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makes a proof that they are prefent to our minds; and, if 
they be prefent, they can no ways be prefent but by the 
prelence of God, who contains them all. Locke. 
Tifiphone, that oft haft heard my pray'r, 
Affiit, if Oedipus deferve thy care. Tope. 
Whether or no : 
She doubts if two and two make four: - 
It can’t—it may be—and it mult; 
To which of thefe muft Alma truft ? 
■Nay, further yet they make her go. 
In doubting if fhe doubts or no. Prior. 
Allowing that; fuppofe it be granted that.—Such mecha 
nical circumftances, if I may fo call them, were not ne 
ceffary to the experiments. Boyle. 
IF, f. A doubt, a condition ; as, Ifs and ands. 
IF, a final 1 ifland in the Mediterranean, near the coaft 
of France, the rnoft eafterly of three, at the entrance of 
the port of Marfeilles, well fortified and furnilhed with a 
garri'fon. 
I’FAITH, [an oath for] In faith.—Your gown’s a 
rnoft rare falhion, i\faith. Sha/tefpcare. 
IFFEHAN', a town of Alia, in Perfian Armenia: forty- 
fix leagues eaft-north-eaft of Erivan. 
IFFEN'DJC, a town of France, in the department of 
the Tile and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrict of Montfort: one league weft of Montfort, and 
two and a half eaft-fouth-eaft of St. Meen. 
IFF'ROS, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : twelve miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Taas. 
IFLAMABAT', a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Bengal: 124- miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Dacca, and 120 
north-north-weft of Aracan. 
I'FORDSHICK, or Krotzxa, a town of European 
Turkey, in Servia: eight miles weft of Semandria, and 
fourteen fouth-eaft of Belgrade. 
I'FRAN, I'fren, or Ufaram', a town and diftrift of 
Africa, near the Atlantic, belonging to Morocco : forty 
miles fouth-weft of Non. 
I'GA, a town of Japan, in the province of Ifiju. 
TGAL, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IGDA'LIA, [Heb. the greatnefs of the Lord.] A 
■ man’s name. 
IGEI'ALIN, a fmall ifland in the ftrait between Ruflia 
and America. Lat. 65. 4.0. N. Ion. 207. 22. E. Ferro. 
IGE'NI, a people of Britain. Tacitus. 
IG'GENSEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Weftphalia, and bilhopric of Paderborn: fix miles fouth- 
.eaft of Paderborn. 
IGiyiUM, now Giglio, an ifland of the Mediterranean, 
.on the coalt of Tulcany. 
I'GIS, a town of the country of the Grifons, in Caddea, 
with a magnificent caftle, in which is a cabinet of curio¬ 
sities, and a handfome library; twenty-three miles fouth- 
weft of Choira, and twenty-three lbuth of Claris. Lat. 
49 10. N. Ion. 9. o. E. 
I'GLAU, a towm of Moravia, and capital of a circle 
of the fame name, which contains twenty-one towns, 294. 
villages, and 6433 houfes. The town is well built, for¬ 
tified, and populous: it contains 1196 houfes, two con¬ 
vents, and a college ; fome good cloth is manufactured 
in the town, which is lent into Italy, by Triefte-; the com¬ 
merce in corn and hemp is confiderable. In the year 
1742, this town was taken by the Prnffians :' fixty-two 
miles fouth-eaft of Prague, and 122 fouth-eaft of Drefden. 
Lat. 49. 15- N. Ion. 33. 18. E. Ferro. 
IGN A'RO, f. A foolifli fellow. Phillips. 
IGN ATEV'SKOE, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Ekateiinoflav : forty miles fouth of Bachmut. 
IGNA'TIA, J. St. Ignatius’s. Beans ; in botany, a 
.genus of the clals pentandria, order monogynia, natural 
order of luriqas; (apocinese, Jujf.) The generic charac¬ 
ters are— Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, Ihort, bell- 
fc;tpedj five-toothed; teeth upright, ovate, obtufc. Co- 
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rolla ■. one-petalled, funnel-form ; tube filiform, of # 
fpan’s length, fmooth, upright; border flat, five-parted-: 
divifions oblong, obtufe, perfectly entire. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five, inferred into the receptacle, length of the tube, 
thread-fliaped, very fmooth. Anthers five, converging 
into an oblong column, which is five-cornered, fharp, and 
rough. Piitillum: germ very fmall, ovate, very fmooth; 
ityle filiform, length of the ftamens; ftigma, (lender, two- 
parted : divifions awl-fhaped. Pericarpium : berry pear- 
Ihaped, large, one-celled, with a thick woody bark. Seeds : 
feveral, covered with a thin cuticle, folid, horny, very 
hard; the lateral ones irregularly tetragonal, with the in¬ 
ner fides flat, the outward gibbole, the interior oblique ; 
the central one hexagonal with flat fides.— Effoitial Cha- 
raEler. Calyx, five-toothed; corolla, funnel-form, very 
long ; frtlit one-celled, many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Ignatia amara, or bitter beans: leaves ovate, 
acute'; item fcandent, peduncles,axillary ; four-flowered, 
or thereabouts. This is a very branching tree, the branches 
long, round, very fmooth, climbing. Leaves oppofite, 
petioled, a fpan long, quite entire, veined, very fmooth, 
fiat. Flowers in fmall panicles ; peduncles bearing from 
three to five flowers; very long, nodding, white, having 
the fmell of jafmine. Fruit ovate, with a very fmooth dry 
rind, narrowed at the neck, thefize of a bonchretien pear. 
.Native of the Eaft Indies and the Philippine iflands, 
whence it has been tranfported. to Cochin-china and other 
countries for cultivation. The feeds, which are known 
by the name of St. Ignatius's beans, are much uled in the 
Eaft Indies, and are reputed to be tonic, diaphoretic, 
emmenagogue, and anthelmintic. They are uled in the 
pituitary apoplexy, colic, cardialgia, intermittent fevers, 
fuppreflion of the menfes, and bites of venomous animals. 
They may be taken internally from fix to twelve grains, 
in powder, either in wine or water, generally with good 
effect, fometimes without any, but never with any dan¬ 
ger. Too large a dofe will bring on vertigo and convul- 
iions, but they are eafily cured by lemonade, drunk largely. 
What the younger Linnaeus affirms, namely that the leeds 
are equally poilonous to animals with nux vomica, is a 
iniftake ; for a whole nut, weighing a dram, has been 
given to oxen, buffaloes, horfes, and fwine, without any 
damage. Nor is it true that thefe feeds are never Ipoiled 
by keeping, or by worms ; for they are frequently found 
with holes eaten in them, efpecially in the Eaft Indies and 
in moift places. ’ 
2. Ignatia longiflora, or long-flowered beans : leaves 
oblong, waving, acuminate ; peduncles terminating, fix- 
flowered or thereabouts. This is a branching ffirub five 
or fix feet high, with a fmooth green bark, and a white 
hard wood. It begins to put forth branches at two feet 
from the ground ; they are knotty, twilled, and fubdivided 
into oppofite twigs. At each joint are two leaves oppo- 
fite, fmooth, entire, thin, oblong, waving on the edge, 
ending in a long point: the largelt are feven inches long, 
and two and a half wide; between them on each lide is a 
broad, ftiff, fharp, ftipule. Native of Guiana on the banks 
of large rivers : flowering in November, and fruiting in 
January. The Caribbee name is aymara-pofoqucri. 
IGNA'TIUS (St.), furnamed Theophorus, one of the 
apoftolical fathers of the Chriftian church, and a martyr 
in the early part of the fecond century, was probably a 
native of Syria, though the ancients furriifli us with no 
information concerning- his country or parentage. He 
was early educated in the principles of the Chriftian reli¬ 
gion, and was an attendant on the inftruftions of St. Pe¬ 
ter and St. Paul. According to the ACls of his martyr¬ 
dom, the genuinenefs of which, however, is difputable, 
he >vas alfo the particular difciple of St. John. Having 
become eminent for his acquaintance with the Chriftian 
doctrine, and diftinguilhed by his piety and abilities, he 
was cholen' bilhop of Antioch ; but it is difficult to fix 
the precile time and order of his election to that office. 
Eulebius lays, that he was the fucceffor of Euodius, the 
fil'ft bilhop of Antioch after St. Peter; and St. Jerome 
1 concurs- 
