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ed in 1688 ; it is fometimes ufed as a theatre and ball¬ 
room. The town fufrer'ed feverely by the plague at va¬ 
rious periods in the fifteenth and fevcnteenth centuries. 
Under the acl of 1810, the population was returned as 
5400, The chief manufactures carried on here are ho- 
fiery, wool-combing, and framework-knitting. Six an¬ 
nual fa. . are held, and a weekly market on Thurfdays. 
The Loughborough Canal, which communicates, with 
that called the Union Canal, and with the river Soar, has 
proved very serviceable to this town, and an advantageous 
concern to the original proprietors; as 95I. a-year divi¬ 
dend has been paid on a 11 ire of 125I. and one of thefe 
ffiares has been ibid for 1800I. See the article Canal 
Navigation, voi. id. p. 635. 
The following villages are the neighbourhood of Lough¬ 
borough : Coats, one mile r’iftant; Stanford,one; Norman- 
ton (fouth of Afi'.by-defa-Zouch), two; Hathern, two 
north-weft; Dimly, or Dilbly-Thorp, one ; Sheenfhead, 
three; Thorpe-Acre, one; Woodthorpe, one ; Quarendon, 
two; here is an hofpital lately erefted and well endowed, 
for the old bachelors and widowers of this parifti and that 
of Barrow-upon-S'oar, two miles from Loughborough, and 
oppoilte to the laft-nientioned village; it lies in a chalky 
foil, of which the belt lime is made for durable buildings; 
here is a charity-lchool. Walton-on-the-Woulds, diltant 
two miles ; Preftwould, two; and Woodhoule, three miles 
diftant. 
LOUGH'BOROUGH, a townfiiip of Upper Canada, in 
Frontenac county, north of Kingfton. 
LOUGH'BOROUGH CA'NAL, an inlet on the weft 
coaft of North America, in the gulf of Georgia, about 
thirty miles long, and one broad ; between mountains 
nearly perpendicular. The entrance is in lat. 30. 27. N. 
Ion. 234. 35. E. . 
LOUGHBOROUGH’S I'SLAND, an lflatid in the 
Mergui Archipelago, of an oval form, about ten miles 
long and five broad. Lat. 10. 38. N. 
LOUGHBRICK'LAND, a poft-town of Ireland, in 
the county of Down, on the road to Belfaft. It is fifty- 
eight miles north from Dublin, and twenty-two from 
Belfaft. 
LOUGHGA'LL, a fmall poft-town of Ireland, in the 
county of Armagh. It is fixty-fix miles north from Dub¬ 
lin, and three miles north-north-weft from Richhiil. 
LOUGHRE'A, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Galway, near a lake of the fame name: fifteen miles 
fouth-weft of Galway. 
LOUGNO'N, a river of France, which runs into the 
Saone near Pontarlier. 
LOUHA'NS, a town of France, and principal place of 
a didrift, in the department of the Saone and Loire, 
fitunted at the conflux of the Seille and Solnan. It is a 
place of refort for the merchants of France and Swilfer- 
land, who meet there for the purpofe of commerce : fif¬ 
teen miles louth-eaft of Chaions fur Saone, and twenty- 
four north-north-eaft of Macon. Lat. 46. 38. N. Ion. 5. 
18. E. 
LOUICH'EA, /. in botany. See Camphorosma pte- 
ranthus, voi. iii. p 667. 
LOVIGNA'NO, a town of Naples, in the province of 
Otranto : twelve miles fouth-fonth-wefl of Brindifi. 
LOV'ING, participal adj. Kind ; affeftionate.—This 
earl was of great courage, and much loved of his fol- 
diers, to whom he was no Ids loving again. Hayward. 
So loving to my mother. 
That he would not let ev’n the winds of heav’n 
Vifit her face too roughly. Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
Exprefling kindnefs.—The king took her in his arms till 
flie came to herlelf, and comforted her with loving words. 
EJlher xv- 8. 
LOV'ING, f. The aft of regarding with tender affec¬ 
tion. A long line to call in a hawk. 
LOVING-KI'NDNESS, /. Tendernefs; favour; mercy. 
A icriptural word.— Remember, 0 Lord, thy tender mer- 
L O U~ 
cies, and thy loving-hindnejfes. P/ahn xxv 6.—Hehas adapted 
the arguments of obedience to the imperfeftion of our 
underftanding, requiring us to confider him only under 
the amiable attributes of goodnefs and 'loving- kindnefs, and 
to adore him as our friend and patron. Rogers. 
LOV'INGLY, adv. Afteftionately ; with kindnefs.—Ifc 
is no great matter to live lovingly with good-natured and 
meek perfons ; but he that can do fo with the froward 
and perverfe, he only hath true charity. ‘Taylor . 
LOV'INGNESS, f. Kindnefs ; affeftion.—Carrying 
thus in one perfon the only two bands of good-will, love- 
linefs and lovingnefs. Sidney. 
LOV’INGTON, a village in Somerfetfliire, between 
Bruton and Somerron. 
LOU'IS, or Lewis, a male Chriftian name, fometimes 
affumed as a furname. The name of many of the kings 
of France, fee that article, voi. vii. and, for a few pai> 
ticulars relating to the prefent king, Louis XVIII. lee the 
article London, p. 158, 323, 377-391. 
LOU'IS (Order of St.) See the article Knighthood, 
voi. xi. p. 818. 
LOU'IS (Anthony), an eminent French furgeon, was 
born at Metz in 1723. He role to great diltinclion in his 
profeffion, and had the offices of confulting furgeon to 
tlie army, furgeon-major to the Hofpital of la Charite, 
demonftrator and cenlbr-royal, member and fecretary of 
the Royal Academy of Surgery, and member of a great 
number of fcientific focieties in France and foreign coun¬ 
tries. The time of his death is not mentioned ; but the 
lateft of his publications is dated in 1777. Mr. Louis 
was the author of many ingenious works on chirurgicai 
and anatomical fubjefts ; of which the following are the 
principal: 1. Obfervations fur l’Eleftricite, 1741, 1747. 
2. Eflai fur la Nature de l’Ame, oil Ton tache d’expliquer 
fon Union avec le Corps, 1746. 3. Cours de Chirurgie 
fur les Plaies d’Armes a Feu, 1746. 4. Obfervations et 
Remarques fur les Eftets du Virus cancereux, 1748. 5. 
Obfervations lur les Noyes, 1748. 6. Pofitiones Ana- 
tomico-chirurgicse de Capite ejufque Vulneribus, 1749. 
7. Lettres fur la Certitude de la Mort; avec des Obferva¬ 
tions et des Experiences fur les Noyes, J752. The objeft 
of the firlt of thefe pieces is to lay down certain tokens 
of death, and remove the fears of being buried alive, 
without the necefiity of long keeping of the body ; with 
refpeft to the drowned, he thinks that their death is ow¬ 
ing to water admitted into the trachaea, and that blowing 
air into it is the molt powerful means of revival. 8. Ex¬ 
periences fur la Lithotomie, 1757. 9. Memoire fur un 
Queftion Anatomique relatif a la Jurifprudence, 1763. 
Tiie purpofe of this memoir, written after the fliocking 
affair of Galas, is to diftinguifli between voluntary death 
by hanging, and murder by that mode. 10. Memoire 
fur la Legitimite des Naiflances pretendues tardives, 1764. 
In this piece he lays it down as a maxim, that the retar¬ 
dation of delivery beyond the natural period of geftation, 
is phyfically impoflible. 11. Recueil d’Obfervations pour 
fervir de Bafe de la Theorie ties Lefions de la Tete par 
contrecoup, 1766. 12. Hiftoire de 1 ’Academie Royale de 
Chirurgie jufqu’en 1743- printed with the fourth volume 
of Memoirs of that Academy, 1768. He alfo wrote fe- 
parate eulogies on feveral of the members. 13. Apiio- 
rifmes de Chirurgie par Boerhaave, commentes par Vnn- 
Swieten, nouvellf Traduftion avec des Notes, 7 vols. i2mo. 
1768. 14. Traite des Maladies Veneriennes, traduit du 
Latin de M. Altruc, 4 vols. i2mo. 1777. M. Louis alfo 
wrote feveral papers in the Memoirs of the Academy of 
Surgery ; and various controveriial trafts. Halleri Bill. 
Anatom, ct Chirug. 
LOU'IS (St.), an ifland on the weft coaft of Africa, a£ 
the mouth of the river Senegal ; flat, Tandy, and barren. 
Its name is derived from a fort built by the French. Both 
were ceded to the Engliffi by the treaty of Verfailles, in 
1763. During the American war it was taken by the 
French, and kept by them after the peace of 1783. Lat. 
16. N. ion. 160 8. W. 
LOU'IS* 
