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prophetical office ; on which account it is by rnoS inter¬ 
preters thought to be the firft in the order of his prophe¬ 
cies. But bilhop Lowth obferves, that perhaps it may 
not be fo, as it is dated in the year of Uzziah’s death, 
during whofe reign he is faid, in the general title of his 
predictions, to have prophefied, and whofe aCts he wrote, 
which was ufually done by a contemporary prophet. It 
is not improbable therefore, that this might be a new de- 
fignation, to introduce more folemnly a general declara¬ 
tion of the whole courfe of God’s difpenfations in regard 
to his people, and the fates of the nation; which are even 
now ftill depending, and will not be fully accomplilhed 
till the final reftoration of Ifrael. The fucceeding chap¬ 
ters to the thirty-fixth prefent us with predictions of the 
ill fuccefs of the defigns of the Ifraelites and Syrians 
againll Judah, together with the deftruftion of their king¬ 
doms by the Alfyrians, and of the calamities to be 
brought by the latter upon the king and people of Judah ; 
the fubfequent ruin of the Affyrian hoft ; the deltruftion 
of Babylon by the Medes and Perfians, and of the Egyp¬ 
tians and Culhites by the Alfyrians ; the deftrutlion of 
Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar; the calamitous fate of other 
cities and nations, which were enemies of Judah; and the 
defolation of the land of Ifrael and Judah, on account of 
the wickednefs and difobedience of the people. Thele 
predictions are interfperfed with promifes of the return 
of the divine favour, on the repentance and reformation 
of the Ifraelites ; fevere threatenings of God’s judgments 
on their great and powerful enemies ; frequent references 
to the times of the Meffiah ; together with a hymn and 
odes of fupreme and lingular excellence. In the thirty- 
fixth and three following chapters, the prophet gives us 
a hiltory of the invafion of Sennacherib, and the miracu¬ 
lous deftruCtion of his army; and alfo an account of the 
ficknefs of Hezekiah, as well as of the tranfa&ions be¬ 
tween him and the prophet. The remaining part of the 
book of Ifaiah contains a courfe of prophecies, which 
conftitute the molt elegant part of the facred writings of 
the Old Teftament, and are chiefly of the confolatory kind. 
They relate to the return of the Jews from the Babylonilh 
captivity, and the circumftances leading to, or arifing 
from, the introduction of the kingdom of the Meffiah, 
and the fpread of Chriftianity in the world. The num¬ 
ber, plainnefs, and beauty, of his predictions relative to 
the important deliverance to be effected by him who was 
the hope of Ifrael, and the frequent citations from him 
in the writings of the New Teftament, have not impro¬ 
perly obtained for him the dillinguilhing character of the 
Evangelical Prophet. 
The molt valuable Englilh tranflations of this prophet 
are, that of bilhop Lowth, entitled, Ifaiah ; a new Tranf- 
lation, with a preliminary Differtation, and Notes, critical, 
philological, and explanatory, 1778, ^.to. in which the 
author has followed the metrical arrangement; and that 
of the late Michael Dodfon, efq. in profe, and entitled, 
A new Tranflation of Ifaiah ; with Notes fupplementary 
to thofe of Dr. Lowth, late bilhop of London, and con¬ 
taining Remarks on many Parts of his Tranflation and 
Notes ; by a Layman, 1790, 8vo. There is alfo a new 
tranflation of this prophet by Dr. Stock, bilhop of Killala, 
published very lately. Among the foreign commentators 
on this part of the facred writings, the learned Vitringa 
is entitled to diftinguilhed honour. With refpeCt to the 
book entitled The Afcenfion of Ifaiah, mentioned by St. 
Jerome and Epiphanius, and another, entitled The Vi- 
fion of Ifaiah, both of which have been attributed to this 
prophet, there is now no queftion of their being fuppofi- 
titious. 
I'SAKLU, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania : 
twelve miles north-weft of Aklhehr. 
ISAKO'VA, a town of European Turkey, in Molda¬ 
via: fixty miles north-eaft of Jaffy. 
FSAKZI, a town of European Turkey, fituated on the 
Danube. In 1790 this town was taken by the Ruffians: 
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twenty-fix miles weft of Ifmail. Lat. +5. 18. N. Ion. 29. 
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ISAN'DER, a fon of Bellerophon, killed in the war 
which his father made againft the Solymi. Homer. 
ISANDO'RA, a town of Angola, on the Coanza: 
twenty-five miles fouth of Loando. 
ISA'PIS, a river of Umbria. Lucan. 
I'SAR, or Isa'ra, in ancient geography, the Ifore, a 
river of Gaul, where Fabius routed the Allobroges. It 
rifes at the eaft of Savoy, and falls into the Rhone near 
Valence.—Another, called the Oyfe, which falls into the 
Seine below Paris. 
I'SAR, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : three miles north of Hof. 
ISANT'SE-AGHI'SI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Natolia : twelve miles weft of Eregri. 
I'SAREIC. See Shadman. 
ISA'RIA,yi in botany, a genus of the clafs cryptoga- 
mia, order fungi; but of the clafs gymnocarpi, order nce- 
matothecii, according to the fyftem of Albertini and 
Schweiniz. There are feven lpecies, viz. craffa, agaricina, 
epiphylla, umbrina, carnea, monilioides, and faccharina. 
One lpecies will be fufficient to defcribe the genus. 
Ifaria monilioides: Ample, upright, ftipe hard, femi- 
pellucid; cap white, oblong, turbinated or roundilh; 
filaments fmooth, cluttering, farinaceous, ihort. It va¬ 
ries from Monilia Candida, (which lee,) the fibres being 
fmooth, not jointed, and in the form of the cap. A 
fmall fpecies, hardly a line in thicknefs, ffiining, fome- 
times diitinft, fometimes long and broad, crowded, form¬ 
ing a kind of bunch. Some fpecimens lie flatter; head 
often two-fided, double-jointed at the ftalk. Stipes vari¬ 
ous in colour, white, yellow, red. Head a little farina¬ 
ceous; but we have fometimes leen the farina brulhed off 
in great quantities together from the covered ftalk. It 
is frequently found on the bark of the pine when (tripped 
from the trunk rotten and wet; or from the alder. Sea- 
fon, autumn, and particularly lpring. On the preceding 
Engraving this fungus is ftiown at fig. 2 ; a is its natural 
fize and appearance; at b it is magnified, and the whole 
covered with farina; at c is the naked ftalk. 
ISA'RIA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra : eight 
miles weft of Nicaftro. 
ISAR'RIA, a town of Naples, in Calabria Ultra: ele¬ 
ven miles fouth of Squilace. 
ISA'TIS,/ [derivation unknown.] Woad; in bota¬ 
ny, a genus of the clafs tetradynamia, order filiculofa, in 
the natural order of filiquofae, or cruciformes, (cruciferse, 
JuJf. ) The generic characters are—Calyx: perianthium 
foilr-leaved ; leaflets ovate, rather fpreading; coloured, 
deciduous. Corolla : four-petalled, crofs-lhaped ; petals 
oblong, obtufe, fpreading, gradually attenuated into the 
claws. Stamina : filaments fix, upright-fpreading, length 
of the corolla ; of thefe two are Ihorter; antherce ob¬ 
long, lateral. Pillillum : germ oblong, ancipital, com- 
preifed, length of the Ihorter ftamens ; ftyle none; ftigma. 
obtufe, headed. Pericarpium : filicle oblong, lanceolate, 
obtufe, compreffed, ancipital, one-celled, not gaping, bi¬ 
valve; valves navicular, compreffed, keeled, deciduous. 
Seed: angle, ovate, within the centre of the pericarpium. 
—EJfential CharaEler. Silicle lanceolate, one-celled, one- 
feeded, deciduous, bivalve; valves navicular. 
Species, x. I fatis tinftoria, or dyer’s woad ; root-leaves 
crenate; ftem-leaves fagittate; filicles obcordate. Our 
common woad is a biennial plant, with a fufiform fibrofe 
root. Stem upright, round, fmooth, woody at bottom, 
branched at top. Root-leaves ovate-lanceolate, on long 
footftalks, down which they run a little. Stem-leaves al¬ 
ternate, quite entire, embracing, fmooth, from two to 
three inches long, and fcarcely half an inch in breadth. 
Thefe are fometimes very flightly toothletted; and a few 
hairs are fometimes found both on the Item and leaves. 
Flowers fmall, terminating the Item and branches in a 
clofe raceme. Both corolla and calyx yellow; petals 
notched 
