Lazistan

Lazistan', a coast strip at the south-east corner of the Black Sea, partly Turkish, partly Russian, inhabited by the rough Lazes.

Le

Le, or Leh, the walled capital of Ladakh (q.v.), stands 3 miles from the bank of the Indus, 11,538 feet above the sea. Pop. 4000.

Lea

Lea, a stream of Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Essex, rises near Houghton Regis, and flows 46 miles SE. and S. to the Thames near Black wall.

Leader

Leader, a Berwickshire stream, running 21 miles south-south-eastward to the Tweed at a point 2 miles E. by N. of Melrose.

Leadgate

Leadgate, a mining-town of Durham, 2 1/2 miles ESE. of Shotley Bridge. Pop. 4660.

Leadhills

Leadhills, a village of Lanarkshire, the highest in Scotland (1300 feet), on Glengonner Water, 45 miles SSW. of Edinburgh. Allan Ramsay and Symington were natives. Lead has been mined here for six hundred years, the output ranging between 700 and 1800 tons. Pop. 835.

Leadville

Leadville, a mining-town of Colorado, capital of Lake county, stands in a valley 10,200 feet above the sea, 70 miles (151 by rail) SW. of Denver. Its mines produce gold, silver, and lead. The town, which was incorporated in 1878, contains smelting-furnaces and stamp-mills. Pop. 12,500.

Leam

Leam, a river flowing 25 miles to the Avon, near Warwick.

Leasowes

Leasowes. See Halesowen.

Leatherhead

Leatherhead, a town of Surrey, on the Mole, 4 miles SSW. of Epsom. Pop. 4700.

Leavenworth

Leavenworth, a city of Kansas, the capital of Leavenworth county, on the Missouri River, 25 miles NW. of Kansas City by rail. First settled in 1854, it is now a handsome town, of broad avenues, and contains a Soldiers' Home, the state normal school, and large factories and mills. Eight lines of railway centre here, and the river is crossed by a fine iron bridge. Adjoining the city is Fort Leavenworth (1827), an important depot for troops and supplies, with large barracks, etc. Pop. 21,000.

Lebedin

Lebedin, a town of Russia, 87 miles NW. of Kharkoff. Pop. 14,788.

Lebrija

Lebrija (anc. Nebrissa-Veneria), a town of Spain, 44 miles S. by W. of Seville. Pop. 11,879.

Lecce

Lecce (Let'chay), a cathedral city of Italy, 7 miles from the Adriatic and 24 by rail SSE. of Brindisi. As Lycia (hence Lecce) it was the seat of a Norman countship. Pop. 32,051.

Lech

Lech, a right-hand tributary of the Danube, rises in the Alps in Vorarlberg, flows northward past Augsburg, and after a course of 177 miles joins the Danube a few miles east of Donauworth.

Lechlade

Lechlade (Letch'lade), a Gloucestershire town, on the Thames, 23 miles SW. of Oxford. Pop. 1166.

Ledbury

Ledbury, a pleasant, old-fashioned market-town of Herefordshire, 13 miles ESE. of Hereford. It has an interesting church, Romanesque to Perpendicular in style, St Catharine's Hospital (1232 ; rebuilt 1822), and a clock-tower (1890) to the memory of Mrs Browning, who passed her girlhood here. Pop. 3300.

Lee

Lee, a river flowing 50 miles eastward to Cork harbour.