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that time, feverely afHifted with the venereal difeafe. In 
Auguft 1494., four other {hips arrived at Hifpaniola from 
Spain, under the command of Antonio de Torrez, and re¬ 
turned at the fame time as thofe laft fpecified. Laftly, in 
October 1+95, John Aguado, the envoy of their Catholic 
maje'fties, came to Hifpaniola with four flips, to inquire 
into the crimes of which Chriftopher Columbus flood 
accufed; and the year following departed for Cadiz, 
where he arrived with Chriftopher on the nth of 
June 1496, and with 200 foldiers, who were infected with 
the venereal difeafe. The firft conveyance of this diftem¬ 
per from the Weft Indies to Europe, by the followers of 
Columbus, is fupported by numerous teftimonies ; among 
which are thofe of Anthony Mufti Braflavolus, John Bap- 
tiita Montanus, Gabriel Fallopius, and Roderic Diaz. 
Tliefe confirm the difeafe to have originated in the Weft 
Indies, and to have been brought over by Columbus’s 
men; that it appeared in Spain firft in 1493, at Barcelona, 
and there fpread immediately through the whole city ; that, 
in Hifpaniola and the adjacent Weft-India illauds, the 
difeafe Was very frequent and familiar to the natives, who 
had found out an antidote called guaiacum-wood ; and, 
laftly, that the diftemper in America was milder than in 
Europe, where, on its firft breaking out, it was undoubt¬ 
edly more fevere than at fubfequent periods. 
There is only one other fentimerit, which we have to 
notice, refpedting the firft origin of fyphilis, namely, that 
it was not brought from the Weft Indies, but began in 
Europe, as an epidemical affeftion. Mr. Hunter feems 
inclined to think, that the diftemper did not originally 
come from the Weft Indies ; and he was led into this per- 
fuafion by reading a fliort treatife, entitled, “ A Diflerta- 
tion on the Origin of the Venereal Difeafe; proving, that 
it was not brought from America, but began in Europe 
from an epidemical Diftemper. Tranflated from the origi¬ 
nal Manufcript of an eminent Phyfician. London, printed 
for Robert Griffiths, 1751.” In our opinion, however, Af- 
truc has adduced abundant proofs of the diftemper having 
exifted in Hifpaniola before it was at all known in Eu¬ 
rope ; and he has explained, as fatisfaftorily as can reafon- 
ably be expected, how the difeafe was conveyed from the 
Weft Indies to Barcelona in 1493, and to Italy fliortly af¬ 
terwards. 
The lubjefl is highly interefting; though the time 
that has now elapfed, fince the commencement of lues 
venerea in Europe, forbids any advantageous inveftigation 
of the controverted point?. That the ancient leprofy could 
not be fyphilis, Dr. Aftruc has entirely fatisfied us; and 
we join him in the belief that the latter difeafe was ori¬ 
ginally imported into Europe from the Weft Indies. It 
is unqueltionably a matter of infinite curiofity, that the 
leprofy, common as it was in former times, ftiould ftcarcely 
ever have made its appearance after the venereal difeafe 
fpread over Europe; but this may not be more curious 
and unaccountable than the departure of the plague, 
and the accefs of the fmall-pox. Mr. Hunter has remark¬ 
ed, that, in whatever manner the difeafe arole, it certainly 
began in the human race ; for we know of no other ani¬ 
mal that is capable of being infected with this poifon. It 
is probable, too, that the parts of generation were the 
firft affected; for, if the diforder had occurred in any other 
part of the body, it might probably never have gone fur¬ 
ther than the perfon in whom it firft arole, and therefore 
never have excited public attention; but, as it was fteated 
in the parts of generation, where the only natural connec¬ 
tion takes place between one human being and another, it 
was in the molt favourable fituation for being propagated. 
For the fymptoms and cure of this difeafe, fee the article 
Pathology. 
LUE'SIA, a town of Spain, in the province of Arragon: 
twenty miles fouth-weft of Jaca. 
LUFF, f. [In Scotland.] The palm of the hand. 
To LUFF, or Look, v. n. To keep clofe to the wind. 
Sea term.—Contract your ftvvelling fails, and luff to wind. 
Dry den. 
LUFF'-TACKLE, /, A name given by Tailors to any 
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large tackle that is not deftined fora particular place, but 
may be varioully employed as occafion requires. It is ge¬ 
nerally fomewhat larger than the jigger-tackle, although 
fmaller than thofe which 1’erve to hoift the heavier mate¬ 
rials into and out of the veflel, which latter are the main 
and fore tackles, the ftay and quarter tackles, &c. 
LUF'FA, /. in botany. See Momordica. 
LUF'FENCOT, a village in Devonlhire, near Holf- 
worthy. 
LUF'FENIIALL, a village to the north-eaft of Ste¬ 
venage, Herts. 
LUF'FENHAM (North and South), villages in Rut- 
landlhire, four miles from Uppingham; fuppofed to have 
been anciently one town. 
LUF'FIELD, a village partly in Bucks, and partly in 
Northamptonlhire. It once had a priory ; and is taxed in 
the parifh of Stow. 
LUFF'WICK, a village in Northamptonfliire, north- 
weft of Thrapfton. 
LUF'VIA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Fin¬ 
land : ten miles fouth of Biorneborg. 
LUFU'NA, a river of Africa, which divides Congo 
from Angola, and runs into the Atlantic in lat. 8. 26. S. 
LUG, a river in Herefordftiire, which runs into the 
Wye near Hereford. 
LUG, a river of Wales, which rifes in the county of 
Radnor, paffes through Shropfliire and Monmouthfliire, 
and runs into the Severn near Chepftow. 
To LUG, v. a. [aluccan, Sax. to pull ; loga, Swed. the 
hollow of the hand.] To hale or drag; to pull with rug¬ 
ged violence.—Either every Angle animal fpirit muft con¬ 
vey a whole representation, or elfe they muft divide the 
image amongft them, and fo lug off every one his Ihare. 
Collier. 
Thy bear is fafe, x and out of peril. 
Though lugg'd indeed, and wounded very ill. Hudibras. 
To Lug out. To draw a fword, in burlefque language r 
But buff and beltmen never know thefe cares, 
No time, nor trick of law, their adtion bars ; 
They-wili be heard, or they lug out and cut. Drydert. 
To LUG, v.n. To drag; to come heavily: perhaps 
only mifprinted for tag : 
My flagging foul flies under her own pitch. 
Like fowl in air, too damp, and lugs along, 
As if Ihe were a body in a body. Drydert. 
LUG, f. A kind of fmall fifli.—They feed on fait un¬ 
merchantable pilchards, tag worms, lugs, and little crabs. 
Carezu. —[In Scotland.] An ear. — Aland meafure; a pole 
or perch : 
That ample pit, yet far renown’d 
For the large leap which Debon did compel 
Ceaulin to make, being eight lugs of ground. Spenfer. 
LUG'-SAIL, f. A lquare fail, hoifted occafionally on 
the malt of a boat or fmall veflel upon a yard which hangs 
nearly at right angles with the mall. Thefe are more par¬ 
ticularly ufed in the barca longas, navigated by the Spa¬ 
niards in the Mediterranean. 
LU'GA, a riyer of Ruflia, which runs into the gulf of 
Finland lixteen miles weft of Kopore. 
LU'GA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Pe- 
terfburg, on a river of the lame name : eighty miles fouth 
of Peterfburg. Lat. 58. 25. N. Ion. 29. 30. E. 
LU'GA, a mountain of Italy, in the county of Bormiss 
ten miles louth of Bormis. 
LUGA'NO, a bailiwic of Italy, granted by the duke of 
Milan, in the year 1513, to the Swiis cantons. It is about; 
twenty miles in length and thirteen in breadth ; containing 
106 towns and villages, and 53,000 inhabitants, who all 
profefs the Roman Catholic religion. Under the Swifs it 
was governed by a bailiff, lent every two years by each 
canton in its turn. The foil is fertile in pafture, corn, 
fruit, and filk ; olives are produced in great abundance. 
It is now annexed to Italy. 
LUGA'NO, 
