in perspective, the view of anything cut off by a plain parallel to the horizon, just at the base of it.

Among painters, it signifies a description of images, or of ancient statues of marble and copper, of busts and semi-busts, of paintings in fresco, mosaic works, and ancient pieces of miniature.

**ICHIOLANS**, the grand signior's pages serving in the feraglio.

Those are the children of Christian parents, either taken in war, purchased, or presents from the viceroys and governors of distant provinces: they are the most sprightly, beautiful and well-made that can be met with; and are always reviewed and approved of by the grand signior himself, before they are admitted into the feraglions of Pera, Constantinople, or Adrianople, being the three colleges where they are educated, or fitted for employments, according to the opinion the court entertains of them.