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more than fourteen or fifteen inches afunder. In the 
bottom of tliefe, at any feafon of the year, drew the feeds 
pretty thick, and immediately cover them. As the plants 
(hoot, they fhouid be frequently weeded, and kept conltant- 
ly clean, until they fpread fufficiently to cover the ground. 
Thofe who cultivate great quantities, only drew the feeds 
pretty thick in little (hallow pits, hoed up irregularly', but 
generally within four, five, or fix, inches of one another, 
and covered as before. Plants raifed in this manner are 
obferved to anfwer as well or rather better than the others, 
but tfyey require more care in the weeding. They grow 
to full perfection in two or three months, and are ob¬ 
ferved to anfwer belt when cut in full bioffom. The 
plants are cut with rape-hooks, a few inches above the 
root, tied in loads, carried to the works, and laid by ftrata 
in the deeper. The culture of indigo has been greatly 
negleCted among the Englilh colonilts, though no part of 
the world affords a better foil, or more commodious fix¬ 
ations for that purpofe, than Jamaica. They have be¬ 
gun however to plant there of late years. Seventeen 
negroes are fufficient to manage twenty acres of indigo; 
and one acre of rich land, well planted, will; with good 
feafons and proper management, yield five hmfdred pounds 
of indigo in twelve months; for the plant ratoons and gives 
four or five crops a-year; but mult be replanted afterwards. 
Mr. Miller is of opinion that the planters of indigo 
fow their feeds too thick, whereby the plants are drawn 
up with (lender Items, not fufficientiy furnilhed with 
•leaves, and thofe leaves not fo large and fucculent as if 
the plants were allowed a greater fnare of room. It is a 
common cbfervation of the cultivators of vvoad, that, when 
the plants fpire, and have narrow thin leaves, they pro¬ 
duce little dye; they not only therefore make choice of 
rich ftrong land, but are careful to thin the plants, that 
they may have room to fpread, and produce large fuccu- 
lent leaves. If the planters of indigo in America would 
imitate the cultivators of woad in this particular, they 
would certainly find their advantage, another point in 
which they err is, letting the plant Hand too long before 
they cut it; for, the older it is, the drier and firmer are 
the (talks, and the lefs will be diifolved by fermentation ; 
nor will the faeces of old plants be near (o beautiful. It 
is to be wilhed therefore that the planters would try Come 
experiments in the culture and management of indigo, 
by fowing thin, keeping the plants perfectly cledn, and 
cutting them whilft young and full of juice. But, labour 
being dear in the Weft Indies, the planters may object 
to the expence of cultivating indigo in this manner. To 
avoid this, the feeds might be fown with the drill-plough ; 
and, by the life of the hoe-plough, ten acres may be kept 
clean from weeds with as fmall an expence as one with 
the hand-hoe ; and, by (tirring the ground often, and 
earthing up the plants, they would grow much (tronger, 
be lefs liable to be deftroyed by infeCts, and have larger 
and more fucculent (talks and leaves. Though all feafons 
be good for fowing indigo, yet care mult be taken not to 
do it in a dry time, becaufe it may be eaten by vermin, 
carried away by the wind, or choked by weeds; the 
planters therefore ufually choofe a feafon which promifes 
rain, and then they are fure of feeing the plant fpring up 
in three or four days. See Sophora. 
IN'DIKHOOD, a town of Grand Bukhari?.: fixty, 
miles weft of Balk. Lat. 36. 38. N. Ion. 64.. 10. E. 
INDIL'IGENCE, / [in and diligence.'] Want of exer¬ 
tion.—Is it not as great an indignity, that an excellent 
conceit and capacity by the indiligence of an idle tongue 
Ihould be difgraced ? Ben Jonfon. 
INDION', a town of Perfia, in the province of Chora- 
fan, near the Masjan : 210 miles north-north-eaft of Herat. 
IN'.DIOS, a river of the ifthmus of Darien, which runs 
into the Pacific Ocean in lat. 6. 20. N. 
INDIRECT', adj. [Fr. indiredlus, Lat.] Not ftraight; 
not rectilinear. Not tending otherwife than obliquely or 
consequentially to a purpofe ; as, an indircil acculation. 
Wrong; improper: 
The tender prince 
Would fain have come with me to meet your grace$ 
But by his mother was perforce“with-held. 
-Fy, what an indirect and peevilh courfe 
Is this of hers ? Skakefpeare. 
Not fair ; not lioneft.—Thofe things which they do know 
they may, upon fundry indireEl confiderations," let pafs ; 
and, although themfelves do not err; yet may they deceive 
others. Hooker.—IndireEl dealing will be difeovered one 
time or other, and then he loles his reputation. Tillotfon. 
O pity and (liame! that they who to live well 
Enter’d fo fair, Ihould turn afide, to tread 
Paths indireEl. Milton 
INDIRECTION,/ Oblique means; tendency not in 
a ftraight line : 
And thus do we, of vvifdom and of reach. 
With windlaces, and with eflays of byas, 
By indireElions find directions out. Shakefpeaye . 
Difhoneft praCtice. Not ufed: 
I had rather coin my heart than w'ring 
From the hard hands of peafants their vile trafb. 
By any indireElion. S/iakefpeare. 
INDIRECT'LY, adv. Not in a right line; obliquely. 
Not in exprefs terms.—Still llie fupprefles the name 
which continues his doubts and hopes; and at laft lhe in- 
dircdlly mentions it. Broome.— Unfairly ; not rightly._He 
that takes any thing from his neighbour, which was juftly 
forfeited, to fatisfy his own revenge or avarice, is tied to 
repentance, but not to reltitution; becaufe I took the for¬ 
feiture indireElly, I am anfwerable to God for my unhand- 
fome, unjuft, or uncharitable, circumftances. Taylor. 
He bids you then refign 
Your crown and kingdom, indireElly held 
From him the true challenger. Shakefpeare. 
INDIRECT'NESS, / Obliquity. Unfairnefs ; dilho- 
nefty ; fraudulent art. 
INDISCER'NIBLE, > adj. Not perceptible; not difeo- 
verable: 
Speculation, which, to my dark foul. 
Depriv’d of reafon, is as indifcernible 
As colours to my body, wanting light. Denham. 
INDISCER'NIBLENESS, / The ftate or quality of 
being indifcernible. Scott. y 
• INDISCER^NIBLY, adv. In a manner not to be per¬ 
ceived. ^ 1 
INDISCERPTIBIL'ITY, f. [from indifcerptible.] The 
ftate of being indilfoluble. 
INDISCERP'TIBLE, adj. Not to be feparated ; inca¬ 
pable of being broken or deftroyed by difiolution of parts* 
— 1 here is no fort of reafon to think death to be the dif- 
folution of the living being, even though it Ihould not be 
abfolutely indifcerptible. Butler's Analogy. 
INDISCERP'TIBLENESS,/ [from mdifcerptible.] The 
ftate or quality of being indifcerptible. 
INDISCOV'ERY, / The ftate of being hidden. An 
unufual word. —The ground of this aflertion 1 was the mag¬ 
nifying efteem of the ancients, arifing from the indiEcoverv 
of its head. Brown. J y 
INDISCREE'T, adj. [indiferet, Fr.] Imprudent; in¬ 
cautious ; inconliderate ; injudicious.—If thou be amoiw 
the indijereet, obferve the time; but be continually among 
men of underftanding. Ecclef. “ 
Why then 
Are mortal men fo fond and indifereet. 
So evil gold to feek unto their aid; 
And having not complain, and having it upbraid ? Spenfer 
INDISCREET'LY, adv. Without prudence; without 
coniideration ; without judgment.—Let a great perfonage 
undertake an aftion pafiionately, let him manage it indif -- 
creetly, and he dull have enough to flatter h\m.°Taylor. 
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