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came from his pen between the period of 

 dramatic writing and his emergence as the 

 author of Don Quixote. The first part of this 

 book, which was destined to win him undying 



CERVANTES' HOME 

 It was here that Don Quixote was written. 



fame, was published in 1605; ten years later 

 part two appeared. Though the work was 

 received with every evidence of popular favor, 

 it brought the author scant financial returns. 

 Second only to his masterpiece is a little vol- 

 ume of twelve Exemplary Tales, published in 

 1613. Even had there been no Don Quixote, 

 these stories would have given him high rank 

 as a novelist. He continued his literary work 

 until the last year of his life, among his later 

 writings being a review of contemporary poets 

 ( in rhyme ) , entitled Journey to Parnassus. M .s. 



CETACEA, seta' she ah, or CETACEANS, 

 an order of marine animals the whales, dol- 

 phins and porpoises surpassing in size all 

 others in existence. They are true mammals, 

 with warm blood, and they breathe by means 

 of lungs (see MAMMAL). But in becoming 

 used to life in the water, their bodies, out- 

 wardly and inwardly, have assumed much of 

 the form and structure of fish. The body ends 

 in a tail which is expanded into two horizontal 

 lobes. There are no hind limbs, and the fore 

 limbs are broad paddles, or flippers, enclosed in 

 a continuous sheath of thick skin. The fishlike 

 appearance is further increased by a fin on the 

 back, but this is a simple fold of skin and does 

 not contain bony spines. 



The whale and its allies have no teeth in the 

 full-grown state, but, instead, have triangular 

 plates of baleen, or whalebone, which are de- 

 veloped on ridges across the palate. The nos- 

 trils open directly upward on the top of the 

 head and are closed by valves of skin, which 

 are under the control of the animal. When a 



cetacean comes to the surface to breathe, it 

 blows the air out violently, and the vapor it 

 contains, becoming condensed into a cloud, 

 resembles a column of water and spray. 



Related Subjects. For a detailed discussion 

 of the various cetaceans, the student may con- 

 sult the following articles : 



Dolphin Narwhal 



Dugong Porpoise 



Grampus Rorqual 



Manatee Whale 



CETTINJE, tset'en yay, the capital of the 

 kingdom of Montenegro, the smallest of the 

 Balkan states. It is situated in a barren and 

 stony region, 2,100 feet above the Adriatic Sea, 

 about ten miles inland, and is little more than 

 a village. The royal palace is unpretentious, 

 only one story in height, and the public build- 

 ings have no claim to architectural beauty. 

 The trade is unimportant, and there are prac- 

 tically no manufactures. The city was founded 

 in the fifteenth century and has repeatedly 

 been conquered and sacked by the Turks. 

 Population, about 3,500. 



CEVENNES, saven' , a mountain system of 

 Southern France, running northeast from the 

 most northerly hills of the Pyrenees for a dis- 

 tance of 320 miles. The highest peak in the 

 whole system is Mezenc, 5,755 feet above sea 

 level, but the average altitude is not more 

 than 3,000 feet. The lower slopes of the 

 mountains are very fertile, and large crops of 

 grain, fruit and vegetables are raised. In many 

 localities mulberry trees are cultivated for 

 their leaves, upon which silkworms feed. The 

 mountains have been the scene of much war- 

 fare, and at various times have furnished shel- 

 ter for the persecuted Waldenses, Albigenses 

 and Camisards. In tne Vosges Mountains, a 

 northern extension of the Cevennes system, 

 some of the fiercest fighting of the War of the 

 Nations took place. 



CEYLON, se Ion', a large island in the In- 

 dian Ocean, often called the "Pearl of the 

 Orient" because of the richness of its soil 

 and its natural beauty. The romance of it 

 has been felt by thousands who know little 

 more about the island than is contained in 

 those lines of Heber's famous hymn 



the spicy breezes 



Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle. 



Where every prospect pleases 



And only man Is vile. 



It lies fifty-five miles southeast of the ex- 

 treme southern point of the peninsula of India, 

 being separated from it by the shallow Palk 



