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liegnitz. capital of a principality of the same name, and is situ- 

 >i- "y ' ated upon the Katzbach. The palace within the town is 

 surrounded with a moat and high wall. There is here 

 a superb stone edifice, in which the states of the pro- 

 vince hold their meetings. The Catholics possess the 

 collegiate church of St. John, which was taken from 

 the Lutherans in 1 096 ; the church and the convent of 

 the Benedictines ; the church of St. John Nepomuce- 

 nus, and the church and the convent of the Francis- 

 cans, and its gardens. The Lutherans have two parish 

 churches The church of St. Peter, and its library ; 

 and the pictures of the church of the Holy Cross ; the 

 Hotel de Ville ; the Magazine of Cloths ; and the manu- 

 factory of vegetable silk of M. Schnieber, are worthy 

 of being visited. There is also here a college, an hos- 

 pital, a royal and municipal school of the Confession 

 pf Augsburg; and a large academy founded by the 

 Emperor Joseph, erected for the instruction of young 

 men of both religions in military exercises. Liegnitz 



has many fine promenades. There is a fine view from 

 the height of Goldberg ; and at Wahlstadt, a village 

 two leagues from Liegnitz, there is* a convent of the or- 

 der of St. Benedict, which possesses very fine pictures. 

 This convent is built on the spot where a bloody bat- 

 tle was fought against the Tartars in 1241, when the 

 Duke of Liegnitz perished. The kitchen gardens of 

 Liegnitz are very famous, and from them are exported 

 annually vegetables to the amount of 1 00,000 rix-dol- 

 lars. There is a well frequented bath at Grunstadt, or 

 Warmbrunnen. Liegnitz carries on a considerable trade 

 in cloth and madder. Population 7000. 



LIF.OU-KIEOU. See Loo-CHoo. 



LIFE. See PHYSIOLOGY. 



LIFE-ANNUITIES. See ANNUITIES. 



LIGHT. See the articles ABERRATION, ACHROMA- 

 TIC TELESCOPES, BOTANY, BURNING INSTRUMENTS, 

 CHEMISTRY, HEAT, OPTICS, PHTOM.I:RY, POLARISA- 

 TION, &c 



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