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admit the frefli air by railing the glades a little. When 
they are about four inches high, tranfplant them carefully ; 
and, where there areJeveral plants in one pot, part them, 
preferving a ball of earth to the root of each, and put 
them into feparate linall pots filled with light rich earth, 
which plunge into a hot-bed of tanners’ bark, (hading 
them until they have taken new root; after which frefli 
air should be admitted to them, in proportion to the 
warmth of the feafon. Towards Michaelmas the plants 
inuft be removed into the (love, and plunged into the 
bark-bed, where during the winter-feafon they fhould be 
kept in a moderate warmth, and mull: be gently watered 
twice a-week. In the fpring the plants fhould be drifted 
into pots a fize larger, and the bark-bed fhould be then 
renewed with frefh tan, which will fet the plants in a 
growing date early, whereby they will make great pro- 
grefs the following fummer. Thefe plants mult be con- 
ftantly kept in the Itove, for they are too tender to bear 
the open air in this country at any feafon, but in warm 
weather they drould have a large (hare of air admitted to 
them. 
The faflafras-tree is commonly propagated by the ber¬ 
ries, which are brought from America; but thefe berries 
generally lie in the ground a whole year, and fometimes 
two or three years, before they grow, when they are fown 
in the fpring; therefore the l’urell: method of obtaining 
the plants will be, to get the berries put into a tub of 
earth foon after they are ripe, and fent over in the earth; 
and, as foon as they arrive, to fow the berries on a bed of 
light ground, putting them two inches in the earth ; and, 
if the fpring fhould prove dry, the bed mud: be frequent¬ 
ly watered, and diaded from the great heat of the fun in 
the middle of the day ; with this management many of 
the plants will come up the fil'd: feafon ; but, as a great 
many of the berries will lie in the ground till the next 
fpring, fo the bed fhould not be didurbed, but wait un¬ 
til the feafon after, to fee what will come up. The firft 
winter after the plants come up, they diould be protefted 
from the froft, efpecially in the autumn ; for the fird: early 
froft at that feafon is apt to pinch the Ihoots of thefe 
plants, which, when young, are tender and full of fap, fo 
will do them more injury than the fevere frod: of the win¬ 
ter ; for, when the extreme part of the (hoots are killed, 
it greatly affefts the whole plant. When the plants have 
grown a year in the feed-bed, they may be tranfplanted 
into a nurfery, where they may ftand one or two years to 
get ftrength, and may then be tranfplanted into the places 
where they are to remain for good. There have been 
fome of thefe plants propagated by layers, but thefe are 
commonly two, and fometimes three, years before they put 
out roots ; and, if they are not duly watered in dry wea¬ 
ther, they rarely take root at all ; fo that it is uncertain 
whether one in three of thefe layers fucceeds; which ren¬ 
ders thefe plants fcarce in England. 
Willow-leaved bay may alfo be propagated by feeds, 
when they can be procured, and by layers, which put out 
roots pretty freely. The benjamin-tree alfo, as it is falfe- 
ly called, may be propagated by fowing the berries. They 
generally lie long in the ground, fo that, unlefs they are 
brought over in earth, they often fail. But this may 
likewife be increafed by layers, which put out roots freely, 
when the young (hoots are made choice of. See Canella, 
Kiggelaria,Magnolia, Medeola, Myrica, Ruscus, 
Viburnum, Uvularia, and Winterania. 
LAURUSTFNUS, f. An evergreen (hrub, which flowers 
about Michaelmas, and holds its flowers through the win¬ 
ter.—The dufky bay, and laurujlinus bright. Anonymous. 
LAUR'WIG. See Larvigen, p. 249. 
LAUS, now Laino, a town on a river of the fame 
name, which formed the fouthern boundary of Lucania. 
Strabo. 
LAUS KAU'RENS, a peninfula of Finmark, in the 
Frozen Sea. Lat. 70. 45. N. Ion. 30. 24, E. 
LAUS KRAUT, in botany. See Delphinium ftaphi- 
fagria, vol. v. p. 683. 
L A U 
LAUS POMPE'IA, a town of Italy, founded by a c©o 
lony lent thither by Pompey. 
LAUSAN'NE, a city of Swifferland, in the canton of 
Berne, about two miles from the Lake of Geneva. It is 
the largeft town in the country of Vaud, and is pretty 
well built, on a very uneven tract of land, formed bv three 
fmall hills. Pierre Viret introduced the reformation in 
the year 1536, which extended through the whole coun¬ 
try of Vaud, after a deputation held at Laufaime the fame 
year. This place is doubtlefs indebted for its fame and 
aggrandifement to the transfer of the bilhop’s fee from 
Avenches, which took place at the latter end of the fixth 
century. It afterwards became celebrated for the council 
held there in 1448, in which Felix V. refigned the ponti¬ 
ficate, in order to give peace to the church. The diocefe 
ot the bifttop comprehended the greater part of the can¬ 
tons of Berne, Soleure, and Friburg, the country of Vaud, 
the principality of Neufchatel, Bienne and its territory, 
and the country of Erguel,and extended alrnoft to Franche 
Comte. At the reformation, it was reduced to little more 
than the canton of Friburg and a part of that of Soleure. 
An academy was eftabliftied here in 1537, and a college 
in 1540. The bailiwick of Laufanne is one of the moft 
exteniive of the canton. The bailiff has fucceeded to the 
bifhop : he refides in his chateau, and has jurifdi&ion over 
the fame places that the bifhop had. The air is very pure 
and healthy ; there is plenty of excellent water. In a 
word, every neceffary of life is here found in the greateft 
abundance. It w'as a favourite refidence of Gibbon the 
liiftorian, who here finifhed his great work on the Decline 
and Fall of the Roman Empire, June 27, 1787. Laufanne 
is forty-one miles fouth-weft of Berne. Lat. 46. 3s, N, 
Ion. 6. 28. E. 
LAUS'NITZ, a river which rifes in Auftria, and runs 
into the Muldaw four miles fouth-weft of Bechin, in Bo¬ 
hemia. 
LAUSSEIGNA'N, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lot and Garonne ; five miles north-weft of 
Nerac, and five weft of Agen. 
LAUS'SIG, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Leipfic, 
fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Leipfic. Lat. 51. 7. N. Ion. 
12. 36. E. 
LAUSS'NITZ, a town of Saxony, in the margravate of 
Meiffen : thirteen miles north of Drefden. 
LAU'SUS, a fon of Numitor, and brother of Ilia. He 
was put to death by his uncle Amulius, who ufurped his 
father’s throne. Ovid .—A fon of Mezentius, king of the 
Tyrrhenians, killed by ZEneasin the war which his father 
and Turnus made againft the Trojans. Virgil. 
LAUS'ZA, a town of Samogitia : forty-four miles north- 
weft of Miedniki. 
LAUT, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: feven miles 
weft of Kiflingen. 
LAUT. See Pulo Laut. 
LAUTAKA'RI, a fmall ifland in the north part of the 
gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 65. 35. N. Ion. 24. 34. E. 
LAU'TENBURG, a town of Pruffia, in the territory 
of Culm; forty-eight miles eaft of Culm, and fixty fouth- 
weft of Heillberg. 
LAU'TENHAL, a town of Weftphalia, in the Hartz 
Foreft: eight miles weft of Goflar. 
LAU'TER, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Neckar, near Wendlingen. 
LAU'TER, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Danube near Marchthal. 
LAU'TER, a river of Bavaria, which runs into the 
Maine near Staffelftein. 
LAU'TER, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Itfch near Coburg. 
LAU'TER, a river of France, which runs into the 
Rhine near Lauterburg. 
LAU'TER, a town of Germany, in the county of Hen- 
neberg: eleven miles north-eaft of Meinungen. 
LAU'TERACH, a river of Bavaria, which runs into 
the Vils near Schmid. 
LAU'TERBACH, 
