70S LOW 
LOW-THOU'GHTED, adj. Having the thoughts with- 
feeld from fubiime or heavenly meditations; mean of fenti- 
ment; narrow-minded : 
Oh grace ferene ! Oh virtue heav’nly fair' 
Divine oblation of Low-thoughted care ! Pope. 
LOW WATER,/, The lowett ebb of the tide. 
LOWANG', one of the Chu-fan iflands in China, 
which was vifited by the gentlemen belonging to lord 
Macartney’s embaiTy in the year 1793. It was not eafy 
to effect a landing, as the Lowang (liore was furrounded 
by foft deep clay and mud wherever the bank run out, 
and by Iteep rocks elfewhere. They found, at latt, means 
to climb up the latter. From one of the neighbouring 
hills the paflage in which the Clarence brig lay had the 
appearance of a river, while the fea beyond it might be 
confidered as an rmmenfe lake ffudded with innumerable 
iflands. The hill on which they flood was covered with 
ftrong grades, reeds, and fhrubbery, together with plants 
fufficiently denoting a lituation remote from Europe, 
There were fo few trees or cattle, that the country had the 
appearance of nakednefs to an European eye. Defend¬ 
ing from the hill, they came to a fmall level plain reco¬ 
vered from the fea, which was kept out by an embank¬ 
ment of earth, at lead thirty feet thick. The quantity 
of ground gained by it feemed fcarcely to be worth the 
labour that it mult have coft. The plain was indeed 
cultivated with the utmoft care, and laid out chiefly in 
rice-plats, fupplied with water collected from the adjacent 
hills into little channels, through which it was conveyed 
to every part of thofe plantations. It was manured, in- 
flead of the dung of animals, with matters more offenfivC 
to the human fenfes, and which are not very generally 
applied to the purpofes of agriculture in England. 
Earthen veflels were funk into the ground for the recep¬ 
tion of fuch manure; and for containing liquids of an 
analogous nature, in which the grain was fteeped previ- 
oufly to its being fown ; an operation which is fuppofed 
to haften the growth of the future plant, as well as to pre¬ 
vent any injury from infeCts in its tender date. The 
party fell in with a peafant, who, though ftruck with 
their appearance, was not fo feared by it as to fliun them. 
He was drafted in loofe garments of blue cotton, a draw 
hat upon his head faffened by a ftring under his chin, and 
half-boots upon his legs He feemed to enter into the 
Ipirit of curiofity naturally animating travellers, and rea¬ 
dily led them towards an adjoining village. Palling by a 
fmall farm-houfe, they were invited into it by the tenant, 
who, together with his fon, obferved them with affonilhed 
eyes. The houfe was built of wood, the uprights of the 
natural form of the timber. No ceiling concealed the in- 
jSde of the roof, which was put together flrongly, and co¬ 
vered with the draw of rice. The floor was of earth 
beaten hard, and the partitions between the rooms con¬ 
fided of mats hanging from the beams. Two fpinning- 
wheels for cotton were feen in the outer room; but the 
feats for the fpinners were empty. They had probably 
been filled by females, who retired on the approach of 
Arrangers ; while they remained, none of that fex appeared. 
Round the houfe were planted cluders of bamboo, and of 
ahat fpecies of palm, of which each leaf refembles the 
form of a fan ; and, ufed as fuch, becomes an article of 
merchandife. The return of the tide put an end to this 
vilit to Lowang, of which place one of the natives faid 
that it was fo confiderable, and fo well peopled, as to con¬ 
tain near ten thoufand inhabitants. Staunton , vol. i. 
LOWBY'ER, a village in Cumberland, nearKirkhaugh. 
LOWCOO'TY, a town of Hindoodan, in Bahar: 
right miles welt of Mongir. 
LOWDE'HA, a town of Hindoodan, in Allahabad s 
twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-wed of Allahabad. 
LOW'DHAM, a village between Nottingham and South- 
well •• one mite from Trent. 
LO'WE, a termination oflocal names.-^Ioav, Ite, comes 
L O W 
from the Saxon hleap, a hill, heap, or barrow; and fo ths 
Gothic hlaiw is a monument or barrow. Gib/on. 
LO'WE (Peter), a furgeon of the fixteenth century, 
was born in Scotland.' In a work, entitled “ A Difcourfc 
on the whole Art of Chirurgery,” publiihed at Glafgow 
in 1612, he acquaints his readers, that he had praciifed 
twenty-two years in France and Flanders; that he had 
been two years furgeon-major to the Spanifh regiment at 
Paris; and had then followed his matter, the king of France, 
(Henry IV.) fix years imhis wars. It does not appear how 
long he had refided at Glafgow ; but he mentions that, 
fourteen years before the publication of his book, he had 
complained of the ignorant perfons who intruded into the 
practice of lurgery, and that in confequence the king 
(of Scotland) granted him a privilege, under his privy-feai, 
of examining all practitioners in lurgery in the wedern 
parts of Scotland. He refers to a former work of his own, 
entitled “The Poor Man’s Guide,” and fpeaks of an in¬ 
tended publication concerning the difeafes of women. 
His epitaph in the cathedral church-yard of Glafgow (fee 
Pennant’s Tour to the Hebrides, p. 134) is, however, 
dated 1612, in December of which year the work jufl men¬ 
tioned was publiihed ; fo that he was probably prevented 
by death from fulfilling his intention. The Difcourle on 
Chirurgery appears to have been in elteem ; for the fourtlr 
edition of it was printed in London in 1654. It is in¬ 
deed copious, plain, and methodical; full of references 
to ancient and modern authors ; and, in faCt, like the ma¬ 
jority of books of thofe times, is more founded on autho¬ 
rity than oblervation. Ames mentions another work of 
his with the following title : “ An eafy, certain, and per¬ 
fect, Method to cure and prevent the Spanilh Sicknefs; 
by Peter Lowe, DoClor in the Faculty of Chirurgerie at 
Paris, Chirurgeon to Henry IV.” London 1596, 4to. At¬ 
kin's Biog. Mem. of Med. 
LO'WEN, a town of Silefia, in the county of Glatz, 
fituated in a valley. It is a royal town ; the principal 
employment of the inhabitants is in turning : thirteea 
miles wed of Glatz. Lat. 50. 13. N. Ion. 16. 3. E. 
LO'WEN, Lo'ben, orLEw'iN, a town of Silefia, in the 
principality of Brieg, on the Neifle ; nine miles foutli- 
ead of Brieg, and ten ead-north-ead of Grotkau. Lat. 
50. 40. N. Ion. 17. 33. E. 
LO'WENBERG, or Lemberg, a town of Silefia, in 
the principality of Jauer, near the Bober: twenty-five 
miles wed of Jauer, and thirty-four fouth of Sagan. £at. 
51. 5. N. Ion. 15. 42, E. 
LO'WENDAHL (Ulric-Frederic, Woldemar, Count of), 
a celebrated general, born at Hamburgh in the year 1700. 
Hisfather,grand marlhaland miniderof theking of Poland, 
eleCtor of Saxony, inured him to arms when he was only 
thirteen years old. He rofe gradually in the army, and 
ferved in feveral campaigns, expofed to the dangers and 
fatigues of warfare, proving himfelf, on all occafions, 
worthy of the rank he held, by his valour and prudence. 
In 1721, the king of Poland gave him the command of 
his horfe-guards and a regiment of infantry ; his leifure 
time he employed in the profound dudy of gunnery and 
fortification ; and in 1728 he was made field-marflial and 
infpeCtor-general of the Saxon infantry. After the death 
of the king he didinguiflied himfelf in the defence of 
Cracow ; in the following campaigns he commanded the 
Saxon auxiliaries on the Rhine under prince Eugene, 
and had a chief command at the florming of Otchakof. 
In 1743 he entered the fervice of the king of France, and 
was for fome years actively employed in the war in which 
that monarch was engaged. In 1747 he attained the fum- 
mit of his glory as a befieging general, by making a fweep 
of feveral towns of Flanders, concluding with that of 
Bergen-op-Zoom, which had been deemed impregnable. 
Immediately after the capture of this lad place, Lowendahl 
was declared a marllial of France. He now retired from 
the aCtive feenes of war, and didinguiflied himfelf as a 
worthy eftimable character in private life, equally agree- 
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