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108 LAHR ported partly by the British government, hav- ing several hundred pupils. Lahore has little commercial activity, but has some manufac- tures, chiefly lacquered wares, mirrors, and silks, especially shawls, flowered with gold and silver threads. The surrounding country is Tomb of Kunjeet Singh, Lahore, covered with vast ruins, attesting the magnifi- cence of the ancient city, which was the capi- tal of the Ghuznevide dynasty in the 12th cen- tury, and the favorite residence of the descen- dants of Baber. It is said to have been founded by Lava or Lo, the son of Rama, whose wife Leeta is still worshipped here. Runjeet Singh was invested with the rajahship of Lahore by Zeman Shah in 1799, and after his death the territory was seized by the British (1849) and consolidated with the rest of the Punjaub. LAHR, a town of Germany, in Baden, on the Schutter, 24 m. N. of Freiburg; pop. in 1871, 7,710. It has a gymnasium, a Protestant and a Catholic church, a female high school, an in- dustrial and a commercial school, and manufac- tories of tobacco, leather, vinegar, and snuff- boxes. A branch line connects the town with the Baden railway. Since 1800 the most popu- lar almanac of Germany, Der Lahrer Hinlcende Bote, has been published here; it reached in 1873 a circulation of over 800,000, more than 50,000 being among the Germans of America. LAIBACH. See LAYBACH. LAINEZ. See LAYNEZ. LAING, Alexander Gordon, a British traveller, born in Edinburgh, Dec. 27, 1794, murdered near Timbuctoo, Africa, in September, 1826. He was educated for a schoolmaster, but joined the army, went to the West Indies in 1811, and served there several years in various positions, a part of the time with his uncle, afterward Lieut. Gen. Gordon. In 1820 he went to Sierra Leone, and became aide-de-camp to the gov- ernor, Sir Charles McCarthy. He took an ac- tive part in the efforts made by the English LAING government to stop the slave trade, opened ne- gotiations with the king of the Foolahs at Tim- bo, the capital of Foota Jallon, and contributed much to the knowledge of that country and of the upper course of the Niger. The war with the Ashantees, in which Governor McCarthy lost his life, compelled him to return to Sierra Leone. On returning to England he was made major, and placed at the head of an African exploring expedition. He sailed for Tripoli in 1825, and on July 26, 1826, joined a caravan for Timbuctoo, which he reached on Aug. 18. He left there on Sept. 22 for Sego, where he expected to arrive in 15 days, but was killed on the journey by the Arabs of the country, acting under instruc- tions, it was afterward discovered, of the son of the prime minister of the bashaw of Tripoli. He published an ac- count of his first journey under the title of "Travels through the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima Countries, to the Sources of the Rokelle and Niger, in the year 1822 " (8vo, London, 1825). LAINO, Malcolm, a Scottish historian, born on the island of Mainland, Orkneys, in 1762, died there in November, 1818. He was educated at the university of Edinburgh, studied law, and was called to the bar in 1785 ; but not succeed- ing in his profession, he turned his attention to literature. His first work was a continuation of Dr. Henry's "History of Great Britain," which was followed in 1800 by a " History of Scotland, from the Union of the Crowns to the Union of the Kingdoms." To this were ap- pended two dissertations, historical and criti- cal, one on the Gowry conspiracy, tfie other on the authenticity of Ossian's poems. His argu- ments against the latter brought considerable obloquy upon him at the time, but led to the investigation and report of the Highland socie- ty. To the second edition of his history (1804) he appended an essay " On the Participation of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the Murder of Darn- ley," in which he strongly argued her guilt. In 1807 he was a member of parliament for the Orkneys, but ill health soon compelled him to withdraw to private life. Besides the works already mentioned, he published an edition of the " History and Life of King James VI.," from the original manuscript, which had served as the foundation of the forgeries of Crawfurd in his "Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland."- His brother, SAMUEL LAIXG, is known as the author of books of travel, and of works on so-