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fermentation, which continues for a w ck or two, 

 during wliicli time Uic brim- must, be drawn off, and 

 replaced by new, until it remains perfectly clear, 

 when the process is finished. Ii must be kept cover- 

 ed with brine, and is thus simply u iVnnentcd, or half 

 sour, salted mass of cabbage. The other forms of 

 cabbage, ns the cauliflower. &r., supply the epicures 

 of all countries with some of their greatest delicacies, 

 while tlie hardy kale, wliich endures all degrees <>|' 

 cold, affords the poor, and the fanners of poor soils, a 

 valuable fodder for cattle of all kinds. 



CABBALA. See Cabala, 



CABELLO. See Porto Cabello. 



CABENDA; a sea-port of Africa, in Cacongo; Ion. 

 12 SO E. ; lat. 5 4(X S. It is situated on the coast, 

 a little to the north of the river Zaire, and has a safe 

 and easy landing. It is a great emporium for trade 

 in slaves. The situation is so distinguished for beau- 

 ty and fertility, that it is has been called the paradise 

 of the coast. 



CABIN ; an apartment in a ship for officers and pass- 

 engers. In large ships there, are several cabins, the 

 principal of which is occupied by the commander. In 

 small vessels, there is only one cabin, which is in the 

 stern. The bed-places in ships are also called cabhts, 

 or, more commonly, berths. Berth is used, likewise, 

 for the room wheie a number of men mess and reside. 



CABINET; 1. a small apartment adjoining a larger 

 one; 2. the most retired part of a private dwelling, 

 designed for work, for amusement, or for collections 

 of valuable articles. 3. In (he abode of a prince, the 

 cabinet is a room set apart for the ruler's particular 

 use ; also, the apartment where he transacts govern- 

 ment business, advises with his privy counsellors, and 

 issues his decrees. Hence, in political language, the 

 cabinet is put for the government ; as the cabinet of 

 London, of Vienna, of the Tuileries, &c. 4. Finally, 

 a cabinet is any part of a building, or one or more 

 whole buildings, where are preserved valuable col- 

 lections from the kingdoms of nature or art ; as paint- 

 ings, plants, animals, coins, minerals, and curiosities 

 ofevery description ; and, by metonymy, the name is 

 applied to the collections themselves. A work of 

 art, and sometimes of nature, of uncommon beauty, 

 and fitted from its size to be placed in a cabinet, 

 is called a cabinet-piece. A cabinet painter is one 

 who executes small highly-finished pictures, suitable 

 for cabinets. 



CABIRI ; sacred priests or deified heroes, venerated 

 by the pagans as the authors of religion and the 

 founders of the human race. The multiplicity of 

 names applied to the same character, the interchange 

 of the names of the deities themselves with those of 

 their priests, the oracular law, which enjoined the 

 preservation of ancient barbaric names, and thus led 

 to a double nomenclature, sacred and profane, to- 

 gether with the profound secrecy of the rites, have 

 involved the subject in great obscurity. Some have 

 thought that the Eastern mythology and the Druidism 

 of Western Europe contain traces of the Cabiri. He- 

 rodotus (ii. 51) says that their worship was brought to 

 Samothrace by the Pelasgi. Strabo (x. 472) says 

 they are the same as the jCorybantes. Others have 

 identified them with the Titans, the Dii Magni, the 

 Penates, the Dioscuri, &c. Some say there were six, 

 three male and three female, children of Vulcan and 

 Cabira, daughter Proteus. Others make two, sons of 

 Jupiter or Bacchus. In Samothrace, four were venerat- 

 ed. In Egypt, their temple was never entered by any 

 but the priests. In Phoenicia, Rome (where, according 

 to Pausanias, they had an altar in the circus maximus), 

 and other countries of Europe and Asia, traces of their 

 worship are found. But the mysteries (Cabiria) cele- 

 brated at Samothrace were the most famous. The 

 mysteries of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Trophonius, Bac- 



ehus. K lieu, Adonis, Osiris, and all the similar customs 

 of Egypt, Greece, Ilindostan, and Britain, seem to be 

 only varieties of the Saniothracian rites, which were 

 celebrated in the obscurity of night, and with tin: 

 most profound secrecy. (See Faber on the Mystrrirs 

 of the Cabiri, Oxford, 1803 two vols. 8vo; Potter's 

 Grecian Antiquities, ii. c. 20.) After a previous pro- 

 bation of abstinence, chastity, and silence, the candi- 

 dates for initiation were purified by water and blocxl ; 

 they then offered a sacrifice, of a bull or ram, HIM I 

 were made to drink of two fountains, called Lethe 

 (oblivion) and Mnemosyne (memory), to wash away the 

 memory of their former guilt, and to enable them to 

 remember the new instructions. They'were then 

 transported into a dark tower or cavern, where their 

 ears were assailed by the most appalling sounds, the 

 rushing of waters, the roar of thunder, dreadful yells, 

 with occasional gleams of light flashing through the 

 darkness, and displaying the most horrible phantoms, 

 with a dead body exposed on a bier. Thus filled 

 with terror, they were suddenly hurried into other 

 scenes ; light and cheerful music succeeded to dark- 

 ness and the dismal sounds, the dead body revived, 

 and the temple resounded with rejoicings. The hid- 

 den doctrines and secret rites were now communicat- 

 ed. Dances and orgies, in which the mystic phallus 

 or lingam, and the yoni (atium yvmiHutv), were intro- 

 duced, closed the ceremony. 



CABLE, in architecture ; 1. wreathed circular mould- 

 ings, resembling a robe ; also, the staff which is left 

 in the lower part of the flutings of some examples of 

 the Corinthian and Composite orders 2. In naval 

 affairs, it is a long, thick rope, formed of three strands 

 of hemp, which is employed for confining a vessel to 

 its place by means of an anchor or other fixed body. 

 The long and heavy chains, which have been recent- 

 ly introduced for this purpose, are also called callim. 

 Large vessels have ready for service three cables 

 the sheet cable, the best bower cable, and the small 

 bower cable. They should be at least 100120 fa- 

 thoms in length. A best bower cable, of 25 inches 

 in circumference, is formed of 3240 threads. The 

 invention of iron cables is of recent date, and they 

 have supplanted those of hemp in ships of war, and 

 even in merchant ships. They are stronger, more, 

 durable, less liable to be destroyed on rocks, &c. It 

 is sometimes desirable to cut the cable when of hemp : 

 this contingency^ provided for in iron cables by a 

 bolt and shackle at short distances, so that, by strik- 

 ing out the bolt, the cable is easily detached. Cable's 

 length is used to signify the measure of 120 fathoms, 

 the usual length ot a cable. 



CABOOSE ; the cook-room or kitchen of a ship. In 

 smaller vessels, it is an enclosed fireplace, hearth, or 

 stove, for cooking, on the main deck. In a ship of 

 war the cook-room is called a galley. Caboose also 

 signifies the box that covers the chimney in a ship. 



CABOT, George, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, 

 in the year 1752, and early manifested distinguished 

 talents. He spent the early part of his life in the. 

 employment of a shipmaster. But he did not neglect 

 the improvement of his mind, even amid the restless- 

 ness and dangers of a seafaring career. Before he 

 was twenty-six years of age, he was chosen to the 

 provincial congress, which met at Concord, with the 

 visionary project of ordaining a maximum of prices, 

 in order that commodities might be cheapened by 

 constraining the owners to sell at reduced and fixed 

 rates ; and there he first displayed that intimate 

 acquaintance with the true principles of political 

 economy, for which he was thenceforward pre- 

 eminent. Before Adam Smith was known in Ame- 

 rica, and Say and the other continental writers 

 had formed any correct notions on the. subjtvct, 

 Mr Cabot strenuously contended for the entire 



