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for winter provifion. Hence we may naturally fuppofe, 

 that thefe lociifts were the food of John the Baptift. 



Locust, Water, Locujla Aquatica-, the name given by 

 authors to a fpecies of water-infeft, fomewhat refembling 

 the locuft kind in (hape. It is about three inches long, its 

 tail an inch and quarter, and its legs are of different lengths, 

 the anterior part being the fhorteft of all ; its body is llen- 

 der, and its fore-legs are always cairied ftraight forward, fo 

 as to reach beyond the head in the form of antennx ; thefe, 

 as well as the other legs, end each in two claws ; the eyes 

 are fmall, and not very prominent, and the upper wings are 

 crullaceous ; the under ones membranaceous, thin, and 

 trnnfparent ; the middle joint of the leg is fuch, that the 

 creature can only move them upwards, not downwards, and 

 there runs an acute tongue or probofcis under the belly, as 

 is the cafe in the water-fcorpion and notoneiSa. See Nepa 

 Linearis. 



Locust, in Botany. See Cehatonia Siliqua. See alfo 

 GtEDiTsrA and Hymkn^a. 



LOCUSTA. See Valeriana. 



Loci;.sTA-/'u/f.v, a name given by Swammerdam to a 

 genus of infedts, defcribed fince by Mr. Ray under the name 

 cicadula. 



LOCUSTS is ufed by botanifts for the tender ex- 

 tremities of the branches of trees ; fuch as, according to the 

 erroneous fuppoQtion of feme, John the Baptill fed on in 

 the wildernefs. 



Some alfo ufed locuftae for the beards and pendulous feeds 

 of oats, and of the gramina paniculata ; to which the name 

 is given on account of their figure, which fomething re- 

 fembles that of a locuft. 



L0CU.3TELLA, the Grafs-hopper Lari, in Ornitho- 

 IoxVj the name of a fmall bird of tbe lark kind, the Alauda 

 Trii'ialis of Linn£Eus ; which fee. 



LOCUTIUS, in Mythology, the god of fpeech among 

 the Romans, called by Livy Aius Locutius ; which fee. 



LOCUTORIUM. The monks and other rehgious in 

 monafteries, after they had dmed in their common hall, had 

 a withdrawing room, where they met and talked together 

 among themfclves, which room, for that fociable ufe and 

 converfation, they called locutorium, a loquendo ; as we call 

 fuch a place in our houfes parlour, from the Yrench pjrier ; 

 and they had another room, which was called locutorium forin- 

 fecum, where they might talk with laymen. 



LODARL-\, in Geography, a town of Hindooflan, in 

 Bahar ; 24 miles N.N.E. of Hajypour. 



LODDIGESL^, in Botany, is juftly devoted by Dr. 

 Sims in Curtis's Magazine, to commemorate the merits of 

 a moft excellent and fcientific cultivator of plants, whofe 

 liberality is equal to his knowledge, Mr. Conrad Loddiges 

 of Hackne)'. Curt. Mag. v. 24 965. Clafs and order, 

 Diade/phia Decandria. Nat. Ord. Papilionaciit, Linn. Le- 

 guminofa, JufT. 



Eff. Ch. Standard many times fmal'er than the wings or 

 keel. Filaments all in one fet, with a dorfal filTure. Le- 

 gume ftalked, turgid. 



I. 1^. oxalidifolla. Oxalis-leaved Loddigefia Curt. Mag. 

 t. 965 • — The only known fpecies, a native cf the Cape of 

 Good Hope, from whence its feeds were fir'l received by 

 George Hibbert, efq. The plant is tolerably hardy in the 

 confervatory, readily propas'ated by cuttings, and flowers 

 freely in May and Ju;ie. Mr. Loddiges himfelf hi's alfo 

 railed it, many years ago, from Cape feeds. The ^em is 

 ftirabby, low, much branched. Leaves fcattered, ftibced, 

 ternate, inverfely heart-lhaped, ra'her glaucous, fmootli, 

 tipped with a minute point. Slipulas intrafohaceous, fmall, 

 frtaceous, deciduous. Clujlert terrainai, fomewhat . umbel- 



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late, cf few flowers. BraSeas fmall, {lender, almoft capil- 

 lary. Calyx nearly bell-fhaped, obtufe at the bafe, coloured, 

 fmooth, its three lower teeth rather the longelh Standard 

 white, not twice the length of the calyx. H'ingt and keel 

 about thrice as long as the Itandard, white, the fore part of 

 the keel violet. Style bent upward at a right angle. Stigma 

 fimple. Legume itnlked, ovate, oblique, pointed, turgid, 

 fmooth. Seeds about four, kidney-fhaped. 



LODDON, in Geography, a fmall market-town in the 

 hundred to which it gives name, in the county of Norfolk, 

 England, is fituated iii miles from London, on the banks 

 of a fmall ftream, which, rifing- near Howe in Clavering, 

 falls into the Yare at Hardley Crofs. The church, which 

 is a handfome ftone ftrufture, with a fine tower, was eredled 

 near the end of the fifteenth century, at the fole expence of 

 fir James Hobart, the attorney-general to king Henry VH., 

 and afterwards chief juftice of the common pleas, who was 

 a great benefattor to this town and its vicinity. In the 

 church are feveral memorials of the Hobart family. • In 

 the eaft window was a piece of ftained glals, now removed, 

 reprefcnting fir James and his lady, with a Hcetch of the 

 church, and an appropriate infcription. Loddon was re- 

 turned, in the year 1800, as containing 166 houfes and 799 

 inhabitants. A market is held on Fridays, and two fairs 

 annually. Blomfield's Hillory, &c. of Norfolk, 11 vols. 

 8vo. 



LODE, a town of the idand of Sardinia ; So miles N. 

 of Cagli.iri. 



Lode, in Inland Navigation, fignifies a cut or reach of 

 water. 



Lode, in Mining. This word is derived from the Anglo- 

 Saxon, according to Dr. Pryce, and is ufed by the Cornilh 

 miners to defignate any regular vein, whether metallic or 

 not. More commonly, however, it means a metallic vein. 



The lodes that are found to contain tin and copper ores, 

 in Cornwall and Devon, have their general direction in a line 

 running nearly eaft and weft ; their dip or underlay being 

 more commonly to the north ; though fome which ii:cHne to 

 the fouth have been very produAive. Veins which interfeft 

 the eaft and weft lodes are called crofs-lodes, or crofs-courfesy 

 when their direftion is nearly at right angles with the others ; 

 and counters, more generally, when their direction is cblique. 



The metalhc eaft and weft lodes are traverfed or dillurbed 

 by the crofs-courfes, and thefe interruptions are known by 

 the name of heaves, which take place to very different de- 

 grees of extent, and vary much in the circumftances under 

 which they are found ; fo that miners do not agree upon any 

 certain rules for determining the diftance or direftion of the 

 heave by the accompanying appearances. 



Though copper and tin are found but p.irtially in crofs- 

 lodes, yet lead has been raifcd in large quantities from fome 

 that have nearly a due north and fouth courle ; luch as the 

 Beeralrtone lead-mines and Wheal Betfr lead-raine in Devon. 

 Eaft and weft lodes have fometimes a mixture of lead ores 

 with copper ; but this appears to be deri%'ed from th° inter- 

 feCtion of a crofs-courfe, or the effeft of a later depoCt. 

 Lodes traverfe all kinds of rock found in the In e of their 

 direftion, whether vertically or horizontally. Thofe worked 

 in Cornwall and Devon are chiefly in killas or grauwacke 

 flate ; but they are fometimes in granite, and pais not un- 

 frequentlv from the former into the latter. 



The width of veins varies from an inch or two to fifteen 

 or twenty feet ) the latter dime nfion being rare, as tbe 

 former is unprotitable to follow, unlets in the expeclation of 

 an enlar£;enient. The more common width, or, as the 

 miners call it. thejize cf lodes, is from two to four feet ; and 

 if fuch a vein as ihi» be fully impregnated with ir.etal, it » 



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