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at EftramaJura. He was author of a comedy called " Eu- 

 phrofyne,'" vvliich is a great fiivoiirite among his countrymen. 

 He vv.is iikewife the author of a folio volume of poems 

 printed in 1721. Morcri. 



LoBO, in Geography, a town on the S. coaR of the ifland 

 of Lui;on.'N. lat. 13 40'. E. long, lii 10'. 



LOBON, a town of Spain, in the iiroviiioe of Edrama- 

 dura ; l 3 miles W. of Merida, 



LOBOS, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, near the coaft 

 of Africa. N. lat. 21' 20'. — Alfo, a fniall ifland at the 

 mouth of La Plata river; 15 miles S.W. of Cape St. 

 Mariji. N. lat. 35 .—Alfo, a fmall ifland in the gulf of 

 Me.^ico, on the coaft of Gnafteca. N. lat. 22' 28 .—Alfo, 

 iflandi in the Pacific ocean, near the coaft of Peru, fur- 

 rounded with rocks j about twelve miles from each other, 

 in S. lat. 6 25' and f> ■^^'- They are alfo called " Sea- 

 Wolves," or " Seals' iflands." — Alfo, a duller of fmall 

 iflands in the South Pacific ocean, near the coaft of Chili. 

 S. lat. 52 20'. 



LoBOs Key. or Sail K.-y, a fmall ifland among the Btihamas. 

 N.lat. 22 45'. W. long. 7744'. 



LOBRES, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre- 

 nada; 7 mflcs N. of Motril. 



LOBS, in Mining, arc fteps that afcend or dcfcend 

 within the mines, as itairs up to and down from a chamber. 



LOBSKOI, Pei.as.skoi, in Geography, a town of Ruf- 

 fia, in the government of Olonetz, near the lake Sig ; 52 

 miles W.N.W. of Povenetz. 



LOBSTADT, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 

 Leipzig ; 10 miles S.S.E. of Leipzig. 



LOBSTER, in Zoology, a fpecies of the fquilla, accord- 

 ing to fome writers ; but in the Linnxan fyftem a fpecies of 

 the cancer. See. C.\NCKr Giimmanu. 



LOBULUS, in Anatomy, a diminutive from lobus, is 

 a fmall lobe, and denotes more minute divifions of glandular 

 bodies, than thofe which form lobes : as, for example, the 

 lobuli of the lungs. Lobulus auris is tliat part of the exter- 

 nal ear which is pierced for ear-rings. (See Eau and 

 Lobes.) Lobulus Spigelii is a fmall portion of the liver. 

 See Liver. 



Lobulus, in Botany, a httle lobe, a term fuggefted by 

 Dr. Smith, for what has ufually, but '^rroneoufly, been 

 called the auricle, in fome fpecies of Jungermannia ; fee that 

 article. 



LOBURG, in Geography, a town in the duchy of Mag- 

 deburg ; 2 2 miles E. of Magdeburg. 



LOBUS, in Botany, a lobe, a principal divifion of a 

 leaf, the margins of which are in fome deg'ee rounded. 

 The term is alfo ufcd for the divifions of the petals, or any 

 other fuitable part. A capfnle is fometimes faid to be lobed, 

 ttiere being fcarcely any other way of defcribing, in Engli.^, 

 a tricoccous or tetracoccous truit. 



LOCAGN.ANO, in Geography, a town of the ifland of 

 Corfica ; 1 2 miles N. of Bailia. 



LOC.^L, fomething fuppofed to be tied or annexed to 

 fome particular place. 



Thus, in Law, a thing is faid to be local, i. e. annexed 

 or fixed to the freehold. An adtion of trefpafs for battery, 

 &c. is tranlitory, not local ; that is, it is not neceflary, that 

 the place where battery was committed fliould be fet down 

 as material in the declaration ; or if it be fet down, the 

 defendant cannot traverfe it, by faying, he did not commit 

 the battery in the place mentioned in the declaration, and fo 

 avoid the adion. 



Local, Chofe. See Chose. 



Local Colour, a technical term in the art of Painling, 

 ■wherein, however, it has two meanings. The one is the 



aAual colour of an objefl intended for imitation ; the 

 other alludes to that colour iii conjundtion with the fituatiou 

 the objedt which polfelfes it fills in a pifture ; wherein it 

 muft be more or lefs fubjcdl to fliadows, and the regulations 

 of aerial perfpedive : which latter diminiflies the force ot 

 colours according to thtir diftance from the eye, by the in- 

 tervention of that of the atmofphere. 



It is a dilficult but a neceflary part of the art to maintain 

 local colours in objefts and yet throw them into fliade, and 

 Hill mtire to fupport it in the gradations from light to dark. 

 A degree of cool colour intervenes in nature, the admixture 

 of which in the fubftances ufed ni painting too often dellroys 

 the local or real colour, fo that painters have often had rc- 

 courfe to their fliadow-tolour alone, and by mixing that will) 

 the pofitive colour, trull to its cfl"tft for harmony, and omit 

 the greater delicacies of nature. But Titian, Vandyke, 

 Correggio, and fir.!. Reynolds, ventured to attempt the full 

 fupport of the colour of the body, and fuccecded, particu- 

 larly the two latter, whom the artift will do well to lludy on 

 this head. 



LocAi. Ciijloms, are thofe pccuhar to fome lordfliip, or 

 other diltrict, and not agreeable to the general cuftoms of 

 tlie country. See Cus'i'OM. 



Local, or Artificial Memory. See Mkmouy. 



Local Motion. See Motion. 



Local Problem, in Mathematics, is fuch an one as is ca- 

 pable of an i ifinite number of different folutions ; becaufe 

 the point that is to folve it, may be indifterently taken 

 within a certain extent ; e. gr. any where in fuch a line 

 within fuch a plane figure, &c. which is called a geometrical 

 locus. 



A local problem may be either ftmple, as when the point 

 fought is in a right line ; plane, as wlien the point fought is 

 in the circimifcrcnee of a circle ; folid, as when the point 

 required is in the circumference of a conic feclion ; crjiir- 

 folld, as when the point is in the perimeter of a line of a 

 higher himl, as the geometers call it. 



Lof.'iL 'irejpafs, in Laiu. See TresPAS.s. 



LOCANA, in Geography, a town of France, in tlie de- 

 partment of the Dora, on the Oreo, in a valley, called lb-.' 

 " Valley of Locana ;" 21 miles S. of Aofta. 



LOCARNO, one of the Italian bailiiages of Switzer- 

 land, ceded to the Swifs cantons by Maximilian Sforza, 

 duke of Milan, in the year i j 12, and governed by a baih.iF 

 whofe office continues two years; about i^ miles in length 

 and about 12 in breadth. It is fituated on the N.W. coall 

 of tlie lake Maggiorc, is fertile in grain and fruits, and 

 contains 49 oarifhcs, and _^o,ooo inhabitants. By the peace 

 of Luneville it was ceded to the Cifalpine republic, now the 

 kingdom of Italy. 



Loc.VRSO, the ca])ital of the bailliage of the fame name, 

 a fmall, open, well-built, market town, agreeaMy (itualcd 

 in a fertile plain, near the N.W. border of Locarno, or 

 Maggiore lake, and containing about 1530 inhabitants. 

 Part of the town is built on piazzas in form of a creicent 

 with two wings ; in front is a low of trees and the public 

 walk ; the old part of the town is dirty, and the ftreets 

 narrow. It contains three convents, and a fmall Francifcan 

 monallery, perched on a rock overhanging the valley, and 

 commanding a fuperb view of the lake and its magnificent 

 boundaries. The canopy in the church of the Capuchins 

 dcferves mention on account of its beautiful execution ; it is 

 of ftraw-work, and ahnoll rivals velvet and gold fringe. 

 Locarno was once fituated on the lake, and had a port 

 capable of receiving large barks : at prefent it Hands at ih^- 

 diftance of a quarter of a mile ; a circuni(lance which is 

 owing to the accumulation of fand brought down by the 



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