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thel’s religious ladies is lei's gloomy than that which thole 
under the fame vows lead in other countries. They wear 
clothes of particular colours, according as they belong to 
this or that order. Their drefs gives them a right to fre¬ 
quent the churches at any hours; and the voice of centime, 
which takes particular pleafure in directing her attacks 
againft pious ladies, goes fo far as to afiert, that fame 
young women affume the habit with no other view but 
that they may enjoy greater freedom. The houfes in ge¬ 
neral are indifferent buildings; but three edifices are dif- 
tingdiihable from the reft ; viz. the palace of the bifhop, 
the houfe of the governor, and the cathedral-church. In 
the former are a few capital paintings ; and the latter con¬ 
tains very coftly facred utenfils, a great quantity of plate, 
and a number of fflver images, among which is the ftatue 
of St. Bartholomew, their patron faint. 
The roads which lead from the city to the interior are 
of a very Angular appearance. The whole ifland is no¬ 
thing but an affemblage of mountains, all of them con¬ 
fiding of aflies or lava difcharged from the depths of the 
volcano by which it was at fil'd produced. The particles 
of thefe adies are not very hard ; the aftion of the rain¬ 
water has accordingly cut out trenches among the moun¬ 
tains ; and thefe trenches, being perhaps lefs uneven than 
the red of the furface, have of confequence been ufed as 
roads by the inhabitants, and have been rendered much 
deeper by being worn for fo many ages by the feet of men 
and other animals. Thefe roads are more than five or 
fix fathoms deep, and not above feven or eight feet wide. 
They are very crooked, and have echoes in leveral places. 
You would think that you were walking through narrow 
ftreets without doors or windows. Their depth and wind¬ 
ings (helter the traveller from the fun while he is palling 
through them 5 and he finds them delicioufiy cool. The 
city of Lapari lies in lat. 33. 35. N. Ion. 15. 12. W. 
LIPA'RIA, /. [fo named by Linnteus, in allufion ei¬ 
ther to the fmootli or fleek habit of L. fphserica, from 
which his idea and charafter of the genus was taken, or 
to its rich and fplendid appearance; for the Greek word 
will judify either explanation.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs diadelphia, order decandria, natural 
order of papilionacece, or leguminoffe. The generic cha¬ 
racters are—Calyx: perianthium one-leafed, very obtufe 
at the bafe, half-five-cleft, acute ; the lowed divifion very 
long, elliptic,-petal-like. Corolla: papilionaceous, with¬ 
out proceffes of the keel or wing ; dandard oblong, con- 
dupiicated, draight; the fides reflex; wings oblong, 
ffraight, narrower at the bafe, two-lobed at the lower 
margin. Keel lanceolate, fubafcending, two-parted at 
the bafe. Stamina : filaments diadelphous; fimple and 
nine-parted; filiform ; three Shorter than the red ; an- 
theras ovate. Pidillum : germ feffde, very fliort ; dyle 
filiform, middling ; ftigma fimple. Pericarpium : legume 
ovate. Seeds : few.— EJfential Character. Calyx five-cleft, 
with the lowed fegment elongated ; corolla, wings two- 
lobed below ; damina, the larger with three fliorter teeth ; 
legume ovate. 
Linnaeus feparates this genus from Borbonia, becaufe 
the tenth damen is not deficient in this, as it is in Bor¬ 
bonia. Lamarck unites them. The character of the 
genus is taken from the fird fpecies. It is compofed of 
Shrubs, that have the habit of Borbonia, fmootli or villofe. 
Leaves fimple, feffde, fmooth or villofe; dipules fcarcely 
any ; flowers axillary or terminating. They are natives 
of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Species. 1. Liparia fphterica, or globe-flowered liparia : 
flowers in heads; leaves lanceolate, nerved, fmooth. This is 
a flirub, with very nandfome flowers. Stem four feet high, 
flout, fmooth, and even. Leaves alternate, remote, broad- 
lanceolate, quite entire, acute, rigid, dagger-pointed, pun¬ 
gent. Head terminating, feffde, fmooth, the fize of an 
artichoke, furrounded by the leaves like a calyx, of the 
fame length with the corollets. The lowed fegment of 
the calyx the length of the whole corolla, and of the fame 
breadth alfo, coloured or petaloid, emarginate-trifid at the 
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top. Corolla tawny. The manner in which the wings 
wrap round each other, before the flower opens, is very 
Angular. 
2. Liparia graminifolia, or grafs-leaved liparia : flowers 
in heads; leaves linear, alternate, acute, feffde, calyxes 
villofe. Grows in a fan.dy foil at the Cape. The very 
narrow leaves, an inch or inch and a half long, and about 
a iine wide, are peculiar, as well as the hairy heads of 
flowers, much fmnller than thofe of the foregoing. 
3. Liparia umbellata, or umbeiled liparia: flowers 
umbelled ; leaves lanceolate, fmooth and even ; corollas 
fmooth ; calyxes and braCfes hairy. The fame with Bor¬ 
bonia laevigata. 
4. Liparia villofa, or woolly liparia: flowers in heads; 
leaves ovate, acute, villofe. This refeinbles Indigofera 
fericea. The flowers are in bundles; the corollas fmooth 
and even ; the fiamens truly diadelphous. Introduced 
from the Cape in 1774, by Mr. Francis Maffon. 
5. Liparia fericea, or filky liparia: flowers fubfpiked, 
axillary; leaves oblong-ovate, acute, villofe. This is al¬ 
lied to the preceding. 
6 . Liparia oppolita. See Crotalaria. 
Propagation and Culture. See Borbonia, vol. iii. p. 211. 
LIP'ARIS, a river of Cilicia, whofe waters were like oil. 
LIPAROCE'LE,y. [from the Gr. Aiwoc, fat, and 
a tumour.] In furgery, any kind of tumour compofed of 
fat. 
LIPAVI'NA, a town of Croatia: twelve miles eaft- 
north-ead of Creittz. 
LIPCZA'NI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : fixty miles wed-fouth-wefl of Braclaw. 
LIPCZA'NI, a town of Moravia, on the Pruth : twenty- 
four miles fouth-fouth-ead of Choczim. 
LIPE'NIUS (Martin), a German Lutheran divine, of 
whofe perfonal hiftory we have feen no other notice, than 
that he died in 1692, at the age of fixty-two. He was 
the author of a work On the Navigation of Solomon’s 
Ships to Ophir, 4to. 1661 ; a curious treatife On Chrifl- 
mas Boxes, or New-year’s Gifts, 4to. 1670 ; and he pub- 
1 idled an immenfe compilation, entitled Bibliotheca Reality 
in 6 vols. folio, 1675-1685 ; confiding of a view, but very 
incorrect, of all the fubjects into which the different fci- 
ences are branched, with a catalogue of the names and 
works of the various authors who have treated concern¬ 
ing them. Two of thefe volumes are occupied by di¬ 
vines ; two by philofophers; one by jurifls ; and one by 
phyficians. 
LI'PERSHAUSEN, a town of the duchy of Wurz¬ 
burg: three miles north-ead of Aub. 
LI'PES, a town of Peru, and capital of a jurifdiction, 
under the viceroy of Buenos Ayres: 150 miles fouth- 
fouth-vved of Potofi. Lat. 21. 40. S. ion. 68. 16. W. 
LI'PETZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingratz : nine miles fouth of Neu Biezow. 
LIPET'SK, a town of Ruflia, in the government o£. 
Tambov, on the Voronez : forty miles weit-north-wed of 
Tambov. Lat. 53. N. Ion. 40. 24. E. 
LIP'HOOK, a village in Hampshire, fix miles from Pe- 
tersfield, on the London road. It has a good inn, which 
is the pod-office ; and near it fome neat gentlemen’s feats. 
Here are two fairs; the fird Wednefday in March, and 
the nth of June. 
Near Liphook is Selborn, where a monadery was 
founded in the reign of Henry III. and here are three 
charity-fchools, which were erected in the year 1705, for 
the poor children of this and three neighbouring parishes. 
Briti/h Directory, vol. v. App. 
LIPIN'SKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Novgorod : fixteen miles fouth-ead of Novgorod. 
LlP'MAN, a German rabbi in the fourteenth century, 
who published a treatife in Hebrew againd the Chridiar. 
religion, and the Sadducees, entitled Nizachon, or Vic¬ 
tory, 1399; in which the author’s efforts very feebly cor- 
refponded with his vaunting title. Theodore Haekfpan, 
profeifor of the oriental languages at Aitdorf, published 
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