Lagos
a seaport coast of Portugal, 30 miles E. N. E. from on the S. the extremity HD N. Z from of Cape St. Vincent; pop. about 8,000; Vincent; pep. principal industry tunny and sardine fisheries. In the bay of Lagos the bay of Admiral Boscawen defeated the French Toulon fleet , Aug. 18, 1759. 18, 1759. LAGOS (lā'gos) a town on the W. of on the W. coast Africa, since 1914 the temporary capital of Nigeria. Pop. about the tem- 60,000.
a region in der the protection of Great Britain, and West Africa unsince 1914 a Nigeria; area, over 29,000 square miles; province of southern pop. about 2,250,000. ger other, at the e of arded mg. or
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Lagostomus
(-gos'-), a genus of rodent mammalia, in which the forefeet are furnished with four toes, the hinder with three only, as in the cavies, all of them armed with stout claws adapted for digging. The ears are of moderate size, and the tail comparatively short. Their three anterior molars of the upper jaw consist each of two double layers, and the last of three. The only known species , L. trichodactylus, is about the size of a hare, and inhabits Chile and Brazil ; its general color is grayish; the fur of two sorts, one entirely white, and the other, which is coarser , black, except at the base; the under parts white. Its motions are quick and resemble those of a rabbit; and it seeks its food by night, subsisting wholly on vegetables; it inhabits the level country , and is not esteemed as food. It has very generally obtained the name of viscacha. genus of
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Lagothrix
a South American monkeys, characterized by their round head, a thumb on the anterior hand, and the tail partly naked . The Grison, or silver-haired monkey is a species of this genus.
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Lagrange
JOSEPH LOUIS (lägrongzh'), French mathematician; born in Turin, Jan. 25, 1736. While still a youth he solved for Euler the "isoperimetrical problem "; when Euler died, he succeeded him as director of the Berlin Academy (1766), and held that office till 1787. After the death of Frederick the Great he removed to Paris; there he was lodged in the Louvre , and a pension was settled on him equal to that granted by Frederick. He remained in France during the Revolution, safeguarded by the respect felt for his learning. His greatest work is "Analytical Mechanics." He died in Paris, April 10, 1813.
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Laguna
a tribe of North American Indians numbering about a thousand, and living in a collection of small pueblos, or villages, in New Mexico on the Rio San José.
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Lagurus
hare's-tail grass, a genus of Graminaceæ , tribe Avenex. L. ovatus is a soft, hairy, annual, tufted Found in Guerngrass, with short , flat leaves, a short ligule and long awns. sey and naturalized near Saffron Walden. It is more common in southern Europe and in parts of Asia.
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Lagus
A Macedonian of mean extraction, who married Arsinoe, daughter of Meleager . On the birth of a child it was exposed in the woods by Lagus, but an eagle preserved its life by feeding and sheltering it with her wings. The infant was afterward known as King Ptolemy the First, of Egypt.
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Lahn
a river of central Germany which, after a W. course of 100 miles . empties into the Rhine near Lower Lahnstein.
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Lahore
a city of Hindu- , India; capital city of H stan of the Punjab, and administrative headquarters he Funjab, of Lahore division and district, on the left bank of the Ravi, 265 miles N. W. of Delhi; it is surrounded W. of Delh by a brick wall 16 feet high, flanked by bastions; area, 640 The most remarkable buildings acres. table buil are the mosques of Aurengzebe, of Vizier Khan, and greba of V of Sonara; the mausoleum of Runjeet Singh , etc. In 1524 Lahore became the seat of the Mogul empire, under which it reached its greatest splendor. Before passing into the hands of th. British it was the capital of the Sikhs . Pop. about 230,000. Also Lahore division; area, 8,987 square miles; pop. 2,250,000. Also Lahore district, the central district of Lahore division; area, 3,648 square miles; pop. 1,250,000.
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Laibach
a city of Jugo-Slavia, about 45 located miles from Trieste. Among its most notable monuments is one to Marshal Radetsky, and the Cathedral of St. Nicholas. Laibach is an important historical city because of the meeting of the sovereigns of Europe there in 1821 and their decision to repress rebellion in Italy. Pop. about 50,000.
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Laidlaw
WILLIAM, the friend and amanuensis of Sir Walter Scott; born in Blackhouse, Selkirkshire, Scotland, in November, 1780. After farming with but little success at Traquair and Libberton, he Traquair settled in 1817 as a kind of factor and manager on the estate of the estate Abbotsford. His acquaintance with Scott began in the autumn of 1802, and he supplied of 1902, some of the materials for the third volume of the "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Minstrelsy Border." His own ballad, "Lucy's Flittin ," would alone have kept the name of "Willie" own ba Laidlaw from being forgotten we have ke w from beid . He died May 18, 1845. 3, 1845.
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Lake Agassiz
a glacial lake once occupying the drainage basin of the Red River of the North . It was caused by a glacier from the north that dammed back the waters of the valley and prevented their flowing into Hudson Bay . The lake discharged its waters southward through the valley of the Minnesota into the Mississippi. At the period of its greatest size it occupied an area in Manitoba, North Dakota , and Minnesota almost equal to the drainage basin of the St. Lawrence. Its ancient bed is now one of the great wheat-producing plains of the world. A typical cross-section of the Dakota-Minnesota basin of Lake Agassiz may be described as a plain forty miles wide sloping to the center at the rate of six feet to the mile. The center line is occupied by a "ditch" from twenty to thirty feet deep which serves as the channel of the Red River .
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