Volume 1

A universal geographical dictionary; or, grand gazetter. Of general, special, antient and modern geography: including a comprehensive view of the various countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; more especially of the British dominions and settlements throughout the world ... / by Andrew Brice.

  • Andrew Brice
Date:
1759
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Credit: A universal geographical dictionary; or, grand gazetter. Of general, special, antient and modern geography: including a comprehensive view of the various countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; more especially of the British dominions and settlements throughout the world ... / by Andrew Brice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ches, without Diftinclioti of Nation Or Religion, Here’s & Ridge of Mountains 25 or 30 m. long call’d Auraz, Aura- fia by Procopius, inhabited by Arabs call'd Cabeltezen, fierce, mifchievous, cruel, and the Inhabitants in gen. are fo like fome of our own fo chriftian Coallers in_&c. that they fpare-no Wrecks at Sea, be they Friends or Foes. JIGERI, or Gigeri, Town Hands on the Sea Coaft about 40 leag. E. of Algiers, E. Ion. 6. 35. lat. 36.55. and is de¬ fended by a Fortrefs almoft inacceffible, and commands all the Country, on a narrow Ship of Land jutting into Sea, & forming two commod. Havens, one oh E. one on W. The Town has about 200 Houfes, whofe Inhabitants fubfift oil the abovefaid Wreck-Manufacture. ILA, IJla, Hay, one of the IV. Iflands of Scotland, 1 m. fr. 'Jura, 15 from Kintyre, 24 m. long and from 8 to 1 8 broad, is reck, the fartheft W. of all the Brit. Hies, It abounds w. Corn, Cattle, Deer, has lev. Rivers, and frelh Lakes aboun. with Salmon, &c. and in divers of thofe Lochs are Iflands with Forts. Locb-Finlagen, 3 m. round, in the Centre of the Hland, abounds with Salmon, Trout, Eels, empties by a River into Sea, and is fo call’d fr. its Ifland, the Royal Seat of the Great Macdonald, who was crown’d and anointed King of the Ifes by his Vaffals the Bp. of Argyle and feven Priefts, before all the Heads of the Tribes of Ifles and Continent. The Ruins of his Palace, &e. are Hill feen. Here are ma¬ ny Caves, one big enough to contain 200 Men, and divided into Chambers. In Lochnadal-Bay, 8 m. lo. 2 broad, on S. of the Ifland, has a good Harbour. Lochgruynord-Bay near 5 m. lo. & near 3 br on W. Side, has feveral Iflands at its Mouth ; and here are Multitudes of lit. Iflands on the Coaft of this, fome inhabited. One, call’d Overfa, 1 m. in Comp, on S. Side near Lochnadal, is remark, for a Frith between it and If a, navigable only at cert. Hours. The E. & N. Sides of 7/7aare full of Heaths and Hills. The S. W. and W. is pretty well cultivated. Here are 4 Churches, 2 Chapels, Sc the People are all Protcftants. ’Tis not fo healthy as Jura. It gave Title of Earl to the D. of Argyle. ILANTZ, in the Grijons (Grey League) Country, is a Community with a Town of its Name on the Rhine, 1 5 m. S. W. of Char, where in Turn the Afl'emblies of the three Leagues meet. ILCHESTER or tvelchefer, in Sotnerfet, 14 m. S. of Wells, 1 25 fr. London, W. Ion. 2. 45. lat. 51. 5. fo call’d fr. its once Caille and Situation on the r.Ivel, over which it has a Bridge, is a Borough fo antient, that, they fay, the Rom. Fofsway pafs’d thro’ the Place. ’Tis certainly antient, and was of Importance and populous abt. the Time of the Con- queft, and was incomp, with a double Wall. It had 4 Par. Churches, tho’ now but one. ’Tis gov. by 2 Bailiffs, who, with the 12 Burgeffes, are Lords of the Manor. The Coun¬ ty Aflizes were once fix’d here ; and the Shire-Knights are Hill chofen, Co. Courts held, and the Goal both for Deb¬ tors and Malefactors kept here. On this Goal the Place has now its chief.Dependance, and can’t theref. be fuppos’d the moff polite, wealthy, or happy. Twas the Birth-place of Roger (the famous Frier) Bacon, in the Rn. of Hen. III. who was fo Learned in even that very rude Age that he was deem’d a Conjurer! ; for he made fuch Difcoveries in Natural Philofophy at Oxford, that the ignorant World magnified his Experiments into the Devil-and-all of Magick; for that, they faid, (and Puppet-lhews ftill maintain it) he made a Head of Brafs to fpeak ; which faid pofl'effed Head, had the cri¬ tical Minute been but precifely nick’d, was to have inftruc- ted him how to wall all England round with the fame Metal. For which had Learning of his he was charg’d with not only the Black Art, but a Thing much blacker, viz. Herefy, alfo. The Franci/can Priefts, his own very Brotherhood, com¬ plain’d of thefe 2 diabplical Crimes to Pope Nicholas V. who, being himielf no Conjurer, nor the leaft bit of a Heretick be¬ fore, had him taken up and kept clofe Prifoner many Years; *— and there his falfe Friend Satan, according to his old Dog-trick, left him in the lurch: Small Encouragement that to deal with him ! — Here alfo, abt. 12 Years fince, to the great Joy of the Country, were executed Mrs. Branch and her Daughter, Perfons of fome Fortune betw. Bath Sc Frame, for their moft barbarouffy murdering their poor Ser¬ vant Parifh Girl, by alternately and together whipping her for feveral Hours without Intermiflion. — Memb. of Park. 2. Market Wednefday. Fairs July 22. Aug. 29. ILCUSSIA, or Ilcufick, in Cracow, Pal at. Poland, 20 m. W. of Cracow, is a wall’d Royal Town, noted for Silver & Lead Mines, the belt Bread, and the moft luxurious and de¬ vout People in the Kingdom. ILFARCOMB, llfordcomh, Alfrincomb, in Devon, 8 m. fr. Barnfiable, 40 fr. Exeter, x 79 fr. London, is a populous, rich, trading Place, efpec. With Herrings, in Brifiol Chan- nel, noted for the conllant Lights it maintains for the Di¬ rection of Sailors, for Convenience of Building or Repai¬ ring Ships, and the fafe Shelter it affords to Veffels from Ire¬ land in bad Weather, when ’tis extremely dangerous to rurt into the Mouth of the Taw, call’d Barnfaple-Water. Where¬ fore Barnfaple Merchants do much Bufinefs here. The Har¬ bour, Quay, Warphoufe, Lighthoufe, Pilot boats, & Tow¬ boats, were form, maintaihed by the Anceftors of Sir Hour- chier Wray, Bart. Ld, of the Manor, when it had a Pier abt. 850 f. long, which by Time and the Sea’s Violence went all to Decay, But for remedying it an Aft pafs’d An. 1731. for repairing and enlarging the Harbour, Piers, &c. It confifts chiefly of brie Street Of fcatter’d Houfes near 1 m. long from Church tb Harbour; and is governed by a Mayor, Bailiffs, fa Market Saturday. ILHEOS Captaihric, Brafl, is fo call’d from the feverai Iflands before its main Bay, 6n one Of which Hands llheos City fdbfecp ’Tis div. from the Bahia oh N. by the L Se- rinbaittii S, fr. Porto Seguro by Rid Grande, and has the Oce¬ an E, and the 2 barb, and UncOiiq. NatiOn§ the VayYnd'res Sc Quirigujes W. Oth. Rivers crofs it fr. W, tb E, pattie, Rid das Contas, dos llheos, De Luna, & JuJfia, Its chief PlaCdfs are llheos, Nofra Signora da Vitoria, St-. Anita, St. CeuYgis The barb. People above mention’d, Herrera fays, hUritMeil as we do Wild Beafts, & eat all they kill or take • yea that they eat even their own Children, nay rip them out of their pregnant Women: But thefe fo Unnatural PraCtifes feem not credible, & mull have deftroy’d their Nation long ago. ILHEOS Town Hands about- 30 leag. N. E. from Pcrto Seguroi and the like S. W. fr. All-Saints Bay, W. loii. 34. z8. S. lat. i5. 40. and confifts of about 200 Portuguefe Fa¬ milies, and is water’d by the River llheos. The Inhabi¬ tants ate chiefly imployed in cultivating Plantations, and conveying their ProduCt by Sea to Pernambuco, &c, ILIUM, See TROY. ILL, once ELL, River rifes on the Borders of the Sunt- gaw, one leag. from Ferrette, runs almoft thro’ all Aljace lengthw. and is all along navagable fr. Schletftad, but carries no large Veffels, becaule in many Places made very nar¬ row by Iflands. Its Overflowings do almoft as much Harm as thofe of the Rhine. It falls into the Brufch at Strdfburgh, and they together run into the Rhine, 1 leag. below Stras- hurgh Bridge. During its Courfe ’tis fwell'd by fev. confi- derable Rivers. Some of its Iflands are pretty large. ILLER River rifes in the Mts. of Fyrol, runs N. thro’ Suabia by Kempt en, Memimgen, and Kirch berg, and falls into the Danube. ILLINOIS Nation, Lake, and River, in Canada. The People live near the Lake and River, which laft fprings fr. the Lake call’d Dauphin, and after a Courfe of above 200 leag. exclufive of Windings, falls into the great one of Mif- fifippL The Name fignifies a Man compleat. They live indiftant Villages on the marfliy Plains, on both Sides the River, beyond which are feen fome large Woods & doping | Hills covered with a delightful Verdure 9 Months at leaft; 5 and its Current, moftly S. W. is fo agreeably fmooth* that confid. Veffels may fail up and down with Pleafure & Safe¬ ty for at leaft 1 20 leag. bef. it falls into the Mijffeppi, The Lands each Side afford fuch Plenty of Pafture that they’re covered with Herds of large and fmall Cattle, Goats, Deer, &c. whilft the River fwarms with Swans, Geefe, Cranes, Ducks, Cifr. all which fo thrive on the vaft Quantities of wild Oats growing on the Banks, &c. that they’re often choak’d with their own Fat. The Villages are large, the Huts oblong and neat, cov. with Mats that are Proof agt. all Weathers. Each Hut, ferving one or two Families, has 5 or 6 Fire-places. They lay up their Indian Wheat in Cel¬ lars under them. In Temper, Sec. they are by fome faid to be different from the Iroquois, but by others [we fuppefe fome of them] that they’re as favage and cruel as they, They are tall, ftout, well-lhap’d, tawny, very nimble and expert at bodily Exercifes, extremely addicted to the Females. They allow themfelves more Wives than one ; but, to pre¬ vent Family Feuds betw. them, commonly marry Sifters or Near Relations; but are fo jealous of them, that on the leaft Sufpicion they fiercely fly at them, and cut and mangle them moft barbarouffy, Hennepin fpeaks of many Herma¬ phrodites among them. None of thefe People have either Courage or Conduct in their Skirmilhes, for they deferve not the Name of Battles, as confiding only of an impetuous Onfet with Shouts, in which if they are worfted they give up all for loft and flee. Their chief Talent lies in Ambufca- ding, wherein they’ve Patience to wait under Covert 8 or 9 Days for fake of killing or taking an Enemy or Palienger. ILLURfi,