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lake is deepeft. Kuffhacht is on the point of the other 
gulf, which extends towards the eaft, and is wider than 
the former. Ali the country to the welt of thefe gulfs, and 
part of it to the north of the latter, belongs to the can¬ 
ton of Lucerne ; but that which is to the fouth and north- 
eaft is dependent on the canton of Zug. All the moun¬ 
tains on the left fhore of tire lake belong to the canton of 
Underwald ; thofe on the right, partly to the canton of 
Uri, partly to that of Schweitz, partly to the little re¬ 
public of Gerfau, but principally to the canton of Lu¬ 
cerne. 
LUCER'NE, J. A lamp, or candle ; a light in general. 
Obfolete. 
LE'CEY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meurte : three miles north-weft of Toul, and thirteen 
fduth-fputh-weft of Pont a Mouffon. 
LU'CEY, a town of France, in the department of Mont 
Blanc, on the Rhone : fifteen miles north-weft of Cham- 
bery. 
LUCEY LE BOI'S, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diltrifl of Avallon. The place contains 830, and the 
canton 7886, inhabitants. 
LUCHEU'X, a town of France, in the department of 
the Somme : four miles north-eaft of Dourlens, and fif¬ 
teen fouth.welt of Arras. 
LUCH'NOW HILL'S, a range of mountains in Hin- 
dooltan, between the circars of Ruttanpour and Goond- 
wana ; the paffage over which is called Lvchnozo Pa/s, and 
is fttuated about eight miles weft of Kyragur. 
LUCH'O, a town of Pomerelia : tv/elve miles fouth- 
vveft of Dantzic. 
LUCH'O, a town of the principality of Lunenburg, on 
the Jetze 5 being fttuated in a marftiy foil, moll of the 
houfes are built on piles: fifty-four miles north-eaft'of 
Zell, and forty eaft-fouth-eaft of Lunenburg. Lat. 5a. 58. 
N. Ion. 11. 17. E. 
LUCH'OWICZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Novogrodek : forty miles fouth-fouth-ealt of No- 
vagrodek. 
LU'CHY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Oife : nine miles north of Beauvais. 
LU'CIA, or Lu'cy, the name of a woman. 
LU'CIA (St.), fo called from its having been difco- 
vered on St. Lucia’s day, one of the Charaibe or Caribbee 
iflands in the Weft-Indies, about twenty-feven miles in 
length from north to fouth, and twelve broad. In this 
ifland are feveral hills, two of which are remarkably round 
and high, and faid to have been volcanoes. At the foot 
of thefe hills are fine valleys, well-watered, and having a 
good foil, that produces trees, the timber of which ferves 
the planters Of Martinico and Barba does for building 
their houfes and windmills. The illand alfo fupplies 
plenty of cocoa and fuftic. The air, fanned by the trade- 
winds, which, by the arrangement of the hills, are ad¬ 
mitted into the illand, and thus moderating the heat, is 
reckoned falubrious. The illand has feveral good har¬ 
bours and bays, which afford commodious anchorage; 
particularly the Little Careenage, which is accounted the 
belt in all the Caribbees, and which induced the French 
to prefer it to the other neutral iflands. This harbour 
poffeffes feveral advantages, fuch as its depth, the excel¬ 
lent quality of its bottom, and its convenient careening 
places. Thirty fliips of the line may lie here, flickered 
from hurricanes, without the trouble of mooring them. 
As to the other harbours, the winds are always favoura¬ 
ble for going out, and the largeft fquadron may be in the 
offing in lefs than an hour. In the ifland are nine parilhes, 
eight to the leeward, and only one to the windward. A 
high road is made round the ifland, and two others which 
crofs it from eaft to weft, and thus afford an eafy convey¬ 
ance oT the commodities of the plantations to the barca- 
deres, or landing-places. 
After the Englifh had been fettled for fome time in this 
illand, the Cliaraibes, mitigated by the French, in the year 
L U C 
1638, either killed or drove from the ifland the Englifln 
fettlers with their governor. When the civil wars broke 
out in England, a party of French arrived here, under a 
perfon named .Rouffelan, well provided with ftores and 
ammunition. Rouffelan recommended himfelf to the 
Charaibes by marrying one of their women ; fo that he 
and his colony carried on an advantageous trade; but, 
upon his death in 1654., he was fucceeded by one La Ri¬ 
viere, who, with his whole colony, was maffacred by the 
Charaibes. It is needlefs to recount the attempts made 
by the French, and alfo by the Englilh in 167a, and at a 
later period in 1723, to obtain and preferve a fettlement 
in this ifland. At length, when the Englifh were com¬ 
pelled to relinquifli all hopes of obtaining this and other 
iflands by force, St. Vincent, Dominica, Tobago, and 
St. Lucia, were declared neutral by the treaty of Aix-la- 
Chapelle in 1748 ; and thofe who remained of the ancient 
proprietors were left in unmolefted poffefiion. The treaty 
of neutrality was no fooner concluded, than both Englifh 
and French appeared diflatisfted with the arrangement 
they had made. The Englifh, in particular, difcovered, 
that by acceding to the comproinife, they had given up 
St. Lucia, an ifland worth all the reft, and to which, it 
muft be owned, they had fome colourable pretenfions, 
founded on a treaty entered into with the Charibbean in¬ 
habitants in 1664, fix hundred of whom attended an ar- 
manent that was fent thither by lord Willoughby, and ac¬ 
tually put the Englifh publicly and formally into poffefiion. 
By the peace of Paris, February 1763, the three iflands 
of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago, were afligned to 
Great Britain ; and St. Lucia to France in full and per¬ 
petual fovereignty ; the Charibbes not being once men¬ 
tioned in the whole tranfaflion, as if no luch people ex- 
ifted. From this time, the colony flourifhed confiderably. 
In the beginning of the year 1772, the number of white 
people amounted to 2bi 8 fouls, men, women, and children ; 
that of the blacks to 663 free men,’and 12,795 flaves. 
The cattle confilted of 928 mules or horfes, 2070 head of 
horned cattle, and 3184 fheep or goats. There were thir¬ 
ty-eight fugar plantations, which occupied 978 pieces of 
land; 5,595,889 coffee-trees; 1,321,600 cocoa-plants; and 
367 plots of cotton. There were 706 dwelling-places. 
The annual revenue at that time was about 175.000I. 
which, according to the abbe Raynal, mult have increafed 
one-eighth yearly for fome time. The Englifh took this 
ifland in the year 1779, but reftored it at the peace in 
1783 ; it was retaken by the Englifh in 1794, reftored in 
3795, and retaken in 1796 ; reftored at the peace of Amiens; 
recaptured in 1803 ; and lecured to Great Britain by the 
treaty of Paris, May 30, 18x4. 
The foil of St. Lucia is tolerably good, even at the. fea- 
fide ; and is much better the farther we advance into the 
country. The whole of it is capable of cultivation, ex¬ 
cept fome high and craggy mountains, which bear evident 
marks of old volcanoes. In one deep valley there are ftill 
eight or ten ponds, the water of which boils up in a dread¬ 
ful manner, and retains fome of its heat at the diftance 
of 6000 toifes from its refervoirs. The air in the inland 
parts, like that of all other uninhabited counties, is foul 
and unwholefome ; but grows lels noxious as the woods 
are cleared and the ground laid open. On fome parts of 
the fea-coaft, the air is ftill more unhealthy, on account 
of fome fmall rivers which fpring from the foot of the 
mountains, and have not fufficient (lope to wafn down the 
fands with which the influx of the ocean flops up their 
mouths, by which means they fpread themfclves into un- 
wholefome marfhes on the neighbouring grounds. Lat. 
13. 37. N. Ion. 60. 30. W. 
LU'CIA (St.) a high and mountainous ifland of Africa, 
and one of thofe of Cape Verde, is about nine leagues 
long, and lies in the latitude of 16. 18. N. according to 
the Englifh geographers ; but, according to all others, it 
ic a degree farther to the northward, fin the eaft-fouth- 
eaft fide is a harbour, with a bottom and fhore of white 
fand; but its heft road is oppofite St. Vincent’s to the 
fouth- 
