Inieans Of Preventing Explosions
Inieans Of Preventing Explosions Several Of The Causes Which Have Been Ascertained To Produce Explosions, Having Been Mentioned In The Pages, It Follows, That The Means Of Pre Venting These Fatal Occurrences, Are To Guard Against Their Causes. It Is A Fact, That The Greater Part Of These Explosions Have ...
Inigo Born
Born, Inigo, Baron, A Celebrated German• Mi • Neralogist, Was Born Of A Noble Family At Carlsburg, In Transylvania, On The 26th Of December 1712. At An Early Period Of Life He Came To Vienna, Where He Studied In The College Of The Jesuits, Who, Per Ceiving The Talents Of ...
Iniodern Nuniismatology
.iniodern Nuniismatology. We Propose To Discuss This Branch Of Our Subject With Great Brevity, As It Does Not Possess Nearly So Much In Terest As That Which We Have Just Been Considering. With Regard To The Italian Coinage, Besides Some Coins Of The Gothic Princes, Cite Exarchs Of Ravenna Struck ...
Inius
Ini)us, A Celebrated River In India, Known To The An Cients By The Name Of Sindus, Or Sinthus ; Is Called The Sindhu, Or Sindhus, In The Sanscrit ; And Aub Sinde, Or The Water Of Sinde, By The Persians. Its Source Has Never Been Explored, And Still Remains A ...
Inoculation
Inoculation, In Medicine, The Artificial Produc Tion Of An Infectious Disease By Morbific Matter, Brought In Contact With The Animal Fibre. This Is Practised For The Sake Of Inducing A Milder Form Of Disease Than That Which Is The General Consequence Of Casual Infection, And For Pro Tecting The Constitution ...
Insanity
Insanity. This Word Ought, From Its Etymology, To Signify " Want Of Soundness," Or Want Of Heaith." It Is Applied, In The English Language, To Denote An Unsound State Of The Mental Powers. It Is Generally Used As Synony Mous With " Mental Derangement." But It Is More Pro Per ...
Insectivorous Birds
Insectivorous Birds. Bill Middle Sized, Or Short, Straight, Rounded, Faintly Sharp-pointed, Or Awl-shaped, Upper Mandible Curved And Notched At The Point, Most Frequently Furnished At The Base With Some Rough Hairs, Pointing Forwards ; Feet With Three Toes Before And One Behind, Articulated On The Same Level. The Voice Of ...
Insects
Insects Have Nothing Analogous To A Tongue, Though In Some There Is An Organ Coiled Up Spirally Within The Mouth, Which Sometimes Passes Under That Name, Though It Is More Generally Called The Trunk. This Must Not Be Confounded With The Fleshy Tube Or Proboscis That Is Found In Many ...
Internal Structure Of The
Internal Structure. Of The Earth. Having In The Preceding Chapters Desct Ibed The Va Rious Inequalities Observable On The Earth's Surface, And Stated The Means Which Nature Appears To Have Employ Ed In Forming Them, We Come Now To The Consideration Of The Second Branch Of Geognosy, Which Makes Us ...
Interrogation
Interrogation Is A Part Of The Object Of Language, Performed By Means Of The Verb, Which Remains To Be Con Sidered. We Have Mentioned It (at P. 7.) In Enumerating The Forms Of Imperative Influence Which Mankind, By Means Of Language, Exert On One Another. Its Peculiar Object Is, To ...
Inverary
Inverary, Or, More Properly, Perhaps, Inverara, Is The Capital Of Argyllshire The Celtic Name Is Lonarao Radh, I. E. The Discharge Of The Ara ; The Place Where The River Of That Name Falls Into The Sea. This Name Was More Applic .ble To The Old Than To The Modern ...
Inverness Shire
Inverness-shire, The Name Of The Largest Of The Counties Of Scotland. The County Of Inverness Is About 94 Miles In Length From East To West, And About 50 Miles At Its Greatest Breadth. It Is Bounded On The North By Ross-shire And The Moray Firth ; On The East By ...
Iodine
Iodine This Word Is Of Greek Etymology, And Signifies A Violet Colour. It Has Been Recently Introduced Into The French And English Languages, For The Purpose Of Being Applied As A Name For A Chemical Substance Re Cently Discovered. The Description Of That Substance And Its Properties Will Now Holej ...
Iona
Iona, Icolmkill, I-columa-kill, More Correctly Y Or I, Is A Celebrated Island Of The Hebrides, Situated On The South-west Side Of The Island Of Mull, From Which It Is Di Vided By A Channel Half A Mile Wide. By Bede, Who Is Be Lieved To Have Died In The Year ...
Ionian
Ionian Islallos, Is The Name Given To The Islands In That Part Of The Mediterranean, Between The Coast Of Greece And The Island Of Sicily. There Are Seven De Tached Islands Along The Shore, Which Are Ranked Among The Ionian Islands ; Namely, Corfu, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Or Thiaki, Cephalonia, ...
Iorson
I'orson, Ricizaan, A Celebrated Greek Scholar, Was Born At East Ruston, In Norfolk, On The 25th Dec. 1759. He Was The Son Of Mr. Huggin Porson, The Parish Clerk, Who Taught Him Arithmetic, Reading, And Writing. He Learned The Alphabet By Tracing The Letters Upon Sand, Or Upon A Board ...
Ipswich
Ipswich, Formerly Gippeswicii, Is A Burgh Town Of England, And Principal Town Of The County' Of Suffolk. It Is Situated On The Side Of A Hill, On The Northern Bank Of The River Orwell, And Is About One Mile Long, And 3-4ths Of A Mile Broad, Forming A Portion Of ...
Ireland
Ireland, Called By The Inhabitants Erin, And By The 'welsh Yvcrdon, Lies In The Atlantic Ocean, Between 6° And 10° 40' West Longitude, And 15' And 55° 13' North Lati T.v.de. It Is Separated From Great Britain On The East By The Irish Ci Annel, Which Is Also Called St. ...
Irenjeus
Irenjeus. Bishop Of Lyons, Is Supposed To Have Been A Greek By Birth, And To Have Been Born Near The City Of Smyrna, About The Middle Of The Second Century. He Ac Quired In His Youth A Competent Acquaintance With The Philosophy And Literature Which Were Then Held In Estima ...