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TranfafHons, from vol. xiv. to vol. xxviii. They are ge¬ 
nerally replete with new and carious information. He 
alfo publilhed, in 1699, a work entitled Lithophylacii Bri- 
tannici kknograpkia, 8vo which is a methodical catalogue 
of the figured loflils in the AflTmolean Mufeum, printed 
at the expenfe of fir Hans Sloane, fir Ifaac Newton, and 
a few other learned friends. A new edition of this work 
was publilhed in 1760 by Mr. Huddesford, with the 
addition of feveral letters from Lhwyd to his philofo- 
phical friends. In Ray’s correfpondence are thirteen' 
letters written by Lhwyd to that great naturalill, 
chiefly upon the fubjeft of foflils. He alfo brought to 
light feveral of the rare plants of Wales. His greateft 
work as an antiquary was his Arckeo/ogia Britannica, vol. 1 i. 
folio, Oxford, 1707. This contains ten fedtions, relating 
to the etymology, grammar, vocabulary, &c.of the Welfh, 
Armoric, Irifh, and Scotch, dialedls of the Celtic, and 
was highly efteemed by perfons converfant in thofe fub- 
jeiffs. His large materials for the continuance of this 
work were left in an undigefted date ; but he communi¬ 
cated to bifiiop Gibfon, for his edition of Camden’s Bri¬ 
tannia, many valuable additions concerning Wales. At 
the end of William Baxter’s Latin Glofiary of Britifh 
Antiquities, are inferted our author’s obfervations on the 
names of the rivers, mountains, towns, Sec. of Britain. 
He alfo drew up a Latin catalogue of the manuferipts and 
curiofities contained in the Afhmolean Mufeum. Puit- 
ney's Sketches of Botany in England. 
LHWYD (Humphrey), a learned antiquary, was a na¬ 
tive of Denbigh. Nothing is known of him till his name 
occurs as a commoner of Brazen-nofe college, Oxford, in 
154.7. He ftudied phyfic, took the degree of M. A. in 
1551, and, returning to his native place, pradlifed in his 
profelfion, refiding within the walls of Denbigh caftle. 
He died about 1570. Humphrey Lhwyd was regarded as 
an accomplished fcholar, and an abie antiquary, in which 
capacity he was highly efteemed by Camden. He was 
intimately acquainted with the geographer Ortelius, to 
whom he communicated maps of England and Wales for 
his Ancient Geography. As he difagreed with fome 
former writers in his opinion concerning the politions of 
feveral ancient towns, caltles, See. he accompanied his 
prefent with a work entitled Commentarioli Britannica De- 
Jcriptionis Fragmentum. He wrote a letter addrefled to Or¬ 
telius, De Mona Druidum Infuld, Antiquitati [ua rejlitutd: 
this, with a traff of his, De Armamentario Romano, is an¬ 
nexed to Sir John Price’s Hiftorite Britannicse Defenfio. 
Lhwyd tranfiated The Hilfory qf Cambria, now called 
Wales, from Caradoc of Lancarvan, afterwards edited by 
Dr. David Powel, 1584-, 4-to. He alfo tranfiated forne me¬ 
dical pieces. NicolJen's Hift. Libr. 
LI, a town of China, of the third rank, in Chen-fi : 
forty miles fouth-weft of Tfin. 
LI-CHAN', a town of Corea: feventeen miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Het-fin. 
LI-KIANG-TOU 7 , a city'' of China, of the firft rank, 
in Yun-nan, near the lource of the river Yang-Gong- 
kiang. It is faid that the inhabitants of this city and its 
territory are defeended from fome ancient colonies of 
Chinefe, which came and fixed there; it has no other 
city within its diftridf, but is furrounded by mountains, 
which feparate it from the land of the Lamas. It is not 
doubted but there are mines of gold within its mountains. 
The whole country is very well watered, and the land 
fruitful ; there are found here amber and pine-apples : 
1150 miles fouth-we!t of Peking. Lat. 26. 52. N. Ion. 
100. 8. E. 
LI-SIUEN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chen-fi : (even miles fouth of Kan. 
LI-TCHIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-fi : thirty-five miles fouth-eaft of Tfing. 
LI-TCHU'EN, a town of Corea: thirty miles fouth- 
eaft of King-kitao. 
EI-TCHU'EN, a town of Co rea: fifteen miles north- 
weit of Long-kouang. 
Vol. XII. No. 853. 
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LT-TCIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-tong : twenty miles ea(t of Pin. 
LI'ABLE, adj. [from Her , old French.] Obnoxious; 
not exempt; fubject; with to. —The Englilh lYoaft of 
Spenfer and Milton, who neither of them wanted genius 
or learning; and yet both of them are liable to many cen- 
fures. Drydcn. 
But what is ftrength without a double (hare 
Of wifdom ? valt, unwieldy, burthenfome, 
Proudly fecure, yet liable to fall 
By weakelt fubtleties. Milton's Agonijles. 
LFABLENESS, f. The being liable.—Every one ob- 
ferves our tiablenefs to be deceived by the falfehood of men. 
Butler's Analogy. —He has a fcale in his mind, by which 
lie eftirnates his liablenefs to err. Reid. 
LIADO'VA, a town of Moldavia, on the Dneifter: 
fifty-fix miles ealt-north-eaft of Choczim. 
LIA'LIA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the Sofva, 
in the province of Ekaterinburg, forty miles ealt of Ver- 
chotura. 
LIALO'RES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Gers : three miles fouth of Condom. 
LIAL'SKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the province of Uf- 
tiug, on the Vim : forty-eight miles ealt of Yarenik. 
LIAM', a town of Lower Siam, on the ealt fide of the 
gulf. Lat. 12. 35. N. Ion. 102. 18. E. 
LIAM-PO'. See Ning-Po. 
LIAMO'NE, or Limo'ne, a river of Corfica, which 
runs into the fea ten miles north of Ajazzo. It gives 
name to a department. 
LIAM'SA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the coalt of the White Sea : thirty-fix 
miles north-north-weft of Oneg. 
LIAN-TCHU'EN, a town of Corea : twenty-five miles 
ealt-north-eaft of Haimen. 
LI'ANCOURT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Oife : four miles fouth of Clermont. 
LIA'NE, a river of France, which runs into the fea 
near Boulogne. 
LIANG-CHAN', a town of Corea: forty miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Kang-tcheou. 
LIAN'GA, a town of the eaft coalt of Mindanao. 
Lat. 8 21. N. Ion. 126. 10. E. 
LIANGDAL', a river of Sweden, which rifes in the 
province of Harjedalen, and runs into the gulf of Bothnia 
near Sundfwal. 
LI'AR, f. [from lie. This word would analogically 
be her-, but this orthography has prevailed, and the con¬ 
venience of diftindtion from Her, he who lies down, is 
fufticient to confirm it.] One who tells falfehood; one 
who wants veracity.—I do not reject his obfervation as 
untrue, much lefs condemn the perfon himfelf as a liar , 
whenfoever it feems to be contradidted. Boyle. 
Thy better foul abhors a liar's part : 
Wife is thy voice, and noble is thy heart. Pope. 
LI'AR DSA'KE, a lake of Thibet, about thirty miles 
in circumference. Lat. 34. 34. N. Ion. 90. 44. E. 
LI'ARD, adj. Mingled roan. Markham.—Liard in Scot¬ 
land denotes grey-haired : as, He’s a Hard old man. 
LI'ARD,/. [French.] A farthing. 
LI'ART, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ardennes : twelve miles fouth-weit of Rocroy. 
LIA'TRIS, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs fynge- 
nefia, order polygamia oequaiis, natural order of compofitte 
capitatse, (cinarocephalse, faff ) The generic charadters are 
—Calyx : common oblong, imbricated with feveral fubo- 
vate, unarmed, coloured leales. Corolla: compound tu¬ 
bular, uniform; corollets hermaphrodite, equal. Proper 
one-petalled, funnel form ; tube inflex, border five-cleft, 
divifions recurved. Stamina : filaments five, capillary,, 
very fhort. Anthers cylindric, tubular. Piftillum: germ 
oblong; flyle filiform, very long, bifid to the very Itamens, 
ftraight; ltigmas rather fliarp. Pericarpium : none ; ca- 
