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duced only by agriculture, or by a fedentary traffic. 
Some of the women are extremely beautiful. The whole 
eaft coaft is inacceflible, on account of a (hoal, which ex¬ 
tends four leagues into the offing; the weft coaft affords 
to fliips a few places of (belter againft northerly winds. 
To the north is a large road; but there are no real har¬ 
bours except on the fouth part, where are two, at no 
great diftance from each other, viz. Port Cadia and Port 
St. Antonio. Sonnini's Travels. 
LE'MO, a river of France, which runs into the Orba 
near Alexandria, in the department of Marengo. 
LE'MO, a town of Sweden, in the government of Abo: 
twelve miles north-weft of Abo. 
LEM'ON, f. [Union, Fr. limonium , low Lat.] The fruit 
of the lemon-tree. See Citrus, vol. iv. p. 626.—The 
juice of lemons is more cooling and aftringent than that of 
oranges. Arbuthnot. 
Bear me, Pomona ! 
To where the lemon and the piercing lime, 
With the deep orange, glowing through the green, 
Their lighter glories blend. Thomfon. 
LEM'ON, adj. Belonging to the lemon-tree ; impreg¬ 
nated with the juice of lemons. 
LEM'ON (Water). See Passiflora. 
LEM'ON-PSLAND, one of the Skelig iflands fo called ; 
fituated off the coaft of the county of Kerry, in the pro¬ 
vince of Munfter, in Ireland. It is rather a round rock, 
always above water, and therefore no-way dangerous to 
fliips. An incredible number of gannets and other birds 
breed here ; and it is remarkable that the gannet neftles 
nowhere on the fouthern coafts of Ireland but on this 
rock, though many of them are feen on all parts of our 
coaft on the wing. There is another rock on the northern 
coaft of Ireland remarkable for the fame circumftance. 
LEM'ON - JUICE, f. The juice of lemons. 
LEM'ON-PEEL, f. The peel of lemon, whether plain 
or candied for fweetmeat: 
But tulip-leaves and lemon-peel 
Serve only to adorn the meal. Prior's Alma. 
LEM'ON-TREE, yi The tree that bears lemons.—The 
lemon-tree hath large ftiff leaves ; the flower confifts of 
many leaves, which expand in form of a rofe ; the fruit is 
almoft of an oval figure, and divided into feveral cells, in 
which are lodged hard feeds, furrounded by a thick fiefliy 
fubftance, which, for the moft part, is full of an acid juice. 
There are many, varieties of this tree, and the fruit is 
yearly imported from Lifbon in great plenty. Miller. 
LEMONA'DE, f. Liquor made of water, fugar, and 
the juice of lemons.—Thou, and thy wife, and children, 
fliould walk in my garden, buy toys, and drink lemonade. 
Arbulk. J. Bull. —This factitious liquor is fo popular in 
Paris, that it has given its name to a new-eftablilhed com¬ 
pany called lemonadiers. 
LEM'OND, a town of North Carolina, on the Tar: 
twenty-four miles weft of Tarburg. 
LEMON'NIER. See Monnier. 
LE'MOS, a diftriiff of Spain, in Galicia, eaft of Minho; 
the chief place is Montforte de Lemos. 
LE'MOS (Thomas de), a learned Spanifli Dominican 
monk, and celebrated defender of the doftrines of Aquinas 
againft the Molinifts, was born at Rivadavia, in Gallicia, 
about the year 1.54.5. When the difputes commenced be¬ 
tween the Dominicans and Jefuits, relating to the fubjeft 
of grace, towards the clofe of the (ixteenth century, he 
acquired high reputation by the zeal and dexterity with 
which he fupported the opinions of St. Thomas at Valla¬ 
dolid. After (Hence had been impofed on the contend¬ 
ing parties by pope Clement VIII. and he had affembled 
at Rome a fort of council for the decifion of this contro- 
verfy, known by the name of the congregation de auxiliis, 
Lemos was appointed, at a general chapter of his order 
held at Naples in 1600, to plead the caufe of their patron 
the papal tribunal. Here he obtained great applaufe 
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by the learning, (kill, and eloquence,which he difplayed; 
and is confidered by his order as having immortalized 
himfelf by the fuccefs with which he defended the glory 
of St. Thomas. After the congregation was diffolved he 
returned to Spain, where Philip II. offered him a bi- 
(hopric, which he declined ; but he accepted of a penfion 
from the royal treafury. He died in 1629, about the age 
of eighty-four. He was the author of, 1. Panoplia Gratis, 
publiflied in 1766, in 2 vols. folio, in which the queftions 
concerning grace, free-will, and predeftination, are largely 
and profoundly difeuffed. 2. Ada Congregationum et 
Difputationum, quae coram Clemente VIII. et Paulo V. 
de Auxiliis divinas gratiae funt celebratas, 1702, folio; and 
numerous treatifes in controverlial divinity. Moreri. 
LEMOSA'NO, a town of Naples, in the county of Mo- 
life : eight miles north-eaft of Molife. 
LE'MOV (Niznei), a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Penza: feventy-two miles weft of Penza. Lat. 
53. 25. N. Ion.43. 34. E, 
LE'MOV (Verchnei), a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Penza: thirty-eight miles fouth-weft of.Penza. 
Lat. 53. 16. N. Ion. 43. 14. E. 
LEMOV'ICES, a people of Aquitania, fituated between 
the Bituriges Cubi to the north, the Arverni to the eaft, 
the Cadurci to the fouth, and the Pidones to the weft. 
Now the Limnjin and La Marche. 
LEM'PA, a river of Mexico, which runs into the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean in lat. 13. 36. N. 
LEM'PACH, a town of Auftria: fourteen miles weft- 
fouth-weft of Vienna. 
LEM'PALA, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland : twenty- 
feven miles north-weft of Tavafthus. 
LEMP'DE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Loire: nine miles north-weft of Brioude, and 
twenty-four north of St. Flour. 
LEMPS le GRAND, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ifere : thirteen miles fouth of La Tour du 
Pin, and eighteen north-weft of Grenoble. 
LEMP'STER, a townfhip of North America, in Che- 
(liire county, New Hamplhire ; incorporated in 1761, and 
containing 729 inhabitants. 
LEMP'TA, a feaport town of Africa, on the eaft coaft 
of the kingdom of Tunis; the name denotes a port or 
ftation for veflels. This was the Leptis, or Leptis Parva, 
of the ancients; the other Leptis being in the kingdom 
of Tripoli, feveral leagues to the fouthward. Lempta has 
been a mile or more in circuit; but at prefent nothing 
remains befid.es the ruins of a caftle, with a low (helf of 
rocks, that probably made the northern mound of the an¬ 
cient Cothon. It is fixty miles fouth of Tunis. Lat. 35. 
30. N. Ion. 10. 54. E. 
LEMP'TA, a defert country of Africa, inhabited by a 
fierce and barbarous people, who rob the caravans that 
pafs from Conftantina and other towns towards Nubia; 
fituated about lat. 26. 30. N. Ion. 9. E. 
LEMP'TA, or St. Nicholas, a river of Africa, which 
rifes in the country of Calbari, and runs into the Atlantic. 
LEM'UEL, [Heb. God with him.] A man’s name. 
LEM'UI, a finall ifland in the Pacific Ocean, between 
the ifland of Chiloe and the continent. Lat, 44.10. S. 
LEM'VIG, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland, fitu¬ 
ated on the Lime Fiord, or Lympfurt: eighty-four miles 
north of Ripen. Lat. 56.44. N. Ion. 8. 18. E. 
LE'MUR,/ in zoology, the Mapcauco ; a genus of 
quadrupeds of the clafs mammalia, order primates. The 
generic characters are given by .Gmelin as follows : Four 
front-teeth in the upper jaw, the intermediate ones being 
remote; fix in the lower, long, comprefled, parallel ; the 
dog-teeth are folitary ; the grinders fomewhat lobated. 
The maucaucos were long confounded with the mon¬ 
keys, whom they refemble in many refpefts, efpecially in 
their agility ; in having two nipples at the breads, and 
hands and feet like the human. But the hind legs are 
much longer in proportion than the monkeys have them, 
fo that, when they go upon all four, the hinder parts are 
much 
