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dowed college; 52 nsiles S.E. of Augufta. N. lat. 32' ^^'. 

 W. long. 82 42 '. 



LOULAY, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lower Charcnte, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 

 trict ol St. d'Angely, and fix miles N. of it. The place 

 contains 3 66, and the canton 7 1 6 1 inhabitants, on a territory 

 of 167;^ kiliometres, in 19 communes. 



LOULE', a town of Portugal, in the province of Al- 

 garva, ou a river of the fame name, near the fca ; furrounded 

 with antique walls, and containing a caiUe, hofpitai, three 

 convents, and about 4460 inhabitants ; nine miies N. of 

 Faro. N. lat. 37-^8'. W. lorg. 7 54'. 



LOULIE\ FRAN90IS, in Biography, a French mufician, 

 who published in 1696 an ingenious and ufefiil book, intitbd 

 " Elements of Mufic," with a defcriplion of a chronometer 

 to meafiire time by a pendulum. See CuRONOMiiTER, and 

 its defcription, from this book, in Malcolm, p. ^07, and in 

 1698, another book was printed by Etienne Roger, at Am- 

 rterdam, called " A New Syilem of Mulic," by the fame 

 author. In this work, beCdes the ufual inftruftions in ele- 

 mentary books, he explains the nature of tranfpoCtion, and 

 propofes a method of reducing a piece of mulic into any 

 key different from that in which it was originally compofed, 

 by means of imaginary clefs. See Trassposition, and 

 Dr. Pi;pufch's " Treatife on Harmony." 



LOUNG, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 circar of Schaurumpour ; 28 miles S. of Merat. 



LOU-NGHAN, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 

 the province of Chen-li. N. lat. 36 42'. E. long. 116' 



LOUP, a river of France, which runs into the Mediter- 

 ranean. N. lat. 43- 38'. E. long. ;° 12'. — Alfo, a river 

 of Canada, which runs into the lake St. Pierre. N. lat. 46"' 

 13'. E. long. 73"' 47'. 



Loup, St., a town of France, in the department of the 

 Upper Saone, and chief place of a canton, in the dillridl 

 of Lure ; lix miles N.W. of Luxeuil. The place contains 

 1891, and the canton 13,366 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 19J kiliometres, in 14 communes. — Alfo, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Two Sevres, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the di drift of Parthenay, near the river Thoue ; 

 nine miles N.N.E. of Parthenay. The place contains 1649, 

 and the canton 5968 inhabitants, on a territory of 197s ki- 

 liometres, in nine communes. 



Loup de Salle, St., a town of France, in the department 

 of the Saone and Loire, near the river Heune ; 1 1 miles 

 N. of Chalons fur Saone. 



LOUPPE, La, a town of France, in the department 

 of the Eure and Loire, aad chief place of a canton, in the 

 dillnft of Nogent-le-Rotrou ; 18 miles W. of Chartres.- 

 The place contains 1178, and the canton 10,315 inhabitants, 

 on a territory of 245 kiliometres, in 21 communes. 



LOUPTIERE, John Charles de Relongue, in 

 Biography, was born in the diocefe of Sens in 1727 ; he 

 became a member of the academy of the Arcadi at Rome, 

 and died in tlie year 1784. He is known by a collection 

 of poems in two volumes i2mo., written with much fpirit 

 and elegance ; and by fix parts of a Journal for ladies printed 

 in 1761. 



LOURDE,' in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Higher Pyrenees, and chief place of a can- 

 ton, in the dillrict of Argeles ; fix miles N. of Argeles. 

 The place contains 2741, and the canton 10,418 inhabitants, 

 e« a territory of 180 kiliometres, in 27 communes. N. lat, 

 43 6'. E. long, o' i'. 



LOURE, in French Mufic, a kind of dance, of which 

 the tune is rather flow, and generally in the meafure of \, 

 or fix crotchets in a bar. Loure is likewife the name of an 

 inllri^ment refembling a bagpipe, to the mulic of which the 

 tune is danced. 



LOU RE R is a verb, which implies fuftaining and che- 

 rifhing the times of a movement, in oppofitioii to dctachi, 

 fcparated. 



LOUREZA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Galicia ; 

 eight miles W. of Tuy. 



LOURIC'AL, a town of Portugal,' in the province of 

 Eili-amadura ; fix miles N. of Leyria. 



LOURINHA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 

 Eiitre Di:ero e Minho ; 8 miles S.S.E. of Peniche. 



LOURIST.AN. See Laihstan. 



LOUROUX-BECONNOLS, Le. See Lorou.x. The 

 place contains 2018, and the '■anton 6855 inhabitants, on a 

 territory of 2274 kiliometres, in feven communes. 



LOUS, Aa,, in Chronology, the Macedonian name for 

 the 4Ji.thenian month Hecatombajon, which was the firll of 

 their year, and anfwered to the latter part of our June and 

 the beginning <rf July. 



LOUSE, in Zoology. See Pediculus. This crea- 

 ture has lo tranfparent a {hell, or fl<in, that we are able to 

 difcover more of what palfes within its body, than in moll 

 other living creatures. It has naturally three divilions, the 

 head, the breall, and the tail part. In the head appear 

 two fine black eyes, with a horn that has five joints, and is 

 furrounded with hair ftarjding before each eye ; and from . 

 the end of the nofe, or fnout, there is a pointed projec^ng 

 part, which ferves as a Iheath or cafe to a piercer, or fucker, 

 which the creature thruRs into the Ikin, to draw out the 

 blood and humours which are its dellined food ; for it has 

 no mouth that opens in the common way. This piercer or 

 fucker is judged to be feven hundred times fmaller than a 

 hair, and is contained in another cafe within the firft, and 

 can be thruft out or drawn in at plealure. (Baker's Micro- 

 fcope, p. 177.) The breaft is very beautifully marked in 

 the middle, the flvin is tranfparer.t, and full of little pits ; 

 and from the under part of it proceed fix legs, each having five 

 joints, and their fkin all the way refembling fh;igreen, ex- 

 cept at the ends, where it is fmoolher. Each leg is ter- 

 minated by two claws, which are hooked, and are of an un- 

 equal length and fize ; thefe it ufes as we would a thumb 

 aiid a middle finger, and there are hairs between thefe claws 

 as well as all over the legs. Lewcnhoeck's Arcan. Nat., 

 torn. ii. p. 74. 



On the back of the tail part there may be difcovered 

 fome ring-like divifions, abundance of hairs, and a fort of 

 marks which look like the ilrokes of a rod on a child that 

 has been whipped ; the ikin of the belly feems like fhagreen, 

 and towards the lower end is very clear, aad- full of pits : 

 at the extremity of the tail there ate two femicifcular 

 parts, covered ail over with hairs, which ferve to conceal 

 the anus. 



When the loufe moves its legs, the motion of the mufcles, 

 which ail unite in an obglon dark fpot in the middle of the 

 breaft, may be diltinguifhed perfeftly, and to may the mo- 

 tion of the mufcles of the head when it moves its horn,^. 

 We may likewife fee the various ramificati«ns of the veins 

 and arteries, which are white, with the pulfe regularly beat- 

 ing in the arteries. But the moll lurprifing of all the ficrhts 

 is the periftaltic motion of the guts, wliich i> continued 

 from the llomach down to tlie anus. Philof. Tranf. 

 N' 102. 



If one pf thefe creatures, when hungry, be placed on 

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