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 ISLES OF SHOALS ISMAILIA 429 jecting the nuggets. Some copper arrow- heads have been found on the island, and a rude wooden bowl 3 ft. in diameter. At an indentation which forms a good harbor on the S. side, where a stream 40 ft. wide has cut a passage through the rocks and forms a consid- erable cataract, the apparent site of an ancient town has been discovered. It was on an ele- vated slope overlooking the lake. No human remains have been found. At least one gene- ration of immense forest trees has grown over all the mines. One is now worked by a New York company. A few deer frequent the island, and it is overrun with rabbits. ISLES OF SHOALS, a group of islets in the Atlantic ocean, 10 m. S. E. of Portsmouth, N. H.; pop. in 1850, 131 ; in 1860, 152; in 1870, 94. Their names are Appledore or Hog island, Haley's or Smutty Nose, Malaga, Cedar, Duck, Gosport or Star, White, Seavey's, and Lon- doner's. Malaga is permanently connected with Haley's by a breakwater, and at low water Cedar is also connected with Haley's, and Seavey's with White. Star, White, Sea- vey's, and Londoner's islands form part of Eockingham co., N. H., and constitute the town of Gosport; the others belong to York co., Me. The three largest are Appledore, con- taining about 400 acres ; Star, 150 acres ; and Haley's, which with Cedar and Malaga com- prises 100 acres. On White island, the western- most except Londoner's, is a lighthouse (lat. 42 58' N., Ion. 70 37' 20" W.), with a re- volving light 87 ft. above sea level, and visible 15 m. The islands consist of rugged ledges, and contain little vegetation. A steamer runs daily from Portsmouth in summer, accom- modating the numerous visitors who resort hither to enjoy the sea air and the facilities for boating and fishing. On Appledore there is a large hotel, with the private residence of the proprietors. Star island contained nearly all the inhabitants, erics have been the chief support of the in- habitants. During the revolution most of the inhabitants, who for more than a century had numbered from 300 to 400, removed to the mainland. Mrs. Celia Thaxter, who resides on Appledore, and whose father was for six years keeper of the lighthouse on White island, has published a volume descriptive of the islands (" Among the Isles of Shoals," Boston, 1873), and a number of poems illustrative of them. ISLINGTON. See LONDON. IS11AKI.UNS. See ASSASSINS. ISMAIL, or Isniail-Tulrlikov, a town of Rou- mania, in Moldavia, situated on the Kilia, the N. arm of the Danube, 36 m. E. by S. of Ga- latz and 135 m. S. S. E. of Jassy ; pop. in 1866, 20,869. It contains the remains of a fine Tur- kish palace, and many Greek and Armenian churches, and is an important seat of trade be- tween Russia and Turkey. The new town of Tutchkov was added to it about 1830. Its com- merce has been checked by the increasing busi- ness of Galatz, Braila, and Sulina, though the exports of grain, wool, tallow, and hides con- tinue to be of some importance. Ismail enjoyed great military and commercial prominence un- der the Turks, and contained 20 mosques and many khans, bazaars, and fine houses. The Russians took it in 1770, and stormed it again in 1790 under Suvaroff, when they lost 20,000 men, and put the Turkish garrison of 30,000 to the sword and nearly reduced the place to ash- es. Having been partially rebuilt, the Russians again captured it in 1809. In 1812 it was for- mally ceded to Russia by the treaty of peace of Bucharest, and it was the strongest fortress of the Russian province of Bessarabia till 1856, when by the terms of the treaty of Paris the fortifications were razed and Ismail was re- stored to Turkey together with other parts of S. Bessarabia. It became a free port (tobacco and war material excepted) Jan. 1, 1873. and had a church, a school, a monument to Capt. John Smith, erected in 1864, and the ruins of an old fort; but in 1872 a company bought out the inhabitants, and have built a large hotel for the accom- modation of summer visitors. Haley's isl- and has a wharf, a public house, and a few buildings. The islands are believed to have been discov- ered by Champlain in 1605. They were visited by Capt. John Smith in 1614, who called them Smith's isl- ands, but the name was not retained. They were early visited by fishermen, and the fish- Ismailia. ISMAILIA, a town of Lower Egypt, on the N. shore of Lake Timsah, on the Suez canal, and on the railroads leading from Alexandria