L E i 
46-4 
bufinefs and care. Temple. — Convenience of time.—.We'll 
snake our lefares to attend on yours. Shakefpeare. 
He figh’d, and had no leifure more to lay, 
His honour call’d his eyes another way. Drydea. 
Want of leifure. Not ufed: 
More titan I have faid, loving countrymen ; 
The leifure and enforcement of the time 
Forbids to dwell on. Shakefpeare's Richard III. 
LE'ISURELY, adj. Not hafty; deliberate; done with¬ 
out hurry.—The bridge is human life: upon a lei fur dy fur- 
vey of it, I found that it confided of threefcore and ten 
intire arches. Addifon. 
He was the wretched’ft thing when he was young, 
So long a growing, and fo leifurdy , 
That, if the rule were true, he fliould be gracious. Shake/. 
LE'ISURELY, adv. Notin a hurry; (lowdy; delibe¬ 
rately.—We defeended very leifurely, my friend being care¬ 
ful to count the fteps. Addifon. 
The Belgians hop’d, that with diforder’d hade 
■ Our deep-cut keels upon the fands might run; 
Or, if with caution leifurely we pad, 
Their numerous grofs might charge us one by one. Dryd. 
LE'ISZNIG, a town of Saxony, on the Mulda, with 
-manufactures of cloth, lace, dockings, See. It has two 
churches. The citadel is called Mildenftein : twenty- 
fbur miles ead-fouth-e.aft of Leipfic, and thirty-two north- 
-weft of Drefden. Lat. 51.7.N. Ion. 12. 50. E. 
LEI'STENAU, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Oberland : fix miles wed of Bifchofswerder. 
LEI'T A, Ley'ta, or Ley'tha, a river which rifes in 
the fouth-weft: part of Audria, and joins the Raa’o at Raab 
in Hungary; after which the united dream runs into a 
branch of the Danube nine miles'wed of Comorn. 
LEI'TENBERG. See Leutenberg. 
LEI'TERBACH, or Letter, a town of Bavaria, eleven 
miles north of Bamberg. 
LEITH, on the coalt of Sweden, particularly the paf- 
fage round the Point of Landfoort to the city of Stock¬ 
holm, means a channel, and is ufed as a general appella¬ 
tion for that purpofe; but we have not met with any other 
indance of fuch an application of.the word. Malham. 
LEITH, the lea-port of Edinburgh. See vol. V. p. 247. 
LEITH HILL. See Wotton. 
LEITH WATER, a river of Scotland, which runs 
into the Forth at Leith. 
LEI'THEN, a river of Scotland, which runs into the 
Tweed at Inverleithen. 
LEI'TMERITZ, a city of Bohemia, in a circle of the 
fame name, fituated on the Elbe well built and popu¬ 
lous; the fee of a bifnop, fuffragan of Prague. The cir¬ 
cle is fo fertile and fine a country, as to have been called 
the Bohemian Paradife ; exclufiveof which, it is fupplied, 
by means of tire river Elbe, with the products of the red 
of the provinces of the kingdom, and alfo of other coun¬ 
tries. The wines called podfkaljky, which grow near 
Audi, are particularly famous, and the warm mineral wa¬ 
ters of Toplitz are very wholefome : we alfo find here 
tin and precious denes. In this circle are reckoned 
eighty-nine feigniories, edates, and feats. It is twenty- 
eight miles north-north-wed of Prague, and thirty-four 
fouth-fouth-ead of Drefden. Lat. 50. 31. N. Ion. 14. 15.E. 
LEITOMIS'CHEL. See Leutomischel. 
LEI'TRIM, a county of Ireland, in the province of 
Connaught, which is bounded on the north by Donegal 
and Fermanagh ; on the ead by Cavan ; on the fouth by 
■Cavan, Longford, and Rolcommon and on the wed by 
Sligo. In form fomewhat like an hour-glafs, it varies 
greatlv in breadth, being in the wided parts fixteen, and 
in the narrowed only fix, miles acrols. Its length is 
forty-one Irifh, or fifty-two Englifh, miles. It contains 
-255,950 acres, or-about 400 fquare miles; (407,260 acres, 
652 fquare miles, in Englifh mealure.) The paddies 
L E I 
are feventeen in number, partly in the diocefe of Kiimore, 
and partly in that of Ardagh. Of the five baronies inta 
which Leitrim is divided, the two northern are not fo po¬ 
pulous as the other three. Towards the fea there is an 
aflemblage of wild and lofty mountains, which are di¬ 
vided from one another by deep valleys. Theie are the 
mountains of Sliebh-anewr and Dartry, the latter of 
which towers to an itrunenfe height above the level of the 
fea. Near the interior, the immenfe Sliebh-an-Erin di¬ 
vides the mountainous from the level parts of the country. 
Thefe great hills are far from unprofitable; for, producing 
abundance of coarfe -grals, they annually pour forth im- 
nienle droves of young cattle. The l’outhern baronies are 
level. 
Few counties are fo plentifully watered as this. The 
Shannon rifes in a plain at the bafe of Quilca mountain, 
forming Lough Clean, a fmall lake, which is confidered 
as the fountain of that noble river; from this it flows to 
Lough Allen, nearly in the centre of the county, which 
is feven miles long and about thirty in circumference ; 
and then, curling in a variety of forms, it glides by Car- 
rick on Shannon, where it leaves the county, taking a 
fouthern direction. There are feveral other lakes and 
fmall dreams, which are Itored with trout, pike, eel, perch, 
and bream. The natural wants of this county feem abun¬ 
dantly outweighed by its numerous minerals: iron-ore is 
contained in great quantities in the high grounds; deep 
and rich beds of it are alfo found on the lower grounds; 
and a vigorous fearch would undoubtedly difeover it in 
ulmoft every fituation ; copper and lead are alfo met with, 
but not in fuch quantities; coal in deep and rich ftrata 
is viiible in many places; a variety of clays and plenty of 
limeftone-gravel are likewife found. The foil is exceed¬ 
ingly diverfified. A rich dark foil on a litneitone bottom, 
a ferruginous loam on the mountains, and an argillaceous 
ftratum, are its chief charadteriftics. Great quantities of 
bog and moor tend to interrupt the general fertility of . 
the county. The mode of agriculture adopted by the 
farmers is injudicious in many particulars. Potatoes, 
barley, rye, and wheat, are reared in fmall quantities; 
oats in abundance for home-confumption. A conlidera- 
ble portion of the land is pafturage. The farms are fmall, 
and generally occupied in common by a number of tenan¬ 
try. Draining is greatly neglected. Manufactures art 
rapidly improving, particularly that of linen. There arc 
feveral bleach-greens. Potteries are numerous about Lei¬ 
trim and Dromahare. The traveller who is anxious for 
variety, will no-where find it in greater perfection than 
in Leitrim. Extenfive traits of walte may be con traded 
with rich lands. The uniform and regular improvements 
of art are loft in the wild grandeur of piiturefque natural 
diforder. The dale is frequently terminated by the ltu- 
pendous mountain ; and the beauties of the rich luxuriant 
woods on the demefnes are enriched by the vicinity of 
beautiful fheets of water. Near a century ago, the 
county was a continued forelt. Immenfe heaps of charred 
timber are feen at Dromfhambo.. A confiderable time 
ago, great exertions were made to plant woods ; and it 
now abounds with almoft every variety which the nur- 
fery can afford. No town of any lize ornaments the 
county. Carrick on Shannon is the finre-town, but docs 
not contain above a hundred houfes. 
LE'ITRIM, a fmall town of Ireland, which gives name 
to the county, but is not confiderable enough to be 3 
poft-town. It is three miles north by eaft from Carrick 
on Shannon, and fituated on the river Shannon. 
LEFTSCHACH, a town of the duchy of Stiria : thir¬ 
teen miles north-weft of Marburg. 
LEITUR'GOI, f. [Greek.] Among the Athenians, 
perlons of confiderable eftates; who, by their own tribe, 
or the whole people, were ordered to perform fome pub¬ 
lic duty, or fupply the commonwealth with neceffaries at 
their own expenfes. 
LEFTZEN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 
Mark ; four miles fouth-weft of Seelow. 
lei'Tzestorff; 
