See SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
LABRADOR, The Name.
"Labrador—Laboratoris Terra—is so called from the
circumstance that Cortereal in the year 1500 stole thence a
cargo of Indians for slaves."
_F. Parkman,
Pioneers of France in the New World: Champlain,
chapter 1, foot-note._
LABYRINTHS.
MAZES.
"The Labyrinths of the classical age and the quaint devices of
later times, the Mazes, of which they were the prototypes,
present to the archaeologist a subject of investigation which
hitherto has not received that degree of attention of which it
appears so well deserving. … Labyrinths may be divided into
several distinct classes, comprising complicated ranges of
caverns, architectural labyrinths or sepulchral buildings,
tortuous devices indicated by coloured marbles or cut in turf,
and topiary labyrinths or mazes formed by clipped hedges. …
Of the first class we may instance the labyrinth near Nauplia
in Argolis, termed that of the Cyclops, and described by
Strabo; also the celebrated Cretan example, which from the
observations of modern travellers is supposed to have
consisted of a series of caves, resembling in some degree the
catacombs of Rome or Paris. It has been questioned, however,
whether such a labyrinth actually existed. … Of
architectural labyrinths, the most extraordinary specimen was
without doubt that at the southern end of the lake Mœris in
Egypt, and about thirty miles from Arsinoe. Herodotus, who
describes it very distinctly, says that … it consisted of
twelve covered courts, 1,500 subterranean chambers, in which
the bodies of the Egyptian princes and the sacred crocodiles
were interred, and of as many chambers above ground, which
last only he was permitted to enter."
_E. Trollope,
Notices of Ancient and Mediaeval Labyrinths
(Archaeological Journal, volume 15)._
ALSO IN:
_Herodotus,
History,
book 2, chapter 148._
LA CADIE,
ACADIA.
See NOVA SCOTIA.