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effect of the malicious on any of her kine, fhe takes as 
nnich milk as five can drain from the enchanted herd, (for 
the witch commonly leaves very little ;) die boils -it with 
certain herbs, and adds to them dints and untempered 
fteel; after that the fecures the door, and invokes the 
three l'acred perfons. This puts the witch into fuch an 
agony, that die comes nilling-willing to the houfe, begs 
to be admitted, to obtain relief by touching the powerful 
pot; the good woman then makes her terms; the witch 
re Ho res the milk to the cattle, and in return is freed from 
her pains. But fometimes, to fave the trouble of tliofe 
charms, (for it may happen that the diforder may arife 
from other caufes than-an evil eye,) thetrial is made by 
inimerging in milk a certain herb, and, if the cows are fu- 
pernaturally affefted, it in'ftantly diftils blood. The un- 
fuccefsful lover revenges himfelf on his happy rival by 
charms potent as tliofe of the Ihepherd Alpliefibaeus, and 
exactly fimilar: 
NeHe tribus nodis term's, AmaryUi, colores: 
Ne£le, Amarylli, inodo. 
Donald, takes three threads of different hues, and ties 
three knots on each, three times imprecating the mod: 
cruel difappointments on the nuptial bed ; but the bride¬ 
groom, to avert the harm, Hands at the altar with an un¬ 
tied fhoe, and puts a dxpence beneath his foot. 
HiHory furnidies very few materials for the great events 
or revolutions of Hay. It feems to have been long a feat 
of empire, probably jointly with the Ide of Man, as be¬ 
ing molt conveniently fituated for the government of the 
reft of the Hebrides ; for Crovan the Norwegian, after his 
conqueH of that illand in 1066, retired and finifhed liis 
.days in Ilay. There are more Danidi or Norwegian names 
of places in this idand than any other ; almoft all the pre- 
fent farms derive their titles from them ; fuch as Perfi- 
bus, Torridale, Torribolfe, and the like. On the retreat 
of the Danes, it became the feat of their fucceffors the 
lords of the Ides ; and continued, after their power was 
broken, in the reign of James III. in their defendants 
the Macdonalds, who held or ought to have held it from 
the crowm. It was in the poffeffion of a fir James Mac¬ 
donald in the year 1598, the lame who won the battle of 
Traii-dhruinard. His power gave umbrage to James VI. 
.who diyefted the lord of Macleod, Cameron of Lochiel, 
.and the Macueiles of Barra, to lupport the Macleans in 
another invafion. The rival parties met near the hill of 
Benbigger, eaft of Kilarow ; a fierce engagement enfned, 
and the Macdonalds were defeated and almoft entirely 
cut off. Sir James efcaped to Spain ; but returned in 
1620, was pardoned, received a penfion, and died the fame 
.year at Glafgow ; and in him expired the laft of the great 
Macdonalds. But the king, irritated by the difturbances 
raifed by private wars w>aged between thefe and other 
clans, refumed the grant made by his predeceffor, and 
transferred it to fir John Campbell of Calder, who held it 
on paying an annual feu-duty of 500I. fterling, which is 
paid to this day. The ifland was granted to fir John as a 
reward for his undertaking the conqueft; but the family 
confidered it as a dear acquifition, by the lofs of many 
gallant followers, and by the expences incurred in fup- 
port of it. 
I'LA SOUND, a narrow ftrait, between the illands of 
Jura and Ila, the navigation of which is dangerous, from 
the rapidity of the tides, fudden lqualls, and foul ground. 
ILAANTRE'RACH, a fniall ifland, near the wefl 
coafl of Scotland, a little to the eafl of Oronfa. 
ILAANRO'AN, a fmall illand, near the weflern coafl 
of Scotland, a little to the fouth of Oronfa. 
ILA'CA KIA'MEN, a poll of Chinefe Tartary: fif¬ 
teen miles fouth of Merguen. 
IL'AI, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
I'LAK, or Ja'lak., a town of Africa, in the country of 
Nubia, on the Nile, fuppofed by fome to be the ancient 
Meroe. Lat. 18.48. N. Ion. 34. 30. E. Greenwich. 
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lLAM'BA, or Elua'me, a large province of Africa,, 
in the kingdom of Angola. 
ILANMCHRE, a lmall ifland in Clew Bay, on the weft 
coafl of Ireland. 
ILANMO'RE, a fmall ifland of Scotland, about half a 
mile north from the ille of Coll. 
I'LANTZ, a town of the Grifons, and capital of the 
Grife league, fituated near the Rhine : twenty miles fouth- 
wefl of Coire, and forty fouth-eaft of Lucern. Lat. 46. 40. 
N. Ion. 26. 40. E. Ferro. 
ILANTZIN'SKOI, a towm of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutflc : ten miles north-north-weft of Verclmei 
Udinlk. 
IL'BERG, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Warmeland : fix miles north-weft of Carlftadt. 
IL'CHESTER. See Ivelchester. 
IL'DEFONSO (St ), a celebrated royal refidence of 
Spain, diftant about two leagues from Segovia, but up¬ 
wards of twenty from Madrid. It was eredled by Phi¬ 
lip V. in the midft of a folitary wood, and in the bofom 
of fteep mountains. It is chiefly remarkable for its gar¬ 
dens. There is nothing magnificent in the palace, parti¬ 
cularly in its exterior appearance. The front on the fide 
of the garden is of the Corinthian order, and not defti- 
tute of elegance. Here are the king's apartments, which 
look upon a parterre furrounded with vafes and marble 
ftatues, and a cafcade, which, for the richnefsof its deco¬ 
rations, may be compared with the fineft of the kind. 
The purity and clearnefs of the water is indeed incompa¬ 
rable. Philip V. could not, in this refpect, be better 
ferved by nature. From the mountains Which (hade the 
palace defeend feveral rivulets, which fupply the refer- 
voirs. Thefe waters anfwer the double purpofe of fup- 
plying numerous fountains, and of diffufing life and ver¬ 
dure through the magnificent gardens, the light of which 
alone is a lufficient recompence for a journey into Spain. 
They are on the infide a league in circumference. The 
inequality of the ground affords every moment new points 
of view. The principal walks anfwer to different liun- 
mits of neighbouring mountains; and one in particular 
produces ihe.moft agreeable effedh It is terminated at 
one end by the grand front of the palace. From this 
point are feen, at one view, five fountains, ornamented 
with elegant groups, rifing into an amphitheatre, above 
which appear the lurnmits of lofty mountains. The inoft 
elevated of thefe groups is that of Andromeda failened to 
a rock. When feen at a little diftance it is perhaps de¬ 
fective, becaufe the rock appears too diminutive by the 
fide of the monfter which threatens Andromeda; and of 
Perfeus, by whom it is attacked ; but the whole contri¬ 
butes to the beauty of the view.' The moft remarkable 
of the five groups is that of Neptune. 
Philip had not the pleafure of completely enjoying 
what he had created ; death furprifed him when the works 
he had begun were but half finiflied. The undertaking 
was however the moft expenfive one of his reign. “ The 
finances of Spain, fo deranged under the princes of the 
houfe of Auftria, (fays Mr. Bolirgoanne,) would have been 
fufficient for three long and ruinous wars, and for all the 
Operations of a monarchy which Philip V. had conquered 
and formed anew, as well as to have refilled the fhocks 
of ambition and political intrigue; but they funk beneath 
the expenfive efforts of magnificence.” It is Angular 
that the caftle and gardens of St. Ildefonfo fhould Have coft 
about 45,000,000 of piaftres, precifely the fum in which 
Philip died indebted. This enormous expence will ap¬ 
pear credible, when it is known that the fituation of the 
royal palace was, at the beginning of the 18th century, 
the Hoping top of a pile of rocks ; that it was neceffary 
to dig and hew out the Hones, and in feveral places to le¬ 
vel the rock; to cut out of its fides a paffage for a hun¬ 
dred different canals, to carry vegetative earth to every 
place in which it was intended to fubftitute cultivation 
for fterility, and to work a mine to clear a paffage to the 
so D roots 
