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430 George of Pisidia the Ἑξαήμερον ἤτοι Κοσμουργία, a upon the  of the, containing in its present form 1910  ic s; a  on the vanity of , Ἐις τὸν μάταιον βίον, in 262 verses; a controversial composition against , Κατά Σευήρου, in 731 verses; two short s upon the  of  and upon the  of the  at  respectively, and a   upon  the , (Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸνἅγιον Αναστάσιον μάρτυρα). George of Pisidia is known to have written several other works, which, however, are no longer extant; and there is no sufficient reason for assigning to him the compilation of the Chronicon Paschale, or the  entitled Empedoclis Sphæra. The Hexaemeron and De Vanitate Vitæ were ﬁrst along with a  version at  in  or  by Federicus Morellus. They are also to be found in the ''Max. Bibliotheca Vett. Patrum'', xii. p.322 ; and in the 46th vol. of Migne’s Patrologia Græca. The only complete edition of all the extant works is that of Quercus in Foggini’s ''Corp. Hist. Byzant. Nova Appendix''. As a George is correct and even elegant; as a r of contemporary events he is exceedingly useful; but the modern verdict on his merits as a  has not conﬁrmed that of those later  whose enthusiastic admiration led them to compare him with and even prefer him to Euripides. Recent is unanimous in characterizing his composition as artiﬁcial and almost uniformly dull.  GEORGE (–), one of the distinguished writers in the great controversy between and nism in the, was born at  in the  of. He received his apparently from the fact that his ancestors had come from. At what period he came to is not absolutely certain; according to some accounts he arrived as early as, and settled as  of  and  at ; according to others he did not come over to  till the period of the  (–). His reputation as a and as  of Aristotle was very great, and he was selected as  by, an ardent. The needless bitterness of his attacks upon (in the Comparatio Aristotelis et Platonis), which drew forth a powerful response from , and the manifestly hurried and inaccurate character of his translations both of Plato and of Aristotle, combined to ruin his fame as a scholar, and to endanger his position as a  of. The indignation against him on account of his ﬁrst-named work was so great that he would probably have been compelled to leave, had not given him protection at the  of. He died at in. Many of his translations of Aristotelian treatises are to be found in the older editions of Aristotle. A notice of his other writings is given in Fabricius, Biblioth. Græca.  GEORGETOWN, the of entry for the in the, is situated on the left  of the  at the head of, about 2  W.N.W. of the capitol of , with which it  by four  s thrown across Rock Creek. Founded by the  of  in, Georgetown was a  with a distinct  from  to ; but in the  it was merged in the , and in  it was  with the  of , so that now it has properly no distinct existence. It is beautifully situated along a range of, whose loftier eminences, locally called the Heights, afford delightful positions for s and country seats, with extensive prospects over and. The most noteworthy is Georgetown, the oldest   in the , which occupies two handsome   in the midst of extensive grounds at the west end. It was founded as an in, was ed as a  in , and in  received the right of conferring s. Its  department, originated in , and the  department, dating from , are both in. The has a  of upwards of 30,000, an extensive apparatus for physical , and a  of. In the  numbered 35. Among the other s in the may be mentioned the  of the Visitation, with a female  attached; the  ; the   (founded in  by a retired, who left 50,000 for the  of poor white boys) ; the aged women’s , maintained by voluntary ; and the  home for juvenile. The which conveys a branch of the  and   over the  is 1446  long, and its  s, nine in number, rise 36  above the ordinary surface of the, and rest on the solid  17  below the  of the. A great decline has taken place in the activity of Georgetown. Its is very slight, being represented in the  ending  30,, by no more than 6113  of  and 10,056  of ; but its share in the   is still considerable, 187  and 45  , affording a total  of 96,339 , having entered in the ; its position at the terminus of the  and   secures for it a fair share in the  of the  from the  ; and its  render it a great  for  and s. Among the  establishments the ﬁrst place is held by the -, six in number; but there are also -, s, , , , a -, and a. The principal for  occupies a beautiful situation on Georgetown Heights. In the population of Georgetown was 8441; in  it was only 7312; by  it had reached 8733; and in  it was 11,384.  GEORGETOWN, known as Stabroek during the Dutch period, now the capital of British Guiana, is situated in the county of Demerara on the east bank of the Demerara river, about a mile from its mouth, in 6° 49' 30” N. lat. and 58° 11’ 30" W. long. It is one of the prettiest towns of that part of the world, and presents an unusually attractive appear- ance to the approaching voyager. The streets are wide and straight, intersecting each other at right angles, and recall- ing, by the canals that run along the centre, the memory of the Dutch; and the houses are so richly embosonied by cabbage-palms, cocoa-nut trees, and other trees and shrubs, that they look rather like a collection of villas than a town. The street along the river side, where the shops and stores are mainly situated, forms, however, an exception ; there everything is plain, bare, and business-like. Private dwelling-houses are usually built of wood and raised 3 or 4 feet above the soil on wooden piles or brick pillars ,- they are painted in various simple colours, for the most part in white; in front they have open verandahs. Among the public ediﬁces the ﬁrst place is due to a building in the centre of the town which was erected between 1829 and 1834'at a cost of £60,000, to accommodate the legislative council, the courts of justice, the custom house, the treasury, and other administrative ofﬁces ; it is of considerable extent and architectural beauty, with shady porticoes and marble- paved galleries supported on cast-iron columns. Besides a cathedral, which cost £15,000, there are churches belonging to the Wesleyans, the Baptists, the London Missionary Society,- and other ecclesiastical organizations, several liberally maintained hospitals, an icehouse, and two market