8 I N D 
number mu ft be two places removed from the units place, 
or that there will be three places of integers, the number 
of thefe places being- always i more than the index; fo 
that the natural number will be z 6 yi. But if the fame 
index be negative, thus 2-4234097, it fhows that the na¬ 
tural number is a decimal, and that the firft fignificant 
figure of it is in the 2d place from 
units, or that there is one ciphei 
at the beginning of the decimal, 
being 1 lefs than the negative 
index; and confequently that the 
natural number of the logarithm 
in this cafe is -02651. Hence, by 
varying the natural number, with 
refpeft to the decimal places in 
it, as in the former of the two 
columns here annexed, the index 
of their logarithm, will vary as 
in the fecond column. 
Mr. Townly introduced a peculiar way of noting- thefe 
indices, when they become negative, or exprefs decimal 
figures, which is now much in ufe, efpecially in the lo¬ 
garithms of fines and tangents, Sec. viz. by taking, in- 
ltead of the true index, its arithmetical complement to 
10; fo that, in this way, the logarithm 2-4234097 is 
written 8-4234097. See the article Logarithm. 
Expurgatory Index, a catalogue of prohibited books in 
the church of Rome. The firft catalogues of this kind 
were made by the inquifitors; and thcle were afterwards 
approved of by the council of Trent, after fome alteration 
was made in them by way of retrenchment or addition. 
Thus an index of heretical books being formed, it was 
confirmed by a bull of Clement VIII. in 1595, and print¬ 
ed with feveral introductory rules; by the fourth of which, 
the ufe of the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is forbidden 
to all perfons without a particular licence; and by the 
tenth rule it is ordained, that no book lhall be printed at 
Rome without the approbation of the pope’s vicar, or 
fome perfon delegated by the pope; nor in any other 
places, unlefs allowed by the bithop of the diocefe, or 
fome perfon deputed by him, or by the inquifitor of he¬ 
retical pravity. The Trent index being thus publiflied, 
Philip II. of Spain, ordered another to be printed at An¬ 
twerp, in 1751, with conliderableenlargements. Another 
index was publiflied in Spain in 1584 ; a copy of which 
was fnatched out of the fire when the Englifli plundered 
Cadiz. Afterwards there were feveral expurgatory in¬ 
dexes printed at Rome and Naples, and particularly in 
Spain. 
INDEXTER'ITY, fi. Want of dexterity ; want of rea- 
dinefs; want of handinefs; clumfinefs ; aukwardnefs.— 
The indexterily of our confumption-curers demonifrates 
their dimnefs in beholding its caules. Harvey. 
IN'DI, in ancient geography, the people of India. 
IN'DIA. See Hindoostan, vol. x. 
IN'DIA, adj. Belonging to India; produced in India; 
imported from India. 
IN'DIA COM'PANY. See Company, vol. iv. 875. 
IN'DIA RUB'BER. See Iatropha, vol. x. p. 709. 
IN'DIAN, adj. Belonging to India. 
IN'DI AN, f. A native of India; a native American. 
IN'DIAN AR'ROW-ROOT. See Maranta. 
IN'DIAN BAY, on the weft fide of Bonavilta Bay, in 
Newfoundland Ifland. 
IN'DIAN BER'RY. See Menispermum. 
IN'DIAN BREAD. See Iatropha. 
IN'DIAN CORN, or Maize. See Zea. 
IN'DIAN CREEK', a creek of the ifland of Antigua, 
a little to the weft of Standfaft Point. 
IN'DIAN CREEK', a place in the bay of Honduras 
remarkable for certain fubterraneous paflages called the 
Caves , which captain Henderfon, in his late Account of 
Honduras, thus defcribes : “ On a branch of the .river Si- 
bun, named Indian Creek, are fituated ,the Caves. Thefe 
are fubterraneous paflages which have been formed at the 
I N D 
bafe of three or four mountainsof very confiderable height, 
no doubt by the force of the current of water, Which pro¬ 
bably for many centuries has forced its way through them. 
The largeft of thefe paflages is fomewhat more than 
a quarter of' a mile in length, though in this country it 
lias a greater extent given to it. It would certainly re¬ 
quire no common powers of defcription to delineate with 
fidelity the exquifite beauties connected with the largeft 
of the caves. The entrance to it from Indian Creek, af¬ 
ter many windings, burfts fuddenly on the fight, and re- 
fembles very clofely the aperture of an oven, and is 
thickly overhung with rocks and trees of the grandeft, 
but wildeft, workmanlhip. When this is palled, a wide 
-and fpacious lake inftantly commences, the water of which 
is filent and deep, being fcarcely heard to murmur, but 
during the moft tempeftuous floods. The lofty roof is 
arched with the moft exaft proportion, and is profufely 
ftudded with glittering cryftallizations. Torch-light af¬ 
fords the vifitor the only means of advantageoufly view¬ 
ing this fublime piece of lcenery; for if, in one or two 
places, an occafional beam of the fun, burlting with in¬ 
conceivable luftre through the clefts of the mountain, be 
withdrawn, entire darknefs pervades the whole; and the 
fmalleft found made in palling, being quickly loudly re¬ 
verberated, is forcibly calculated to ftrike the ear with 
a feeling of lblemn grandeur. The caves are thought by 
fome to have been produced by the labour of the Indians; 
hence the name of the water which finds.its ccurfe through 
them; but this conjecture Hands divefted of every proba¬ 
bility to fupport it. When the waters are at the loweft, 
the folitary recedes of the caves are the chofen haunts of 
many animals of prey, 'of which the tiger may be moft 
frequently traced.” 
IN'DIAN CRESS. See Trop^eolum. —The Indian 
crefs our climate now does bear. Tate's Cowley. 
IN'DIAN FIG. See Cactus. 
The Indian fig-tree next did much furprife 
With her Itrange figure all our deities. Tate's Cowley. 
IN'DIAN HEAD', a cape on the eaft coaft of New 
Holland. Lat. 25. 3. S. Ion. 153. 26. E. Greenwich. 
IN'DIAN INK. See Ink. 
IN'DIAN MAL'LOW. See Sida. 
IN'DIAN MIL'LET. See Holcus. 
IN'DIAN OAK. See Tectona. 
IN'DIAN OLD TOWN, a town of the American States, 
in Lincoln county, diltrict of Maine, on an ifland in Pe- 
nobfcot-river, juft above the Great Falls. Here are about 
one hundred families, who are Roman Catholics, the re¬ 
mains of the Penobfcot-tribe, and the only Indians who 
refide in the diftrifl of Maine. They live together in a 
regular lociety, and are increafing in number; the (a- 
chems having laid an injunciicfn on the young people to 
marry early. In a former war, this tribe had their lands 
taken from them ; but, at the commencement of the Ame¬ 
rican revolution, the congrefs granted them a traft of 
land twelve miles wide, interfefted in the middle by the 
river. They have a right, in preference ,to any other 
tribe, to hunt and fifli as far as the mouth of the bay of 
Penobfcot extends. 
IN'DIAN OR'CHARD, a traft of land in Northamp¬ 
ton county, Pennfylvania, on the weft fide of Delaware 
river, on the river Lexawacfein. 
IN'DIAN PAG'OD-TREE. See Ficus. 
IN'DIAN RED, J. A fpecies of ochre ; a very fine 
purple earth, and of a firm compact texture, and great 
weight. Hill. 
IN'DIAN REED, Cane, or Shot. See Canna. 
IN'DIAN RIV'ER, or Cypress Swamp, lies partly 
in the ftates of Maryland and Delaware. This morals ex¬ 
tends fix miles from eaft to weft, and nearly twelve from 
north to fouth, including an area of nearly fifty thouland 
acres of land. The whole of this fwamp is a high and level 
bafon, very wet, though undoubtedly the higheft land on 
that part of the coaft. Falfe Cape, at the mouth of In¬ 
dian river, and the north-ealt part of Cedar Neck, is in lat. 
3 3 *- 
Number. 
Logarithm. 
2651 
3-4234097 
265-1 
2-4234097 
26-51 
1-4234097 
2-651 
0-4234097 _ 
•2651 
1-4234097 
■02651 
2-4234097 
•002651 
3-4234097 
