ENCYCLOPÆDIA METROPOLITANA;

OR,

UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF KNOWLEDGE,

On an Original Plan:

COMPRISING THE TWOFOLD ADVANTAGE OF

A PHILOSOPHICAL AND AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT,

WITH APPROPRIATE ENGRAVINGS.

EDITED BY

THE REV. EDWARD SMEDLEY, M. A.,

LATE FELLOW OF SIDNEY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

THE REV. HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D.,

PRINCIPAL OF KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON;

AND

THE REV. HENRY JOHN ROSE, B.D.,

LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

VOLUME XXI.

[MISCELLANEOUS AND LEXICOGRAPHICAL, VOL. 8.]

LONDON:

R. FELLOWES; F. AND J. RIVINGTON; DUNCAN AND MALCOLM; SUTTABY AND CO.; E. HODGSON; J. DOWDING;
G. LAWFORD; J. M. RICHARDSON; J. BOHN; T. ALLMAN; J. BAIN: S. HODGSON; F. C. WESTLEY; L. A. LEWIS;

T. HODGES; AND H. WASHBOURNE; ALSO J. H. PARKER, AND T. LAYCOCK, OXFORD;
AND J. AND J. J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE. *

1845.

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LONDON:--PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

CONTENTS TO VOL. XXI.

THE LEXICON. Dr. RICHARDSON.

ORIENTAL GEOGRAPHY, MYTHOLOGY, AND STATISTICS. AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY. ANCIENT GEO-
GRAPHY. The Rev. GEORGE CECIL RENOUARD, M.A., F.L.S., late Fellow of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge.
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY.
Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.

BRITISH COUNTIES. WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY,

BOTANY. THOMAS EDWARDS, Esq., F.L.S.

ZOOLOGY. VERTEBRALS. J. F. SOUTH, Esq., F.L.S., Lecturer on Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital.

ZOOLOGY. INVERTEBRALS. J. E. GRAY, Esq., F.L.S.

LAW. HASSARD HUME DODGSON, Esq., M.A., late Student of Christ Church, Oxford.

INTAGLIO.

RICHARD WESTMACOTT, Esq., Jun.

LITURGY. MANUSCRIPT. The Rev. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D., St. John's College, Cambridge.

JUBILEE. The Rev. T. H. HORNE, &c., and the EDITOR.

LIGHTHOUSE. LOG. GEORGE HARVEY, Esq., F.R.S.

LINCOLNSHIRE. LINLITHGOWSHIRE. LISBON. The Right Rev. Bishop RUSSELL

LONDON. The Rev. W. A. EVANSON, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin.

INTERDICT. INTERIM. INTROIT. INVESTITURE. INVISIBILITY. IRON. ISIS. JUDGE. JUNE. JUPITER
AND JUNO. KIRTLE. KRAKEN. LABARUM. LABYRINTH. LACE. LACHRYMATORY. LAMMAS.
LANGRET. LARES. LAUDS. LAUNDRESSES. LAURA. LAUREATE. LEAD. LECTURES. LEEK.
LEGATE. LEGION. LENT. LEONINE VERSES. LETHE. LEVIATHAN. LIBATION. LICTOR. LIMBO.
LITANY. LITHOMANCY. LIVERY. LOTTERY. LULLABY. LUPERCALIA. LUTE. LYCANTHROPY.
LYRE. MACARONICS. MAJESTY. MAMMON. MAN, (ISLE OF.) MANDRAKE. MANES. MANNA.
MARCH. MARCHPANE, MARQUESS. MARS, ETC., and the BRITISH TOPOGRAPHY. THE EDITOR.