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and, in place of the oyfter-lhells, any other pure calca¬ 
reous earth may be ufed. But, if the impreffions are not 
wanted to be very black, and the writing-ink is good, 
water itfelf may be ufed to moiften the thin paper, as 
herein firft directed. It may be found neceflary to add 
more or let's water, in the preparation of the above liquor 
to be ufed for moiftening the thin paper, or to vary the 
•proportions of the other ingredients, according as they 
are more or lefs perfect or ftrong, or as the impreflion is 
required to be more or lefs deep coloured. The writing- 
ink, which I ufe for letters or writings intended to be co¬ 
pied, is prepared as follows : Take four quarts, ale-mea- 
lure, of fpring-water; one pound and a half, avoirdupois 
weight, of Aleppo galls ; half a pound of green copperas 
■of e;reen vitriol; half a pound of gum-arabic ; four ounces 
of roach-alum : pound the folid ingredients, and infufe 
them in the water fix weeks or two months, during which 
time the liquor fnould be frequently lhaken , ft rain the 
liquor through a linen cloth, and keep it in bottles, clofely 
corked, for ufe. 
•“ Fig. i reprefents a front or end view of the rolling- 
prei's invented by me, and referred to in the above fpeci- 
fication. ABC is one of the ends of an iron or wooden 
frame, which fervcs to connect the two rollers. DD are 
two wooden or metallic rollers, turned extremely exaft, 
or truly cylindrical, and which are mounted on iron axles, 
firmly fixed in them. EE is a double-ended lever, by 
means of which the roller, on whofe axle it is applied, 
may be forcibly turned round. FF reprefents the board 
of the rolling-prefs, on which the writings to be copied 
are to be laid. NN is a piece of cloth, or other elaltic 
pliable fubllance, placed next the roller, and above th£ 
writings to be copied ; and the board G is a ftrong plank 
of wood, or plate or metal, ferving to connect the two end- 
pieces of the frame at bottom. H H reprefents the edge 
of a common table, to which the prefs may be faftened by 
the iron fcrew-cramps II. K is a flit, of which there is 
4>ne in each end-piece of the frame; thefe llits are filled 
with elaftic-fteel or other metalline lprings, or with fome 
other elaftic fubftances which lerve to prefs the two rol¬ 
lers forcibly together. L is a brafs bolder, fupported 
upon the fprings, and ferving to fupport the end of the 
axis of the under roller Fig. 2 reprefents a fide view or 
the rolling-prefs, in which AB, AB, are the two end- 
pieces of the frame. D D are the two rollers. E is the 
double-ended lever. G is the ftrong plank, or plate of 
metal, which forms the bottom of the frame. H H is the 
table on which the prefs ftands. I is one of the iron 
cramps which fallen the prefs to the table ; and M is a 
bar of iron which connefts the upper part of the frame. 
Fig. 3 reprefents a fcrew-prefs, which may be ufed, in- 
Head of the rolling-prefs, in taking off impreflions from 
xvritings. AA is a double-ended lever. BB the fcrew. 
C a block of wood, or metal, which the fcrew afts upon, 
and which is attached to it. DD the frame of the prefs, 
made of iron or wood. EE is a moveable board, on 
which the writing to be copied is to be laid, with a cloth 
over it. F F, the bottom or foie of the prefs, made of 
wood or metal. Thefe prefles are made of different fizes, 
according to the fize of the writing intended to be copied. 
Thofe ftiown above are drawn from one fufficiently large 
to take an impreflion from a folio page of writing or poll 
paper, and are drawn to a fcale of one inch and a half for 
each foot, or one eighth of their natural fize-;’ 
LET'TERE, a town of Naples, in PrincrpLo Citra, the 
fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Amalfi : twelve miles weft- 
north-weft of Salerno. Lat. 40. 43. N. Ion. 14.20. E. 
I.ET'TERED, adj. Literate; educated to learning— 
A martial man, not lweetened by a lettered education, is 
apt to have a tinfture of fournefs. Collier on Pride. 
LET'TERHOUT> a town of Flanders : fix miles weft 
of Aloft. 
LET'TERING, f. The aft of marking with letters. 
TET'TERKENNY, a town of Ireland, in the county 
LEY 
of Donegal, on the river Swilly : fifteen miles foulh-weft 
of Londonderry, and twenty north-north-eaft of Donegal. 
LET'TERKENNY, a townfhip of America, in Frank¬ 
lin county, Pennfylvania; containing 1497 inhabitants. 
LET'TERN, f. [leElnnum , Lat.] The reading-delk ia 
ancient churches, See. from which the epiftles and gofpels 
of the liturgy were read. The defies for the former fre¬ 
quently reprefented the prophet Mofes with his horned 
countenance ; thofe for the latter an eagle, the well-known 
emblem of St.John the Evangelift. 
LET'TES, or Letto'nians, a people of Rufiia, whofe 
country is now included in the government of Riga. See 
Livonia and Riga. 
LET'TICE, [corrupted from Letitia .] A woman’s name. 
LET'TING, /. The aft of permitting or fulfering; of 
hindering or obitrufting. 
LE TTO'NIA, a province of Rufiia, now included in 
the government of Riga. 
LET'TOWITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Brunn : twenty miles north-north-weft of Brunn. 
LET'TUCE, f. \laEluca , Lat.] The fpecies are, com¬ 
mon or garden lettuce ; cabbage lettuce ; Sileiia lettuce. ; white 
and black cos; white cos; red capuchin lettuce. Miller.— 
See the article Lactuca, p. 72 of this volume : 
Fat coiworts, and comforting purfeline. 
Cold lettuce , and refrelhing rolemarine. Spenfer. 
LET'TUCE (Hare’s). See Sonchus. 
LET'TUCE (Lamb’s). See Valeriana. 
LET'TUCE (Wild). See Prenanthes. 
LETU'SHIM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
LETZ, a river of France, which runs into the Rhone 
a little below Pont St. Efprit. 
LETZ'KAW, a town of Prufiia, on the Viftula : thir¬ 
teen miles fouth-eaft of Dantzic. 
LETZ'NIG, a town of the duchy of Holftein : fix 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Segeberg, and fix north-weft of 
Oldeflohe. 
LE'VA, a river of Sicily, which runs into the fea 
eleven miles north-weft of Sacca. 
LEVAL'ZUI, a river of Servia, which runs into the 
Morava fix miles weft-north-weft of Parakin. 
LEV'AN’s Bridge, Hall, and Park. See Kendal, vol. 
xi. p. 661. 
LEVA'NA, a goddefs at Rome, who prefided over the 
aftion of the perlon who took up from the ground a newly- 
born child, after it had been placed there by the midwife. 
This was generally done by the father; and fo religioufly 
obferved was this ceremony, that the legitimacy of a child 
could be difputed without it. 
LEVAN'GHE, a fmall ifland near the eaft coaft of the 
Iftria. Lat. 45. 1. N. Ion. 13.52. E. 
LEV'ANT, adj. [ levant , Fr.] Eaftern : 
Thwart of thofe, as fierce 
Forth ru(h the levant and the ponent winds, 
Eurus and Zephyr. Milton's Paradife Lojl. 
LEVAN'T, in geography, fignifies any country fituated 
to the eaft of us, or in the eaftern fide of any continent 
or country, or that on which the fun rifes. 
LEVAN'T is alfo a name given to the eaftern part of 
the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by Natolia, or Alia Mi¬ 
nor on the north, by Syria and Paleftine on the eaft, by 
Egypt and Barca on the foutli, and by the ifland of Can- 
dia and the other part of the Mediterranean on the welt; 
including the illands formerly belonging to the Venetians; 
as, Corfu, Paxo, Bacintra, Parga, Prevefa, Vonizza, St. 
Maura, Thiaqui, Cephalonia, Zante, the Stropliades, Ce- 
rigo, and Ceregotta. 
Levant Company. See Company, vol. iv. p. 874, 
LEVAN'T, or Titan, one of the Hieres illands, in 
the Mediterranean, near the coaft of France. Lat. 43. 4. 
N. Ion. 6. 34. E. 
LEV'ANT and COU'CHANT, a law-term for cattle 
1 that 
