or GALATZ, a town and port of Moldavia, on the left bank of the Danube, between the mouths of the Sereth and Pruth, in Lat. 45° 25' N., Long. 28° 1' E. The town is ill-built and dirty, but has latterly been much improved. It has a large bazaar always well filled with merchandise, and numerous warehouses for grain and other produce. Since 1834, when it was made a free port, its trade has rapidly increased, and various English and other foreigners have formed establishments here. Vessels of 300 tons can come up to the town, and regular steam communication is maintained with Vienna and Constantinople. Being the only port of Moldavia, and indeed in the best position for becoming the port of the Danube, it promises at no very distant period to become a first-rate emporium. Moldavia and Wallachia are very productive provinces, being rich both in corn and cattle. Our imports of corn from these two provinces in 1853 were, wheat 227,143 qrs., maize 373,790 qrs., and other kinds 64,173 qrs. In 1851, the exports by sea from Galacz amounted in value to L496,358, being chiefly wheat, maize, rye, tallow, hides, wine, and timber. The chief imports were British and Austrian manufactures, colonial products, &c. Pop. estimated at 25,000. (See McCulloch's Commercial Dictionary, 1854.)

GALESUS, or GALESUS, in Ancient Geography, a small river of Calabria, falling into the gulf of Tarentum, a few miles W. of that city. It flowed through rich pasture-lands browsed by the sheep which produced the famous Tarentine wool. The value of this product was very great, and that none of it might be lost, the sheep were sent to feed completely enveloped in skins. Hence the force of Horace's allusion to the

Dulce pellitis ovibus Galassi Flumen.

The stream is often mentioned by the Roman poets, and has thus acquired a wider fame than many Italian rivers ten times its size. Indeed so small was the Galesus, that it has not been identified with certainty. Swinburne, who is probably the best authority on the subject, supposes that the Cervaro is the real Galesus; and his supposition tallies better with the descriptions of Livy and Polybius than any other that has been advanced. The local antiquaries have tried, though not very successfully, to identify the Galesus with a small stream called Le Citrezzé, which falls into the Mare Piccolo, or great port of Tarentum, on its northern side.