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in Stirlineniire. Inchmunn is the mo[l valuable itland in the much higher tlian it, and perhaps commancis a more cstei«» 



lake and has a deer park belonging to the duke of Mon- five view. On the top is one of thofe heaps or tumuli of 



trole. The ifland of Inch-tavanach, i. e. the illand of the ftones which are denominated cairns. 



monk's-houfe, derives its name from the circumltar.ee of a LOMONOZOF, in Biography, accounted the father of 



monk having fiKcd his refidcnce here at a very remote pe- Ruffian poetry, was born at Kolmogori in 171 1, where^ 



riod. The other iflands are not dcferving of particular no- his father was a dealer in M\. He polfefTed the rare advan- 



tice,' except as all contributing, by the beauty of their ver- tage of perfons in his ftaiion, of learning to read his native 



•dure, to render the whole fceiierv more iiiterelUng and varied language, and caught a flame of poetical infpiration by pe- 



than'it otherwife would be. ' ruling a trannation of Solomon's fong into rude verf^-. lUs 



Loch Lomond has long been celebrated for three won- love of learning induced him to leave hii< latlier, and take re- 



ders " liih wi'liout fiiis, waves without wind, and a fleeting fuge in a monallery at Mofcow, where he laid a good fuunda. 

 iQand." The tiih without tins arc mamfeiUy vipers, which 



abound here in great pk-nty, and fometirnes Iwi^n from one 

 ifland to another. AVaves without wind are common to this 



tion in the learned languages, and difplaycd fuch talents, that 

 he was fent by tlie Imperial Academy for improvement to tlie 

 German univerfity of Marpurg. He iludieJ under Wolf 

 and tlie other celebrated profelibrs. On his return to his 

 native country he was elected adjunft, and then member of 

 the Imperial Academy, and profeffor of ehemillrj , in which 

 fcience he was a conliderable adept, having Itudied it under 



em extremity, there are a number o{ Hones fixed regularly, 

 and evidently intended for enabling pallengcrs to crofs from 

 one fide to the other, which are now however covered with 



lake, with all extenfive deep waters, when a calm immediately 

 fucceeds a ftorm. The. floating ifland is now fixed near the 

 wefl; fliore of the ifle of Inchconagan, and if it ever did float, 



muft be coniidered as a p-.ofly fragment bound together _ _ 



by the matted roots of eoarfe grafles, willows, Dutch myr- Kunckel at Freyburg in Saxony. In 1764 he was honoured 



.1' c ■ with the tide of counfellor of Itate. He died in the fame 



The waters of this lake are fuppofed to be rifing in height, year. His reputation as a literary man is founded on his 



Acrofs the channel of a ftream called Falloch, at the north- poetical compofltions, which arc numerous and various in 



their kinds. His odes are admired for their fpirit and fub- 

 limity, in wiiich he is faid to rival Pindar. In thefe, and in 

 his other poems, he was the creator of various meafures new 



at lead five feet of water. Near the middle of the bay of to Ruffian verfe, fo that he ranks as its greatefl. bcnefaAor. 



Camftraddan, when the water is low, there is a heap of He was author likewife of tragedies, idylls, and epiftL's, and 



ftones vifible,' which is faid to have formerly compofed the he left a fragment of an epic poem on Peter the Great. 



rofidence of the Colquhouns of Camftraddan. Camden, in He publiflied fome chemical and philofophical trafts, and 



his Atlas Britannica, mentions an ifland exilUng here in his two fliort pieces on the hiltory of Ruffia, and he enriched 



day with a lioufe and garden upon it. About five miles to the language of his country with fome tranflations from the 



the 'fouth of this he^ip of ftones there is another, faid to be Greek and Latin. 



the ruins of an ancient church : the field oppofite to it is LOMPi^ R, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Baltic, 



ftiU called Church-field. "car the S.E. coaft of Aland. N. lat. 60° to'. E. long. 



The villan-e of Lufs is delightfully feated on the weftern 20- c)'. 

 bank of thelake, and on the poft road from Glafgow to In- LOMWIA, in Onnihohgy, the name of a web-footed 



verary. In the immediate vicinity of this village, Rofedoe, water-fowl common on the Engliflt fliores, and called in dif- 



the manfion liQufc of fir Jame.'! Colquhoun of Lufs, is placed ferent places the giiillm, guillemot, fca-hcri, kiddaiu, and 



ifula, projecting fo far into the lake as to ap- Jkout : the laft name, however, is fomewhat equivocal, as 



on a ncu peninl . , ^ .. 



pear infulatcd. The ground is finely wooded, and a tower 

 of the ancient caftle, or habitation of the family, forms an ex- 

 cellent contiaft to the modern houfe. Some very bold and 

 rugged mountains compofe the back ground of this charming 

 fcenery. Between Lufs and Tarbet the road dimimflies m 

 breadth very rapidly. Paffing the water of Uglas, which 

 difcharges itlelf into the lake, it afcends a lofty promontory, 

 projeamg confiderably in the lake, which is called the point 

 of Firkin. Tlie afcent to the fummit of this eminence is 

 abrupt, difficult, and tedious, but the view which difplays 

 itfelf from it amply repays the admirer of nature for the 

 labour attending it. Nearly oppofite to this point Benlo- 

 mond rears his lofty head on the eaftern fide. For a defcrip- 



the Scotch call the common razor-lill by this name. Sec 

 CoLVMBU.s Troile. 



LOMZA, in Geography, a town of the duchy of War- 

 faw, fituated on the Narew ; 80 miles N.E. of Warfaw. 

 N. lat. 53 . E. long. 22 40'. 



LONAS, in Botany, Adanf Fam. v. 2 118. Gsertn. 

 V. 2. 396. t. 165, a genus eftabiifhcd by thofe authors upon 

 the ylchilka inodora, Linn. Sp PI. 1265, Athanajta annua, 

 Syft. Veg. ed. 14. 741. 



LONA 1 O, or Lo.NADO, in Geography, a town of Italy, 

 in the department of the Benaco ; 12 miles E.SE. of 

 Brefcia. 



LONCHITIS, in Botany, a name derived from >"yxy<, a- 



tion of this mountain and its fcenery, fee the article Benlo- fpear, borrowed from the Greeks, and applied by Tourne- 



tort to what he efteemed a diftinft genns of ferns, charac- 

 terized by having auricled leaflets. Linnteus has retained 



MOND. .,,,„- , . , 



Lo.MOKD Hills, two beautiful conical hills fituated in the 

 county of Fife, Scotland. The eaftern one is by far the 

 »oft beautiful, and rifes 1650 feet above the level of 

 the town of Falkland, which is placed at a fliort diftance 

 from its bafe. It appears to have been the feat of a fort in 

 ancient times. On the very fummit is a fmall lake, which 

 has probably been the crater of an extinit volcano. On 

 this hill a mine of lead has been lately opened with good 

 profpefts of fuccefs to the proprietors. It likewife contains 

 coal and limeftone in confiderable abundance, but neither til 

 hem are wrought. The other hill, which is called Weftern 



it for one of the fame family, better defined by the frudifi- 

 cation, of which we are now to fpcaii. Tlv Xoyji^ili,- of 

 Diofcorides has always been a fubjeft of difpute, though 

 his defcription is more full and precife than' uiual. Some 

 have thought it Iris tuberofa, others Herapias Lingua. His 

 ^.^yj/ili; ils^x however does appear to be a tern. — Linn. Gen. 

 560. Schreb. 75:7. Mart. Mill. Dift. v. jj. Sm. Mem. 

 de I'Acad, de Turin, v. 5. 413. Trafts 244. Swartz; 

 Syn. Fil. 93. Sprengel. Crypt. 127. t. 4. f. 27. Juff". 15. 

 Lamarck Illuftr. t. 868. — Clafs and order, Cryptogamia 



tomond, from its fituation with refpeft to the former, is Filices. Nat. Ord. Filices, Linn. JufT. 



Gen. 



