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warded by the title of the Catholic , conferred by Innocent 
VIII. on both the royal partners and their fucceflbrs in 
the Spaniih crown. Though her reign was in general 
highly profperous, yet her latter years were darkened by 
domeftic difquiets. Her only fon, don Juan, died foon 
after his marriage with an Auftrian princefs. Her eldelt 
daughter Joanna, married to the archduke Philip, dif- 
played marks of a weak and difordered mind, and was 
treated with neglect by her hufband. Ifabella fell into a 
droplical diforder, which carried her off, to the great re¬ 
gret of her fubjeCts, in November 1504., in the fifty-fourth 
year of her age. Robertfon. 
ISABEL'LA, a fmall ifland near the coaft of Brafil : 
twenty-five miles fouth-weft from the mouth of the river 
St. Francifco. 
ISABEL'LA, or Isabelle, f . The yellow-dun colour. 
A French writer, of the name of Barten, gives the fol¬ 
lowing ftrange account of the word Ifabdle, by which the 
French exprefs the dun-colour: “In 1601,” fays he, 
“when the Spaniards attacked Offend, at that time garri- 
foned by the Hollanders, Ifabelk, the wife of the archduke 
Albert, vowed never to change her linen till the city was 
taken. This princefs had the misfortune of being prefent 
at the fiege, which, notwithltanding her royal neceflities, 
lafted for three whole years; fo that, (fays the French 
writer,) as one may naturally conceive, her highnefs’s li¬ 
nen took a yellowfh tint. After the capitulation of the 
place, which prefented nothing but a heap of ruins, the 
ladies in the fuite of the archduchefs, in order to make 
their court to her, adopted in their drefs a colour between 
white and yellow, which, in honour of their miftrefs, 
they called Ifabdle .” 
ISABEL'LA POINT, on the north fide of the ifland 
of St. Domingo, forms the north-eaft fide of the bay of 
its name. Lat. 19. 59. 10. N. This is the port where Co¬ 
lumbus formed the firft Spanifh fettlement on the ifland, 
and named both it and the point after his patronefs queen 
Ifabella. He entered it in the night, driven by a temped. 
It is overlooked by a very high mountain flat at the top, 
and furrounded with rocks, but is a little expofed to the 
north-weft wind. The river Ifabella which falls into it, 
is confiderable. There are fourteen fathoms of water to 
anchor in. The fettlement was begun in 1493, was given 
up in 1496, when its inhabitants were carried to the city 
of St. Domingo, which originally was called New Ifabella. 
The bay is laid to have good anchorage for (hips of war. 
It is about twenty-nine leagues eaft by north Cape of Fran¬ 
cois, meafuring in a ftraight line. 
ISABEL'LA RIV'ER, or Ozama, one of the largeft 
rivers of the ifland of St. Domingo, and on which the city 
of St. Domingo is fituated. It is navigable nine or ten 
leagues from fouth to north. One may judge of the enor¬ 
mous volume of water which the confluent ftream of Ifa¬ 
bella and Ozama fends to the fea, by the red colour it 
gives it in the time of the floods, and which is perceiva¬ 
ble as far as the eye can diftinguifh. There is a rock at 
the mouth, which prevents the entrance of veflels draw¬ 
ing more than eighteen or twenty feet of water. The ri¬ 
ver for a league is twenty-four feet deep ; and its banks 
are twenty feet perpendicular, but north of the city this 
height is reduced to four feet. This rc-al natural bafon 
has a bottom of mud or foft fand, with a number of careen¬ 
ing places. It feldom overflows its banks, except in very 
extraordinary inundations. The road before the mouth 
of the Ozama is very indifferent, and lies expofed from 
weft-fouth-weft to eaft. It is impofiible to anchor in it 
in the time of the fouth winds, and the north winds drive 
the veflels from their moorings out into the fea, which 
here runs extremely high. The mouth of the river is in 
lat. 18. 18. N. Ion. 72. 38. W. of Paris. 
I'SACSIG, a town of Croatia: eight miles north-north- 
weft of Bihacs. 
IS'ADAS, a Spartan, who, upon feeing the Thebans 
entering the city, (tripped himfelf naked, and, with a 
fpear and fword, engaged the enemy. He was rewarded 
with a crown for his valour. Plutarch, 
ISiE'A, one of the Nereides. 
IS.CE'US, a Grecian orator, was a native of Chalcis, 
either in Euboea or Syria, and flourifhed about, the end of 
the Peloponnefian war, the fourth century B. C. He was 
the difcipleof the orator Lyfias, and poffeffed the fame pu¬ 
rity, accuracy, concifenefs, and perfpicuity of ftyle, with 
more force and vigour. He was a great mafter in foren- 
fic or popular eloquence, and had the honour to be the 
inftruftor of Demolthenes at Athens, where he opened a 
rhetorical fchool. He lived to the time of king Philip. 
Sixty-four orations were extant in his name, of which 
fifty alone were reckoned genuine. Of thefe, ten only are 
remaining, publifhed among the Oratores veteres Graeci, 
Stephan. 1575. An excellent tranflation of them into En- 
glifh by Mr. afterwards fir William Jones, was given in 
1779. 
Another Greek orator of the fame name, who came to 
Rome about A. D. 97, is mentioned with great applaufe 
by Pliny the younger. 
ISA'GO, a country of Africa, north-weft of Benin. 
ISAGO'GICAL, adj. Belonging to an introduction ; 
introductory. 
IS'AGOGUE,yi [from sir, Gr. into, and ayu, to lead.] 
An introduction. 
IS'AGON,_/i [from kto?, Gr. equal, and yuna, an an¬ 
gle.] A geometrical figure confiding of equal angles. 
ISA'IAH, [Heb. the falvation of the Lord.] A man’s 
name; the title of one of the prophetical books of ferip- 
ture. Ifaiah, the firft in order and dignity of the four greater 
Hebrew prophets, was the fon of Amos; and, if with St. 
Jerome and other Chriftians we credit Jewifh tradition, the 
grandfon of Joafli king of Judah. He was called early to 
the prophetical office, and delivered his predictions during 
the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. The 
duration of the period in which he exercifed this office 
cannot be afeertained with any certainty ; but its com¬ 
mencement is moft generally fixed in the laft year of the 
reign of Uzziah, or 758 B. C. The Jews have a tradition 
that he lived to the time of Manaffeh, by whofe command 
he was put to a cruel death, being fawn afunder ; to which 
the Epiftle to the Hebrews is thought to allude, ch. xi. 
37. This hypothefis would extend the period co the 
length of fixty-one years. The tradition, however, is very 
uncertain; and one of the moft learned rabbis, and Jewifh 
commentators, Aben Ezra, feems rather to think that he 
died fome years before Manaffeh came to the throne, 
which is indeed more probable. It is neverthelefs certain, 
that he lived to the fifteenth or fixteenth year of Heze¬ 
kiah ; which makes the lead pofiible term of the duration 
of his prophetical office about forty-eight years. 
The time of the delivery of fome of his prophecies is 
exprefsly marked, or fufficiently clear from the hiftory to 
which they relate ; and that of a few others may with 
fome probability be deduced from expreflions, deferiptions, 
and circumftances, interwoven in them. Hence it will 
appear that they are not placed in exaCt order of time. 
They commence with a fevere remonftrance againft the 
corruptions prevailing among the Jews, exhortations to 
repentance, grievous threatenings to the impenitent, and 
gracious promifes upon reformation, which appear adapted 
to the latter part of Jotham’s reign, or the commence¬ 
ment of that of Ahaz. This is followed by prophecies 
relative to the times of the Mefliah, the war with the Ro¬ 
mans, the deftruclion of Jerufalem, and other fafts con¬ 
nected with thefeevents, which are thefubjeCtof thefecond, 
third, and fourth, chapters, and were probably delivered in 
the time of Jotham or Uzziah. To thefe fucceed a general 
reproof of the Jews for their wickednefs, and an exprefs 
declaration of vengeance by the Babylonian invafion, 
which appear adapted to the ftate of things in the reign 
of Ahaz. The fixth chapter opens with a vifion which 
feems to contain a folemn defignation of Ifaiah to the 
a prophetical 
