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CAPE VERDE ISLANDS. A cluster 

 of islands off Cape Verde. 



CAPIM. A small river which empties 

 into the Rio Para near its mouth, 

 in Para district, north Brazil. 



CAROLINAS. The States of North and 

 South Carolina. 



CAROLINE ISLANDS. A number of 

 small islands in Polynesia, north- 

 east of New Guinea. 



CARACCAS. The cnpital city of Vene- 

 zuela ; it is situated 3,000 feet above 

 the sea ; was almost entirely de- 

 stroyed by an earthquake in 1812, 

 which buried 10,000 of its inhabi- 

 tants. 



CASHMIR, ) The most northern 



CASHMERE. S district of Hindostan. 



CASPIAN SEA. Great inland sea, 

 having Russia on the north-west, 

 Turan on the east, and Persia on 

 the south. 



CATHAY. China proper. 



CATSKILLS. Catskill Mountains, on 

 the borders of Greene and Ulster 

 Counties, in eastern New York. 



CASTILE. Province of Central Spain. 

 It is from here the peerless Saturn ia 

 IsabeUcc comes. 



CAUCASUS. Mountains in Georgia, 

 south-east Russia, ranging from the 

 Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. 



CAYENNE. " French Guiana. 



CAZAMANCA. River in Senegambia, 

 west coast of Africa. 



CELEBES. A large, very irregular- 

 shaped island, lying between Borneo 

 and the Moluccas. 



CENT. AM., ? The territory 



CENTRAL AMERICA. $ between Mexico 

 and S. America, consists of the 

 states of Guatemala, Honduras, 

 Nicaragua and some smaller ones. 

 This country is in the enjoyment of 

 almost continual internecine Avar. 



CERAM. One of the Moluccas, direct 

 west of New Guinea, and south of 

 Gilola. 



CEYLON. A large island south of 

 Hindostan. 



CHATHAM ISLAND. A small island 

 east of New Zealand. 



CHIAPAS. The southernmost province 

 of Mexico, adjacent to Guatemala. 



CHILI. One of the South American 

 states, on the Pacific coast south of 

 Peru, and west of Argentine Re- 

 public or Buenos Ayres. 



CHILOE. An island directly south of 

 Chili. 



CHINA. Properly that portion of the 

 Chinese Empire south of Tartary, 

 east of Thibet, and north of Farther 

 India. 



CHINESE TARTARY. A great tract 

 of country lying between the Amoor 

 River and China. A part of the 

 Chinese Empire. 



CHIMBORAZO. The second highest 

 mountain in S. Am., is 21,427 feet 

 in height. In the western part of 

 Ecuador. 



CHIRIQUI. District in West Panama, 

 adjacent to Costa-Rica. Marvel- 

 ously rich in Lepidoptera. The 

 locality of Dynastor Napoleon. 



CHUSAN, OR TSCHUSAN. A small 

 island near the east coast of China. 



CIRCUMPOLAR. That portion north 

 of N. L. 60, surrounding the North 

 Pole. 



COCHIN CHINA. The part of Farther 

 India on the west bordering on the 

 China Sea. 



COLORADO TERRITORY. South of 

 Wyoming, east of Utah, north of 

 N. Mexico, and west of Kansas ; 

 rich in a peculiar mountain fauna 



COLUMBIA. United States of Colum- 

 bia, New Granada, the north- 

 western state of S. America. 



CONNECTICUT. One of the New Eng- 

 land States, east of New York and 

 south of Massachusetts. 



CONGO. In Lower Guinea, west coast 

 of Africa, between Loaugo and 

 Angola. 



COPAN. The ruins of an ancient city 

 in north-western Guatemala. Num- 

 bers of wonderfully carved sand- 

 stone idols and altars, of whose 

 origin or history nothing is known, 

 are there succumbing to the effects 

 of time and quietly crumbling away. 



