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lime with ox'o blood. This miift be ufcd when frc(h made ; 

 and it is butli cheap and durable 



For an account of Higgins's water cxPH-nt for building, 

 repairing, and plaftering walls, and foi* other pnrpofcs, ice 

 Stucco. 



The bell eminent for eleftrical p\u-pofi.s is made with two 

 parts ot refin, two of bees-wax, and one of the powder of 

 red ochre. Thefe ingredients are melted, and mi>:ed toge- 

 ther in any velTel over the fire, and afterwards kept for \ife. 

 Tliis adlieres well, is lefs brittle than rcfin, and infulatts as 

 well. A ftrong casment for fnch purpofes may be made 

 by melting one pound of refin over a flow fire, and adding 

 to it as much plaftcr of Paris, as is nccefl<iry to fnfiiciently 

 harden it ; and then adding a fpoonful of linfeed oil, (lirring 

 it during the mixture. A caement for glafs-grinders may be 

 prepared by mixing fine fiftcd wood-adics with boiling 

 pitch, and adding a little tallow, as may be found neceflary. 

 Shell-lac is a good cxment for holding mt tals, glafs, or pre- 

 cious ftone?, while they are cut, turned, or gtonnd. Flour 

 pafte is ufed as a caement by book-binders and paper 

 hangers ; and they fometimes mix with the wheaten flour a 

 fifth orllxth of its weight of powdered refin or alum, and 

 if it be dtfired of a more tenacious confiltence, they add gum- 

 arabic, or any kind of fize. Japanefe caement, or rice glue, 

 is made by well mixing rice-flour with cold water, and 

 gently boiling it. This is extremely nfeful on a variety of 

 occafions ; particularly in the preparation of curious paper 

 articles, as tea-trays, dreffing-boxes, and other fnch things, 

 which require layersof papers to be cxmented together. With 

 this compofition models, bufts, ftatues, and bafTo-rehevoSjmay 

 be formed ; and they admit of a high polifh. 



For the manner of preparing a cxment to bind together 

 the various embellifhments of grottos, fee Grotto. See 

 alfo Glue, Lute, Paste, Putty, Size, and Solder. 

 C.«MENT, ior gilding Jjjlj. See Gilding o/j^. 

 CLEMENT, in Chemijlry. See Cement. 

 C .€ M E N T , calcareous. See Cements, calcareous . 

 CitMENT, or ziment copper, is copper precipitated from 

 vitriolic waters by iron. The name is derived, it is faid, 

 from a vitriolic water in Hungary, called ziment. 



Cxf'iv.tiT-pots, in AJfaying, are vefTels made for the ce- 

 mentation of metals. See Cementation. 



CA,MENTARIUS, in Entomology, a fpecies of Can- 

 CFR, [/IJlacus,) with a fmooth cylindric?.! thorax, obtufe 

 front, and acultated hand claws. This kind is frequent in 

 the rivers of Chili. Molin. Hift. Nat. ChiH. 

 CEMENTATION. See Cementation. 

 CAEN, Lat. Cadomus, in Geography, a city of France, 

 before the revolution, the capital of Lower Normaiuly, now 

 the capital of the department of Calvados, leated in a vale 

 at the conflux of the rivers Orne and Odon, and communi- 

 cating, at the dltlaiice of about fevtn miles from the fea, with 

 the Enghlh channel. Its northern and fouthern fuburbs 

 contain 33,900, and its two cantons 36,817 inhabitants; 

 its whole territorial extent comprehends 87! kiliometres, and 

 12 communes. The four towers of its callle were bnilt by 

 the Englifh ; its town-houfe is a large building with four 

 towers ; its roval fquare, or place royale, is fpacious and re- 

 gular, having fine houfes on three fides of it, and in the 

 middle an cquelbian ftatue of Louis XIV. in a Roman 

 habit. The abbey of St. Stephen was erefted by William 

 the Conqueror, and he was buried in it. The univerfity of 

 Caen was founded by John, duke of Bedford, regent of 

 France, by the authority of his nephew Henry VI. in 143 1, 

 and its eftablifament, togcth-r with the privileges granted 

 by him, was confirmed in i4;'j, by two bulls of Pope Eu- 

 genius \\. Its academy of literature was inllituted in 1706. 



Tills city has had good trade, which has principally con- 

 filled in cloths and line linen. 



Caen, as a part of Normandy, was formerly fubjeft to 

 the kings of England. In trie year 1 104 it was fei/.ed by 

 Philip the A\!,;:lt, king (f France, and remained under the 

 dominion of that crown til! the year l,;46, when it was cap- 

 tured, aft -T a long and dellrudive fiege, by Edward III. 

 In 1417, it was again taken by the troops of Heniy V. 

 and remained in tne poflefTio;! of the Englifli till the year 

 J448, when it was taken by Charles VII. king of France. 

 N.-lat. 49° I i' 10". W. long, o'^ 21' 47". High water at 

 fpiing tides at 9 o'clock. 



Caen, is alio the chief city of Cayenne in South Ame- 

 rica. See Cayenne. 



Cj^NE, or C.T.N0P0LIS, in yfnclent Grogmpl.y, a town of 

 Peloponncfus in Laconia, placed by Panlanias at the dif- 

 tancc of 40 iladia from the promontory of Tseiiarus, and an- 

 ciently denominated Taenarum. It had two temples, one 

 dedicated to Ceres, and another to Venus. 



C/F.NE, ur C.'KNOPOLis, the Cene emporium of antiquity, 

 a town of Egypt in the Panopolitan nome, mentioned both 

 by Herodotus and Ptolemy, and fuppofed to be the pre- 

 fent Gljiiine or henne ; which fee. 



C.ENE, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, between Si- 

 cily and Africa. Pliny. 



C-iENE, or CrEN.'E, Senn, a town of Afia in Mefopotamla, 

 on the bank of the Tigris, overagainft the mouth of Za- 

 bus Minor. 



Ci^NEUS, in Entomology, a fpecies of Papilio with 

 very entire fubfufcous wings ; poilerior pair beneath with a 

 red orb conf'Uing of nine fpots. This is a native of South 

 America. Linn. &c. 



CiENI, in Ancient Geography, a people of Thrace men- 

 tioned by Livy and Steph. Byz, and called C^h;V/ by Pliny. 

 They are fuppofed to have inhabited that part of Thrace, 

 which is contiguous to the Propontis. Their country was 

 called Cuenica regio, and Pliny places it in the colony Flavio- 

 polis. 



CfENINA, a town of Italy on the confines of Latium, 

 and the country of the Sabines, whence fome geographers 

 make it a city of the Sabines, and others refer it to the ancient 

 Latium. Cluverius places it on the banks of the Anio 

 next to Rome ; but HoiHenius thinks that it Hood on the 

 oppofite bank in the vicinity of the prefeiit Moiiticelli. 

 Fellus fays, that it derived its name from Cenis its founder ; 

 and Dionyfiusof HalicarnafTus informs us, that it was one of 

 the firll cities which declared againd Ronnihis. In the con- 

 tell its king was flain, and the Csninenfes defeated. Their 

 city was rafed, and the inhabitants removed to Rome, where 

 they enjoyed the privileges of the moll ancient citizens. It 

 afterwards became a Roman colony. 



CjENI^, or Senis, a town and promontory of Italy, in 

 Brutium, upon the llraits of Sicily, N. of Rhegium, and 

 oppofite to MtfFana or McfTina. 



CjENITARUM infula, an ifland mentioned by Arrian 

 in his Periplus of the Erythrean fea, and fuppofed to be 

 the Kavathra of Ptolemy. 



CiENON, a place of Afia in Armenia Minor, mentioned 

 by Strabo and Plutarch. 



C^NON Hydrcuma, a place of Egypt, in the route from 

 Coptos to Berenice. 



CA.NOPHRURIUM, a place of Thrace in the road 

 from Conllantinople to Heraclea, according to the Itinerary 

 of Antoninc. Here the emperor Aurclian was flain. It 

 is placed by M. d'Anville N.W. of Sclympria. 

 CENOPOLIS. SeeC^NE. 



C.£NOPTERIS,in Botany, (fromxai»iK, new, and s-T^fif, 

 4^2 a fcin,) 



