a great river of Siberia in Asia, which takes its rise in N. Lat. 52° 30', and E. Long. 124° 30' from Ferro. After traversing a large tract of land, it divides itself into five branches about Lat. 73°. Three of these run westward, and two eastward, by which it discharges itself into the Icy Sea. Its three western mouths lie in 143° E. Long. from Ferro, but the eastern ones extend to 153°. The current is everywhere slow, and its bed entirely free from rocks. The bottom is sandy, and the banks are in some places rocky and mountainous. Sixteen large rivers fall into the Lena during its course to the northern ocean.

LENÆA, in antiquity, a festival of Bacchus, named Lenæa, from a wine press. Besides the usual ceremonies at feasts sacred to this god, it was remarkable...