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north fide ; but within a mile no bottom was found with 
130 fathom of line, nor did there appear to be any an¬ 
chorage about it. The whole is covered with trees of dif¬ 
ferent verdure; but none could be diftinguilhed, even 
with glaffes, except cocoa-nuts and palm-trees. Lat. 18. 
47. S. Ion. 139. 28. W. 
LAGOPHTHAL'MUS, f. [from the Greek a 
hare,'and opQaty.o?, an eye.] One who has eyes like a hare, 
one whofe eyelids are fo contrafted as to prevent their 
doling. 
LAGOPO'NUS, f. [from the Greek Xxyu;, a hare, and 
wovo?, pain.] The griping of the guts. 
LAGO'PUS, J. in botany. See Trifolium. 
LA'GOR, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees: eight miles fouth-eaft of Orthez, and 
fourteen north-weft of Pan. 
LA'GOS, a feaport of Portugal, in the province of Al- 
garva, lituated in a bay of the Atlantic to which it gives 
name ; not regularly fortified, but defended by feveral 
forts. The harbour is deep but full of rocks. It is the 
refidence of the viceroy of Algarva ; and contains two pa- 
rilh-churches, four convents, and about 4600 inhabitants : 
ninety-fix miles fouth of Lifbon. Lat.37.o.N. Ion. 8.39.W. 
LA'GOS, a river of Africa, which rifes in Benin, and 
runs into the Atlantic in lat. 5. 10. N. with a bar at its 
mouth, which, joined to the roughnefs of the fea, prevents 
its navigation. 
LA'GOS, a town of Mexico, in the province of Gua¬ 
dalajara : thirty-fix miles north-eaft of Guadalajara. 
LAGOS'TA. See Agosta, vol. i. p. 204. 
LAGOSTO'MA, f. [from the Gr. a hare, and 
S-of*a,the mouth.] A term in furgery,fignifyingthe hare-lip. 
LOGOT'ROPHY, f. [from the Greek Aatytf, a hare, 
and T££( pa, to nourilh.] A warren of hares. 
LAGOU'SA, a fmall illand in the gulf of Engia : three 
miles north of Engia. 
LAGO'W, a town of Auftrian Poland : fixteen miles 
north of Sandomirz. 
LAGU'A, a town of the illand of Cuba: eighty miles 
weft-north-weft of Villa del Principe. 
LA GRA'VE. See Grave (La), vol. vii. 
LA GUAY'RA, a feaport of South America, in the 
government of the Caraccas ; and the harbour of the town 
of Leon de Caraccas; it is fortified, and contains about 
Sooo fouls. The trade is very confiderable, though the 
harbour is only a roadfted fecured by a mole, and the an¬ 
chorage is bad. During winter, La Guayra is not un¬ 
healthy ; but in the fummer-months the cafe is far other- 
wife: in that feafon, the heat reflefted from the moun¬ 
tains is intolerable to Europeans, and the fever makes 
dreadful ravages among thofe who have not been long 
inured to the climate. The ufe of carriages for the con¬ 
veyance of goods being unknown, all packages muft be 
reduced to fuch a fize as to admit of being placed on the 
backs of mules ; i8olbs. being the general burden of each. 
News has lately arrived that this town was deftroyed by 
an earthquake on the 26th of March, 1812 ; that very few 
houfes remain, and that 1500 perfons perilhed. Lat. 10. 
40. N. Ion. 67. o. W. 
LAGU'EN, one of the fmall Philippine Illands, near 
the north coaft of Samar. Lat. 12. 43. N. Ion. 125. 9. E. 
LAGUER'RE (Louis), a painter of hiftories on ceil¬ 
ings, ftaircafes, halls, See. and an afliftant and imitator of 
Verrio ; with whofe name his own has been moft unpro- 
pitioully immortalized by Pope, in that charafteriftic verfe, 
a ‘ Where fprawl the faints of Verrio and Laguerre.” La- 
guerre, though the fon of a Catalan, was bom in France ; 
and, his father being mafterof the menagerie at Verfailles, 
he had the honour of having Louis XIV. for his godfather, 
■and after him he was named. At firft he was intended 
for the church, and was placed in the Jefuits’ college for 
education ; but, having a hefitation in his fpeech, and 
therefore not fuited to liipport their ambitious projefts, 
and having exhibited fome tafte in drawing, the godfa¬ 
ther recommended to his parents to bring him up to the 
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profeflion of painting. He then ftudied in the fchool of 
Le Brun, and in the Royal Academy of Paris; and made 
fo much piogrefs, that, in the year 1683, at the age of 
twenty, he came to England, and was immediately em¬ 
ployed by Verrio upon the large work at St. Bartholo¬ 
mew’s Ilofpital; in which he fucceeded fo well, that he 
foon obtained confiderable employment on his own ac¬ 
count, and executed a great number of ceilings, halls, and 
ftaircafes, in the houfes of the principal nobility of the 
country, particularly at lord Exeter’s at Burleigh, at De- 
vonfhire-houfe,Piccadilljr, Petworth, and Blenheim. King 
William gave him lodgings at Hampton-court, where he 
painted the Labours of Hercules, and repaired the large 
piftures called the Triumphs of Csefar, by Andrea Man¬ 
tegna. His talents were not of a caft to demand very high 
refpeft, but they were fully equal to the mode in which 
they were employed, which, requiring only a certain por¬ 
tion of ingenuity, is a wafte of talents of a fuperior 
clafs. His death happened in the year 1721, at the thea¬ 
tre of Drury-lane. He had gone there to fee the Illand 
Princefs afted for the benefit of his fon, who was newly 
entered upon the ftage as a finger; but, before the play 
began, he was feized by an apoplexy, and carried away 
fenfelefs. 
LAGU'NA, in botany. See Laguntea. 
LAGU'NA, or Lacuna (Andrew), an eminent Spa- 
nidi phyfician, was born at Segovia, in Old Catlile, in the 
year 1499. He ftudied philofophy at Salamanca, and af¬ 
terwards went to Paris, partly for the purpofe of improv¬ 
ing his knowledge of the Greek language, and partly for 
the ftudy of medicine. In 1536 he returned to Spain, 
and followed the courfes eftablilhed in the colleges of Al¬ 
cala, Henarez, and Toledo, in the latter of which he re¬ 
ceived the honours of the doftorate. After this, he im¬ 
mediately repaired to the Low Countries, in confequence 
of a command from the emperor Charles V. and he palled 
the greater part of his life at the court of that monarch- 
In 1540 he went to the imperial city of Metz, and re- 
fided there five or fix years, rendering great fervices to the 
citizens during the prevalence of an epidemic peftilence; 
and by his influence, thus acquired, he contributed to 
ftrengthen their adherence to the church of Rome and to 
the emperor. He vifited Italy, Germany, and France, 
again, where he received many honours from the learned 
corporations, and at Rome was created count palatine, and 
knight of the order of St. Peter. He died in his native 
country in the beginning of the year 1560. He proved 
himfelf a learned critic by his corrections and commen¬ 
taries on the works of Diofcorides, and on many parts of 
thofe of Hippocrates, Ariftotle, Galen, &c. His own 
works are numerous, confiding of a Treatife on Anatomy ; 
an Account of the Epidemic at Metz; a Life of Galen, an 
epitome of his works, and notes on the labours of his 
tranflators, See. He likewife publilhed a treatife on gout, 
on excrefcences in the neck of the bladder, and on diet, 
and an epiftle to Cornaro; and tranflated the works of 
Diofcorides into Spanilh. Eloy. Ditt. Hi/}, de Med. 
LAGU'NA, a town of Peru, fituated on Amazon Ri¬ 
ver, fouth -eaft of the town of Borja. 
LAGU'NA, a town of South-America, in the province 
of Venezuela, on the weft fide of Lake Maracaybo: eighty 
miles fouth of Maracaybo. 
LAGU'NA, or St. Christobal de la Laguna, a 
town of Tenerifte, and capital of the illand ; fituated on 
a fmall eminence, and every day refrelhed with a breeze 
of wind. It is well fupplied with water, and contains two 
pari Hi-churches, feveral convents, and an hofpital; the 
ftreets are large and handfome ; it takes its name from a 
lake a little to the ealt of the town. Lat. 28. 28. N. Ion. 
16. 20. W. 
LAGU'NA ESCU'RA, a cape of Portugal, in the pro¬ 
vince of Beira : feven miles fouth-weft of Guarda. 
I.AGUNiE'A, f. [from Andrew Laguna, mentioned 
above.] In botany, a genus of the clafs monadelphia, or¬ 
der polyandria, natural order of columniferse, (malvaceae, 
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