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wards between the tribes of Dan and Benjamin, Joftuia 
took it and gave it to the Levites of this tribe, and it be¬ 
came a city or refuge. This had been an encampment of 
the Ifraelites in the Defert. 
LEB'NEK, a town of Tranfylvania: fifteen miles 
fiouth-eaft of Schefburg. 
LE'BO, a river of Chili, which runs into the Pacific 
Ocean in lat. 37. 30. S. 
LEB'RADE, a town of the duchy of Hohtein : fix 
miles fouth-weft of Lutkenborg. 
LEBRIL'LA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Murcia : eleven miles leuth-well of Murcia. 
LEBRIX'A, or Le bri'jAj a town of Spain, in the pro¬ 
vince of Seville, fituated formerly on a branch of the 
Guadalquivir, which being now choaked up, the town is 
fix miles from the river. It has a calHe, which marks 
fome appearance of antiquity to the place ; and within 
the caftle is a convent, which was vifited by our country¬ 
man Mr. Jacob in the year 3810. In the environs are 
produced olives, from which is obtained fome of the belt 
oil in Spain : twenty miles fouth of Seville. 
LEBRUT'Z, a river of Saxony, which runs into the 
Eibe two miles weft of Schandau. 
LEB'SKOl, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Archangel, near the union of the rivers Mezen and Pezna : 
168 miles eaft of Archangel. 
LE'BUS, a town of the Middle Mark of Brandenburg, 
feated on the Oder, being 1200 paces in length, taken in 
a dire£t line, though formerly much larger; and contain¬ 
ing about 14,000 inhabitants, with three churches. This 
town has been frequently facked. It lies low, among 
hills, fo that it cannot be feen at one view, and therefore 
makes but a mean appearance. It was originally fubjeff 
to Poland, but afterwards devolved on Bolefiaw duke of 
Silefia, who, in 1250, bequeathed both the town and its lord- 
ihip to the margraves Otho and John, of Brandenburg. In 
3354, the eleCtor Louis the Roman left the caftle and city 
of Lebus to the bifhopric, to which it afterwards gave 
title. The bilhop’s caftle here was deftroyed by a fire in 
1631. The bifhopric of Lebus was founded in the year 
965 in Red Rufifia, by the Polifh prince Mieziflaw, but 
the particular place of its fee is not known. That prince’s 
luccefior, Bolefiaw, fettled and improved this bifhopric, 
which at firfi, however, bore not the name of Lebus. 
About the year 1300, it was called the bifhopric of Go- 
ritz; but at length the bifhopric of Lebus, on occafion of 
that city’s being added to its territories; which name it 
likewife retained after the building of the cathedral at 
Furftenwalde. Lebus was always municipal; infomuch 
that, on the bifhop’s being regiftered in the matricula in 
1521, not only the elector of Brandenburg, but likewife 
the bifhop himfelf, remonftrated again ft it. On the de- 
ceafe of bifhop John VIII. in 1555, the management of 
the diocefe was committed to the care of the margrave 
Joachin Frederic of Brandenburg who, on his acceftion 
to the electoral dignity in 1598, lecularized the bifhopric, 
and at the fame time fuppreffed the chapter. It is five miles 
north of Frankfort on the Oder, and feven fouth-fouth- 
vveft of Cuftrin. Lat. 52. 26. N. Ion. 14.44. E. 
LE'CA, a town of the ifland of Samos : two miles fouth 
of Carlovafli. 
LECANOM'ANCY, /. [from the Greek a ba- 
fon, and panua, magic ] Divination by means of water 
in a bafon ; the fame with Hvdromancy. 
LECASEL'LO, a town of the Ligurian Republic: 
twenty miles north-eaft of Genoa. 
LEC'CE, a city of Naples, in the province of Otranto, 
the lee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Otranto. The wool pro¬ 
duced in the environs of this place was formerly much ce¬ 
lebrated ; the country yields abundance of almonds and 
olives. It contains, befides the cathedral, three parifli- 
churches and feveral convents. It is the residence of the 
governor, and is fometimes called the capital of Otranto ; 
and by fome the province is called Lecce, inftead of Otranto. 
The number of inhabitants is eftimated at 18,000. It is 
L E C 
twenty miles north-weft of Otranto, and 192 eaft of Na¬ 
ples. Lat. 40.40. N. Ion. 18. 8. E. 
LFC'C I, a town of the ifland of Corfica : five miles 
north of Porto Vecchio. 
LEC CO, a town of Italy, and capital of the depart¬ 
ment of the Montagna, on the lake Como, which gives 
name to a branch of the lake called the Lake of Lecco : 
fourteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Como. Lat. 45. 5. N. 
Ion. 9. 23. E. 
LECE' J A, a towm of Spain, in Navarre : feventeen 
miles north-north-weft of Pamplona. 
LECH, f. A term ufed by miners to exprefs the gold 
ore which has been powdered and walhed, and after¬ 
wards run with the afliftance of lime-ltone. The lech is 
afterwards burnt in a fire of charcoal, in order to render 
it fit for the feparation of the metal, by means of lead, 
which abforbing and fcorifying the extraneous matter, 
renders the gold pure. 
LECH, a river which rifes in the Tyrolefe, paffes bv 
Fueffen, Landfburg, Augfburg, &c. and runs into the Da¬ 
nube five miles below Donawert. 
LECH. See LeaCii, p. 410. 
To LECH, v. a. [ lecher, Fr.] To li ck over. Hanmcr. 
Haft thou yet leched the Athenian’s eyes 
With the love-juice ? Shakefpeare. 
LECHzE'UM, now Pelago, a port of Corinth, in the bay 
of Corinth. 
LE'CHAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
LECH'AMPTON, a village in Gloucefterlhire, three 
miles fouth from Cheltenham, and eight eaft from Glou- 
cefter. About half this parifh lies in dairy-farms in the 
vale of Gloucefter; the other part ftretches eaftward over 
a ftupendous ridge of hills, where there is a fine profpe£t 
over the vale and the river Severn, above and below the 
city of Gloucefter. 
LECHE, a river of France, which runs into the Meufe 
near Dinant. 
LECHE'A, f. [fo named by Linnaeus, at the fuggeftion 
of Kalm, in honour of profelfor John Leche, of Abo in 
Finland, member of the Stockholm Academy, feveral of 
whofe memoirs, relating to zoology, botany, and rural 
economy, are found in the Tranfadfions of that learned 
body. He lias alfo left us three differtations, publifhed un¬ 
der his prefidency : 1. Primitiae Floras Scanicae, 1744. 2. 
Novas Infefforuni fpecies, written by his pupil Uddman, 
a piece highly valued for its merit and rarity. 3. De Com- 
moratione hybernali et peregrinationibus Hirundir.um. 
He died in 1764, aged 60.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
triandria, order trigynia, natural order of caryophyllei. 
The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium three¬ 
leaved ; leaflets ovate, concave, extremely fpreading, per¬ 
manent. Corolla : petals three, linear, narrower than the 
calyx, but almoft longer, concave. Stamina : filaments 
three, (fometimes four or five,) capillary, longer than the 
corolla, incumbent on the piftil, equal; antherae roundilh. 
Piftillum: germ ovate; ftyle none ; ftigmas three, feathery, 
divaricated. Pericarpium : capfule ovate, three-fided, 
three-celled, (one-celled, Gartner,) three-valved ; and alfo 
with three internal valves converging towards the exterior 
ones, conftituting partitions. Seeds: folitary, ovate, cor¬ 
nered inwards.— EJJintial Character. Calyx three-leaved; 
petals three, linear; capfules three-celled, three-valved, 
with as many internal ones; feeds folitary. 
Species, j. Lechea minor, or fmaller lechea : leaves li¬ 
near-lanceolate ; flowers panicled. Root fibrous, peren¬ 
nial; putting up feveral upright Ample ftems, panicled at 
top, and round. Leaves fcattered, upright, quite entire, 
lharp; above fmooth and lhining, beneath fomewhat pu- 
befeent, with a reflex margin, on very Ihort petioles. 
Flowers numerous, on terminating peduncled racemes. 
Seeds three, oblong, acuminate at both ends, three-fided, 
convex on one fide, angular on the other, obfeurely dotted, 
brown. It is conftantly one-celled, and has no inner 
valves. The embryo is not circular, as in molt of its 
j congeners* 
