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drunk the night before, that he certainly mud have for¬ 
got it, and rallied him on his ridiculous bragging about 
his memory. Lyon pulled out the paper, delired him to 
look at it, and be judge himfelf whether he did or did not 
win his wager. Notwithftanding the unconnexion be¬ 
tween the paragraphs, the variety of advertifements, and 
the general chaos which goes to the compolition of any 
newfpaper, he repeated it from beginning to end, without 
the leak hefitation or miftake : an inftance of a flrong me¬ 
mory, the parallel of which perhaps cannot be produced 
in any age or nation.—He is the author of a farce, altered 
from Vanbrugh, called The Wrangling Lovers, or Like 
Maker like Man, 1745, printed at Edinburgh. 
LY'ONESS, a name given to a part of the promontory 
overflowed at the Land’s End, Cornwall. 
LYONG', a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, near 
the ealt coalt of Oby. Lat. 1. 39. S. Ion. 12S. 14. E. 
LY'ONNET (Peter), an ingenious naturalik, and mem¬ 
ber of leveral learned Societies, was born at Maeftricht, 
and was defcended from a very ancient and refpeiiable 
family of Lorraine. He had fcarcely attained his feventh 
f ’ear before he difplayed an uncommon (Length and agi- 
ity in all bodily exercifes; but he was not lefs diligent 
in the improvement of his mind. Being placed at the 
Latin fchool, he learned chronology, and exerciled him¬ 
felf in Latin, Greek, and French, poetry, as alfo in He¬ 
brew, logic, and the Cartefian phylics. He was particu¬ 
larly fond of the kudy of languages, whereof he under¬ 
flood no lefs than nine, living and dead. Having entered 
the univerfity of Leyden, lie kudied the Newtonian phi- 
Jofophy, geometry, algebra, &c. but, his father (who was 
a clergyman) defiring he kiould attach himfelf to divi¬ 
nity, lie reluctantly abandoned the former ltudies, as his 
paflion for them was not eafily to be overcome. He at 
the fame time applied himfelf to anatomy, and alio to 
mulic and drawing. He began afterwards to praflife 
fculpture ; and performed feveral pieces in wood, fome of 
which are preferved, and have been greatly admired by 
the artifts. After this, lie betook himfelf to drawing por¬ 
traits of his friends from life ; wherein, after three or four 
months practice, he became a great proficient. Having 
attained the degree of candidate in divinity, he refolved 
to kudy law, to which he applied himfelf with fo much 
zeal, that he was promoted at the end 0/ the firk year. 
Arrived at the Hague, he undertook the ttudy of deci¬ 
phering ; and became fecretary of the ciphers, tranflator 
of the Latin and French languages, and patent-maker, to 
their High Mightinelfes. Meanwhile, having taken a 
ilrong liking to the kudy of infeCls, lie undertook an liif- 
torical defcription of fucli as are found about the Hague, 
and to that end collected materials for leveral volumes ; 
and, having invented a method of drawing adapted thereto, 
be enriched this work with a great number of plates, uni- 
verfally admired by all the connoifleurs who had feen them. 
Jn the year 1714, was printed at the Hague, a French 
tranflation of a German work, the Theology of InfeCts, 
by Mr. Lefier. Love of truth engaged Mr. Lyonnet to 
defer the publication of his above-mentioned defcription, 
and to make fome obfervations on that work, to which he 
has added two moll beautiful plates, engraved from his 
defigns. This performance caufed his merit to be univer- 
fally known aid admired. The celebrated M. de Reau¬ 
mur had the above tranflation reprinted at Paris, not fo 
much on account of the work itfelf as of Mr. Lyonnet’s 
obfervations; and bellowed on it, as did alfo many other 
authors, the highek encomiums. He afterwards executed 
drawings of the frelh-water polypus for Mr. Trembley’s 
beautiful work, 1744. The ingenious Wandelaar had 
engraved the firk five plates ; when Mr. Lyonnet, who 
had never witnefled this operation, concerned at the diffi¬ 
culties he experienced in getting the remaining eight 
finilhed in the fuperior Ityle he required, refolved to per¬ 
form the tplk. himfelf. He accordingly took a lelfon of 
one hour of Mr. Wandelaar, engraved three or four fmall 
plates, and immediately began, upon the work himfelf, 
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which he performed in fuch a manner as drew on him the 
highek degree of praife, both from Mr. Trembley and 
from many other artills, particularly the celebrated Van 
Gool ; who declared that the performance aftonilbed not 
only the amateurs, but alfo the moll experienced artiks. 
In 1748, he was chofen member of the Royal Society of 
London. In 1749, he began (by mere chance) his amaz¬ 
ing colleftion of horns and Shells, which, according to 
the univcrfal tekimony of all travellers and amateurs who 
have vifited it, is at prefent the mod beautiful, and cer¬ 
tainly one of the moll valuable, in Europe. In 1753, he 
became member of the newly-eftabliflicd Dutch Society 
of Sciences at Haerlem 5 and in 1757, after the celebrated 
M. le Cat, profelFot in anatomy and fnrgery, and member 
of almoll all the principal focieties in Europe, had feen 
Mr. Lyonnet’s incomparable Traits Anatomique de la Che¬ 
nille qui rouge le Bois de Saule, with the drawings belongin'-- 
to it, (which work was afterwards publilhed,) he °wa? 
elebled member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of 
Rome, whereof M. le Cat was perpetual fecretary. After 
the publication of this treatife, he became, in 1760, mem¬ 
ber of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin 5 in 1761, 
of the Imperial Academy of Naturaliks; and, in 1765, 
the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Peterfburgh. Li 
order to enable fuch as might be defirous of following 
him in his intricate and moft aftonifhing difcoveries re^ 
fpecling the ftruflure of this animal, Mr. Lyonnet pub¬ 
lilhed, in' the Tranfaflicms of the Dutch Society of Sci¬ 
ences at Haerlem, a defcription and a plate (as he alfo af¬ 
terwards did in French atthe beginning of his Traite Ana¬ 
tomique) of the inftrument and tools he had invented for 
the purpofeof difleftion, and likewife of the method he 
ufed to afcertain the degree of Itrength of his magnifying 
glafies. Notwithllanding all this labour, which was con- 
iiderabjy increafed by the extenfive correfpondence which 
he for many years carried on with feveral learned and re- 
fpe&able perfonages, he kill found means to fet apart a 
large proportion of his time (as he himfelf mentions it in 
his preface) for the immediate fervice of his country ; 
but was not fortunate enough (as appears by his writings) 
to get any other recompenfe for his exertions than forrow 
and difappointment. During the lalt fifteen or twenty 
years of his life, Mr. Lyonnet added to the valuable trea¬ 
sure he had already collefled of natural curiolities, a molt 
fuperb cabinet oLpaintings, confiding of more than 560 
performances ; among which are many of the moft emi¬ 
nent works of the firII Dutch makers. He did this with 
a view to procure himfelf fome amufement during the lat¬ 
ter part of his life, wdien old age and infirmities mud 
weaken his powers, and fet bounds to his activity. He 
had always indeed accultomed himfelf to employment, in- 
lomuch that he has written fome pieces of Dutch poetry; 
and this difpofition remained with him till within a fort¬ 
night of his death, when he was attacked with an inflam¬ 
mation in the break, which, though apparently cured, 
was, in the end, the caufe of his diffolutioii. He died at 
the Hague in January 1789, aged eighty-three years, leav¬ 
ing behind him a molt eilitnable charafter. 
LYONNOI'S, Pagus Lugdvnenfis, was, before the revo¬ 
lution, a province of France, bounded on the north by 
Bourgogne and Magonnois, on the eaft by the Saone and 
the Rhone, on the fouth by Languedoc, and on the well 
by Auvergne; being twenty-four leagues from north to 
fouth, and lixteen from weft to eaft. This province is 
watered by the Rhone, the Saone, and the Loire, and is 
moderately fertile, producing grain, wine, and fruits. It 
was annexed to the crown of France in 1563 ; and con¬ 
fined of three fmall provinces ; viz. Lyonnois Proper, 
Forez, and Beaujolais. Lyonnois and Berfujolais are now 
included in the department of the Rhone, and Forez in 
that of the Loire. 
LY'ONS, a city of France, and capital of the depart¬ 
ment of the Rhone j before the revolution the capital of 
a province called the Lyonnois-, Situated at the conflux of 
the Rhone and Saone. Lyons, anciently called Lvgdunum, 
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