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vered, fome will be carelefs, and others are inexpert or 
imprudent.” 
The fcenery on the banks of the Loire is defcribed in 
a very animated manner by Mr. Pinkney, the American 
traveller. “ Mauves, near Nantes, is mod romantically 
iituated on a hill, which forms one of the banks of the 
Loire. The country about it, in the richnefs of its woods, 
and the verdure of its meadows, mod drongly reminded 
rne of England ; but I know of no fcenery in England, 
which, together with this richnefs and variety of wood¬ 
land and meadow, has fuch a beautiful river as the Loire 
to complete it in all the qualities of landfcape. On each 
lideof this river, from Nantes, are hills, which are wooded 
to the fummit; and there are very few of thefe wood- 
tufted hills, which have not their cadle or ruined tower. 
From Mauves to Oudon the country is dill very thickly 
wooded and inclofed ; the properties evidently very fmall, 
and therefore innumerable cottages and fmall gardens. 
Thefe cottages ufually confid of only one floor, divided 
into two rooms, and a filed behind. They were generally 
Iituated in orchards, and fronted the Loire. They had 
invariably one or two large trees, which are decorated 
with ribbons at funfet, as the fignal for the dance, which 
is invariably obferved in this part of France. The Arno, 
as deicribed by the Tufcan poets, for I have never feen 
it, mud bear a drong refemblance to the Loire from An- 
cennis to Angers; nothing can be more beautiful than 
the natural diftribution of lawn, wood, hill, and valley, 
whild the river, which borders this fcenery, is ever giving 
it a new form by its Terpentine fhape. The favourite 
images in the landfcapes of the ancient painters here meet 
the eye almod every league. From the earlied times of 
the French monarchy, the riling grounds of the Loire 
have been [elected for the fites of cadles, monaderies, ab¬ 
beys, and chateaux; and, as the poflefl'ors have fuperadded 
art to nature, this natural beauty of the grounds has been 
improving from age to age. The monks have been im- 
memorially celebrated for their fkill, as well in the choice 
of fituations as in their improvement of natural advan¬ 
tages ; their leifure, and their tade, improved by learning, 
have naturally been employed on the fcenes of their re- 
fidence, on their vineyards, and their gardens. Innu¬ 
merable are the dill-remaining vediges of their tade and 
of their indudry. Towns, windmills, deeples, ancient 
cadles and abbeys, dill entire, and others with nothing 
remaining but their lofty walls; hills covered with vines, 
and alternate woods and corn-fields ; all together form a 
landfcape, or rather a chain of landfcapes, which remind 
one of a poem, and fucceflively refrefli, delight, animate, 
and exalt the imagination.” 
LOIRE (Lower), a department of France, bounded 
on the north by the departments of the Morbihan and 
Ille and Vilaine, on the ead by the Mayne and Loire, on 
the fouth by the Vendee, and on the wed by the fea ; 
about fifty-five miles in length, and from thirty to forty- 
four in breadth. Nantes is the capital. 
LOIRE (Upper), a department of France, bounded on 
the north by the department of the Puy de Dome, on the 
north-ealt by the Rhone and Loire, on the fouth-ead by 
Ardeche, on the fouth-wed by the Lozere, and on the 
wed by the Cantal ; about fifty miles from eaft to wed, 
and thirty-five from north to louth. Le Puy is the capital. 
LOIRE'T, a river of France, which runs into the 
Loire three miles below Orleans. It is fmall, but gives 
name to a department. 
LOIRE'T, a department of France, bounded on the 
north by the departments of the Eure and Loire, Seine 
and Oife, and Seine and Marne; on the ead by the de¬ 
partment of the Yonne; on the fouth by the departments 
of the Nyevre, Cher, and Loir and Cher; and on the 
wed by the Loir and Cher ; about iixty miles from eaft to 
wed, and forty-five from north to fouth. Orleans is the 
capital. 
LOIRO'N, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mayenne; iix miles wed of Laval, aud twelve north of 
Craon. 
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LOTS, [Greek.] The name of a woman, a 77 nu i. 5. 
LOISO'N, a river of France, which runs into the Meufe 
near Montmedy. 
LOI'SEY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe: five miles ead of Bar le Due, and twelve wed of 
Commercy. 
LOI'SY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Marne : three miles north-wed of Vitry le Francois. 
To LOI'TER, f. [ loteren, Dut.] To linger; to fpend 
time carelefsly ; to idle.—It we have gone wrong, let us 
redeem the ntidake ; if we have loitered., let us quicken 
our pace, and make the mod of the prefent opportunity. 
Rogers. 
Whence this long delay ? 
You loiter, while the fpoils are thrown away. Dryden, 
LOI'TERER, f. A lingerer ; an idler ; a lazy wretch 5 
one who lives without bnlinefs ; one who is fluggifh and 
dilatory.—The poor, by idlenefs or unthriftinefs, are ri¬ 
otous fpenders, vagabonds, and loiterers. Hayward. 
Give gloves to thy reapers a largefs to cry, 
And daily to loiterers have a good eye. Tujer's Hujbandry. 
LOI'TERING, f. The aft of delaying on a journey. 
LOI'TSCH, or Log'atez, a town of Upper Carniola ; 
fifteen miles wed of Laybach. 
LOITOM'BA. See Saint Domingo. 
LOITZ, a town of Anterior Pomerania : twenty-four 
miles fouth of Stralfund, and fixteen north of Treptow, 
Lat. 53. 56. N. Ion. 13. 5. E. 
LOI'TZENDORF, a town of Audria: four mile3 
north-weft of Aggfpach. 
LO'KACZ, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : thirty 
miles weft-fouth-wed of Lucko. 
LOK'ALAX, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo : twenty-feven miles north-wed of Abo. 
LO'KE, in mythology, the name of one of the deities 
of the northern nations, anfwering to the Arimanius among 
the Perfians, whom they reprefent as at enmity both with 
gods and men, and the author of all the evils which defo- 
late the univerfe. Loke is defcribed in the Edda as pro¬ 
ducing the great ferpent which encircles the world ; which 
feems to have been intended as an emblem of corruption 
or fin : he alfo gives birth to Hela, or death, the queen of 
the infernal regions ; and alfo to the wolf Fenris, that 
monder who is to encounter the gods and dedroy the 
world. 
LOK'ET. See Elnbogen, vol.vi. p. 478. 
LOK'MAN, furnamed Al-Hakim, or the Wife, a philo- 
fopher in high repute among the eaftern nations, to whom 
is attributed a colleftion of maxims and fables, which 
convey no inelegant fpecimen of the moral doftrine of 
the ancient Arabians. Mahomet gave his name to the 
thirty-fird chapter of the Alcoran, in which he introduces 
God as thus fpeaking: “ We have given wifdom to Lok- 
inan.” According to fome, he was the nephew of Job, 
by his fifter, or the fon of his aunt, and confequently his 
confin ; but, according to others, he was the great nephew 
of Abraham. The greater number of the Muffulman. 
doftors, however, deny his claim to fo high an antiquity, 
and make him a contemporary with David and Solomon. 
The latter all agree, that he was a native of Ethiopia, or 
Nubia, and in a fervile condition; his occupation being 
either that of a tailor, a carpenter, or a Ihepherd. They 
relate, that, after having been a fiave in different countries, 
he was at length, fold among the Ifraelites. His wifdorn. 
they aferibe to divine infpiration ; and the account which 
they preferve of the manner ii\ which he received that 
gift appears to have been borrowed from the feriprure 
hidory of Solomon. The anecdotes which remain con¬ 
cerning the life of Lokman, are found fcatlered in the 
writings of feveral of the orientals, who have introduced 
them as ornaments to their poems and other works. From 
the [election of them made by d'Herbelot, and in the no¬ 
tice prefixed to Marcel’s edition of Lokman’s fables, w<j 
faall prefent our readers with fome Ipeciinens, from which' 
