a phial coated on the inside and outside with tinfoil, or other proper conducting substance, and furnished with a brass wire and knob, for giving the electrical shock. See ELECTRICITY Index.

**Lucas Van Leyden.** See Lucas.

**LEYSERA,** a genus of plants belonging to the syn-genia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 49th order, Compositae. See BOTANY Index.

**LEYTE,** one of the Philippine islands in the East Indies, situated in E. Long. 118° O. N. Lat. 11° O. Its greatest length is about 40 leagues, and its circumference about 90 or 100. Its soil on the east side is very fruitful; but there are very high mountains which cut it almost through the middle, and occasion so great an alteration in the air, that when it is winter on the north side, it is summer on the southern part of the island. Thus when the inhabitants of one half of the island reap, the others sow; and they have two plentiful harvests in a year, to which the rivers running down from the above-mentioned mountains contribute not a little. The island contains about 9000 inhabitants, who pay tribute to the Spaniards in rice, wax, and quilts.

**LHUYD,** or **LHUID,** Humphrey, a learned antiquarian of the 16th century, born at Denbigh, who applied himself to the study of physic; and living mostly within the walls of Denbigh castle, practised there as a physician; and died in 1570, with the character of a well-bred gentleman. He wrote and translated several pieces relative to history and antiquities; in particular, The history of Cambria, now called Wales, from Caradoc of Llangarvan, &c., but died before it was finished: however, Sir Henry Sidney, lord president of Wales, employed Dr David Powel to finish it, who published it in 1584. A new and improved edition of this work was published in 1774.