a great river of Siberia in Asia, which takes its rise in N. Lat. 50° 30', and E. Long. 124° 30' from Ferro. After traversing a large tract of country, 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, a festival kept by the Greeks in honour of Bacchus, at which there was much feasting and Bacchanalian jollity, accompanied with poetical contentions, and the exhibition of tragedies. The poor goat was generally sacrificed on the occasion, and treated with various marks of cruelty and contempt, as being naturally fond of browsing on the vine shoots.