or LAMI, (Bernard), was born at Mons in 1640, and studied there under the fathers of the oratory; with whose way of life he was so pleased, that he went to Paris in 1658, and entered into the institution. He had a great taste for the sciences, and studied them all; he entered into the priesthood in 1667, and taught philosophy at Saumur and Angiers; which latter place he was obliged to quit by an order procured from court for adopting the new philosophy instead of that of Aristotle. In 1676 he went to Grenoble, where cardinal Camus was then bishop; who conceived such an esteem for him, that he retained him near his person, and derived considerable services from him in the government of his diocese. After continuing many years there, he went to reside at Rouen, where he died in 1715. He wrote several scientific works, besides others in divinity.

LANCARIM spring, the name of a medicated water of Glamorganshire. It has its name from a town near which it rises; and has been very long famous in the place for the cure of the king's evil. The body of water is about an ell broad, and runs between two hills covered with wood. About 12 yards from this spring the rill falls from a rock of about eight or nine feet high, with a considerable noise. The spring is very clear, and rises out of a pure white marle. The cures that have been performed there, are proofs of a real power in the water; but there is some question whether the water, or its motion and coldness, does the good; for the people who come for relief always drink of the spring, and bathe the part afterward in the fall below. It is generally supposed that the limestone rocks communicate a virtue to it by which it cures internally; but it has been often found, that the holding a limb disordered with the evil in the strong current of a mill tail has cured it, and there is the Lancashire same advantage in the fall of this water.