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LAM'PA. a town of Chili, on a lake : twenty miles 
north of Valparail’o. 
LAM'PA, a town of Peru, and capital of a jurifdiftion 
of the fame name, in the bifhopric of Cufco, fituated to 
the fouth of Cufco. The foil is very unequal; fome parts 
very fertile, others unproductive. The lilver-mines are 
abundant ; ninety miles fouth of Cufco, and eighty-fix 
north of Arequipa. Lat. 14. 55. S. Ion. 81. 44. W. 
LAMPACAN', a fmall ifiand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
a little to the fouth of Junkfeilon. 
LAMPADAPHO'RIA, J. [from the Gr. a 
lamp, and (pegw, to bear.] A procelfion with lighted torches. 
LAMPADA'RIUS (Emanuel), an author who has writ¬ 
ten on the mufic of the Greek church : “ De Plallendi 
Arte, et ipfius et aliorum Poemata Ecclefiaftica, ad Notas 
Muficas accommodata.” The abbate Martini of Venice, 
found this book, and made extrafts from it, in Greece ; 
and Dr. Burney met with it in the royal library at Turin. 
The title of the Greek treatife, by Lampadarius, is Te^- 
so'Aayua. T'/j? |^8<7iKi)s Tfxm?. And among the memoranda 
made in the king of Sardinia’s library at Turin, in 1770, 
is an account of a Greek manufcript of the 15th century, 
in which Lampadarius is often mentioned as author of the 
mufic to the hymns and prayers it contains. Fabricius, 
likewife, lpeaks of a manufcript in the Selden Collection 
at Oxford, and another in the Jefuits’ library at Louvain, 
in which there are explanations of the notes ufed by the 
modern Greeks, and mufical compofitions by feveral au¬ 
thors, particularly Lampadarius. 
LAM'PADARY, J. An officer in the ancient church 
of Conltantinople, fo called from his employment, which 
■was to take care of the lamps, and to carry a taper before 
the emperor or patriarch when they went to church or in 
proceffion. 
LAMPA'DIUS, a chantor of the church at Luneberg, 
publiffied a fmall work in Latin, entitled Compendium 
Muficse, nmo. 1537- This ffiort traCl, which is in dia¬ 
logue, and a kind of mufical catechifm defigned for be¬ 
ginners, has, at the end, a few ffiort rules for compofition, 
with examples. 
LAMPAE'DIAS, f. A kind of bearded comet, refem- 
bling a burning lamp, being of feveral fliapes; for fome- 
times its flame or blaze runs tapering upwards like a 
fword, and fometimes it is double or treble pointed. Hutton. 
LAM'PAS, or Lampass,/ [French.] Alumpof flefh, 
about the bignefs of a nut, in the roof of a horfe’s mouth, 
which rifes above the teeth.—His liorfe poffeft ufith the 
glanders, troubled with the lampafs, infeCted with the 
faffiions. Shakefpeare. —Seethe article Farriery, vol. vii, 
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LAMPAS'KE, a town of Pruffia, in Natangen : twenty 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Koniglberg. 
LAMPASSE', adj. [in heraldry.] Languid; having the 
tongue out of the mouth, and marked with a different 
tinCture. 
LAMPE (Frederic Adolphus), a learned German pro- 
teftant divine and profeffor, was born at Dethmold, in 
Weftphalia, in the year 1683. He was inftrufted in the 
rudiments of learning at Bremen; and afterwards ftudied 
fucceffively in the univerfities of Franeker and Utrecht. 
When he had finiffied his courfe of divinity, he was firft 
fettled with the church of Wefel, in the territory of 
Cleves; whence he afterwards removed toTeuteburg, and 
from that place to Bremen. In the year 1720, he accepted 
of an invitation to Utrecht, to fill the chair of profeffor 
of divinity ; and, in addition to that poll, in the year 1726, 
lie was appointed profeffor of ecclefiaftica! hiltory. In the 
following year, however, he was again induced to fettle 
at Bremen ; where he had the appointment of profeffor of 
divinity in ordinary, the honour of being perpetual reCtor 
of the univerfity, and was allb chofen pallor of a church. 
Thefe advantages and honours he enjoyed but a very ffiort 
time, being carried off by a violent haemorrhage in 1729, 
when only forty-fix years of age. But, though fo young, 
and conftantly engaged in public employments, he found 
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time to compofe feveral works, which refieCt credit on his 
induPtry and learning. Among thefe are, 1. De Cymbalis 
Veterum, lib. iii. nmo. 1703. 2. Exercitat. Sacr. in 
Pfal. xlv. enriched with a variety of remarks on facred 
antiquities, 4-to. 1715. 3. Synopfis Hilt. Sacr. et Eccle- 
liaftica;, ab origine Mundi ad prasfentia Tempora, 4to. 
1721. 4. Synopfis Theologise naturalis, 8vo. 1723. 5. 
Comment, in Evang. S. Johannis, 3 vols. 4to. 1724 
and 1725. 6. Hiltory of the reformed Church in Hun¬ 
gary and Tranfylvania, 4to. 1728, in Latin. 7. Rudi- 
menta Theologize Elenchticze, 8vo. 1729. 8. De Urim et 
Thummin, 1727, See. Moreri. 
LAMPE (John-Frederic), a Saxon, who arrived in 
England about the year 1726, began firft to be noticed as 
a compofer about the year 1732. On the 25th of Febru¬ 
ary of that year, the following paragraph was inferted in 
the Daily Poll: “We hear that there is a fubfeription for 
a new Engliffi opera, called Amelia, which will fliortly be 
performed at the new theatre in the Haymarket, by a fet 
of performers who never yet appeared in public.” This 
opera, written by Harry Carey, and fet to mufic by Lampe, 
was firft performed March 15, 1732 ; in the principal cha¬ 
racter of which, Mifs Arne, afterwards fo celebrated as a 
tragic aftrefs, by the name of Mrs. Cibber, firft appeared 
on the ftage as a finger. The mufic, which, according to 
the advertifement, was fet in the Italian manner, having 
been much applauded, was foon avowed by Lampe; and 
Mifs Arne’s performance interefted every hearer. The 
year 1737 was rendered memorable at Covent-Garden thea¬ 
tre by the fuccefs of the burlefque opera of the Dragon 
of Wantley, written by Carey, and fet by Lampe “after 
the Italian manner.” This excellent piece of humour had 
run twenty-two nights, when it was (topped, with all 
other public amufements, by the death of her majefty 
queen Caroline, November the 20th ; but was refumed 
on the opening of the theatres in January following, and 
fupported as many reprefentations as the Beggar’s Opera 
had done ten years before. And, if Gay’s original in¬ 
tention in writing his mufical drama was to ridicule the 
opera, the execution of his plan was not fo happy as that 
of Carey; in which the mock heroic, tuneful monfter, 
recitative, fplendid habits, and ftyle of mufic, all con- 
fpired to remind the audience of what they had feen and 
heard at the lyric theatre, more effectually than vulgar 
ftreet-tunes could do ; and much more innocently than 
the tricks and tranfatftions of thieves and proftitutes. 
Lampe’s mufic to this farcical drama was not only excel¬ 
lent fifty years ago, but is (till modern and in good tafte. 
Lampe compofed feveral other burlettas, which had good 
fuccefs; and publiffied a traft, entitled The Art of Mufic, 
in 1740. But in 1737 he had publiffied a treatife, under 
the title of A plain and compendious Method of teaching 
Thorough-Bafs, &c. 4to. a work of a great merit, and the 
firft in our language by which a ftudent can profit much 
without a mafter, as the chords, engraved on copper-plates, 
are all placed over the figured bafe, and the examples tranf- 
pofed into different keys. Lampe was a truly ingenious 
man, well verfed in the theory of the art, with a molt 
happy turn for humour, without buffoonery, in his co¬ 
mic operas ; and, moreover, a man of probity, with great 
fimplicity of manners, and poffeffed of a kind and bene¬ 
volent heart. This excellent mufician and worthy man, 
quitting London, with his family, in 1748, relided two 
years in Dublin ; and in 1750 went to Edinburgh, where 
lie was fettled very much to the fatisfaefion of the patrons 
of mufic in that city, and of himfelf; but, in July 1751, 
he was feiz.ed with a fever, which put an end to his exif- 
tence at the age of fifty-nine. 
LAM'PE, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Wafa: twenty-eight miles eaft of Gamla Karleby. 
LAM'PEDO, a woman of Lacedoemon, who was- 
daughter, wife, After, and mother, of a king. She lived 
in the age of Alcibiades. Agrippina, the mother of Clau¬ 
dius, could boaft the fame honours. 'Tacitus. 
LAMPEDO'SA, an illand in the Mediterranean, not 
inhabited* 
