LAN 
LANDSCRO'N, afortrefsof France, In the department 
of the Upper Rhine, pm-chafed of the marquis of Baden- 
Dourlach by Louis XIV. It is eight miles fouth of Hu- 
jiingue, and five fouth-weft of Bale. 
LANDSCRO'N, a fortrefs of Upper Carinthia: three 
miles north-eaft of Villach. 
LANDSCRO'N, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Natangen : eighteen miles north-eaft of Heilfperg. 
LANDSCRO'NA, a feaport town of Sweden, fituated 
on the weft coaft of the province of Skone, on an ifland 
near the Sound. It is a ftaple town, with a good harbour. 
In the year 1676, it was taken by the Danes. New forti¬ 
fications are erefting here, the object of which is to com¬ 
mand the whole coaft of Skonen, along the Sound. The 
old fortifications are furnilhed with a garrifon of 300 men, 
and 74- pieces of cannon. The harbour lies between the 
continent and a fmall illand, and is twenty feet deep. It 
is twenty-one miles north-weft of Lund, and twelve fouth 
of Heliingborg. Lat. 55. 52. N. Ion. 12. 36. E. 
LANDSCRO'NE, h mountain of Lufatia, near Gorlitz. 
LANDSE'LE, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the north coaft of the Greater Andaman. Lat. 13. 
38. N. Ion. 93. 7. E. 
LAND'STER, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Rhine : ten miles north-weft of Bile, and 
twenty-two fouth of Colmar. 
LAND'SHAAG, a town of Auftria, on the Danube : 
nineteen miles fouth-weft of Freuftadt. 
LAND'SHUT, a town of Bavaria, on the river Ifer. 
It is an open well-built town, and the capital of a govern¬ 
ment. It contains two palaces, and a college with a 
church in it, the fteeple of which is reckoned the higheft 
in Germany ; a parifli-church, and fix convents. Land- 
fliut was built, either by duke Louis of Bavaria, or his 
father duke Otto of Mittlelbach. In 1634, it fuffered 
from the Swedes. The Auftrians took polTeflion of this 
Sown, and over-ran the territories, in the beginning of 
April, 1809; but all was recovered with equal rapidity by 
Bonaparte, who entered Landftnit on the ailt of the 
lame month, where he found 30 pieces of cannon, 9000 
prifoners,„6oo ammunition waggons, and the hofpitals and 
magazines which the Auftrians had begun to form. Land- 
ihut is thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Ingolftadt, and thir- 
•tv-two north-eaft of Munich. Lat. 48. 29. N. Ion. 12. 5. E. 
* LAND'SHUT, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Galicia: 
<feventy-two miles weft of Lemberg, 
LAND'SHUT, a town of Silefia. See Landeshut. 
LAND'SHUT, or Land?,nit, a town of Moravia, in 
Brunn : fixteen miles foqth-ealt of Aufpitz. 
LAND'SORT, a fmall ifland in the Baltic, near the 
•coaft of Sweden. Lat. 58. 52. N. Ion. 17. 10. E, 
LAND'SPERG. See Landsberg. 
LAND'STRASS, Land'strost, or Kostainaviz'za, 
a town of Carniola, fituated on an ifland in the river 
Gurck, with a cathedral : eighteen miles fouth of Cilley, 
and fifty-feven eaft of Triefte. 
LAND'STHUL, a town of France, in the department 
of Mont Tonnerre, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftriCt of Deux Ponts. The place contains 705, and the 
canton 7910, inhabitants, in 32 communes. 
LAN'DUN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gard : twenty-one miles north-north-eaft of Nifmes, 
and feven fouth of Pont St. Efprit. 
LAND'VELLER, a town of Sweden, in Weft Goth¬ 
land : nine miles eaft of Gothenborg. 
LAND'WARD, adv. Toward the land.—They are in¬ 
vincible by reafon of the overpouring mountains that 
back the one, and (lender fortification of the other to land- 
mar d. Sandy s's Journey. 
LAND'WERNHAGEN, a village in the principality 
of Hefle; near which, in the year 1758, the allies were 
defeated by the French, with the lols of 1300 men: fix 
miles north-eaft of .Caffel. 
LANDWU'ST, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland. 
LANE, f. \laen , Dut. land, Saxon.] A narrow way 
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between hedges.—A nack-horfe is driven coaftantly in a 
narrow lane and dirty road. Locke. 
I know each lane, and every alley green, 
Dingle or bufhy dell, of this wild wood, 
And every bofky burn. Milton. 
A narrow ftreet ; an alley.—There is no ftreet, not many 
lanes, where there does not live one that has relation to 
the church. Spratt's Sermons. —A paflage between men 
Handing on each fide.—The earl's fervants flood ranged 
on both fides, and made the king a lane. Bacon's Henry VII. 
LANE, an ifland in the Atlantic, near the coaft of 
America,'a little to the eaft of Scuttock Point. Lat. 44. 
18. N. Ion. 67. 56. W. 
LANE, a river of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, 
which runs from Lough Lane into Caftlemain Bay. 
LANE-EN'D, a town of England, in the county of 
Stafford, celebrated for its potteries, with a weekly mar¬ 
ket on Saturday: 151 miles north-weft of London. 
LA'NEL, a town of Africa, and capital of the kingdom 
of Galam, fituated on the fouth fide of the Senegal. 
LANEMEZA'N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Higher Pyrenees : twelve miles eaft-north-eait of 
Bagneres en Bigorre, and fifteen fouth-eaft of Tarbe. 
LA'NEOUS, adj. [from lana , Lat. wool.] Woolly ; 
made of wool. Scott. 
LA'NEPAX, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gers: ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Condom, and 
eighteen north-weft of Auch. 
LAN'ERCROFT, a village of England, in the county of 
Cumberland. Here is an ancient fortification called Burd 
Ofwald, anciently Amboglana : two miles north-eait of 
Brampton. 
LAN'ERET, f. A little hawk. See Falco. 
LANER'K, or Lanark, a town of Scotland, and a royal 
burgh, in the county to which it gives name, feated on 
the fide of a rifing round near the Clyde. It received 
its charter from Alexander I. which was finally ratified by 
Charles I. It is governed by a provoft, two bailies, a dean 
of guild, Ac. Near it are fome celebrated falls or cata¬ 
racts in that river, which, efpecially in rainy feafons, form 
a tremendous appearance. Here the brave Wallace firft 
meditated to revenge the wrongs of his country, and flew 
the governor, who was a man of high rank. 
In the neighbourhood of Lanerk are fome of the greatefl 
cotton-manufaCtures of Scotland. A number of houfes 
have been erected, with the name of New Lanerk, for the 
accommodation of the workmen in the employ of Mr. 
Dale. Five hundred children are entirely fed, clothed, 
and inftruCted, at the expenfe of this venerable philan- 
thropift. The reft of the children live with their parent* 
in comfortable and neat habitations in the town, and re¬ 
ceive weekly wages for their labour. The health and 
happinefs depicted in the countenances of thefe children, 
fhow that the proprietor of the Lanerk mills has remem¬ 
bered mercy in the midll of his gain ; the regulations 
adopted here for the prefervation of the health, both of 
body and of mind, are fuch as do honour to the good- 
nefs and the difcernment of Mr. Dale; and prefent a 
finking contraft to the generality of large manufactories 
in this kingdom, which are the fchools of vice and of 
profligacy, the very hotbeds of difeafe and of contagion. 
Pure and frefh air, without which life cannot exift, is ad- 
miniftered in abundance to this manufactory, by frequently 
opening the windows, and by air-boles, under every other 
window, which are left open during the fummer-months. 
The children are all waflied before they go to work, and 
after they have finifhed their daily labour, previous to 
their appearance in the fchools. The floors and the ma¬ 
chinery of the mills are wafhed once a-week with hot wa¬ 
ter; and the walls and ceilings are white-waflied twice a- 
year with unflaked lime. The children are lodged in 
large airy rooms. The boys and girls are kept feparate 
from each other during reft, meal-times, and working- 
hours. They are fed plentifully with plain and wholelome 
P !> foodj 
