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in the angles four fleurs-de-lis; and in the middle a circle, 

 within which on one fide the image of St. Louis in armour, 

 with the royal mantle over it, holding in his right hand a 

 crown of laurel, and in his left hand a crown of thorns, and 

 the three pafTion-nails, all proper ;" with this inlcription, 

 LUDOVicus MAGNUS iNSTiTtiT 1 693 : On the reverie, "a 

 fword ereCl, the point through a clmplet of laurel,' bound 

 witli a white ribbon enamelled, with tliis motto, bellic.e 

 viRTUTis PK.iJMiLM. The grcL't crofles had the crofs 

 pendent to a broad bright red ribbon, which ihey wore 

 paffing fcarfwife over the !eft flioukler ai.d under the right 

 arm : they alfo wore the like crofs embroidered wiih gold 

 on the outfide of their upper garment. The commanders 

 wore the crofs pendent to a broad ribbon, in the famr man- 

 ner as worn bv the great erodes- ; but they have it not em- 

 broidered on their clothes. The knights wore a fmail gold 

 crofs pendent at a red ribbon, fallened at a button-hole of 

 their coats. 



At the time of their inftitntion, the king charged his 

 revenue with a fund of three lumdred thoufand livres, for 

 the penfions of the commanders and knights. 



Louis, Sf., in Geography, an ifland on the weft coaft of 

 Africa, at the mouth of the river Senegal ; flat, fandy, and 

 barren. Its name is derived from a fort built by the 

 French. Both were ceded to the Eng'iih by the treaty of 

 Verfailles, in 176J. During the American war it was 

 taken by the French, and kept by them after the peace of 

 1783. N. lat. 16. W. long. 16 8. — Alfo, a fea-port 

 town on the fouth coail of the ifland of Hifpaniola. It is 

 fltuated at the head of a bay of its name. N. lat. 18 16'. 

 W. lor.g. 74- 19'. — Alio, a fea-port town of Hifpaniola, 

 on the north coalt ; ruined in 1797 by a hurricane ; 5 miles 

 S.E. of Cape Fran^ais' — Alfo, a tbwn of So'ith America, 

 in the province of Guiana. N. lat. 3° 55'. W. long. 52' 

 30'. — Alfo, the capital town of Guadaloupe, Grand Terre, 

 with a fortrefs ; 3 leagues S.E. of the Salt river. — Alfo, a 

 town on the weft; fide of the river Miflilippi, 2C miles below 

 the mouth of the Miflouri. It is lituated on a pleafant and 

 healthy eminence, and contained, in 1799, 130 large com- 

 modious houfes, built of ftone, and 925 iniiabitants, of 

 whom 268 are flaves.. In this year the productions of the 

 fettlement were 4300 budiels of wheat, 10,300 bufhels of 

 corn, and 1650 pounds of tobacco. The inhabitants pof- 

 fefll'd 1 140 horned cattle, and 215 horfes. — Alio, a fijiall, 

 compaft, beautiful ~bay in Weft Florida, with about feven 

 feet water: the land near it is of a light foil, and good for 

 pafture. Formerly here were feveral fettlers ; but in the 

 year 1767 the Choiftaw Indians killed their cattle, and 

 obliged the.Ti to remove. — Alfo, U lake of Canada, com- 

 jTiencing, or rather terminating at La Chine, a village which 

 ftands at the lower end of it. The lake is about 12 miles in 

 •length, and four in breadth. At its uppermoft extremity 

 it receives a large branch of the Utawas river, and alfo the 

 fouth-weil branch of the river St. Lawi-ence, whicj.i by fome 

 geographers is called ihe river Cadaraqui, and by others the 

 river Iroquois ; but in the country, generally fpeaking, the 

 whole of that river, running from lake Ontario to the gulf 

 of St. Lawrence, goes limply under the name of St. 

 Lawrence. At the upper end of lake St. Louis, the water 

 is very fliallow, owing to the banks of mud and fand wafiied 

 up by the two rivers ; and thefe banks are entirely covered 

 wit-h reeds, fo that when a veflel fails over them, fne appears 

 at a little diftance to be abfolulely failing over dry laud. 

 This part of the lake is infefted with clouds of infeds, fimi- 

 lar to thofe which have been co.Timonly obfcrved on various 

 parts of the river St. Lawrence. Their fize is about that 

 «f a goat ; their colour is white ; and their form fo delicate, 



that the flighteft touch dcftroyed them, and reduced thetn 

 to powder. Their wings are broad in proportion to their 

 fi/e, and fly heavily ; fo that it is only when the air is re- 

 markably calm, that they can venture to make their appear- 

 ance. N. lat. 45 25'. W. long. 73" 20'. Welds Travels 

 through Canada, vol. ii. — Alfo, a group of fmall iflands in 

 the river St. Lawrence. N. lat. 4J 23'. W. long. 73 30'. 

 — Alio, a river of America, which runs into lake Superior. 

 N. lat. 46 44'. W. long 91 52'. 



LoL'is tk Maratiham, St., a town ofi the north coaft of 

 Bralil, and on the Atlantic ocean, iituatcd on the caft fide 

 of Mearim river ; about half way between point Mocoripe 

 and the mouth of the river Para. 



LOUIS.A., or Dkoekdy, a fea-port town of Sweden, in 

 the province of Nyland, on the north coaft of the gulf of 

 Finland, built in 1745 as a frontier town towards Ruflia, 

 and at lirft called Degerby, but afterwards Louifa, in 1752, 

 by king Adolphus Frederic. It is an open town, defended 

 towards the fea by a fmall fortrefs. The houfes are all of 

 wood, and of two ftories, painted with a red colour, and 

 appearing much neater than the common towns in Ruflia. 

 N. lat. 60 27'. E. long 26 16'. 



Louisa, a county of Virginia, adjoining Orange, Albe- 

 marle, Fluvanna, Sputtlylvama, and Goochland counties. 

 It is about 35 miles long, and 20 broad, and contains 5900 

 free inhabitants, and 5992 flaves. Many parts of this 

 county are covered with pine. — Alfo, a river of Virginia, 

 the head-water of Cole river, a fouth-wett bra'ah of the 

 Great Kanhaway.— Alfo, a river of Africa, which runs 

 into the Atlantic, S. lat. j 10'. 



Louisa Ch'ilto, or Loo/a Ch'itto, a river of America, 

 which rifes on the borders of South Carolina, and runs a 

 fouth-wefterly courfe, through the Georgia Weftern lands, 

 and joins the Miffifippi juft below the- Walnut hills, and 

 10 miles from Stony river. It is 30 yards wide at its 

 mouth, and faid to be navigable for canoes 30 or 40 

 league?. 



LOUISBOURG, the capital of Sydney^ or Cape 

 Breton, ifland, m North America ;- fltuated on a point of 

 land, on the fouth-eaft flde of the ifland. Its ftreets are 

 regular and broad, co:)lifting chiefly of ftone houfes, with a 

 large parade, at a little diftance from the citadel, the infide 

 of which is a fine fquare, nearly 200 feet on each fide. On 

 its north fide, while the French had pofleffion of it, ftood 

 the governor's houfe and the churcli ; the other fides were 

 occupied by barracks, bomb-prcof, in which the French 

 fecured their women and children during ihe fiege. The 

 town is nearly half a mile long, and two in circuit. Its 

 harbour is one of the fijieft in that country, being almoft 

 four leagues in circuit, uitli fi.x or feven fathoms of water 

 in every part of it. The anchorage is good, and fliips may 

 run aground without danger. Its entrance is rot above 

 300 toifes in breadth, formed by two fmall iflands, and is 

 known, 1 2 leagues out at fea, by cape Lorem.bec, fltuated 

 near the north-eaft fide of it. The interior oi the harbour 

 is more than half a mile broad from N.W. to S.E. in the 

 narroweft part, and fix miles long from N.E. to S.W. In 

 the north-eaft part is a fine careening wharf, fecure from all 

 winds. On the oppofite fide are the filhing ftages, and room for 

 2000 boats to cure their filh. The cod-fiiliery may be con- 

 tinued from April to the clofe of November. In winter the 

 harbonr is entirely frozen, fo that it may be walked over ; 

 and it continues in this ftate from the end of November till 

 May or June. The principal trade of Louiftiourg is the 

 cod-filhery, from which the inhabitants derive great profits ; 

 fifli being plentiful, and deemed better than any about New- 

 foundland. This place was taken from the French in I74>. 



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