G-r, tor 
ufed to make pipes for wind-inftruments : the root is pro¬ 
per for hafts of knives, and was highly efteemed by the 
Romans for its beauty and ufe, Miller. 
Next comes the lote-tree , in whofe dufky hue, 
Her black and fun-burnt country you might view. Tate. 
LO'TEN (John), a good landfcape-painter of the Eng- 
lifh fchool, though a native of Swifferland. His take led 
him to folemn and dreafy feenes, as land-ftorms accom¬ 
panied with thowers of rain, &c. and he feldom omitted 
to introduce oak-trees in his profpeCts. His landfcapes 
are generally large ; and he painted with nature, truth, 
and force : but the efteCt of his compofitions had been 
much greater if he had been lefs cold in his colouring ; 
for the judicious eye is not pleafed with the darkifh tint 
that predominates in it. He died in London about 1681. 
LO'TEN (John Gideon), a diftinguifhed friend to na¬ 
tural hiltory, was by birth a Dutchman, and bom at 
Utrecht. In the year 1732 he went to India, where he 
exercifed fome of the higheft employments in the iflands 
of Celebes and Ceylon with great reputation, and alle¬ 
viated the cares of his important duties by cultivating the 
liberal arts. At Columbo he eftablifbed a botanical gar¬ 
den ; and in every place of India where he refided made 
the pleating ftudy of natural hiltory a principal objeCt of 
his care. On his return he brought over with him a large 
collection of drawings, done with equal neatnels and ac¬ 
curacy, fome by natives, and others by Europeans whom 
he found in the country. Mr. Pennant was indebted to 
his friendfhip for copies of feveral of them ; but the greater 
part he at his requeft communicated to Peter Brown, an 
ingenious artilf, by birth a Dane, who engraved twenty- 
one of them; and, with feveral others from different 
places, publilhed a fplendid work, in 1776, entitled New 
Illuftrations of Zoology, under the patronage of Marma- 
duke Tunftal, efq. and Mr. Pennant. From the fame col¬ 
lection was formed Pennant’s Indian Zoology, begun in 
1759 and left unfinifiied, but refumed and publifhed more 
complete in one volume quarto in 1790. Mr. Loten re¬ 
turned to Europe in 1758 ; and coming to England, where 
he lived feveral years, married in 1765 his iecond wife, 
Lecitia Cotes, of the reputable family of Cotes in Shrop- 
ihire; feveral years after which he retired to Holland, and 
died at Utrecht in the month of February 1789, aged 
eighty, and was interred in St. Jacob’s church in that 
city. In the north aide westward of Weftminfter-abbey 
js a moft magnificent cenotaph, the performance of Banks, 
erected in 1795, to perpetuate the memory of this excel¬ 
lent man. Pennant's View of Hindoofian. 
LO TEWART, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Henneberg : three miles welt-fonth-welt of Smalkalden. 
LOTH, a town of Scotland, in the county of Suther¬ 
land, on the ealt coaft : fixteen miles north-north-ealt of 
Dornoch. 
LO'TH, or Lo'tke. See Loath, vol. xii. p. 853. 
LOTH', or Lod, f. A weight in Germany ; 2 loths 
being = 1 oz. and 16 oz. =2 2 marks = 1 pfund or pound. 
In eltimating the finenels of filver, the mark fine is di¬ 
vided into 16 loths, and the loth into 18 grains. 
LOTHAU', a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : nine miles fouth of Culmbach. 
LO THIAN, an extenfive diftriCt in Scotland, divided, 
like Yorkfnire in England, into three parts ; viz. Eaft- 
Lothian, called alfo Haddingtonshire ; Mid-Lothian, or 
Edinburghshire; and Weft-Lothian, or Linlithgow¬ 
shire, which fee refpeCtively. 
LO'THING, a lake of England, in the county of Suf¬ 
folk, near LoweftofF. 
LO'THINGLAND, once an ifland, and part of the 
county of Suffolk, towards the German Ocean, fituated 
in the north-eaft part of the county, and the melt eaftern 
part of Great Britain ; now apeninfula. The river Yare 
bounds it on the north, the fea on the eaft, the lake of 
Lothing on the fouth, and the river Waveny on the welt; 
It is only joined to the main land by a narrow neck near 
LOT 
^Loweffoft’, formed as is fuppofed about the year 1722. It 
as above ten miles in length from north to fouth, and fis 
in breadth; and contains fixteen parilhes, of which Low- 
toff is the principal and only market-town. 
LO'TI ARBO'RIS FO'LIO. See Muntincia. 
LO'TI SIM'ILIS. See Diospyros. 
LO'TICH, or Lotich'ius (Peter), furnamed Secundus, 
a diltinguifhed modern Latin poet, was born in 1528, at 
Schluttern, in the county of Hanau, in Germany. He 
had his firft education at the convent of that place, under 
his uncle of the fame name, who introduced the reforma¬ 
tion into it. He afterwards purfued his (Judies at Frank¬ 
fort, Marpurg, and Wittemberg; at which laft univerfity 
he contracted an intimacy with Melanchthon and Came- 
rarius. During the war in Saxony he ferved a campaign 
in the proteftant army. In 1550 he vifited France with 
fome youths to whom he was governor, and continued in 
that country nearly four years. He afterwards made the 
tour of Italy, where a misfortune befel him, the corife- 
quences of which he felt as long as he lived. He lodged 
at Bologna in the fame houfe with a young canon of Mu¬ 
nich, of whom the lioftefs was delperatdy enamoured. 
Apprehenfive of his infidelity, fhe prepared a philtre, 
which was in faCt a ffrong poifon, and prefented it in 
foup to the canon. Unfortunately for Lotich, he made 
an exchange of diihes with him ; and its effefls were fo 
violent, as to bring him into imminent danger of his life ; 
and, although he recovered for the prefent, not a year 
palled afterwards in w r hich he had not a relapfe, whereby 
liis health was ruined and his days ihortened. He took 
at Padua the degree of doCtor of phyfic ; and on his re¬ 
turn to Germany was chofen profelfor in that feience at 
Heidelberg, in 1557. He there acquired the good graces 
of the cleCtor-palatine ; and, by his amiable difpofition, 
and the fingular franknefs and iincerity of his character, 
rendered liimfelf univerfally beloved. He did not long 
enjoy thefe advantages, being carried off by a renewal of 
his complaint in November 1560. A collection of the 
Latin poems of Lotich was publilhed in 1561, with a de¬ 
dicatory epiltle by Joachim Camerarius, who praifes him 
as the belt poet of his age. Other learned men have be¬ 
llowed fimilar applaule upon him, and feveral fucceflive 
editions have been given of his works. He is reckoned 
to excel particularly in elegy, and occupies the firft rank 
among the Latin poets of Germany. 
ChriJHan , a younger brother of Peter, was alfo an ele¬ 
gant fcholar, and a poet. A collection of his poems, with 
thefe of John Peter Lotich, was publilhed in 1620. 
John-Peter, grandfon of Chriltian above-mentioned, was 
born at Frankfort on the Maine in 1598. He was a phy- 
fician, and maintained the literary character of his family, 
as he proved by a variety of writings. He exercifed his 
profeffion at Minden and in Hefife, and was finally invited 
to a medical chair at Rintlen in Weftphalia. This he oc¬ 
cupied many years, till he died greatly regretted in 1652. 
Of his medical works the principal is Confiliorum e6 
Obfervationum Medicinalium, Lib. v. 4-to. 1644, and 
with an additional book in 1658. His Latin poems were 
publifhed with thole of his grandfather. He publilhed 
in 1629 a Commentary cn Petronius, 4to. which is much 
applauded by Guy Patin, and as much depreciated by 
Goldaft. A Iliftory of the Emperors Ferdinand II. and 
III. 4 tom. fol. 1646, is attributed to him. Boyle. Eloy, Did. 
de la Med. 
LOTIE'RO, a tow n of Naples, in the Principato Ultra: 
fifteen miles ealt-north-eaft of Benevento. 
LO'TION,y. [/olio, Lat. lotion, Fr.] A lotion is a form 
of medicine compounded of aqueous liquids, ufed to wafti 
any part with. Quincy. 
Lotion is, ftriCtly fpeaking, fuch wafliing as concerns 
beautifying the fkin, by cleanfing it of thole deformities 
which diftempered blood throws upon it. Medicines of 
this kind, however, are for the moft part infignincant, 
and fometimes very dangerous; the only proper method 
of treating thefe disorders is, by administering fuch medi¬ 
cines 
