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to It fince the French revolution, are briefly detailed under 

 CisALi'ixE Republic, and Italy. See likewife each of ilie 

 above enumerated articles. 



LOMBE'S, a town of France, and principal place of a 

 diftrid in the department of the Gers, the fee of a bifhop 

 before the revolution ; 16 miles S.E. of Audi. The place 

 contains 1443, and the canton 1 2, 14 J inhabitants, on a terri- 

 tory of 290 kiliometres, in 39 communes. 



LOMBOK, an ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, about 40 

 riiles from N. to S. and from iS to 30 broad, chiefly inha- 

 bited by Gentoos ; between wliich and Cumbava is a paf- 

 fage, called the " Straits of Lombok." — Alio, a town on 

 the E. coall of the fame iiland. S. lat. 8' 42'. E. long. 

 116 z'- 



LOMBUZSKOI, a fmall ifland in the Frozen ocean ; 

 near the coafl of Ruffia ; i So miles E. of Kola. N. lat. 

 67° 55'. E. long. 40 14'. 



LOMBY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnatic ; 20 

 miles N.W. of Tiagar. 



LOMEIR, John-, in Biography, a learned Dutch Pro- 

 teilant divine, pallor of the church of Dotekum in Zutphen, 

 was author of a curious little work abounding in erudition 

 and deep i-efearch, in which he has undertaken to give Inl- 

 torical and critical notices of tiie moll celebrated libr;uies in 

 ancient and modern times. It is entitled " De Bibliothecis 

 Liber Singularis ;" larao. The author's plan gave rife to 

 a larger work on 'the fame fubjecl, by Maderus, a learned 

 German, who publiflied at Helmlladt a treatife " De Bib- 

 liothecis," in two vols. 4to., in which he has inferted Lo- 

 meir"3 piece. 



LOMENT.^CE^E, in Botany, a natural order of plants, 

 the 3.;d among the Fragmenia of Linnxus, named, as it 

 (liould feem, fron» lomctituin, the meal of beans, in alluilon 

 to the pulfe-like nature of the plants in queflion, fo as to 

 keep in view their analogy with the Papilionacex. They are 

 included in the three firft fedlions of Julfieu's Leguminoja, or 

 nearly fo ; fee that article. Polygala indeed, placed here 

 by Linnaeus, is referred by Juffieu to the Pediculares. 



LOMENTUM, a word ufed by the old writers on me- 

 dicine toexprefs a meal made of beans, or bread made of this 

 meal, and ufed as a wafli. See Dkteusouium. 



Others have applied it to the French chalk, or moroch- 

 thus, ufed by the fcowerers of clothes, which is brought 

 over in large cakes, refembling loaves or cakes of bread. 



LOMGRAD, in G<:ography, a town of Bulgaria, at the 

 conflux of tlie river Loin with the Danube ; 20 miles S.S.E. 

 of Viddin. 



I^OMI, a town of Rufiia, in the government of Irkutfh, 

 en the Amul ; 16 miles N. of Stretenlk. 



LOMMETSCH, or Lu.mtszch, a town cf Saxony, 

 in the margravate of MeifTen ; feven miles N.W. of Meiflen. 

 N. lat. 51 11'. E. long, 13' 13'. 



LOMMIUS, J0DOCU.S, (Vax I>om, in his native lan- 

 guage,) in Biography, a medical writer of reputation, was 

 boiTi at Buren, in Guelderland, about the commencement of 

 the fixteenth century. His father, who was town-cleik of 

 that place, took great care of his education. He was already 

 well verfed in the Latin and Greek languages, wher, he 

 turned his attention to medicine, wiiich lie lludicd princi- 

 pally at Paris, where his talents and afhduity obtained hiin 

 the friendfhip of Fernel. It is not known wl«re he took 

 his degree ; but he praflifed for a confiderable time at 

 Tournay, to which city he was penlionary-phyficiaii in 

 1557 ; and he removed to BrufTels.at an advanced period of 

 file, about the year 1560. He was living in this cily in 1562, 



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beyond which period there is no record of him. He left 

 three fmall works, which arc flill held in ellimation in con- 

 fequence of the purity and elegance of the Latinity ia 

 which they are written : thefe are " Commentarii de Sani- 

 tate tuenda in primiim librum C. Celfi," Louvain, IJjS, 

 i2mo. This is^ an ample commen'ary upon Celfus, taken 

 entirely from the ancients. " Obfervationum Medicinalium 

 Libri tres," Antwerp, 1560. This work has pafTed through 

 many editions : it confills of hillories of difeafe, related with 

 the (imple perfpicuity of Celius, and containing many ufeful 

 and valuable obtervations on the diagnoflics, prognollics, 

 and cure. " De curandis Febribus contimiis Liber," 

 Antwerp, 1 5 63. This little treatife, like the foregoing, has 

 been fcveral limes printed and tranflated. Thefe works 

 were publilhed together at Amllerdam, in 1745. in three . 

 vols. i2nio., under the title of " Opera omnia." Eloy 

 Dia. Hift. 



LOMNITZ, in Geography, a town of Bohemia, in the 

 circle of Konigi"gratz ; fix miles N. of Gitfchin. — Alfo, a 

 town of Moravia, 111 the circle of Brunn ; 1 5 miles N.N. W. 

 of Brunn. N. lat. 49 24'. E, long. 16° 18'. 



Lo.MXiTZ Pf///. See CARPATH1.4N' Mountains. 



LOMOND, Loc I!) a lake fituated in the county of Dun- 

 barton, Scotland. It is the finell and m.oft beautiful expanfe 

 of water in that country, and not furpaffed, in variety and 

 magnificence of fcenery, by any in Great Britain. This lake 

 extends about twenty-fix miles in length from north to fouth, 

 and varies from one to eight miles in breadth. The broadefl 

 portion is towards the foutJi. As it approaches the north, 

 it gradually contracts. Here it is much deeper than in the 

 broader parts. At the foot of Benlomond the depth is 

 about 120 fathoms, but in the fouth divifion it is not gene- 

 rally much above 14 fathoms. The northern and deeper 

 part of this lake is nev-er covered with ice even in the fevereft 

 frofls, but fouth from Lufs, it is often frozen over fo com- 

 pletely, that not only men but loaded horfes can pafs oyer- 

 it to the different iflands in perfeft fafety. 



Loch Lomond is fupplied with water from feveral rivers,. 

 befides fmaller llreams trom the mountains. It has, however,. 

 but one way of difcharging itfelf, and this is the reafon why 

 it fwells in wet feafons even fo high as fix feet above its ufual- 

 level. Fifh are caught here in great abundance, particularly 

 falmon trout, eels, and pearches, as likewife a fpecies called- 

 pollocks, which refemble in appearance and flavour the large 

 herrii.gs. 



The beauties of this lake have often been the fubjecl of 

 defcription, both in poetrv and profe. Thefe feem chiefly 

 to arife from the woods in its vicinity, the number and va- 

 riety of its iflands, and the near approach of the terrific 

 Grampians, which aftbrd a flriking contrail to the morii 

 placid fcenery immediately adjacent. At the houfe of Ca- 

 meron, placed at the foutliern extremity of the lake, the 

 whole charms of this delightful expaife are in full view. 

 After paffing this manfion, the road Ihirts along the wcfters 

 bank, lometimes lolirg itfelf among the natural foliage that 

 clothes the brow of the mountains, and at other times emerg- 

 ing into a more free fpace ; "thereby prefentiiig in fucceffion" 

 a variety of views of the lake, illaiids, and neighbourhood^ 

 highly captivating and deliglitful. 



The iflands in Loch Lomond, fmall and great, are ufualy 

 reckoned to be thirty in number. Molt of them are finely 

 wooded, hut not above ten are of any confiderable iizs. 

 The principal ones are the property of the duke of Mon- 

 trofe and fir James Colquhoun of Lufs. Ir.chcailloch, or tha 

 ifland of old women, fo called from a nunnery formerly 

 there, was at one time the feite of the church of Buebanan 

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