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■ania were tlie Anas, now Guadiana, the Tagus or Taio, 

 and the Duriii? or Doiiro ; to whicli may be added the 

 Miinda or Mondago, and the Vacus or Voga : all thcfe flow 

 from eafl to well, and difcharge themfelves into the Atlantic 

 ocean. This province produced a confidcrable quantity of 

 gold, particles of it being mixed with the fand of the Tagus. 

 The lead-mine of Medobriga or Meidobriga, at the foot of 

 Herminius Mintjr, was famous. 



The Lufitanians, according to Strabo, preferred exifling 

 upon the plunder of their neighbours to the improvement of 

 their own lands, though the foil was naturally fertile and 

 rich. In other cafes their manner of living was rude and 

 fimple. They ufed to warm thcmfelves by means of fire- 

 ftones made red-hot. They bathed in cold water, eat only 

 of one dilh at a meal, and very fjiaringly. Their drefs was 

 commonly black. They made no ufe of coin, but either 

 bartered one commodity for another, or for fome plates of 

 filver, flatted with the hammer, and cut into pieces. They 

 ufed, like the Egj'ptians, Gauls, and other ancient nations, 

 to expofe their lick on the highways, that travellers might 

 direft them to proper medicines for their cure. They were 

 exceedingly robutt, and fo warlike that the Romans did 

 not conquer them without great difficulty and length of 

 time. See Poutugal. 



LUSITANICA Rubra Bolus, is an impure earth, of a 

 florid red colour, compaft texture, and heavy : it colours 

 the hands, and is very friable, readily diffoluble in water, 

 and raifes with it a tlrong ebullition ; it melts readily in the 

 mouth, has a ilrong allringent taile, is gritty, and adheres 

 firmly to the tongue. It acquires hardnefs and a brighter 

 colour by burning ; it is of an alkaline quality ; it is dug in 

 the kingdoms of Portujial and Spain ; it is alfo found iiear 

 the Havaimah and La Vera Cruz in New Spain. It has 

 been efteemed a ^'ery valuable aftringent, and an effeclual 

 remedy for fluxes and other diftempers of that kind. It has 

 been alfo accounted alexipharmic by the Spaniards and Por- 

 tuguef ■- They make an earthen ware of this bole, which 

 they call bucaros : the ware is of a fine red colour, fmooth, 

 and poiiflied, though it is merely dried, and not glazed. 

 They ufe it to filtre, cleanfe, and cool the water. Veffels 

 of the fame kind are alfo brought from the Havannah and 

 Vera Cruz. 



LUSK, in Geography, a fair-town in the county of 

 Dublin. Ireland. According to Archdeil, an abbey was 

 founded here in the firft ages of Chriftianity ; and there is 

 adjoining the angle of the lleeple of the church, one of thofe 

 ancient round tov.'ers fo peculiar to Ireland: it is in good 

 prcfervation, and rifes fever?.l feet above the battlements of 

 the fleeple. It is ii miles N. by E. from Dublin. 



LUSPA, a town of Sweden, in Eall Bothnia ; 28 miles 

 E. of Chri:Hnelladt. 



' LUSSAC, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the diftritl of Li- 

 bourne ; 6 miles E.N.E. of Libourne. The place contains 

 Z032, and the canton 9072 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 IJ/A kiUometres, in 16 communes. — Alfo, a town of 

 France, in the department of the Vienne, and chief place of 

 a canton, in the diilriiS; of Montmorillon ; 6 miles W. of 

 Montmorillon. The place contains 1379, and the canton 

 9470 inhabitants, on a territory of 400 kilioraetres, in 13 

 communes. 



LUSSAN, Margaret de, in Biography, was bom at 

 Pans in 1682. Her parents were in the lower rank of life ; 

 the mother being a fortune-teller, and the father a coach- 

 man. She, by fome means, attracted the notice of the 

 learned Huet, who, itruck with the vivacity of her temper, 

 eacoui-aged her to write romances. She derived great ad- 



vantage in the formation of her tafte, from her conrcctioa 

 with la Scrre de Langlade, to whom (he was much at- 

 tached ; but the love was not muf.ial : her charms were 

 wholly mental ; her perfon and manners were even forbid- 

 ding ; but fl^.e was generous, humane, and conftant in lier 

 friendfliips. She died at the age of 75. Her work? arc 

 " L'Hilloire de la Comtefle de Gorr'ca," " Anecdotes de 

 la Cour de Philippe Auguftc," «' Memoires Secrets et In- 

 trigues de la Cour de Franco fous Charles VIII.,'' " Mane 

 d'Angleterrc," " Annales de la Cour de Henri II.," «' La 

 Vie du brave Crillon." 



LussAN', in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Gard, and chief place of a canton, in the diilrict 

 of Uzes ; nine miles N. of Uzes. The place contains 997, 

 and the canton 5'493 inhabitants, on a territory of 239 ki- 

 liometres, in 13 communes. 



LUSSEMEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 

 Ermeland ; iS miles E.S.E.of Hcillberg. 



LUST, at Se3. If a fliip heel either to the ftar-board or 

 port, the feamen fay (he hath a hijl that way ; snd they fay 

 fo though irbe occafioned only by the (liooting of her ballail, 

 or by the unequal flowing of things in the hold ; though it 

 is more properly faid of a (hip, when fhe is inclined to heel 

 any way upon account of her mould or make. 



LuST-TOOrt, in Botany. See Sivs-dtiu. 



LUSTER, or Lustre, glofs, or brightnefs appearing 

 on any thing ; particularly on manufactures of filk, wool, 

 or fluff. 



Luster is alfo ufed for a certain .compofition, or manner 

 of giving that glofs or brilliance. 



The lullre of filks, in which their chief beauty confifls, 

 is given them by wafliing in foap, then clear water, and dip- 

 ping them in alum-water cold. 



The luilre of black taflety is given by double-brewed 

 beer, boiled with orange or lemon-juice ; that of coloured 

 taffetas with water of gourds, diftiUed in an alembic. Cur- 

 riers give a luftre, or glofs to the leather feveral ways, ac- 

 cording to the colour to be illustrated. For blacks, the firfl 

 luftre is with juice of barberries ; the fecond with gut» 

 arable, ale, vinegar, and Flanders glue, boiled together : 

 for coloured leathers they ufe the white of an egg beaten 

 in water : moroccos have their luftre from juice of barberries, 

 aud lemon or orange. 



For hats, the luftre is frequently given with common 

 water ; fometimes a little black dye is added. The fame 

 luilre ferves flcinners, .except that in white furs they never 

 ufe any black dye. For very black furs they fometimes 

 prepare a luftre of galls, copperas, Roman alum, ox's mar- 

 row, and other ingredients. 



The luftre is given to cloths and mohairs, by preffinj 

 them under the calender. 



Luster, an appellation given to a branched eandleflick, 

 when made of glafs. See Brakcii and Jesse. 



LUSTIG, Jacob 'U'^ilhelm, in Biography, organift of 

 St. Martin's church in Groniiigen, publiflicd, in 1771, ia 

 the Dutch language, " An Intiodudlion to the Art of 

 Mufic, 2d edition, corrected and enlarged," 8vo. This 

 introduction is better digefted, and more abundant in ufeful 

 information, than the generality of elementary treatifes. 

 The author had read, meditated, and iludied mufic regularr 

 ly, both in theory and pradice ; and was a good compofer 

 of the old fchool. He had been a difciple botli of Matthe- 

 fon and Telemann. Wc have feen a book of lefTons of his 

 compofition, which has great merit. In this book we found 

 the croff-hand jig, in "<,^, which the little Frederica, after- 

 wards Mrs. Wynne, and other infant performers, ufed to 

 play at the end of a nvnuet of Tartini with variations by Pa- 

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