in nautical language, a term of various import. When the wind blows, but not so hard that a ship may not carry her top-sails a-trip, then they say it is a loom gale. When it blows very strong, they say it is a stiff, strong, or fresh gale. When two ships are near each other at sea, and, there being but little wind blowing, one of them finds more of it than the other, they say that the one ship gales away from the other.

Gale, Dr John, an eminent minister amongst the Bap- tists, was born at London in 1680. He studied at Ley- den, where he early distinguished himself, and afterwards at Amsterdam, under Dr Linborch. He was chosen mi- nister of the Baptist congregation at Barbican, where his preaching, being chiefly practical, was greatly resorted to by people of all persuasions. Four volumes of his sermons were published after his death, which happened in 1721. His *Reflections on Dr Wall's History of Infant Baptism* is the best defence of the Baptists ever published; and the reading of that performance induced Mr William Whiston and Dr Foster to become Baptists.