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from beconiing impervious. See Hcifler's Surgery, vol. ii- 

 p. 5. 



I.OBINEAU, Ouy-Alf,xis, in Biography, was born 

 at Rennes in 1666, entered iimong the Bcne'didines of St. 

 Maur in liis feventeeiuh year, and devoted his. life and ta- 



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•and be planted in an eafterly border, two parts deep, being 

 covered down with hand-glafles, and watered occafionallv. 

 They moftly emit root«, and form young plants in a month 

 -or fix weeks, wlien the glalTes (liould be taken away, and 

 the plants managed as the others. 



And theC.' hardy forts fometimes afford ofF-fets from their lents to ftudy. He died in the year 172T. His principal 

 fides at bottom, which may be feparated in autumn, and works are " L'Hilloire de Bretagne," two vols; folio to 

 potted for young plants, being managed as the feedlings. ■which he gave the finilhing hand, "it haviiig been compofcd 



Each of the three laft forts may alfo be raifed by feeds by Father le Gallois : " L'Hiiloire de Deux Conqueles 

 procured from abroad, which (bould be fowu in pots of d'Efpagne par les Maurcs," which is a tranflation from the 

 liglit fandy earth in the autumn, and plunged in the bark- 

 bed ; and when the pLmts are three inches high, planted in 

 feparate pots, being replunged in the bark-bed, giving water 

 and occafional fhade till they are frefli rooted. They mull 



remain coiiftantly in the hot-houfe, and have frequent mo- 

 derate waterings given them. 



The firfl: two forts have a line appearance in the borders 

 and clumps of pleafure-grounds, where they will fuccecd 

 v>hen protected in winter from froils and other injuries. 



And all the tender forts afford a fine variety in hot-houfc 

 colleftions. 



Lobelia Slphilitica, Blue Loleiia, or Cardinal Floiuer, in 

 the Mtitt^ria Medica, is a native of Virginia, and flowers frum 

 Auguft till October. Every part of the plant abounds 

 with a milky juice, and has a rank fmell. The root, which 

 is the part prefcribed for medicinal ufe, in taite refembles 

 tobacco, and is apt to excite vomiting. It derived the 

 appellation oi fiphiUtica from its efficacy in the cure of fy- 

 philis, according to the experience of the North American 



Spaiiifn, and is probably little more than a romance. «' Hif-' 

 toire de Paris," 5 vols, folio : this work was begun and 

 much advanced by father Felibien, and put into the hands 

 of Lobineau to finiib. " L'Kiflone ces Saints de Bre- 

 tagnc." He tranflatcd the '< Stratagems of Polyasnus" 

 from tlie Greek, and made verfions of fome of Arifto- 

 phaups' comedies. Moreri. 



LOiJITH, in Geography, a tov/n of the duchy of 

 Cloves ; 5 miles N.W. of Emmerick. 



LOBKOWITZ, PitlxcE, in Biography, deferves well 

 to be remembered among iiluflrious dilettanti in mufic. He 

 was in England at the f\ime time as the myftcnous count 

 St. Germaine, from 1746 to 1748; and from congenial 

 taftes in mufic, tliey were feldom afunder. This prince, who 

 was uncle to the charming and accomplidied madame Tliune 

 at Vienna, was no lefs remarkable for his mufical talents, 

 than the beauty and dignity of his perfon. We have feen 

 and heard at Vienna many of his mufical compofitions, 

 chiefly for the German flute, which, from their corrednefs. 



Indians, who coniidered it as a fpecific in that difeafe, and would not have difgraced an eminent profeflbr. The ter- 

 who long kept it a fecret. But tlie fecret was purchafed mination of this gallant prince's- career was melancholy • 

 by fir William Johnfon, and has been fince publilhed by after difUnguifiiing himfelf in the army, as well as by his 

 different authors. The method of employing this medi- accomplifliments and good tafte in the fine arts, he loll his fa- 

 cine is flated as follows : a decodtion is made of a handful of culties ; and was feized with a dark and gloomy defpondencv 

 the roots in three meafures of water. Of this half a meafure in v/hich he lingered during the remainder of his miferable 

 is taken in the morning falling, and repeated in the evening ; 

 and the dofe is gradually increafed till its purgative effedts 

 become too violent, when the decoftion is to be intermitted 



ill 



exutence. 



for a day or two, and then renewed till a perfeft cure is 

 effected. During the ufe of this medicine, a proper regimen 

 is to be enjoined, and the ulcers are alfo to be frequently 

 wafiied with the decoftion, or if deep and foul, to be fprin- 

 kled with the powder of the inner bark of the New Jerfey 

 tea-tree (Ceanothus Americanus.) Although the plant 

 thus ufed is faid to cure the difeafe in a very fhort time, 

 yet the antifyphilitic powers of the lobelia have not been 

 confirmed by any intlanees of European pradlice. Woodv. 

 Med. Bot. 



LOBENSTEIN, m Geography, a town of Saxony, and 

 chief place of a lordfliip, on the Lemnitz, in the county of 

 Rcuflen ; 26 miles N. of Bayreuth. N. lat. 50^ 21'. E. 

 long. II ' 50'. 



LOBER.^, a town of Spain, in Aragon ; 20 miles 

 W.S.W. of Jaca. 



LOBES, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bqleflaw ; 

 9 miles W.N.W. of .lung-Buntzel. — Alfo, one of the 

 fmaller Canary ifiands, between Lancerotta and Fortaven- 

 tura. N. lat. 28 ■ 50'. W. long. 13 -40'. 



LoBKOWiTz, BoLESLAs DE Hassenstein, .5aro« de, a Bo- 

 hemian nableman and man of letters. After travelling into 

 various countiies, and bearing arms with reputation, he 

 embraced the ecclefiailical ftate, and was employed in pub- 

 lic affairs. He died in 15 10. His poems were firfl printed 

 at Prague in 1563, and again in 1570. Moreri. 



LOBLOLLO Bay, in Geography, a bay of the ifland 

 of Antigua, on the W. coaft. 



LOBLOLLY-B.\Y, in Botany. See Gordos'ia. 



Loblolly, a fea-faring diili, otherwife called burgoo. 



LOBLOSOW, ill Geography, a town of Poland, in J 

 RufTia ; 36 miles S.E. of Halicz. 



LOBO, Jerome, in Biography, a Jefuit mifTionary, born 

 at Lifbon in 1593, entered among the Jefuits in his Six- 

 teenth year, and in 1622 he went out as one of their mif- 

 fionarics to the Eall Indies. After pafTing fome tim.e at 

 Goa, he failed to the coail of Africa, and penetrated into 

 AbyfiTinia, where he refided fome years, fubjeft to much 

 danger and many hardfiiips and fufferings : on his return 

 he was fiiipwrecked and narrowly efcaped deilrudtion. He 

 promoted the interell of the Abyllinian mifuon at Madrid 

 and Rome, and, notwithftandiiig the calamities to which he 



Red 



L0BE.S of the Ear, Boring of. To bore or perforate the had been fubjedted, he took a fecond voyage to the Indies, 



lobes of the ears, you mult firll of all mark the place Pie returned to Lifbon in l6j8, and was made reflor of 



with a fpot of ink. About the middle is generally the the college of Coimbra, where he died in 167S, at the ai-e 



bell fituation for the aperture. The lobe of the ear is of 84. "He was author of "An Hillorical Account of 



to be extended with the left fore-finger and thumb, and Abylfinia,'' containing mush curious and valuable informa- 



the perforation made exactly where the dot is, with a large tion. It was tranOated from the Portugucfe langua.-re into 



■common fewing needle. The ring being now introduced, the French by the Abbe le Grand, with additionsf which 



and gently moved about a few times every day until the tranilation was abridged by Dr. Samuel Johnfon. Moreri. 



margin of the pmiAure is healed, will hinder the Uttk hole Louo, RoDKiyuEZ-FKANcis, a Portugnefepoet, wasborn 



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