C A C 



C A C 



rords.in fmjnng, and in producing inllrumental effeas by a mon in large cities of thofe eaftern climes. On account, 

 .ell repulated orchellra for thefc bit 200 years, may be however, ol the materials witn which its edifices are con- 



ftniAed, it is nibjea to frequent and dreadful conflagrations. 

 ), in Ornithology, one of the fynonymous names As a preventive of the defolating cffcdtj of thtfe calamities, 

 iuffoii didinguillies the long-billed rain cuckow, every houfe is furnilhed with a low building of brick, in 



won 

 well reg 

 deduced. 



CACCO, 



bv which Bu - ^ - —- j, ^ • ^ .,.,,.... ■ - r 



C'ucuLus vuTULA of Omt/irt, Sec. fo'-m of an oven, in which the inhabitants depofit, on occa. 



CACELLA, in Gfogmphy, a fea-port town of Portugal, fions of any alarm, their mod valuable property. The go- 

 in the province of Algarva, on the fouth-coaft, about S vernment likewife obliges every family to keep a cittern. 



miles W. from the mouch of the Guadiana. N. lat. 37° y'. 

 W. long. 6""' 40'. 



CACERA dell' Pag AN I, a town of Naples, in the pro- 

 vince of Capltanata ; I ; miles S. of Troia. 



CACERES, atownof Afia, in the ifland of Lu^on or 

 Manilla, founded by the fecond governor and proprietor of 

 thefo idands, D. Francis de Sande, and conlifting of In- 

 dian huts and fome convents, well built. It is the refidence 

 of a bilhop, under whom are the provinces of Colilaya, Ca- 

 niarines, and Ifalon. N. lat. 1+° ij'. E. long. 124° 40'. 



Caceres, a town of Spain, in the province of Eftrema- 

 dura, feated on the Sabor, and well known for its fine 

 wool: 20 miles W. of Truxillo. 



Caceres, a town of North America, in Mexico, anddif- 

 tria of Tlafcala ; 70 miles N. W. of Vera Cruz. 



CACHACHRON Hrad, the fouth point of Dominica 

 idand in the Weft Indies, and nearly N. from the north end 

 of Martinico. 



CACHALES, in Ancient Geography, a river of Greece 

 in the Phocide, which wafhed the walls of Tithoreus, ac- 

 cording to Paufanlas. 



CACHALOT, orCACHELOT, in Zoology. See Phy- 



SETER MaCROCEPHALUS. 



CACHAN, or Kashan, in Geography, a town of Perfia, 

 in the province of Irac, which carries on an extenfive trade 

 in filk, fluffs, b'Ocades, and fine earthen ware, inhabited by 

 Chriftians and Guebres ; 50 miles N. of Ifpahan. N. lat. 

 34° 10'. E.long. 50° 2'. 



CACHAO, Chaco, Checo, or Kesho, one of the 

 eight provinces of Tonquin, feated in the central part of the 

 kingdom, and encompaffed by the other feven. Its foil is 

 fertile, and fome parts of the country are mountainous ; it 

 abounds with a variety of trees, and particularly that which 

 yields the varnidi. The filk nianufaaure is carried on in this 

 province more than in any of the others. It takes its name 

 from its capital, which is the metropolis of the whole king- 

 dom ; though Dampier reckons it as, in other refpefts, 

 hardly comparable to a Chinefe city of the third rank, hav- 

 ing, however, a confiderablc population, which principally 

 depends on the crowds of neighbouring villagers who refcrt 

 to it at particular times, and efpecially on market-days, with 

 their various commodities. Thefe perfons are allowed to 

 have their lialls in different parts of the city, for the con 



always full of water, on the top of the houfe, together with 

 a long pole and bucket for throwing water upon the houfe. 

 The chief palace of the chowa, or king, is fituated in the 

 centre of the city, and furrounded with a flroiig wall, en- 

 clofing within its circuit a great number of apartments, two 

 (lories high ; thofe of tlie chowa and his wives are embellifh- 

 ed with a variety of carving and gilding after the Indian man- 

 ner, and are finely varnifhed. In the outward court arc a 

 great number of fumptuous ftables for the king's elephants 

 and horfes ; the inner courts are inacceffible, not only to 

 ftrangers, but even to the king's fubjeas, the members of 

 the privy council and the minifters of Hate excepted. This 

 enclofure, which is of a va(l circumference, is faced with 

 brick within and wi'.Iiout, and the whole ilruaure is termi- 

 nated by fpacious gardens. The king is a kind of prifoner 

 in this palace, and his authority is exercifcd by an officer, 

 whofe family have long tranfmitted the executive power in 

 hereditary fucceffion. The arfenal is a large building, well 

 flored with warlike ammunition and artillery. It Hands an 

 the banks of the river Song-koy, and on that branch of it 

 which Dampier calls Donibea, reprefented by him as the 

 deeped and wjdeft of the two. The Englifh faaory-houfe 

 is fituated on the no'th fide of the city, fronting the river. 

 It is a low edifice, with a fpacious dining-room in the centre, 

 and on each fide are the apartments of the merchants, fac- 

 tors, and fervants. At each end of the building are fmall 

 houfes for other ufcs, which form two wings, with the 

 fquare in the middle, and parallel with the river, near the 

 bank of which flands a flag flaff, on which they commonly 

 difplay the Englifh colours on Sundays, and all other re- 

 markable days. Adjoining to this houfe, on the fouth fide, 

 is the Danifli faaory, wliich is neither fo large nor fo con- 

 venient. On the fame fide of the river runs a long dike, 

 with its timber and flones ilrongly cemented together, which 

 prevents the river, during the time of their heavy rains, from 

 overflowing the city. This river difcmbogues itielf into the 

 gnlf of Tonquin. Dr. Halley, in the philofophical Tranf- 

 aaions, has given an account of the furprifing tides in this 

 bay; each flux being of 12 hours duration, and its reflux 

 the fame, fo that there occurs but one high-water in 24 

 hours. Cachao, or Kefho, is the only city in the whole 

 kingdom, and is faid to confift of about 20,000 houfea. N. 

 lat. 22° ic'. E. long. 105° 31'. SeeToNQUiN. 



CACHA R, a rich but mountainous territory of the king- 

 do.-n of Ava, lying north-well of Munnipoora, fubjea to 



Its capital is Cof- 



venience of the difpofal of their wares. The town itfelf, 



thoughitistheconllantrefiJenceof theTonquinefemonarchs, the independent fovereignty of a rajah. 



has neither walls nor fortifications ; and if we except the pore. 



r>ya! palace and the arfenal, has little elfe worthy of notice. CACHASS/E, in ytncieni Geography, a people of Scy- 



The (Ireets are neither regular nor handfome ; fome of them, thia, placed by Ptolemy on this fide of Imaus, between the 



indeed, are airy and wide, but tlie reft are narrow, and all Norofli and the Afpafii. 



of them are paved : the houfes are low and mean, conllrua- CACHE, or, as it is called in China, Cayas, and in many 



ed of wood and clay, and not above one flory high. The ^^rtsoflniiia, Cas, Ca/oe,CaJ!e,avid Ciffie, in Commerce,a{ma\l 



magazines and warchoufes belonging to foreigners are the copper coin, equal in value to a litde more than a French 



only edifices built of brick. In various parts of the city denier. 



there are, even in dry weather, ditches of ftagnated water CACHEF, or Cacheef, in the Turljjb Affairs, the go- 



and ftinking mud, which are very offenfive to llrangers ; and . vernor of a city, town, or even a province of Egypt. 



yet, upon the whole, its airy fituation, and fcrcne air, ren- The title cachef is alfo given to the captains or command- 



derit healthy and pleafant to the natives ; fo that it is f-ldom, ers of little flying armies, intended to keep the Arabs in 



tf ever, vifited with thofe pellilential difeafes that are com- obedience. 



Egypt 



