LEYDEN JAR, a glass bottle having its interior coated with tin foil or filled with thin leaves of copper or of gold leaf. The outside is also coated with tin foil up to a certain distance from the neck. The neck has a corkz through which passes a brass rod terminating at one end in a knob, and communicating with the metal in the interior. The in ner coating is called the internal, and the outer one the external armature or coat ing. It is charged by connecting one of the armatures with the ground and the other with the source of electricity. If the hand grasps the external coattng while the knob is presented to the con ductor of the machine, positive electric ity accumulates on the inner, and nega tive electricity on the outer coating. If, on the contrary, the jar be held by the knob and the outer coating be presented to the machine, positive electricity .is ac cumulated on the outer, and negative on the inner.
LEYTE (IA'ta), an island of the Visaya group in the Philippines; be tween Samar, Dinagat and Mindanao on the S. E., Bohol on the S. W. and Mashete
on the N. W.; area, 2,722 square miles; pop. about 360,000; capital, Tacloban on the Bay of San Pedro and San Pablo. It is about 100 miles long and 47 miles wide in its broadest part. The interior of the island is mountainous, containing a number of extinct volcanoes. There are mines of gold, silver, lead and sul phur. The large valleys are cultivated by the natives, the chief agricultural pro duct being hemp. Sugar, chocolate, cof fee, and corn are also raised, and some live stock. Wax, honey, shells, birds' nests, sponges, and pearls are exported in small quantities. Civil government was established in 1901, which was found to be generally acceptable by the people but in 1905-1906 there were local dis turbances. Besides the capital, the chief ports are Carrigari on the E. coast and Ormoc, Baybay, Ilongos, Ma-asim, and Malitbog on the W. coast.