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pad, on a rivei" of the fame name. N. lat. 62* ^4'. E. long. 

 16° iV- 



INDEA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Ycmina, 

 en a river of the fame name. 



INDEBITATUS Assumpsit, in La'j.: See As- 

 sumpsit. 



INDECIMABI-E, Inde«mabilis, is applied to things 

 not tithablo, or which by law ought not to pav tvthe. 



INDEFEASIBLE, or Indefeazable, (ignifies what 

 cannot be defeated, or made void. As, a good and i'.idefea- 

 fible eftate. No one, who confiders our laws, conftitution, 

 and hiliory, witliout prejudice, and with any degree of at- 

 tention, will affcrt, that the doftrine of hereditary right 

 implies an indefeafiblc right to the Englirti throne. See 

 Ri^k of Crown. 



INDEFINITE, Indeterminate, that which has no 

 certain bounds, or to which the human mind cannot affix any. 

 Des Cartes ufes the word, in his philofophy, inftcad of in- 

 finite, both in numbers and quantities, to fignify an incon- 

 ceivable number, or number fo great, that an unit cannot be 

 added to it ; and a quantity fo great, as not to be capable 

 of any addition. 



Thus, he fays, the ftars, vifible and invifible, are in num- 

 ber indefinite ; and not, as the ancients held, infinite ; and 

 that quantity may be divided into an indefinite number of 

 parts, not an infinite number. 



Indefinite is alfo ufed, in the Schools, to fignify a thing 

 that has but one extreme : for inftance, a line drawn from 

 any point, and extended infinitely. 



Thus, w hat thjy call ett-rnity a parte ante, or eternity a parte 

 poj}, are indefinite durations. 



iNDEflKlTE, in Grammar, is underflood of nouns, pro- 

 nouns, verbs, participles, articles, &c. which are left in an 

 uncertain indeterminate fenfe, and not fixed to any particular 

 time, thing, or other circumftance. 



Indefinite Propofttlon, in Logic. See Proposition. 



INDELAVOY,'Endelavoy, or Imlehai, in Geogra- 

 phy, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda, lying in the route 

 between the Godavery and Hvdrabad ; 75 miles N. of Hydra- 

 bad. N. lat. 18- 26'. E. long. 78-= 40'. 



INDELIBLE, formed from e/flere, to blot, with the pre- 

 pofition in, taken negatively, that vyliich cannot be blotted 

 out, or effaced. 



Thus baptifm, and the order of the priefthood, are faid to 

 convey indelible charafters. 



INDEMNITY, formed from the negative in, and dam- 

 tium, lo/s, in La^w, an ad by which one promifes to guarantee, 

 or fave harmlefs fome other perfon from any lofs or da- 

 mage that might accrue to him on any particular ac- 

 count. 



When a church is appropriated to an abbey, or college, 

 the archdeacon lofeth his induction money for ever ; in re- 

 compence whereof lie fliall have yearly, out of the church fo 

 appropriate, one or two (hillings, more or lefs, for a penfion, 

 as was agreed at the time of the impropriation ; and this 

 penfion is called an indemnity. 



Indemnity, with regard to eftates. See Warranty. 



Indemnity. See j4a of Grace. 

 • INDEN, in Geography, a town of Switzerland, in the 

 Valais ; 18 miles E. of Sion. 



■ INDEN-HOTUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary, the ca- 

 pital of the Mantchew Tartars, where they began to eila- 

 blifli their empire over China. N. lat, 41" 46'. E. long. 

 124-' 36'. 



INDENTATIONS of the Coajlof the Ocean,\n Geology, 

 «r the peninfulas, headlands, points, bays, gulfs, elluaneSj 



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S;c. which occur on the fliores of moft iflands and conti- 

 nents, are phenomena worthy the attentive confideration of 

 geological obfervers. M. de Lue.in his Geological Travels, 

 vol. i. p. 33J and 356, has confidered many of the circum- 

 flances attending the headlands and gulfs of the northern 

 coaft of Europe, and very properly reprcfents, that they 

 arife from the fyftem of vallies and hills, which arc fecn 

 inland, continuing down much brlow -the prefcnt level of 

 fea, even to thegreateil fathomable depths in fome inflanccs ; 

 and Mr. Farcy, who has remarked on this part of M. de 

 Luc's work in the Phllofophica! Magazine (vol.xxxvi. p. 7.), 

 obferves, that the hills all evidently ran out in headlands 

 into the fea, juft as they would into a fea at a level confi- 

 derably above the prefent, of which a perfeft idea may be 

 obtained by tracing an extended ki<el line in any country ; 

 and that the operations of the tides and v.aves have a power- 

 ful tendency, in moft inftances, to leflen the indentations of 

 the coafts, by wafliing away the projefting points of hills, 

 and throwing up the alluvial matters therefrom in the inter- 

 vening gulfs, where marfhes are accumulated ; and that the 

 coafts, where cliffs or precipices occur at the headlands 

 only, have not originated, in moft inftances, from faults or 

 deprefTiOMS of the ftrata under the fea beach, but are occa- 

 fioned by the falling and waftiing away of the points of the 

 hills. It is evident, that where rocky cliffs fringe the bor- 

 ders of the gulfs, as well as the headlands of a diftrift, 

 fuch cliffs have a different origin frnm thofe which are 

 confiRed to the headlands. See Encroachment of the 

 Sea. 



INDENTED, Indentee, in Heraldry, is when the out- 

 line of a bordure, ordinary, 3cc. is notched, in form of the 

 teeth of a faw. 



Indented Leaf. See Serrated 'L.^.-W. 



Indented Line, in Fortifieaticn. See Redens. 



Indented Medals and Wheel. See Medals and Wheei,. 



INDENTURE, in LaiL<, a writing which comprifes 

 fume contraft between two, at leaft ; being indented at top 

 anfwerable to another part, which has the fame contents. 

 See Deed. 



INDEPENDENT Company andTroop. See Company 

 and Troop. 



INDEPENDENTS, in Ecchfaflical Hiflory, a fed of 

 Proteftants in England and Hfflland : fo called, as denying 

 not only any fubordination among their clergy, but alfo all 

 dependency on any other affemhly. 



They maintain, that every feparate church, or particular 

 congregation, has in itfelf radically and clfentially every 

 tiling iicccfTary for its own government ; that it has all eccle- 

 fiaftical power and jurifdiction ; and is not at all fubjcfl to 

 other churches, or their deputies, nor to their aflcmblies, or 

 fyiiods. 



Robinfon, the founder of the feci, makes exprefs ufe of 

 this term in explaining his doflrine relating to ecclefiaftical 

 government : " Ca:lum quemlibet particularem,'' (fays he, 

 in his Apologia, cap. j. p. 22.) " efl'e totam, intcgram et 

 perfeilam ecclefiam ex fuis partibus conftantcm, immediate 

 et indcperdenter (quoad alias ccclefias) fub ipfo Clirifto." 

 It may probably have been from this very paffage that the 

 title of independents was originally derived. The difciple* 

 of Robinfon. originally called Bro-wr.ifls (which fee), be- 

 caufe John Robinfon, the founder of this fed, was pallor of 

 a congregation of Brownifts that had fettled at Leyden, did 

 not rejeft the appellation of Independents. It was certainly 

 utterly unknown in England before the year 1640 : at leall 

 it is not once mentioned in the ecclefiaftical canons and con- 

 F z ftitutioiis, 



