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JIN'NET BAY', a bay of the Mediterranean, on the 
coaft of Algiers : eleven leagues eaft of Algiers. 
JIN'ZO, a town of Spain, in the province of Galicia : 
twelve miles fouth-eafl of Orenfe. 
JINZOOWA'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in the 
country of Guzerat : forty miles fouth of Janagur. 
TJO, or Jos'su, a province of Japan. 
I'JON, [Heb. a fountain..] The name of a city. 
JIONPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Benares, on the Goomty river : thirty miles north-weft 
of Benares. Lat. 25. 46. N. Ion. 82. 55. E. Greenwich. 
, JIPH/TA, [Hebrew.] The name of a city. 
JIPH'TIIUBAL, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
IK'ENILD STREET. See Ickenild Street, p.753. 
JIR'BAN, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : eight miles north-weft of Sana. 
JIUNCHE'TO, a town of the ifland of Corfica: four 
miles fouth of Sarcena. 
IK, a river of Ruftia, which runs into the Kama. 
IK, a river of Ruftia, which runs into the Sakkara. 
IKARUN'GA, a town of Japan’, in the province of 
Tonga. 
IKAZA'NI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilfta : four miles fouth-eaft of Wilna. 
IK'EN (Conrad), profeffor of theology in the reformed 
Gvmnaiium at Bremen, and iirft preacher in Stephen’s 
church, preftdent of the German Society in that city, and 
member of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, was born 
at Bremen in 1689. After acquiring great celebrity by 
his writings, as a good divine and learned orientalist, he 
died in the month of June, 1753. His works are : 1. An- 
tiquitates Hebraicse, Brem. 1732, 8vo. feveral times re¬ 
printed. 2. Thefaurus novus theologico-philologicus, 
five Sylloge Hiffertatibnum Exegeticarum ad Selectiora 
atque Infigniora Veteris & Novi Teftamenti Loca, Amft. 
1732, 2 vols. folio. 3. Tradtatus Talmudicus de Cultu 
quotidiano Templi Verfione Latina donatus & Notis il- 
luftratus, Brem. 1736, 4to. 4. Symbolic Literarite ad In- 
crementum Scientiarum omne Genus a variis amice col- 
latae, Brem. 1744, 3 vols. 8vo. 5. Dilfertationes philolo- 
gico-theologicse in diverfa facri Codicis utriufque Tefta¬ 
menti Loca, Ludg. Bat. 1749, 8vo. 
I'KI, or Is'ju, one of the iftands of Japan. 
SK'KESH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
IK'MAS, a town of Egypt; ten miles louth-weft of 
Menuf. 
IKOL'LA, a province of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Angola. 
I'KON, a town of Africa, on the Gold Coaft, where 
the Dutch have a factory. 
I'LA, Il'ay, or Isla, one of the Weftern Ifles of Scot¬ 
land, lying to the weft of Jura, from which it is feparated 
by a narrow channel. It extends twenty-eight miles in 
length from north to fouth, and is eighteen in breadth 
from eaft to weft. On the eaft ftde, it is full of moun¬ 
tains coyered with heath ; to the fouthward, the land is 
tolerably well cultivated. In fome parts the inhabitants 
have found great plenty of limeftone, and lead-mines are 
worked in three different places. The only harbour in 
Jfta is at Lochdale, near the north end of the ifland. 
Here are feveral rivers and lakes well ftcred with trout, 
eels, and falmon. In the centre is Loch Finlagan, about 
three miles in circuit, with the little ifte of that name in 
the middle. 
Here the great Lord of the Iftes once refided in all the 
pomp of royalty; but his palaces and offices are now in 
ruins. Inftead of a throne, Macdonald flood on a ftone 
leven feet fquare, in which there was an impreflion made 
to receive his feet ; here he was crowned and anointed 
by the bilhop of Argyle and feven inferior priefts, in pre¬ 
fence of the chieftains. The ftone ftill exifts. The cere- 
snony (after the new lord had collected his kindred and 
vaflals) was. truly patriarchal. After putting on his ar¬ 
mour, his helmet, and hjs fword, he took an oath to rule 
#s his anceftors had done; that is, to govern as a father 
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would his children ; his people in return fwore that they 
would pay the fame obedience to him as children would 
to their parent. The dominions of this potentate, about 
the year 1586, conftfted only of Ilay, Jura, Knapdale, and 
Cantyre; fo reduced were they from what they had been 
before the deprivation of the great earl of Rofs in the 
reign of James III. Near this is another little ifte, where 
he affembled his council, Ilan na Corlle, or the Ifland of 
Council; where thirteen judges conftantly lat to decide 
differences among his fubjedts; and received for their 
trouble the eleventh part of the value of the affair tried 
before them. In the firft ifland were buried the wives 
and children of the lords of the ifles ; but their own per- 
fon-s were depofited in the more facred ground of Iona. 
On the lhores of the lake are fome marks of the quarters 
of his carnarck and gilli-glajjis , the military of the ifles 5 
the firft fignifying a ltrong man, the laft a grim-looking 
fellow. The firft were light-armed, and fought with darts 
and daggers; the laft with ffiarp hatchets. Thefe are the 
troops that Shakefpeare alludes to, when he fpeaks of a 
Donald, who 
From the Weftern Ifles 
Of kernes and gallow-glaffes were Supplied. 
Befides thofe already mentioned, the lords had a houfe 
and chapel at Laganon, on the fouth fide of Loch-andaal ; 
a ftrong caftle on a rock in the fea, at Dunowaik, at the 
fouth-eaft end of the country; for they made this ifland 
their refidence after their expulfion from that of. Man in 
1304. There is a tradition, that while the Ifle of Man 
was part of the kingdom of the ifles, the rents were for a 
time paid in this country; thofe in illver were paid on a 
rock, ftill called Creig-a-nione, or the Rock of the Silver- 
rent; the other, Creig-a-nairgid, or the Rock of Rents in 
kind. Thefe lie oppolite to each other, at the mouth of 
a harbour on the fouth fide of this ifland. There are fe¬ 
veral-forts built on the ifles in freffi-water lakes, and di¬ 
vers caverns in different parts of the ifland, which have 
been ufed occafionally as places of ftrength. The ifland 
is divided into four pariffies, viz. Kildalton, Kilaron,. 
Kilclioman, and Kilmenie. The produce is corn of dif¬ 
ferent kinds; fuch as bear, which fometimes yields eleven¬ 
fold ; and oats, fix-fold. Much flax is railed here, and 
about 2000I. worth fold out of the ifland in yarn, which 
might better be manufactured on the fpot, "to give em¬ 
ploy to the poor natives. Notwithstanding the excellency 
of the land, above jooqI. worth of meal is annually im¬ 
ported. Ale is-frequently made in this ifland of the young 
tops of heath, mixing two-thirds of the plant with one of 
malt, fometimes adding hops. Boethius relates, that this 
liquor was much ufed among the Pifts ; but, when that 
nation was extirpated by the Scots, the fecret of making 
it perilhed with them. Numbers of cattle are bred here, 
and annually exported. The ifland is often overftocked, 
and numbers die in March for want of fodder. None but 
milch-cows are houfed ; cattle of all other kinds, except 
the faddle-horfes, run out during winter. 
The number of inhabitants is computed to be between 
feven and eight thoufand. About feven hundred are em¬ 
ployed in the mines and in the filhery ; the reft are gen- 
tlemen-farmers, and Subtenants or fervants. The women 
fpin. The fervants art paid in kind ; the Sixth part of 
the crop. They have houfes gratis; the mafter gives 
them the feed for the firft year, and lends them horles to 
plough annually the land annexed. 
In this ifland, Mr. Pennant informs us, Teveral ancient 
diverfions and fuperftitions are ftill preferved; the laft in¬ 
deed are almoft extinft, or at mod lurk only amongft the 
very meaneft of the people. The latewakes or funerals, 
like thofe of the Romans, were attended with fports and 
dramatic entertainments. The power of.fascination is as 
ltrongly believed here as it was by the Shepherds of Italy 
in times of old : Ncjcio quis teneros uculis mi hi fafcinal agnos? 
But here the power of the evil-eye affeCts more the milch- 
cows titan lambs. If the good houl'ewife perceives the 
effect 
