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LUCKNORE, a town of HinJooftan, in Baliar ; 2S 

 milrs S. of Patna. N. lat. 1^° 8'. E. long. 85^ 16'. 

 LUCKNOUTI. See Gouk. 



IvUCKNOW, a circarof Hindooflan, in Oude, bounded 

 on the N. by Kairabad, on the E. by Oiide circar, on the S. 

 by Manickpour, aiid on the W. by Canage ; about 75 

 miles long, and 45 broad. The capital is Lucknow. 



I^UCKNOW, a hirge and populous, but irregular and in- 

 elegant, city of Benga', capital of the fore-meutioned circar, 

 and of the ftibah of Oude, iituated on the Goomty, which 

 runs on the N, iiJe of the town, and is navigable for boats 

 of a common iize at all feafons of the year ; founded by 

 iatfchman, or Lacman, and rebuilt by Bikarmadjit, king 

 of Oude. The fpot on which the founder relidc-d is pre- 

 ferved in remembrance by a mofque, ei-efted for this pur- 

 •pofe by Aurungzebe. This is a very ancient city, and mo- 

 derately ex ten five ; many of the houfes are of bnck, but 

 the greateil pr.rt confifts of mud walls, covered with tiles, 

 and built on fcattcred eminences, fo that the afcents and 

 defccnts are numerou's and fatiguin,; ; and the ftreets are 

 narrow and filthy, no care being taken to preferve them 

 clean. Moll of the old palaces were deftroyed by Suja Dowla, 

 and others erefted. The magnificent edifices are few. The 

 lioufcs of the merchants are conllruiSted of brick, and are 

 lofty and ftrong. Lucknow is diftant from Allahabad 127 

 mi'.es ; from Agimere 428 ; from Arcot 1147 ; from Bahar 

 388 ; from Cabul 1118 ; from Dacca 790; from Dowla- 

 tabad 7 28 ; from Golconda 794 ; from Gwalior 211; from 

 Oude or Fyzabad 85; from Patna 316 ; from Seringapatam 

 1201 ; from Vifiapour 920. N. lat. 26 '52'. E. long. 

 81^ 14'. 



LUCKO, or LuzK, a city of Ruffian Poland, capital 

 of the palatinate of Volhynia, with a callle, where the 

 bifliop of Vo'hvnia refided, and where the Jefuits had a 

 college ; it is alfo the rcfidence of a Ruffian bilhop, and 

 I'.as a provincial diet, and court of judicature ; 200 miles 

 E.N E. of Cracow. N. lat. jo^ 40'. E. long. 25 ' 19'. 



LUCKOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Sohajeuour ; 2 3 miles S. of Sohajepom-. 



LUCKUMRY, a town of Meckley ; 3; miles W. of 

 Munnypour. 



LUCO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra ; nine 

 •miles S.S.W. of Celano. 



LUC ON, a town of France, and fee of a bithop before 

 ■the revolution, in the department of the Vendee, and chief 

 place of a canton, in the dill rift of Fontenoy le Coftite ; 

 15 miles from it. It is filuated on a canal, about fix miles 

 in length, communicating witli the fea. The environs are 

 luarfliy, and the air is unwhnlefome. The place contains 

 2630, and the canton 8572 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 332^ kiliometres, in Jo communes. N. lat. 46° 29'. W. 

 long*. i'4'. . 



LugoN', or Luzon, fometimes called MaiiUla. from its 

 capital, is the largeft and molt important of the Philippine 

 ifles, being more than feven decrees, or near 500 Britifii miles 

 in length, and about 100 of medial breadth. This ifland is 

 pervaded in its length by a liigh chain of mountains towards 

 the eall, fo that its interior parts are difficult of accefs ; and 

 the examination of it is alfo redrained by the jealonfy of the 

 .Spaniards. It is alfo traverfed by the branches of a confi- 

 fidcrablc river, on the banks of which the capital is feated ; 

 and Its lakes are numerous, the largcll of which isthefource 

 of the river M.inilla. Several volcanoes occur in this ifland, 

 nor are earthquakes uncommon. Its foil is uncommonly 

 fertile, and its produfts are gold, copper, and iron. Such 

 is the feriilitv of the foil, t'aat rice, which in other coun- 

 tries requires m.ucL culiiv.ition. grows every wliere with little 



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or no attention, and even in the higheft mountains, witlwnt 

 being watered. Of rice they have different kinds, fomc of 

 which requires four or (we months between the fowing and 

 the harveil, and fome which is fown and reaped within 40 

 days. Although they have no wheat but that which is im- 

 pni ted, the foil is very capable of bearing it, as appeared 

 by an experiment, in which one bufliel produced 130. The 

 grafs grows, the trees bud, blolTom, and bear fruit all the 

 year, not only in the gardens but on the mountain'!. The 

 richcft fruits of the Well Indies, as well as of the Eaft,are 

 here abundant, and fome that are found no where elfe. Here 

 are 40 different forts of palms, the molt excellent cocoas 

 and cafiia, the fugar-canc and cotton of peculiar beauty. 

 In the mountains are found wild cinnamon, wild nutmegs, 

 ebony, fandal wood, together with excellent timbi r for 

 building and Ihipping. Gold is found upon the mountains 

 in every part of the ifiaiid, walhcd out of the e:!rth by the 

 heavy rains ; in the mould of their vallies, carried down by 

 their rivulets ; and in the fand and mud of their lakes, 

 brooks, and rivers. The Spaniards obtain about 1 000 or 

 I JOG pounds weight every year, as a tribute of the .inha- 

 bitants. All kinds of cattle abound, fo that a large fat ox 

 does not coll above four pieces of eight. Civet-cats are 

 alfo very common, and their civet is highly valuable. Amber- 

 gris is alfo tiirown on their coaflis in prodigious qunnti-ies. 

 The natives, who are of a mild charatler, are called Taga's, 

 like all thofe of the Philippines, and feem to be of Malay 

 origin. They are tall and well made, wearing only a kind 

 of ihirt, with loofe drawers ; but the drefs of the women is 

 chiefly a large mantle, and their black and beautiful hair 

 fometimes reaches the ground ; their complexion is a deep 

 t%wny. Their houfes are of bamboo covered with palm 

 leaves, railed on pillars to the height of eight or ten feet. 

 The chief food is rice, which is often eaten with failed 

 fifii. M. Sonnerat has given fome account of the interior 

 part of the country, as far as he was able to penetrate it. 

 At the dillance of about a day's journey from the capital, 

 he found himlelf buried in woods, no habitation nor ap- 

 pearance of cultivation prefenting themfelves to his view. 

 Some fcattered Indians, liaving their fhoulders covered with 

 the Hvins of wild goats, tiie rell of the body being naked, 

 with a bow in their hands and arrows on their back, were 

 difcovered. Their looks were haggard, and their counte- 

 nances very unprepodl'lfing. They feemcd to be timid and 

 difpofed to flee from the face of man, and even from one 

 another. They have no focicty ; they are folitary wanderers ; 

 Hopping when niglit overtakes them, and fleeping in the 

 holl.nvs of trees. They have no families, and they feem to 

 be conftrained merely by inftinft to fue the females whom 

 chance has tlirown in their way. After travcrfing the 

 wood above-mentioned, M. Sonnerat was led to a large lake, 

 in tlie middle of which is an ifland, where fome Indian fa- 

 milies have taken refuge ; here they live by fiflung, and 

 preferve thei- liberty, fnffering no one to land on the place, 

 which ferves them for an afylum. On the E.,S.E. the lake 

 is bounded by high mountains ; the foil is fertile, and there 

 are many fruit trees ; and hence Manilla is fupplied with 

 fruit. Tiiefe mountains are inhabited by a mild fet of 

 people, who employ themfelves in making mats, cloth, and 

 different works with the abacca, a kind of banana which 

 bears no fruit, and of which the filaments are very llrong. 

 Thefe people have laws, and punilh crimes, the chief, in 

 their ellimation, being adultery. On the other fide of the 

 mountains, which bound ihe lake on the E.S.E., are im- 

 menfe plains, traverfed by large and deep rivers, which dif- 

 fufe fertility. Here are a few fcattered villages inhabited 

 by men, without morals, . witliout virtue, without equity ; 



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