GEOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, ARCHITECTURE 



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Amiens (1802), and again taken in 1806. From The order was probably founded in the Twelfth 

 this time it has remained in the possession of Century, but legend ascribes its foundation to 

 Great Britain, to which it was formally assigned Elijah, and the Virgin Mary is said to have been 

 in 1815, along with Dutch Guiana. Subse- a Carmelite nun. One of the distinctions of the 

 quently the area of the colony was gradually order is that they walk bare-footed. The 



enlarged by the annexation of surrounding dis- 

 tricts. 



Capitol (Lat. Capitoliurri), the great temple 

 dedicated to Jupiter on the Tarpeian or Capito- 

 line Hill at Rome. It is said to nave been called 

 the Capitolium, because a human head (caput) 



was found in digging the foundations, 

 commenced by Tarquinius Priscus, and 



It was 



fin- 

 ished by Tarquinius Superbus, 507 B. C. ; but 

 it was three times burnt down, and, after its 

 third destruction in the reign of Titus, it was 

 again rebuilt by Domitian. The capitol in- 

 cluded not only a temple to Jupiter, but one to 

 each of his attendant deities, Juno and Minerva. 

 It was one of the most imposing buildings in 

 Rome. The consuls, on entering upon their 

 office, offered sacrifices and took their vows in 

 the capitol ; and it was to the capitol that the vic- 

 torious general on his return to the city, was car- 

 ried, in his triumphal car, to return thanks for his 

 victories. From that portion of the hill called the 



at the present day in many Roman Catholic 

 countries. 



Caspian Sea, a great inland sea or lake, 

 the largest in the world, forming a portion of 

 the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is 

 730 miles long by from 150 to 270 miles broad. 

 The surface of the Caspian is about eighty feet 



lower than the level of the Black Sea. which lies 

 to the west, while the Sea of Aral, which lies to 

 the east, is about forty feet above sea-level. 

 Hence it is believed that at no distant period 

 the Sea of Aral, the Caspian, and the Black Sea, 

 formed one mass of water, which covered the 

 intervening land. The water of the Caspian is 

 salt, though less so than that of the ocean. 

 The depth of its central portion is nearly 3,000 

 feet, but it is shallow round the shores. The 

 Capsian has no tides, but its navigation is peril- 

 ous because of violent storms! Tne Volga, the 

 Ural, and many other rivers, fall into the Cas- 

 pian; and by a canal, which unites the head 



Tarpeian Rock, state criminals were thrown down, j waters of the Volga with the rivers Tvertza and 

 The modern building on the site, and partly on Schlina, the Caspian is connected with the Baltic, 

 the foundations, of the ancient capitol, was The shallow northern basin, however, is frozen 

 erected from the designs of Michael Angelo. over during the entire winter. The sea abounds 



Capri (ktih'pre.) (Anc. Caprcee.) A beauti- in fish, ana seals and tortoises are found on its 

 ful Mand in the Mediterranean, lying near the upper coasts. Its area is 140,000 square miles, 

 south entrance to the Neapolitan Gulf, about [ or 20.000 square miles more than that of the 

 twenty miles from the city of Naples. It pro- | British Isles. It was known to the Greeks and 

 duces a good light wine. The island is covered Romans under its present name (Caspium Mare). 

 with remains oT antiquity, including the ruins' which was given to it from the Caspii, a people 

 of the villa of Tiberius, the Roman Emperor. I who inhabited its western shores. 



Caracas, the capital of the Republic of Castile (kfo-tcl'), a central district of Spain, 

 icla, in South America. It stands a few divided by the mountains of Castile into Old 

 miles from the northern coast of Venezuela, at a . Castile in the north, and New Castile in the 

 elevation of nearly 3,000 feet above the sea. Its south: the former consisting of a high bare 

 climate is healthy, but earthquakes are frequent plateau, bounded by mountains on the north. 

 in the vicinity.* In 1812, nearly the whole of and on the south, with a variable climate. yields 

 was destroyed by an earthquake, and wheat and good pasturage, and is rich in min- 

 12,000 persons are said to have perisned. Thderals; the Tatter, also tableland, has a richer 

 population of the city in 1891 was 72, 429. soil, and yields richer produce, breeds horses 



Carisbrooke, a village in the Isle of Wight, and cattle, and contains besides the quicksilver 

 about one mile south of Newport, and celebrated mines of 'Almaden. Both were at one time oc- 

 for its castle, which dates originally from the < -ipied by the Moors, and were created into a 

 Si\th Century. In this castle (now in ruins IdDffdom in the Eleventh Cent ury. and united 

 Charles I. was confined, and, after his execution, to the crown of Spain in 1469 by the marriage 

 his two youngest children were also confined in of Ferdinand and l-abella. 

 the castle, and the Princess Kli/abeth died there. Caucasus (The) (kau'kah-stis), a great 



The population of the parish is about 8,000. 

 rNlmd 



mountain ran ire. stretching between the Caspian 

 and the Black seas, separating the two Russian 

 provinces of Ciscaucasia and Transcaucasia, 



and forming part of the boundary betwe* 

 rope and A-ia. It has a continuous extent of 

 icipal al -liles throwing olT -purv or lateral 



ridges, both towards Russia and Turk. 



It> higher elevation la estimated at is 500 tot, 

 and it H snow-tiinit *4 1 i.om iwt. I he Caucasus 

 rkable t,.!- the pi* t uresqucness 

 of its scenery, and the wild Indepeodtooi f the 



dwelling' among its gorges. 



Cents (**-n* f ). * mountain In-longing to the 

 Graian Alps, between Savoy and Piedmont. 

 hiuh. It is famous for the winding 



Carlsbad (kOr&btld.) [Ger., "('harl,- 1 



Math."] A town ami fa-hionable spa of t |,e 

 Austrian empire, province Mohemia. sever 

 miles west-northwest of Prague. It is finely 

 built and romantically situate*!; its principal 

 spring, the Sprudel, 



a temperature of 105 Fahrenheit. Popu- 

 lation. ir,.(MK). 



< ;irml f Mount, a mountain ridge of 

 Pale-tine, which runs out into the Mediterra- 

 nean, to the south "| the May <>: 



"The (iarden of C...I " < n the *uiiimit 

 of tlie ri i lire are oaks and pme- an*l lowwdoWB 

 laurels and olive-,. \,-ar tin- t.j) there m a 



ery calle.l AY'./*, after th- A Inch leads 



the monks of which be;ir the name o! ' . over it fron 1 for an immense 



