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CAGNACCI, in Biography. See Guido. 



CAGNANO, in Geography, a town of the ifland of Cor- 

 fica ; 14 miles N. of Ballia. 



Cagnano is alfo a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 

 Naples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra ; 3 miles N.N.W. 

 of Aquila. 



CAGNtTE, Canete, or Guarco, a town of South 

 America, in Peru, and capital of a jurifdii£lion of the fame 

 name, in the archbilhopric of Lima, near the fea-coaft ; 80 

 miles S.E. of Lima. S, lat. 12° 40'. W. long. 73°. 



Cagnete, or Canete, a diftrift or jurifdiftion of Sonth 

 America, in Peru, beginninj^ at the diftance of 6 leagues S. 

 from Lima, and cxtcndinT along the coall in the fame 

 rhumb above 30 leagues. The temperature of the air in 

 this dilbitt is the fame with that in the valleys of Lima ; 

 and the country, being watered by a large river, and other 

 lefs dreams, produces great quantities ot wlieat and maize. 

 The lands are very much planted with canes, which yield an 

 excellent fugar. In the vicinity of Chiica, fituate about 

 10 leagues from Lima, is found falt-petre, of which gun- 

 powder is made in that city. It has alto a gnod lilhery, 

 which affords a comfortable fubflftence to the Indian inha- 

 bitants of the town, particularly thofe fituat^-d near tlie fea- 

 coaft ; together with plenty of fruits, pulfe, and poultry ; 

 whence a large trade is carried on between this jurifdiSion 

 and Lima. 



CAGNI. See Boufflers. 



CAGNICOURT, a town of France, in the department 

 of the ftraits of Calais, and diftrift of Bapaume, 3 leagues 

 N.N.E. ofit. 



CAGNO, a town of Germany, in the country of Tyrol ; 

 10 miles S.W. of Bolzano. 



CAGNOLU, in Ichthyology. See Scualus Zv- 



GAENA. 



CAGOTS, in Geography, a name diftinguifhing a lingu- 

 lar clafs of people, who inhabit fome of the vallies conti- 

 guous to the Pyrenees. M. Raniond de Carbonnieres in his 

 " Obfervations faites dans les Pyrenees," &c. Svo. Paris, 

 1789, adopts the opinion of M. de Marca, that this mifer- 

 able race, whofe imbecility of mind and deformity of perfon 

 have fo freq'.iently engaged the attention, and exercifed the 

 ingenuity, of philofophical travellers, are the defcendants of 

 the Goths and Wifigoths, who were perfecuted and dif- 

 perfed on account of their Arian principles. Thefe heretics 

 were treated with cruelty by the Franks, and driven from 

 the borders of the Loire and the Sevre to the mo ft defolate 

 places. After the deftruftion of the kingdom of the Wifi- 

 goths by the children of Clovis, thofe who were degene- 

 rated by intermarriages, and were not able to follow the 

 warUke Goths into Spain, funk into contempt on account 

 of their religious tenets. They were excommunicated from 

 the church, and refufed Chriftian burial. They were 

 branded with the names of Cngots, Cabets, and Caffos, which 

 fignify, according to Gcbelin, " polluted" and " infefted." 

 They became leprous, he fays, by being, through fuccef- 

 five generations, expofed to the nioft extreme poverty, and 

 by being prohibited from intermarriages with any otlier 

 families than their own. " Their return to the bofom of the 

 church was not fufficient to remove the ttigma of their caft : 

 they ceafed from being Arians, without ceafing to be 

 leprous ; and they afterwards ceafed to be leprous, without 

 being freed from all the evils engendered by a vitiated ftate 

 of the fluids." 



CAGUAN, a diftrifl of Terra Firma, with a town of 

 the fame name, fituate in the fouthern part of New Gra- 

 nada. The town lies in N. lat. 3°. W. long. 76°. 



CAGUANABO, a town of the idand of Cuba ; 60 mile 

 N.N.E. of St. Yago. 



CAGUANICO, a town of the idand of Cuba ; ^^ mi!c» 

 N.N.E. of St. Yago. 



CAGUATUS, Marsilu'S, in Biography, born at Ve. 

 rona, about the middle of the 1 6th century, was educated 

 at Padua, where he acquired fo much reputation, that h« 

 was invited to teach medicine at Rome.' He continued to 

 refidc there to the time of his death, in 1610. He was 

 well read in the ancient Greek fathers of medicine, and em- 

 ployed much of his time in commenting on tlicir works, 

 and correfting many errors which time had introduced, 

 often, Haller thinks, happily enough. His works are 

 " Variarum Obfervationum Libri duo, cum ddpntatione dc 

 ordine ciborum Libri qnatuor," Romae 15S1.8V0. ; con- 

 fining principally of critical obfervations on the works of 

 the ancients. In one cafe, he had fecn the bor.es of a l.u- 

 man fcctus which had been voided by the anus. " Dc 

 Morte, Caufa Partus." He contends, contrary to an opi- 

 nion held by fome anatomilis, that the ofla pubis do not ie- 

 parate in parturition. " Dc Sanitate tuenda," I59r. 4to. 

 " De Aeris Romani Salubritate, de Tiberis Inr.ndatione, ct 

 .deEpidemia Romana, feu dePopiilari jEgritudinc qua: Anno 

 1 591, ct de altera quo» Anno 1593, orta ill," 1599. 4to. 

 He contends that the air of Rome- is not unhealthy, and 

 modern Rome more healthy than the ancient ; that Rome 

 abounds with perfons of great age ; that though the Tiber 

 frequently overflowed its banks, lie had never known any 

 epidemic follow from that circumftance. Haller. Bib. Bot. 

 Med. et Anatom. 



CAGUI M'ni'ir, in Z.oology, the name given by Marc- 

 graave to the fpccies of ape defcribcd by late fcientific 

 writers under that of JItn/ a jacchus. Edwards after Marc- 

 graavc alfo calls it cagiil minor, or fanglin. It is the ftriatcd 

 ape of Pennant. 



Cagui Major BraJiUcnJiltis of Marcgraave is \\\t ftmia 

 oedipus of Gmelin, and little lion monkey of Edwards. 



CAGURRIA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in Na- 

 varre, feated on a fmall river, which almoft furrounds it, 

 and difcharges itfelf into the Ebro ; 6 leagues N.W. of Cala- 

 horra. 



CAHA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak ; 40 

 miles N.E. of Amadan. 



CAHAIGUES, James, in Biography, born at Caen in 

 Normandy, about the middle of the i6th century, applied 

 early to the ftudy of medicine, in which he took the degree 

 of doflor at the univerfity of Ca'n, in 1580. In 158;, he 

 publiflied " Elogiorum Civium Cadomenfium Centuria I ;" 

 reprinted in 1609, 410. ; " Brevis ficilifque Methodus cu- 

 randarum Febrium," Cadom. 1616, Svo. " Brevis facilifque 

 Methodus curandorum Capitis Adftdluum," 1618, Svo.; 

 " De Aqua MedicataFontis Hcbecrevonii," 1614, Svo. He 

 alfo pubhflied a tranflation into French of Julien le Paulmier, 

 «' De Morbo Galhco." Haller. Bib. Medica. Elcy.Bib. Hift. 



CAHIE R, or Ca H 1 R, in Geography, a fmall neat poft and 

 market town of the county of Tipperary, province of Mun- 

 ilcr, Ireland, where there is a bridge over the river Suire, 

 and near it, on an ifland in the river, is a caftle, formerly of 

 great ftrength, which was twice taken, firft by fir George 

 Carew in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and afterwards by 

 Oliver Cromwell. On the bank of the river, oppofite to the 

 town, are the ruins of Cahier abbey, which was founded in 

 the reign of king John. Diftance S. W. from Dublin 85 

 IriHi miles. N. hit. 52° 22' 30". W. long. 7^ .^4'. 



CAHIR is alfo the name of afifliing^'illage in the county 



of Kerry, Ireland, on the coaft oppofite to Vakniia ifland, 



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