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fia', belongs to Saxony, having been ceded to the eleftor 

 about the middle of the i6th century, in confideration of a 

 large fum of money advanced by the eleftor to the emperor, 

 in his war with the Bohemians. 



LUSCHETZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Schlan ; 8 miles S.W. of Prague. 



LUSCINI A, in Omilhology, a fpecies of MotaciUa, which 

 fee. See alfo Nightingai.e. — Alfo, a fpecies of Certhia. 

 See Certhia Flaveola. 



LUSCINIOLA, xhiBogeiich of Pennant, and redivarbler 

 of Latham. See Mot.\cii.la. Schocmbiiius.' 



LUSCINIUS, Otiomarus, in Biography, a Benediftine 

 monk, born at .Strafburg, but an inhabitant of Augfburg, 

 publifhed in 1536 a work, entitled " Mufurgia fcii praxis 

 Mnficas," in fmall oblong quarto; a book chiefly curious 

 and valuable for the reprefentations of fuch mufical inftru- 

 ments as were ufed in Germany at the time it was written, 

 which, though coarfely cut in wood, are accurately drawn. 

 There are, among keyed-inftruments, the virginal, fpinnet, 

 and clavichord, all three in the form of a fniail modern piano- 

 forte ; an upright harpfichord ; a regal or' portable organ, 

 chiefly compofed of reed-ilops, and in Roman Catholic 

 coimtries ufed in pr^jceffions ; and a large or church-organ. 

 Of bowed-inftnuiients we have here only the raonochord, 

 rebec, or three-flringed violin, and the viol da gamba. The 

 vieUe, lu'.e, harp, and dulcimer ; cornet, fchalmey, or bafe 

 clarinet, both played with reeds ; flutes of various fize, 

 among which is the ^bjrcijpfiiti', flute traverfiere, or, as 

 we call it, the German flute; which accounts for its name, 

 as we believe, at this early period, it was unknown to the 

 reft of Europe. There are four other wind-inilruments, 

 peculiar to Germany and northern countries, exhibited here : 

 as, firft, the rufpfeiff', or Ruffian flute ; fecond, the kruni- 

 horn, or crooked horn, a kind of fliawm, in imitation of 

 which we hjve a reed-ilop in our old organs, called the 

 cromhorn, which has by fome been imagined to be a cor- 

 ruption of the viford Cremona ; third, gem fen horn, or wild 

 goat's horn ; and, fourth, the zincke, or fmall cornet. 

 After thefe we have the bag-pipe, trumpet, facbut, fide- 

 drum, kettle-drum, French-horn, bug!e-horn, and even the 

 Jews-harp, and clappers. Moft of thefe inftruments being 

 in common ufe, and well known, need no reprefentation 

 after the rude types of them given by Lufcimus, as they 

 have been fince much better delineated and engraved in Mer- 

 iennus, Kiicher, and in ftill later mufical writers. 



LUSEPARA, in Geography, an ifland that lies in the 

 fouth entrance of the ftraits of Banca. S. lat. y 10' ^o 



' 30"- 



E. long. 106' 19'. 



LUSHBURGHS, or Luxkxburgiis, in our Old 

 I'/rlten, a bafe fort of foreign coin, made of the llkencl'a of 

 Englifh money, and brought into England in the time of 

 Edward III. to deceive the king and his people : on ac- 

 count of which it was made treafon, for any one willingly to 

 bring any fuch money into the realm, as knowing it to be 

 falfe. Stat. 23 Edw. 111. 3 In ft. i. 



LUSIAD of Camosns. See Ca.moens. 



LUSIGNAN, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in 

 the diflrijft of Poitiers. The place contains 2390, and the 

 canton 13,147 iniiabitants, on a territory of 342^ kilio- 

 ftiotrfs, in 10 communes. N. lat. 46' 26'. E. long, o" 14'. 



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

 Aube, and chief place of a canton, in the diltrift of Troycs. 

 Ttie place contains i\^^, and the canton 7225 inhabitants, 

 on a territory of 180 kiiiometres, in 14 commtnes. 



LUSITANIA, in Ancient Geugruphy, one of the two 

 firoviDces into which Hifpania Ulterior was divided ; the 



other being Boetica. (See Hispania.) Its limits have 

 been varioufly defined by different authors, and particularly 

 by Pliny and Ptolemy. Strabo intimates, that this pro- 

 vince extended from the Tagus to the Cantabrian ocean, or 

 at lead the Promontorium Celticum. That part of it, fitu- 

 atcd betwixt the Anas and the Tagus, was denominated 

 Celtica, or' the country of the Celts. After Auguilus 

 made the difpofiuon of S]jain, referred to under the article 

 Hi/pania, the Anas bounded Lufitania on the fouth, and 

 the Durius on the north ; fo that the whole traft lying be- 

 twixt the Durius and the Cantabrian ocean was annexed to 

 the Provincia Tarraconenfis. The interior limits of Lufitania, 

 upon tiie frontiers of the Vettones and Carpetani, are dif- 

 ferently fixed by different authors. The Lufitani pod'cfrcd 

 the dillrift bordering upon the Atlantic ocean, and ftretch- 

 ing itfelf from the mouth of the Anas to the Promontorium 

 Sacrum, now known by the name of Cape St. Vincer.t. 

 The fittiation of the Celtici, whofe true name was Mire- 

 brigenfes, according to Pliny, m.ay be inferred from the 

 preceding part of this article. Some of the ancient geo- 

 graphers make the Turduli and the Turdetani one nation, 

 particularly Ptolemy and Strabo ; though they were con- 

 fidered in a different light by Polybius. However this be, 

 the Turdetani were undoubtedly a powerful people, fince 

 they occupied a confiderable part both of Lufitania and 

 Bocnca, as we learn from Strabo. The fame may be faid 

 of the Vettones, who fpread tliemfelves over a large traft, 

 terminated on the north by the Durius, and on the iouth by 

 the Tagus. Neverthelefs, as the ancients differ with regard 

 to the extent of territory every one of thofe nations or can- 

 tons pofTeffed, it is probable that their frontiers were not al- 

 ways the farTiC. Some authors aflert Vettonia, or the 

 country of the Vettones, to have been a province diftindl 

 from Lufitania, and limited on the fouth by the Anas ; and 

 this notion is countenanced by an infcription in Gruter. 

 The principal cities of this province are Barbarium Promon- 

 torium, Oiifippo, Tagi Fluvii Oftia, Fortes Fluv., Lunas 

 Montis Promontorium, MondiE Fiuv. Ollia, Vaci Fluv. 

 0!Ha, Doris Fluv. Ollia, Hannibal. Inland towns were 

 Lavara, Aritium, Saliura, Elbocoris, Aradufla, Verarium, 

 Velladis iEminium, Chretina, Arabriga, Scalabifcus, Ta- 

 cubis, Concordia, Talabriga, Langobriga, Mendeculia, 

 Caurium, Turmogum, Burdua, Colernum, Ifallscus, Am- 

 mrea, Ebura or Ebora, Norba Ca:farea, Liciniana, Au- 

 g'.illa Enicrita, which was the capital, Evandria, Geroca, 

 C<ecilia Gemittina, Capafa, Conimbrica, Collipo, Bletifa, 

 Salman'ica, SaLitia, Pax Julia, and fome others of lefs 

 note. The chief promontories of Lufitania were the Pro- 

 montorium Sacrum, or Cape St. Vurcent ; P. Barbarium, 

 or Cape Spichel ; and the P. l^lagnum, or Ohfiponenfe, 

 denominated by fume moderns Cape de Rocca Sintra ; to 

 w'licli fom.e add a fourth, called by Pliny Cuneus or the 

 Wedge, fuppofed to be now known by the name of Cape 

 St. Mary. The principal ports of this province were thofe 

 of Oiifippo or Lisbon, and Hannibal. The only ifland en 

 the coafi of Lufitania was the Londobris of Ptolemy, the 

 Barlenga or Barlinges of the moderns. Tho only mountain 

 of note in this country was the Mons Herminius of Hirtius, _ 

 or the modern Arminno, fince known by the name of Sierra 

 de Eilretta, running from north to fouth, between the pro- 

 vinces of Beira and Tra los Monies. On the top are two 

 extenfivc and deep lakes, calm when the fea is fo, and rough 

 when that is llormy. Thefe lakes are fuppoied to have 

 fome fubterranean communication with the ocean. Her- 

 minius Minor is now Sierra de Marvao. The warlike in- 

 habitants of the former were called Plumbarii, from their 

 lead-mines and works. The jnoll celebrated rivers of Lufi- 

 6 tania 



