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of cry dais ; and tViils tlie prefence of tKeff in a lode is like- 

 •vnfe confidered promifing, more particularly where obferva- 

 lions are made on a vein at no great depth : for as the mine 

 becomes deeper the lode often becomes more compaft, and 

 the miner calculates upon finding foli J courfes of ore. 



In conneftion with this part of the fubjeft, the avails 

 which enclofe the vein are not to be difregarded, when the 

 lode itfelf is confidered, as they (hould be found to be well 

 determined, fmooth, and regular. The rock of which they 

 are formed fhould be of the hard fchift called by miners 

 tsj>.'l ; and if penetrated with traces of ore, it may be con- 

 fidered as a fymptom of large depofits. On each fide of 

 the walls, wliich ufually differ fomewhat from the ad- 

 joinino- rock, as if altered by the prefence of the vein, the 

 ftrata may generally be.obferved to be twilled or bent 

 downwards, in a flight degree towards the lode, which is 

 in general confidered to be more the cafe near large veins 

 than rear thofe which are fmaller. 



Having now detailed the principal charafleriftics of lodes, 

 a? important to the praftical miner, defcribed the modes of 

 difcovering them, and the fymptoms by which a judgment 

 is formed of their contents, as far as relates to working 

 them for the metals ; we leave the confideration of them, in 

 a geological point of view, for the article Vein. The 

 operations of working upon them will be defcribed under the 

 head of Mining, and under that of Ore. 



Lode, in Rural Economy, a provincial terra applied to 

 fignify ford, in fome dillrifts. 



LODER, in Geography, a town of Bavaria j 25 miles S. 

 of Augfburg. 



LODESAN, a country of Italy, in the JVIilanefe, 

 bounded north and weft by the duchy of Milan, call by the 

 Cremafco and the Cremones, fouth by the Piaccntia and 

 Pavefe ; and now forming the department of the Adda. It 

 ii populous and fertile, though fmall ; and particularly 

 celebrated for its checfe, of which, it is faid, the inhabitants 

 annually export to the amount of 70,000/. ; the number of 

 cows kept here being reckoned at 30,000. The capital is 

 Lodi. 



LODESE', or Gamla Lodese, a town of Sweden, in 

 "Weil Gothlasd, which fuffered fo much from fire in the 

 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that the inhabitants re- 

 moved to New Lodefe, or Nydolefe. 



LODESMAN, or Locman, a pilot eftabliihed for con- 

 «!u£ling velTels in and out of harbours, or up and down navi- 

 gable rivers. See Pilot. 



LODE'VE, in Geography, a town of France, and prin- 

 cipal place of a diftriift, in the department of Herault, and, 

 ■hpfore the revolution, the fee of a biihop ; 24 miles W. of 

 Montpelligr. The place contains 7843, and the canton 

 i:;,959 inhabitants, on a territory of 307^ kiliometres, in 

 10 communes. N. lat. 43° 44'. E. long. 3- 24'. 



LODGMENT, in Military ^Jliiri, fometimes denotes 

 an encampment made by an army. 



Lodgment is more frequently ufed for a work caft up by 

 the befiegerSi during their approaches, in fome dangerous 

 poft, which they have gained, and where it is abfolutely 

 neceflary to fecure themfelvesagainll the enemy's fire ; as in 

 a covert-way, in a brench, the bottom of a moat, or any 

 other part gained from the befieged. 



Lodgments are made by calling up earth, or by gabions, 

 or palifade'5, woolpacks, fafcines, mantelets, or any thing 

 capable of covering foldiers in the place they have gained, 

 and are determined to keep. 



LODI, L.\, in Biography, a young female finger, in tlie 

 fervice of the eleflor of Bavaria, at Munich in 1772, and 

 tiow, if fhe lives, an old one ; fo tliat a few remarks upon 

 Vot. XXI. 



her flight imperfeSions can do her neither good nor harm» 

 but may probably ftimulate a wifli of purification of voice 

 in others. We thought that, in general, the tone of the 

 Lodi's voice was clear and brilliant, and her manner of 

 finging and afting elegant and graceful ; vet thought, if 

 there was any little deleft in her voice, it was occSfioncd 

 by a flight obllruftion in the throat, partitillarly in fullaining 

 low notes. Thefe were our thoughts the firft time we heard 

 her. The fecond time, we were more plcafed with her per- 

 formance tlian the firft ; yet ftill imagined that her voice 

 wanted a little more room in its pafl^age. The third time 

 we heard her in her beft charafter, in the performance of 

 which (he ftill gave us more pleafure ; but yet we could not 

 get rid of onr former remarks on the conduft of her voice 

 in fuftaining certain low and long notes. 



Thefe remarks, m.ade on the Lodi J2 years ago, might, 

 with refpeft to voice, be fairly apphed to Mrs. Hindmarfc 

 in 1804. 



LoDi, in Geography, a city of Italy, formerly the chief 

 town of Lodelan, now the capital of the department of 

 Adda, built by the emperor Frederick Barbaroffa, on an 

 eminence, in a plain watered by the river Adda. It is the 

 fee of a bid-.op, and contains, befides the cathedral, two 

 collegiate and feven pariih churches, and 26 convents.' 

 This is a place of little trade, its chief commodities being 

 cheefe (fee Lodes.^n) and a brautiful kind of earthen 

 ware refcmbling china. It is well built, and furrounded 

 with walls, about three miles from the ancient town of 

 the fame name, called alfo " Laus Pompeii." The number 

 of inhabitants is eftimaled at about I2,ooo. On the nth 

 of May 1796, the town was taken by the troops ot the 

 French republic, under the command of Bonaparte, Maflena, 

 and Angereau ; after the paflage of the bridge had been con- 

 tefled by 10,000 Auftrians, and 30 pieces of artillery. The 

 Aullrians loll in killed, wounded, and prifoners, between 

 two and three thoufand men ; 18 miles S.E. of Milan. N. 

 lat. 45 21'. E. long. 9 30'. * 



LODOMIRIA, a territory of Poland, which, together 

 with Galicia (which fee), was ceded to the houfe of Auftria 

 in the late partition of Poland, A.D. 1 772, and is now in- 

 corporated under this appellation with the Auftrian do- 

 minions. The number of inhabitants in this ceded country 

 amounted, in 1776, to 3,580,796. Hoeck computes 

 Eartern Galicia and Lodomiria at 2,797,119, and Weftern 

 Galicia at 1,106,178, The mountainous parts of Galicia 

 and Lodomiria afford fine pailures ; the plains are moftly 

 fandy, but abound in forefts, and are fertile in corn. The 

 principal articles of traffic are cattle, hides, wax, and honey ; 

 and thefe countries contain mines of copper, lead, iron, and 

 fah. 



LODRONE, a town of Italy, in the Trentin, on the 

 borders of the Breffan, near a fmall lake, called the " lake 

 of Idro;" 2, miles S.W. of Trent. 



LODOSA, a town of Spain, in Navarre, on the Ebro ; 

 17 miles E. of Eftella. 



LODYPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; iS 

 miles S. of Patna. 



LODZIEZE, a town of I^ithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Trokl ; 48 miles N.N.W. of Grodno. 



IjOE, a town of Norway; 48 miles N.E. of Dron- 

 theini. 



I..OE, in Rural Ecooomy, a term ufed to fignify a little 

 round hill, or a heap of Itones. 



LOEBEGUN, or I.ouociiiN, a town of the duchy of 

 Magdeburg ; 44 miles S. of Magdeburg. 



LOEBOE, or LoEHOK, a kingdom of Celebes, whicL 



was the moll powerful and extanfive of all the dates of this 



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