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LIN'TELN, a town of Germany, in the county of Ver- 
den : four miles north-eaft of Verden. 
LINTER'NA PA'LUS, in ancient geography, a lake 
of Campania. 
LINTER'NUM, a town of Campania where Scipio 
Africanus died and was buried. 
LINTH, a river of Swiflerland, which palfes through 
the lake of Wallenltadr, and runs into the lake of Zurich 
near Grynau. 
LINT'HAL, a town of Swiflerland, in the canton of 
Glaris: twelve miles fouth-wellof Glaris. 
LIN'TON, a fmall market-town in the county of Cam¬ 
bridge, fituated ten miles from Cambridge, and forty-fix 
from London. The town confilts of feveral irregular 
ilreets, the chief of which is about half a mile in length. 
The houfes are principally low and covered with thatch; 
fame however are of brick, and neatly built. The church 
is a fpacious ItruClure, and built of flints, intermixed with 
done and plafter : it confifts of two aifles, a nave, a chan¬ 
cel, and a large tower; and it contains feveral monuments 
and fepulchral memorials. The market, principally for 
corn, is held on Thurfdays; it was originally on Tuef- 
days, and was granted in the year J245, with an annual 
fair for three days. The fair has been difcontinued, but 
two others have been eftablilhed, Whit-Monday and Au- 
6 uft 4- . 
In the reign of Edward III. there was an alien-priory 
at Linton, fubordinate to the abbey of St. Jacutus de In- 
fula in Brittany; being feized for the king in the reign 
of Henry V. it was given by his fucceflor to the mailer 
and fellows of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge. At Barham 
alfo, in this parifh, was a priory of Crutched Friars, fo 
early as the year 1292 ; the fcite was granted by Hen¬ 
ry VIII. to Philip Parilh, efq. and afterwards to John Mil- 
lecent, efq. who was before poflefled of the manor. In 
the Millecents the priory and manor continued till the 
year 1740, when John Millecent, efq. the lalt of the fa¬ 
mily, died ; his widow, afterwards married to the Rev. C. 
Lonfdale, left her eftates to the mailer and fellows of Pem¬ 
broke-hall. Barham-hall, Mrs. Lonfdale’s feat, appears 
to have been formed out of the conventual buildings ; the 
hall, chapel, and cloilters, dill remain; it was appropriated 
by Mrs. Lonfdale’s will, as a country-feat for the mailer 
of Pembroke-hall for the time being. 
Bournbridge is near Linton. It is fo called from the 
river Bourn, over which are two fpacious bridges. Bourn- 
bridge is in the parilh of Little Abington, and on the 
great road from Norwich to London. There are only 
two houfes here ; the one formerly the White Hart, is 
row a private houfe ; the other is the fign of the King’s 
Arms, where the coaches and waggons to and from Lon¬ 
don Hop. It is dillant from London forty-nine miles ; 
Hockerill, nineteen ; Newmarket, twelve; Roylton in 
Herts, thirteen ; Backway, fourteen ; Haverill, twelve 5 
and Cambridge, eight. The commiflioners of the land- 
tax, &c. hold their meetings at Bournbridge for the divi- 
fions of Linton and Bottilham; and the jultices renew 
victuallers’ licenfes for the divifions of Linton and Trum- 
pington. 
Four miles from Bournbridge, to the left of the Cam¬ 
bridge road, is Gogmagog-houfe, the feat of Eliab Brit¬ 
ton, efq.—Triplow is fouth-well of Linton, eight miies 
from Cambridge, and gave name to the hundred. Britifi 
DireElory, vol. v. Appendix. 
LIN'TON, a village in the well riding of Yorkfhire, 
nine miles from Skipton ; with a worfted-manufaCtory, 
and a bridge over the Wherfe. 
LIN'TON, a town of Scotland, in the county of Pee¬ 
bles, at the conflux of the Lynne and the Tweed : twelve 
miles north-well of Peebles, and feventeen fouth-fouth- 
well of Edinburgh. 
LIN'TREY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Meurte : four miles north-welt of Blamont, and three 
call of Luneville. 
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LINT'WAITE, a townlhip of Yorkfhire, in the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Wakefield ; with 1381 inhabitants, includ¬ 
ing 752 employed in trade and manufactures. 
LINTZ, a town and citadel of Germany, on the eafl 
fide of the Rhine. It is furrounded with an ancient wall; 
and the number of houfes is about 600 : ten miles fouth- 
fouth-eall of Bonn, and twenty-three fouth-fouth-eall of 
Cologne. Lat. 50. 34. N. Ion. 7. 14. E. 
LINTZ, a town of Aultria, fituated on the Danube, 
well built, and populous, with fome fine fuburbs to it. 
The old town here confills almoft wholly of one Angle 
llreet, and alfo comprifes in it the citadel, fituated on an 
eminence, from whence is a fine open profpefl. In this 
citadel is held the fovereign reprefentation and chamber; 
as alfo the government, in matters of jultice relating to 
Upper Aultria. The town carries on a pretty confider- 
able trade; and has on Ealter and St. Bartholomew’s days 
fome well-privileged and confiderable fairs. Formerly it 
belonged to the county of Kyrnberg, together with which, 
about the year 1140, it was difpofed by the lad count 
thereof to Leopold VI. duke of Aultria. In the year 
1289, and for four years after, fome confiderable af- 
femblies of princes were held here. In a privilege of the 
year 1490, this place was, for the firft time, named the 
head town of the principality above the Ens. In 1542, 
it was confumed by fire ; but rebuilt on a better plan. It 
is thirty miles fouth-eaft of Paflau, and fixty-two wed of 
Vienna. Lat. 48. 18. N. Ion. 14. 15. E. 
LINT'ZENEGG, a town of Aultria : ten miles fouth 
of Zwetl. 
LIN'UFAR,yi A name ufed by fome of the writers of 
the middle ages toexprefs the water-lily. The Arabians 
gave this genus of plants the name of nilufar , and this 
word linufar is only formed of that, by tranfpofing tw® 
of the letters. 
LI'NUM, yf [the Tmov of Diofcorides, Theophradus, 
and other ancient Greek authors, appears to be derived 
from Xn/£iv, Gr. to hold, the fibres of this plant being fo 
remarkable for their tenacity, that its herbage has always 
been in the greated edimation for the manufacture of li¬ 
nen cloth, whild its feeds by prefiure afford a valuable oilij 
Flax ; in botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
pentagynia, natural order of gruinales, (caryophylles, 
JuJf. gerania. Smith.) The generic characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium, five-leaved, lanceolate, upright, fmall, per¬ 
manent. Corolla: funnel-form; petals five, oblong, gra¬ 
dually wider above, obtufe, more fpreading, large. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments five, awl-diaped, upright, lengtli of the 
calyx; (alfo five rudiments, alternating;) anthers fim- 
ple, arrowed. Pidillum : germ ovate; ftyles five, filiform, 
upright, length of the damens; digmas fimple, reflex, 
Pericarpium : capfule globofe, rudely pentagonal, ten- 
valved, gaping at the tip ; partitions membranaceous, very 
thin, conneCling the valves. Seeds : folitary, ovate-flat- 
tilh, acuminated, finooth.— Ejjential Charafter. Calyx five¬ 
leaved ; petals five; caplule ten-valved, ten-celled ; feeds 
folitary. 
Species. I. With alternate leaves. 1. Linum ufitatifli- 
mum, or common flax : calyxes and capfules mucronate ; 
petals crenate; leaves lanceolate ; dem generally folitary. 
Root annual, Ample, fibrous, pale brown. Stem upright, 
eighteen inches, two feet, or even more, in height, round, 
Imooth, leafy, branched only at top. Leaves fefiile, growing 
clofe together, almoft upright, perfeftly entire. Flowers 
large, growing in a panicle, on round Imooth peduncles ; 
calycine leaflets ovate, keeled, with a membranous edge, 
when magnified appearing to be fringed with hairs; pe¬ 
tals wedge-fliaped, deciduous, Iky-blue, (freaked with 
deeper-coloured lines ; white at the claws, and fomewhat 
gnawed at the tip; filaments dilated at the bafe, and 
flightly united there ; anthers at fird oblong, but finally 
fagittate, incumbent, blue. Germ ovate, Ihining. Styles 
fomewhat club-draped, or thicker towards the top; blue, 
flightly cohering at the bafe. 
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