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jHancI contains feveral feats and villas, the principal of wliich preting literally fome of the precepts of St. Paul with re- 

 is Appuldercombe park. Sir Richard AVorfley's Hiftory gard to the Jewifli law, declaimed againft the lawj and the 

 of tlie Ifle of Wight, 410. Albiii's Hiftory, &c. 8vo, necciTity of good works. See Axtixomians. 

 Bullcr's Account of the Ifland, i2mo. Windham's Pic ISLEBO ROUGH, wGeogmphy, a townfliip of Ame- 

 tuie of the Tfle of Wight. rica, in Hancock county, Maine, formed by Long ifland. 

 Isle of Height, a county of Virginia, on the S. fide of in tlie centre of Pcnobfcot-bay ; 15 miles long, and from 

 James's river, W. of Norfolk county, about 40 miles long two to three broad: it was incorporated in 1789, contains 

 and i^ broad, containing ^313 free inhabitants, and 4029 483 inhabitants, and is dillant 260 miles N.E. by N. from 



flavcs. In this county is a mineral fpring, to which many 

 perfons rcfort. It is fitwated about lo miles from Smith- 

 field, and 12 from Suffolk. 



ISLEBEIANUS Lapis, in Natural Hipry, a name 

 given by authors to a kind of bl:icki(h Hate, very heavy, not 

 very hard, and erfily fplitting into thin flakes. It is dug 

 near Ifleb, in Thuringia, whence it has its name, and is much 

 of the nature of that fort of black flate which we have com- 

 mon in England, lyin^ over the coal llrata. 



As our (late of this kind contains ufually leaves of fern I'ji.f 38' from Pav 

 and other plants, this foreign kind contains the impreflions Islks, in Jnhilcdiire, the fides or wing? of a building, 

 of; feveral kiads of riiTij-fo exaft'iy delineated in fliape, and ISLEWORTH, in Geography, a panlh in the hundred 

 with the fins, fcnles, and all other parts fo pcrfed, that the of the fame name, and county of Middlefex, England, is 

 fpecies are eafily known. All thefe impreflions and deli- dehghtfully fcated on the banks of tlie Thames, and has 



ollon. 



ISLES de Madame, idands that lie at the S. end of 

 Sydney, or Cape Breton ifland, on which ihcy are depen- 

 dent. Thelargell of thefe, with Cape Canfo, the E. point 

 of Nova Scotia, forms the entrance of the gut of Caufo 

 from the Atlantic ocean; 



LsLE-s of Don Jofeph Gal-wr^, a large duller of iflands in 

 the South fea, populous, and affording plenty of potatoes, 

 cocoa, bananas, and other fruits. S. iat. 19' 39'. E. long. 



ncations are, however, fo flat and thin, and have taken up 



fo little room in the (lone, that they feem rather to have been 



the flcins and esuvix of iifh than the whole bodies of them ; 



but this is not wonderfnl when we conikler how eafily the 



Bodies, and- even the bones of- fiflies may be diflblved ; and 



that thefe exuvii are lodged in a fubil;;nce which contains 



a vitriolic fait, very capable of eflefting fuch a'folution. 



It is eafy to conceive, that this and ot!>er' fuch falls, v.Inle 



in a ftate of folution in water, before the concretion of the 



matter of this ftone into -i hard mafs, might make that water furnifli a vail ' 



a menftruum capable of thus diiTolving the bodies and bov.os garden market. 



long been the reiidence of many perfons of rank and for- 

 tune. The parifli cgnfilis of about 2370 acres, chiefly 

 appropriated to arable and pafture ; but nearly jco acres 

 arc nfed as gardens and nurfery-grounds. At Baberbridge, 

 in this parilh, are fome large copper and brafs mills, rented 

 by the fociely of the mines-royal. A contiderable china 

 manufadlory> fome extenfive calico-grounds, and two large 

 flomvmills are alfo within this parifli. The chief bufinefs, 

 or trade of the place, is derived from the gardens, whiciL 

 ariety 01 fruit and vegetables for Coveut- 

 In the year 1794, hr Jofeph Banks ob- 

 of fifties, while the outer flcin and fcales being much tained a correft llatement of the population of this parifh : 

 tougher, and of a very different nature, might efcape the and it appeared that the number of houfes was 712; of 

 effeSs of them. It is well known that the fins and fciles, which 43 belonged to gentlemen, 6 to farmers,, 26 to pub- 

 and other external parts of fifli, are much more capable of licans ; the remainder confiiled of fliops and cottages. The 

 bearing macerationin water than the mternal fubHances of inhabitants at the fame time amounted to 4190. In the year 

 them ; and it is eafy to con'-eivj that thefe, after having with- tSoo, the houfes amounted to 768, and inhabitants to 4346. 

 rtood that power-in thewater, would at length futjTide down The principal building in this parilh is Sion-houfe, a fpa- 

 among the muddy matter that was to form fome of- the cious feat of the duke of- Northumberland. The houfes 

 ftrata of this flate: the motion of the water would not occupy the fcit« of a convent of Biidgetines, founded by- 

 fail to expand their ikins, though ever fo thin, into the true king Henry V. The prefent m.infion was enlarged and 

 and exaft ftiape of the whole fiih ; and when thus laid fitted up by the late duke, v.-jio embellifhed it with feveral 

 along upon the furface of the new-formed ilratum, the next pieces of ancient fculpture, alfo with twelve Ionic columns, 

 quantity of the fame matter that fubfided would form another and fixteen pilafters of fine marble. The improvements 

 flratum, which falling evenly upon the former, would cover, made in the houfe, and the elegant facade, adjoining the 

 it, arid on the following,- concretion of both, the figure of public road near Brentford, are from dtfigns by the late 

 the fifh would be beautifully preferved between two plates Mr. Adams. The gardens and plcafure-grounds, conti- 

 or flakes of a filTrfe ftone. guous to the Thames, were laid out by the late Mr. Brown. 



It is very remarkable, that as in thefe flates of Ifleb pre- The duke of Marlborough and the earl of Slirewfliury have 

 ferving fifhes, the external parts only are preferved, the feats in this parifli. Ifleworth Park was occupied by tiie 

 bones and fleih being wafud : fo, on the other hand, in barons' army, headed by Simon de Montford, in tlie year 

 thofe foflile lifne.^ brought from Syria, the fliins and fcales 1263. On the 4th of Auguft, 1647, general Fairfax ap- 

 are wanting, and the flieletons are principally the part pre- pointed his head-quarters at Ifleworth, and received the par. 



ferved." In fome of thefe the bones are not clean, fniaii par- 

 cels of the flefh being found petrified among them ; but this 

 flefh is flripped of the fliin. The ftone in which thefe Sy- 

 rian fifhes are preferved is alfo very different from the lOeb 

 flate, being whitifa or greyifli, and very hard. The flones 



liamentary commiirioners here. Lyfons's Enviroas of Lon- 

 do:i and Middlefex Pariflie.''. 



ISLINGTON, a village in Ofrnldon hundred. Middle, 

 fex, England, though formerly a fmall place, and feparated 

 from London by feveral intervening fields, is now conneded 



of this kind found on mount Libanus, .where they are very to the northern fubuibs of the metropolis, and indeed ap- 



cominon, have very fine delineations of the flar-filh com- pears to form a part of this v.ill city. " When it is con- 



plete. Woi>dw. Cat. Foff vol. ii. p. 23, &c. fidered, that Iflington is fc.u-cely tivo miles from the centre of 



ISLEBIANS, in Ecdefajlkal Hlflory, a name given to the original London; that it is feated upon the Ermin-ftreet 



thofe who adopted the fentiments of a Lutlieran divine of of the Romans, and the fpot where they had a military poll ; 



Saxony, called John Agricola, a difciple and companion of alfo, that it has, from the earllell period of our hiltory, 



Luther, a native of Ifleb, whence the name 3 who, i.ater- been celei)rated for tlu? richaefs of its paftures, and the cx» 



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