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ILLIM'ITABLY, adv. Without fufceptibility of 
bounds. 
ILLIM.'ITED, adj. Unbounded; interminable. 
ILLTM'ITEDNESS,/. Exemption from all bounds.— 
The abfolutenefs and illimitednefs of his commiflion was 
generally mush fpoken of. Clarendon. 
ILLINO'IS, a large navigable river of the north-weft 
territory of the American States, formed by the conflu¬ 
ence of the rivers Plein and Theakiki, in lat. 4.1. 48. N. 
and in Ion. 88.42. W. This noble branch of the Mifliflippi, 
after running a Terpentine fouth-weft courfe through an 
extenfive country of rich fertile land, and receiving a vaft 
number of rivers from twenty to one hundred yards wide, 
which are navigable for boats from fifteen to one hun¬ 
dred and eighty miles, approaches within five miles of the 
Mifliflippi; from thence running eaftward about twelve 
miles it pays its tribute by a mouth four hundred yards 
wide, in lat. 38. 40. N. and in Ion. 92. 12. W. oppofite the 
large cave, one hundred and feventy-fix miles above the 
Ohio, and eighteen above the Miflouri. The lands on the 
banks of the Illinois, particularly thofe on the fouth-eaft 
fide, are perhaps as fertile as any part of North America. 
They produce, in the moft luxuriant plenty, wheat, rye, 
Indian corn, peafe, beans, flax, hemp, tobacco, hops, 
grapes, apples, pears, peaches, dying roots, medicinal plants, 
&c. Here alfo grow large forelts of hickory, oak, cedar, 
mulberry-trees, &c. Savannas, or natural meadows, are 
both numerous and extenfive. In the forefts are great 
variety of animals, as buffaloes, deer, &c. and in the ri¬ 
vers are plenty of fifh, particularly cat, carp, and perch, 
of an enormous fize. Such is the abundance of wild grapes 
in this country, that in 1769 the French planters upon this 
river made above no hhds. of ftrong wine from thefe 
grapes. On the north-weftern fide of this river is a coal¬ 
mine, which extends for half a mile along the middle of 
its banks ; and about the fame djftance below the coal-mine 
are two fait ponds, one hundred yards in circumference, 
and feveral feet in depth. The water is ftagnant, and of 
a yellowifh colour; but the French and natives make a 
good fait from it. The Illinois furnifhes a communica¬ 
tion with lake Michigan, by Chicago river, between which 
and the Illinois are two portages, the length of which do 
not exceed four miles. The whole length of the river, 
from, the fource of Theakiki, which is but a fhort diftance 
from the river St. Jcfeph, oppofite to Fort $t. Jofeph on 
the north, is four hundred and eighty miles. The Indians 
have ceded to the United States, by the treaty of Green¬ 
ville, in 1795, a tract of land twelve miles fquare, at or 
near the mouth of the Illinois ; alfo a trad! fix miles fquare, 
at the Old Piarias fort and village near the fouth end of 
Illinois Lake. That lake is only a dilatation of the river, 
and is fituated about two hundred and forty miles below 
the fource of Theakiki, and forty-three below the Salt 
Ponds. It is twenty miles long, and five broad, in the 
middle. 
ILLt'QUATED, adj. [from in, Lat. into, and liquco, to 
melt.] Melted down. Scott. 
ILLIQUATION,^ The aft of melting one thing into 
the other. Scott. 
ILLITERATE, adj. [i/literatus, Lat.] Unlettered ; un¬ 
taught; unlearned; unenlightened by fcience. In the 
.firft ages of Chriftianity, net only the learned and the wife, 
but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and 
death. Tillotfon. 
Th’ illiterate writer, empiric-like, applies 
To minds difeas’d unfafe chance remedies: 
The learn’d in fchools, where knowledge firft began. 
Studies with care th’ anatomy of man ; 
Sees virtue, vice, and paflions, in their caufe; 
And fame from fcience, not from fortune, draws. Dryden. 
ILLIT'ERATELY, adv. Without learning. 
ILLITERATENESS, f. [from illiterate.'-] Want of 
learning; ignorance of fcience.—Many, acquainted with 
chemiltry but by report, have, from the illiteratenejs and 
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impoftures of thofe that pretend fkill in it, entertained an. 
ill opinion of the art. Boyle. 
ILLITERATURE, f. jin and literature.] Want of 
learning. Not much ufed. —The more ufual caufes of this 
deprivation are want of holy orders, illiterature, or inabi¬ 
lity for the difeharge of that facred function, and irreli- 
gion. Ayllffe. 
ILLITHY'A, in heathen mythology, the goddefs of 
child-bearing; Lucina. 
ILLNA'TURE, J~. Habitual malevolence; want of hu¬ 
manity.— lllnature inclines a man to thofe aftions that 
thwart and four and difturb converfation, and confifts of 
a pronenefs to do ill turns, attended with a lecret joy 
upon the fight of any mifehief that befals another, and of 
an utter infenfibility of any kindnefs done him. South. 
ILLNATURED, adj. Habitually malevolent; wanting 
kindnefs or good will; miichievous; defirous of another’s 
evil.—Thefe ill qualities denominate a perfon illnatured, 
they being fuch as make him grievous and uneafy to all 
whom he deals and aflociates himfelf with. South. 
Stay, filly bird, th’ illnatur'd talk refufe ; 
Nor be the bearer of unwelcome news. Addifon. 
Philips applies it to land.—Untraftable ; net yielding to 
culture : 
The fondly ftudious of increafe. 
Rich foreign mold on their illnatured land 
Induce. Philips. 
ILLNA'TUREDLY, adv. In a peevilh froward man¬ 
ner. 
ILLNA'TUREDNESS, f. Want of a kindly difpofition. 
ILL'NESS, /. [from ill. ] Badnefs or inconvenience of 
any kind, natural or moral. He that has his chains knocked 
off, and the prifon-doors let open, is perfectly at liberty, 
though his preference be determined to ftay, by the illnefs 
of the weather. Locke. —Sicknefs; malady: diforder of 
health.—Since the account her majefty received of the in- 
folent faftion, during her late illnefs at Windfor, flie hath 
been willing to fee them deprived of power to do mif- 
chief. Swift. —Wickednefs:. 
Thou would’ft be great 3 
Art not without ambition ; but without 
The illnefs 'Ihould attend it. S/iakefpeare. 
ILLO'CABLE, adj. [from in, Lat. contrary to, and lo~ 
cus, a place.] Incapable of being placed out, incapable of 
being hired. Bailey. 
ILLOG'ICAL, adj , Ignorant or negligent of the rules 
of reafoning.—One of the diflenters appeared to Dr. San- 
derfon l’o bold and illogical in the difpute, as forced him. 
to fay, he had never met with a man of more pertinacious 
confidence, and lefs abilities. Walton .— Contrary to the 
rules of reafon.—Reafon cannot difpute and make an in¬ 
ference fo utterly illogical. Decay of Piety. 
ILLOGTCALLY, adv. In a manner contrary to the 
laws of argument. 
IL'LOK, a town of Sclavonia, fituated on the Danube: 
fixteen miles weft of Peter Waradin, and forty-eight welt- 
north-weft of Belgrade. 
ILLO'RA, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada : fixteen miles north of Loja. 
ILLOWNI'KA, a river of Silefia, in the principality 
of Tefchen, which runs into the Viftula near Dziedzitz.. 
To ILLU'DE, v. a. [illudo, Lat.] To deceive; to mock ; 
to impofe on ; to play upon; to torment by fome con¬ 
temptuous artifice of mockery: 
Sometimes athwart, fometimes he ftrook him ftrait, , 
And falfed oft his blow, t’ illude him with fuch bait. 
Fairy Queen,. 
In vain we meafure this amazing fphere, 
While its circumference, fcorning to be brought 
Ev’n into fancy’d fpace, illudes our vanquilh’d thought. 
Prior. 
ILLU'DING,,/! The aft of deceiving with falfe hopes. 
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