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fcee parents-, who had never been flaves: for the children from crevice to crevice, and creeping, intermingled with; 
of the liberti, or perfons who had obtained their liberty, a darkifh-coloured mofs, over the rocky precipices, with; 
■were called Merit nr, not ingcnui-, this appellation of inge- - almoft iacredible luxuriance and richnefs of colouring. 
nuns being relerved for their children, or the third ge- A wildnefs and folemnity pervade this fcene, that is iti¬ 
neration. expreflibly pleafing to a meditative mind; and I had a- 
INGEN'UOUSLY, adv. Openly; fairly; candidly; ge- full opportunity of indulging my reflections, as I fat: upon 
nerouliy.— It was a notable obfervation of a wife father, a ftone befide the roaring ftream. 
and no lets ingenuoujly confefled, that thofe which held “ Purfuing the courfe of the rivulet, we pafled beneath 
and perfuaded preffure of confciences were commonly in- a number of terrific precipices; and, eroding a tolerably 
terefted. Bacon. pleafant, but very fmall, valley, we again proceeded by 
INGEN'UOUSNESS,/ Opennefs; fairnefs; candour. the water’s edge to Yordas Cave, an awful chafm, to which- 
IN'GENY, f. [ingenium, Lat.] Genius; wit. Not in we defeended through a rudely-formed archway, and were 
lift.— Whatever of the production of his ingtny comes into inftantly ftruck with the loud refounding noife of a wa- 
foreign parts, is highly valued. Boyle. terfall, which however was for fome time longer invifible 
IN'GERAM, a fmall ifland in the Straits of Malacca, to our fight; when our guide, who had made preparation 
near the coalt of Salengore. Lat. 3.15. N. Ion. 101.26. E. for the expedition, ftruck a light, and, flicking feveral 
IN'GERAM, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of candles in a piece of wood fixed at the end of a pole, we 
Raj am undry : thirty miles fouth-eaft of Rajamundry. journeyed with caution, and entered a cavern of prodigious 
IN'GERSHEIM, a town of France, in the department extent, fo fpacious indeed, that even the number of lights 
of the Upper Rhine: fix miles weft-north-weft of Colmar, he carried fcarcely ferved to enable us to diftingui(h° its 
To INGE'ST, v. a. [ ingcjlus , Lat.] To throw into the boundaries. Imagination cannot conceive a more awe- 
ftomach.—Nor will we affirm that iron, inge/led, receiveth infpiring place than that in which we then found our- 
in the belly of the oftrich no alteration. Brown. felves: not the moft diftant aperture admitted a ray of 
Some the long funnel’s curious mouth extend, day-light; no found, fave that of the unfeen catarafl, 
Through which ingejled meats with eafe defeend. Blackmore. “ioke in upon the ftillnefs of the fcene, and that appeared 
to gain ftrength as we the longer liftened to its roaring 
INGESTING,/. The a6l of throwing into the fto- noife. A fubterranean ftream, into which we were in no 
mach. _ fmall danger of being precipitated by the flipperinefs of 
INGES'TION, /. The afl of throwing into the fto- the ground amongft the loofe ftones at the bottom of the 
mach.—It has got room enough to grow into its full di- cave, flowed juft immediately beneath our path; but, 
menfion, which is performed by the daily ingejlion of milk having furmounted fome of our difficulties by climbing a 
and other food, that is in a fhort time after digefted into ledge of rock that impeded the way, our eyes became ac- 
blood. Harvey. cuftomed to the darknefs of the place, and we could look. 
INGESU', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania: fearlefsly around upon a number of curious petrifaflions,. 
eighty miles fouth-eaft of Yurcup. hanging from the roof and fides of the cave; while our 
IN GETORP, a town of Sweden, in the province of guide informed us, one of an immenfe fize was denomi- 
, Sclronen : ten miles eaft of Yltad. nated the Bifhop’s Throne ; and feveral others on the 
ING'HUYSEN, a town of Holland, in the county of oppofite fide, he alfo faid, bore Itrong refemblance to the 
Zutphen : three miles north-eaft of Doefburg. heads of animals. This, however, we could neither of us 
ING'KALU, a fmall ifland in the North Sea, near the perceive; and 1 am apt to think the referiiblances are- 
coaft of Lapland. Lat. 70. 50. N. more in the imagination of the vifitor, than any real like- 
IN'GLE, f. A paramour.—Call me your love, your nefs they difplay to any thing in nature. 
ingle, your coufin, or fo; but After at no hand. Dekkcr. “ From this prodigious recefs we were next conducted 
IN'GLEBOROUGH, a lofty mountain of England, in by a narrow pafs, fufficiently wide for only one perfon to 
the north-welt part of the county of York, twenty miles ftand in at a time, and which is difficult, if not dangerous 
in circumference. alfo, as the moilture of the ground precludes the poflibility 
IN'GLETON, a large village, about feven miles from of makinga lure footing, and, the ftream being juft below 
Kirkby Lonfdale, in Weftmoreland, fituate in a very ro- this fort of path, there is a chance of tumbling into it. 
mantic country, abounding in natural curiofities ; of fome We were, however, fortunate in efcaping every accident 
of which we have in the Monthly Magazine of December of that unpleafant nature, and thought ourfelves well 
laft, (1810,) the following pleafing delcription : rewarded" for the trouble we had undergone by the fight 
« At Ingleton we pafled the night; and at an early of the cafcade, whofe noife had echoed fo tremendoufly 
hour in the morning, having procured a guide to con- through the cave. Nothing can be more ftrikiogly grand 
duel us on the way, we fet out on foot by the fide of a and beautiful than the fcene which here prefented itfelf, 
brook called Doe-Beck, {beck, in Weftmoreland and the which, though the catarafl is not fo largess fome I have 
adjoining counties, is the name for a fmall brook or ri- feen, is aftonilhingly magnificent. Figure to yourfelf a 
vulet;) when we fhortly reached the bafe of a tremendous ftieet of water tumbling over a precipice of about five 
precipice, partly covered with wood, and in height nearly yards in height, into a fort of circular apartment, adorned 
a hundred yards; while, on the oppofite fide of the ftream, by innumerable petrifaflions, brilliantly illuminated by 
another rocky eminence hemmed us completely in, and the lights carried by our guide; and producing all together 
feemed fo clofely united with its neighbour, that there an eftefl to which no language can do juftice, and no 
was fcarcely room for the rivulet to pafs betwixt the fcenic reprelentation ever equal. 
boundaries of the romantic dell; at the extremity of “ Tradition fays, a giant of the name of Yordas once 
which, a grand cafcade is formed by the waters of the inhabited this cave; and there are feveral gloomy recefles 
brook already named, which, ruffling impetuoufly through fliown in the large cavity, which bear the appellation of 
an aperture of the rock, falls above thirty yards in height, his bed-chamber, his oven, and other neceflary accom- 
in one unbroken fneet, from the liimmit of a rocky ledge modations. The walls ate compofed of a blackilh ftone> 
of confiderable width; when, dafliing down the fteep, it or marble, veined with red and white, nearly fixty yards 
precipitates itfelf into a dark deep pool, whence it boils in length, of a proportionate width, and in height about 
up with prodigious force, foaming and dafliing its fpray fifty yards. On the mountain above there is a quarry of 
around on every fide. This cataraft is known by the marble, which receives a fine polifli ; and many elegant 
name of Thornton-Force-, and, when viewed from where ornaments have been manufaftured at Kendal from the 
we flood below, is one of the fineft feenes of the kind I produce of that quarry. 
have ever feen ; the tops and fides of the crags being “ Having returned to behold the glorious light of day, 
beautifully adorned with ihrubs of various hues, fliooting we feated ourfelves upon a rocky ledge not far from the 
entrance 
