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•The linen manufacture is carried on extenfively threv.crh 

 every part ot" the county. I^ondouderry is well watered 

 by feveral llreams. Of thcfe the Bann flows from Lough 

 Neagh, and forms the eallcrn boundary, till it approaches 

 the town of Coleraine, when it ccal'es to be a boundary, 

 flowing through tiie liberties of that town into the fea 

 about three miles below it. About a mile above Colcraine 

 is a ridge of rocks called the Salmon Leap, at which weirs 

 are built for the falmon-filhery. Great quantities of this 

 fi(h are caught in the Bann, and being falted at Coleraiiie 

 form a valuable article ot commerce. There is alio an eel- 

 fifhcry at Toomc, between Lou^h Beg and Lough Neagh, 

 which, as well as tlie other, is very valuable to the pro- 

 prietor. The Foyle, a wide and deep river, having divided 

 the counties of Tyrone and Donegal, and received feveral 

 fmaller, enters this county a little above the city of I^oudon- 

 dcrry, and palling by it expands into that large faltwater 

 lake, known by the name of Lough Foyle. The rivers 

 Fahan and Roe riling in tht Cairntoglier mountains alfo flow 

 into this lough. Sever.il other dreams join the Bann in its 

 courfe, or increafe the waters of Lough Neagh ; amongll 

 the latter is the Moyowla. In tracing the coall trom the 

 little harbour of Portrufh, in Antrim, we tirll meet with 

 Bannhaven at the mouth of the Bann, about three miles 

 from which is the town of Coleraine. (See Coi.euain'E. ) 

 Proceeding along the coall, Magilligan Point, at the extre- 

 mity of a large fandy tract, prelcnts itfelf, approaching the 

 coall of Donegal, and thus forming the entrance of Lough 

 Foyle. Between Benyevanagh mountain and tli;s point is 

 a warren, which yields, on an average, three thouland dozen 

 of rabbits each year. The fale of the Ikins, which are fent 

 to Dublin, produces a large revenue to the proprietor. Near 

 this point is the Tons, a fand-bank not far from the entrance 

 of the lough, on which the fea fometimes beats with a pro- 

 digious noife. The entrance of Lough Foyle is not above 

 half a mile wide, fo that it is land-locked on all fides. It is 

 a large oval batin, twelve miles long, and near feven broad 

 in the wideil part, but it has only one deep channel in the 

 middle between long (hoals or banks of fand. It is, never- 

 thelefs, on the whole, a fafe, large, and commodious har- 

 bour. Near the mouth of the river Roe, which runs into 

 the lough, is a ridge of (tones mixed with fhells and fand, 

 extending a mile and a half in length, which is called the 

 Giant's Grave. There are other banks of the fame kind 

 at a greater diftaace from tlie lough, which renders it pro- 

 bable, that this part of the county was once overflowed by 

 the fea. The county town, called alfo Londonderry, is on 

 the Foyle. (See next article. ) Other towns are, New- 

 town Limavaddy, Magherafelt, and Moneymore. Londen- 

 derry returns three members, two for the county and one 

 for the city. Sampfon's Statillical Survey, and Beaufort's 

 Memoir. 



Londonderry, the capital of the county defcribed in 

 the preceding article : it is on the river Foyle, over which 

 it has a wooden bridge, 1068 feet in length, and of lingular 

 and excellent conllruiAion. It is a well built and neat city, 

 and has a general appearance of order, induitry, and fobriety. 

 It contains about 10,000 inhabitants. Its trade is confi- 

 derable, efpecially with America ; the exports are linen, 

 linen-yarn, &c. In the time of queen Elizabeth, Derry 

 was a confiderable military (lation, being well fitted for 

 keeping the adjoining'country in fubjettion. In the reign 

 «f James I. it whs rebuilt and llrengtheried by the citizens 

 of London, to whom it was given by that monarch. In 

 the rebellion of 1641, and the fucceeding years, it was 

 twice belieged, but without fuccels ; but it is moll cele- 



brated in hiftory for the fiegc nobly fuHaincd by the inlia- 

 bitants in 16S8 and 1689, for 105 days againll the army of 

 king James, although prelTed by a very fevere famine. It 

 deferves to be recorded, that when the military governor 

 was inclined to give up further refiftance, the inhabitants, 

 inlligated by the Rev. George Walker, whom they chofe 

 governor, took it upon themfelves, and have thus gained 

 immortal renown. Londonderry is (till lurroundcd by walls 

 and has a military governor, who is alfo commander of Cul- 

 more fort. (See Ci'I-Moke. ) Londondery is a poll-town, 

 and returns a member to parliament. It is 11 j miles N. 

 by W. from Dublin. N.lat, 55-. W. long. 7" 13'. Samp- 

 ion, &c. 



LoxDONUERiiv, a pod-town of America, in Rockingham 

 county. New Hamplliire, near the head of Beaver river, 

 which difehargc^ itfelf into Merrimack river, at Pawtncket 

 Falls, fettled in 171S, incorporated irl 1722, and con'aining 

 2650 inhabitants. The inhabitants are moftly the defceud- 

 aiits of emigrants from U'lller county, Ireland, and are 

 employed in the manufaClure ef hnen cloth and thread ; 

 36 miles S.W. by S. from Portfmouth. — AHo, a townfhip 

 in Halifax county. Nova Scotia, on the N. fide of Cobe- 

 quid or Colcheder river, about 30 miles from its mouth, 

 at the bafin of Miiias ; fettled by North Irifli and Scotch. 

 — Alfo, a townfhip in the N.W. part of Windham city, 

 Vermont, on the head waters of Well river, about 3^ miles 

 N.E. of Bennington. In 1795 it was divided into two 

 parts, the E. half being called IVlndham, and the W. part 

 retaining its original name. — Alfo, two towndiips in Penn- 

 fylvania ; one in Dauphin county, containing 1)77 inha- 

 bitants, the other in Somerfet county, having 709 inhabit- 

 ants. 



LONDONGROVE, a townfhip in Che.ler county, 

 Pennfylvania, containing 921 inhabitants. 



L(3NDRES, or London, a town of South America, in 

 the province of Tucuman, built by Tanta, the governor, 

 in 15J), in compliment to Mary, queen of England, then 

 married to Philip, king of Spain. S. lat. 19' 12'. 



LONEE, a town of Hindooftan ; 12 miles E.S.E. of 

 Poonah. 



LONEL, a town of the ifland of Sardinia ; 22 miles 

 S.E. of Bofa. 



LONER, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana ; i6 miles 

 N.W. of Chnnder. 



LONERSTATT, a town of Bavaria ; 14 miles S.S.W. 

 of Bamberg. 



LONG, J.\MES LE, in B'iography,\ a learned French pried, 

 was born at Paris in 1665. In 1686 he entered into the 

 congregation of the Oratory, and occupied the pod of pro- 

 feffor in feveral houfes of that fociety, and finally was ap- 

 pointed their librarian at St. Honore. He paded his life 

 in learned labours, and died in 1 72 1, with the eharafter of a 

 virtuous and ellimable man. He was thoroughly converfant 

 in the ancient and many of the m.odern languages, and had 

 an extenfive acquaintance with the hiltory of literature, of 

 bibliography, and printing. His chief work is entitled 

 " Bihliotheca Sacra," containing a catalogue of all the 

 editions and tranflations of the fcriptures, in two volumes 

 oftavo, to which he fubjoined, in a fecond part, a lift of 

 all the autlwrs who had written upon the fcriptures. He 

 publifhed, likewife, " Bibiiotheqne Hiftorique de la France," 

 being an account of all the hillorical works relative to that 

 country, which is liighly elleemed, and ranks among the 

 great produdlions of the reign of Lewis XV. ; alfo a 

 " Hiitorical Difcourfe on Polyglott Bibles," and their fe- 

 veral »ditions. 



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