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BroNvn in Ait. Hort. Kc;v. v. 4- S^?— Clafs and 

 order, DiacUphia Decandrm. Nat. Ord. Papilionacec, l.mn. 



I.erumimfx., Jufl". , , „ rr , , r 



EfT. Ch. Calyx iive-cleft. Standard flat. Keel obtufe. 

 Stigma capitate. Style bearded in front. Legume mem- 

 branous, without valves. t • o ni \ 



L. annua, (Colutea herbacea ; Linn. bp. Fl. 1045.), 

 and L. perennans, (C. perennans ; Jacq. H. Vmd v. 3. 

 t ■!.), fee Colutea, n. i i and 12 ; with L^diffiifa, (Galega 

 dubia ; Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 576 i are the only fpecies in Hort. 

 Kew. all natives of the Cape of Good Hope, compofing a 

 very natural genus. r /-. u- 



LETERT, in Geography, a townfhip ot C^allia county, 

 in Ohio, having 501 inhabitants. 



LETTERKENNY, 1. 2, r. 1549. 



LEVER, col. 2, 1. ^, dek (See Plate Surgery.) 



LEVERETT, 1. 4, /•• 769- 



LEWES. At the clofc, /•. The population of the rape 

 of Lewes was ftated, in the parliamentary return of 181 1, 

 to be 18,659 perfons, occupying 2932 houfes. 



LEWIS XVL col. 10, 1. 44, /■. the fon, Lewis XVH., 

 died very miferably June 8th, 1795, and his filler, Maria 

 Thercfa Charlotte, was delivered up in exchange for depu- 

 ties, December 26th, 1795. The queen was brought to 

 the fcaffold on Oc'tober l6th, 1793, and EUzabeth, the 

 king's lifter. May 12, 1794. Col. II, 1. 2, add— Lewis 

 XVIIL, on whom the crown devolved after the death of 

 Lewis XVL and his fon Lewis XVH., retired, during 

 the fubfequent period of the Revolulion, ( which fee, ) firft to 

 Peterfhurg, and was allowed a proceffioii by the emperor of 

 Ruffia, April 3d, 1798; he afterwards fought an afylum 

 in this country, and landed at Yarmouth, under the title of 

 the Count de Lille, Oftober 6th, 1 807 ; and being recalled to 

 the throne of France, made his public entry into London from 

 Hartwell, where he had relided, April 2 1 ft, 1 8 14 ; and having 

 failed from Dover April 23d, made his entry into Paris 

 May 3d, 1814; but quitted this city again in confequence 

 of the landing of Buonaparte in France, March 21ft, 18 15. 

 After the battle of Waterloo, he returned to Paris, and 

 refumed the government, July 8th, 18 15. 



Lewis, in Geography, a county of New York, contain- 

 ing 6433 inhabitants, of whom 4 were flaves in 18 10. — Alfo, 

 a townfhip of Ohio, in Clermont county, having 903 inha- 

 bitants. — Alfo, a county of Kentucky, containing 2357 

 perfons. 



. LEWISBURG; a town of Kentucky, in Mafon county, 

 having 1 9 inhabitants. 



LEWISHAM. In 181 1, the parifti contained 1105 

 houfes, and 6625 perfons; 2923 being males, and 3702 

 females. 



LEWISIA, in Botany, in memory of Meriwether Lewis, 

 efq. late governor of Upper Louiiiana, the difcoverer of 

 feveral new American plants. — Purfti 368. — Clafs and order, 

 Polyandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord 



EfT. Ch. Calyx of many membranous leaves. Petals 

 twice as many. Style three-cleft. Capfule fuperior, of 

 three cells. Seeds two in each cell, lenticular, polifhed. 



I. L. rediviva. Purfti n. i. — On the banks of Clarck's 

 river, perennial, flowering in July. Leaves radical, linear, 

 rather fucculent. Stali radical, bearing one or two hand- 

 fome -white Jloivers, whofe calyx is elegantly veined with red. 

 Purjh. 



LEWISTOWN, 1. 3, r. 1038 ; \. penult, r. 474. 



LEXAWASCEIN, a townftiip of Wayne county, 

 in Pennfylvania, containing 165 inhabitants. 



LEXINGTON, 1. 2, add — containing 6641 inhabitants, 

 pf whom 191 1 were (laves in 1810; 1. 19, after univerfity, 

 S 



LIE 



add^-or college, a Lancafterian fchool, and other well- 

 regulated feminaries ; 1. 22, r. in 1810, was, 4326, of whom 

 1509 were flaves. In 1817, it amounted to 6000, though 

 in 1773 it was merely a hunting camp ; 1. 28, after Georgia, 

 add — in Oglethorp county, having 1 1 3 inhabitants ; 1. 34, 

 add — In 1810, the inhabitants were 1052. 



LEYDEN, 1. ult. r. 1009. 



LEYLAND, a townftiip of Leyland hundred, in Lan- 

 caftiire, which, in 1811, contained 459 houfes, and 2646 

 perfons; 1263 being males, and 1383 females: 97 families 

 employed in agriculture, and 391 in trade, manufactures, 

 and handicraft. 



LIBEL, col. 4, 1. 30, dele pillory. 



LIBERTY, 1. 12, r. 6228 inhabitants, of whom 4808 

 were flaves in 18 10. At the clofe — Alfo, a townftiip of 



Butler county, in Ohio, containing 1790 inhabitants 



Alfo, a townftiip of Ohio, in Delaware county, containing 

 206 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townftiip of Highland county, in 

 Ohio, having 1 1 20 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townftiip of Ohio, 

 in Trumbull county, having 473 inhabitants. 



LICHEN IsLANDlcus, Chemical Compofitwn of. This 

 has been fubmitted to a rigorous and curious analyfis by 

 Berzelius. Our hmits will not permit us to enter into the 

 details, but the following are the refults : 



Syrup - - - - - S-^ 

 Bitartrate of potafti, with fome tartrate of lime ) 



and phofphate of lime - - " / 



Bitter principle - - - . - 3.0 



Green wax - - - - 1.6 



Gum - . - . . 3.^ 



Extraftive colouring matter - - 7.0 



Starch - - . ■ . . 44-6 



Starchy infoluble matter ... 36.6 



We prefume in the above analyfis the cxcefs of weight 

 (if not an error) was owing to water. 



This indefati gable chemift afterwards examined other 

 fpecies of lichens, fuch as t-he L. barbatus, L. fajligatus, 

 and the L. fraxineus. He found them all charafterifed by 

 the prefence of a fpecies of ftarch which poftefles feveral 

 peculiar properties. 



LICHFIELD, 1. 4, r. 1811 — loio houfes, 5022 in- 

 habitants, 509 families employed, &c. 



LICK, a townftiip of Ohio, in Rofs county, having 

 334 inhabitants. 



LICKING. Add — Alfo, a county of Ohio, contain- 

 ing 7 townftiips, and 3852 inhabitants. — Alfo, a townftiip 

 of the faid county, having 632 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town- 

 ftiip of Ohio, in Mulkingum county, containing 796 inha- 

 bitants. 



LIEOU-KIEOU, or Loo-CHOO, or Gnat Loo-Choo, 

 1. 2, after number, add — or rather innumerable. At the 

 clofe, add — The bell maps are wrong in the fituation of 

 Loo-choo. They place its town between 25° 45' and 27° 

 53' N. lat. and between I28°,5and 129° E. long. The ifland 

 is alfo made to extend about 130 miles from N. to S. with 

 an uniform breadth of about 30 miles. Its true direiflion 

 is nearly N.E. by N. and S.W. by S. ; its length* is only 56 

 miles, and its breadth about 1 1 . The longitude of the 

 weftern extremity is 120° 34' E., and of its eailern 128'^ 19'. 

 The latitude of the S. point is 26° 4^' N. and of the N. 

 point 26° 52J'. See an interefting account of thefe iflands 

 in Capt. Hall's Voyage to Loo-choo, or Edinburgh Rev. 

 N° 58. p. 460, &c, 



LIME, 



