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their surface is broken, and rises to high hills and even to mountains ; 

 but the soil, wherever it can be cultivated, is of great fertility. Being 

 exposed to the trade-winds the climate is not so hot as might be 

 expected from their geogi^phical position. Nearly every kind of 

 intertropical product thrives on these islands, which produce cotton, 

 rice, indigo, Indian com, sugar, cacao, cocoa-nuts, tobacco, plantains, 

 Ac, in abundance. The Spaniards have introduced most of these 

 products, as well as the llama, from Peru, which is said to thrive on 

 the mountains. Cattle, horses, mules, and asses are numerous. The 

 ten abounds in fish, and also produces trepang for the Chinese market. 

 The principal island is Guajan, which is about 80 miles in circum- 

 ference. Its capital, and the seat of the Spanish governor, is San 

 Ygnacio de Agana, which has an open roadstead defended by two 

 ■mall fortresses; but about 10 miles farther south there is a good 

 harbour called Calderona de Apura, which is also fortified. Of the 

 other islands Tinian has obtained some notoriety from the stay there 

 of our distinguished seaman Anson, and from the extensive ruins, 

 which indicate that these islands were once inhabited by a people well 

 acquainted with the arts of civilisation. The aboriginal inhabitants, 

 who at the time of the foundation of the Spanish settlement in the 

 middle of the 17th century are stated to have amounted to 150,000, 

 have disappeared on Guajan, but probably they are more numerous 

 on some of the other islands, which are only nominally dependent on 

 the Spanish governor. The present population of Guajan consists of 

 settlers from Mexico and the Philippine Islands, who are called by 

 the Spaniards Los Indios; they speak Spanish, and are Catholic 

 Chri.'itians. The number of Simniai-da is very small. (Anson ; 

 Kotzebiie, Voyage round the tVorW.) 



LAEKEN. [Bbabast, South.] 



LAFAYETTE. [Indlvsa.] 



LAGAN, RIVER. [Belfast.] 



LAGHOUAT. [Aloebie.] 



LAQNIEU. [Aix.] 



LA'GO MAQOIO'RE, the ancient Laciu Verbanut, the largest lake 

 in Italy, extends about 40 miles in length from north to south ; its 

 greatest breadth, which is 8 miles, is about the middle of its length ; 

 but it is only between 2 and 3 miles broad in most other places, and 

 still less at the north and south extremities. The elevation of its 

 surface above the sea is 678 feet, and its greatest depth is 1100 feet 

 Its northern half extends between the lower offiwts of the Pennine 

 Alps on one side and the Rluetian Alps on the other, receiving all the 

 ■treams that flow from the southern slope of those mountains, from 

 Mount Rosa on the west to Mount Bemardin on the east. The 

 southern extremity of the lake touches the level pluiu of Lombardy. 

 The principal afiluenta of the Lago Maggiore are tlie Toccia or Tosa, 

 the Maggia, the Ticino, and the Tresa. It also receives an outlet 

 from the smaH lake of Orta, which lies west of the Lago Maggiore. 

 The outlet of the Lago Maggiore is formed by the Ticino, which issues 

 from its southern extremity at the town of Sesto. The northern extre- 

 mity of the Lago Maggiore, which is called at that end the Lake of 

 Locarno, extends into the Swiss canton of Ticino. Through the 

 remainder of its length the Lago Maggiore divides Austrian Italy 

 from the Sardinian territory, which lies along its western shore. The 

 Ticino continues to mark the boundary between the two states to its 

 junction with the Po. The lake abounds with fish. Steamers ply on 

 it [Ano.VA ; CoMo ; Novara; Ticino.] 



-About the middle of the length of the lake, and in its broadest 

 part, where it forms a gulf indenting the western shore, near Pallanza, 

 are the Borromeau Islands (laole Borrom^e), which belong to the 

 noble Milanese family of the same name. They are four in number — 

 Isola Madre, Isola Bella, IsoU dei Pescatori, and the Isolino, the 

 smallest of all. The Isola Madre, which is the largest, is covered 

 with laurel, pine, and cypress trees, forming a grove rising in the 

 midst of the water, and contrasting by its perpetual verdure with the 

 snows of the neighbouring Alps. The Isola Bella is richer, but its 

 beauty is more artificial. Numerous terraces rising in a pyramidical 

 form are planted with orange- and leraon-trees, and adorned with 

 marble statues and vases. The splendid palace of the owners is rich 

 in marbles, gilding, and mirrors, and the lower apartments are shaped 

 like grottoes and embellished with statues and fountains. The myrtle, 

 the rose, the vine, and the fig-tree thrive luxuriantly around. The 

 whole has an air of enchantment, but art is too apparent, and the 

 lovers of nature prefer the more simple beauty of the Isola Madre. 

 The Isola dei Pescatori is inhabited chiefly by fishermen, and h-as 

 nothing remaricable ; neither has the Isolino. 



L(lO0 SALPI and LAGO SALVL [CAnTANATA.] 



LAGONEORO. [B.vsilicata.] 



LAGOS. [Aloabve; Guinea.] 



LA-GRASSE. [Aude.] 



LA-GUERCHfe. [Ile-et-Vhaine.] 



LA-GUIOLLK. [Aveybos.] 



LAGUNA. IBbazii..] 



LA-HAYE-DES-CARTES. [Indbe-et-Loire.] 



LAHN, RIVER. [Rhine.] 



LAHORE. [HiNDiwTAS.] 



LAHSA. [ARABIA.] 



L'AIOLE. [Okne.] 



LAINUON, or LANGDON. [Es.sex.) 



LAISSAC. [AvETKON.] 



LALINDE. [DoHDOONE.] 



LA-LOUPE. [Edre.] 



LAMBALLE. [C6te8-du-Nord.] 



LAMBERHURST.. [Kent.] 



LAMBESC. [Bouches du-Rh6nb.] 



LAMBETH. [London] 



LAMBOURN, or CHIPPING LAMBOURN, Berkshire, a market- 

 tiown in the parish of Lamboum, is situated in 51° 30' N. lat., 1° 33' 

 W. long., distant 20 miles S.W. by S. from Abingdon, and 65 miles 

 W. from London. The population of the parish of Lamboum in 1851 

 was 2577. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Berks and 

 diocese of Oxford. The town of Lamboum is situated upon the little 

 river Lamboum, which falls into the Kennet at Newbury. In the 

 market-place is a tall plain pillar, with an ornamented capital. The 

 church is a very handsome cruciform structure of ti*ausition Norman 

 and early English etyle5, with some windows of the decorated and 

 perpendicular styles. The market held on Friday is of ancient date, 

 but has much declined. There are four annual fairs. 



LAMEGO. [Beir-v.] 



LAMLASH. [Abran.] 



LAMPETER, Cardiganshire, a market-town, muiiicijial and 

 parliamentary borough, and the seat of a Poor-Law Union, in the 

 parish of Lampeter-Port-Stephen, is situated in 52" 7' N. lat, 4° 3' 

 W. long., distant 29 miles E. by N. from Cardigan, and 209 miles 

 W. by N. from London. The population of the borough of Lampeter 

 in 1851 was 907. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of 

 Cardigan and diocese of St David's. The borough is a contributary 

 to the Cardigan district of boroughs in returning one member to the 

 Imperial Parliament Lam)>eter Poor-Law Union contains 14 parishes 

 and townships, with an area of 74,200 acres, and a population in 1851 

 of 9883. 



The town is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the river Teify 

 at the foot of the Tregaron Downs. Besides the parish church, which 

 was rebuilt in 1836, there are places of worship for Wesleyan and 

 Calvinistic Methodists and Independents ; a National school, and a 

 Free Grammar school An agricultural society has been established 

 here. A county court is held. The market is on Saturday ; and 

 there are 11 fairs in the course of the year. St. David's College, 

 Lampeter, founded in 1822 by Bishop Burgess, was incorpoitited in 

 1828, and received by a supplementary charter in August 1852, 

 authority to grant the degree in Bachelor of Divinity. The course of 

 instruction is adapted especially for Welsh students, but others ai'e 

 admitted. The college grants at the end of the term a certificate to 

 students who have satisfactorily completed their theologic:il course ; 

 which is accepted by most of the bishops as a qualification to become 

 candidates for orders. About 30 scholarships and exhibitions are 

 attached to the college, and it possesses a library of 30,000 volumes. 

 The college buildings, erected in 1827 from a design by C. R. 

 Cockerel!, R.A., stand on an elevated site near the town, and form a 

 quadrangle of a picturesque appearance : they accommodate about 

 70 students : the number of students in 1851 was 50. The annual 

 income of the college is about 8000/. 



LA-MURE. [IsiRE.] 



LANARK, Lanarkshire, Scotland, a royal and parliamentary burgh 

 and market-town, in the parish of Lanark, is situated on a hill rising 

 from the river Clyde, where it is joined by the Mouse W.ater. It is 

 distant about 29 miles S.W. from Edinburgh, and 29 miles S.E. from 

 Glasgow by railway, and occupies nearly the centre of Lanark county. 

 The population of the burgh in 1851 was 5008. The town is governed 

 by a provost and 16 councillors, and unites with Airdrie, Falkirk, 

 Hamilton, and Linlithgow in returning one member to the Imperial 

 Parliament. 



The town is of great antiquity. Kcnnett II. assembled the states 

 of the realm here in 978, and it had been constituted a royal burgh 

 before the time of Malcolm IV. Its latest charter was given by 

 Charles I. In the town are many handsome houses built of freestone, 

 which is extensively quarried for this purpose in the adjoining parish 

 of Carluke. The chief public buildings are the commercial bank, 

 county-hall, prison, parish church, iind grammar school. In March 

 1851 there were 8 places of worship in Lanark, of which 2 were of the 

 Established Church, 2 of the United Presbyterian Church, 2 of the 

 Independent Connexion, one of the Free Church, and one of the Roman 

 Catholic communion. There is an Endowed Free school for poor 

 children. In the town are subscription libraries, a mechanics institu- 

 tion, which had 40 members in 1851, and 150 volumes in its library, 

 a savings bank, and several friendly societies. Fairs are held seven 

 times in the year. 



New Lanark is a well-built village to the south-west of Lanark 

 town. It lies low upon the right bank of the Clyde, and is com- 

 pletely surrounded by beautifully wooded hills. It contains a cotton 

 manufactory. 



LANARKSHIRE, sometimes called CLYDESDALE, an inland 

 county in the west of Scotland, bounded N. and N.W. by the counties 

 of Stirling and Dumbarton, W. and S.W. by those of Renfrew and 

 Ayr, S., S.W., and S.E. by Dumfriesshire and Peeblesshire, E. and 

 N.E. by Peeblesshire, Liullthgowshirc, and Edinburghshire, is com- 

 prised between 65° 14' and 65^ 67' N. lat 8° 20' and 4° 20' W. long. 



