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:*hymiqu€8, qui a rcmportc le prix de Phyfiqile de I'aii 

 .1758, au jugemcnt de l'v\cadcmie de Rouen," ibid. 1761, 

 •lamo. " Nouveaux Amufemtns des Eaux Mincralcs de 

 ■Spa," ibid. 1761, izmo. " DifTcrtation fur les doulours 

 •vagues, coniuics lous le nom do goutte vague, et do rlicu- 

 inatif'ne gouUeux, &c. ;" a prize efTay, ibid. 1'6^. " Re- 

 cueil des Ettets dei Eaux Minerales de Spa, de I'an 1764; 

 iivec des reuiarques fur le fytteme dc M. Lucas furies memes 

 €aux minerales," ibid. \~6^. Elov. DiCl. 



Ll.MliOUlUi, Duchy of, in Geography, before the revolu- 

 tion, was a province of the Netherlands, bounded on the 

 "N. by the duchy of Juliers, on the E. by the elcdoratc of 

 (Cologne and duchy of Juliers, and on the S. and ^^^ by 

 the bilhopric of Liege ; about 30 miles long and 24 broad ; 

 but now annexed to France, and forming part of the de- 

 ^lartment of the Ourte. It affords good arable ground, and 

 abounds with a fine breed of cattle. Near the town of 

 iinibourg are found mines of iron, lead, and calamine, 



LlMBOUllO, late capital of the above-mentioned duchy, 

 now a town of France, in the department of the Ourte, and 

 chief place of a canton, in the diftridl of Malmcdy ; fituated 

 near the river Wa/.e, in a fertile country, on a pleafant 

 mountain. It was formerly fortified in a regular mauRcr, 

 and had a caiUe, built on a rock, and defended by towers 

 andbaftions, conllrufted of free- (lone. Wheii it was ceded 

 to the houfe of Auilria by the treaty of Baden, the fortifi- 

 cations were dellroyed. Near it are quarries of different 

 kinds of marble ; the adjacent racks are romantic ; the air 

 is healthy, and the inhabitants long-lived. Here is a confider- 

 able manufacture of woollen cloth ; and in its environs fome 

 excellent chcele is made. The town is faid to contain 14H4, 

 and the canton 12,759 inhabitants, en a territory of 152^ 

 kiliometres, in 12 communes; 20 miles E.S.E. of Liegel 

 N. lat. jo' 36'. E. long. 2y 30'. 



. LIMBR.A, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 35 miles 

 W. of Gogo. 



LIMBRY, a town of Hindooflan, in Guzerat ; 68 

 miles AV. of Amcdabad. 



LlMBURG, a lordfhip and principality of Germany, 

 belonging to the circle of Fraiiconia, but fituated in 

 Swabia ; extending from S. to N. almoft 20 miles, and from 

 \V. to E. 18 miles.- Alfo, a town of Germany, fealcd on 

 the Lahn y 26 miles N. of Mentz. N. lat. jo° 20'. E. 

 long. S 3'' — Alfo, a town and citadel of Germany, called 

 Hohen-Limbiirg, which gives name to a county, a fief of the 

 county of Mark, in which it is infulated ; about 15 miles 

 long and 12 broad ; 30 miles E. of Dufl'eldorp. 



'LIMBUS, or Limb, is a term m the Roman Theology, 

 jifed for that place where the patriarchs are fuppofed to have 

 waited for the redemption of mankind, and wiiere they ima- 

 gine our Saviour continued from the time of his death to 

 that of his refurreftion. 



Du-Cange fays, the fathers call this place limbus, eo quod 

 Jit limbus mferiorum, as being the margin or frontier of the 

 other world. 



Limbus is -.ilfo ufed by Catholics for the place dellined to 

 receive the fouls of infants, who die without baptifm ; who 

 Jiave not deferved htll, as dying in'innoi ence ; nor yet are 

 .worthy of heaven, becaufe of the imputation of original 

 Jin. 



Li.MBUS CoroUe, in Botany, the expanded part, or border, 

 flfa monopctalous corolla, fupported by the tube, and ana- 

 logous to the lamina of each petal in a polypetalous one. 

 -See Coi'.oLLA and La.mina. 



LI ^^ BUY AN, in Geography, a town on the S. coaft of 

 . jtheiHandof Malbate. N. lat. iz S. E. long. 133 36'. 



X-IME, LiWiisfONU, ia Mineralogy, KalLjleiu, Germ. 



Pirrre calcaire, Ch'aux earlonalet, Vr. This fpeeies' of the 

 carbonates of lime is divided by Werner into four fub- 

 fpecies. 1. Compart lime-flone. 2. Foliated lioie-llone. 

 3. Fibrous lime-flone. 4. Pea-llone. 



I . ComfiiUl linii'-Jlonr, is fubdivided into common compnft 

 lime-flone, and roe-Rone. 



A. Common compnll liiiif-Jlane ; Ctmciner fUchler ialljlein, 

 Wern. Pierre ealcaire compatle commune, Broch. Chaux 

 carhonatie compnde ou groffure, Haiiy. Compail Ume-Jlonc, 

 Kirwan. Tdlt halhlhn, Swed. 



Among the nnmerous colours of common compaft lime- 

 flone, the molt frequent are the various fhades of grey, fuch 

 as fmokc-grty, vcllowilh-grey, bluifli-grey, rediifli and 

 greenifh-grey ; it is alfo feen greyifh-white, greyifh-black, 

 flefli-red, with fome deep tints of red and ot yellow ; fevc- 

 ral of thefe colours often occur in the fame fragment, and 

 moftly in fuch veined, clouded and other delineations which 

 are dillinguiflied by the epithet of marbled. 



It is moftly found mallive, fometimes in rolled, feldom in 

 tabular pieces, frequently with, and aiiuoil entirely com- 

 pofed of, extraneous follils, particularly fliells. 



Internally it is dull. Its texture is always more or lefs 

 clofely conipaft, fometimes wax-like ; fratture I'mall and fine 

 fplintery pafTing into large and flat conchoidal, and fome- 

 times into even. Fragments indeterminately angular, more 

 or lefs fharp-edged. 



The varieties having a clofe texture are tranflucent on 

 the edges. 



It is femi-hard, fometimes approaching to foft ; brittle; 

 eafily frangible. 



Specific gravity from 2. ,00 to 2.700. 



It is chiefly compofed of lime, carbonic acid, and water ; 

 but is feldom without an admixture of fome argil and oxyd 

 of iron, and fometimes intlanuiiable matter. 



This widely extended fubllance occurs principally as 

 fletz rock, but it is alfo found in the tranfition mountains. 



The tranfition lime-llone is generally more tranflucent on 

 the edges, and very often exhibits variegated colours, parti- 

 cularly black, fnicke-grey, bluifli and greenilli-grey, and red. 

 It contains,»like the fletz lime-llone, petrifaflions, but moft- 

 ly of fea animals, the prototypes of which do no longer exift. 

 With regard to the pctrifaf'lion, both in the tranfition and 

 fletz lime-llone, it is to be obfervcd, that they occur pretty 

 regularly difpofed ; difl'erent ftrata being generally furnilhed 

 each with particular genera or even fpeeies. 



Fletz lime-llone occurs, almofl without exception, dif- 

 tinttly flratified; the ftrata are fometimes very thin, of which 

 we have a remarkable inilance in the lime-ftone quarries of 

 Sollenhofen, near Pappenheim, in Germany. Tliefc ftrata, 

 which, as Mohs inf'jrms us, arc very regular and perfcftly ho- 

 rizontal, contain the well-known petrifactions which are 

 called after that place, but are much leis frequently found 

 than is generally imaeined. 



M. de Bournon fays, that in the Alpe of Dauphine lime- 

 ftone is found in ftrata of no more than one or tv,o inches in 

 thickncfs, in which cafe it is not unfrequemly mixed with 

 quartz. This lime-ftone in tables, called laujcs in Dau- 

 phine, is employed for enclofing fields : a fimilar variety is 

 found at Grenoble at the foot of the mountains of Saf- 

 fenages. 



Fletz lime-flone is frequently alternating with fubordinate 

 ftrata of niarle, and bituminous marie flate ; but in thefe cafes 

 the lime-ftone is generally greatly predominating. The ex- 

 terior of mountains coinpofed of iletz lime-ftone is of a 

 peculiar kind ; the hills formed by it are feldaim conical, but 

 blunt and malTv, and interfetled by deep valhes. 



There are, befides the tranfitiuu lime-llone, fcveral other 



formations 



