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1669, the grand fignior held his court here during the 
fiege of Candy. The fituation is pleafant, on a rifing 
ground : the Turks call it Geni/ahar, or Jengifchahir. It 
is 308 miles weft-fouth-weft of Conftantmople: and 220 
fouth-weft of Adrianople. Lat. 39. 45. N. Ion. zz. 29. E. 
LARIS'SUS, a river of Peloponnefus, flowing between 
Elis and Achaia. Strabo. 
LARISTAN', a province of Perfia, at one time an in¬ 
dependent kingdom under the defendants of Kofroes ; 
bounded on the north and eaft by Kerman, on the fouth 
by the Perfian Gulf, and on the weft by Farfiftan. The 
air is unwholefome, and varies often from extreme heat 
to fudden cold •. water fit for ufe is very rare ; that in ge¬ 
neral found in the country is Paid to breed worms in the 
legs and thighs of thofe who drink it. The principal 
trade of the inhabitants is in camels. Lariftan was re¬ 
duced to the fubjeftion of Perfia in 1612, by Abbas the 
Great. Lar is the capital. 
LA'RIUS, a large lake of Cifalpine Gaul, through 
which the Addua runs in its way into the Po, above Cre¬ 
mona. 
LA'RIX, f. [Latin.] In botany, the larch; the tree 
that produces turpentine. See Pinus. 
LARK, /. [lajiepce, Sax. lerk, Dan. lavrack, Scot.] 
A fmall finging-bird. See Alauda. —It was the lark , 
the herald of the morn. Shakefpeare. 
Mark how the lark and linnet fing; 
With rival notes 
They ftrain their warbling throats. 
To welcome in the fpring. Drydcn. 
LAR'K’s HEEL, or Indian Cress. See Tropjeo- 
LUM, 
The Indian crefs our climate now does bear, 
Call’d lark's keel, ’caufe he wears a horfeman’s fpur. Tate. 
LARK’s POI'NT, a cape on the coaft of Canada, in 
the river St. Laurence, at the mouth of the Saguenay- 
River. 
LARK'-SPUR,yi A plant. See Delphinium, vol. v. 
With the fame weapon, lark-fpur, thou doft mount 
Amongft the flowers, a knight of high account. Tate. 
LAR'KENTING, a town of Thibet: fifty-five miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Tchiatam. 
LAR'KER,/! A catcher of larks. 
LAR'LINGFORD, a village in Norfolk, north of Eaft- 
ling, in the great poft-road from London to Norwich, has 
its name from its ford over the river. The dwelling- 
lioufes are about 22, and the inhabitants 150. The 
church and chancel are thatched, and there are but three 
bells in its tower. 
LAR'MIER,^/] [from larme, Fr. a tear.] In architec¬ 
ture, the eaves of a houfe ; the flat fquare member that 
forms the utmoft projection of a cornice; being fo called 
from its ufe, which is to difperfe the water, and caufe it 
to fall at a diftance from the wall, drop by drop, or as if 
by tears, as the word imports. 
LAR'NAGE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Drome: ten miles north of Valence; 
LAR'NE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Antrim, 
fituated at the mouth of a river of the fame name, near 
the north channel of the Irifti Sea : eight miles north of 
Carrickfergus, and fixteen north-eaftof Antrim. Lat. 54. 
51. N. Ion. 5. 43. W. 
LAR'NE LO'UGH, a bay on the eaft coaft of tlie 
county of Antrim, Ireland, called Oldfleet haven by Bo- 
ate, and Wolderfrith in the enumeration of the havens 
by Stanihurft. It is formed by the peninfula called Ifland 
Magee, and is faid by M'Kenzie to be a fmall but fafe 
harbour, where veflels that draw not above ten feet water 
may ride on clean good-holding ground. It is about fix 
miles long and one wide. 
LAR'NIC, or Lar'nica, a feaport town on the coaft 
of the ifland of Cyprus, tlie fee of a Greek biftiop, and the 
refidence of feveral European confuls. The Turks have 
a mofque, and the Greeks three churches. In Larnic, or 
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rather in the whole ifland of Cyprus, there are people be¬ 
longing to fix European nations: French, Englifh, Tuf- 
cans, Neapolitans, Venetians, and Ragufans, each have 
their reipeffive conful, except the Tufcans; thefe are un¬ 
der the protection of the Engliflt conful, who is honoured 
even with the title of vice-conful of Tufcany. There are 
here alfo fome Imperialifts, Danes, Swifs, Dutch, and Ge- 
noele; but, as all thefe have long ceafed to carry on com¬ 
merce by themfelves, they entruft their commiffions to 
correfpondents, whom they have amongft the other na¬ 
tions eftablifhed in this ifland. Larnica is now a poor 
place, though the roadfted is good. It is thirty miles fouth- 
weft of Famagofta. 
LAR'NOS, a fmall defolate ifland on the coaft of 
Thrace. 
LARNTU'KA, Lar'rentuka, orLAR'uNTUKA, a fea¬ 
port town on the fouth fide of Ende, one of the Molucca 
Iflands, with a good harbour. Lat. 8. 15. S. Ion. 122. 
57. E. 
LARO'AH, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: ten 
miles eaft of Baroach. 
LARO'CHE. See Roche. 
LAROO'T, a river which runs into the Strait of Ma¬ 
lacca in lat. 4. 47. N. Ion. too. 42. E. 
LA'ROS, a town of Turkifti Armenia, on the coaft of 
the Black Sea: eighteen miles fouth-weft of Gonieh. 
LAROTA'VA, a town of the Ifle of Teneriffe. 
LARO'W, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: ten miles 
fouth of Gayah. 
LARRA'GA, a town of Spain, in Navarre: eleven 
miles eaft of Eftella. 
LARRASOAN'NA, a town of Spain, in Navarre : 
twelve miles north-eaft of Pamplona. 
LARRE'A, f. [named by Cavanilles in honour of 
Don John Anthony Hernandez de Larrea, dean of Sara- 
gofla, a liberal encourager of chemiftry, botany, and agri¬ 
culture. The author had, in his fourth volume of leones, 
p.63, fupprefled this name, given by his countryman Or¬ 
tega to another genus, and had changed it to Haffmanfeggia, 
being then, as it feems, not fo fenfible of the dean of Sa- 
ragoffa’s botanical merits as he afterwards became.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order monogynia, 
natural order gruinales, Linn, rutaceas, JuJf. The generic 
characters are—Calyx : perianthium inferior, of five ovate, 
concave, rather unequal, deciduous leaves. Corolla : pe¬ 
tals five, equal, ovate, with claws. Stamina : filaments 
ten, rather (horter than the corolla, awl-fhaped, equal, 
each furniffled at its bafe, on the in fide, with a cloven 
fcale, applied clofe to the germen ; antherse lieart-fhaped, 
ereCt, fimple. Piftillum : germen fuperior, globofe, with 
five deep furrows ; ftyle awl-fhaped, with five angles, near¬ 
ly equal to the ftamens; ftigma fimple. Pericarpium : 
drupes five, dry, cohering by their acute inner margin, 
externally convex, of one cell. Nuts: folitary, ovate- 
oblong .—Ejfential Charafler. Calyx of five leaves ; petals 
five ; neCtary of the five cloven leaves, covering the ger¬ 
men ; drupes five, fingle-feeded. 
1. Larrea nitida, or fhining-leaved larrea : leaves pin¬ 
nate ; fruit fmooth. Gathered at Buenos Ayres by Louis 
Nee, flowering in April. It has been raifed with good 
fuccefs in the garden of Madrid. The ftem is fhrubby, 
nine feet high in its native country, hard, knotty, very 
much branched ; the branches round, -rather zig-zag, re¬ 
peatedly fubdivided, fpreading, tw'O-ranked, leafy, rough, 
vifeid. Leaves oppofite, feiiile, twice as long as broad, 
about half an inch in length, finning, glutinous, fmooth- 
ifli, minutely dotted, each compofed of about feven or 
eight pair of crowded, two-ranked, oblique, feflile, oblong, 
obtufe, entire, leaflets, of which the two uppermoft are 
unequal and very fmall, looking as if there were an odd 
one at the end. Flowers axillary, folitary, alternate, deep 
yellow, on roughifh ltalks, (horter than the leaves. The 
germen is hairy, though the fruit is naked, or only clothed 
with fine fliort down. Its outer coat is coriaceous and 
rugged. Nuts without valves or futures. The whole 
plant exudes a copious glutinous refin, of a ftrong (cent. 
