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-genesia class; and in the natural method ranking under the 49th order, Composita. 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 **LOYD,** 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.

**LHUYD,** Edward, keeper of the museum at Oxford, was a native of South Wales, the son of Charles Lhuyd, Esq., of Llanvorder. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he was created M.A. July 21, 1701. He was bred under Dr Plot, whom he succeeded as keeper of the Ashmolean museum, and had the use of all Vaughan's collection. With incessant labour and great exactness he employed a considerable part of his life in searching into the Welsh antiquities; and perused or collected a great deal of ancient and valuable matter from their MS.; transcribed all the old charters of the monasteries that he could meet with; travelled several times over Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland, Armoric Bretagne, countries inhabited by the same people; compared their antiquities, and made observations on the whole; but died in July 1729, before he had digested them into the form of a discourse, as he intended, on the ancient inhabitants of this island. The untimely death of this excellent antiquary prevented the completing of many admirable designs. For want of proper encouragement, he did very little towards understanding the British bards, having seen but one of those of the sixth century, and not being able to procure access to two of the principal libraries in the country. He communicated many observations to Bishop Gibson, whose edition of the Britannia he revised; and published "Archologia Britannica," giving some account additional to what has been hitherto published of the languages, histories, and customs, of the original inhabitants of Great Britain, from collection and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwall, Bas Bretagne, Ireland, and Scotland, vol. i. Glossography, Oxford, 1707." fol. He left in MS. a Scottish or Irish-English Dictionary, proposed to be published in 1732 by subscription, by Mr David Malcome, a minister of the church of Scotland, with additions; as also the Elements of the said language; with necessary and useful informations for propagating more effectually the English language, and for promoting the knowledge of the ancient Scottish or Irish, and very many branches of useful and curious learning. Lhuyd, at the end of his preface to the Archaeologia, promises an historical dictionary of British persons and places mentioned in ancient records. It seems to have been ready for press, though he could not set the time of publication. His collections for a second volume, which was to give an account of the antiquities, monuments, &c., in the principality of Wales, were numerous and well chosen; but, on account of a quarrel between him and Dr Wynne, then fellow, afterwards principal of the college, and bishop of St Asaph, he refused to buy them, and they were purchased by Sir Thomas Seabright, of Beachwood in Hertfordshire, in whose library the greatest greatest part still remain, but so indigested, and written with so many abbreviations, that nobody can undertake to publish them. They consist of about 40 volumes in folio, 10 in quarto, and above 100 smaller, and all relate to Irish or Welsh antiquities, and chiefly in those languages. Carte made extracts from them about or before 1736; but these were chiefly historical. Sir John Seabright has given Mr Pennant 23 of Lluyd's MSS. Latin and English. Many of his letters to Lister, and other learned contemporaries, were given by Dr Fothergill to the university of Oxford, and are now in the Ashmolean museum. Lluyd undertook more for illustrating this part of the kingdom than any one man besides ever did, or than any one man can be equal to.