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miles long, E. of George's town: — L. Ru'.lon, a lake in 

 Kircudbright ; four miles S.E. of Dumfries : — L. Win, a 

 lake in the N. part of the county of Sutherland ; 12 milts 

 long and l^ wide; 13 miles W.N. W. of Dornoch : — L. 

 Siene, a lake in the county of Aberdeen ; five m:Ies S. of 

 Kintore : — L Silnch, a lake of Perth ; fix miles N.W. of 

 Dunkeld : — L. Tay, a lake of Perth, which is a grand and 

 beautiful expanfe of water, of fuch length as rather to 

 refemble a noble river, abounding with filh, and terminat- 

 ing in an ifland, on which are feen the ruins of a priory ; 

 having in its eallern extremity the capital manfion and plan- 

 tations of the earl of Braidalben ; 24 miles N.W. of Perth: 

 — L. ToUk, a lake in Argyle ; 1 1 miles N.N.E. of Glenor- 

 chy: — L.Troi^, a lake of Invernefs ; 14 miles E. of Fort 

 Wilham : — 'L. Turns!, a lake of Perth; five miles S. of 

 Blair Athol : — L. Turret, a lake of Perth ; five miles 

 N.N.W. of Crieff : — L. Vaci, a lake of Perth ; three miles 

 S.S.W. of Blair Athol :—L. VaRc.in, a lake of Perth ; fix 

 miles E. of Blair Atho!:— L. Voil, a lake of Perth ; 17 

 miles W. of Crieff: — L. Vrlne, a lake in the county of 

 Rofs ; fix miles long, and half a mile wide ; 25 miles 

 W.N.W. of Dingwall :— L. Vrotachan, a lake in the S.W. 

 part of Aberdeenthire ; feven miles S. of Caftleton of Brae- 

 mar : — L UJp^, a lake of Rofs ; two miles W. of Dingwall : 

 — L. IVatSen, a lake in Caithnefs ; fe'.-cn miles W. of Wick : 

 — X.. Tehen, a lake on the W. coall of Scotland, on the 

 N. fide »f Loch Terridoii. 



LOCHABER, a diftria of Scotland, in the county of 

 Invernefs; about 40 miles long and 2 J broad, of which the 

 ciiief plat;e is Fort Wiiliam. This is one cf the moft 

 dreary-, mountainous, a.d barren diliricTts in Scotland, thinly 

 inhabited, with the houfes wretched. The chief produce is 

 black cattle, with very large flocks of flieep. Here prince 

 Charies eredted his ilandard in 174,, upon his landing from 

 France, with feven officers, and arms for 2000 m.en. 



LOG HE, or .Jca-LocnE, a name ufed in fome parts of 

 England for the muJlAa, called in other places, particu- 

 larly in Cornwall, the 'wh'tjlle-fijb. See Gadus Mujltla. 



LOCHEM, in Geography, a town of Holland, in the 

 department of Guelderland, on the Borkel ; 10 m.iles E. of 

 Zutphen. 



LOCHER Moss, a morafs of Scotland, in the county 

 of Dumfries ; 10 miles long and three broad, which muft 

 have been formerly a forell, on account of the oak trees 

 that are dug up in it ; and as canoes and anchors have been 

 alfo found here, it mult have been once covered with fea. 



EOCHES, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 diftrift, in the department of the Indre and Loire; 21 miles 

 S.S.E. of Tours. The place contains 4342, and the can- 

 ton 14,701 inhabitants, on a territory of 385 kiliometres, 

 ia 1 3- communes. The callle, feated on a rock in this town, 

 was formerly an important fortification. It had four ranges 

 of fubterraneous pafiages, running over one another, in the 

 uppjrmoll of which, Louis Sforza, duke of Milan, \Vas 

 imprifoned for 10 years, and where he died. Its large 

 tower contains two cages or moveable rooms, with ifrong 

 oak gates, covered with iron ; and in one of thefe cardinal 

 Salve, bilhop of Angers, was confined by Lewis XII. At 

 a convent near the town, an edift was paffed in I576, in 

 favour of the Proteltants ; but it was toon after violated 

 by the queen regent, Catherine de Medicis. N. lat. 47^ 7'. 

 E. long, o'' 34'. 



LOCHI-A, in Mid'zvifery, a difcharge of blood from the 

 Hterus of women, occurring after the expulfion of the pla- 

 centa, and continuing four, five, or m.ore days. See La- 

 sour, Natural. 



LOCHIAL Fevers, a term ufed by medical writers 



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to exprefs fuch fevers as arife from fupprefllons or imminu- 

 tions of the lochial difcharges in lying-in women, or from 



Annandale, Scotland. It is luppofed to have derived its 

 name from the number of fmall loclis in its vicinity. This 

 borough, according to tradition, received its original char- 

 ter from king Robert Bruce, whofe paternal eftate was the 

 lordlhip of Annandale. It is certain at leaft, that this mo- 

 narch bellowed upon it a confiderable portion of lands from 

 his own property. The oldell charter extant is a writ of 

 novoclamus, by James VI., dated i6;h July, 1612 ; which 

 alFigns as a reafon for the renewal, the deifruftion of the 

 town and its records by the Englifh, during fome of their 

 inroads. Lochmaben has undoubtedly been formerly of 

 more im.portance than at prefent. The borough-roods and ' 

 town conimouty are very extenfive, and for the moft part • 

 fenced off at a very trifling annual rent. The government 

 of the town is veiled in a provolt, three bailies, a dean of 

 guild, a treafurer, and nine common-council-men. Coarfe 

 linen is the fl;aple production of this place ; 60,000 yards - 

 being annually niauufaftured here and in the neighbourhood 

 for the Englith market. The coal ufed for fuel is brought 

 chiefly from Cumberland. Annan, Dumfries, Kirkcud- 

 bright, Sanquhar, and- this-town, join in fendin^r one mem- 

 ber to parliament. . 



The parifh of Lochmaben extends about ten miles along ,- 

 the banks of the Annan, which poiTeffes a very valuable 

 falmon fifhery, almoft contiguous to tiie town. Several 

 fmaller ilreams flow into this river, all of which are abun- - 

 dantly fupplied with trout. In the largeft of the lochs, 

 which prefent a truly beautiful Iheet of water, a great 

 variety of fifli are caught. The filTiermen affert, that there 

 are 15 or 1 6 different kinds fit for the table. Among thefe 

 is one Lalled the vendife, or vendace, fome fay from Vendois 

 in France, as being brought thence by one of the Jamefes. 

 This ftory, however, does not feem very probable, as it is ■ 

 found by experience, that this fifli dies the inftant it is 

 touched. Befides, it has in vain been attempted to tranfport 

 it to other Icchs in the neighbourhood. The vendife is about 

 the fize of a herring, and refembles it both in external ap- 

 pearance and anatomical ftrufture. In taile and flavour it 

 is extremely delicate, fo that it is reckoned among the mott 

 delicious fifli that fwims. It lies generally in the deepelt 

 parts of the loch, and is caught with the net. 



Upon a peninfula which Ihetches out into this loch ftands 

 a caftle, originally built by Robert de Bruce, the firil of 

 that name who iwayed the Scoitifh fceptre. It was a place 

 of great llrength previous to th^- introdudion of fire-arms, and . 

 could fliU be made fo, if its fortifications were raifed anew 

 according to the principles of modern warfare. The ori- - 

 ginal buildings of the calUe fcem to have occupied about an . 

 acre of ground. . The walls were twelve feet in diameter. ~ 

 Three ditches funound the whole at different dillances. 

 The area contained within tlie outermofl: wall may be about 

 13 acres. The inner one patfes through a part of the 

 calUe, within which there was a place for the fecurity of T 

 the boats, either from the effeils of the weather or an 

 enemy. While Scotland was a dillintl kingdom from Eng- 

 land, this fort was the frontier garrifon againft Carlifle. 

 The narquis of Annandale, among his other titles, affumes 

 that of conllable, or hereditary keeper of the eaiUe of Loch- 

 maben. To this office was attached a falary of ^co/; 

 Scotch, along with the fifhings of the lochs. For the main- 

 tenance of the troops compofing the garrifon, the govern- 

 ment had likewife what was called a laird-a-mart, or lardincr 



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