LEG 
cerning the time of his death. He was the author of a 
valuable Hiftory of the Evangelical Churches in the Val- 
lies of Piedmont, folio. Moreri. 
LEG'ER-BOOK, f. A book that lies ready for enter¬ 
ing articles of account in.—Thefe are fupplied from a 
contemporary entry in the leger-book of the chapter. Black- 
Jione's Magna Charta. 
This leger-book lies in the brain behind, 
Like Janus’ eye, which in his poll was fet, 
The layman’s tables, ftorehoufe of the mind, 
Which doth remember much, and much forget. Davies. 
Some derive the name from leger, Fr. light or flight, be- 
cauf'e an entry in this book is generally comprifed in one 
line, whereas in the journal or wafte-book you go into 
the particulars of each tranfaftion. See the article Book¬ 
keeping, vol. iii. p. 185. This is certainly the meaning 
when applied to a leger-line in mufic. 
LEG'ER-GILD. See Lecherwite. 
LEG'ER-LINE, f. in mufic ; a line above or below 
the five, to receive an afcending or defcending note. 
LEGERDEMA'IN,/. [legerete de main, Fr.] Slight of 
hand ; juggle; power of deceiving the eye by nimble mo¬ 
tion; trick; deception; knack.—Of all the tricks and le¬ 
gerdemain by which men impofe upon their own fouis, 
there is none fo common as the plea of a good intention. 
South. 
He fo light was at legerdemain , 
That what he touch’d came not to light again. Hubberd. 
Legerdemain is a denomination given to certain de¬ 
ceptive performances, which either depend altogether upon 
addrefs and dexterity, or derive but a fmall degree of aid 
from philofophical principles. But in all the branches 
of this art, it is not fufficient that a perfon has the requi- 
fite dexterity, or flight of hand; it is neceflary alfo to 
take off the attention of the fpeftators by fome entertain¬ 
ing difeourfe; and of fuch kind of talk the pradtifers of 
legerdemain are not at all fparing. 
The two chief branches of legerdemain are, cups and 
balls, and tricks upon cards; and, though in the article 
Juggling we have referred to this place, yet, upon farther 
confideration, we think it would not be much to the credit 
of the work or to the fatisfadlion of the reader to enter into 
fuch difquifitions ; fince the former is pradlifed only by 
the lowed clafs of itinerants, and a dexterity in the latter 
is very apt to lead to a habit of cheating. Some pleafing 
experiments have been given under the articles Acou¬ 
stics, Catoptrics, and Electricity; and many 
others will follow in their proper order in the alphabet, 
as under Magnetism, Mechanics, Numbers, Optics, 
Sound, Pyrotechny, See. 
Adverting once more to the article Juggling, we have 
to obfeiwe, that the laft extraordinary cafe there related 
(vol. xi. p. 500, 1.) had happened fo recently as to feein 
to want confirmation. That cafe has fince been fully in- 
veftigated, and confirmed and authenticated, in confe- 
quence of its having been brought forward by fir Francis 
Burdett, in the houfe of commons, on the 15th of April, 
1812, as an evidence to what lengths fome men would go 
to avoid the punilhment of flogging for defertion or other 
offences. In reply, Mr.Perceval totally denied the premifes 
and the conclufion: he faid, that inquiry had been made; 
that there was no foundation whatever for the ftory; and, 
quoting the words in our account, that “ the man had 
not been heard of fince,” he triumphantly added, -that 
“ he had never been heard of before !” This, however, 
was worfe than juggling, fince it was telling a direft un¬ 
truth. On the very next day, (the 16th,) one Louis 
Goldfmith, a man underftood to be in the confidence of 
Mr. Perceval, wrote to Mr. Welch, the furgeon at Taun¬ 
ton who it was faid had operated upon Adams. Mr. W.’s 
fon, alfo a furgeon, and who really performed the opera¬ 
tion in his father’s prefence, replied to the letter, fully 
Vol. XII. No. 843. ' 
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confirming the fa£l, and ftating the cafe nearly in the 
words we have already given. 
LEGEREMEN'T, adv. [French.] In mufic-books; 
lightly, gently. 
LEGER'ITY, f. [legerete, Fr.] Lightnefs; nimblenefs; 
quicknefs. Not ufed: 
When the mind is quicken’d, 
The organs, though defunft and dead before, 
Break up their drowfy grave, and newly move , 
With called Hough and frelh legerity. Shakejpeare. 
LEG'ERWOOD, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Berwick: four miles fouth-eaft of Lauder. 
LEG'GED, adj. Having legs; furnilhed with legs: 
And all to leave what with his toil he won 
To that unfeather’d two -legg'd thing, a fon. Dryden, 
LEGGIARDAMEN'TE, adv. in mufic; lively, brilkly. 
LEGGIAR'DO, adv. in mufic ; in a lively manner ; 
brilkly. 
LEGHE'A, a town of Nubia : fixteen miles well-north- 
weft of Dongola. Lat. 20. 6. N. Ion. 29, 30. E. 
LEG'HENICH, or Lech'enich, a town of France, in 
the department of the Rhine and Mofelle : ten miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Cologne, and fifty eaft-north-eaft of 
Liege. Lat. 50'. 50. N. Ion. 6. 42. E. 
LEG'HI, a town of Arabia, in the province of Yemen: 
fifty-fix miles eaft-north-eaft of Aden. 
LEGHO'RN, or Livor'no, a city and feaport of Etru¬ 
ria, orTufcany; handfome, but not large, and built in 
the modern tafte, fo regular that both gates are feen from 
the market-place. Upon account of its, being interfered 
with canais, it is called the New Venice. Leghorn was 
formerly a place of no note, belonging to the Genoefe, 
and by them given in exchange to duke Cofmo I. for the 
town of Sarzana. But fince that time it has put on a 
quite different afpefl: the canals cut in feveral parts 
about the town have rendered the marfhes fit for culture, 
and, in fome meafure, diffipated the noxious effluvia, 
though the air cannot ftill be deemed perfectly healthy. 
Frefh water is fo fcarce, that it muft be brought from 
Pifa. The city, befides good fortifications, has two fmall 
forts towards the fea, and a citadel on the land fide. The 
number of inhabitants is computed at 50,000 ; among 
whom are upwards of 15,000 Jews, who live in a particu¬ 
lar quarter of the city, have a handfome fynagogue, and, 
though fubjeft to very heavy imports, are in a thriving 
condition, the greateft part of the commerce going 
through their hands. The Greeks and Armenians have 
each their peculiar church. The free Turks and the 
Turkifh flaves have a mofque; but the Proteftants are not 
permitted the public exercife of their religion, the En- 
glifh excepted, who, by being, of all foreign nations, the 
bed cullomers to Leghorn, are allowed to have a chap¬ 
lain. Proftitutes live in a particular quarter, confifting 
of feveral ftreets. The heavy taxes, payable to the go¬ 
vernment, from a multiplicity of neceffaries brought in 
from the continent, together with monopolies of brandy, 
tobacco, and fait, make provifions and other commodities 
very dear. The trade of Leghorn is confiderable, being 
greatly promoted by the freedom of its port, every bale 
of goods, whether great or fmall, paying only two piaf- 
tres, or feudi. The harbour is divided into the outward 
and inward. In the open place before this harbour 
ftands a marble (tatue of Ferdinand I. and at the angles 
of the pedeftal four brazen ftatues, of a gigantic fize, re- 
prefenting Turkifh flaves in chains. The outward har¬ 
bour is formed by a mole or dam, fix hundred paces in 
length, u'ell paved, and with a partition-wall in the mid¬ 
dle, whereby, at any time, the fhipping are fheltered from 
the wind on one fide. This mole ferves alfo for a pro¬ 
menade. The harbour is too fliallow for large fliips, 
which, on this account, lie out of the mole, moored to 
pillars and large iron rings; but, by this means, are in 
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