Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . he sovereign, by producinguniversal anarchy, led to the forcible interpositionof the British government; aud by the treaty ofthe following January, in addition to a large con-tingent under British aiithority, the native govern-ment was permitted to have 9000 troops of its the troubles of 1857, the new Maharajah,not more than 22 years old, remained faithfid to theEnglish, notwithstanding the almost entire defectionof both di\dsions of the military force. GWYNIAD [Coregonus Pennanti), one of theBritish species of Coregoiiu
Chambers's encyclopædia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . he sovereign, by producinguniversal anarchy, led to the forcible interpositionof the British government; aud by the treaty ofthe following January, in addition to a large con-tingent under British aiithority, the native govern-ment was permitted to have 9000 troops of its the troubles of 1857, the new Maharajah,not more than 22 years old, remained faithfid to theEnglish, notwithstanding the almost entire defectionof both di\dsions of the military force. GWYNIAD [Coregonus Pennanti), one of theBritish species of Coregoiius (q. v.) which, from theirform, the large size of their scales, and their silveryappearance, aie sometimes called Freshwater Herring, 167 GYBIXG—GYMXASTICS. and are vulgarly identified with the herring. Thegeneral similarity is in this case very great. TheG., when fidl grown, is about ten or twelve inchesin leuirth ; the first dorsal fin is high ; the snoutis a little produced; the mouth is small, the jaws?without teeth, a few minute teeth on the tongue. Ovr-yniad (Coregonus Pennanti), onlj. It is found in some of the lakes of Wales andCumberland. G. is a Welsh name. At UUswater,the fish is called Sclielhj. It occurs in that lake ingreat shoals, so that many hundieds are sometimestaken at a single draiight of the net. It is ratheran insipid fish, and cannot be kept long after beingtaken out of the water, unless salted, which it oftenis by the poor. The Freshwater Herring of LochLomond is not the G., but the Powan. !Mauy of thespecies of this genus, however, very nearly resembleeach other, and are not easily distingiushed by meredescription. GYBIXG, or GIBIXG, in sailing with fore-and-aft sails, the act of going about, when the wind isastern or at any point aft the beam, so that thewind may be brought to bear on the sail on thereverse side of the vessel to that in which it wasfelt pre\-iously to the operation. Gybing is theopposite to tacking, which can only be performedwhen
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