Lake Of Conio
Conio, Lake Of, The Lacus Larius Of The Ancients, Is A Lake Of Italy, Which Stretches Between Two Chains Of Mountains At The Foot Of The Alps. It Is About Fifty Miles Long, From Three To Six Broad, And From 40 To Wo Feet Deep. It Is Of A Serpentine ...
Lake Of Geneva
Geneva, Lake Of, In French Leman, And In Latin Lemannus, Is An Extensive Lake In Switzerland, Resembling In Its General Shape The Form Of The Inooll When She Is A Few Days Old. The Concave Side Embraces Savoy, The Con Vex Side The Pays De Vaud, And A Line Joining ...
Lakes And Rivers
Lakes And Rivers. —the Principal Lakes Of New York Are Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Cham Plain, And Lake George. The Three First Of These Lakes Have Been All Described Under Canada, Vol. V. P. 233, 234. Lake George, Connected With Lake Champlain, Is Wholly Within This State. It Is ...
Lamp
Lamp Is A Well Known Apparatus For Producing Artificial Light. A Lamp, In The Most Simple Form, Has A Wick, Composed Of Several Cotton Threads, Partially Immersed In Oil, Con Tained In A Flat Dish, Furnished With Some Small Suppol T, To Hold The Upper End Of The Wick In ...
Lampas
Lampas Is The Term Used By Our Common Farriers To Denote An Unnatural Prominence Of The Fleshy Bars, Crossing The Roof Of The Mouth, Just Behind The Upper Incisive Teeth. Many Absurd Notions Are Abroad Respecting The Origin And Nature Of This Sup Posed Malady, (for We Can Hardly Regard ...
Lan Ark
Lan Ark, The County Town Of Lanarkshire, Is Situated On The Northern Bank Of The Ciyde, On An Elevated Situation, 32 Miles South-west Of Edinburgh, And 25 Miles South-east From The City Of Glasgow, In 55' 34' Of North Latitude, And 3' 5' Of West Longitude From Greenwich. Lanark Is ...
Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire, The Name Of One Of The Counties In The Southern Division Of Srotland. The County Of Lai.m.k Is Situated Between 55° 14' 42". And 56' Dp Of North Lat. ; And 3° 22' 51", And 4° 22' 51" Of West Long, From Greenwich. On The North It Is Bounded ...
Lancashire
Lancashire Is A Maritime County On The North West Coast Of England. It Is Bounded On The North By West Moreland, And A Part Of Cumberland ; On The East By York Shire ; On The West By The Irish Sea ; And On The South By Cheshire. In Shape, ...
Lancaster
Lancaster, A Town Of England, In The Hundred Of Lonsdale, In The County Of Lancashire, Lies In 54° North Lat. And 2° 56' West Long. It Is 2394. Miles N. N. W. From London. It Is A Borough, The Civil Government Of Which Is Vested In A Mayor, 12 Aldermen, ...
Lancelot Andrews
Andrew's, Lancelot, An Eminent English Divine, Was Born In London, In The Year 1555, And Was Descended From A Very Ancient Family Of That Name, In The County Of Suffolk. He Received His Education At Cooper's Free School In Radcliff, And At Merchant Taylor's Hall. He Distinguished Himself So Much ...
Land Tax
Land-tax, Is An Annual Impost, Which Superseded All The Former Methods Of Rating Either Property, Or Persons In Respect Of Their Property, Whether By Tenths Or Fifteenths, Subsidies On Land, Hydages, Scutages, Or Talliagcs. In The Beginning Of The Civil Wars Between Charles I. And His Parliament, The Latter, Having ...
Landscape Gardening
Landscape Gardening. The Infancy Of Human Arts, All Gardening Would Be Com Prehended In The Culture Of A Few Fruits And Esculent Plants In A Very Limited Space ; But At Present, The Word Garden Has At Least Three Distinct Significations : To Designate A Spot, Destined For The Culture ...
Language
Language, (from The French Languc, And That From The Latin Lingua, " Th.; Tongue,") In Its Proper Sense, Means " The E.yression Or Enunciation Of Human Th Nights And Sentiments, By Means Of The Articulate Sounds Of The Hu•nan Voice." It Has Usually, However, Been Extended To Corn Rehench In ...
Laocoon
Laocoon. In Fabulous History, The Son, It Is Said, Of Priam And Hecuba, And Priest Of Apollo. He Opposed The Design Of The 'trojans, To Admit Within Their Besieged City The Wooden Horse, Containing The Crafty Ulysses And The Other Greeks ; And Even Dared To Lance A Dart At ...
Laon
Laon, The Laodunum Of The Romans, Is A Town Of France, And The Chief Place Of A District In The Department Of The Aisne. It Is Beautifully Situated On The Summit Of A Hill With Very Precipitous Flanks, And Is Seen On All Sides At The Distance Of Seven Or ...
Lapland
Lapland, The Most Northerly Country Of Europe, Extends From North To South About 500 English Miles, And About 300 From West To East. Its Limits Are Not Very Precisely As Certained ; But It May Be Said To Be Included Between The Of North Latitude And The Northern Ocean, And ...
Lapwing
Lapwing. Bill Short, Slender, Straight, Compressed, Tip Tumid ; Nostrils Lateral, And Longitudinally Cleft ; Legs Slender, With Three Toes Before And One Behind, The Middle Fore One Con Nected With The Outer By A Short Membrane, And The Hind Almost Obliterated, Or Very Short, And Elevated, Not Touch Ing ...
Laristan
Laristan, Is The Name Of A Small Province Of Persia, Which Stretches Along The Northernshort; Of The Gulf Of The Same Name, From The 55th Degree Of East Longitude To The 58th. It Is Bounded By Fars On The North-west, And Ker Man On The North-east. The Province Is Diversified ...
Lary Attraction
Lary Attraction, And Hydrodynamics. Cohesion Of Timber. See Carpentry. Cohesion Of The :metals. See Chemistry. Coimbra, A City Of Some Importance In Portugal, About 31 Leagues From Lisbon. The Situation Of Coitrt Bra Is Extremely Delightful. The Surrounding Country, Though Mountainous, Is Fertile And Highly Cultivated. The Mountains, Covered With ...
Lati
Lati. Tilts Order Is Easily Distinguished From The Foliose Or Operculate Musci, By The Want Of An Operculurn, And By That Part Of The Calyptra Which Is Separated By The Elon Gation Of The Frnitstalk, Or Growth Ol The Capsule, Falling Immediately. In Some Instances, The Calyptra Merely Splits, Without ...
Latimer
Latim_er, 'lyon, Bishop Of Worcester, Was The Son Of An Honest Yeoman At Thurcostan, In Leicestershire, And Was Born About The Year 1470. At The Age Of Four Years, He Gave So Great Pools Of A Ready Apprehension, That His Parents, Basing No Other Son, Resolved To Educate Him For ...
Latitl
Latitl See Astnosomy, And I. Is A Tonal Burgh Of Scotland, In The County Of .1 It L. It Is The River Leader, Which Runs In A Twice D Below Melrose. The Town Consists In In Up T R One Long Street, Which Contains Sonic Goad Houses, Hut It I ...
Lausanne
Lausanne, The Lausonium Of The Ancients, Is A City Of Switzerland, And The Capital Of The Canton De Vaud. It Is Built On Three Hills, And In The Adjoining Vailies, And Is Si Tuated 432 Feet Above The Lake Of Geneva, From Which It Is Distant About Two Miles. One ...
Lead
Lead. This Is One Of The Most Fearful Poisons In The Catalogue, On Account Of The Numerous Accidental Ways In Which It Is Introduced Into The Body, Whether In The Way Of Food Or Medicine, Or In The Various Arts In Which, In Some Form Or Other, It Is Used. ...
Leeds
Leeds, A Large Manufacturing Town Of England, In The West Riding Of Yorkshire, Is Situated On The North Bank Of The Aire, On An Eminence, Which Rises Gently From The Ri Ver To The Upper End Of The Town, And Slopes To The East, West, And South. The Suburbs On ...
Leetakoo Or
Leetakoo Or Latta/100, Is A Large And Populous City Of Africa, And The Capital Of The Territory Of The Boos Hooana Tribes. This Town Was Visited In 1801 By Dr. Wil Liam Somerville And Mr. Truter, And Is Sixteen Days Jour Ney Beyond The Orange River. The Account Of The ...
Lel Roads
Lel Roads ) The Population Of Inverness-shire, In 1311, Was Estimat Ed At It Is Much To Be Feared, However, That It Has Not Been On The Increase Since That Period. The Sheep Farming System, Prosecuted With So Much Eagerness By Many Of The Great Proprietors, Particularly By Those On ...
Lemma
Lemma. There Is Within Every Double Convex Or Double Concave Lens, A Certain Point Called Its Centre, Through Which Every Ray That Passes Will Have Its Incident And Emer Gent Parts Parallel ; But In Plano-convex Or Plano-con Cave Lenses, This Point Is Removed To The Vertex Of The Convex ...
Leo Allatius
Allatius, Leo, One Of The Most Voluminous Wri Ters Of The Seventeenth Century, Was Born In 1586, In The Island Of Scio, From Which Lie Was Removed, At The Age Of Nine Years, To Calabria. Some Years After, He Entered The Greek College At Ronie, And Applied With Assiduity To ...
Levelling
Levelling. If A Mass Of Fluid Contained In A Vessel Is In Equilihrio, Any One Particle Of The Fluid Is Pressed In Every Direction, With A Force Equal To A Weight Of The Column Of The Fluid, Whose Base Is Equal To That Particle, And Whose Height Is The Depth ...
Lewis Galvani
Galvani, Lewis, A Physician And Physiologist, Whose Name Has Obtained A Very Unusual Degree Of Celebrity, In Consequence Of His Having Discovered The Rudiments Of A New Branch Of Science, Which Was Called After Him, Galvan Ism. The History Of This Discovery Will Be Detailed In The Following Article ; ...