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matt, and rebuilt by Bikarmadjit, king of Oude. The 
Ipot on which the founder refided is preferved in remem¬ 
brance by a mofque, erefted for this purpole by Aurung- 
zebe. This is a very ancient city, and moderately exten- 
five, but meanly built. The walls of the houfes are 
chiefly mud, covered with thatch, and many entirely 
conlilt of mats and bamboos.' A few houfes are built of 
brick 5 the itreets narrow, crooked, and the world con¬ 
trived of any in India. In the dry fealon the heat, dull, 
and infeiits, make them intolerable; in the wet leafon « 
they are fcarcely paffable. Yet this was a great city in 
the time of Abulfazel; how fmall has been the improve¬ 
ment fince his days ! Molt of the old palaces were de- 
ltroyed by Sujah Dowlah ; for, lays Mr. Pennant, no fon 
ever lives in the palace of a deceafed father, but builds a 
new one for his own ufe. This is the caufe of fo many 
ruins of magnificent modern foundations. Sujah Dowlah 
fin idled his courl'e in 1775. Mr. Hodges, in his Travels, 
has given a view of the palace of the nabob, begun by 
Sujah Dowlah, and continued by his fucceffor Aiop. It 
is built on an eminence, and commands'a fine view of the 
Goomty, and the country to the ealt, a plain of five hun¬ 
dred miles, extending as far as Calcutta. Lucknow is 
diftant from jionpour, 55 miles ; from Sionpour, 92 ; from 
Allahabat, 127 ; from Agimere, 428 ; from Arcot, 1147 j 
from "Bahar, 388; from Cabul, 1118; from Dacca, 7903 
from Dowlatabad, 728; from Golconda, 794; from Gwa¬ 
lior, 211 ; from Oude orFyzabad, the former capital, 853 
from Patna, 316 ; from Seringapatam, 1201 ; and from 
Vifiapour, 902. Lat. 26. 52. N. Ion. 81. 14. E. Gibfon's 
Geography, vol. i. 
LUCK'O Luck', or Luz'k, a city of Ruffian Poland, 
capital of the palatinate ot Volhynia, with a caltle, where 
tne biiliop of Volhynia refided, and the Jeluits had a col¬ 
lege. This city is alfo the refidence of a Ruffian bidiop j 
and has a provincial diet and court of judicature. In 
1752, the greatelt part of this-city was deltroyed by fire. 
It is 200 miles eaft-north-ealt of Cracow, and 176 louth- 
eaft of Warfaw. Lat. 50. 40. N. Ion. 25. J9.E. 
LUCK'OMB, a village near Porlock,- Somerfet.—A 
village in Dorletfliire, two miles north of Welt Chelburgh. 
LUCKOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Solinjepour: twenty miles fouth of Sohajepour. 
LUCK/TON, a village in Herefordihire, near Croft 
Caftle. 
LUCKUM'RY, a town of Meckley : thirty-five miles 
welt ot Munnypour. 
LUCK'Y, adj. Fortunate ; happy by chance: 
Perhaps fome arm, more lucky than the red, 
May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage, 
Addijon. 
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year 1723, great part of the town was deftroyed by fire: 
fifty miles eaft of Magdeburg, and eighteen fouth of Potz- 
dam. Lat. 52. 6. N. Ion. 13.3. E. 
LUCK'ERCOOT, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat : 
thirtv miles ealt of Godra. 
LUCK/FORD, a village in Dorfetdiire, near the river 
Frome, a little weft from Holme, gives name to a river 
that empties itfelf into the Frome ; forms the weftern 
boundaries of the Ifle of Purbeck ; and divides Ealt Lul- 
worth from Steple and Welt Tineham. 
LUCK'HAM, a village in the pariflt of UfFcolumb, 
Devon. 
LUCK'IA, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: forty 
miles north-eaft of Gooracpour. 
LUCK'IA, a river of Bengal, which runs into the 
Megna near Naramgunge. 
LUCK'IDER, a town of Bootan, forty miles north of 
Beyhar. 
LUCKIG AT'CHY, a town of Bengal: ten miles north- 
eaft of Kiffienagur. 
LUCKHLY, adv. Fortunately; by good hap.—It is 
the pencil thrown luckily full upon the horfe’s mouth, to 
exprefs the foam, which the painter with all his ikill could 
not form. Dryderi's Dufrefnoy.- —It happens luckily for the 
eftablilhment of a new race of kings upon the Britidi 
throne, that the firft of this royal line has all high quali¬ 
fications. Addifon. 
LUCK'INESS, f. Good fortune; good hap; cafual hap- 
pinefs.—He who fometimes lights on truth, is in the right 
but by chance ; and I know not whether the luckincfs of 
the accident will excule the irregularity of his proceeding. 
Locke. 
LUCK/INGTON, a village to the fouth-weft: of Malmf- 
bury, Wilts. 
LUCKINPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Cicacole : twenty-four miles north of Cicacole.—A 
town of Hindooftan, in Surgooja : ten miles louth-weft of 
Surgooja. 
LUCKIPOU'R, a town of Bengal: forty miles fouth- 
eaft of Calcutta.— A town of Bootan : fifty-five miles 
fouth of Taflafudon.—A town of Hindooftan, in Bengal: 
thirty-five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Comillah.—An ifiand 
in the mouth of the river Ganges, about nine miles in 
length and two in breadth. Lat 22. 27. N. Ion. 90. 48. E. 
—A town of Bengal, on an illand of the fame name : 
fifty miles fouth of Dacca. 
LUCK'LESS, adj. Unfortunate ; unhappy. 
Glad of fuch luck, the tucklefs lucky maid 
A long time with that lavage people ftaid, 
To gather breath in many naileries* Fairy Queen. 
Never (hall my thoughts be bale, 
Though lucklcfs, yet without difgrace. Suckling. 
LUCK'MERSER, a lake of Hindooftan, in Oude, a 
little to the eaft of Buckrah. 
LUCKMIPOU'R, a town of Bengal : thirty-two miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Curruckpour.—A town of Hindooftan, 
in Bahar •. thirty miles eaft of Bahar. 
LUCKNADANG', a town of Goondwana : eighty- 
eight miles north of Nagpour. 
LUCKNOR', a village in Northumberland, on the 
Wame ; weft of Sunderland. 
LUCK NO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in, Bahar: twenty- 
eight miles fouth of Patna. Lat. 25. 8. N. ion. 85. 16. E. 
LUCKNOU'TI. See Gour, vol. viii. p. 752. 
LUCK'NOW, a circar of Hindooftan, in Oude, bounded 
on the north by Kairabad, on the ealt by Oude circar, on 
tne fouth by Manickpour, and on the welt by Canoge ; 
about feventy-five miles long, and forty-five broad. 
LUCK'NOVV, a large and populous, but irregular and 
inelegant, city of Bengal, of late years become capital of 
the, fore-mentioned circar, and of the fubaji of Oude ; 
fituated on the Goomty, which runs on the north fide of 
the town, and is navigable for boats of a common lize at 
if'.ll feafons of the year 3 founded by Latfchman, or Lac- 
LU'CO, a town of Naples, in Abruzzo Ultra: nine 
miles fouth-louth-weft ot Celano. 
LU^O'N, a town of France, in the department of the 
Vendee, fituated on a canal, about fix miles in length, 
which communicates with the fea. The environs are 
marlhy, and the air is unwhoiefome. Before the revolu¬ 
tion it was the fee of a biihop : fifteen miles weft of Fon- 
tenay ie Comte. Lat. 46. 29. N. Ion. j. 4. W. 
LUfjO'N, or Luzon, fometimes called Manilla , frqm 
its capital, is the largelt and molt important of the Phi¬ 
lippine ifles, being more than feven degrees, or near 500 
Britifti miles, in length, and about too of medial breadth. 
This illand is pervaded in its length by a high chain of 
mountains towards the eaft, fo that its interior parts are 
difficult of acpels; and the examination of it is alio re- 
{trained by the jealoufy of the Spaniards. It is alfo tra- 
verfed by the branches of a confiderable river, on the 
banks of which the capital is leated; and its lakes are 
numerous, the largelt of which is the fburce of the river 
Manilla. Several volcanoes occur in this illand , nor are 
earthquakes uncommon. Its foil is uncommonly fertile 5 
and its produfts are gold, copper, and iron. Such is the 
fertility of the foil, that rice, which in other countries 
3 requires 
