LOU 
LOU'IS (St.)> a feaport-town on the fouth coaft of the 
jfland of Hifpaniola ; fituated at the head of a bay of its 
name. Lac. i 3 . *6. N. Ion. 74. 19. W.—A feaport-town 
of Hifpaniola, on the north coalt; ruined in 1797 by a 
hurricane: live miles fouth-eaft of Cape Framjais.—A 
town of South America, in the province of Guiana. Lat. 
3. 53. N. Ion. 52. 30. W.—The capital town of Guada- 
loupe, Grand Terre, with a fortrefs : three leagues loutli- 
ealt of the Salt river. 
LOU IS (St.), a town on the weft fide of the river 
MilMippi, twenty-five miles below the month of the 
Miflouri. It is fituated on a pleafant and healthy emi¬ 
nence j and contained, in 1799, 130 large commodious 
houfies, built of ftone, and 925 inhabitants, of whom 268 
are (laves. In this year the productions of the fettlement 
were 4300 bufhels of wheat, 10,300 buftiels of corn, and 
1650 pounds of tobacco. The inhabitants pofteffed 1140 
horned cattle, and 215 horfes.—A fmall compaft bay in 
Weft Florida, with about (even feet water: the land near 
it is of a light foil, and good for pafture. Formerly here 
v/ere feveral fettlers ; but in the year 1767 the Choctaw 
Indians killed their cattle, and obliged them to remove. 
LOU'IS (St.), a lake of Canada, commencing, or rather 
terminating, at La Chine, a village which ftands at the 
lower end of it. The lake is about twelve miles in length, 
and four in breadth. At its uppermoft extremity it re¬ 
ceives a large branch of the Utawas river, and alfo the 
fouth-welt branch of the river St. Lawrence, which by 
fome geographers is called the river Cadaraqui, and by 
others the river Iroquis ; but in the country, generally 
fpeaking, the whole of that river, running from lake On¬ 
tario to the gulf of St. Lawrence, goes limply under the 
name of St. Lawrence. At the upper end of lake St Louis, 
the water is very (hallow, owing to the banks of mud and 
fand walked up by the two rivers; and thefe banks are 
entirely covered with reeds, fo that, when a vefiel fails 
over them, (he appears at a little diliance to be abfolutely 
failing over dry land. This part of the lake is infelted 
with clouds ot infects, firnilar to thofe which have been 
commonly obferved on various parts of the river St. Law¬ 
rence. Their (ize is about that of a gnat; their colour is 
white ; and their form lo delicate, that the (lighted touch 
deftroys them, and reduces them to powder. Their wings 
are broad in proportion to their (ize ; and they fly heavily; 
fo that it is only when the air is remarkably calm that 
they can venture to make their appearance. Lat. 45. 25. 
N. Ion. 73. 20. W. Weld's Travels through Canada. 
LOU'IS (St.), a group of fmall illands in the river 
St. Lawrence. Lat. 45.23. N. Ion. 73. 30. W.—A river 
of America, which runs into lake Superior in lat. 46. 44. 
N. Ion. 91. 52. W. 
LOU'IS de MARANIIAM' (St.), a town on the north 
coaft of Brafil, and on the Atlantic Ocean; fituated on 
the eaft lide ot Mearim river, about halfway between point 
Mocoripe and tire mouth of the river Para. 
LOU'JS d'OR, f . [French.] A golden coin of France, 
valued at about twenty (hillings.—In 1700 the council 
made an order and a proclamation, that the Louis d'or 
Jhould not go for above feventeen (hillings. Leake. 
Louis d’ors were firft (truck in 1641, under the reign of 
Louis XIII. and were valued at ten livres, afterwards at 
eleven, and at length at twelve and fourteen. In tire lat¬ 
ter end of the reign of Louis XIV. they had rifen to twenty, 
and in thebegiuning ofthatofLouLXV. tothirty and thirty- 
fix, nay forty and upwards; with this difference, however, 
that in the laft coinings the weight was augmented in fome 
proportion to the price, which in the former reign was ne¬ 
ver regarded. The Louis d’ors coined before 1726, which 
then naiTed for twenty livres, were coined at the rate of 
3&]f per French mark of gold, twenty two carats fine : 
thefe ceafed to be a legal coin in Franceas far back as 1726 j 
but they (till continued to circulate through many parts 
of Germany and Swillerland, where they had a fixed va¬ 
lue, and were known by the name of “Old Louis d’Ors:” 
of thefe few are now io circulation, From the year 172$ 
LOU figs 
to 1785, Louis d’ors were coined at the rate of thirty to 
the mark of gold, twenty-two carats fine. Accordingly, 
before 1786, the Louis weighed 5 dwt. 5! gr. contained 
in pure gold ii2\c gr. and was valued at 19s. iofd. fter- 
ling; and the deini-louis weighed 2 d wt. I 4 i- gr. contained 
in pure gold 56^2 gr. and was valued at 9s. tifd. fterling, 
Thefe coins ceafed to be current in France in 1786. In 
Holland, Germany, &c. they were called “ New Louis 
d’ors,” by way of diftinffioti from thole which we have 
before mentioned ; though thefe are now become the old 
ones. The intrinfic value of fuch a Louis d’or is very 
little more than a pound (terling. In 1785 and 1786, all 
the gold coins in France were called in, and ordered to be 
melted down ; and a new coinage took place, at the rate of 
thirty-two Louis d’ors to the mark of the fame degree of fine- 
nefs. Accordingly, the Louis coined fince 1786, weighed 
4 dwt. 22 gr. contained of pure gold io 6 - 3 gr. and was 
valued at i 3 s. iod. lferling. The intrinfic value of this 
new Louis d’or is 18s. 9^!. fterling. 
Louis d’ors may be confidered as a current coin in 
moll parts of the continent; but in England they are 
fold merely as merchandife, and their price has fiufiu- 
ated from 18s. 6d. to 21s. fterling. On one fide of the 
coin is the king’s head, with his name and title, thus : 
LuD. XVI. D.G. FR. ET. NAV. REX. i. e. “ Louis XVI. 
king of France and Navarre;” on the reverfe, the arms 
of France and Navarre, with a crown over them. On the 
pieces coined before 1786, there are two diftinft lhields; 
and on thofe coined fince 17S5, a double fttield ; the le¬ 
gend is, Chr. reg.m. vinc. imper. i. e. “ Chrilt reigns, 
conquers, governs under the arms is a letter, by which 
the mint where the piece was coined is diftinguilhed. The 
double and half Louis hear the fame imprefiion. 
There are alfo white Louifes, or Louis d’argent, fome 
of 120, others of 60, fols apiece, called alfo ecus ; and among 
us French crowns, half crowns, &c. The old ecus, coined 
before 1726, were coined at the rate of nine pieces to the 
mark of 10 deniers 22 grains fine; thefe, like the Louis 
d’ors of the fame period, after they had ceafed to be cur¬ 
rent in France, (till preferved a fixed value in fome narts 
of Germany; but they are now fcarcely in circulation. 
In 1726, the coinage of ecus was regulated, and continued 
without alteration, as follows: ecus of fix livres, or 
16^- ecus of three livres, were to be coined from a mark of 
filver eleven deniers fine ; and their intrinfic value is 43.9!;!. 
lferling. On the one fide of thefe is the king’s head, and 
on the other the French arms, with this legend, Sit nomen 
Domini beneditlu.m ; “ Blefled be the name of the Lord.” 
The Louis d’or is alfo a gold coin of Malta. The dou¬ 
ble, Angle, and half, Louis d’ors, were coined by the grand 
maiter Rohan, at twenty, ten, and five, lcuui, copper or 
current money. The double Louis weighs 10 dwt. 16 gr. 
contains of pure gold 2i5'3 gr. and is valued at il. 18s. i£jj; 
lterling ; the Louis and half Louis in proportion ; but the 
fineneis of the gold coins of Malta undergoes great varia¬ 
tion. Kelly's UnivcrJ'al Cambijl. 
LOUI'SA, a fea-port town of Sweden, in the province 
of Nyland, on the north-coaft of the gulf of Finland, built 
in 1745 as a frontier town towards Ruftia, and at nrft called 
Degerby, but afterwards Louifa, in 1752, by king Adol¬ 
phus Frederic. It is an open, town, defended towards 
the fea by a fmall fortrefs. The lioufes are all of wood, 
and of two ftories, painted with a red colour, and appear¬ 
ing much neater than the common towns in Ruftia. Laf. 
60. 27. N. Ion. 26. j6. E. 
LOUI'SA, a county of Virginia, adjoining Orange, Al¬ 
bemarle, Fluvanna, Spcttfylvama, and Goocbiand, coun¬ 
ties. It is about thirty-five miles long, and twenty broad ; 
and contains 5900 free inhabitants, and 5992 (laves. Many 
parts of this county are covered with pine.—A river of 
Virginia, the head water of Cole-river, a Couth-weft branch 
of the Great Kanhaway.—A river of Africa, which runs 
into the Atlantic in lat. 5. 10. S. 
LOUI'SA CHIT'TO, or .loosa Chitto, a river of 
America, which riles ou the borders of South Carolina., 
and 
