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Labyrinths

25; 208; 362; 409; 411; 413; 427; 514; 612; 653;

Lacaille, Monsieur

59;

Lagoo, 2-A

420; French spy from Canada

Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme de (1732-1807)

213; French astronomer; "Lancashire Lalande" 230; [MORE]

Lambton, Lord

17; Lambton Castle, 587; Lambton's Oath ("if God should allow [Lambton] victory over the Worm, he would sacrifice unto Him the first living thing he then happen'd to see"), 591 [Biblical Correspondence]

Lambton, Henry

594; last of the nine generations of Lambtons to die while not in bed, pursuant to the Worm's curse

Lambton Worm

587; a dragon "lacking Wings and a fire-breathing Capacity" that has nine pairs of gill-vents and kills in nines

Lamination

389-90

Lancaster

304; town where the Paxton Boys slaughtered the Indians; 341; [MORE]

Lapis

689; 689

Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de (1749-1827)

10; French mathematician and astronomer. Between 1799 and 1825 his monumental five-volume Mécanique céleste , the greatest work on celestrial mechanics since Newton's Principia, was published.

L'Appeau

377; French: "The Call" - an appeau is a hunter's call, e.g. a duck call which the hunter blows through to simulate the sound of a duck; restaurant in Paris

Lapp-land

546; region of northern Europe above the arctic circle, encompassing far-northern areas of Finland, Norway and Sweden

Larrk of the Sanguine

247

Larry, Mr.

303; "Irish Wig-Maker at Bermondsley"

Lascar

37

Latimers

590; antidraconical [anti-dragon, i.e., anti-Lucifer, or pro-God] family in Durham; Hugh Latimer (148?-1555) was famous as a preacher. He was Bishop of Worcester in the time of King Henry, but resigned in protest against the King's refusal to allow the Protestant reforms that Latimer desired. Latimer's sermons speak little of doctrine; he preferred to urge men to upright living and devoutness in prayer. But when Mary came to the throne, he was arrested, tried for heresy, and burned together with his friend Nicholas Ridley. His last words at the stake are well known: "Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God's grace shall never be put out." And he's still going!

laudanum

267; Random House College Dictionary: "1. a tincture of opium 2. Obs. any preparation in which opium is the chief ingredient. [orig. ML var. of LADANUM; arbitrarily used by Paracelsus to name a remedy based on opium]"

Laws of Springs

697; Hooke's Law of Springs: he amount an ideal spring stretches is proportional to the applied force; [MORE]

Lazarette

39; sick bay on a ship

Leadenhall Street

10; 162; 539

Lead Mines

547; "spherickal caverns"

Learnèd English Dog

18; the Norfolk Terrier (aka L.E.D., Fang) who talks & blinks; 22; 746; 756

Lehigh

306; near where the Indians who were slaughtered "were peacefully settl'd"

LeMaire, Christopher

73; 156; partner of Boscovich, 268; 544; Jesuit, 546

LeMaire, Isaac

157; "of the Dutch LeMaires [...] the East India Company Director and speculator"

LeMaire, Jacob

157; "of the Dutch LeMaires [...] navigator and explorer of the southern seas"

Lemonniere, Pierre Charles (1715-99)

213; French astronomer; made twelve observations of Uranus before it was recognized as a planet.

Lepton, Lady

411; at Hurricanoe, 414; "Chatelaine [wife of a castle-owner] of Lepton Castle" 417; 507;

Lepton, Lord

301; a lepton is a subatomic particle, any of a group consisting of electrons, muons and neutrinos that experience no strong interactions and are less massive than mesons and baryons; Riditto at Castle Lepton, 410; 411; 416

LeSpark, Elizabeth ("Zab")

6; sister of Wicks Cherrycoke and wife of J.W. LeSpark

LeSpark, Ives

9; brother of John Wade and Lomax; 96; 56; 263

LeSpark, John Wade

6; married to Elizabeth ("Zab") Cherrycoke, Wicks' sister; "If there are Account-books in which casualties are the Units of Exchange, then [LeSpark] is deeply in Arrears" [Compare] 31; 410; 422; w/M&D at Lepton Castle, 428; 759

LeSpark, Lomax

47; brother of J. Wade and Ives; 759

Lethe

253; in Greek mythology, Lethe is one of the rivers of Hades from which the dead must drink to forget everything said and done while alive; thus, it has come to represent forgetfulness; in Plato's Tales of Er, 537; 710

Levant Company

251

Lewis

269; selling watches

Ley-builders

681; "put up Cairns"

Ley-borne Life

651; "ley" is arable land used temporarily for hay or gazing

Leyden-Jar

294; According to Webster's, "Etymology: Leiden, Leyden, Netherlands. Date: 1825: an electrical condenser consisting of a glass jar coated inside and outside with metal foil and having the inner coating connected to a conducting rod passed through the insulating stopper"; Danse Macabre, 294; 599; Battery, 600; 764

Leyden Pile

390

Ley-Lines

218; The term "ley lines" was coined by Alfred Watkins when explaining his theory that ancient sites around Britain had actually been constructed or formed giving alignments between and across the inhabited landscape of Britain. The sites mentioned include Stone Circles, Standing Stones, Long Barrows, Cairns, Burial Mounds and Churches; 440; [MORE]

l'Grande

33; the French ship that attacks the Seahorse; 247; 688

Li

627

Lightning

357; 462-63; [Mason's Journal Entry]

Lignum Vitae

764; the wood of any of several tropical American trees with very hard and heavy wood

Linkman

477; one employed to bear a light for a person on the street at night

Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-78)

321; Swedish naturalist & physician, and founder of the modern scientific nomenclature for animals and plants; 360; 431

Litharge

227; lead monoxide

Litteraria Expeditione et Soforthia, De

222

Little Bear

653; Ursa Minoris

Lloyd

617

Locust-Street

266; in Philadelphia

Lomax, Uncle

47; See LeSpark, Lomax

Longitude Act of 1714

141

Longitude Problem

712;

Long Reach

245; "above Gravesend"

Lonsdale, Uncle

236; Name-connected to Lon Chaney, Jr. (1907-73) who starred in The Wolf Man (1941);

López, Don Vicente

338

Lord Bishop's Castle

754; at Bishop Auckland

Lost Tribes of Israel

485; In the Bible, the 12 tribes of Hebrews named for 10 sons of Jacob (Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, and Benjamin) and the two sons of Jacob's son Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh). The 13th tribe, Levi (the third of Jacob's sons), was set apart and had no one portion of its own. After the break in the Hebrew kingdom under Rehoboam, the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and some Levites formed a southern kingdom called Judah; the other 10 tribes formed a northern kingdom called Israel. These 10 were later (721 B.C.) conquered and transported to Assyria. They became known as the 10 lost tribes; numerous conjectures have been advanced as to their fate, and they have been identified with various peoples.

Lot

127

"Love in a Cottage"

441; 1762: Librettist: Isaac Bickerstaffe; Composer: Thomas Augustine Arne; Designated Genre: Pasticcio opera (i.e., an opera with contributions from two or more composers); `and he ain't just humming `Love in a Cottage' brings to mind the expression "and he ain't just whistling Dixie."

"Love Laughs at a Line"

711

Loxley, Benjamin

296; carpenter

Loxodrome

47; aka "rhumb line"; According to Webster's, "a line on the surface of the earth that makes equal oblique angles with all meridians and that is a spiral coiling round the poles but never reaching them."; 473

Loyolan

289; Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) was a Spanish soldier and the founder, in 1534, of the Jesuits (aka the Society of Jesus), a Catholic order emphasizing missionary work.

Lucas the Cook

54; on St. Helena

Luddite

312-13;

Ludgate

10

Lunarians

21; those who subscribed to the practicability of using the positions of the stars along the moon's path to determine longitude; 437; 728

Lunars

201

Lunette

269; as used here, the shape of a crescent moon

Luo-Pan

531; "The Lo-Pan is a disc, six or more inches in diameter, with a magnetic compass about one inch in diameter in the centre. The disc, usually red, is inscribed with sixteen or more concentric circles, subdivided by radial divisions, with appropriate lettering. It synthesises all the Chinese theories as to the cosmic harmony between the energies of nature, time-relations as indicated by the sun and moon, and the directions in space from any point on the earth." (© 1995 Pun Yin Metaphysics LtdConcept & Design by Fortune-it Cookie Entertainment Ltd); While it functions like a western compass, it is used in the practice of Geomancy to measure the flow of Ch'i; 534; 543; 544; 587; 636

Lynn, Nathan

576; friend of Tom Hynes'

Lyra

673; constellation