Malta.
_"Isolated."_--This word was not in use at the commencement of the
eighteenth century, as is evident from the following expression of Lord
Bolingbroke's:
"The events we are witnesses of in the course of the longest life
appear to us very often original, unprepared, single, and _unrelative_;
if I may use such a word for want of a better in English. In French, I
would say _isolés_."
The only author quoted by Richardson is Stewart.