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contained, &c. ; 1. 26, r. 12,249 ^^'^ 62,534; 1. 27, r. 

 1 1,739 families were ftated, &c. 



Leeds, in America, 1. u//. r. Kennebeck for Cumber- 

 land ; after county, add — containing 1273 inhabitants. 



LEEKE, 1. 7, r. 181 1 — 832 ; 1. 8, r. 3703. 



LEELITE. See Mineralogy, Addenda. 



LEGEND, col. 2, 1. 34, r. Sybaris. Col. 3, 1. 36, for 

 fouod r. fecret ; 1. 8 from bottom, r. Coningham. 



LEHL in Geography, add — Alfo, a townfhip containing 

 1 188 inhabitants. 



LEICESTER. At the clofe, r. 181 1, 4609 houfes, 

 23,146 inhabitants. 



Leicester, in America, I. 3, r. 609 ; 1. 6, r. 1181. 



LEICESTERSHIRE, col. 3, 1. 24, r. 1811— 150— 

 419; add — of whom 10,801 were males, and 12,345 

 females ; 17,027 families were employed in trade and manu- 

 faftures, and 1 1,700 in agriculture. The number of houfes 

 was 30,019. 



LEIGH, West. In iBii, this townlhip contained 

 341 houfes, and i960 perfons ; viz. 927 males, and 1033 

 females. 



LEIGHTON-BuzzARD, 1. 5, r. 1811—408 houfes, 

 21 14 inhabitants ; of whom 187 families were employed in 

 trade and manufafture, and 283 in agriculture. 



LEITH. At the end, add — By the p^liamentary return 

 of 1811, North Leith had 1085 houfes, and 4875 inha- 

 bitants ; and South Leith had 838 houfef, ('if not a miftake 

 in the number,) and 15,488 inhabitants. 



LEMINGTON, or Limington, 1. 2, add — containing 

 1774 inhabitants. 



Lemington-Priors, a parifli of Warwicklhire, in the 

 hundred of Knightlow and Kenilworth divifion, contained, 

 in 181 1, 125 houfes, and 543 perfons; viz. 275 males, 

 and 268 females. But fince that period, it has been much 

 reforted to as a watering-place refembling Cheltenham ; 

 and the number of private houfes, baths, hotels, and public 

 buildings, for the accommodation and amufement of its 

 vifitors, has been very much augmented, and is every year 

 increafing. 



LEMNIAN Earth. See Phragide. 



LEMON, a townfliip of Ohio, in Butler county, having 

 1308 inhabitants. 



LEMPSTER, 1. 3, r. 18 10 and 854. 



LEMUR, col. 3, 1. 17 from bottom, r. Macaco. 



LENIOR, or Lenoire, 1. 3, r. 5572, of whom 2449 

 were (laves in 1810. 



LENOX, 1. ult.r. 1 3 10. 



LENS, Cryjlalline of the Eye, Chemical Properties of. See 

 Eye 



LEOMINSTER, col. 3, 1. 19, r. the population of the 

 borough and paridi, &c. ; r. 1811 — 3238 ; 1. 20, r. 730. 



Leominster, in America, 1. 5, r. 1584. 



LEONINE, 1. 12, after Leonius, add — A French monk 

 of St. Viftor, at Marfeillcs, about the year 1 135; 1. 14, 

 after III. — But rhymes in Latin verfes were in ufe much 

 earlier. See Warton's Hift. of Poetry, vol. i. diif. ii. 

 At the clofe, add — See Rhyme. 



LEPANTHES, in Botany, from Xsto , bark, and lyflo-, 

 afloiuer, becaufe thefe plants grow on the barks of trees. — 

 Swartz Nov. Aft. Upf. v. 6. 85. t. 5. f.6. Ind. Occ. 1555. 

 Schrad. Journ. v. 2. 240. t. 2. f. 3. Schrad. N. Journ. 

 v. I. 100. — Clafs and order, Gynandria Mouandria. Nat. 

 Ord. Orchidex. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx ringent ; leaves ovate, pointed. Petals 

 linear ; elongated at the bafe. Lip none. Style winged. 

 Anther a deciduous lid. 



Four Weft Indian fpecies are defcribed, fmall plants, 



L £ S 



each with a thick, folitary, roundifh leaf, and one or two 

 clujlers of minute_/oTOfrj-, 



LEPIDAGATHIS, from ;....-, a fcale, and .vaSK, a 

 ball, or round aggregation of any kind.— \N\M. Sp. PI. v % 

 ^■^. Brown Prodr. Nov. Holl. v. I. 478.-Clafs and order. 



FTrlf '^"^"'fP"-'"'"'- Nat. Ord. Acanthace^, Br. 



il I. Lh. Calyx m five deep unequal fegments. Corolla 

 wo-hpped. Capfule fefllle, of two ceUs, with a fixed par- 

 tition, heeds two in each cell. Br. 



L. criflata, Willdenow's only fpecies, from the Eafl 

 Indies, bears aggregate, feffile, fcaly balls ^{Jlo-wers, chiefly 

 about the crown of the root. The numerous (lems are 

 decumbent, eighteen or twenty inches long, leafy, fquare. 

 Leaves fimple, oblong, rough-edged. Mr. Brown has cor- 

 retted the charafter, as above, from various Chinefe and 

 tropical fpecies, in fir J. Banks's herbarium. 



LEPIDOLITE. See Lepidolite, and Min-eralogy, 

 Addenda. 



LEPSIA. Add- It is now called Lipfo. 



LERIA, 1. 2, after Strabo, add— This little idand has 

 three harbours, and is faid to produce abundance of the 

 wood of aloes, fo much efteemed in Turkey as a perfume ■ 

 though others have doubted this fad, on account of the 

 high price of this wood at Conftantinople. In this idand 

 IS a monaftcry, and it has a town called Lera. 



LERWICK. At the clofe, r. 1811— 1049; add— 

 the number of houfes was 252. 



LESGESTAN, one of the fmall ftates of Dagheftan, 

 confifting of a liupendous range of mountains, very Ion? 

 but narrow, and forming the whole N.E. frontier of Geor- 

 gia. The Lefgi or Lefghans, who inhabit this country, 

 are a wild and favage banditti, divided into different tribes 

 and fpeaking a different dialeft. Their houfes are fituated 

 on the loftiell mountains, and on the moft tremendous pre- 

 cipices : they are connedted by flone or wooden bridges, 

 and roads carried through rocks; and they are fupplicd 

 with water by pipes or canals cut out of the rocks. The 

 foil IS fcanty, and in order to furnifh themfelves with the 

 means of fubfiflence, the furface is increafed to the fummits 

 of the_ elevated ground by graduated terraces, the interme- 

 diate ipace being filled up with rubbifh, and covered with 

 earth. Thefe people are the braveft, as well as the moll 

 turbulent, of all the nations of mount Caucafus, exciting 

 terror in their neighbours, laying wafte their cottages, and 

 carrying away the inhabitants into fervitude. They have 

 long preferved their liberty and independence, and rendered 

 their country inacceffible to any foreign invaders. Moft of 

 them are Mahometans ; and the few tribes that continue in 

 ignorance, never change the objeft of their veneration, 

 which is either the fun, moon, or liars ; or indeed any thing 

 that has made an impreffion on their minds. They hire 

 themfelves to fight the battles of their neighbours, at the 

 price of twelve roubles the campaign, which is to ceafe at 

 the end of three months from the appointed day. They 

 often take different fides, not caring againfl whom they 

 fight ; and thus it often happens, that the Lefghan falls by 

 the fword of his brother or moft intimate friend. They are 

 lightly dreffed, after the manner of the Tartars, and armed 

 with a gun, piftols, dagger, and fabre. Their women fur- 

 pafs in fymmetry and beauty all the females of mount 

 Caucafus, and fetch the largeft prices in the markets of 

 Conllantinople. M'Kinneir's Perlla. ' 



LESSERTIA, in Botany, named in honour of the late 

 Mr. Stephen Deleffert, to whofe mother RoufFeau's cele- 

 brated Letters on Botany were addrefTcd, and who, like all 

 his family, was no lefs endeared, to thofe who knew Iiim, 

 by pcrfonal worth than by talents. — " De Cand. Aftragal. 

 3 X 2 37.'» 



