Lampblack
the soot or amorphous carbon obtained by burning bodies rich in that element, such as resin, petroleum, and tar, or some of the cheap oily prodprod. S., ucts obtained from it. The supply of y of gra pro- East air is limited or controlled so as to promoke duce a smoky flame, and the smoke passes into a chamber with some ararrangement for receiving the abundant dant deposit of soot. A larg quantity of y of large q an lamp-black has been made in the United nited n of calle States by the imperfect combustion of lana natural gas. Lampblack is a useful pigpig- thel ment for artists both in oil and water water color, a coarser kind being employed by ed by house-painters. It is the chief ingredient dient shir in Indian ink, and along with boiled lin- 1 lin- Clyd seed oil, forms printing ink. Of it is it is has formed the pigment for the carbon paper paper pop used in autotypography. Lampblack is ck in m some vil also employed in the preparation of some kinds of leather, and for various other other and purposes.
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Lampman
ARCHIBALD, a Cana- Canadian poet; born in Morpeth, County bunty Kent, Ontario, Nov. 17, 1861. He was was cour a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto ronto by (1882), and after 1883 held an appoint- Doint lin ment in the Postoffice Department at Ott Ot tawa. He published two collections of as of S. poems, "Among the Millet" (1888), and and bra "Lyrics of Earth" (1895). He died in Ottawa, Feb. 10, 1899.
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Lamps, Magic
There dwelt at Paris in the time of St. Louis, a famous Jewish Rabbi called Jachiel, a great manufacturer of prodigies, who was regarded by the Jews as one of their saints, and by the Parisians as a sorcerer. During the night when everyone was asleep, he was wont to work by the light of a magic lamp which cast through his chamber a glow like that of day itself. He never replenished this lamp with oil, nor otherwise attended to it, and folks began to hint that he had acquired it through diabolic agencies. If anyone chanced to knock at his door during the night they noticed that the lamp threw out sparks of light of various colours, but if they continued to rap the lamp failed and the Rabbi turning from his work touched a large nail in the middle of his table which connected magically with the knocker on the street-door, giving to the person who rapped upon it something of the nature of an electric shock. (See France .) Lamps of this description were supposed to be known to the Rosicrucians , and it is said that in opening the tomb of a daughter of Cicero several lamps were found burning upon it. It is of course possible that the light from these was luminous or phosphorescent and not living flame. The magic lamp of Aladdin will occur to everyone in this connection; and romance abounds in such vehicles of light.
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Lampshells
the familiar designa- Eusks, ucts tion of certain brachiopodous mollusks, especially those of the genus Terebratula, atula, It is which when closed bear a close resemesem- and blance to the shape of the old Roman oman exte lamp. ter, AM- duc
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Lamsacus
or LAMmac SAKI (läm´sä-kē) (ancient Lampsacus), cus), imp a maritime village of Asia Minor, on the en the ton Hellespont, nearly opposite Gallipoli. It 1.It citie was in ancient times given by Xerxes to zes to twe Themistocles.
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Lamu
an island and town town on the coast of East Africa; lat. 2° 20′ ation of which was S., the administration of which was granted in 1889 to the Imperial British the imperial British East Africa Company. any.
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Lana
a kind of close-grained, tough f close-grained, tough wood, obtained from the Genipa ameriom the Genipa americana, a tree of the Cinchona family, and te Cinchona family, and a native of. British Guiana. fruit, ish Guiana. The fruit, called genipap, yields a pigment called rields a pigment called lana dye, used by the natives to stain by the natives to stain their skins.
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Lanark
the county town of Lanarkcounty town of Lanarkon a slope near the shire, Scotland; on a slope near the W. of Edinburgh. It Clyde; 33 miles S. W. of Edinburgh. It has some weaving and other industries; and other industries; pop. about 5,900. NEW LANARK, 1½ NEW LANARK, 1½ a small manufacturing miles S. by W., is a small manufacturing village founded in 1783 by David Dale, 1788 by David Dale, and for 28 years the scene of the social the scene of the social experiments of his son-in-law, Robert his son-in-law, Robert Owen. south-western south-western RE
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Lanarkshire
a a county of Scotland, bounded on the N. and, bounded on the N. by the counties of Dumbarton and Stirof Dumbarton and Stirling, on the E. by Prebleshire, Midby Prebleshire, Midlothian and Linlithgowshire, and on the ithgowshire, and on the S. by Dumfriesshire. The county emhire. The county emof the Clyde, and the braces the valley of the Clyde, and the surface is diversified, being level in the led, being level in the N. W. and hilly towards the S. The towards the S. The loftiest height is Colter Fell. There are Colter Fell. There are important mines in the N., the chief minthe N., the chief minerals being coal, lead and iron. In these ead and iron. In these mines are found the iron ore used in the he iron ore used in the iron-works of Glasgow, and the shipasgow, and the shipbuilding at Govan and Partick. Much and Partick. Much of the soil is marsh, but there is considsh, but there is considerable agriculture, as well as stock raisas well as stock raising. The capital is Lanark. Area, 897 is Lanark. Area, 897 op. about 1,500,000. square miles. Pop. about 1,500,000. HIRE, a northwestern
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Lancashire
a northwestern end, bounded on the N. county of England, bounded on the N. and Westmoreland, E. by Cumberland and Westmoreland, E. hire and Cheshire; and and S. by Yorkshire and Cheshire; and W. by the Irish Sea. The surface near The surface near it gradually rises the sea is level, but it gradually rises and Yorkshire. towards Cumberland and Yorkshire. Mersey, Rib- The principal rivers are the Mersey, Ribwealth of ble and Wyre. Though the wealth of the county is largely industrial, there is dal, there is considerable agriculture, the chief prodchief products being wheat, oats and potatoes. and potatoes. It is rich in minerals, particularly in iron arly in iron and coal. The cotton manufactures are Enctures are Manchesextensive, particularly round Manchester, and other industries include the pro clude the pro duction of soaps, glass, silk, woolens and woolens and glass, si machinery. The shipbuilding yards are shipbuilding yards are important. Liverpool, Manchester, Presrpool, Manchester, Preston and Lancaster are the principal caster are the principal cities, and the valley of the Mersey be-valley of the Mersey between Liverpool and Manchester is the ol and Manchester is the most thickly populated region in Eng-populated region in England, outside of London. Area, 1,86901 London. Area, 1,869 p. about 5,000,000. square miles. Pop. about 5,000,000.
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