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or JO alquieres = 19 Englidi bulhels. For liquid meafure, 

 the tonelada of Lifton is = 2 pipas, the pipa = 26 al- 

 mudes = 312 canadas = 1248 quartillos. The baril is = 

 rS almudes. The ftandard gauge, at the cullom-houfe of 

 London, of a pipe of Lifbon is 140 gallons = 51 almudes, 

 and the almude is 4i Engllfh gallons nearly. The long mea- 

 fures of Lifbon are the vara = 5 palmos, and the covado 

 = ; ; the palmo = 8 inches of Lifbon, or 8^ Engli(h inches ; 

 the" covado is = 264 Englilh inches ; the Lifbon foot is 3^ 

 half a covado, or 13^ Enghfli inches ; and 9 feet of Lifbon 

 = 10 Englifli feet. In the freight of fhips, 4 cherts of 

 fugar, 4 pipes of oil, 40oolb. of tobacco, and 3ooolb. of 

 fumac, are reckoned for i lafl. Kelly's Un. Cambift. See 



E.XCHANSE. 



Lisbon, a town of America, in New London county, 

 Connefticut, lately a part of Norwich ; containing two 

 parifli churches, and 1 168 inhabitants. 



LISBURN, a poft and borough town of Ireland, in the 

 county of Antrim, and province of Ulfter, now the fecond 

 in the county for fize and population ; but in the reign of 

 Elizabeth only a fmall village, called Lifnegarvey. It lies 

 about feven miles S of Belfaft, on the river Lagan, which 

 feparates it from the county of Down. In the reign of 

 James I. fir Fulk Conway obtained a grant of it, and 

 fettled fome Englifh and Wellh famiHes there. In 1 64 1 a 

 viftory was obtained by fir George Rawdon over the rebels 

 under fir Phelim O'Neil and others, little more than a month 

 after the breaking out of the rebeUion. In 1662 the church 

 of Lifburn was erected into a cathedral for the united dio- 

 cefes of Down and Connor, and the inhabitants had the 

 privilege granted of fending two burgeffes to parliament, 

 although not a corporate body. Thefe privileges were given 

 on account of their loyalty to Charles I. and II. In 1699 

 a patent was granted to fome French refugees for eltablifhing 

 a manufafture of linen in the town, to which circumllance 

 it chiefly owes its profperity. The virtuous conduft and 

 civilized manners of thefe good people were of great ad- 

 vantage to it, and their fkill and induftry fet an example to 

 thofe who were concerned in the fame bufinefs as they were, 

 which foon had the efFeft of raifing the quality of their 

 manufacture to a degree of excellence unknown till then ; 

 and the linens and cambricks made in the neighbourhood 

 and fold in Lifburn market, have until this day kept up 

 their fuperior character. Though the vicinity of Lifburn 

 to Belfaft prevents it from bemg a place of much trade, 

 there is a great deal of bufincls done in it, in various ways. 

 On market-days it is much frequented from the quantity of 

 linen and other things brought to it, and it is well known 

 as the firft place to meet w'lh oats ot the bell quality for 

 feed. A few years ago a fine fpire of cut ilone was built 

 to the church ; and lately a fteeple and cupola on the mar- 

 ket-houfe. The houfes of worfhip are, a fpacious church, 

 a Prefbyterian meeting-houfe, a Quaker's meetmg-houfe, a 

 handfome Catholic chapel, and a Methodilt chapel. There 

 are alfo fome good charitable iuftitutions. The number of 

 houfes is 800, which at 6A gives a population of 5312. It 

 is faid by Carlifle to be noted for the neatnefs of its build- 

 ings and the urbanity of its inhabitants. It fends one mem- 

 ber to parliament, and is 73 miles N. by E. from Dubhu. 

 Dubourdieu's Statiftical Account of Antrim. 



Li.SBUUN, CaJ^e, a cape on the W. coaft of North Ame- 

 rica. N. lat. 69" 6'. W. long. 165 . — Alfo, a cape on the 

 ifland of Spiritu Santo, one of the New Hebrides. S. lat. 

 IJ 40' 45". E. long. 166" 57'. 



LISCA-BIANCA, one of the fmaller Lipari iflands, 

 near Bafiluzzo. This ifland, as well as Bottero and Dat- 

 tolo, in its vicinity, is rather a rock, abounding in crulls of 



fulphate of alumine, and for the moft part formed of lava* 

 whitened, and fo decompofed that they are eafily reducible 

 to powder. 



LISCHITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Czaf- 

 lau ; 8 miles N. of Czaflau. 



LISCIANO, a town of Naples, in the province of 

 Otranto ; 8 miles S.E. of Taretito. 



LISIANTHUS, in BrAany, from Ai,-, fmooth, and y.-Ao:, 

 ajlower, in contradiftinCtion, as one would fuppofe, to cer- 

 tain other flowers, nearly allied in many refpedts to this, but 

 remarkable for fome fort of fringe or hairinefs, as Menyanthes. 

 Yet Browne, who gave the name, does not advert to this 

 idea ; and by a flip of the pen he quotes Burmann as being 

 the firft author of it, m his Thefaurus Zeylanicus, 14J. t. 67 ; 

 whereas the plant there exhibited is called Lyfimachia, and is 

 Chironia trinervia of Linnaeus! — Browne Jam. 157. Linn. 

 Mant. 6. Suppl. 135. Schreb. in. Willd. Sp. PI. v. i. 826. 

 Mart. Mill. Di£t. v. 3. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. i. 318. JufT. 

 142. Lamarck lUuftr. t. 107 — Ciafs and order, Pentandrta 

 Monogyma. Nat. Ord. Rotaceii, Linn. Genliana, JufT. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, divided, more or lefs 

 deeply, into five, lanceolate or roundifti, ereft, permanent 

 fcgments, membranous at the edge. Cor. of one petal, 

 fuunel-lhaped ; tube longer than the calyx, fwelling up- 

 wards, contrafted juft above the bafe within the calyx ; 

 lin.b in five deep, lanceolate or roundilh, recurved fegments, 

 much Ihorter than the tube. Slam. Filaments five, thread- 

 fhaped, fmooth, inferted into the tube, juft above its con- 

 traftion, generally fhorter than the limb ; anthers ovate, 

 two-lpbed, incumbent. Fi/l. Germen fuperior, ovate-ob- 

 long, pointed ; ftyle thread-ihaped, the length of the flamens, 

 permanent, finaUy twifted ; ftigma compreffed, of two pa- 

 rallel plates. Perk. Capfule ovate-oblong, pointed, of two 

 incomplete cells and two valves, the partitions formed of the 

 inflexed margins of the valves. Seeds numerous, minute. 



Eft". Ch. Corolla funncl-fhaped, inflated ; its fegments 

 recurved. Stigma of two plates. Capfule oblong, imper- 

 feftly two-celled ; partitions from the inflexed margins of 

 the valves. Seeds numerous. 



Fifteen fpecies of this elegant genus, little known in Eng- 

 land, are collected by Willdenow, of which glaber and 

 frig'idus are one and the fame. Whether the reft all truly 

 conftitute one genus, may perhaps be doubted. The cari- 

 nated calyx, fuppofed an effential mark, in thole of Browne, 

 is not faund in thofe of Aublot, the fegments of whofe 

 calyx moreover are rounded, and their corolla fomewhat 

 irregular and curved. Thefe more accord with L. glaher of 

 Linnaeus, and very corredtly with his cheknoides found in the 

 fame neighbourhood. 



The following examples will eiwble the reader to judge of 

 the habit and leading charaftersK)f thefe different fets of 

 fpecies. 



L. longifolius. Linn. Mant. 43. Browne Jam. t 57. t. 9. 

 f. I. — Calyx taper-pointed, keeled. Leaves lanceolate, 



acute. Branches round, fomewhat downy Native of the 



mountains of Jamaica, in a dry fandy foil. It forms a 

 humble y7jra^, with round, oppofitc, more or lefs downy, 

 level-topped, leafy branches. Leaves oppofite, on fhort 

 footftalks connefted by a very fhort, annular, iutrafolia- 

 ceous Jlipula ; their form is variable, ovate-oblong or lan- 

 ceolate, acute, entire ; the lurface fmooth, or finely downy. 

 Fhtuers (m fliort, terminal, downy llalks, fohtary, or two 

 or three together, about an inch and a half long, of a 

 pale delicate yclknv, very elegant. Their ca/yx and corolla 

 are very fharply pointed ; the former ftrongly keeled or 

 winged, as in many plants, of the Gentian family ; the 

 Jligma fhort and almoft capitate^ yet of two parallel lobes. 



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