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ftill very powerful in the dried fpecimens, and intolerably 
fo on their being nroiftened with proof-fpirit, which ex¬ 
tracts from them abundance of a yellow fetid folution. 
2. Larrea divaricata, or fpreading-lobed larrea: leaves 
fimple, with two deep fpreading lobes ; fruit hairy. Found 
with the former, flowering at the fame feafon. The item 
is fix feet high, with much of the habit of the foregoing; 
but the leaves are fimple, very deeply cloven into two 
fpreading acute lobes. The flowers are larger than thofe 
of L. nitida, with obtufe petals; and the fruit is befet 
externally with long prominent hairs. 
3. Larrea cuneifolia, or wedge-leaved larrea: leaves 
wedge-fhaped, cloven at the end, with an intermediate 
bridle. This appears to differ in foliage only from the 
lad, along with which it was found. Thefe plants pro- 
mife to be not unworthy of attention for their dyeing 
qualities. Cavanilles fays, ten leaves of the divaricata, 
boiled in a quart of water, with the little branch on which 
they grew, tinged the whole liquid of a deep faffron-co- 
lour. Cavanilles, v. 639. 
LAR'REY (Ifaac de), born of a noble family of the 
reformed religion in the Pays de Caux, in 1638, was 
brought up to the law, and aCted as an advocate in his 
native province, till the repeal of the ediCt of Nantes 
made him a refugee. He retired to Holland, where he 
obtained the title of hiftoriographer to the ftates-general.. 
An invitation from the eleflor of Biandenburgh drew 
him to Berlin, at which capital he died in 1719, at the 
age of eighty-one. He was a man of great integrity, zea¬ 
lous for his religion, and warm both in praife and cen- 
fure. He poffeffed an excellent memory, to which he 
confided too much in his writings, fo as to be betrayed 
into inaccuracies. His works were, 1. Hifloire d’Augufte, 
1690, 8vo. 2. Hiftoire d’Angleterre, 4 vols. folio, 1697, 
1713: this hiftory of England was in confiderable efteem 
on the continent till the appearance of that of Rapin. 
3. L’Heritiere de Guienne. 4. Hiltoire des Sept Sages, 
a vols. 8vo. 1713. 5. Hiltoire de Louis XIV. 3 vols. 410. 
9 vols. iamo. 1718. He alfo engaged in controverfy, and 
was one of the anfwerers of Bayle’s Avis aux Refugies. 
Morcri. 
LARRISOU'N, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Mazanderan : fixty-five miles fouth-weft of Fehrabad. 
LARRO'QUE (Matthew de), an eminent French pro- 
teftant minifter, was born at Leirac, a fmall city of Gui¬ 
enne, near Agen, in the year 1619. He was fcarcely pall 
his youth when he loft his parents, who by their condi¬ 
tion and virtue were the principal perfons in'their city ; 
and this heavy misfortune was loon followed by the lofs 
of his entire patrimony. Under thefe affliftive circum- 
ftances he fought for confolation in ftudy ; and, as he was 
already a proficient in polite literature, he applied to the 
ftudy of philofophy, and above all that of divinity. Hav¬ 
ing made a confiderable prog refs in thefe branches of 
knowledge, he was admitted a minifter with great ap- 
plaule, and was fixed by the fynod of Guienne in a little 
church named Poujols. Two years after his fettlement 
in this place, he was obliged to go to Paris, to clear him- 
felf from fome charges brought againft him by the catho¬ 
lics, who intended to ruin his church ; and, though he 
did not fucceed in preventing their artifices from pro¬ 
ducing their defigned effeft, he met with other favour¬ 
able circumftances at that city. As he fometimes preached 
at Charenton, he was heard there by the duchefs de la 
Tremouille, who liked him fo W'ell, that fne appointed 
him minifter of the church of Vitre in Britany, and after¬ 
wards gave him many proofs of her efteem; as did alfo 
her fon and daughter, the prince of Tarente and the du¬ 
chefs of Weimar. In this church he officiated about 
twenty-feven years, and during that time applied molt fe- 
dulioufly to the ftudy of the fathers, and Chriftian anti¬ 
quities. Of the progrefs which he made in that ftudy, 
he foon afforded public proofs in an anfwer which he pub- 
lifijed to the reafons affigned by a minifter of the name of 
Martin, for his converiion to popery, which abounded 
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with paffages from the fathers. The works which he af¬ 
terwards publilhed, and which are mentioned below, pro¬ 
cured him a very high reputation, and led to his acquaint¬ 
ance and correlpoiulence with feveral illuftrious men of 
letters, not only in the proteftant, but alfo in the catho¬ 
lic, communion. In the year 1669, the church of Charen¬ 
ton had determined to invite him to become their pallor; 
but fome falfe brethren, who were filled with envy, by 
their artifices excited fuch prepoffeffions againft him at 
court, that his majelly prohibited that church from in¬ 
viting him, notwithstanding that the marquis de Ruvigny, 
the deputy-general of the reformed, offered to become re- 
fponfible for his good behaviour. Afterwards he was in¬ 
vited to become both minifter and profeffor of divinity at 
Saumur. He fignified his acceptance of the former office, 
but declined the latter, not thinking it to be confiftent 
with the courfe cf ftudy in church-hiftory, to which he 
had a prevalent inclination. While he was preparing hirn- 
fell to remove to Saumur, the intendant ot the province 
forbade him to go thither. The church of Saumur com¬ 
plained of this unj uft prohibition before the higher powers, 
and, by their petitions, obtained permiffion for his lettle- 
ment with them. M. de Larroque, however, did not 
think proper to avail himfelf of it, or to enter upon an 
employment in fpite of the intendant. He therefore con¬ 
tinued (till at Vitre, where he did not fuller his pen to be 
idle. Some time after this, he received three invitations 
at once, from three of the moll confiderable churches in 
the kingdom, thole of Montauban.Bourdeaux, and Rouen. 
He gave the preference to that of Rouen ; at which place 
he died in 1684, at the age of fixty-five, not only with a 
high reputation for literature, but with the character of 
an honeft man, and of a good pallor. His works were, 1. 
The Office of the holy Sacrament, or the Tradition of 
the Church concerning the Lord’s Supper, collected from 
the holy Fathers and other ecclefialtical Authors, 8vo. 
1665. 2. The Hiftory of Eucharift, 4to. 1669, which is 
full of curious refearches. 3. De Photino et Liberio, dif- 
lert. ii. 1670. 4. Obfervationes in Ignatianas Pearfonii 
Vindicias, necnon in Beverigii Annotationes, 8vo. 1674; 
in defence of M. Daille. 5. The Agreement between the 
Dilcipline of the reformed Church in France and that of 
the primitive Church, 4to. 1678. 6. On receiving the 
Sacrament in both Kinds ; in anfwer to the work of the 
bilhop of Meaux. 7. Confiderations on the Nature of 
the Church, nmo. 1673. 8. A treatife on the Regale. 
9. A pofthumous work, entitled, Matthau Larroquani Ad- 
verfariorum Sacrorum Lib. iii. acceffit Diatriba de Le- 
gione Fulminatrice, in quo expenduntur Veterum Telli- 
monia, &c. 8vo. 1688; and feveral controverfial tradls. 
The Diatriba in the pofthumous piece above mentioned, 
was the production of the author’s fon, Daniel de Lar¬ 
roque. Bayle. 
LAR'RY BUNDAR', a feaport of Hindooftan, in the 
province of Sindy, on a branch of the Indus, called Pitti, 
about twenty miles from the fea. There is a good road 
for fhipping, and the river is navigable for fmall veflels. 
The town contains about one hundred houfes, and is de¬ 
fended by a fort. It is forty-eight miles well-fouth-weft 
of Tatta. Lat. 24. 45'. N. Ion. 66. 42. E. 
LARS, a town ot Ruffia, in the government of Cauca- 
fus: fifty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Ekaterinograd. 
LARS TOLUM'NIUS, a king of the Veientes con¬ 
quered by the Romans, and put"to death, A. U. C. 329. 
Livy. 
LARS'MO, a fmall ifland on the eaft fide of the gulf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 63. 46. N. Ion, 22. 39. E. 
LAR'TA. See Arta, vol. i. p. 220. 
LAR'TIUS FLO'RUS, a conlul, who appeafed a fedi- 
tion railed by the poorer citizens; and was the firlt dicta¬ 
tor ever chofen at Rome. B. C. 498. 
LAR'TIUS SPU'RIUS, one of the three Romans who r 
alone withlloodthe fury of Porfenna’s army at the head ot a 
bridge, while the communication was cutting down be¬ 
hind them. His companions were Codes and Herminius. 
3 See 
