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requires much cultivation, grows every-where with little 
or no attention, and even in the higheft mountains with¬ 
out being watered. Of rice they have different kinds, 
fome of which requires four or five months between the 
lowing and the harveff, and fome which is fown and 
reaped within forty days. Although they have no wheat 
but that which is imported, the foil is very capable of 
bearing it, as appeared by an experiment, in which one 
bufhel produced 13c. The grafs grows, the trees bud, 
bioffom, and bear fruit, all the year, not only in the gar¬ 
dens, but on the mountains. The richeft fruits of the 
Welt Indies, as well as of the Eaft, are here abundant, 
and fome that are found no where elfe. Here are forty 
different forts of palms, the molt excellent cocoas, and 
callia, the fugar-cane, and cotton of peculiar beauty. In 
the mountains are wild cinnamon, wild nutmugs, ebony, 
fandal wood, together with excellent timber for building 
and (hipping. Gold is found upon the mountains in 
every part of the ifland, waffled out of the earth by the 
heavy rains ; in the mould of their valleys, carried down 
by their rivulets ; and in the fand and mud of their lakes, 
brooks, and rivers. The Spaniards obtain about 1000 or 
i 500 pounds weight every year, as a tribute from the in¬ 
habitants. All kinds of cattle abound, fo that a large fat 
ox does not coft above four pieces of eight. Civet-cats 
are alfo very common, and their civet is highly valuable. 
Ambergris is alfo thrown on their coalts in prodigious 
quantities. The natives, who are of a mild character, are 
called Tagals, like all thofe of the Philippines, and feem 
to be of Malay origin. They are tall and w'ell made, 
wearing only a kind of fhirt, with loofe drawers 5 but the 
drefs of the women is chiefly a large mantle, and their 
black and beautiful hair fometimes reaches the ground ; 
their complexion is a deep tawny. Their houfes are of 
bamboo covered with palm-leaves, raifed on pillars to the 
height of eight or ten feet. The chief food is rice, which 
is often eaten with falted fifh. 
M. Sonnerat has given fome account of the interior part 
of the country, as far as he was able to penetrate it. At 
the diftance of about a day’s journey from the capital, he 
found himfelf buried in woods, no habitation norappearance 
of cultivation prefenting themfel ves to his view. Some Scat¬ 
tered Indians, having their (houlders covered with the flcins 
of wild goats, the reft of the body being naked, with a bow 
in their hands and arrows on their back, were difcovered. 
Their locks were haggard, and their countenances very 
unprepoflefling. They feemed to be timid, and difpofed 
to flee from the face of man, and even from one another. 
They have no fociety ; they are lolitary wanderers; (top¬ 
ping when night overtakes them, and (leeping in tile hol¬ 
lows of trees. They have no families, and they feem to 
be conftrained merely by inllimft to fue the females whom 
chance has thrown in their way. After traverfing the 
wood above-mentioned, M. Sonnerat was led to a-large 
lake, in the middle of which is an illand, where fome In¬ 
dian families have taken refuge ; here they live by (idl¬ 
ing, and preferve their liberty, fuffering no one to land 
on the place which ferves them for an afylum. On the 
eaft-fouth-eaft the lake is bounded by high mountains ; 
the foil is fertile, and there are many fruit-trees ; and 
hence Manilla is fupplied with fruit. Thefe mountains 
are inhabited by a mild fet of people, who employ them- 
felves in making mats, cloth, and different works with 
the abacca, a kind of banana which bears no fruit, and 
of which the filaments are very itrong. Thefe people 
haye laws, and puuiflt crimes, the chief, in their eltima- 
tion, being adultery. On the other fl.de of the mountains, 
which bound the lake on the eaft-fouth-eaft, are immenfe 
plains, traverfed by large and deep rivers, which dift'ufe 
fertility. Here are a few flattered villages inhabited by 
men without morals, without virtue, without equity 5 
who fear each other, and, having no protedtion from laws, 
truft to the force of arms alone for their fafety. In a 
word, they live in perpetual diftruft and dread of one 
another.- Neverthelefs, fays our traveller, the aits have 
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reduced this favage nation, without (oftening their fero¬ 
cious manners. Colnmba was the name of one of (he 
larged villages poftelled by this favage tribe; and on the 
day of his arrival the people had a grand feffival, which 
they celebrated with divers fpecfacles. Part of thefe fpec- 
tacles was the exhibition of a tragedy ; and this was pre¬ 
ceded by a cock-fight, and by ether games, at which large 
funis were won and loft. Two leagues from Colnmba, in 
a village of lefs extent, was a rivulet whofe water was 
hot and boiling; and yet on the banks of this rivulet were 
vigorous ihrubs ; one of thefe (hrubs was an agnus cartus, 
and the two others afpalatus. The Spanifii governor, con¬ 
ceiving that thefe waters pofl'efs fome good qualities, has 
conftrufted near them feveral baths. Filh were found 
fwimming in this water, the heat of which was fo great, 
that our author could not bear his hand in it. In the in¬ 
terior of the country, he fays, there are many nations 
which the Spaniards have in vain endeavoured to fubdne. 
No force is fuifleient to fubjugate them ; they fly to a dis¬ 
tant afylum, and,there it is faid they (wear an implacable 
hatred againft the oppreffbrs of their country, meditating 
and preparing means of vengeance. From thence they 
ifl'ue in mean boats; fortified by courage, and ani¬ 
mated by hatred, they dare to approach the gates of the 
capital ; and their incurfions are a fucceilion of pillages, 
murders, ravages, and rapes. On leaving the village tra¬ 
verfed by the rivulet of hot water, our author took ait 
eafterly route, and, after three hours’journey, found hirn- 
lelf in an immenfe plain, which was watered and rendered 
fertile by a rivulet of clear, light, and wholefome, water, 
that descended from the top of a neighbouring mountain. 
Large meadows were enamelled with flowers, whofe va¬ 
riety of colour and perfume delighted equally the light 
and the fmell. The inhabitants were friendly and hos¬ 
pitable. 
This ifland is divided into provinces, tfloft of which ar® 
under the jurifdi&ion of the Spaniards. The principal 
are the Balayan, in which are 2.500 tributary Indians j in 
that of Camarinas is the city of New Caceres, the fee of 
a biftiop. Paracale contains 7000 Indians, who pay tri¬ 
bute to Spain; this province abounds in mines of gold 
and other metals, and of valuable load-ftones. In Ca¬ 
gayan are 9000 tributaries; but the richeft and molt po* 
pulous province is faid to be that of Illocos, ‘whofe coaf? 
extends upwards of ninety miles. There are feveral others, 
fuch as Pangafian, Bahi, Balacan, Sec. Lat. ra. 4.8. to r8* 
48. N. Ion. 120. 6. to 124. 10. E. 
LU'COS. See Luccos, p. 739. 
LUCOT'TA, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the weft coaft of Sumatra. Lat. r. 43. N. Ion. 97. 25. E. 
LUCRA.'TION, J. [ lucrum , Lat. gain.] 'I'tie act of 
gaining. Scott. 
LU'CRATIVE, adj. Gainful; profitable; bringing 
money.—The trade ot merchapdife, being the molt /itera¬ 
tive, may bear ufury at a good rate: other contracts not 
lo. Bacon. 
LU'CRE, /. Gain ; profit ; pecuniary advantage. In- 
an ill flafe: 
A foul fupreme in each hard inftance try’d, 
Above all pain, all anger, and ail pride, 
The rage of pow’r, the blaft or public, breath, 
The luft of lucre, and the dread of death. Pope. 
LUCRE'TIA. The ftory of Lucretia, whofe f3te wa* 
tire immediate caufe of the expulfion of the Tarquins, 
and the change in the form of the Roman government, 
(A.U.C. 244.) is well known, and has been related by us 
under the article Chastity, vol. iv. p. 122. Some per- 
fons have arraigned the prudence of her conduct in that 
lamentable fmiation; but Count Verri, in his Notte Romani 
al Sepolckro de' Scipioni , (Paris, 1797,) brings forward Pom¬ 
pom us Atticus to arraign even the virtue of Lucretia, 
That nice enquiry is conduced in the following manner :< 
“ As aTccrm fuddenly agitates the waves of the fea, fo the 
fpectres, who were likening with calm attention, then, 
S Z tremblings - 
