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 GRAND RIVER GRANICUS 151 lower end. Only a portion of the available power is in actual use. The principal manu- factures are of wood work, embracing furni- ire, barrels, and rim and bent work, tubs, Is, sashes and blinds, carriages and wagons, There are also manufactories of agricul- iral implements and brushes, several founde- 3s and machine shops, chemical works, tan- 3ries, breweries, &c. The pine lumber pro- iced in 1872 exceeded 60,000,000 ft. A rge establishment for preserving fruit has re- itly been erected. Four firms, with an ag- sgate capital of $400,000, are engaged in tarrying and manufacturing gypsum, which abundant in the vicinity, the annual produc- m being about 100,000 tons. Cream-colored ricks, known as Milwaukee bricks, are also lufactured here. There are two national with an aggregate capital of $700,000, id a savings bank. The city is divided into wards, is lighted with gas, and has an icient police force and a paid fire department, le assessed value of property in 1873 was ,949,282. The United States circuit and ict courts for the W. district of Michigan held here. The school buildings are nine number, including a high school. There is public library with more than 7,000 volumes, free reading room, and a scientific institute rhich has a fine museum. There are three ly and five weekly (one Dutch and one Ger- i) newspapers, two monthly periodicals, and churches. Grand Rapids was first settled 1833, and incorporated in 1850. GRAND RIVER (Ind. name, Washtenong), a^ rer of Michigan, and the largest which lies* rholly in that state. It rises in the S. E. part the lower peninsula, in two branches which ite near Jackson, and after a K W. and W. >urse of about 270 m., including its numerous indings, it discharges into Lake Michigan at md Haven. It is about 950 ft. wide at its ith, and deep enough for vessels of less than ft. draught. Steamboats ascend 40 m. to le rapids, where the river has a fall of 18 ft. a mile; and small boats ply between the of the rapids and Lyons, about 50 m. ler. The principal affluents are the Rogue, , Maple, Looking-glass, and Red Cedar from le north, and the Thornapple from the south, lackson, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Grand Haven are the chief towns on its banks. GRAND RIVER, one of the constituents of the Colorado of the "West, rises in the Rocky moun- tains in Colorado territory, 5 or 6 m. W. of Long's peak, in about lat. 40 17' K, Ion. 105 43' W. It pursues a general S. W. course of about 350 m., and joins the Green in Utah territory. It Is S. just before entering Utah, and then as it crosses the boundary, resuming its ineral direction. The only important tributary the north is Milk creek, which joins the lin stream near its source. From the south it receives the Blue river (which, rising near the base of Mt. Lincoln, has by some been regarded as the true source of the Grand), Piney creek, Roaring fork, the Gunnison or South fork (the largest tributary), and the San Miguel and Do- lores rivers, which unite and empty into the Grand just beyond the Utah border. It flows through a mountainous region, forming deep and precipitous cafions. GRAND TRAVERSE, a N. W. county of the S. peninsula of Michigan, bounded N. E. by Grand Traverse bay ; area, about 500 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 4,443. It is drained by Grand Traverse river, which enters the bay of the same name. The surface is undulating and dotted over with a great number of small lakes. The chief productions in 1870 were 31,157 bushels of wheat, 26,708 of Indian corn, 15,218 of oats, 94,174 of potatoes, and 3,544 tons of hay. There were 2 flour and 9 saw mills. Cap- ital, Grand Traverse City. GRANDVILLE, Jean Ignace Isidore, whose real name was GERARD, a French caricaturist, born in Nancy in September, 1803, died at Vanves, near Paris, in March, 1847. He was the son of a miniature painter, and attracted attention in 1828 by his Metamorphoses dujour, illustrating prevailing follies and vices by representing well known personages with the faces of animals. His political caricatures and his pictures of ani- mals increased his reputation, and he furnished many designs for illustrated and humorous journals, for Lafontaine's fables, and for many other works. In the latter part of his life he took up fantastic and ghostly subjects, and he died in a lunatic asylum. See Grandmlle, by Charles Blanc (Paris, 1855). GRANE, Gran, or Quade (Arabic, El-Kueit a seaport town of Arabia, in the district of El- Hasa or Ahsa, on a bay of the same name, at the N. W. corner of the Persian gulf, 90 m. S. of Bassorah ; lat. 29 23' K, Ion. 47 51' E. ; pop. about 9,000. It is on a peninsula jutting into the bay, which is 60 m. in circuit, affords excellent anchorage for the largest vessels, and is well protected by the small island of Felej or Felitche. In the town there is a scar- city of water. Most of the houses are built of clay, but many wealthy merchants reside here. Trade is carried on with the Red sea and India. GRANGE, National. See HUSBANDRY, PA- TRONS OF. GRANGER, Gideon, an American statesman, born at Suffield, Conn., July 19, 1767, died at Canandaigua, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1822. He grad- uated at Yale college in 1787, and rose to emi- nence at the bar. In 1801 President Jefferson appointed him postmaster general. He was reappointed by President Madison, but was displaced in 1814 for opposing Madison's policy. He then removed to Canandaigua, N". Y. He gave 1,000 acres of land to further the con- struction of the Erie canal. His son FRAN- CIS, born Dec. 1, 1792, was also a prominent lawyer and member of congress, and post- master general from March to July, 1841. He died at Canandaigua, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1868. GRAN1CUS (now Khodja Tckai), in ancient geography, a small river of Asia Minor, rising