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From its numerous lakes many ftreams defcend toward 
both feas. In the extenfive diftridt called Badenoch, 
lies Lock Spey, the fource of the great river Spey, which, 
proceeding eaftward with an increafing ftream, enters the 
fhire of Murray at Rothiemurchus, after having expanded 
into a fine lake. Not far from this is feen the lofty top 
of Cairngorm 5 a mountain celebrated for its beautiful 
rock-cryltals of various tints. Thele are much efteemed 
by lapidaries; and fome of them, haying the luftre of fine 
gems, bring a very high price. Limeftone, iron-ore, and 
fome traces of different minerals, are found in the county; 
but no mines have yet been worked with much fuccefs. 
Its rivers and lakes afford abundance of falmon and trout. 
The extenfive plains which furround the lakes are in ge¬ 
neral fertile; and the high grounds feed many Iheep and 
black cattle, the rearing and felling of which forms the 
chief trade of the inhabitants. By the prefent fpirited 
exertions of the gentlemen in this populous county, the 
commerce and the induftry of the inhabitants have of 
late been greatly increafed. The population, in the year 
1808, confilted of 74,29a perfons, inhabiting 14,357 houfes. 
The commonalty in the high parts of the county and on 
the weftern fhore fpeak Gaelic; but people of fafliion in 
Invernefs and its vicinity ufe the Englilh language, and 
pronounce it with remarkable propriety. 
INVER'SE, adj. [Fr. inverfvs, Lat.] Inverted; reci¬ 
procal ; oppoled to diyeEl. It is fo called in proportion, 
when the fourth term is fo much greater than the third 
as the fecond is lefs than the firft ; or fo much lefs than 
the third as the fecond is greater than the firft. See 
Arithmetic. —Every part of matter tends to every part 
of matter with a force, which is always in a direct pro¬ 
portion- of the quantity of matter, and an inverfe dupli¬ 
cate proportion of the diftance. Garth. 
INVER'SELY, adv. Invertedly ; reciprocally. 
INVERSION,/. [Fr. inverfo, Lat.] Change of order 
or time, fo as that the laft is firft, and firft laft.—If he 
fpeaks truth, it is upon a fubtle inverfion of the precept of 
God, to do good that evil may come of it. Brown. —Change 
of place, fo that each takes the room of the other.—Pro¬ 
blems in geometry and arithmetic are often proved by in¬ 
verfion ; that is, by a contrary rule or operation. Ency. Brit. 
Inversion, in grammar, is where the words of a phrafe 
are ranged in a manner not fo natural as they might be. 
For an inftance: “ Of all vices, the moft abominable,, and 
that which leaft becomes a man, is impurity.” Here is 
an inverfion; the natural order being this: “Impurity 
is the moft abominable of all vices, and that which leaft 
becomes a man.” 
Inversion, in mufic, fignifies a change in the order of 
notes which form a chord, or in the parts which compofe 
harmony; which happens by fubftituting in the bafs 
thofe founds which ought to have been in the upper part; 
an operation not only rendered practicable, but greatly 
facilitated, by the refemblance which one note has to ano¬ 
ther in different octaves; wlience we derive the power of 
exchanging one oftave for another with fo much pro¬ 
priety and fuccefs, or by fublfituting in the extremes 
thofe which ought to have occupied the middle ftation; 
and vice verfa. See the article Music. 
INVERSNA'ID, a fort of Scotland, in the county of 
Stirling, with barracks near the eaft coaft of Loch Lo¬ 
mond, eredledat the beginning of the 17th century, to 
defend the country from freebooters. The barracks are 
yet kept in repair, and a guard regularly mounted : eigh¬ 
teen miles north of Dumblane. 
To INVER'T, v.a. \invtrto , Lat.] Toturn upfidedown; 
to place in contrary method or order to that which was 
before.—Poefy and oratory omit things ejftntiat , and invert. 
times and adfions, to place any thing in the moft affect¬ 
ing light. Watts. 
Aik not the caufe why fullen fpring 
So long delays her flow’rs to bear. 
And winter ftorms invert the year.. Dryden. 
To place the.laft firft; 
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Yes, every poet is a fool; 
By demonftration Ned can fhow it: 
Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule 
Prove every fool to be a poet. Prior. 
To divert; to turn into another channel; to imbezzle. 
Inftead of this, convert or intervert is now commonly uled. 
—Solyman charged him bitterly with inverting his trea- 
fures to his own private ufe, and having fecret intelli¬ 
gence with his enemies. Knolles's Hifory of the Turks. 
INVER'TEDLY, adv. In contrary or reverfed order.— 
Placing the forepart of the eye to the hole of the window 
of a darkened room, we have a pretty landlkip of the ob¬ 
jects abroad, invertedly painted on the paper, on the back 
of the eye. Derham. 
INVERTING, f. The aCt of changing the order by 
inverfion. 
INVERU'RY, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Aberdeen, fituated on the conflux of the Don and the 
Ury. It is faid to have been created a royal borough by 
Robert Bruce, on occafion of a victory obtained by him 
over the earl of Buchan, who commanded for the king of 
England ; but it does not appear to have ever been a place 
of much commerce, or a manufacturing town. In 1746, 
the laird of Macleod, and Mr. Monro of Culcairn, were 
defeated here by lord Louis Gordon. Inverury joins with 
Bamff, Elgin, Cullen, and Kintore, to return one mem¬ 
ber to parliament. In 1801, the number of inhabitants 
was 783 : ten miles north-weft of Aberdeen, and fifty-one 
north-north-eaft of Dundee. Lat. 57.11. N. Ion. 2. 19. W. 
To INVEST', v.a. [invefir, Fr.inveftio, Lat.] Todrefs; 
to clothe; to array. It has in or with before the thing 
fuperinduced or conferred : 
Their gefture fad, 
Invejl in lank lean cheeks and war-worn coats, 
Prefented them unto the gazing moon. 
So many horrid ghofts. Shakefpeare : 
Thou with a mantle didft invejl 
The riling world of waters. Milton. 
Let thy eyes Ihine forth in their full luftre-; 
Invcft them with thy loves, put on 
Thy choiceft looks. Denham. 
To place in poffdfion of a rankoroffice.—When we fanc- 
tify or hallow churches, that which we do is only to tef- 
tify that we make them places of public refort, that we' 
invejl God himfelf with them, and that we fever them from 
common ufes. Hooker. —The pra&ice of all ages and 
countries hath been to do honour to thofe who are in- 
vefed with public authority. Atterbury. —To-adorn; to> 
grace ; as clothes or ornaments : 
Honour muft 
Not unaccompanied invcft him only ; 
But figns of noblenefs, like ftars, lhall.finine 
On all defervers. Shakefpeare.. 
To confer ; to give.—If there can be found fuch an in¬ 
equality between man and man, as there is between man 
and beaft, or between foul and body, it invefteth a right of 
government. Bacon. —To enclofe; to furround fo as to in¬ 
tercept fuccours or provifions : as. The enemy invefted thee 
town.—To put on: 
Alas for pittie, that fo faire a crew, 
As like cannot be feen from eaft to weft,. 
Cannot find one this girdle to invejl. Spenfer. 
INVES'TIENT, adj. Covering ; clothing.—The Ihells- 
ferved as plaints or mounds to this fand, which, when* 
confolidnted and-freed from its inveftient ihell, is of. the.- 
fame lhape as the cavity of the Ihell. Woodward.' 
INVES'TIGABLE, adj. [from inveftigate.J To be 
fearched out; dilcoverable by rational dilquiiition.—Im 
doing evil, we prefer a lefs good before a. greater, the. 
greatnefs whereof is by reafon inyeftigable, and may be. 
known. Hooker. 
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