LOT 



LOT 



6ioo kiliometres, or 36,^08 fquare leaguffs, and 35'2 90R 

 iuliahitants. It is divided into four circles, _?8 cantons, and 

 4^9 comrnunes. The circles are Agen, inchiding 107,840, 

 Marmande, 112.091, Nerac, 4;,! 19, and Vil'ncuvc d' Agen, 

 89.8,8 inhabitant?. Its contributions amo':nt to 3,807,413 

 fr. and its expences to 292,739 fr. 33 cents. Its capital is 

 Aecn. The furface of this department is diverfified by 

 fr litful einin.-nces ; but two-thirds of the foil are of a very 

 infi'rior <|uality. It has feveral marfhy trafts ; the Landes 

 confifls of moveable fands ; fome parts near the I.ot have a 

 nidged and barren afpeft ; but the circle of Villeneuve 

 d'Agen is diftinguiflied by its fertility. The produfts are 

 gr.iin, fruits, few trees, and indifferent paflures. It has iroxi 

 mines. 



Lot's U'lfe, a ilupendous rock in the fea, encomparing 

 the Ladrones, which rifes in the form of a pyramid, and is 

 thus defcribed by Mr. Meares in his voyage, cited by Mr. 

 rinkerton. " The latitude was 29" 50' N., the longitude 

 142'' 23' E. of Greenwich. The waves broke againft its 

 rugged front, with a fury proportioned to the immenfe dif- 

 tance they had to roll before they were interrupted by it. It 

 rufe almoft perpendicular to the height of near350 feet. A 

 faiall black rock appeared juft above the water, at about 40 

 or JO yards from tlie weilern edge. There was a cavern on its 

 fouth-eaflern fide, into which the waters rolled with an awful 

 and tremendous noife. In re.;arding tliis ihipendous rock, 

 which flood alone in an immenfe ocean, we could not but 

 coutider it as an object which had been able to refill one of 

 thsfe great convultion; of nature tint change the very form 

 of thofe parts of the globe which lliey are permitted to de- 

 folate." 



Lot, in a legal fenfe. See Scot. 



Lot, or Loth, in Mining, is the thirteenth difh, meafure, 

 or part of the miner's ore, which the bar-mailer takes up for 

 the king, or the farmer. 



Lot, or Pot, a liquid meafure in French Flanders, each 

 equal at Lifle to 126 cubic inches, and i S3. 33 = 100 Eng- 

 lilh gallons. 



LOT. A, in Ichthyology, the name of a fpccies of the Muf- 

 tela fluviafilis. See GhTtvaLota. 



LO-TCHEOU, in Geography, a town of Corea ; 22 

 miles W.S.W. of Koang-tcheou. 



LOTE Trei:, in Botany. See Celtis. 



LOTH, in Geography, a town of Scotland, in the county 

 of Sutherland, an the E. coaft ; 16 miles N.N.E. of Dor- 

 noch. 



Loth, o' Lod, a weight in Germany ; 1 loths being = 

 T oz. and 16 oz. ^ 2 marks = i pfund or pound. In 

 eftimating the fincnefs of filver, the mark fiae is divided into 

 16 loths, and the loth into 18 grains. 



LOTHAIRE I., in Biography, emperor of the Weft, 

 and king of Italy, eldeft fon of Lewis I., furnamed le De- 

 bonnaire, was born in 795. He was aflbciated with his fa- 

 ther in the imperial dignity in 817, and was crowned king 

 of Lombardy in 821. (See Lewi.'; I.) On the death of his 

 father he fueceeded to the imperial dignity. Being con- 

 firmed in the title of emperor, he aimed at the poffefllon of 

 the whole of his father's territories, and endeavoured to de- 

 prive, of their inheritance, his brothers I^ewis and Cliarles, 

 who alTenibled all their forces to vindicate their rights. Tliis 

 great fatiily q'arrel was decided on the plains of Foiitenoy. 

 The confliil was terrible, and the ground difputed with an 

 ohllinacy, of which few examples are left on reconl in the 

 fanguinary horrors of war. Hirtorians agree in Hating that a 

 hurxlred thoufand men fell on this occafion, and have in tliis in- 



ftancc applied t'l? remark, " that whole generations may be 

 fwcpt away by tiie inadncfs of kings in the fpace of a fingle 

 hour." Lothaire was completely defeated, and obliged to 

 betake himfelf to flight. He went to Aix-hi-Chapclle, 

 where he diligently exerted himfelf to repair his lofles. The 

 viciflTitudcs of three fuccelTive years of difcord f xhaufted at 

 leneth the powers, without impairing the animofity, of the 

 kindred princes, and they confcnted to divide thofe domi- 

 niors for which they were no longer able to contend. By 

 this divifion the French monarchy was divided into three 

 fliares, of which Lothaire, with the imperial dignity, re- 

 tained Italy, with all the provinces fi'uated between the 

 Rhone, Rhine, Soan(?, Meufe, and Scheldt. After this 

 partition, Lothaire palled fome years, difquieted by the in- 

 roads of the Saracens upon Italy, and by differences with his 

 Iwlf-brother Charles, till d'fgufl with the cares of the world, 

 and declining health induced him to abdicate his crown. The 

 part of Gaul vvh:ch Lothaire retained, he had diilinguifhed by 

 his own name, I.otharingia, which, by the iHfcnfible corrup- 

 tion of time, has funk into that of Lorrain, which is ilill an- 

 nexed to tiie dillrift. But the empire which he had purfued at 

 the cxpence of every filial duty, and which he had eftablidied 

 by torrents of the beft bh^sd of his fuhjcifls, afforded him but 

 a tranfient latisfaCtion. From the fummit of grandeur which 

 he had attained, the recollection of the pail was melancholy 

 and frightful, the profpcfl of the future was dreary and 

 comfortlefs, and fifteen years after the death of his father 

 he affumed the habit of a monk ; the (l.ort fpace of a few 

 days o::ly, however, was all nvcd to the prayers of the 

 royal penitent, when he died in the fixtieth year of his age. 

 He left three fons, i'J3. Lewis, Lothaire, and Charles : of 

 whom the firll inherited Italy, with the title of emperor ; 

 the fecond, the kingdom of Lorrain j and the third that of 

 Provence. Univer. Hid. 



LoTiiAlRE II., or LoTiiAi!iu.s, dukeof Saxe-Supplem- 

 burg, was railed to the imperial tlirone, after the death of 

 Henry, v., in 1 1 26, notwitlillanding the oppofition of two 

 powerful competitors, who made very vigorous exertions 

 for the fupport of their pretenfions. But after a fancrui- 

 nary and unavaihngconteil, they took the oath of allegiance, 

 and were honoured with particular marks of their fovereign's 

 friendfhip. Lothaire was crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle, in 

 prcfenceof the pope's nuncio. After he was quietly feated 

 on his throne, he efpoufcd the caufe of pope Innocent II. 

 againft the anti-pope Atnacletus, and undertook an expedi- 

 tion into Italy, to re-eftabhfh him in the papal chair. Lo- 

 thaire was fucceLful, and the event fully anfwered his ex- 

 pedations. Innocent remunerated his fervices by performing 

 the ceremony of his coronation with great magnificence, 

 but he had the art, at the fame time, to make the emperor 

 do homage to the holy fee, of which the court of Rome 

 availed itielf to maintain that the empire was a fief of that 

 fee. Some time after thefe franfadtions, his holinefs was ex- 

 pofed to imminent danger by an hollile incurfion of Roger, 

 king of Sicily, but Lothaire advanced to his affiftanee, and 

 Roger's infult was punilhed by the lofs of ail his Italian 

 pofleffions, and he himfelf was forced to retire into Sicily. 

 Thefe provinces Lothiire formed into a principality, which 

 he conferred upon Renaud, a German, one of his relations. 

 On his return into Germany, Lothaire was feized with a 

 dangerous diftempcr, which ter:iiiiiated his life in the twolftli 

 year of his reign. By command of this emperor, the .luf- 

 tinian code of laws, which had been in dilufe for more than 

 five centuries, was revived in the empire. This reign wa.i 

 rendered remarkable by exccilive heat and a great drought 

 in Germanr, Vhich adually withered the corn and blafted 

 the fruits of the earth, dried up the moll confidcrable 



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