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IB'ERVILLF, an ifland of Weft Florida, in the river 
Miflifiippi. Lat. 30. 24. N. Ion. 91. 24. W. Greenwich. 
IB'ERVILLE, a river of Well Florida, which runs into 
the MilfilTippi near Manchac. 
IBE'RUS, a river of Spain, now called Ebro, which 
formerly feparated the Roman from the Carthaginian pof- 
fefliions in that country.—A river of Iberia in Alia, flow¬ 
ing from mount Caucafus into the Cyrus.-*—A fabulous 
king of Spain. 
I'BEX, f. in zoology. See Capra. 
IB'HAR, [Heb. election.] The name of a man. 
IBIPITAN'GA, [ in botany. See Plinia. 
l'BIS, f. in ornithology. See Tantalus. 
IBIS'CUS,/ in botany. See Hibiscus, vol. ix. 
IB'LEAM, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IBNEI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IB'NEN SEE, a lake of Germany, in Swabia: four 
miles north-north-eaft of Heligenberg. 
IBNI'JAH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
I'BOS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Higher Pyrennees : one league weft of Tarbes. 
I'BRAHIM, a mountain of Arabia, in the province of 
Yemen : forty miles fouth of Chamir. 
I'BRAHIM, fultan of the Turks. See the article Tur- 
KEY. 
I'BRAHIM al SHI'RAZI, a celebrated muflulman 
doftor who flourifhed at an unknown period, was a native 
of the city of Shiraz, the capital of the province of Fars, 
or Perfia properly fo called. He is alfo fometimes fur- 
named AL Firouzabadi, fince his family was originally from 
Firouzabad, which is not far diftant from Shiraz, and in 
the fame province of Fars. He lived much in retirement, 
employed in ftudy and devotional exercifes, and iuftains 
a high rank among the expounders of the muflulman law. 
He was the author of many works in Arabic, ftill extant 
and highly efteemed ; the principal of which are, A/mo 
Hab, or the Good Man ; Tanbih Filfekh, or An Exhorta¬ 
tion to the Study of Jurifprudence ; and Lame, or the Ex¬ 
emplar ; which is an illuftration of the principal articles, 
or, as the Mahometans call them, the foundations, of the 
law. He is alfo believed to have been the author of a 
work on the art of fcholaftic deputation, entitled Al-Naktk 
fit Khelaf v Almaiunat. JUgedcl, or the Search after Truth. 
I'BRAHIM al.MEROU'ZI, a very celebrated mufiul- 
man doftor, who derived his furname from the city of 
Merou, in the province of Khorafan, of which he was a 
native. He was the author of many works in the Arabic 
language, which are greatly valued; and among others of 
a commentary on the Mozni, confifting of an abridgment 
of muflulnian law. He refided at Bagdat, where he was 
eonfulted as an oracle in matters of jurifprudence; and 
fo high was his reputation, that one of the gates of that 
city, which was not far from his houfe, was called after 
his name Darbe Al Merouzi, or, the Gate of Merouzi. He 
was of the Schafei feci; and when he was advanced in 
life removed from Bagdat to Cairo in Egypt, where he 
died in the year of the hegira 340, or 951 of the Chril- 
tian sera. 
I'BRAHIM ben MEHE'RAN, furnamed Esfarahi, 
from his being a native of a fmall town of Khorafan, 
called Esfarain, dependent on the capital city of Nifcha- 
bour. He was one of the moft celebrated doftors of the 
feel of Schafei, from whom the moft learned characters in 
Khorafan and Irak profefled to derive their doflrine. 
He was the author of numerous works ; the principal of 
which is a controverfial performance, containing a defence 
of the muflulman law againft the objections of thole un¬ 
believers and atheifts delcribed by the Arabs under the 
title of Melahedin, oilmen without religion. Abdalgafer, 
a Perflan author, makes .frequent mention of him in the 
Chronicle of Nifchabour, and fays, that the college in that 
city where he taught his opinions ftill bears his name,. 
He died in the year 418 of the hegira, or 1027 of the 
(Jhrjltian sera. 
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I'BRAIM, a town of Hungary : fourteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Nanas. 
I'BRAIM, a river of Perfia, which runs into the Per- 
flan Gulf two leagues fouth-weft of Mina. 
I'BRAS, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc: forty miles fouth-weft of Pinlk. 
I'BRI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IBRI'GI, a town of European Turkey, in the province 
of Romania: fixteen miles north-north-weft of Gallipoli. 
I'BRIM, a town of Africa, in the northern part of Nu¬ 
bia, on the borders of Egypt, lubject to the Turks. 
I'BRIS, a fmall ifland of Scotland, in the Frith of 
Forth : two miles and a half north-weft of North Berwick. 
I'BURAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : fixteen miles north of Alameh. 
I'BURG, a town of Germany, in Weftphalia: ten miles 
fouth of Ofuabruck. 
IB'YAN, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
IB'YCUS, a Greek lyric poet, of whofe works there 
are only a few* fragments remaining, flourilhed 550 B. C. 
It is faid, that he was aflaflinated by robbers; and that, 
when dying, he called upon fame cranes he faw flving to 
bear witnefs. Some time after, one of the murderers,See¬ 
ing fome cranes, faid to his companions, “ There are the 
witnefles of Ibycus’s death which being reported to 
the magiftrates, the aflaflins were put to the torture, and, 
having confefled the faff, were hanged. Thence arote 
the proverb Ibyci grues. 
I'V'A, or YgA, a town of South America, in the audi¬ 
ence of Lima, and one of three towns which give name 
to a province called lea Pifco & Nafca, It is fituated in a 
valley, and watered by a river which in the fummer would 
be dry but from the induftry of the inhabitants, who have 
turned feveral ftreams into its bed. The principal com¬ 
merce of the place confifts in glafs, wine, brandy, See. 
I'9A PIS'CO & NAS'CA, a province of Peru, in the 
audience of Lima, fo called from the three principal towns; 
it comprehends about 140 miles along the coalt of the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean, interfered with fandy deficits: olives and 
wines are cultivated ; and both the oil and the wine are 
efteemed excellent, and fent into the other provinces, 
where the land can be watered ; it produces corn, maize, 
and variety of excellent fruit. The inhabitants near the 
coaft are chiefly employed in-catching fifh, of which they 
cure a great quantity, and fend into the inland country, 
where they find a ready lale. 
ICA'CO , f. in botany. See Chrysoealanus. 
ICA'DES, [ei ca?, of eiv.ocri, Gr. twenty.] An ancient 
feftival celebrated monthly on the twentieth day, by the 
Epicurean philofophers, in memory of their mafter Epi- 
curus, born on the twentieth. They bore his images 
about their houfes in ftate, and made facrifices. 
IC'ARIM, [Hebrew.] The nameof a mountain. Jo/h.xv. 
ICA'RIUS, an Athenian, father of Erigone. He gave 
wine to fome peafants, who drank it with the greatelt .avi- 
dity, ignorant of its intoxicating nature. They were 
foon deprived of their reaftm ; and the fury and relent- 
ment of their friends and neighbours were immediately 
turned upon Icarius, who periihed by their hands. Af¬ 
ter death he was.honoured with public feftivals, and his 
daughter was led to difeover the place of his burial by 
means of his faithful dog Moera. Erigone hung herfelf 
in defpair, and was changed into a conftellation called 
Virgo, Icarius was changed into the flar Bootes, and the 
dog Moera into the ftar Canis. Apollodorus. 
IC'AR.TJS, a fon of Dsedalus, who, with his father, fled 
with wings from Crete to efcape the refentment of Minos. 
His flight being too high proved fatal to him ; the fun 
melted the wax which cemented his wings, and he fell 
into that part of the a^Egean fea which was called after 
bis name. Ovid. 
ICCICARI'BA, f. in botany. See Amyris, 
ICE, f [ijl Sax. eyfe, Dut.] Water or other liquor 
nude ftflid by cold.-—If I lhould alk whether ice and wa- 
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