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they effefl: by afcending fpirally round the fupport, to a con- 

 fiderable height ; and -alfo be placed to afcend round the 

 ftems of trees, and to climb among the boughs of the ad- 

 jacent bulhes, fhrubs, and hedges, which they effect in a 

 very agreeable manner, by interweaving their branches with 

 them. The climbers are likewife proper for training againfl 

 walls and arbours, &c. for the ornament and fragrance of 

 their flowers, laying their branches in, four or five inches 

 afunder ; thinning out the fuperabundant (hoots annually, 

 and training in fome of the moft robull for fucccffion wood, 

 either at full length, or Ihortened, as moft proper to fill the 

 fpace or vacancy that may be wanted to be covered. 



The evergreen kinds are principally of the climbing tribe, 

 and have much effect in their evergreen foliage, and the ele- 

 gance of their flowers, as well as their long continuance in 

 blow. 



The uncommon beauty, and exquifite fragrance of the 

 flowers in the ninth fpecies, entitle it to a place in moft forts 

 of plantations of the ornamental kind. In climbing, it turns 

 from eaft to \ve\k, in the manner of moft of our climbing 

 plants ; and in common with them bears clipping and pruning 

 well ; as in a ftale of nature, thofe plants which cannot af- 

 cend without the aid of others, are often liable to lofc great 

 branches ; they have confequently a proportionate vigour 

 of giowth given them, in order to reftore fuch accidental 

 damages. It is however fubjecT, when planted near building, 

 to be injured and disfigured by aphides, which are vulgarly 

 termed blights ; thele infefts are not very numerous in the 

 fpring fe:ifon ; but as the fummer advances, they mcreafe in 

 a very rapid manner ; their firft attacks (liouid, of c^urfe, be 

 carefully attended to, and the branches on which they firft 

 fix be cut off and deftroyed, as when they have once gained 

 ground they are defended by their numbers. Small plants 

 may however be cleared of them by the ufe of tobacco duft, 

 or Spanifh fniiff, but this method is not prafticable for large 

 trees. The leaves of the plants are likewife liable to be 

 punftured and curled up by a fmal! caterpillar, which pro- 

 duces a beautiful little moth, the phalasna tortrix. About 

 the evening alfo, fome fpecies of f phinges or hawk-moths are 

 often feen to hover over the bloffoms, and with their long 

 tongues extraft the honey from the very bottoms of the 

 flowers. 



LONICERUS, or Lonicer, John, in Biography, a 

 learned German, was born in 1499 : after having received a 

 good education, he became himfelf a profeffor at Marpurg, 

 where he died about the year 1 ,60. He was author of a 

 Greek and Latin Lexicon, and pubhlhed an edition of Diof- 

 corides. Moreri. 



LONIGO, or Leonico, in Geography, a town of Italy, 

 in the Vicentm, feated on a river called Fiume Novo, and 

 containing feveral churches and monafteries; 14 miles S.S.W. 

 of Vicenza. 



LONKA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Po- 

 dolia ; 44 miles N. of Kaminiec. 



LONSCHAKOVA, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutfk ; 40 miles N.N.E. of Stretenflt. 



LONSCHIN, a town of Pruffia, in the palatinate of 

 Culm ; 10 miles S. of C".lm. 



LONS-LE-SAULNIER, a town of France, and prin- 

 cipal placeof adiftrict,i:i the department of the Jura, formerly 

 eelebrctted for its falt-works, but now diicontinued. The 

 place contains 6041 , and the canton 14,999 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 1 12^ kiliometres, in 23 communes. N. lat. 46' 

 40'. E. long. 5 38'. 



LONTARUS, in Botany, Rumph. Amboin. v. i. 45. 

 t. 10. Juff. 39. Gsertn. t. 8, a barbarous name of Rum- 



phius for the Borajus Jlabelliformis of Linnaeus. See Bo- 



RASSUS. 



LONT-CHOUDSONG, in Geography, a town of 

 Thibet ; 35 miles N.N.E. of Laffa. N. lat. 29' 58'. E. 

 long. 92 14'. 



LONTHOIR, a town of the ifland of Banda, in the 

 Eaft Indian fea. 



LONTOU, a town of Africa, in Galam, on the Sene- 

 gal ; 60 miles S.E. of Galam. 



LOO, a town of France, in the department of the Lys ; 

 fix miles S S.E of Dixmude. 



LOOBOE, or LoEBOE. See Loeboe. 

 LOOCALLA, a town of Congo, on the Zaire; 90 

 miles W. of St Salvador. 



LOOCHRISTI, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Scheldt, and chief place of a canton, in the dillrift 

 of Ghent. The place contains 3056, and the canton 14,432 

 inhabitants, on a territory of 140 kiliometres, in 7 com- 

 munes. 



LOODUERA, a town of Bengal ; i 1 miles S. of Ro- 

 gonatpour. 



LOOE, a fmal! ifland near the coaft of Cornwall ; two 

 miles S.E. of Looe. 



Lode, Eajl, a borough and market town in the parifli 

 of St. Martin, hundred of Weft, and county of Cornwall, 

 England, is fituated at the mouth of the river Looe, 12 miles 

 from Plymouth, and 233 weft from London. It is moftly 

 built on a flat piece of ground, having 'the river on the wef^ 

 and the fea on the fouth. The ftreets are narrov.-, and the 

 houfes built with flate. The port is protefted by a fmall 

 battery and breaft-work. The town was incorporated by 

 queen Elizabeth in 1587; the government is vefted in a 

 mayor ard nine burgeffes, who jointly eleft a recorder. Two 

 members have been returned to parliament ever fince 13 Eli- 

 zabeth ; the right of eleftion is in the mayor, burgeffes, and 

 freemen ; in number about fifty. In the furvey taken in 

 1801, Eaft Looe was found to contain 126 houfes, and 467 

 inhabitants, who were chiefly fupported by the pilchard 

 filhery, and the trade connefted with the port. Four annual 

 fairs are held, and a weekly market on Saturdays. Beauties 

 of England and Wales, vol. ii. 



Looe, IVeJl, originally named Portpigham, a borough and 

 market town in tiie parifti of Talland, hundred of Weft, and 

 county of Cornwall, England, is alfo fituated at the mouth 

 of the river Looe, and is connefted with Eaft Looe by a 

 ftone bridge of fifteen arches. Weft Looe formerly .was 

 much more confideiable in point of trade, &c. than Eaft 

 Looe ; it now prefents a long ftreet of mean irregular houfes, 

 with a fmall town-hall, anciently a chapel, and a few other 

 buildings on the brink of the river. This borough, as well 

 as the adjoining one, received its firft charter of incorpora- 

 tion from queen Ehzabeth, vefting the government in a 

 mayor, and twelve burgeffes, who with the freemen, in the 

 whole about ^o, eleft two members of parliament. In the 

 population return for 1801, Weft Looe was ftated to confill 

 of 82 houfes, and 376 inhabitants. A fair is held annually, 

 and a market every Saturday. Beauties of England and 

 Wales, vol. ii. 



LOOF, or as it is ufually pronounced, Luff, a term ufed 

 in condnig of a' ihip. Thus, 



Look up- is to bid the fteerfman keep nearer to the wind. 

 Loot-' into a harbour, is to fail into it clofe by the wind. 

 Loof, to fpring the, or luff, is when a ftlip that was going 

 large before the wind is brought clofe by the wind. 



When a fliip fails on a wind, that is, on a quarter-wind, 

 they fay to the fteerfman, keep your iuffl veer no more J keep 



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