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Island of the Seven Cities

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A kind of Dixie land, where seven bishops, who quitted Spain during the dominion of the Moors, founded seven cities. The legend says that many have visited the island, but no one has ever quitted it.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ishbosheth
Ishmonie
Isiac Tablet
Isidorian Decretals
Isinglass
Isis
Islam or Islamism
Islamite
Island of Saints
Island of St. Brandan
Island of the Seven Cities
Islands of the Blessed
Isle of Dogs
Isle of Lanterns (The)
Isle of Mist (The)
Islington (The Marquis of)
Ismaelians
Ismenē
Ismenias
Ismeno (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Isobars