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LUCHNOW Hiu.s, in GsograpSy, a range of motrn- 

 taiiis ill HiiiJoollan, between the circars of Kuttunpour 

 and GooncUvaiia ; the patlajre over wliich is eallcd " Luch- 

 now Pals," and is lituattd about eight miles W. of Ky- 

 ragur. 



LUCHO, a town of the principality of Pbnierelia ; t: 

 miles S.W. of Dant/,ic. — Alio, a town of the principality 

 of Luneburg, on the Jetze, in a moilt foil, fo tiiiit moll of 

 the houfes are eroded on piles ; 40 miles E.S.E. of Lune- 

 burg. N. lat. 52 5^'. E. long. II- 17'. 



LUCHOWICZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pala- 

 tinate of Novogrodek ; 40 miles 8.S.E. of Novogrodek. 



LUCIA, St., or, as it is called by the French, iV. /lloitfe, 

 from its having been difcovered on 6t. Lucia's day, one of 

 the Charaibf or Caribbee illands in the Well Indies, about 

 27 miles in lengtli from N. to S., and 12 broad. In this 

 ifland are feveral hills, two of which are remarkably round 

 and high, and faid to have been volcanoes. At the foot of 

 thefe hills are fine vallies, well-wateredy and having good 

 foil, that produces trees, the timber of which ferves the 

 planters- of Martinico and Barbadoes for building their 

 houfes and windmills. The ifland alfo fupplies plenty of 

 cocoa and fuftic. The air, fanned by the trade winds, 

 which, by the arrangement of the hills, are admitted into 

 the ifland, and thus moderating the heat, is reckoned falu- 

 brious. The ifland has feveral good harbours and bays, 

 which afford commodious anchorage ; particularly the 

 " Little Careenage," which is accounted the beil in all the 

 Caribbces,. and. which induced the French to prefer it to the 

 other neutral iflands. This harbour pofleffes feveral advan- 

 tages, luch as its depth, the excellent quality of its bottom, 

 and its convenient careening places. Thirty fliips of the 

 line may lie here flieltered from hurricanes, without the 

 trouble of mooring tiiem. As to the other harbours, the 

 winds are always favourable for going out, and the largell 

 fquadron may be in the offing in lefs than an hour. In the 

 illand are nine parillies, eight to the leeward, and only one 

 to the windward. A high road is made round the ifland, 

 and two others which crofs it from E-. to W,, and tluis af- 

 ford an ealy conveyance of the commodities of the planta- 

 tions to the barcadsres.or landing places.- In the year 1769, 

 the free inhabitants of the ifland a 1 ounted to 2^24; the 

 flavei to 10,270. Of cattle it Viad 1IS19 horned beads, and 

 ^378 Iheep, belides 59S mules and liorfes. Its plantations 

 confilled of 1,279,680 plants of cocoa; 2,463,880 of cofl'ee ; 

 68 1 IquariS of cotton ; and 25-4 of I'ngar canes: 16 fugar 

 works were actually at work, and 1.8 nearly completed. 

 Its produce yielded 112 oooA, which was capable of being 

 improved to 500,000/. After the Engllfh had been fettled 

 for fome time in this ifland, the Charaibes, inlkigatcd by the 

 French in the year 1638, either kflled or drove from the 

 ifland the Englilh fettlers with their governor. When the 

 eivll wars broke out in England, a party of French arrived 

 here, under a perfon named Rouflielan, well provided with 

 ttores and ammunition. Rouflelan recommended hlmfelf to 

 the Charaibes, lo that he and his colony carried on an ad- 

 vantageous trade ; but upon his death in 16J4, he was fuc- 

 ceedtd by La Riviere, who with his whole colony was 

 maiiacred by the Charaibes. It is needlefs to recount the 

 attempts made by the French, and alfo by the Engllfli in 

 1672, and at a later period in 1723, to obtain and preferve 

 a lettlenient ki this Ifland. At lengthy vyhen the Engllfli. 

 were compelled to rehnq^uifli all hopes of obtaining this and 

 other ifl.inds by force, St. Vincent, D»minlca, Tobago, 

 and St. Lucia were declared neutral by the treaty of Aix- 

 ia-Chapelk In 1748 ; and thole who remained of the ancient 

 propcicturs were left m mimolelled poll'eflioii. Tile treaty 



of neutrality was no fooner concluded, than both Englilli 

 and French appeared did'atisficd with the arrangement 

 they had made. The Eriglifli, in particular, difcovered, 

 that by acceding to the compromile, they had given up 

 St. Lucia, an ifland worth all the rell, and to which, it 

 mull be owned, they had fome colourable pretenfions, 

 founded on a treaty entered into with the Charaibeaji in- 

 habitants in 1664, 600 of whom attended an armament that 

 was lent thither by lord WiUoughby, and adtually put the 

 Engllfli pulillcly and formally into polTeflion. By the peace 

 ol Paris, February 1763, the three iflands of Dominica, 

 St. Vincent, and Tobago were afligned to Great Britain ; 

 and St. Lucia to France in full and perpetual fovereignty ; 

 the Charaibes not being oivce mentioned in the whole tranf- 

 aftlon, as If no fuch people exilled. Tlic Engllfli took this 

 ifland in the year 1779, but rellored it at the peace in 17S3 ;. 

 it was retaken b.y the Engllfli in 1794, rellored in 179^, 

 and retaken in 1796; rellored and recaptured iu 1803. 

 N- lat. 13 37'. W. long. 60 30'. 



LueiA, St., a town of Sicily, in the valley of Demoiia ; 



feveii miles N. of MefDjia Alfo, a town of the ifland of 



Corlica ; fix miles N E. of Corte.~Al£o, one of the fraaller 

 Cape Verd iflands, about 24 miles in length, high and 

 mountainous-. On the E. lide is a harbour, defended by 

 two fmall illands, which afford good flicker and anchorage. 

 N. lat. 16' 46'. W. long. 24 30'. — Alfo, a town of 

 South America, in the government of Buenos Ayres, 011 

 the E. lide of the river Plata; 140 miles N. of Santa Fe. 

 — Alio, a town of Brazil, m the government of Goyas, 

 on the river Tocantins. S. lat. 12° ao'. — Alfo, a town of 

 South America, in the government of Buenos Ayres, on 

 the Parana; 110 miles S. of Corientes. — Alfo, a town 

 of Peru, in the governnient of Are(|uipa ; 50 miles S.E. of 

 Arequlpa. — Alio, a town of South .America, in theaudiencf 

 of Quito, on the Daiilc ; 35 ml!es N.N.W. of GuayaquiL 

 — Alio, a town ot Italy, in the Trevifan ; 20 miles E.S.E^ 

 of Treviglo. — Alfo, a river of Africa, which runs into the 

 Indian fea ; S. lat. 28 . — Alfo, a river of America, in Eall 

 Florlds, which runs S.E. along the E. lide of the peninfula, 

 and communicates inland with the Indian river. 



Lucia Bay, St., a bay on the E. coall of the ifland of 

 Borneo. N. lat. 4 16'. E-long 117 18'. 



LUCIAN, in Biography, a dillinguiCied Greek writer, 

 a native of Saniofala, on the banks ot the Euphrates, was- 

 born in the reign of Trajan, of mean parentage, and in his 

 youth was placed with his uncle to learn the art of a lla- 

 tuary. Having no genius for the profelfion, and failing of 

 fuccefs in fome of lus iirll attempts, he withdrew from his 

 mailer, and went to Antioch, where he engaged in literary 

 iludles, and embraced the protfiiou of a pleader. He re- 

 ported, that he was induced to tliis. ftep by a dream, ia 

 which Learning feemed to draw him to her, and to promife 

 to his efforts fame and immortality. He was foon difguiled 

 with the contention of the bar, and confined hlmfelf to the 

 prailice of eloquence as a fophill or rhetorician, in which, 

 capacity he vilited feveral foreign countries, particularly 

 Greece, Italy, Spain, and GauL Theemperar M Aurelius 

 was fenlible of his great merit, and appointed him regiller 

 to the Roman governor of Egypt. Jrie dud about the 

 year A.D. 180, wlien he had attained the great age of go. 

 The works of Luclajii, which ai-e imnierou.s, and written in. 

 the Attic dialed, conhll chiefly of dialogues, in which he 

 introduces different charaftcrs wit'.i much dramatic pro- 

 priety. His llyle is eafy, iimple, elegant, and animated, 

 and he has llored his compolitlons with many lively fenli- 

 nients, and much of the true Attic wit. Flis frequent ob- 

 fcenities, aad his vulgar manner of expofing to ridicule 



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