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X'SLA. See I la-, 
I'SLA de LE'ON, an ifland on the coaft of Spain, in 
the Atlantic, feparated from the continent by a very nar¬ 
row ftrait. The form is irregular, the length'about ten 
miles, and the breadth fcarcely in part three: the city of 
Cadiz is built at its north-welt extremity. Lat. 36. 27.N. 
Ion. 6. 25. W. 
I'SLAM, f means a city; but is generally ufed as fig- 
nifying the true faith among the Mahometans. 
ISLAMABAD', a town of Bengal, and capital of the 
province of Chittigong, lituated on the river Chittigong 
or Currumfully, about twelve miles from the bay of Ben¬ 
gal. Lat. 22. 2i. N. Ion. 91. 55. E. 
ISLAMABAD', a fmall province of Bengal, between 
Goragot and Patiadah. 
I'SLAMISM, the Mahometan religion. See Arabia, 
vol. ii. p. 3. 
ISLAMNAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Bopal: ten miles north-north-eaft of Bopaltol. 
ISLAMPOU'R, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Nagore : thirty-fix miles north-eaft of Didwana. 
ISLAMPOU'R, a town of Hindooltan, in Bahar: twenty- 
eight miles fouth of Patna. Lat. 25. 8. N. Ion. 85. 23. E. 
ISLAMPOU'R, a town of Hindooltan, in Viliapour: 
fifteen-miles fouth-welt of Currer. 
ISLAMPOU'R, a town of Hindooltan, in the circar of 
Jvenagur: feventy miles north-north-welt of Jvepour. 
ISLAM'TI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania: 
thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kaifarieh. 
I'SLAND,_/i \infula , Lat. ifola, Ital. ealand, Erfe. It is 
pronounced iland.~\ A tradt of land furrounded by water. 
•—He will carry this ijland home in his pocket, and give 
it his fon for an apple. And, lowing the kernels in the 
lea, bring forth more ijlands. Shake/peare. 
Within a long recefs there lies a bay, 
An ijland lhades it from the rolling lea. 
And forms a port. Dryden. 
Several naturalilts are of opinion, that the iflands were 
formed at the deluge; others think, that there have 
been new iflands formed by the calling up of vaft heaps 
of clay, land, mud, &c. others think they have been fe¬ 
parated from the continent by violent Itorms, inunda¬ 
tions, and earthquakes. Thele laft have obferved, that 
the Eall Indies, which abound in iflands more than any 
other part of the world, are likewife more annoyed 
with earthquakes, tempefts, lightnings, volcanoes, &c. 
than any other part. Others again conclude, that iflands 
are as ancient as the world, and that there were fome at 
the beginning; and, among other arguments, fupport their 
opinion from Gen. x. 5. and other paflages of Scripture. 
Varenius thinks that there have been iflands produced 
each of thele ways. St. Helena, Afcenfion, and other fteep 
rocky iflands, he fuppofes to have become fo by the fea's 
overflowing their neighbouring champaigns ; but, by the 
heaping up huge quantities of fand, and other terreftrial 
matter, he thinks the iflands of Zealand, Japan, &c. were 
formed. Sumatra and Ceylon, and moll of the Eaft-In- 
dia Iflands, he thinks were rent off from the main land ; 
and concludes, that the iflands of the Archipelago were 
formed in the fame way, imagining it probable that Deu¬ 
calion’s flood might contribute towards it. The ancients 
had a notion that Delos, and a few other iflands, rofe 
from the bottom of the fea; which, how fabulous foever 
it may appear, agrees with later obfervations. Seneca 
takes notice, that the iflands Therafia rofe thus out of the 
yEgean fea in his time, of which the mariners were eye- 
witnefles. 
It is indeed very probable, that many iflands have ex¬ 
ited not only from the deluge, but from the creation of 
the world ; and we have undoubted proofs of the forma¬ 
tion of iflands in all the different ways above-mentioned. 
Another way, however, in which iflands are frequently 
formed in the South Sea, is by the coralline infefts. On 
this fubjeff, fee Coral Rocks, vol. V. p. 188. 
Vol. XI. No. 763. 
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Islands 0? Ice. See Ice, vol. x. p. 718. 
Floating Islands. Hiftories are full of accounts of 
floating iflands ; but the greateft part of them are either 
falfe or exaggerated. What we generally fee of this kind, 
is no more than the concretion of the lighter and more 
vifeous matter floating on the furface of the water in 
cakes; and, with the roots of the plants, forming conge¬ 
ries of different fizes, which, not being fixed to the lliore 
in any part, are blown about by the winds, and float on 
the furface. Thefe are generally found in lakes, where 
they are confined from being carried too far ; and, in pro- 
cefs of time, fome of them acquire a very confiderabls 
fize. Seneca tells us of many of thele floating iflands in 
Italy; and fome later writers have deferibed not a few of 
them in other places. But, however true thele accounts 
might have been at the time when they were written, very- 
few proofs cf their authenticity are now to be found ; the 
floating iflands having either difappeared again, or been 
fixed to the fldes in fuch a manner as to make a part of 
the lliore. Pliny tells us of a great ifland ,which at one 
time fwatn about in the lake Cutilia in the country of 
Reatinum, which was difeovered to the old Romans by a 
miracle; and Pomponius tells us, that in Lydia there were 
feveral iflands fo loofe in their foundations, that every 
little accident fltook and removed them. 
I'SLAND BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of the ifland of 
Paraguay. Lat. 6. 15. N. Ion. 118. 53. E. 
1 'SLAND MAGE'E, a peninfula of Ireland, in the 
county of Antrim, on the coaft of the north channel of 
the Irifli Sea; about fix miles long, and one broad; to 
the north of the entrance into Belfaft Lough. 
I'SLANDER, f. An inhabitant of a country furround¬ 
ed by water.—There are many bitter fayings againft 
i/landers in general, reprefenting them as fierce, treache¬ 
rous, and unhofpitable; thofe who live on the continent 
have fuch frequent intercourfe with men of different reli¬ 
gions and languages, that they become more kind than 
thofe who are the inhabitants of an ifland. Addifun. 
A race of rugged mariners are thefe, 
Unpolifh’d men, and boift’rous as their Teas; 
The native ijlandcrs alone their care, 
And hateful he that breathes a foreign air. Pope. 
ISLAN'DIC, adj. Belonging to Iceland ; belonging to 
the language fpoken by the Icelanders. Johnfon. 
ISLAN'DIC, f. The language of the Icelanders. 
1 'SLANDS (Bay of,) on the louth coaft of Nova-Scotia. 
I'SLANDS (Bay of,) one of the bays or harbours of 
New Zealand in Aultralafia. It is pretty well known, 
that the Society for Millions to Africa and the Eaft, en¬ 
tertained a defign to eltablilh a million in New Zealand j 
and had aftually lent out three perfons, who were in¬ 
tended to fettle there as artificers. About the time that 
thole perfons might be expected to have arrived there, a 
party of the natives, under the direction of their chief, 
Tippahee, who once paid a vilit to Port Jackfon, and ap¬ 
peared to be very friendly to the Englifli, feized upon and 
deftroyed the fhip Boyd ; and killed (it is alfo faid de¬ 
voured) molt of the crew. The following ltatement is 
copied from the Sydney Gazette, a newfpaper publilhed 
by authority in New South Wales. “ On Friday, March z, 
1810, arrived the colonial Ihip King George, captain 
Chace, with Ikins and oil, having been at the entrance of 
the Bay of Iflands eighteen days previous. Mr. Chace 
was prevented from entering the bay, by information 
from the Anne, captain Gwynn ; from which flie received 
the melancholy information of the Boyd’s capture by the 
New Zealanders, under Tippahee ; and the maflacre of 
every one on-board, except a boy, two women, and a 
child, at a place called Whangarra, about twenty miies 
from the Bay of Iflands; which unhappy communication 
was received by the Anne, from a letter left by Mr. Berry, 
of the City of Edinburgh, with a friendly chief named 
Tarrahee, who delivered it to captain Gwynn. The City 
of Edinburgh failed, Ihortly after the relcue of the four 
5 L perfons 
