Lightfoot. was well stocked with books of that kind. He therefore quitted his charge at Stone, and removed with his family to Hornsey, near the city; where he gave the public a notable specimen of his advancement in those studies, by his "Erubbim, or Miscellanies Christian and Judaical," in 1629. He was at this time only 27 years of age; and appears to have been well acquainted with the Latin and the Greek fathers, as well as the ancient heathen writers. These first fruits of his studies were dedicated to Sir Rowland Cotton; who, in 1631, presented him to the rectory of Ashleyn Staffordshire.

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He seemed now to be fixed for life: Accordingly, he built a study in the garden, to be out of the noise of the house; and applied himself with indefatigable diligence in searching the scriptures. Thus employed, the days passed very agreeably; and he continued quiet and unmolested, till the great change which happened in the public affairs brought him into a share of the administration relating to the church; for he was nominated a member of the memorable assembly of divines for settling a new form of ecclesiastical polity. This appointment was purely the effect of his distinguished merit; and he accepted it purely with a view to serve his country, as far as lay in his power. The non-residence which this would necessarily occasion, apparently induced him to resign his rectory: and having obtained the presentation for a younger brother, he set out for London in 1642. He had now satisfied himself in clearing up many of the abstrusest passages in the Bible, and therein had provided the chief materials, as well as formed the plan, of his Harmony;" and an opportunity of inspecting it at the press was, no doubt, an additional motive for his going to the capital where he had not been long before he was chosen minister of St Bartholomew's, behind the Royal Exchange. The assembly of divines meeting in 1643, our author gave his attendance diligently there, and made a distinguished figure in their debates; where he used great freedom, and gave signal proofs of his courage as well as learning, in opposing many of those tenets which the divines were endeavouring to establish. His learning recommended him to the parliament, whose visitors, having ejected Dr William Spurstow from the mastership of Catharine-ball in Cambridge, put Lightfoot in his room, this year 1653; and he was also presented to the living of Much-Munden in Hertfordshire, void by the death of Dr Samuel Ward, Margaret-professor of divinity in that university, before the expiration of this year. Meanwhile he had his turn with other favourites in preaching before the house of commons, most of which sermons were printed; and in them we see him warmly pressing the speedy settlement of the church in the Presbyterian form, which he cordially believed to be according to the pattern in the Mount. He was all the while employed in preparing and publishing the several branches of his Harmony; all which were so many excellent specimens of the usefulness of human learning to true religion and he met with great difficulties and discouragements in that work, chiefly from that antieruditional spirit which prevailed, and even threatened the destruction of the universities. In 1655 he entered upon the office of vice-chancellor of Cambridge, to which he was chosen that year, having taken the de

gree of doctor of divinity in 1652. He performed all Lightfoot, the regular exercises for his degree with great applause, Lighting, and executed the vice-chancellor's office with exemplary diligence and fidelity; and, particularly at the commencement, supplied the place of professor of divinity, then undisposed of, as an act which was kept for a doctor's degree in that profession. At the same time he was engaged with others in perfecting the Polyglott Bible, then in the press. At the Restoration he offered to resign the mastership of Catharine-hall: But, as what he had done had been rather in compliance with the necessity of the times than from any zeal or spirit of opposition to the king and government, a con firmation was granted him from the crown, both of the place and of his living. Soon after this he was appointed one of the assistants at the conference upon the li turgy, which was held in the beginning of 1661, but attended only once or twice; probably disgusted at the heat with which that conference was managed. However, he stuck close to his design of perfecting his Harmony and being of a strong and healthy constitution, which was assisted by an exact temperance, he prosecuted his studies with unabated vigour to the last, and continued to publish, notwithstanding the many difficulties he met with from the expence of it. However, not long before he died, some booksellers got a promise from him to collect and methodise his works, in order to print them; but the execution was prevented by his death, which happened December 6. 1675. The doctor was twice married: his first wife, already mentioned, brought him four sons and two daughters. His second wife was likewise a widow, and relict of Mr Austin Brograve, uncle of Sir Thomas Brograve, Bart. of Hertfordshire, a gentleman well versed in rabbinical learning, and a particular acquaintance of our author. He had no issue by her. She also died before him, and was buried in Munden church; where the doctor was himself likewise interred near both his wives. Dr Lightfoot's works were collected and published first in 1684, in two volumes folio. The second edition was printed at Amsterdam, 1686, in two volumes folio, containing all his Latin writings, with a Latin translation of those which he wrote in English. At the end of both these editions there is a list of such pieces as he left unfinished. It is the chief of these, in Latin, which make up the third volume, added to the former two, in a third edition of his works, by John Leusden, at Utrecht, in 1699, folio. They were communicated by Mr Strype, who, in 1700, published another collection of these papers, under the title of " Some genuine remains of the late pious and learned Dr John Light'foot."

LIGHTING OF STREETS. This invention, which is generally considered as of modern date, contributes greatly to the convenience and safety of the inhabitants of large cities, as well as to the ornament of their streets. It is not probable that the streets of ancient Rome were lighted, since the Romans considered the use of flambeaux and lanterns to be so necessary in returning home from their nocturnal visits. It appears that such as walked the streets without these went home in darkness; and the return of Gito in the night-time, of which Petronius makes mention, clearly proves that the streets of Naples were not lighted. Such as have ascribed a remote antiquity to the lighting of streets,

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Paris was probably the first city in modern times, the streets of which were lighted, about the beginning of the 16th century, as they were very much infested by robbers and incendiaries. This occasioned an edict, issued in 1524, commanding the inhabitants, whose windows fronted the street, to keep lights burning af ter nine o'clock at night. In 1558, these were changed for lanterns, of a similar construction with those used at present. In 1671, the lanterns were ordered to be lighted every year from the 20th October to the end of March the ensuing year. Some time after this a premium was offered for a dissertation on the best means of improving the lighting of the streets, when a journeyman glazier obtained a premium of 200 livres, and Messrs Bailly, le Roy, and Bourgeois de Chateaublanc, 2000 livres. The lamps of Paris amounted to 5772 in the year 1721, and, in 1771, to 6232. The city of Nantz was lighted in 1777, and had no fewer than 500 lamps in the year 1780.

The inhabitants of the city of London were ordered, in 1688, to hang out lanterns duly at the accustomed time, which was renewed in 1690; and in 1716 it was enacted, that all those whose houses fronted any street, lane, or public passage, should hang out one or more lights, which were to burn from 6 o'clock to 11. By another act, the lamps were increased from 1000 to 4769, and afterwards to 5000. But as these were confined to the city and liberties, about one-fifth of the whole of London, the number of lamps could not be less than 15,000. The continuance of their burning was also increased from 750 to 5000 hours. In 1744, another act was obtained to regulate still farther the lighting of the city, and it was placed on the footing on which it stands at present. These are now so numerous, that Oxford street alone is said to contain more lamps than the whole city of Paris. Birmingham was lighted for the first time in 1733, with 700 lamps.

In 1669, Amsterdam was lighted by lanterns; the Hague in 1553 was lighted in a particular manner, but lamps were not fixed up in all the streets till the year 1678. The streets of Copenhagen were lighted in 1681, the plan of which was much improved in 1683. Berlin at present has 2354 lamps, kept lighted from September to May, at the expence of the sovereign. Vienna began to be lighted in 1687, and lamps were introduced in 1704. In 1776 their number amounted to 2000, which was increased to 3000, to be lighted at the annual expence of 30,000 florins. Leipzig was lighted in 1702, Dresden in 1705, Cassel in 1721, and Gottingen in 1735. A practice so beneficial to the safety and convenience of mankind, has been very laudably imitated by almost every city and town in Europe. Beckman. Hist. of Invent.

By far the greatest improvement that has been made in the lighting of cities, is the application of coal gas to this purpose. Gas lights were used so far back as 1792, but they were not employed for lighting streets

LIGHTNING, a bright and vivid flash of fire, suddenly appearing in the atmosphere, and commonly disappearing in an instant, sometimes attended with clouds and thunder, and sometimes not. For an account of the phenomena of lightning, and of the opinions concerning it, see ELECTRICITY Index.

Artificial LIGHTNING. Before the discoveries of Dr Franklin concerning the identity of electricity and lightning, many contrivances were invented in order to represent this terrifying phenomenon in miniature: the coruscations of phosphorus in warm weather, the accension of the vapour of spirit of wine evaporated in a close place, &c. were used in order to support the hypothesis which at that time prevailed; namely, that lightning was formed of some sulphureous, nitrous, or other combustible vapours, floating in long trains in the atmosphere, which by some unaccountable means took fire, and produced all the destructive effects of that phenomenon. These representations, however, are now no more exhibited; and the only true artificial lightning is universally acknowledged to be the discharge of electric matter from bodies in which it is artificially set in motion by machines.

LIGHTNING was looked upon as sacred both by the Greeks and Romans, and was supposed to be sent to execute vengeance on the earth: Hence persons killed with lightning, being thought hateful to the gods, were buried apart by themselves, lest the ashes of other men should receive pollution from them. Some say they were interred upon the very spot where they died; others will have it that they had no interment, but were suffered to rot where they fell, because it was unlawful for any man to approach the place. For this reason the ground was hedged in, lest any person unawares should contract pollution from it. places struck with lightning were carefully avoided and fenced round, out of an opinion that Jupiter had either taken offence at them, and fixed upon them the marks of his displeasure, or that he had, by this means, pitched upon them as sacred to himself. The ground thus fenced about was called by the Romans bidentul. Lightning was much observed in augury, and was a good or bad omen, according to the circumstances attending it.

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LIGNICENCIS TERRA, in the Materia Medica, the name of a fine yellow bole found in many parts of Germany, particularly about Emeric in the circle of Westphalia, and used as an astringent.

LIGNUM VITÆ. See GUAIACUM, BOTANY and MATERIA MEDICA Index.

LIGNUM Aloes. See EXCOECARIA, BOTANY Index. LIGNUM Nephriticum, See GUILANDINA, BOTANY Index.

LIGNUM Rhodium, or Rosewood, in the Materia Medica; a wood, or root, chiefly brought from the Canary islands.

The taste of this wood is lightly bitterish, and somewhat pungent; its smell is very fragrant, resembling that

Lignum

that of roses long kept, it seems to lose its smell; Rhodium but on cutting, or rubbing one piece against the other, 11 it smells as well as at first. Distilled with water, it Lilburne. yields an odoriferous essential oil, in very small quantity. Rhodium is at present in esteem only upon account of its oil, which is employed as a high and agreeable perfume.

· LIGNUM Campechense. See HEMATOXYLUM, BoTANY Index.

LIGNUM Colubrinum. See OPHIORHIZA. LIGULATED, among botanists, an appellation given to such floscules as have a straight end turned downwards, with three indentures, but not separated into segments.

LIGURIA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Italy, bounded on the south by the Mediterranean sea, on the north by the Apennine mountains, on the west by part of Transalpine Gaul, and on the east by Etruria. There is a great disagreement among authors concerning the origin of the Ligurians, though most probably they were descended from the Gauls. Some carry up their origin as far as the fabulous heroes of antiquity; while others trace them from the Ligyes, a people mentioned by Herodotus as attending Xerxes in his expeditions against Greece. These Ligyes are by some ancient geographers placed in Colchis; by others in Albania. According to Diodorus Siculus, the Ligurians led a very wretched life; their country being entirely overgrown with woods, which they were obliged to pull up by the root, in order to cultivate their land, which was also encumbered with great stones, and, being naturally barren, made but very poor returns for all their labour. They were much addicted to hunting; and, by a life of continual exercise and labour, became so strong, that the weakest Ligurian was generally an overmatch for the strongest and most robust among the Gauls. The women are said to have been almost as strong as the men, and to have borne an equal share in all laborious enterprises. With all their bravery, however, they were not able to resist the Roman power; but were subdued by that warlike nation about 211 B. C.

LIGUSTICUM, LOVAGE; a genus of plants be longing to the pentandria class; and in the natural method ranking under the 45th order, Umbellata. See BOTANY Index.

LIGUSTRUM, PRIVET; a genus of plants beJonging to the diandria class; and in the natural method ranking under the 44th order, Sopiaria. See BOTANY Index.

LILBURNE, JOHN, an enthusiastic demagogue, who was tyrannically punished by the star-chamber court, being put in the pillory, whipped, fined, and imprisoned, for importing and publishing seditious pamphlets, which he had got printed in Holland; they chiefly reflected on the church of England and its bishops. He suffered in 1637, and in prison was doubly loaded with irons. In 1641, he was released by the long parliament; and from this time he had the address to make himself formidable to all parties, by his bold, aspiring genius. He signalized himself in the parliament army; and was at one time the -secret friend and confidant of Cromwell, and at another his avowed enemy and accuser; so that, in 1650, Cromwell found it to be his interest to silence him, by

a grant of some forfeited estates. But after this, he Lilburns. grew outrageous against the protector's government; became chief of the levellers; and was twice tried for Lilly. high treason, but acquitted by the juries. The last was for returning from exile (having been banished by the parliament) without a pass. He died in 1657, aged 88.

LILIACEOUS, in Botany, an appellation given to such flowers as resemble those of the lily.

LILIUM, the LILY; a genus of plants belonging to the hexandria class; and in the natural method ranking under the 10th order, Coronaria. See Bo TANY Index.

LILLO, GEORGE, an excellent dramatic writer, was born at London in 1693. He was a jeweller by profession, and followed his business for many years in that neighbourhood with the fairest reputation. He was at the same time strongly attached to the muses, yet seemed to have laid it down as a maxim, that the devotion paid to them ought always to tend to the promotion of virtue, morality, and religion. In pursuance of this aim, Lilly v was happy in the choice of his subjects, and showed great power of affecting the heart, by working up the passions to such a height as to render the distresses of common and domestic life equally interesting to the audiences as that of kings and heroes, and the ruin brought on private families by an indulgence of avarice, lust, &c. as the havock made in states and empires by ambition, cruelty, or tyranny. His "George Barnwell," "Fatal Curiosity," and "Arden of Feversham," are all planned on common and well known stories; yet they have perhaps more frequently drawn tears from an audience than the more pompous tragedies of Alexander the Great, All for Love, &c. In the prologue to “Elmeric," which was not acted till after the author's death, it is said, that when he wrote that play, he was depressed by want," and afflicted by disease; but in the former particular there appears to be evidently a mistake, as he died possessed of an estate of 60l. a-year, besides other effects to a considerable value. His death happened in 1739, in the 47th year of his age. His works have been collected, and published, with an account of his life, in 2 vols 12mo.

LILLY, JOHN, a dramatic poet, was born in the Wealds of Kent, about the year 1553, and educated in Magdalen-college, Oxford, where he took the degree of bachelor of arts in 1573, and that of master in 1575. From Oxford he removed to Cambridge; but how long he continued there is uncertain. On his arrival in London, he became acquainted with some of Queen Elizabeth's courtiers, by whom he was caressed, and admired as a poet and a wit; and her majesty, on particular festivals, honoured his dramatic pieces with her presence. His plays are nine in number. His first publication, however, printed in 1580, was a romance called Euphues, which was universally read and admired. This romance, which Blount, the editor of six of his plays, says introduced a new language, especially among the ladies, is, according to Berkenhout, in fact a most contemptible piece of affectation and nonsense: nevertheless it seems very certain, that it was in high estimation by the women of fashion of those times, who, we are told by Whalley, the editor of Ben Johnson's works, had all the phrases by heart:

Lilly. and those who did not speak Euphuism were as little regarded at court as if they could not speak French. "He was (says Oldys) a man of great reading, good memory, ready faculty of application, and uncommon eloquence; but he ran into a vast excess of allusion." When or where he died is not known. Anthony Wood says he was living in 1597, when his last comedy was published. After attending the court of Queen Elizabeth 13 years, notwithstanding his reputation as an author, he was under the necessity of petitioning the queen for some small stipend to support him in his old age. His two letters or petitions to her majesty on this subject are preserved in manuscript.

LILLY, William, a noted English astrologer, born in Leicestershire in 1602; where his father not being able to give him more learning than common writing and arithmetic, he resolved to seek his fortune in London. He arrived in 1620, and lived four years as a servant to a mantua-maker in the parish of St Clements Danes; but then moved a step higher to the service of Mr Wright, master of the Salters company in the Strand, who not being able to write, Lilly among other offices kept his books. In 1627, when his master died, he paid his addresses to the widow, whom he married with a fortune of 1000l. Being now his own master, he followed the puritanical preachers; and, turning his mind to judicial astrology, became pupil to one Evans, a profligate Welsh parson, in that pretended art. Getting a MS. of the Ars Notitia of Corn. Agrippa, with alterations, he drank in the doctrine of the magic circle, and the invocation of spirits, with great eagerness. He was the author of the Merlinus Anglicus junior; The Supernatural Sight; and the White King's Prophecy. In him we have an instance of the general superstition and ignorance that prevailed in the time of the civil war between Charles I. and his parliament: for the king consulted this astrologer to know in what quarter he should conceal himself, if he could escape from Hampton court; and General Fairfax, on the other side, sent for him to his army, to ask him if he could tell by his art, whether God was with them and their cause? Lilly, who made his fortune by favourable predictions to both parties, assured the general that God would be with him and his army. In 1648, he published his Treatise of the Three Suns seen the preceding winter; and also an astrological judgment upon a conjunction of Saturn and Mars. This year the council of state gave him in money gol. and a pension of 100l. per annum, which he received for two years, and then resigned on some disgust. In June 1660, he was taken into custody by order of the parliament, by whom he was examined concerning the person who cut off the head of King Charles I. The same year he sued out his pardon under the great seal of England. The plague raging in London, he removed with his family to his estate at Hersham; and in October 1666 was examined before a committee of the house of commons concerning the fire of London, which happened in September that vear. After his retirement to Hersham, he applied himself to the study of physic, and, by means of his friend Mr Ashmole, obtained from Archbishop Sheldon a license for the practice of it. A little before his cath he adopted for his son, by the name of Merlin junior, one Henry Coley, a tayfor by trade; and at

the same time gave him the impression of his almanack, after it had been printed for 36 years. He died in 1681 of a dead palsy. Mr Ashmole set a monument over his grave in the church of Walton upon Thames. His "Observations on the Life and Death of Charles, late king of England," if we overlook the astrological nonsense, may be read with as much satisfaction as more celebrated histories; Lilly being not only very well informed, but strictly impartial. This work, with the Lives of Lilly and Ashmole, written by themselves, were published in one vol. 8vo, in 1774, by Mr Burman. LILY. See LILIUM, BOTANY Index. LILY of the Valley. See CONVALLARIA, BOTANY Index.

LILYBÆUM, in Ancient Geography, a city of Sicily, situated on the most westerly promontory of the island of Sicily, and said to have been founded by the Carthaginians on their expulsion from Motya by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse. It is remarkable for three sieges it sustained; one against Dionysius the tyrant, another against Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, and the third against the Romans. The two first failed in their attempts, but the Romans with great difficulty made themselves masters of it. No remains of this once stately city are now to be seen, except some aqueducts and temples; though it was standing in Strabo's time. LILYE, WILLIAM, the grammarian, was born in the year 1466 at Oldham in Hampshire; and in 1486 was admitted a semi-commoner of Magdalen college in Oxford. Having taken the degree of bachelor of arts, he left the university, and travelled to Jerusalem. Returning from thence, he continued five years in the island of Rhodes, where he studied the Greek language, several learned men having retired thither after the taking of Constantinople. From Rhodes he travelled to Rome; where he improved himself in the Greek and Latin languages, under Sulpitius and P. Sabinus. He then returned to London, where for some time he taught a private grammar-school, being the first person who taught Greek in the metropolis. In 1510, when Dr Colet founded St Paul's school, Lilye was appointed the first master; at which time, it seems, he was married and had many children. In this employment he had laboured 12 years, when, being seized by the plague, which then raged in London, he died in February 1523, and was buried in the north yard of St Paul's. He had the character of an excellent grammarian, and a successful teacher of the learned languages. His principal work is Brevissima institutio, seu ratio grammatices cognoscendæ; Lond. 1513. Reprinted times without number, and commonly called Lilye's grammar. The English rudiments were written by Dr Colet, dean of St Paul's; and the preface to the first edition, by Cardinal Wolsey. The English syntax was written by Lilye; also the rules for the genders of nouns, beginning with propria quæ maribus: and those for the preterperfect tenses and supines, beginning with As in presenti. The Latin syntax was chiefly the work of Erasmus. See Ward's preface to his edition of Lilye's grammar, 1732.

LIMA, the metropolis of Peru, contains 209 squares of buildings, which comprise 8222 doors of dwelling houses and shops, and these are branched out into 355 streets. In order to maintain peace and tranquillity

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By this table it appears, that from 1746 to 1755, the population suffered a diminution of 6000, which was owing to an earthquake that happened at the former period;-a calamity with which that city is often visited. Were it not for this circumstance, Lima would be a perfect paradise, as the adjacent country abounds with corn, wine, oil, sugar, fruits, and flax. Such abundance of wealth do the inhabitants enjoy, that when the duke of Palata was sent from Spain as vice roy to Peru, they paved the streets through which he was to pass with ingots of silver. Libertinism and debauchery are the distinguishing characteristics of the people of Lima, for which even the nuns are as notorious as the rest of the females, seldom being free from venereal complaints.

In the month of March 1543, the emperor Charles V. established an audience at Lima, in consequence of which the inhabitants were freed from the painful necessity of seeking a redress of their grievances at so great a distance as Panama. Among the excellent institutions by which the Peruvian capital is distinguished, we may rank the provincial councils, which shew the constant zeal of the sovereigns of Spain for the defence of religion and preservation of discipline. The prelates, by their pastoral vigilance, spare neither pains nor labour to promote their views, to accomplish their sacred and interesting purposes.

By a decree of the Spanish emperor, which reached Lima in 1553, a university was begun in a central spot of the capital, called the university of St Mark, which is now in a most flourishing condition. Don Francisco Toledo assigned 20,312 piastres as a fund for the maintenance of the professors, arising from the tributes paid by the Indians. Two lectures are given daily on grammar, one on the Indian language, three on philosophy, three on theology, three on law, two on canons, and two on medicine. In the year 1790 an amphitheatre was erected for the use of the anatomical students.

The college for female orphans was founded by Mateo Pastor de Valesco, not at the hour of death, which often gives to charitable endowments an air of suspicion, but when he was in the full possession of perfect health. In 1597 a pious philosopher founded a charitable institution for the support of such helpless children as were laid down in the streets by their unfeeling parents. This building was destroyed by the earthquake of 1687, which laid in ruins the greater part of the city. It was afterwards rebuilt, and is at present in a flourishing condition. In 1559 an hospital was erected for the relief of the unfortunate sick, who

might otherwise have perished for want of medical aid, Lima, and obtained the name of the Fellowship of Charity and Limassol. Compassion. A general hospital for the poor was be gun about 1758, but not completed till 1770, which in 1790 afforded a comfortable asylum to 29 poor people. The asylum for penitent females was founded in 1669. It has been said that there is not a city in the world in which so many alms are distributed as in Lima.

In the centre of the great square there is a fountain of bronze, the ornaments of which are conformable to the rules of the Composite order. It has an elevation of 15 yards to the helmet of Fame, from which de ducting 14 yards for the height of that figure, the remainder gives the part to which the water rises in order to diffuse itself. This production of art, combining magnificence in every part of it with fine architectural taste, is surrounded by 24 pieces of artillery, and 16 iron chains, a narrow space being left for access to the inhabitants.

Coffee-houses were not known in Lima till the year 1771, when one was opened in the street of Santo Domingo, and another the year following. A third was established in 1775, a fourth in 1782, and a fifth in 1788, in each of which there is a billiard table for the amusement of the inhabitants. We are sorry to say that the barbarous practice of cock-fighting obtains in Lima, for which purpose a building was erected in the year 1762. The tennis court is open to the public, and affords the spectator an agreeable hour of relaxation from more serious pursuits. Lima is situated in W. Long. 76. 44. S. Lat. 12. 1.

LIMASSOL, or LIMISSO, a town of Cyprus, in the Mariti's south of the island. Of the ancient city nothing but Travels through ruins now remain; though it was a celebrated place, Cyprus. even under the government of the dukes. King Richard, the conqueror of the last of these vassals of the empire, razed it in 1191, and it was never afterwards rebuilt. This city originally was the same as AMATHUS, or Amathonte; so famous, as Pausanias tells us, for its temple erected in honour of Venus and Adonis. Amathus was the residence of the first nine kings of the island; and, amongst others of Onelistus, who was subjected afterwards by the arms of Artabanes, the Persian general. This city, erected into an archbishopric in the time of the Christians, has produced a number of personages celebrated for their knowledge and the sanctity of their lives. In the neighbourhood there are several copper mines, which the Turks have been forced to abandon. The following lines, in the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, prove that they were known in the time of that poet:

Littora, non alto repetit Paphon æquore cinctam, Capta viri forma, non jam Cytherea curat Piscosamque Gnidon, gravidamque Amathunta metallis. The place where the new Limassol now stands, formerly had the name of Nemosia, from the multitude of woods by which it was surrounded. Richard, king of England, having destroyed Amathonte, Guy de Lusignan, in the 12th century, laid the foundation of that new city which the Greeks called Neopoleos. The family of Lusignan, who continued to embellish and fortify it, built there palaces, and Greek and Latin churches; and made it the seat of a bishop.

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the