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CANYON 



The district in which Canton is located is 

 well adapted to growing wheat, corn, oats and 

 fruit, and rich deposits of coal, limestone and 

 pottery clay are found in the vicinity. The 

 output of its 220 industries was valued at 

 152,000,000 in 1915. One of the largest sheet- 

 metal works in the United States is located 

 here. Pottery, tiles, a variety of bricks, iron 

 bridges, steel products, agricultural imple- 

 ments, watches and enameled ware are among 

 the leading manufactures. Large quantities of 

 coal and grain are shipped from here. Canton 

 has a $100,000 Federal building, a city hall, an 

 auditorium which seats 4,200, a county court- 

 house, a county workhouse, a $250,000 Y. M. 

 C. A. building and a Carnegie Library with 

 30,000 volumes. The park reservations cover 

 168 acres. 



Canton was the home of William McKinley, 

 twenty-fourth President of the United States; 

 his home and imposing tomb and two monu- 

 ments erected to the heroes of the Spanish- 

 American War are features of interest in the 

 city. 



CANUTE, kanutfi' (about 994-1035), a king 

 of England, Denmark and Norway with whose 

 name there is associated a beautiful medieval 

 legend. According to it the great king, wearied 

 of the flattery of his courtiers, who would 

 have him believe they thought him to be 

 divine, determined to give them a lesson. He 

 had his throne placed near the seashore just 

 before time for high water, and as the tide 

 came up he commanded it in stern tones to 

 go back. Then turning to his amazed cour- 

 tiers he told them to cease to call divine a 

 king whose word had no power over the water 

 at his feet. 



Canute was not always such a devout man, 

 for when he became king of England in 1014 

 on the death of his father, Sweyn, he began 

 his reign by devastating the country and put- 

 ting out of his way all who opposed him. Not 

 until 1017 was he accepted as king by the 

 whole island, and thereafter there seemed to 

 be a change in his character, for he ruled 

 wisely and humanely, restoring old English 

 customs and giving important posts to Eng- 

 lish subjects who proved worthy. At the 

 death of his brother in 1018 he gained Den- 

 mark, two years later conquered Norway, and 

 in 1031 forced Malcolm of Scotland to ac- 

 knowledge his supremacy. 



CAN'VAS, a strong, coarse cloth, originally 

 made of hemp, as shown by the name, which 

 is derived from the Latin cannabis, meaning 



hemp. Ordinary canvas is now made from 

 cotton, though better grades are made of flax. 

 The weight and fineness of canvas depend 

 largely on the purpose for which it is to be 

 used. The best grades, light and thin, are 

 favorite materials for men's and women's sum- 

 mer clothing; these are called by the trade 

 name of duck. Duck is usually made of flax, 

 that is, linen, as also are certain heavier grades 

 which are used by artists for paintings. The 

 cloth used by artists varies in thickness ac- 

 cording to the size of the picture the larger 

 the picture the heavier the cloth. Canvas is 

 also used to a considerable extent for awnings, 

 tents, tarpaulins and sails. The sail cloth used 

 on large vessels is usually made of linen of a 

 good quality, as it is subject to hard wear, but 

 smaller sails are most frequently made of cot- 

 ton or of mixed goods. 



CAN'VASBACK, a large fresh-water duck, 

 native of North America, which is highly prized 

 for food on account of its delicate flavor. It 

 breeds in the northern parts of the United 

 States and in Canada, and in the winter mi- 

 grates to the valley of the Mississippi and the 

 marshy lands of the Atlantic coast. Its food 

 consists chiefly of the roots of the wild celery, 

 and wherever that plant is plentiful, the can- 

 vasback, if unmolested, may be found. Its 

 plumage is black, white, chestnut brown and 

 slate color. The red head duck, is often sub- 

 stituted for the canvasback on the market, 

 owing to similarity of color, especially on the 

 head. The canvasback was being hunted to 

 extinction before the passage of game laws 

 by states and provinces for its protection. See 

 GAME, subhead Game Laws', also color plate, 

 in article BIRDS. 



CANYON, or CANON, kan'yun, a deep, 

 narrow river valley or gorge with steep sides 

 which in some instances are nearly perpendic- 

 ular. Canyons are worn to their great depths 

 by the erosion of countless thousands of years. 

 The name comes from the Spanish word canon, 

 meaning funnel. Canyons form some of the 

 grandest and most awe-inspiring scenery in 

 the world. The Grand Canyon of the Colo- 

 rado in Arizona is in some places over a mile 

 deep. Next in size is the Grand Canyon of 

 the Yellowstone, in Yellowstone National 

 Park. This canyon is 1,500 feet deep, and its 

 walls are formed of rocks, colored red, brown, 

 black and gray. The Royal Gorge in Colorado 

 is one of the most remarkable narrow gorges 

 in the world. Its walls are perpendicular for 

 almost its entire length. Many small canyons 



