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Lymington is a borough by prefcription. It was firft 
fummoned to fend members to parliament in the reign of 
Edward III. but the firft aCtual return of members was 
57 Eliz. The corporation confifts of a titular mayor, 
aldermen, and burgeffes, without limitation j the mayor 
is annually chofen by the burgelfes within and without 
the borough, and fworn at the court-leet of the lord of 
the manor. The number of voters is about eighty; “all 
(fays Mr. Oldfield in his Hift. Bor.) under the influence 
of fir Harry Burrard Neale, hart, who is one of the mem¬ 
bers, and by whofe means the majority of them have ob¬ 
tained a number of thofe benevolences, which render them 
indeed obnoxious to Mr. Crew’s bill; but are, notwith- 
Itanding that, liberally diltributed by the treafury amongft 
the immaculate boroughs.” The market is on Saturdays; 
fairs May 12 and Oct. 13. 
The Roman encampment before alluded to is about 
three quarters of a mile to the north of Lymington ; and 
is now called Caflle-field, or Buckland-rings. Its dimen- 
fions are as follow : length, from ea(t to weft, 200 yards; 
breadth, towards the weft, 125 yards, and towards the 
eaft, 135. The whole camp, in its original (late, might 
cover about twenty acres of ground. Mr. Warner is in¬ 
clined to think it a work of Vefpafian, intended fof the 
protection of fuch .Roman (hips as might have accom¬ 
panied him in his expedition,-—At the diftance of two 
miles from this camp, are the tumuli of Swaj'-common : 
Mr. W. thinks they are partly Britifh and partly Saxon. 
Boldre, late the refidence of the elegant, the venerable, 
the pious, Gilpin, is near Lymington. The houfe, which 
is fweetly flieltered from the road, (tands on a gently-rifing 
ground, bounded by a fweeping wood of oaks. The arm 
of the fea feparating the Ifle of Wight from the main land 
is feen from the windows, and the ifland with its white 
cliffs bounds the picture. Pomegranates and myrtles 
adorn the front of the houfe; and its apartments are or¬ 
namented with the elegant drawings of him who could 
furnifh views for “ Foreft Scenery,” and write initiatory 
books for parifh-children. This elegant retirement feems 
the abode of peace, tafte, and virtue; and its laft proprie¬ 
tor poflefl’ed that refined wifdom, which enabled him to 
make it fuch. The hamlet of Boldre is at forne diftance 
in the back ground : the cottages are neat and comfort¬ 
able. Here is a fchool for tlie children of the poor, built 
and endowed by Mr. Gilpin. It is fituated on a little 
knoll, ornamented with fhrubs. The apartments of the 
boys and girls are feparate ; and the walls are hung round 
with tablets containing appropriate texts of Scripture, and 
printed inftruCIions for the children, which breathe the 
benevolence and piety of their revered paftor. Few pa- 
riflies perhaps can equal Boldre in their readinefs to con¬ 
firm that interefting and important truth, “ The memory 
of the juft is bleffed.” The heart-felt encomiums poured 
into the ear of a ltranger, confirm the conviftion of the 
powerful permanent influence which one individual may 
have, who is habitually and judicioufly aiming to do all 
the good he can. Boldre church is a mile from the ham¬ 
let, fituated in a fequeftered and romantic part of the 
New Foreft. The filence and folitarinefs of the fpot, the 
deep fliade of the woods, the laft memento of him who 
has taught the love of heavenly wifdom to the inhabitants, 
and immortalized the fcenery, all confpire to render Bol¬ 
dre church-yard a fpot not to be vifited without enthu- 
fiafm, nor quitted without regret. 
LY'MINSTER, a village near Arundel in Suflex. 
LYMPH, £ lympha , Lar.] A term given to the tranf- 
parent fluid conveyed in the abforbing veflels of the body; 
alfo to a part of the blood. It is often applied alfo to 
other animal fluids, chiefly when clear and nearly tranf- 
partnt—When the chyle pafleth through the mefentery, 
it is mixed with the lympk, the molt fpirituous and elabo¬ 
rated part of the blood. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 
LYM'PHA, in heathen mythology, a goddefs wor- 
fnipped by the fhepherds when they wanted rain.—Alfo, 
fiinong the Romans, a kind of grotto or artificial cave, 
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fo called from lympha, water; becaufe furnifhed with a 
great many tubes, canals, and fecret pafiages, through 
winch the water fuddenly gufhed upon the fpectators, 
while bufy in admiring the great variety and'beautiful 
arrangement of fhells, with which the grotto was adorned. 
LYM'PHAD, f. An ancient fhip or floop of war, pe¬ 
culiar to Scotland, and particularly to the Ifle of Arran; 
whence it is borne in the arms of Hamilton duke of Bran¬ 
don and earl of Arran, and of Hamilton marquis of Aber- 
corn. See the article Heraldry, vol. ix. PlateXVIII.XIX. 
.LYMPHA'TI, or Lymphat'ici, in antiquity, a name 
given by the Latins to pofielfed or mad perfons, becaufe 
they were thought to be gifted with divination. Plin. Nat. 
Hift. lib. xxv. c. v. Thefe anfwer to the of 
the Greeks. The ancient Greeks called water nympha, 
which the Latins changed into lympha. “ThC term omphi 
(fays Mr. Bryant) is of great antiquity, and denotes an 
oracular influence, by which people obtained an infight 
into the fecrets of futurity: it was written omphi or amphi, 
and fignified the Oracle of Ham, who, according to the 
Egyptian theology, was the fame as the Sun, orOfiris; 
and, as fountains were deemed facred, thefe were ftyled bv 
the Ammonians Ain Omphe, or the Fountains of the Ora'- 
cle; from the divine influence with which they were fun- 
pofed to abound, which terms were afterwards contraffed 
by the Greeks into vvptp'/i, a nymph, who fuppofed fuch a 
perfon to be an inferior goddefs who prefided over waters. 
In the fame manner from al omphia was derived lympha j 
which differed from aqua , or common water, becaufe it was 
of a facred or prophetic nature. AnalyftsofAnt.Myth.\o\.\. _i c 
appears likely, that dift rafted people were called lympkati, 
from the circumftance of madmen being affefted with the 
hydrophobia, or dread of water, after the bite of a mad do o '; 
for this peculiarity, in cafes of canine madnefs, was not 
unknown to the Romans. Ency. Brit. 
LYMPHAT'IC,/. [ lymphatique , Fr. from lympha, Laf.] 
The lymphatics are flender pellucid tubes, whole cavities 
are contrafted at fmall and unequal diftances: they are 
carried into the glands of the mefentery, receiving firft a 
fine thin lymph from the lymphatic duds, which dilutes 
the chylous fluid. Cheyne . 
The lymphatics are the abforbing veflels. This fyftem 
is an aflemblage of numerous fmall veflels, arifing from all 
parts of the body, carrying from them various fluids, which 
they pour into the venous fyftem, after making them pafs 
through certain fmall bodies called lymphatic glands, and 
forming part of the fame fyftem with them. The term 
lymphatics was applied to thefe tubes in confequence of 
their containing, in general, a tranfparent fluid, or lymph 5 
and it defignates, therefore, properly fpeaking, only thofe 
abforbents of which the contents refemble lymph. The 
veflels, which take up the chyle from the inteftines, are 
called lacieals, from the appearance of their contents. As 
the ftrufture and offices of the organs are the fame in all 
parts, thefe diftinftions might lead to erroneous views of 
the fubjeft ; and the term abforbents, which denotes their 
general function, feems the mod appropriate. Names de¬ 
rived from the nature of the fluid abforbed are-more par¬ 
ticularly objectionable, becaufe that is very imperfectly 
known to us. We cannot fuppofe that one and the fame 
fluid is abforbed from ferous cavities, from the adipous 
cells, from mufcles, glands, bones, See. yet in all thefe cafes 
it goes under the common aiid very indefinite term lymph . 
See the article Anatomy, vol. i. p. 629-632. 
LYMPHAT'IC, adj. \_lymphaticus, Lar.) EnthufiafticaL 
—Horace either is or teigns himfelt lymphatic. Skafte/burv. 
LYMPHAT'IC, J.. A mad enthufiaft ; a lunatic._ 
All nations have their lymphatics of feme kind or other. 
Shajtfbury. —From Bethlem’s walls the poor lymphatic 
itray’d. Shenftone. 
LYM'PHEDUCT,/. Avefiel which conveys the lymph; 
Tlie glands. 
All artful knots of various hollow threads. 
Which lympheduEls, an art’ry, nerve, and vein. 
Involv’d and clofe together wound, contain. Blackmore „ 
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