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To ITIN'ERATE, v. n. To travel j to journey. Colt. 
ITIOBA'RA BAY, a bay on the coaft of Brafil. Lat. 
6 . 20. S. Ion. 37. 46. W. 
I'TIUS POR'TUS, in ancient geography, the crux geo- 
graphorum, fuch being the difficulty of afeertaining its po¬ 
rtion. It would be endlefs to recite the feveral opinions 
concerning it, with the feveral reafons advanced in fupport 
of them. Three ports are mentioned by Csefar; two 
without any particular name, viz. the Higher and the Low¬ 
er, with refpeiff to the Fortius Itius. Calais, Boulogne, 
St. Omer, and Whitfand, have each in their turn had 
their feveral advocates. Casfar gives two diftinftive cha¬ 
racters or marks which leem to agree equally to Bou¬ 
logne and Whitfand, namely, the iliortnefs of the paf- 
fage, and the fituation between two other ports ; there¬ 
fore nothing can with certainty be determined about the 
fituation of the Portus Itius. 
ITKARIN'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Kolivan : 156 miles eaft-north-eaft of Kolivan. Lat. 
55. 36. Ion. 85. 44. E. 
ITO'NIA, a furname of Minerva, from a place in 
Boeotia, where the was worfhipped. 
ITO'NUS, a king of Theflaly, fon of Deucalion, who 
firft invented the manner of poliffiing metals,. Lucan. 
ITRA'BO, a town of Spain, in the province of Gre¬ 
nada : ten miles weft-north-weft of Motril. 
I'TRI, a town of Naples, in the province of Lavora : 
three miles fouth-eaft of Fondi. 
ITSCH, a river which paffes by Coburg, and runs into 
the Maine, one mile fouth of Rattelfdorf, in the biffiopric 
of Bamberg. 
ITSELF', pron. The neutral reciprocal pronoun ap¬ 
plied to things.—Borrowing of foreigners, in itfclj] makes 
not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke. 
Who then ftiall blame 
His pefter'd fenfes, to recoil and ftart. 
When all that is within him does condemn 
Itfelf for being there ? Shakefpcare. 
ITS'JA, a towm of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo : ten 
miles north of Taifero. 
ITTA'I, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
IT'TENDAL, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Helfingland : fifteen miles north of Hudwickfwal. 
IT'TENWEILLER, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine : feven miles weft of Benfelden. 
IT'TER, a river of Hefle, which runs into the Eder 
two miles fouth-weft of Vohle. 
IT'TERBECK, a river of France, which runs into the 
Meufe about five miles below Maefyck. 
IT'TERGAU, a fertile diftriCl of Upper Hefle, watered 
by the Itter. 
IT'TERTHAL, Itter en Val, or Bergstadt, a 
town of Upper Hefle: eight miles north-weft of Waldeck, 
and twenty-four weft of Caflel. 
IT'TI CAN'NI,yi in botany. See Loranthus. 
ITTI'GIUS (Thomas), a learned German Lutheran 
divine and profefior, was born at Leipfic about the year 
7654. After purfuing his ftudies in his native city, and 
afterwards at Roftock and Strafburg, he was appointed af- 
fefior of the faculty of philofophy at Leipfic. Being ad¬ 
mitted to the miniftry, he difeharged the duties of that 
office in different churches in that city. In the year 1686 
he was made archdeacon, and admitted to the degree of 
doftor of divinity. In 1687 he was appointed profeifor 
extraordinary in that faculty, and profefior in ordinary in 
the following year. For fome time he took a (hare with 
his learned contemporaries in publiffiing the Leipfic Acts ; 
and, befides other employments, filled the poll of fuper- 
intendent of the ecclefiaftical diftrift of that city. He 
died in 1710, when more than fixty-fix years of age. 
Lardner gives him the title of the very learned, when quot¬ 
ing with ftrong commendation his Prolegomena to Jofe- 
phus. He was the author of, 1. A Treatife on Burning 
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Mountains, 1671, 8vo. 2. Difiertatio de Hjerefiarchis 
AEvi Apoftolici, eique proximi, 1703, 4to. 3. Appendix 
de Hrerefiarchis. 4. Prolegomena ad Jolephi Opera. 5. 
Bibliotheca Patrum Apoltolicorum Graeco-Latina. 6. 
Hiftoria Synodorum Nationaliurn, in Gallia a reformatis 
habitarum, 1705, 8vo. 7. Hiftoria; Ecclefiaftica; prirni & 
fecundi Saeculi felebta Capita, 1709, and 1711,411 2 vols. 
4to. of which the latter was pofthumous. 8. Liber de 
Bibliothefis Sc Catenis Patrum. 9. Exercitationes Theo¬ 
logies;. 
IT'TY A'LU,/. in botany. See Ficus. 
I'TU, a town of South America, in the province of 
Buenos Ayres, on the Parana: 130 miles eaft of Cor* 
rientes. 
ITUE'RO, a town of Spain, in the province of Leon s 
thirteen miles fouth-fouth-weft of Civdad Rodrigo. 
ITU'NA, a river of Britain, now Eden in Cumberland. 
ITURE'A, [Heb. a country of mountains.] A pro¬ 
vince of Syria, or Arabia, beyond Jordan, eaft of Batanea, 
and fouth of Trachonitis. Luke, iii. 1, fpeaks of Iturea j 
and 1 Chron. v. 19, of the Itureans, or of Jethur accord¬ 
ing to the Hebrew. Jethur was one of the fons of Iffi- 
mael; Gen. xxv. 15. 1 Chron. i. 31. Iturea is included 
in Arabia Petrsea. Ariftobulus, king or prince of the 
Jews, the fon of Hircanus, early in his reign made war 
upon the Itureans, fubdued the greater part of them, and 
obliged them to embrace Judaifm,as Hircanus his father had 
fome years before obliged the Idumeans to do. He gave 
them their choice, either to be circumcifed and embrace 
the Jewiffi religion, or to leave the country, and feek for 
a fettlement ellewhere. The}' chofe to ftay. They, there¬ 
fore, though defeended from Iffimael, had not continued 
circumcifion; or perhaps Ariftobulus might compel them 
to receive it on the eighth day, whereas before they de¬ 
layed till the age of twelve or thirteen years. Philip, one 
of Herod’s fons, W'as tetrarch or prince of Ituraea, when 
John the Baptift entered on his miniftry. Luke iii. 1. 
IT'WA, a town of Bohemia, in Pilfen: three miles 
north-weft of Teuling. 
IT'YLUS, in ancient geography, a fon of Zetheus and 
Aidon, killed by his mother. See JE don, vol. i. 
I'TYS, in fabulous liiftory, a fon of Tereus king of 
Thrace, by Procne daughter of Pandion king of Athens. 
He was killed by his mother when he was about fix years 
old, andferved upas meat before his father. He was changed 
into a pheafant, his mother into a fwallow, and his father 
into an owl. 
ITZ, or Iz, a river which rifes in the principality of 
Coburg, and runs into the Maine about a mile north-eaft 
of Baunach. 
ITZECUINTEPOTZOT'LI,/. A Mexican quadruped 
fimilar to a dog. It is as large as a Maltefan dog; and 
the (kin is varied with white, tawny, and black. The 
charafteriftic mark is a great hunch which it bears from 
its neck to its rump. This animal abounds mod in the 
kingdom of Michuacan. 
ITZEHO'E, a town of the duchy of Holftein. The 
town derives its origin from an order iflued in 809, by the 
emperor Charles the Great, to count Egbert, that on the 
Stor, at a place called Effesfeld, he ftould build a town 
and fortrefs againlt the Danes. This fortrefs afterwards 
obtained the name of Efleho or Etzehoe, which in the 
fourteenth century was changed into that of Itzehoe. In 
the year 1200, the burg, and no fmall part of the adjoin¬ 
ing place, was deftroyed; but the latter was rebuilt, and 
for its greater ftrength furrounded by water, a wide canal 
being drawn to it from the Stor. In 1238, count Adol¬ 
phus IV. eredted it into a town, conferring on it Lubec 
rights : and in 1260, the counts John and Gerhard mads 
it a ftaple, fo that all (hips coming up the Stor out of the 
Elbe and from Wilfter are to unlade here, and offer their 
goods to fale, and not fo proceed farther upwards with¬ 
out the permiffion of the magiftracy. O11 account of the 
above-mentioned rebuilding of this place, all that part of 
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