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United States. From Lake Ontario to Montreal it has 
the name of Iroquois, and, taking a north-ealt couri’e, em- 
bofoms the ifland of Montreal ; juft above which it re¬ 
ceives Ottawas from the weft, and forms many fertile 
illands. From Montreal it aflumes the name of St. Lau¬ 
rence, and, continuing the fame courfe, pafles by Quebec, 
and meets the tide upwards of four hundred miles from 
the fea; and is fo far navigable for large veflels. Having 
received in its courfe, befides Ottawas, St. John’s, Segui- 
na, Defprairies, Trois Rivieres, and innumerable other 
fmaller ftreams, it falls into the ocean at Cape Rofieres, 
by a mouth about ninety miles broad. In its courfe it 
forms a great variety of bays, harbours, and illands, many 
of them fruitful and extremely pleafant. The main en¬ 
trance into the Gulf of St. Laurence from the Atlantic 
Ocean, is on the eaftward between Cape Ray, the fouth 
point of Newfoundland Ifland, and the north cape of Cape 
Breton; the Gut of Canfo leads into it from the fouth- 
eaft between Nova-Scotia and the fouth end of Cape Bre¬ 
ton ; and the Straits of Bellifle lead into it from the north 
between Newfoundland and the coaft of Labrador. 
LAU'RENS (Andrew du), a French phyfician of emi¬ 
nence, was a native of Arles. He ftudied at Paris under 
Duret, and, having taken the degree of M. D. fettled firft 
at Carcaflone. Returning to court with a lady of qua¬ 
lity, he was by her intereft made one of the king’s phyfi- 
cians, and profeflbr-royal at Montpellier. He was at 
length received among the faculty of Paris, was made 
phylician to the queen in 1603, and firft phyfician to the 
king (Henry IV.) in 1606. He died in 1609. Of the 
writings of du Laurens, the principal are, Difcours de la 
Vue, des Maladies melancholiques, des Catarrhes, & de 
la Viellefle, 1596, tranflated into Latin and Englifli; and 
Hiftoria Humani Corporis et fingularum ejus partium 
anatomica, folio, 1600, often reprinted, and tranflated into 
French by Heliot in 1741. 
LAU'RENS, in geography, a diftridft of South Carolina, 
lying between Enoree and Saluda Rivers; about thirty- 
one miles long and twenty-two broad; containing 12,809 
inhabitants, of whom 1919 are Haves. 
Laurens Court-house, a place in the above diftrict, 
twenty miles from Bufli River, thirty-two from Newbury, 
and forty from Greville; in which is a port-office. 
LAU'RENS (St.), a fmall ifland in the Indian Sea. 
Lat. 9. 35. S. Ion. 52. E. 
LAUREN'T (St.), a town of Hifpaniola, on the Oza- 
ma : feven miles north of St. Domingo.—A town of France, 
in the department of the Vendee : three miles fouth-eaft 
of Mortagne.—A town of France, in the department of 
the Jura : twelve miles north of St. Claude, and twelve 
fouth of Nozeroy.—A town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Seine: ten miles fouth-eaft of Cany, and fe¬ 
ven north of Rouen.—A town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Gironde : ten miles fouth of Lefparre.—A 
town of France, in the department of the Aude: four 
miles ealt of La Gralfe.-—An ifland in the Pacific Ocean, 
near the coaft of Peru, at the entrance of the harbour of 
Callao. 
LAUREN'T d’AIGOU'ZE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Gard : fifteen miles fouth of Nifmes, 
and fifteen eaft-north-eaft of Montpellier. 
LAUREN'T d’AR'CE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Gironde: eight miles fouth-eaft of Bourg. 
LAUREN'T de CER'DANS, a town of France, in the 
department of the Ealt Pyrenees : nine miles fouth-weft 
of Ceret, and fixteen fouth-fouth-weft of Prades. 
LAUREN'T de CHAMOUSSE'T, a town of France, 
in the department of the Rhone and Loire: fifteen miles 
weft of Lyons, and eighteen north-eaft of Montbrifon. 
LAUREN'T de GOR'RE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Upper Vienne : fifteen miles weft-fouth- 
weft of Limoges. 
LAUREN'T le MINIE'R, a town of France, in the 
department of the Gard: fix miles fouth-eaft of Le Vigan^ 
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LAUREN'T du MOTTAY', a town of France, in the 
department of the Mayne and Loire: nine miles fouth-eaft 
of St. Florent. 
LAUREN'T des MU'RES, a town of France, in the 
department of the Ifere: nine miles fouth-eaft of Lyons. 
LAUREN'T sur OTHAI'N, a town of France, in the 
department of the Meufe: twelve miles north of Eftain. 
LAUREN'T du PO'NT, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Ifere : twelve miles north of Grenoble, 
and fifteen fouth-fouth-weft of Chambery. 
LAUREN'T de la PLAI'NE, a town of France, in 
the department of the Mayne and Loire: three miles fouth- 
weft of Chalonne. 
LAUREN'T de RIVIDOL', a town of France, in the 
department of the Aveiron : nine miles north of Severac. 
LAUREN'T de la SALAN'QUE, a town of France, 
in the department of the Eaft Pyrenees; feven miles north- 
eaft of Perpignan. 
LAURENTA'LIA, or Larenta'lia, feafts celebrated 
among the Romans on the 10th of the kalends of January, 
or 23d of December, in memory of Acca Laurentia, wife 
of the fliepherd Faultulus, and nurfe of Romulus and Re¬ 
mus. 
LAURENTE'VA, a bay or gulf of the Frozen Sea, on 
the weft coaft of Nova Zembla. Lat. 72.15. N. Ion. 53. 
14. E. 
LAUREN'TI A, f. in botany. See Lobelia’. 
LAUREN'TIA, the nurfe of Romulus and Remus. 
See Acca Laurentia, vol.i. 
LAURENTI'NI, the inhabitants of Latium. They re¬ 
ceived this name from the great number of laurels which 
grew in the country. King Latinus found one of uncom¬ 
mon largenefs and beauty, when he was going to build a 
temple to Apollo ; and the tree was confecrated to the god. 
LAUREN'TIUS. See Coster (Lawrence), vol.v. p. 256. 
LAUREN'TUM, the capital of the kingdom of La¬ 
tium in the reign of Latinus. 
LAUREO'LA,yi A wreath of laurel; a crown of lau¬ 
rel. In botany, fee Cestrum and Daphne. 
LAU'RESTINE, f. in botany. See Viburnum tinus. 
LAU'RI, a town of Naples, in Lavorau two miles fouth- 
weft of Sezza. 
LAU'RI, f. in botany, a natural order of plants, to 
which Laurus, one of the number, gives its name ; it is the 
27th order of Juflieu’s fyftem, the fourth of his fixth clafs ; 
but there is nothing equivalent to it among the Ordinss 
Naturales of Linnaeus. 
LAU'RI (Filippo), a painter of figures and landfcapes. 
He was fon of Baldaliare Lauri of Antwerp, a landfcape- 
painter of note, who fettled at Rome, and died there in 
1641. Filippo was born in 1623, and became celebrated 
for cabinet-piflures in the Flemilh ftyle of colour, buC 
with a much more correct and refined tafte of form than 
prevailed in that fchool; which moll probably he acquired 
by refiding with his father in Rome. His pictures are 
agreeably compofed, touched with great fpirit and free¬ 
dom, of good colour and pi£turefque effect. Claude Lor¬ 
raine paid him the compliment to employ him frequently 
to put figures in the fore-grounds of his landfcapes ; and, 
in lome of his beft pictures, the hand of Lauri is difcern- 
ible in the better proportion and beauty of touch with 
which the figures are wrought than in thofe completed by 
Claude’s own hand. The fubjefts he generally felefted 
were thofe of nymphs, gods, and goddelfes, and the like; 
where he could, with propriety, introduce much of the 
nude. To thefe he gave great eafe in their actions, and 
compofed them in a very agreeable manner. He died in 
1694, at the age of 71. 
LAU'RIA, a town of Naples, in Bafilicata: feventeen 
miles eaft of Policaftro, and ninety fouth-eaft of Naples. 
LAURICAU'CHA, a mountain of Peru, abounding in 
filver ore : fix miles north of Pafco. 
LAURICAU'CHA, a lake of Peru : eighty miles north 
of Lima. 
LAURIE'RE, 
