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fjiccefs. A number of other medicines, both external and 

 internal, are recommended by the older writers, efpociall)' 

 the juices and decoftions of feveral roots and plants; but it 

 feems altogether unneceflary to enumerate them, iince recent 

 experience has decided upon the fiiperior efficacy of the re- 

 siedies jull; mentioned. Sec Turner on Dif. of the Skin. 

 Callifen. Svtt. Chir. Hodeira, § S24. Sauvages, Nofol. 

 Meth. Clats X. Gen. 28. 



Itch Anitral, a creature faid to be found in the puftules 

 of the itch ; it is a fpecies of acari-s. 



ITCHAPOUR, in Geo-rapJ?y, a town of Hindooftan, 

 in the circar of Ellichpour ; 48 miles S.S.W. cf Eliich- 



pour. N. lat. 20 2S'. E. long. 77- 38' Alfo, a town of 



Hindoollan, in tlie circar of Cicacole ; 30 miles S.S.W. of 

 Ganjam. 



ITCHAUR, n town of Hindooftan, in t!ie circar of 

 Hindia; ;o miles N. of Hindia. 



ITCHE, a town of Thibet ; 95 miles S.W. of Cha- 

 tcheou. 



ITCHING RiVEil, in Hampfliire, is navigable for 

 barges up to Wincheller city, of which an account has been 

 given in our article Canal: fince which, there have been 

 attempts, and one is now making, for obtaining an acl 

 for further improving tliis navigation. About 1802, a 

 bridge was built over this river at Northam. At Wood mills, 

 on this river, fnips' blocks are manufactured by machinery, 

 but in a manner far lefs complete and ingenious than the 

 block machines by Mr. Brunell, which are creeled in the 

 dock-yard at Portfraouth, of which we intend to give fome 

 account under our article B!ock Mai iiiXEKY. 



ITCHORSKA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 

 of Irkutlli, on the Lena; 80 miles N.E. of Kircnfl<. 



ITEA, in Botany, l-.ix of the ancient Greeks is a gene- 

 ral appellation for willows or fallows, as appears from Theo- 

 phraltus and Oiofcorides. The word is derived from vrx^-a 

 '.oni-xi, alluding to their quick growth, or early germina- 

 tion. — Linnaeus applied the name to this North American 

 genus from its wii!ow-likeafpe<ft. — Linn. Gen icq Schrcb. 

 1,-3. Willd. Sp. PI. V. I. 1 146. Mart. Mill. Dieh v. 2. 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 37. JufiT. ijg. Lamarck Did. v. 3. 

 314. Illuftr. t. 147. (Cyrilla; Linn. Mant. 50. Syit. 

 Veg. ed. 14 241. Schreb. 150.) Clafs and order, Pcn/an^r/a 

 Monngyma. Nat. Ord. B'i:orn;s, Linn. Rhodudmdra, JuiT. 

 Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth of one leaf, trett, very fmall, 

 permanent, divided into five acute, coloured fegmcuts. Cor. 

 Petals five, lanceolate, long, ir.ferttd into the calyx. Stam. 

 Pnlaments live, awl-lbaped, erctt, the length of the corolla, 

 inferted into the calyx ; anthers roundidi, incumbent. Pijl. 

 Germen fuperior, ovate ; (lyle cylmdrical, permanent, as 

 long as the ftamens : ftigma obtufe. Pine. Capfule ovate, 

 much longer than the calyx, terminated by the ftyle, of 

 two cells, and two valves with in flexed edges, gaping at the 

 top. Seeds numerous, very fmall, oblong, fhining. 



Efr. Ch. Petals long, inferted into the calyx. Capfule 

 of one ce!i, and two valves, 



Obf L'Herctier has the honour of having firft declared 

 the Itea and Cyrilla of Linnxus to be o.ne and the fame genus, 

 from the conformity of the flower, and two-celled fruit of 

 each. 



I. I. ■virginka. Linn. Sp. PI. 289. Trew. Ehret 55. 

 t. 98. — " Leaves ovate, acute, ferralcd.'' — A native of 

 North America, (low ring from June to Auguft — T\\is, Jlrub 

 rifes to the height of live or fix feet. Itsjirm is branched 

 all the way up. Leaves (lightly fcrratcd, rcflexed, light 

 green. Floiuers white or ycilowifh, compofed of numerous 

 fpikes three or four inches long. — Linnxus remarks that this 

 fpecies is very Amilar in appearance to Prunut Padui, the 

 Bird-chcrry. 



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2. I. Cyrilla. Willd. n. 2. L'Herit. Stirp. fafc. 6. 137. 

 t. 66. (Cyrilla racemiflora ; Linn. Mant. 50. Jacq. It. 

 Rar. I. t. 47.) — •' Leaves lanceolate, entire, mtmbrana- 

 ceous." — A native of Carolina. It flowers in July and 

 Auguft. — Root perennial. Stem fparn^gly branched, round, 

 a(h-coloured. Leaves altcruiite, blunlifli, rather undulated ; 

 their foot-ilalks reddiih. Chijleri numerous, lateral, from 

 four to fix inches long. Flowers fcatlered, wlute ; anthers 

 pale-violet coloured ; gernien whitifh. 



Itea, in Gardening, contauis plants of the hardy, deci- 

 duous, (hrubby kinds., of which the ipecies moiUy cultivated 

 are, the Virginian itea (I. virginicaj ; and the entire-leaved 

 itea (I. oyrilia^. 



Method of Culture. — The firft fort is cajjable of being in- 

 creafed by layers, which (hould be laid down in the autum;i, 

 when they will put out roots fo as to be fit to take o:T by 

 the following autumn, when they may be removed nito the 

 nurfery, or the ])laces where they arc to grow. It does not 

 fucceed well on dry gravelly foils. 



It is aifo capable of being raifed from feed, by fowing it 

 in the fpring, as foon as procured from abroad. 



The fecond fpecies may be increaied by layers or cuttings, 

 planted in pots of good mould in the Ipriiig ; in the latter 

 cafe, placing them m a mild hot-bed, till they liavc ftrickeii 

 root, afterwards removing them into feparate pots, placing 

 them in airy fituations in the green-houfe or other proper 

 place. 



Plants of the firft kind are very ornamental in the borders 

 and clumps, and thofe of the latter among grecn-houie collec- 

 tions, or thofe in other protcftcd places. 



ITENG, in Geography, a fmall ifiand in the Eaft Indian 

 fea. S. lat 6-42'. E. long. 132 15'. 

 ITERATION. See Reiteration. 

 ITERI, in Geography, a town of the ifiand of Sar- 

 dmia. ^ ^^ 



ITFU, a town of Egypt ; 8 miles S. of Tahta. 

 ITHACA, a town of New York, at the fouthcrn extrc. 

 mity of lake Cayuga; 30 miles S. of Cayuga. N. lat. 4^-' 

 27'. W. long. 76-33'. 



Ithac .\, in y/ncient Geography, one of the Greek iflands, 

 fituated in the Ionian fea, between Dulichium and Capalenis^ 

 famous for being the birth-place of UlyfTes, the fon of 

 Laertes. It had the advantage of a town and a good port : 

 it is now called " Theaki," and its port " Vahti." Its cir- 

 cuit is reckoned about 40 miles. Some ruins ftill remain, 

 which tradition reports to have been part of the palate of 

 Penelope. 



ITHCYPHOS, in Surgery, curved or deformed in the 

 back. 



ITHOME, in -Ancient Geography, a town of Meffenla, 

 north of Meflenc, fo called from the mountain on which 

 it was erefted and well fortified, being encompafied 

 with a (lone wall. In it was a ftatue of .lupitcr tlie 

 " Saviour," and alfo a fountain called Arfinoe, wh:eh 

 was fupplied with water from another fountain called 

 Clepfydra. Ntptime and Venus had each of them a temple 

 in this place; and the mother of the gods had a fuperb ita- 

 tue of Parian marble. This town contair.ed, alfo a temple 

 dedicated to Meil'ene, daughter cf Triopas, whofc (la'ue 

 \v as formed partly of gold and partly of tlie marble of Paros , 

 It had likewife a temple, in which were depofited and pre- 

 ierved the victims appropriated to the facrificcs. Befidcs, it 

 was adorned with all the ttatues of the gods which were- 

 wor(hipped in Greece. It had a theatre which had been a, 

 temple dedicated to Serapis and Ifis. The citadel wascor.- 

 ft rutted on. the fnmmit of the mountain, and at the gate by 

 which they pafted to Megalopolis was allatueof Mercury, 



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