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eSdclUnt medicines : and hence, fays he, after (he was re- 

 ceived among the number of the deities, (he was applied to 

 for the cure of di tempers ; and frequently indicated reme- 

 dies by dreams. Galen takes notice of fome plaftcrs which 

 bear her name. Banier's Mythology, vol. i. Savary's 

 Letters on Egypt, vol. li. See Blbastis, Orus, Osikis, 

 and SoTiiis. 



Isis, in Zoology, a genus of Zoophytes of a ramofc or 

 plant-hke form, the ftfm and branches of which are com- 

 pofed of ftony articulations, longitudinally ftriated, vmited 

 by fpongy or horny junctures, and covered, when living or 

 in a recent (late, by a foft porous cellular flcfn or bark ; and 

 t!ie mouths befi-t with oviparous polypes. The fpecics of 

 this family are entirely of the marine kind, and ir.oiUy inha- 

 bitants of the Indian, feas. 



Species. 



HiPPLUls. Joints white with black junftures. IJis hip- 



?iris, Linn. ScTtularia ramofjfwni, &c. Hort. ClifTort. I/is, 

 alias, Ellis, &;c. Hippwis fa.wa, Cluiius. Jccetarium 

 album, Rumpf. Lithophylon, &c. Gualt. 



A native of the Indian feas, where it is found growing to 

 rocks, and is from fix inch.es to two or three feet in height. 

 The flefli, when recent, is bright orange or red, the bone or 

 ftony part, as in the dried ftate, whitifh. A variety is de- 

 fcribed by Efper under the nnme of Ifis elongata. 



DiCHOTOM.^. Stem cornlline, with fm.ooth joints and de- 

 corticated junctures. Gmel. IJis artlculala JUiformis, &c. 

 Pallas, hippurls coralkides carnca capcrjis, Petiver. 



This fpecies is fomewhat flexible, about fix inches in height, 

 with flefh-coloured joints, and 3e(h of a cinnabar colour, befet 

 with convex papillx. It inhabits the feas of India and 

 Ethiopia. 



OcHRACEA. Stem coralline, with decorticated joints and 

 knotty junftures. Gmel. Litho.rylon, &c. Hort. Chffort. 

 IJis articulala pan'iculalo-dkhotoma ramofjftma e.vplanala, cor- 

 tice h'm^ papillofo, Pa'.las. Ifts, S:c. Soland. CoralUum rii- 

 brum inJicum, Ellis Phil. Tranf. ylccabarium rubrum, 

 Rumpf. Pfeudocorallhim croceum, Ray. Nippiiris fay.ea 

 fuh'O-rubra condeniana, Morif. Accabaar feu corallodendron 

 liulgare rubrum, Seba. 



Inhabits the feas of the Eaft Indies ; the colour deep-red, 

 or fometimes white, with the junctures browniih-yellow; the 

 ftem irregularly grooved, the branches numerous, dichoto- 

 mous and f pread, the joints connedted by yellow fpongy 

 knobs ; flefh yellow, with numerous ftellate'd mouths, the 

 habitations of polypes, each of which is furniflied with eight 

 claws-. 



Ektroch.\. Stem teftaceous, round, with orbicular per- 

 forated joints and verticillated dichotomous branches. Gmel. 



Stem about three quarters of an inch in thicknefs, with 

 crowded flat orbicular joints, perforated in the centre, the 

 perforations pentangular, with the difl< fomewhat flriatcd from 

 the centre, the outer bark unequal and furrounded with a 

 row of tubercles : branches thin, dichotomous, continued 

 «nd not join.ed. Inhabits the ocean. 



AsTERlA. Stem teftaceous, jointed, pentagonal ; the 

 branches verticillated with a terminal dichotomous ftar. 

 Gmel. Encrinus cap'ite JlcUato ramofo dickolomo pcntagono 

 equifet'iforml, Ellis Phil. Tranf. Palma marina e Marlinica, 

 Guettard Act. Parif. 



Found in the feas about the ifland of Barbadoes. Neither 

 this nor the fpecies preceding, though retained under the 

 genus Ifis, upon the authority of Gmehn, can with propri- 

 ety be confidered as appertaining to that genus, or perhaps 

 to any (^ther, at prefcnt eilabiifhed among naturalills. They 

 unqueftionably belong to a race of creatures whofe manners, 



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and even (!ru£ture, are not at this time vcrv clearly under* 

 flood. 



CocctNEA. Stem jointed, (lender, very red, and fome- 

 what ftriated ; joints united by fhort yellowifti fpongy junc- 

 tures ; fledi on the outfide covered with fmall fcarle. pro- 

 minent cells, each furnilhed with a mouth. Solander. 



A diminutive kind of coral, with irrtgu arly fpreading 

 branches, and which rarely exceeds die height ot two or 

 three inches. It is a native of the Indian ocean, and is fome- 

 times found entirely white. 



ISIT, in Geography, a town of Rufiia, in the government 

 of Irkutflc, on the Lena. N. la'. 6i'. E. long. 123' yo. 



ISKA, a name given by the ancients to a light Kind of 

 agaric, gro^nng to the old flumps of the oak, hazel, and 

 other trees. Tliis being a very light kind of fuel, was ufed 

 by the ancients m the manner of a caatrry, as we have 

 learned from the Indians to ufe moxa, or the down of mug- 

 wort leaves. 



ISK.A.RSKOIGOROD, in Gcography,%\.ov!Ti of Ruf- 

 fia, in the government of Tobol.li. N. lat. 60 5'. E. long. 

 59' 14'- 



ISKASKAMAGTI, a lake of Canada ; 84 miles N.W. 

 of Quebec. N. lat. 47 jo'. W. long. 72° 25'. 



IS KIM, a river of Perfia, which runs into the Arabian 

 fca, N. lat. 35° 4,'. E. long 57" 9'. 



ISKOLDZ, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Novogrodek ; 30 miles S. E.of N^vogrodek. 



ISKOROSE, a town of Poland, in Voihynia ; 48 mile* 

 N. of Zytomiers. 



ISLA, Joseph Francis de, in Biography, a Spanifh 

 Jefuit of Madrid, who, after the deftruclion of his order, 

 retired to Italy, and died at Bologna in 1781. He was 

 author of a fatireon the ignorance and vicds of the monks, 

 entitled '« Hiftoria del Fra. Gerundio de Compazas alias 

 Zotes," which the fupreme council of Caftile was obliged to 

 fupprefs. It has been tranflated into Englifh and German, 

 and it is faid that fince the time of Cervantt-s, no Spaniili 

 writer has difplayed fo much wit and humour. Gen. 



IsLA, in Geography, a river of Scotland, which rifes 

 in the (hire of Angus, and runs into the Tay, 10 miles N. 

 of Perth. 



IsLA. See Ila. 



ISLAM. See Maho.metaks. 



ISLAMABAD, a town of Bengal, and capital of the 

 province of Chittigong, fituated on the river Cliittigong, or 

 Cnrrumpelly, about 12 miles from the bay of Bengal. N. 

 lat. 22^20'. E. long. 91' 4j'. — Alfo, a fmall province of 

 Bengal, between Goragot and Patladah. 



ISLAMNAGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Bopal ; 10 miles N.N.E. of BopJtol. 



ISLAMPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Nagore; 36 miles N.E. of Didwana. — Alfo, a town of 

 Hindooilan, ui Bahar ; 28 miles S. of Patna. N. lat. 25^ 

 8'. E. long. 85- 43'. —Alfo, a town of Hindooftan, in \i- 

 fiapour ; 15 miles S.W. of Currer. — Alfo, a town of 

 Hindoollan, in the circar of Jyenagur ; 70 miles N.N.W. 

 of Jyepour. 



ISLAMTI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania; 

 30 miles S.S.E. of Kaifarieh. 



ISLAND, or Isr.i:, a tradt of dry land encorcpaficd 

 with water ; either with the fea, a river, or lake. In which 

 fenfe ifland ftands contradiflinguiftied from continent, or 

 terra firma. 



Some conclude that illands are as ancient as the world, 



and it is by no means probable, that the large iflands far 



remote from the eontin'^jt are new, or that they either arofe 



t P out 



