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liofpi-al, wlipre an infcription perpetuates liis memory. 

 Beaiitk'S of England and Wales, vol. iv. Hutcliins" Hif- 

 tory and Antiquities of Doffetlhire, 2 vols, folio. 



LYMFIOKD. or Lymfuut, a gulf of Dennnark, near 

 the welt coall of North Jutland, comoiunicating with the 

 Cattegat, and run'ing 8o miles inland, gradually widening, 

 and feparated from the North lea Oidy by a narrow llrip of 

 land. * N. lat^ 56' 39'. 



LYMINGl'ON, a borough acd market-town in the 

 parifh of Boldrc, in the New Foreil of Hamplhire, Eng- 

 land, is fitualed on the declivity of a rifing ground, on the 

 caftern bank of the Lymington river, about a mile from its 

 confluence with the foa ; at the diilance of 16 miles from 

 Southampton, and 95 from London. It is of remote, though 

 unknown orifrin : from a confideration of local circumftances, 

 Mr. WarnerYuppofos that a town or village was formed near 

 this fpot by the Britons. That the Romans were acquainted 

 ■withii, is evinced bv the contiguity oi an encampment called 

 Bucklar.d Rings, or Caillc Field, and by the evidence of Ro- 

 ir.an coins, nearly 20olbs. weight of whicii, of the Lower 

 Empire, were difcovered here in two urns in the year 1 744. 

 Lymin<^ton occurs in Domefday bnok under the name of 

 Lentune : but it does not feem to have attained any confi- 

 derable importance till it became the property of baron de 

 Redvers, in the time of Henry 1. ; when, a port being ella- 

 blifhed, the wines of France, and other foreign commodi- 

 ties, were unfliipped at its quays. It then alio became fa- 

 mous fur its falt-works ; though this manufaciure is, with 

 great probabihty, fuppofcd to have been eftablilhed at a 

 much earlier period. A very extenlive manufaciure of ma- 

 rine fait is now carried on here : the works are lituated on 

 the borders of the fea-lhore, and reach nearly three miles in a 

 fouth-well direftion. The town confifts principally of one 

 long ilreet, and is divided into the ne^u and oIJ town by the 

 church, which, though originally a regular pile, confiiiing 

 of a nave, chancel, andailles, with a fpire in the centre, is 

 now, through lucccfiiveidterations, become extremely infor- 

 mal. The town hall is a neat building : and here are two 

 fets of baths, which are rendered very convenient^, and are 

 much frequented. Lymington was fummoned as a borough 

 to fend reorefentatives to parliament in the reign of Ed- 

 ward III. : but it dees not appear to have complied with 

 this preccDt till the 27th cf Elizabeth. In the reign of 

 .Tames I. it was incorporated by charter, and from that pe- 

 riod the returns have been regular. The right of election is 

 veiled in the mayor and burgefi'es, in number about eighty. 

 The population was ilated, under the act of the year iSco, 

 to be 2378 ; the houfes 492. A market is held on Satur- 

 days ; and two fairs annually. The fituation of Lyming- 

 ton, on the banks of a navigable river, and fo contiguous 

 to the fea, is extremely favourable for trade ; but this ad- 

 vanta'3'e was formerly mucli greater than at pre'.ent, as, by 

 the injjdicious conllrudtion of a caufeway, the depth of the 

 river has been confiderably lefTened, and its channel contraft- 

 ed. Previous to the making of this caufeway, which was about 

 the year 1730, velTeis of upwards cf 500 tons burthen could 

 be brought up to the quay ; though now one of 500 tons 

 can fcarcely be navigated. Beauties of England and W.iles, 

 vol. vi. Warner's Account of Lymington, i2mo. 



LYMPHA, Ltmph, m Anatomy, a term given to the 

 tranfparent fluid conveyed in the abforbing veilcls of the 

 body ; alfo to a part of the bloud. tSee Absorption and 

 Blood. I It is often appLed alfo to other animal fluids, 

 chiefly when clear and nearly tianlpareat. 



LYMPHjE Ductus, a name given fometimes to the 



lymphatic velfcls. 



LviiPH.'E, among the Romans, a kind of grottoes, or 

 artificial caves, fo called from lympha, water ; becaufe they 

 were fnrnifhed with a great many tubes, canals, and fe.ret 

 paflages, through which the water fuddenly gulhedupon the 

 IpeCtators, while bufy in admiring the great variety and 

 beautiful arrangement of fliells, with which the grotto was 

 adorned. 



LYMPMATI, or LyMPn.A.T!Ci, in ^nuqmiy, a name 

 given by the Latins to polTeded or mad perfons, becaufe 

 they were thought to be gifted with divination. Plin. Nat. 

 Hilt. lib. XKv. cap. 5. p. 36S. edit. Hard. Sec Lau- 



VATI. 



Thefe anfwer to the -.xiin^riXn-'toi of the Greeks : the an- 

 cient Greeks ca'led water hjw^Ai?, which the Latins changed 

 into lyinphj. The term omfhi, fays Mr. Bryant, is of great 

 antiquity, .uid denotes an oracular influence, by which peo- 

 ple obtained an infight into the fecrets of futurity : it was 

 written onphi or mnphi; and ligiiified the oracle of Ham, who, 

 according to the Egyptian theology, was the fame as the fun, 

 or Ofiris : and as fountains were deemed lacrcd, thele were 

 llylcd by the Amonians Aln omphc, or the fountains of the 

 oracle, from the divine influence with which 'hey were fup- 

 pofcd to abound, wliich terms were afterwards contracted by 

 the Greeks into -.•jij.lr,, a nymph, who fuppolt-i- luch a perfon 

 t() be an inferior goddefs who prefided over waters. In the 

 fame manner from al omphia was derived lympha, which dif- 

 fered from aqua or common water, becaufe it u as of a fa- 

 cred or prophetic nature. Analylis of Ant. Myth. vol. i. 

 p. 280. 



LYMPHATICS, in Anatomy, are the abforbing vefll'is. 

 This fyllem is an aliemblage of numerous fmall'veffels, arifing 

 from all parts of the body, carrying from them various fluids, 

 vshich they pour into the venous iyltem, after making thein 

 pafs through certain fmall bodies called lymphatic glands, 

 and forming part of the fame lyileni with them. The term 

 lymphatics was applied to thefe tubes in confequence of their 

 containing, in general, a tranfparent fluid or lymph ; and it 

 delignatcs, therefore, properly fpeaking, only thole abforb. 

 cuts, of which the contents relemble lymph. The veflels, 

 which take up the chyle from the intellines, are called 

 laCteals, from the appearance of the^r contents. As the 

 ftructure and offices of the organs are the fame in all parts, 

 thefe dillinftions might lead to erroneous views of the fubjeft; 

 and the term abforbents, which denotes their general funftioR, . 

 feems the moll appropriate. Names derived from the nature 

 of the fluid ablurbed are more particularly objectionable, 

 becaufe that is very imperfectly known to us We cannot 

 fuppofe that one and the fame fluid is abforbed from ferous 

 cavities, from the adipoiis cells, Irom mufcles, glands, bones, 

 &c. ; yet in all thele cafes it goes under the common and 

 very indefinite term lymph. 



Like the termination of the exhalants, the origin of the 

 abforbents cannot be demonflrated. They are fo extremely 

 delicate, that the eye, affiiledeven by tke belt optical inilru- 

 ments, cannot difcern them : we mull therefore infer their 

 exiftencc from phenomena, and conclude that abforbing vef- 

 fels arife wherever abforption takes place. An attentive ex- 

 arajsation of abforptious ihews us that they occur wherever 

 there is exhalati'/n ; fo that tlie fame table may ferve both 

 for exhalants and ablorbents. The following one reprefenis 

 the latter. 



Abforbing 



