on the north-west, by Caernarvonshire; on the north by Brecknockshire; and on the east, by Monmouthshire. It extends 48 miles in length from east to west, 27 in breadth from north to south, and is 116 in circumference. It is divided into 10 hundreds, in which are one city, 7 market towns, 118 parishes, 17,758 houses, and, in 1811, 85,067 inhabitants. It is in the diocese of Llandaff. This county, in the time of the Romans, was part of the district inhabited by the Silures, and had several Roman stations. Thus Boverton, a few miles to the south of Cowbridge, is supposed to be the Bovium of Antoninus: Neath to be his Nidum; and Loughor, to the west of Swansea, to be his Lencarum. The principal rivers of this county are the Rhymney, the Taff, the Ogmore, the Avon, the Cledaugh, and the Tave. The air, in the south part, towards the sea, is temperate and healthful; but the northern part, which is mountainous, is cold and piercing, full of thick woods, extremely barren, and thin of inhabitants. The mountains, however, serve to feed herds of cattle, and send forth streams which add greatly to the fertility of the other parts of the county. GLA

GLAMOUR, or Glamor, an old term of popular superstition in Scotland, denoting a kind of magical mist believed to be raised by sorcerers, and which deluded their spectators with visions of things which had no real existence, altered the appearance of those which really did exist, &c.—The eastern nations have a similar superstition, as we may learn from the Arabian Nights Entertainments and other works of oriental fiction.