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ilriking and very brillianl experiment. Dr. Iiige«iliouz was 

 author of many papers iufertcd in the Tranfaftions of 

 the Royal Society, of whieli body lie was an aaive and 

 ufcful member. Of thefe papers vre may notice the fol- 

 lowing : Experiments on the torpedo : — Itlethods of mea- 

 furing the diminution, of bulk taking place on the mixture 

 of nitrous with common air :— Experiments on the eleftro- 

 phorus : — New Methods of fufpending magnetic needles : 

 ■^Confiderations on the influence of the veo-etable kingdom 

 on the animal creation. He died in the year 1799, highly 

 cfteemed for the fimplicity of his manners, and for the dif- 

 coveries which he had made in the feveral departments of 

 experimental pliilofophy. Monthly and Gentleman's Ma- 

 gazine. Murray's Cheniillry. 



lNGENITE,lMioKN,llgnifiesany difeafe or habit which 

 comes into the world with a pcrfon,' nearly the fame witl» 

 hereditary. 



INGENUITAS Regni, anciently figniCed the free- 

 holders and commonalty of the kingdom : the title was 

 alfo fometimes given to the barons and lords of the king's 

 council. 



INGENUOUS, IxGEXurs, among the Romans, a title 

 applicable to a perfon born free, or of free parents. 



Ilidore fays, they are called tngenui, qui libertatem habent 

 in gcnere nnn in faSo ; thofe who are born free, not thofe who 

 acquire their freedom. 



A perfon was accounted ingenuous, if only the mother 

 were free, and the father a flave. 



Thefe could give their votes, and enjoy offices, from 

 which the liLerti, or freedmen, Sic. were debarred. 



IxGCNi-ou.s is fometimes alfo ufed to fignify a native of a 

 country in contradiftin£tion to a foreigner. 



INGERAM, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the ftraits 

 cf Malacca, near the coaft of Salengore. N. lat. 3^ ij'. 

 E. long. 1 01- 26'. — Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 circar of Rajamundry ; 50 miles S.E. of Rajamundry. 



INGETORP, a to\vn of Sweden, in the province of 

 Schonen ; 10 miles E of Yftad. 



INGINEER, or Engineer. See Engineer. 



INGKALU, in Gecgraphy, a fmall illand in the North 

 fea, near the coail of Lapland. N. lat. 70^ 50'. 



INGLEDOROUGH, a mountain of England, in the 

 N.W. part of the county of York, faid to be 20 miles in 

 circumference. The height is dated by Houfman to be 

 39S7 feet ; but by the barometrical meafurement of Mr. 

 Ewart 2377. 1 2, and by trigonometrical meafurement 23S0.7 

 feet above the level of the fea. 



INGLOTT, WiLLi.\M, in Biography, an organift of the 

 cathedral church of Norwich, wlio feems, by an infcription 

 on his monument in that church honourable to his luemory, 

 to have been a man of no common abilities. We have never 

 heard or feen any of his productions ; but in all probability, 

 Dr. Croft had ; who, a hundred years after his deceafe, had 

 his monument repaired. Inglott died in 1621. 



INGI.UVIES. See Cu.vw. 



INGOLSTADT, in Geography, a town of Bavaria, 

 r.tuated on the Danube, and furrounded with a niorafs. It 

 has an univcrfity, founded in the year 1472, which embraced 

 tlie Reformation in 1743 ; 37 miles N. of Munich. N. lat. 

 48 43'. E. long. 11" 22'. 



INGOT, a mafs or lump of gold or filver, from the 

 mines, melted down, and call in a fort of mould, but not 

 coined or wrought. 



The word feems formed from the French Ungot, which 

 fignifics the fame. 



Ingot is alfo a name given to the moulds or cavities, 

 wherein they call melted metals, or regulus of femimctals. 



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INGOULT, Nicholas Louis, m Bl(,graply,zTv:: 

 Jefuit, was born at Gifors, devoted himfelf to an ecu 

 allical life, and became a very eloquent preacher. He j 

 liflied the eighth volume of the Memoirs of the Millions i.t 

 the Society of .lefus in the Levant. He was author alfo 

 of fermons which were highly applauded. He di;d in 

 I7J3- 



INGOLTVELLE, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Lower Seine, and chief place of a 

 canton, in the dillrift of Le Havre. The place contains 

 5500, and the canton 10,347 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 40 kiliomctres, in fix communes. 



INGRAFTING, or Engrafting. See Engkafi- 



ING. 



INGRAILED. See Engrailed. 



INGRAM, Robert, in Biography, was born in York- 

 fhire, and educated at Beverley fchool, from v.hence he was 

 fent to Corpus Chrilli college, Cambridge, of which he be- 

 came fellow, and took there his degrees in arts. His firft 

 preferment was the perpetual curacy of Bridhurft, in Kent, 

 after which he obtained fuccefiively the fmall vicarage of 

 Orllon, in Nottinghamfhire, and the vicarages of Worm- 

 ington and Boxted, in Elfex. He died in 1804, leaving 

 behind him a high character for fimplicity of manners, great 

 integrity, and genuine benevolence He had a high fenfe 

 of the dignity and importance of the clerical functions, 

 and for 50 years of his life was indefatigable in his attention 

 to profe'fiional duties. He was author of " A view of the 

 great events of the feventh plague, or period, when the 

 myilery of God {hall be fininied." " Accounts of the ten 

 tribes of Ifrael being in America, originally pnblifted by 

 Manaffeh Ben Ifrael, &c." " A complete and uniform 

 explanation of the prophecy of the feven vials of wrath, or 

 feven la(l plagues contained' in the Revelations of St. John, 

 &c." 



INGRASSL^S, John Piiiiip, was a native of Sicily. 

 He ftudied medicine at Padua, where he took the degree of 

 doctor in medicine in the year 1537, with fmgular repu- 

 tation ; infomuch that he foon received feveral invitations 

 to profelTorfliips from different fchools in Italy. He ac- 

 cepted tlie chair of medicine and anatomy at Naples, which 

 he occupied for a number of years, lecturing to the mod 

 crowded audiences drawn by his fame from all parts of the 

 country. He pofTefTed peculiar qualifications for the office, 

 having united a confummate knowledge of the writings of 

 the ancient phyficians with great practical ikill and a loiind 

 judgment, which led him to eftimate jultly the merits and 

 defects of thofe fathers of the art. A Angular teftimony 

 of his talents and unremitting attention to the improvement 

 of his pupils was given by the latter, w ho caufed his portrait 

 to be placed in the fchools of Naples with the following 

 infcription : «« Philippo Ingralliie Siculo, qui veram medi- 

 ciiUE artem et anatomen, publice enarrando, Neapoh rellituit, 

 Difcipuli memoriie caufa, P. P." At length he quitted 

 his fituation at Naples in order to return to his native ifland, 

 where he fettled at Palermo. Here alfo he received many 

 marks of public diftinition. The rights of citizcnftiip were 

 conferred upon him ; and in 1563, Philip II. king of Spain, 

 appointed him firft phyfician for Sicily and the adjacent 

 ifles. By virtue of the powers attached to this office he 

 rellored order in the medical conflitution of the country, 

 by preventing all parfons, unqualified by their education and 

 abilities, from praitifing there. His zeal for the credit of 

 his profeffion rendered him rigid and fcvere in his examina- 

 tion of candidates : and he e.xercifcd his art himfelf in the 

 moil honourable manner. When the plague raged at Pa- 

 lermo ill ij75, lie adopted fuch cicclleut regulations, in 



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