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 210 Lobba^ Loaber, Lubba. An awkward fellow, a lubber. U.J.T. Locking bone. The hip joint. See Pin and Whirlbone. Locus. Sweet stuff, sugar stick. See Clidgy. Lodden or Plodden. A pool. m,a.c. Lodes. Mineral veins. Most lodes, says Pryce, (Min- eralogia CornuUensis) are named from the minerals contained in them. He divides lodes into twelve different kinds as under. 1. — Gossan lode. 7. — Crystal lode. 2.— Peach lode. 8.— Killas lode. 3. — Scovan lode. 9. — -Mundick lode. 4. — Caple lode. 10. — Black-jack lode. 5. — Pryan lode. 11. — Flookan lode. 6. — Quartz lode. 12. — Grouan lode. To notice each separately would exceed the limits of this book. The following is characteristic. " What's a caunter lode. Uncle Henney ? " " Why thee'rt old enuff and ugly enuff, Old Tom, to knaw what a caunter lode *es as well as I do." "Well, so I thoft I ded too/' says Old Tom, "till I heer'd our boy Jacky readin in the Mining Journal that a caunter lode ded run north and south.'' "Then a couldn't be a caunter," says Uncle Henney, "but a cross-coose running right athurt, for a caunter is slanting, or caunting a east and west lode, and that is the meaning of a caunter lode, for suppose there is a east and west lode, and another lode running