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those of cotton, worsted, and merino hosiery, and 

 bobbin-net lace. For the last-mentioned article a 

 patent was obtained, and the manufacture was con- 

 fined to this place till the riots of the Luddites, 

 during which the patent machinery was destroyed, 

 in consequence of which the establishment was 

 removed to Devonshire ; but since that time the 

 making of bobbin-net has been again introduced. 

 Population of town and parish in 1841, 10,170, 



LOUTH ; a town in Lincolnshire, 144 miles 

 from London, situated on the small river Lud, from 

 which a canal has been constructed, communicating 

 with the sea about seven miles distant. The prin- 

 cipal public buildings are a town-hall, an assembly- 

 room, and a theatre ; and there are billiard-rooms 

 and news-rooms. The town is lighted with gas. 

 An extensive carpet and blanket manufactory has 

 been established here ; and among the other branches 

 of industry, are worsted-spinning and making 

 woollen stuffs, soap-boiling, and making coarse 

 paper; besides which, here are ship- builders, mast, 

 block, and pump makers, machine-makers, iron- 

 founders, and millwrights. By the Louth canal, 

 vessels of considerable burden trade regularly to 

 Hull and other parts of Yorkshire northward, and 

 southward to London, carrying cargoes of wool 

 and corn, and importing in return timber, coal, 

 grocery, and other articles. Populationofparishin 

 1841, 8935. 



LOWESTOFF, OR LOWESTOFT; a town 

 in the county of Suffolk, situated on a headland 

 bordering on the German ocean, 1 14 miles from 

 London. It is said to be the most easterly point 

 of land in England. The headland or cliff is partly 

 covered with gardens, forming terraces on the de- 

 clivity; and between these gardens and the sea is 

 a tract about half a mile in breadth, called the 

 Denes, on which is an extensive line of fish-houses. 

 The recent construction of an artificial harbour, 

 and other works connected with the Norwich and 

 Lowestoff navigation, has added to the commerce 

 and prosperity of the place. LowestofF has a large 

 share in the herring-fishery, the LowestofF herring 

 being esteemed in England as the Lochfine are in 

 Scotland. It has also a considerable trade in 

 mackarel. The place is much frequented for sea- 

 bathing in the summer. Population in 1841, 4647. 



LUMSDEN, MATTHEW, LL. D., late professor 

 of Persian and Arabic in the college of Fort Wil- 

 liam, Calcutta; entered into the employ of the 

 East India Company in the year 1794. His official 

 station was first in the stationery department; but 

 he appears to have applied himself with so much 

 success to the study of the Persian and Arabic 

 languages as to induce the governor-general, on the 

 12th of May, 1803, to place him on the establish- 

 ment of the college of Fort William in the capa- 

 city of an assistant to captain Baillie, then the pro- 

 fessor of those languages in that institution. In 

 the following year he was highly commended by 

 the government for his progress in the preparation 

 of a Persian grammar ; a work which he published 

 in the year 1805. In 1808 he was appointed to suc- 

 ceed captain Baillie, as Persian and Arabic profes- 

 sor, still continuing to perform his duties under the 

 stationery committee. In 1812, the Bengal govern- 

 ment, having then under their consideration the state 

 of the Calcutta Madrissa, orMahomedan college, ap- 

 pointed Dr Lumsden, with Lieut. A. Galloway, to 

 suggest such reforms as they might deem needful 

 in that institution. In the discharge of this duty, 

 tfeey fully succeeded; and Dr Lumsderi was ap- 



pointed secretary to the Madrissa, with instructions 

 to superintend it, and the various translations from 

 English works into the Persian language, which 

 were then in progress at the Madrissa. He pub- 

 lished a new edition of his Persian grammar in 

 1810; and an Arabic grammar in two volumes 

 folio, in 1813. In 1814 he received charge, as 

 superintendent, of the Company's press at Calcutta, 

 which he retained about three years. In 1818, he 

 undertook, in addition to the duties of his profes- 

 sorships, those of secretary to the stationery com- 

 mittee; but his health soon exhibited symptoms of 

 a rapid decline, which compelled him to quit India. 

 Dr Lumsden came to England by way of Bombay, 

 through Persia, Georgia, and Russia; and his de- 

 parture was announced in the Indian prints as the 

 loss to India of " one of the greatest orientalists 

 of his age, to whose instruction a great body of 

 the Company's servants, who were then perform- 

 ing the most important services in all parts of India, 

 were indebted for that knowledge of the diplo- 

 matic language of India, which qualified them for 

 the discharge of their official duties." His private 

 virtues were described as " quite as distinguishing, 

 although not so conspicuous, as his professional 

 abilities." He arrived in England in 1820, in a 

 state of health somewhat improved by journeying 

 through a colder climate. In the following year 

 he returned to India, and was again, on the 25th 

 of January, 1822, appointed professor of Arabic 

 and Persian in the college of Fort William; and in 

 March, 1822, placed over the Calcutta Madrissa. 

 These appointments he held till 1825, when he 

 resigned the service of the Company, and arrived 

 in England in 1826. Upon his final retirement 

 from the service in India, the Madrissa committee 

 recorded their sense of his merits and services in 

 strong terms, ascribing the then highly flourishing 

 state of the institution solely to his exertions to 

 promote its prosperity. After his return to this 

 country he lived in retirement till the period of his 

 decease, which took place at Tooting Common, 

 Surrey, March 31, 1835, aged fifty -eight. 



LURGAN ; a town in the county of Armagh, 

 eighty-five miles N. from Dublin. It is a thriving 

 place, the inhabitants being chiefly employed in 

 the manufacture and sale of linen, cambrics, lawns, 

 diapers, diaper-damasks, and cottons. The coaches 

 from Belfast to Armagh pass through it. Popu- 

 lation in 1841, 4677. since which time it has much 

 increased. 



LYNN-REGIS, OR KING'S LYNN; a sea-port 

 town in the county of Norfolk, situated on the 

 right bank of the river Ouse, about eight miles from 

 the sea, and distant from London ninety -six miles 

 N.by E. The town is a mile and a half in length 

 and half a mile in breadth, consisting of two prin- 

 cipal streets and several minor ones, which are nar- 

 row, but well paved and lighted. Through the 

 town run four small streams, over which there are 

 several bridges. The principal public buildings, 

 exclusive of the churches, are the guildhall or town- 

 hall, an ancient structure of stone and flint, con- 

 taining several apartments, in which are portraits 

 of the Walpoles and others ; adjacent to it, is the 

 bridewell or house of correction; the custom-house, 

 erected in 1683, at the expense of Sir John Turner, 

 thrice mayor, and many years member of parliament 

 for Lynn, it was originally designed as an exchange 

 for merchants; the market-place, an area of about 

 three acres, in the centre of which is a market- 

 cross of freestone, with sculptural and other em- 



