See Lactuca, Botany Index; and for the cultivation of the different kinds of lettuce, see Gardening Index.

LEVANT; in Geography, signifies any country situated to the east of us, or in the eastern side of any continent or country, or that on which the sun rises.

LEVANT is also a name given to the eastern part of the Mediterranean sea, bounded by Natolia or the Lesser Asia on the north, by Syria and Palestine on the east, by Egypt and Barca on the south, and by the island of Candia and the other part of the Mediterranean on the west.