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into th? Fleet prifon, where he depended almoft wholly on 

 the bounty of his triend Churchill, whofe kindnefs to him con- 

 tinued undiminithcd during all his neceffities. On the death 

 of his benefaftor, Mr. Lloyd funk into a ftate of defpon- 

 dency, which put an end to his exiitence in 1764. Mr. 

 Wilkes fays, that " Lloyd was mild and affable in private 

 life, of gentle manners, and very engaging converfation. 

 He was an excellent fcholar, and an eafy natural poet. His 

 peculiar excellence was the dreffinjy up an old thought in a 

 hew, neat, and trim manner. He was contented to fcamper 

 round the foot of Parnafius on his little Welfh poney, 

 which feems never to have tired. He left the fury of the 

 winged fteed, and the darinrr heights of the facred. moun- 

 tain, to the fublime genius of his friend Churchill." His 

 works were publifhed in 2 vols. 8vo. in 1774. 



Lloyd, Nicholas, an Englifh divine, who was reftor of 

 St. Mary Newington, Surrey, where he died in 1680, at the 

 age of 49. He compiled an hiflorical, geographical, and 

 poetical diftionary, which was printed at O.^ford in 1670, 

 in folio, and again in 1695, in 410. 



Lloyd's Lake, in Geography, a bay on the S. coaft of 

 Eaft Florida. N. lat. 25' 1 8'. W. long. So' 50'. 



LLUCH M.iYER, a town of the iiland of Majorca, 

 fituated in the middle of a large plain, at the end of which 

 is a mountain Handing by itlelf, called La Rcnda. This 

 town was built in the reign of James IL in the year 1300 : 

 the popalation amounts to about 3500 perfons. The 

 jlreets and houfes are very regularly built ; it has one pariJh 

 church, confecrated to the archangel St. Michael. 



LLULLA and Chiloas, a jurifdiftion of the diocefe of 

 Truxillo, in South America, lying S. of Chachapayas, and 

 E. of the Cordillera of the Andes ; low, warm, and moift, and 

 covered with woods, fo that a great part of it is uninhabited. 

 It borders on the river of Moyabamba, which, commencing 

 its courfe from thefe fouthern provinces of Peru, forms the 

 rirer of the Amazons. The principal commodity of this 

 country is tobacco, which, with a particular kind of almonds 

 called " Andes," and a few other fruits natural to its climate, 

 form the commerce carried on by this province with the 

 others. 



LLYN Sav.A.db.\N', or Savathan Pool, a lake of South 

 Wales, in Brecknocklhire ; 4 miles E. of Brecknock. This 

 lake is larger than any in Wales, except that of Bala, 

 being two miles in length, and, in fome places, one mile 

 broad. The river Lunwy paffes through this lake, and 

 finds its way to the Wye, in a direftion nearly due north. 

 It is obferved not to mix its waters with thofe of the lake 

 in its paflage ; and the feparation is underitood to be fo 

 complete, that unlefs immediately after heavy Itorms, the 

 fi(h of the river are not found in the lake, nor thsfe of the 

 lake in the river. The depth of Llynlavaddan is faid to 

 be about thirteen fathoms. The ancient tradition of a city 

 being drowned, fo univerfally apphed to fuch bodies of 

 water, is too trivial to deferve further notice. 



LLYWARCH apLlyweiIyx, m Biography, zn ancient 

 WeKh bard, who fiouriflied from about 1 160 to 1220. 

 Many of his pieces are in the Welfh Archaiology, and con- 

 tain feveral hiilorical notices of value. 



LLYWELYN ap Gkuffydd, the lad fovereign of 

 Wales, who reigned from A.D. T254, to 1282. He was a 

 brave prince, and relided the ambition of Edward I. king of 

 England a long time, but he at laft fell, and with him the 

 independence of the Wclfli as a diitinct nation. 



Llywelyn' SlON, an eminent poet of Glamorgan, who 

 collected the fyftem of Bardifm, which is preferved. He 

 prefided at feveral meetings of the bards, and died in the 

 jfcar 1616. 



Llywelyx, Thomas, a Wellh nonconformift divine of 

 the Baptift denomination, was a native of Monmouthfhire, 

 and died in 1796. He publiihed a hiilory of the different 

 editions of the Welfh bible. 



LO, St. m Geography, dilown of France, and principal place 

 of a diftricl;, in the department of the Channel, of which it is 

 the capital, feated on the Vore, furrounded with walls, and 

 defended by a citadel, which has fome manufactures of 

 cloth, ferges, and leather. The place contains 6987, and 

 the canton 11,707 inhabitants, 'on a territory of 90 kilio- 

 metres, in ii communes. N. lat. 49'' 7'. W. long, i'^ iV 



LOACH, in Ichthyology, the Eiiglifh name of a filh, 

 called alfo the groundling, and by the Germans ihe/morls or 

 fmorling. It is a fpecies of the Cobitis. See CoBiTis 

 Barbatula. 



LOAD, or LoDg, in Mining. See LoDE. 



Load is alfo ufed for nine dilhes of ore, each difh being 

 about half a hundred weight. 



Load, Majler, among Miners. See Mi-STER-load. 



L0.4.D, Training a. See Tr.^inisg. 



Load Water-line, in a Ship, is the deepeil line of float- 

 ation, or when all her cargo is taken in. 



LOADING. See Cakgo and L.vding. 



LOADMANAGE, in Maritime Jfairs: the hire i« 

 fometimes fo called, which the pilot of a fhip receives 

 of 3. mailer, for conducting a fhip up the river, or into 

 port. 



LOADSTONE. See Magnet. 



Loadstone, /YoaZ/Bf, an inftrument invented and fo called 

 by Mr. Boyle, which he ufed to difcover whether guineas 

 or other coins were counterfeit, by putting the inilrument, 

 with the piece of coin to be tried and faftened to the bottom 

 of it, into a tall glafs or other vefTel of water : marks 

 being fo made on the flender metalline pipe, which forms the 

 upper part of the inftrument, that the hollow ball which 

 made the lower part of it, would link much lower, at leafl 

 two inches, if the coin be true gold than if it be not : and 

 according as the water reaches to one or other of the afore- 

 faid marks, an eftimate may be made, whether the piece of 

 coin, if counterfeit, be made of tin, brafs, copper, filver, 

 or lead. The inftrument might be applied to any coins, 

 either of gold or filver, provided that they were of any 

 confiderable bulk. Birch's Hiil. of the Royal Society, 

 vol. iii. p. 115. 



LOAM, derived from the German word hime, and 

 anciently fignifying a vifcid earth, in Natural Hi/lory, a 

 clafs of compound or mixed earths, compofed of diffimilar 

 particles, hard, ftifT, denfe, harfh, and rough to the touch, 

 not eafily dutlile while moift, readily diffufible in water, 

 and ufually compofed of fand and a tough vifcid clay. 



Hill comprehends under this clafs two genera, i. The 

 thrauJlomiShes ; and, 2. The glifchromiShes. The firft are 

 compofed of fand and a lefs viicid clay, and are of a friable 

 or crumbly nature ; the fecond are compofed of fand and 

 a more vifcid clay, and are of a more tough and vifcid 

 texture. 



Da Cofta diftinguiflies them by their colour into black and 

 white, which are not afted upon by acids ; yellow loams, 

 fom.e of which are not ac\cd upon liy acids ; and other al- 

 kaline, brown loams, fome ?.fted upo.'^ by acids, to which 

 clafs belongs the Windfor loam, fo well known and fo much 

 ufed for making bricks, building furnaces, lutes, &c. and 

 others alkaline; and the green loams not afted upon by 

 acids. 



According to Woodward, loam confifts of clay, mixed 



with Hne fand, or of clay with a fuperabuudance of fand } 



and Mr. Bergm.an, having analyfed i'ome lonm found in the 



F f 2> neighbour- 



