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LOPHIODON LORD'S DAY 635 but resigned his offices after the refusal of the cortes to admit the representatives of Cuba. Valdes became governor general of that isl- and, and Lopez on returning thither was em- ployed by him in various capacities, and also turned his attention to the exploration of cop- per mines. He was soon attracted by the pro- ject of throwing off the yoke of Spain, and Eroceeded in 1849 to the United States, where e sunk almost his whole fortune in the organ- ization of three successive expeditions to Cuba : the so-called Bound island expedition in 1849, the invasion of Cardenas in May, 1850, both of which failed, and lastly' the Bahia Honda expedition, which set out in August, 1851, and which ended fatally. Lopez, with several hun- dred persons of different nationalities whom he had enlisted in various parts of the United States, landed at Morillo, near Havana, where he left 200 of his men under the command of Col. Crittenden, who were soon taken by the Spaniards and shot. Lopez himself went to Las Pozas, where he succeeded in repelling an attack of the Spanish soldiers; but, isolated from his friends, he sought refuge in the moun- tains, where he was captured and taken to Havana. He was sentenced to death, which he met with great firmness. LOPHIODOiY (Cuv.), an extinct tapir-like un- gulated mammal, called tapirotherium by De Blainville, found in the eocene tertiary deposits of central Europe. The dental formula, ac- cording to Pictet, is : incisors f if, canines -]pf , and molars -fr-f . The dentition resembles that of the tapirs, and the generic name indicates the transverse ridges of the molars ; but these are more oblique than in the tapirs, single in the anterior teeth, and triple in the posterior. Their remains are not found in the diluvium, pliocene, or miocene, but in the eocene fresh- water strata. Of the eight species mentioned by Pictet, the largest is the L. Isselense (Cuv.), one third larger than the Indian tapir, and of the size of a small rhinoceros. LOPHOBRANCHS, an order of bony fishes, whose gills, instead of hanging in regular fringes, are disposed in tufts arranged in pairs along the branchial arches. The external skel- eton resembles the armor of the ganoids, and they are placed by some as an order of this class ; the body is almost fleshless, and the form is generally stiff and angular; the snout is elongated and tubular, the gill opening very small, and the air bladder without a duct. This order includes, among others, the genera hip- pocampus (Cuv.), pegasus (Linn.), and syngna- thus (Linn.). Among the strange and beauti- ful forms in this order may be mentioned the pJiyllopteryx of the Australian seas, having the most exquisite red and purple tints, and adorned with numerous leaf-like appendages. In the mailed pegasus, with its spiny rings, the mouth opens at the base of the prolonged snout, as in the sturgeons. Syngnathus is no- ticed under PIPE FISH. One of the most curi- ous peculiarities in this order is that the males carry the eggs in ventral or caudal pouches until they are hatched. (See SEA HOESE.) LORAIN, a N. county of Ohio, bordering on Lake Erie, drained by Black river and Beaver creek; area, 550 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 30,308. The surface is level and the soil fertile. It is intersected by the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- cinnati, and Indianapolis, and the Lake Shore railroads. The chief productions in 1870 were 207,518 bushels of wheat, 563,083 of Indian corn, 412,949 of oats, 25,062 of barley, 267,- 928 of potatoes, 405,478 Ibs. of wool, 1,148,- 946 of butter, 864,172 of cheese, and 59,936 tons of hay. There were 8,811 horses, 21,444 milch cows, 10,463 other cattle, 73,146 sheep, and 11,949 swine; 4 manufactories of agri- cultural implements, 15 of carriages, 1 of iron castings, 1 of machinery, 8 of saddlery and harness, 4 tanning and currying establishments, 3 flour mills, and 15 saw mills. Capital, Elyria. LORCA (anc. Eliocroca), a town of Spain, in the province and 30 m. S. W. of the city of Murcia, on both sides of the Sangonera or Guadalentin; pop. about 48,000. It has an ancient Moorish castle, which once caused it to be considered the key of Murcia. Among the eight parish churches the Gothic one of Santa Maria is the most remarkable. There are manufactories of powder, saltpetre, silk, coarse woollens, linen, leather, hard soap, and earthenware. LORD, Nathan, an American clergyman, born at Berwick, Me., Nov. 28, 1793, died at Han- over, N. H., Sept. 9, 1870. He graduated at Bowdoin college in 1809, and at Andover theo- logical seminary in 1815. In May, 1816, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Amherst, N. H., where he remained 1.2 years. From 1828 to 1863 he was president of Dartmouth college, and during that time 1,824 students graduated. He was an occa- sional contributor to theological reviews, and published numerous sermons as well as essays and letters on topics in theology and ethics. Among the latter are a " Letter to the Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., on Prof. Park's Theology of New England " (1852) ; an essay on the millennium, read to the general convention of New Hampshire (1854); and two "Letters to Ministers of the Gospel of all Denominations on Slavery" (1854'5), in which he endeavors by Biblical and religious arguments to prove the lawfulness of slavery. He also edited with an introductory notice a selection from the sermons of his son, the Rev. John K. Lord, a Congregational clergyman, who died in Cin- cinnati in June, 1849 (Boston, 1850). LORDS, House of. See PAELIAMENT. LORD'S DAY, the legal name of Sunday. In the early ages of Christianity it does not seem to have been supposed that Sunday had taken the place of the Jewish sabbath; but from the days of the apostles it was regarded with veneration, as the dies dominica, or the Lord's day. In Great Britain and the United States there is however a different feeling toward