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Toofe ftones, which, on being lately opened, difcovered one 
very large ftone, fupported^by two others, one on each 
fide, and underneath it an human ikeleton, with the bones 
of feveral others round about. 
LANG'DON, a townlhip of North America, in Che- 
fliire county, New Hampfhire; incorporated in 1787. 
LANG'DON, a river of England, in the county of 
Durham, which runs into the Tees twelve miles above 
Barnard Caftle. 
LANG'DON-FIIL'LS, hills of England, in the county 
of Eflex, about three miles fouth of Billericay ; the fine 
profpeft from which isthusdefcribedby Mr. ArthurYoung, 
in hisSix-Weeks’ Tour through the Southern Counties of 
England and Wales: “Near Horndon, on the fummit of 
a vaft hill, one of the moft aftonifliing profpefts to be be¬ 
held breaks out, alrnoft at once, upon one of the dark 
lanes. Such a prodigious valley, every where painted with 
the fineft verdure, and interfedted with numberlefs hedges 
and woods, appears beneath you, that it is paft defcription ; 
the Thames winding through it, full of fhips, and bounded 
by the hills of Kent.” 
LAN'GE (John), a learned phyfician, was born at Loe- 
•wenburg in Silefia in the year 1485. He Itudied at Leip- 
fic, Bologna, and-Pifa ; at the lait of which he received 
the degree of M.D. He then fettled at Heidelberg, where 
he rofe to great fame, and was fuccefiively phyfician to 
four eleblors-palatine. One of thefe he accompanied in 
his travels through great part of Europe. He died at Hei¬ 
delberg, in 1565. Of the works of this phyfician, the moft 
valuable is his Medicinalium Epijiolarum Mijcellanca, printed 
in two parts, but united in the Frankfort edition of 1689, 
which comprifes one hundred and forty-four epilties, with 
the addition of a book on Secret Remedies. Thefe epif- 
tles contain much curious and learned matter, both with 
refpeft to medicine and natural hiftory. The author pre¬ 
ceded Sydenham in his obfervations concerning the abufe 
of hot medicines, and the advantage of cooling diluents, 
in inflammatory difeafes. He wrote, likewife, 2. De Syr- 
tnaifmo et ratione purgandi per vomitum ex FEgyptiorum 
invento et formula, 1672. 3. De Scorbuto Epift. duie, 
1624. 4. Confilia et Experimenta, 1676. He was a great 
lover of cheefe, and wrote in defence of it. E/oy. Did. 
LANGEAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Loire: twelve miles fouth of Brioude, and eigh¬ 
teen weft of le Puy. 
LANGEAFS, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrici, in the department of the Indre and Loire, on 
the Loire: twelve miles weft of Tours, and twenty-one 
eaft of Saumur. Lat. 47. 18. N. Ion. o. 1. W. 
LAN'GEBACH, a town of Germany, in the principa¬ 
lity of Culmbach : four miles north of Kirch Lamitz. 
LAN'GEDIICE, a dike of North Holland, made a for¬ 
tified port by the Dutch; in 1799 taken by fir James Pul- 
teney. There is a village of the fame name, and feveral 
others on the dike, from which the republicans were dri¬ 
ven, and 900 priloners taken, befides 700 killed and 
wounded. It is fix miles north of Alcmaer. 
LAN'GEDORF, a town of Wurtzburg: feven miles 
fouth-weft of Kiflingen. 
LAN'GEFELD. See Langenfeld. 
LANGEFIO'RD, a fmali illand near the coaft of Lap- 
land. Lat. 69. 38. N. 
LAN'GELAND, an ifland of Denmark, fituated in the 
fouth part of the Great Belt, between the iflands of Laa- 
land and Funen ; about thirty miles in length, and from 
three to five in breadth. This ifland is fertile in every 
part. In the thirteenth century, it belonged to one of 
the princes of the blood royal, and was called a princi¬ 
pality : it is now' only a county, but one of the beft in 
the kingdom, and under the fame governor as Funen. 
Rudkioping is the chief town. Lat. 55. N. Ion. 10. 50. E. 
LAN'GELAND (Robert), an Englifh poet of the four¬ 
teenth century, and one of the firlt difciples of Wickliffe 
the reformer. He is faid to have been born in Shrop- 
Ihire. He wrote The Vifions of Pierce Plowman 5 a 
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piece which abounds with imagination and humour, 
though drefied to great difadvantage in very uncouth ver- 
fification and obfolete language. It is written without 
rhyme, an ornament which the poet has endeavoured to 
fupply by making.every verfe begin with the fame letter. 
Dr. Hickes obferves, that this kind of alliterative verfifi- 
cation was adopted by Langeland from the practice of the 
Saxon poets, and that thefe Vifions abound with Saxon- 
ifms. Chaucer and Spenfer have attempted imitations of 
his Vifions ; and the learned Selden mentions him with 
honour. 
LANGELMA'KI, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Tavaftland : forty-two miles north of Tavafthus. 
LAN'GEMAN, /! A lord of a manor. Sse Coke's In/!. $. 
LANGELKER'SKANS, a fortrefs of Holland, in Gro¬ 
ningen : nine miles eaft of Winfchotten. 
LAN'GELSHEIM, a town of Weftphalia, and princi¬ 
pal place of a bailiwick : fix miles north-weft of Goflar. 
LAN'GELN LAN'GLUM, a town of Germany, in 
the county of Wernigeroda : four miles north of Werni- 
geroda. 
LAN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the county of Ben- 
theim : one mile weft of Bentheim. 
LAN'GEN, a town of Hefle Darmftadt: fix miles north 
of Darmftadt. 
LAN'GEN-DIE'BACH, a town of Germany, in the 
county of Ifenburg : four miles north-north-eaft of Hanau. 
LAN'GEN-DOR'BACIi, a town of Germany, in the 
principality of Naflau Dillenburg : four miles north of 
Fladamar. 
LANGEN-RHO'R, a town of Auftria: one mile fouth 
of Tulin. 
LAN'GEN-SAL'ZA, a town of Saxony, the capital of 
Thuringia, on the Salza. The environs of the town are 
pleafant, and the manufactures are flourifliing. Here are 
about nine hundred houfes, two churches, a college, and 
a caftle. In the year 1761, a body of Saxon troops were 
defeated by the Pruflians near this town. It is fourteen 
miles weft of Erfurt, and eight north of Gotha. Lat, 
51.4. N. Ion. 10. 42. E. 
LAN'GEN-SEL'BOLD, a town of Germany, in the 
county of Ifenburg : five miles eaft-north-eaft of Hanau, 
and fix fouth-weft of Budingen. 
LANGENAU', a town of German)', in the principality 
of Culmbach : nine miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Kirch Lamitz. 
LANGENAU', a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland. The church is celebrated for beautiful paint¬ 
ings. It is eight miles north of Bilchofswerder. 
LANGENAU', a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Ermeland : twenty-five miles north-weft of Heillberg. 
LANGENAU', a town of Bavaria, fituated on a fmali 
river which runs into the Danube eleven miles no Ft Il¬ 
ea ft of Ulm. 
LANGENAU', a town of Saxony: four miles fouth of 
Frey berg. 
LANGENAU', a tows of Pruflia, in the province of 
Ermeland : four miles weft of Meifack. 
LAN'GENBACH, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Henneberg : fix miles north-weft of Schfeufingen. 
LAN'GENBERG, a town of Saxony, in the county of 
ReulTen : three miles north-weft of Gera. Lat. 50. 55. N. 
Ion .11. 58. E. 
LAN'GENBERG, a town of the duchy of Berg’: fif¬ 
teen miles north-eaft of Dufleldorf. 
LANGENBRUCK'EN, a town of the grand duchy 
of Baden, with a fiilt fpring : four miles north-eaft of 
Bruchfai. 
LAN'GENBURG, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Flohenloe, on the Jaxt : thirteen miles' eaft of 
Ohringen, and thirty-two-weft of Anfpach. 
LAN'GENDORF, a town in the bifliopric of Naum- 
burg : fix'miles north-eaft of Zeitz. 
LAN'GENES, an ifland in the North Sea,, near the coaft 
of Norway, about twenty-four miles in circumference. 
Lat. 59. 20, N. 
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LAN'GLNFELD, 
