INNISFALLEN, an island of Ireland, in the lake of Killarney, county of Kerry, and province of Munfter: in which are the ruins of a very ancient religious houfe, founded by St Finian, the patron faint of these parts, to whom the cathedral of Aghadoe is alfo dedicated. The remains of this abbey are very extensive, its fituation romantic and retired. Upon the diffolution of religious houses, its poffeffions were granted to Captain Robert Collam. The inland contains about 12 acres, is agreeably wooded, and has a number of fruit trees. St Finian flourished about the middle of the 6th century; he was firnamed in Irish Lobbar, his father's name was Conail, the son of Efchod; defcended from Kian, the son of Alild, king of Munster. There was formerly a chronicle kept in this abbey, which is often cited by Sir J. Ware and other antiquaries, under the title of the Annals of Innisfallen. They contain a sketch of universal history, from the creation to the year 430, from which the annalift has amply continued the affairs of Ireland down to his own times. He died A. D. 1215. Sir J. Ware had a copy of them, whereof there is an imperfect transcript among the MSS. of the library of Trinity College, Dublin. They were continued by another hand to the year 1320. Bishop Nicholson, in his Irish hiftorical library, informs us, that the duke of Chandos had a complete copy of them down to 1320 in his poffeffion. Thefe annals tell us, that in 1180, the abbey, which had at that time all the gold and filver and richest goods in the country depofited in it, as the place of greateft fecurity, was plundered by Mildwin, fon of Daniel O'Do noghoe, as was alfo the church of Ardfert, and many perfons were flain in the very cemetery by the M'Cartys; but this impiety was avenged by the untimely end of some of the authors of it.

INNISHANNON, a town of Ireland, in the county of Cork, Munfter, 134 miles from Dublin; fituated on the Bandon, 6 miles from Kinfale. It has a charter school for above 30 boys. The linen manufacture has been much encouraged by the late Mr Adderley. The river is navigable to Collier's quay, about half a mile below the town. On the W. fide of the town is a ftone bridge. This place was formerly walled, and of fome note, as appears by the foundations of feveral caftles and large buildings discovered in it. The town of Innifhannon, together with its ferry, were granted to Philip de Barry by Henry V. by letters patent, in 1412. It has two fairs.

INNISHIRKAN, an island between Cape Clear Inland and Baltimore Bay, in the county of Cork. In this island ftood the Caftle of Dunelong, poffeffed by the O'Driscolls, which was furrendered, after the defeat of the Spaniards, to Capt. Her vey, on 23d Feb. 1602. There was afterwards a regular fortification erected, which was garrifoned in Queen Anne's time, but it has been for feveral years dismantled. About a mile to the S. are the

remains of an ancient abbey, founded in 1460, for Francifcans, by Florence O'Driscoll. This ifland has very good land, preferable to that of Cape Clear Ifland. To the NW. of Innifhirkan ifland lies Hare Ifland, a large fruitful fpot; and near it are 4 fmall islands called the SCHEMES: alfo along the coaft, from E. to W. are HORSE ISLAND, Con taining 100 acres; Cafile Ifland, containing 119 acres; LONG ISLAND, containing 316 acres; and weft of all thefe is a small spot called Goat land. All these produce large crops of fine English barley. INNISKEANE, a village of Ireland, in Cork, 144 miles from Dublin.

INNISKILLING, a borough, market, and poft town of Ireland, in the county of Fermanach, Ulfter, lying between three lakes. It is about 24 miles E. of Ballyshannon, and 79 NW. of Dublin. It fent two members to the Irish parliament. Its inhabitants diftinguished themselves in feveral engagements in the wars of Ireland at the revolution, out of which a regiment of dragoons, bearing the title of the INNISKILLINERS, was moftly formed. They form the 6th regiment of dragoons in the British army. It has a barrack for three companies of foot.

INNISTORY, [i. e. the High Mand,] an if land of Ireland, 8 miles NW. of the coast of Donegal.

Stranger to civil and religious rage, The good man walk'd innoxious through his age. Pope. * INNOXIOUSLY, ady. [from innoxious.] 1. Harmlefsly; without harm done. 2. Without harm fuffered.-Animals, that can innoxiously digeft these poifons, become antidotal to the poifon digefted. Brown.

* INNOXIOUSNESS. n. f. [from innoxious.] Harmleffness.

INNSTADT, a town of Bavaria, on the Inn, joined to the city of PASSAU by a bridge, and feated on the fite of the ancient town of Boiodunum. INNTHAL, a diftrict of the Tirolefe, watered by the INN. Infpruck is the capital,

(1.) * INNUENDO. n. f. (innuenda, from in nuo, Lat.] An oblique hint.-As if the commandments, that require obedience and forbid murder, were to be indicted for a libellous innuendo upon all the great men that come to be concerned. L'Efrange.-Mercury, though employed on a quite contrary errand, owns it a marriage by an innuendo: Dryden.→

Swift.

Purfue your trade of scandal picking, Your hints that Stella is no chicken; Your innuendoes when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. (2.) INNUENDO is ufed in writs, declarations, and pleadings, to afcertain a perfon or thing which was named, but left doubtful before: as, he (innuendo the plaintiff) did so and so; mention being before made of another perfon.

* INNUMERABLE, adj. [innumerable, Fr. innumerabilis, Lat.] Not to be counted for multitude.

profperity, particularly because she was defcended of her greatest enemy Venus, fent Tifiphone to the house of Athamas; and the filled the whole palace with fuch fury, that Athamas, taking Ind to be a lipness and her children whelps, pursued her and dafhed her fon Learchus against a wall. Ino flying from his fury, threw herself from a high rock into the fea with Melicerta in her arms. Neptune, pitied her fate, and made her a fea deity, afterwards called LEUCOTHOE. Melicerta became also a fea god, worshipped by the name of PALEMON.

INOA, festivals in memory of Ino, celebrated yearly with sports and facrifices at Corinth, at Megara, (where he was first worshipped), and in Laconia. It was ufual at the celebration to throw cakes of flour into a pond, which, if they funk, were preiages of prosperity, but of adverfity if they fwam on the furface.

INOCARPUS, in botany: A genus of the mo nogynia order, belonging to the decandria clafs of plants. The corolla is funnel-shaped; the calys bifid; the ftamina are placed in a double feries; the fruit is a monofpermous plum.

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(1.) To INOCULATE, v. a. {inoculo, in and oculus, Lat.] To yield a bud to another ftock.Virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock, bût we fhall relish of it. Shak.-.

Thy stock is too much out of date, For tender plants t' inoculate.

Where lilies, in a lovely brown, Inoculate carnation.

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(2.) To INOCULATE. V. Ž. To propagate any plant by inserting its bud into another stock to practise inoculation. See INOCULATION.Nor are the ways alike in all

Infufion of the matter from ripened puftules into the veins of the uninfected, in hopes of procuring a milder fort than what frequently comes by infection. Quincy-It is evident, by inoculation, that the mallet quantity of the matter, mixed with the blood, produceth the disease. Arbuthnot. (2) INOCULATION, or BUDDING, in gardening 1, def. 1.) is preferable to any fort of grafting for moft forts of fruit. When the buds above mentioned have been inoculated 3 or 4 weeks, and thofe which are fresh and plump and are joined, loofen the bandage, which, if it be not done in time, will injure if not deftroy the bud. In March following cut off the ftock floping, about 3 inches above the bud, and to what is left faften the fhoot which proceeds from the bud; but this must continue no longer than one year; after which the Rock must be cut off clofe above the bud. The time for inoculating is from the middle of June to the middle of Auguft: but the moft proper time is when the buds are formed at the extremity of the fame year's fhoot, which is a fign of their havng finished their spring growth. The first fort commonly inoculated is the apricot; and the last the orange tree, which fhould never be done till the end of Auguft. In doing this, always make choice of cloudy weather; for if it be done in the middle of the day, when the weather is hot, the thoots will perfpire fo faft, as to leave the buds defsitute of moisture. See GEMMA, N° III. § 1,

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(3) INOCULATION, in a physical fenfe, above defined by Quincy ( 1, def. 2.) though of ancient ufe in the eastern countries, is but a modern practice among us, at leaft under the direction of art. It is justly obferyed by the Baron Dimfdale, that accident hath furnifhed the art of medicine with many valuable hints, and fome of its greatest improvements have been received from the hands of norance and barbarifm. This truth is remarkably exemplified in the practice of inoculation of the fmall pox: but to the honour of the British physicians, they measured not the value of this practice by the meannefs of its origin, but by its real importance and utility; they patronifed a barbarous difcovery with no lefs zeal and affection than if it had been their own.

(4.) INOCULATION, ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF. As to the origin of the art of inoculating the fmall-pox, as well as the time and place in which it was performed, they are equally unknown to all by whom the practice is adopted. Accident probably gave rife to it. Pylarini fays, that among the Turks it was not attended to except among the meaner fort. Dr Ruffel informs us, in the Philof. Tranf. vol. lviii. p. 142. that no mention is made of it by any of the ancient Arabian medical writers that are known in Europe; and the phyficians who are natives in and about Araha affert, that nothing is to be found regarding it in any of thofe of a more modern date. He adds, that be engaged fome of his learned Turkish friends to make enquiry; but they did not difcoany thing on this fubject either in the writings of their phyficians, hiftorians, or poets. Until the beginning of the 18th century, all the accounts we have of inoculating the fmall pox are merely traditional. The filence on this fubject, obferved

among writers in the countries where the practice obtained, Dr Ruffel fuppofes, with great proba bility, to be owing to the physicians there never countenaneing or engaging in it. It is alfo remarkable, that before Pylarini's letter to the Roy al Society in 1701, and for feveral years after, this practice was not taken notice of by the most inquifitive travellers. On this Dr Ruffel juftly ob ferves, that cuftoms, the most common in diftant countries, are often the leaft apt to attract the obfervation of travellers, who, engaged in other purfuits, must be indebted to accident for the knowledge of fuch things as the natives seldom talk of, fuppofing that they are known to all the world. The first accounts we have in the learned world concerning inoculation, are from two Italian phyficians, viz. Pylarini and Timoni, whose letters on the fubject may be seen in the Philof Tranf. Abr. vol. v. p. 370, &c. The firft is dated A. D. 1701; the next A. D. 1713. Whether our enquiries are extended abroad or confined to our own country, inoculation has been practised under one mode or other time immemorial; in Great Britain and its adjacent ifles we have well authenticated accounts, extending farther backward than any from the continent. Dr Williams of Haverfordweft, who wrote upon inoculation in 1725, proves, that it had been practised in Wales, though in form fomewhat different, time out of mind Mr Wright, a furgeon in the fame place, fays, that buying the small pox is both a common practice, and of long ftanding in that neighbourhood. He fays, that in Pembrokeshire there are two large villages near the harbour of Milford, more famous for this cuftom than any other, viz. St Ifhmael's and. Marloes. The old inhabitants of thefe villages fay, that it has been a common practice; and that one William Allan of St Ifhmael's, who in 1722 was 90 years of age, declared to fome perfons of good fenfe and integrity, that this practice was used all his time; that he well remembered his mother telling him, that it was a common practice all her time, and that the got the fmall pox that way; fo that at leaft we go back 160 years or more. In the Highlands of Scotland and fome of the adjacent ifles, Dr Alexander Monro fenior informs us, that the custom through ages paft has been, to put their children to bed with those who laboured under a favourable fmall-pox, and to tie worfted threads about their children's wrifts, after having drawn them through variolous puftules. According to Dr Ruffel, the Arabians affert, that the inoculation of the fmall-pox has been the common cuftom of. their ancestors, and that they have no doubt of its being as ancient as the difeafe itself. It is remark. able that buying the fmall-pox, is the name univerfally applied in all countries to the method of procuring the disease: for though there are other terms, yet in Wales and Arabia, as well as many other countries, this is the ufual appellation. From the famenefs of the name, and the little diverfity obfervable in the manner of performing the operation, it is probable that the practice in these countries was originally derived from the fame fource. From its extenfive spread, it is probably of great antiquity too. In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, wife of the British ambassa

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