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LOBLOT'OW, a town of Poland, in Red Ruflia: thirty, 
-fix miles fouth-eaft of Halicz. 
LOB'MING, a town of the duchy of Stiria: two miles 
■ fouth-eaft of Knitterfeldt. 
LO'BO, a town on the fouth coaft of the ifiand of Lugon. 
.Lat. 13. 4.0. N. Ion. 121. 10. E. 
LO'BO (Jerome), a Jefuit mifiionary, born at Lilbon in 
1593. He entered into the fociety of Jefuits in his fix- 
■ teenth year, and in 1622 went out as one of their miflion- 
■aries to the Eaft Indies. After palling fome time at Goa, 
Jie failed to the coaft of Mozambique, whence he pene¬ 
trated into Abyflinia. He pafled leveral years in that 
•kingdom, where his zeal and refolution brought on him 
-the hatred of the Abyfiinian monks, from whofe machi¬ 
nations he incurred much danger and buffering. On his 
intended return to Portugal, he was fhipwrecked on the 
•coaft of Natal, where the furviving crew fpent feven months 
jn conftrufling two lhallops to bring them away. One of 
thefe foundered at fea; the other, with father Lobo on¬ 
board, got to Angola. Thence he embarked in a veflel 
•for Bralil ; and, after feveral other ad ventures, was landed 
at Cadiz, whence he reached Lilbon. He employed him- 
felf both at Madrid and Rome in promoting the interefts 
of the Ethiopian or Abyfiinian million ; and took a fecond 
voyage to the Indies, where he became reftor of the pro¬ 
fited houfe at Goa. He returned to Lilbon in 1658; and 
was made re <51 or of the college of Coimbra, where he 
"died in 1678, at the age of 84.. Father Lobo wrote in the 
-Portuguefe language an Hiftorical Account of Abyftinia, 
.containing much curious and valuable information : it 
was tranllated into French by the abbe le Grand in 4to. 
11728, with the addition of diflertations, letters, and fome 
inltrudlive memoirs. An abridged veriion of this was the 
•carlielt publication of Dr. Johnlon. 
LO'BO (Francifco Rodrigues), a Portuguefe author of 
fnore reputation than merit, who flourilhed in the early 
part of the ieventeenth century, was born at Leiria, and 
drowned on his way from Santarem to Lilbon, in the Ta¬ 
gus, whole waters he had fo often celebrated, and in whofe 
lands he had exprelfed a wilh in his poems to find a grave. 
His longeft work is a dull paftoral tale, with dull paltoral 
•verles interfperfed, divided into three parts, under the ti¬ 
tles of Primavera, the Spring ; 0 Pajlor Percgrino, the Shep¬ 
herd Stranger ; and 0 Dejenganado, the Undeceived. No¬ 
thing can be more tedious than this ftory ; but it has beau- 
fies^of -ftyle and compofition which a foreigner cannot be 
.expedled to difcover or underftand. He wrote alfo an he¬ 
roic poem upon the exploits of Nuno Alvares Pereira, 
entitled 0 Grande Condejlabre de Portugal-, and, Corte em Ai¬ 
de a, ou Noites de Inverno, the Court in a Village, or Winter 
Evenings; a con verlational work, infinitely fuperior to any 
of his other produftions. His works have lately been re- 
edited at Lilbon, in 5 vols. and include a fingle fonnet fo 
extremely beautiful, that, as it is the only Ipecimen of 
this kind of compofition found in his works, a fufpicion 
arofe as to the probability of its being the production of 
another author; and Fernando Alvares de Oriente was the 
poet who was honoured with the fame of being the com- 
pofer. This fufpicion is now totally vanilhed ; and Lobo 
is allowed the quiet reputation of having produced a fon¬ 
net equal in beauty to the belt in the language. Monthly 
Mag. Nov. 1812. 
LO'BON, a town of Spain, in the province of Eftrama- 
dura : twelve miles weft of Merida. 
LO'BOS, a fmall ifiand in the Atlantic, near the coaft 
of Africa. Lat. 21.20. N. 
LO'BOS, a fmall ifiaud at the mouth of the La Plata 
river: fifteen miles fouth-weft of Cape St. Maria. Lat. 
35 -N. . „ 
LO'BOS, a fmall ifiand in the gulf of Mexico, on the 
..Coaft of Guafteca. Lat. 22. 28. N. 
LO'BOS, illands in the Pacific Ocean, near the coaft of 
'Peru, furrounded with rocks, and fe para ted from the con¬ 
tinent by a chain of rocks, low, and under water. They 
are dillinguiihed by the Spaniards from tlveir fituation. 
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into Lolas de Barlevento and Lobos de Sotovcnto, or the Wind¬ 
ward and Leeward Illands of Lobos; are about twenty- 
one miles from each other, and not far from the coaft of 
Peru, in lat. 6. 25. and 6. 45. S. Thefe alfo are called Sea 
Wolves, or Seals l/lanis. 
LO'BOS, a clufter of fmall illands in the South Pacific 
Ocean, near the coaft of Chili. Lat. 52. 20. S. 
LO'BOS KEY, or Se'al Key, a fmall ifiand among the. 
Bahamas. Lpt. 22. 45. N. Ion. 77. 44. W. 
LO'BRES, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada : feven miles north of Motril. 
LOB'SKOI PALAN'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the 
government of Olonetz, near the lake Sig: fifty-two miles 
weft-north-weft of Povenetz. 
_ LOB'STADT, a town of Saxony, in the circle of Leip¬ 
zig : two miles north-weft of Borna, and ten lbuth-fouth- 
eaft of Leipzig. 
LOB'STER, f. [lobpteji, Sax.] A cruftaceous fifth. 
See Cancer, vol. iii. p. 704.—Thofe that c.:ft their Ihell, 
are the lohjler, the crab, and craw-fifii. Bacon's Natural Hif- 
tory. —It happeneth often that a lobjlcr hath the great claw 
of one fide longer than the other. Brown. 
LOB'VA, a river of Ruftia, which runs into the Lialia, 
in the province of Ekaterinburg, twenty miles ealt of Ver- 
chotura. 
LOB'ULE ,f. A little lobe. 
LO'BURG, a town in the duchy of Magdeburg: 
twenty-two miles eaft of Magdeburg. 
LO'BUS. See Lobe. 
LO'BUS, f. in botany. See Dolichos, Epjdendrum, 
and Guilandina. 
LOCAGNA'NO, a town of the ifiand of Corfica: 
twelve miles north of Baftia. 
LO'CAL, adj. [Fr. from locus, Lat ] Having the pro¬ 
perties of place.—By afeending, after that the^lharpnefis 
of death was overcome, he took the very local polTelfion 
of glory, and that to the ule of all that are his, even as 
liiinfelf before had witnelfed, I go to prepare a place for 
you. Hooker. 
A higher flight the vent’rous goddefs tries. 
Leaving material world, and local Ikies. Prior. 
Relating to place.—Where there is only a local circum- 
ftance of worlhip, the fame thing would be worfiiipped, 
fuppofing that circumftance changed. Stillingjleet. —Being 
in a particular place.—How is the change of being fome- 
times here, fometimes there, made by local motion in va¬ 
cuum, without a change in the body moved? Digby on 
Bodies. 
Dream not of their fight, 
As of a duel, or of the local wounds 
Of head or heel. Milton's Paradife loft. 
In law, fomething fixed to the freehold, or tied to a 
certain place ; thus, real actions are local, fince they muft 
be brought in.the country where they lie; and local cuf- 
toms are thofe peculiar to certain countries and places. 
Local medicines, thofe deltined to ad upon particular 
parts ; as fomentations, epitbems, veficatories, See. 
LOCAL'ITY,_/i Exiftence in place; relation of place, 
or diftance.—That the foul and angels are devoid of quan¬ 
tity and dimenfion, and that they have nothing to do 
with grolfer locality, is generally opinioned. Glanville . 
LO'CALLY, adv. With refpeft to place.—Whether 
things, in their natures fo divers as body and fpirit, 
which almoft in nothing communicate, are not elfentially 
divided, though not locally diftant, I leave to the readers. 
Glanville. 
LOCA'NA, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dora, on the Oreo, in a valley, called the Valley of 
Locana : twenty-one miles fouth of Aofta, and twenty- 
three north-weft of Turin. 
LOCAR'NO, one of the Italian bailiwics, ceded to the 
Swifs cantons by Maximilian Sforza duke of Milan, in 
the year 151a; the length about fifteen miles, and the 
bread tk 
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