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Although his difftrent picliircs have iiiieqiial merit, they 

 arc all dillinRuiftud by the freedom of his Imncl, and tlie 

 fine touch of liis pencil. In his coloming he was folicitous 

 to imitate the Caracci and Mola ; but the beauty of his 

 defign and compofiiion is often injured by too daik and deep 

 tone of colouring. His etchings, of which fome few re- 

 n-.ain, are performed in a flight, free ilyle. He died in 1695. 

 Pilkington and Strr.tt. 



CABELLIO Carnnim, CavaiHon, in ylncieiit Geo^r(i['by, 

 a town of Gallia Naibonnenfis. This was a Roman colony 

 in the time of the triumvir I.epidus, 42 years before the 

 Chriftian ira. With regard to the conftrue'lion of the 

 triumphal arch of Cavaillon it is conjeftured, tl.at as i'ompi.y 

 had gi-nntcd the two banks of the Rhone to the inliabilsnts 

 of Marfeilles, the town of Cavaillon, upon tl)e Durance 

 and near the Rhone, belonged to ihvm. This monununt 

 was accordingrly eredcd to commnnorate the exjiloKS of 

 Pompey and the Roman armies. The medals of this city 

 were bronze, gold, av.d lilver. 



CABEJ.LO/>«r/, in Geo[;raphy, lies on the north coall 

 of the Spanifli main, in N". lat. 10° 31'. AV. long. 6;° 



31'- 



CABELON, lies on the coafl of Coromandel mi India, 



7 miles from Conimore N. by E. and 5 leagues from Madras 

 or fort St. George. To the fouth of Cabclon are the 7 

 Pagodas, by which the coaR is known. 



C.ABENDA, or Cabinda, a fea-port town of Africa, 

 in the kingdom of Angoy or Gov on the coaft of Loango, 

 is fituate on the mouth of the river of the fame name, about 

 5 leagues N. of Cape Palmerino. The bay lies very com- 

 modious for trade, wooding, and watering on the fea-flioie. 

 Some parts of the adjacent ground are flat and marfliy ; but 

 it gradually afcends about 3 miles within land and forms a 

 ridge of hills, on the afctnt of which is a town, where 

 a dock of wood is always kept for the fupply of foreign 

 flups. The town of Cabenda is feated on the round point 

 of the bay, looking towards the weft, and the Englifh 

 faftory on the fouth-weft of the road, at fome diftance, 

 N. E. from the town. The Portuguefe, Dutch, and 

 ether Europeans come to this port for water and provifions. 

 The houfes, or rather huts, are built of dirt and reeds. 

 The country rour.d the bay is moftly barren, and the people 

 very lazy. They breed no cattle except fome hogs, but 

 they have plenty of poultry-. The wild beafts are fo nu- 

 merous in the woods that they dcftroy all of the tame kind. 

 Civet-cats and parrots are numerous. The coaft abounds 

 with oyfters ; and the natives fifli both on the beach and in 

 the bay with drag-nets, having long canes that are fixed at 

 equal diftances, inftead of corks, to (hew when any fiih 

 is caught. Thefe nets are made of a peculiar root, which, 

 being beaten, becomes flexible Hke hemp. S. lat. 6". E. 

 long. 12° 5'. 



CABERASA, in ylnctenl Geography, a town of ACa, 

 in Media. Ptolemy. 



CABES, or Gabes, in Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in the kingdom of Tunis, fituate on a river near a gulf of 

 the fame name. N. lat. .33° 40'. E. long. 10° ^5'. 



CABESA, a town of the ifland of Cuba; 55 miles N. of 

 St. Jago. 



CABESTA Gaita. See Cat's Head. 

 CABESTAN, or Cabestaing, William De, in 

 Biography, a famous Provencal poet of the 13th century, 

 mentioned by Petrarch, who pafled the firft years of his 

 life in the caftle of tlie lord of Cabeftan ; and being ena- 

 moured of a lady belonging to the houfe of Baux, wrote 

 verfes in her praife, which were popular. The lady, in 

 order to fccure his inviolable attachment, adminiftercd to 



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him an herb by way of philtre, which deranged his under- 

 ftanding. He was recovered by an antidote, whieli con- 

 verted his love into haired. In his attendance on Tricline 

 Carbonal, the wife of Raimond de Seillans, he ingratiated 

 himfclf with her to fiich a degr:-e as to excite the jealoufy of 

 her hufljand, who privately killed hiiri and barbaroufly tore 

 out his heart. Tins he caufed to be drelh-d, and ferved up to 

 his wife in a diHi. After (he had partaken of it, (lie was 

 told what (lie had eaten, and died of grief. This event 

 occurred about tlie year 1215. Moreri. 



CABESTEKRE, in Geography, a name given in the An- 

 tilles iflnnds, to that part of the ifland which looks towards 

 the eaft, and which is always refreflied by the trade-winds, 

 blowing from the north to tlie taft-fouth-eaft. The oppofite 

 part is called " Bafl'c-terre," being lower and lefs expofed to 

 the wind, and of courfe hotter: here the fea is lefs agitated 

 than in the Cabefterres, and it is conf^ quently better adapted 

 to the anchorage and loading of veifcls. 



Cabesterre, or Le Marigot, a town of the ifland of 

 Guadaloupe on the eaft coaft. N. lat. 16° 10'. W. long. 

 61" 44'. 



CABESTES, lies near La Vera Cruz, on the S. W. coaft 

 of Campcachy bay in the guU of Mexico. 



CABEZZO, a province of the kingdom of Angola in 

 Africa, joining to Oacco on the north, and to Lubalo on 

 the fouth, and having the Coanza on the north-catt, and 

 Rimba on the fouth-weft. It is populous, and well ftored 

 with cattle and other provifions ; and it has a mine of iron 

 on a mountain, called the " Iron mountain," whlcii fup- 

 plies the Portuguefe with gr-at quantities of that metal, 

 forged by the natives into a great variety of warlike and 

 other ufeful implements. Tiie inhabitants are plentifully 

 furnifhed with water by the Rio Longo, and other fmaller 

 rivulets and lakes. "^Fheir trees are of a large fize, and the 

 bark being flaftied with a knife yields an odoriferous refin, 

 refembling wax in colour and confiftency, and reckoned very 

 medicinal. The avenue to the royal palace is decorated by 

 a number of palm-trees that are very large and beautiful. 



CABIAI, of BufFon, in Zoology, the thick-nofed Tapir 

 of Pennant, the Sus Hydrochreris of LinnKus, and CaviA 

 Capybara of Pallas, &c. which fee. 



CABIDOS, in Commerce. See Cavidos. 

 CABIGIAK, oi-Capehak, in Modern Hijlory, a tribe 

 of Oriental Turks. Their origin is thus related. A female 

 belonging to the ?rmv of Oghuz-Khan was delivered in the 

 hollow of a tree to which (he entered ; and the infant waa 

 adopted by Oghuz, and called " Cabigiak" or the bark of 

 wood, from the manner of his birth. In procefs of time his 

 pofterity became numerous and extended themfelves to the 

 north of the Cafpian fea. They have retained the appella- 

 tion of their anceftor, and their country is denominated in 

 Perfia and in Tuikiflr " Defcht Kiptchiak." From this 

 country proceeded tlie armies which firft ravaged the domi- 

 nions poffteffed in Perfia by the Moguls ; and they were 

 the firft troops which Bajazet the firft fultan of the Turks 

 oppofed to Tamerlan : but inftead of fighting again ft Ta- 

 merlan, they took a part with him and united with the 

 Tartars, whom they regarded as their brethren of one and 

 the fame origm. D'Herbelot, Bib. Or. 



CABILAH, a tribe of independent and vagabond Arabs, 

 under the conduft of a chief. Some Arabian writers 

 reckon 80 of thefe tribes. D'Herbelot. 



CABILIAU, in Ichthyology, a name by which fome au- 

 thors have called the common cod-fifli, the morhua and afellus 

 major of other writers. 



CABILLEN, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Courland ; 10 miles E. of Goldingen. 



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