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which W3S formerly much frequented in time of war, bec&ufe 

 nil I'lCMch privateer ever landtil there to plunder, as was 

 ufu.il oil other parts of the coalt ; a privilege laid to have 

 b--en procured by the Romiii Catholic bilhop of the fee Irom 

 the French monar>.h. Smitii's Kerry. 



Cahir., a fmall idand in the Atlantic ocean, on the well 

 coall of the county of Mavo, Ireland, a little fouth of the 

 entrance into Clcv' bay. N. lat. Sj° 44'- W. long. 9- 53'. 



CAHIRCONRr.E, a h^gh mountam, fouth of Tralee, 

 i:i the cninty of Kerry, Ireland, the name of which is fup- 

 pofed to fig.iify t/ji Jorlrefi of k'mg Cm. Oa the top of it 

 IS a ciicle of niaffy llones", laid one on the other, in the man- 

 ner of a Danilh iDtrenchmeut, feveral of them bting from 

 eight to ten cubical feet, but all very rude. Different 

 opinions have been entertained refpeflin^ this and other 

 ancient monuments of the fame kind. Some fuppofe them 

 to be of eaftcrii origin, and defigned forrcligion.s purpofes in 

 honour of the fun ; whilll others nuiutani tliat they are of 

 uorthcrn origin, and were monuments of lome great adion 

 perfonned near the place, or perhaps a fepulchral trophy 

 raifed over fome eminent perfon. Mr. Pinktrton, in his 

 account of Stone henge, fuppofes them to have been intro- 

 duced by the Bd^iC or Goths, whom he conliders as the 

 Irifh Flrbolgi. Thefe people ufed them, he fays, as circles 

 of judgment, or folemn places where courts were held, of all 

 kinds and dignities, from the national council down to the 

 baronial court, or that of a common pr.iprietor of land, fur 

 adjulling difpules between his vUljiii and flaves. According 

 to this account they are of greater antiquity than the Danes, 

 though ufed by this people. The common people, unable 

 to conceive how human Ibength could p.ifiibly raife ftones 

 of fuch a prodigious wtiglit to the liimmit of a llcep moun- 

 tain above 2000 feet high, get over the difficulty by fiippof- 

 ing it to have been the work and labour of a giant. See 

 Stone-hf.nge. Smith's Kerry. CoUeflanea Hibernica. 

 Ledwich's Antiquities. Pinkertou's Geography. 



C.\HLLO, in IchthyrAogy, a name given by fome old 

 writers to the tifh they alfo called lupus marinus, or wolf-filh, 

 anarhichas lupus of Linmus. 



C.^HOKIA, ill Geography, a fettlement in the nortli- 

 weflern territory of America, north of Kaflcaflvias, which 

 fee. 



CAHORS, a confiderable town of France, before the 

 revolution the capital of Q_uei"cy, and lee of a bifhnp, now 

 the principal place of adillr.C^ in the department of the Lot, 

 fituate in a vale between mountains on the bank of the river 

 l_ot. One part of the town feems to lean agaiuft the fteep 

 fide of a mountain; the other is feattd in a fmall plain, watered 

 by the meaiiJering llream of the river, and finely cultivated, 

 with its corn-fields, gardens, and fruit-trees, particularly the 

 almond. The town is irregularly built, artd its (Ireets are 

 narrow. The cathedral church is diftinguifhed by its large 

 cupola, which mull in part have been an ancient Roman 

 work : the remains alfo of a Roman amphitheatre and aque- 

 duft are feen in this place. The number of inhabitants in 

 the north and fouth diftrifts of the town is 11,728, in the 

 north canton 10,162, and in the fouth 8,981 ; the territory 

 comprehends i^i^ kiliometres and 10 communes. The 

 lands round the town are very fertile ; and the wine of this 

 place has high reputation, and is exported from Bourdeau.'c 

 as an article of commerce. It is produced by dwarf or 

 ground vines, on fteep mountains, and holds a high rank 

 among the red wines of France. This town is fortified and 

 furrounded with thick walls ; but it was taken by affault by 

 Henry IV. in ijjSo, when mortars are faid to have been firft 

 »fed, N-lat. 44° 27'. E.long. 1° (>'. 



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C.\HUS.\C, Louis DE, in Biography, was borrf at 

 Montauban, and having tinilhed his lludics at 'I'ouloufe, was 

 admitted an advocate. On his return to Montauban, be 

 obtained the poft of fecretary of the intendance. He after- 

 wards removed to Paris, ar.d became ftcrctary to the count 

 de Clermont, and after attending him in the campaign of 

 1745, he devoted himfelf to literature, and particularly to- 

 dramatic compofitions. He died at Paris in June i759' 

 His temper was retllefs, lively, and arrogant ; and his fenli- 

 bility with regard to his reputation was fo acute, that it is 

 faid to have produced a degree of derangement, which pro- 

 bably fiiortened his days. His publications were " Grigri," 

 a romance, l2mo. ; "The Hillory of the Dance, ancient 

 and modern," 3 vols. l2mo; " Pharamond," written in 

 j; ;6, and the tragedy of the " Earl of \Varvvick ;" two 

 comedies, viz. " Zeneide," and the " Algerine;" the 

 " Feftivities of Polyhymnia," and of " Hymen," " Zais,"' 

 " Nais," " Zoroaiier," the "Birth of Ofiris," and " Ana- 

 creon," all operas ; befides the " Loves of Tempe," which 

 is alfo afcribed to him. Biog. Dift. 



Cahusac, in Geography, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Lot and Garonne, and diilrift of Lauzun, and 5 

 miles E.N.E. from it. 



CAHUZ ACy!;r Ferre, a town of France, in the depart- 

 ment of the Tarn, and diftridl of Gaillac, and 2 leagues N. 

 of it. 



CAHYS, in Commerce, a dry meafure for corn, ufed in 

 fome parts of Spain, particularly at Seville and Cadiz. It is 

 near a bnfhcl of our meafure. 



CAI, in Zoology. The Linnaan Simia Midas is de- 

 fcribed under this name by Ray in his Hiitory of Q^uadru- 

 peds. 



CAJA, in Entomology, the fpecies of Phaljen.4, known 

 in England by the name of the garden tiger moth. The 

 anterior wings are whitifh, with large fulcous fpots ; pof- 

 terior pair red with black fpots. Donov. Brit. hij. 



Caja, in Geography, a river ot Portugal, which runs 

 into the Guadiana, 7 miles E. of Elvas. 



Caia, in Ornithology. Buffon gives this name to the 

 HOODED Parrot, Psittacus pileatus. 



Caia, in the Turkijh Military Orders, an officer ferving 

 in the poft of a deputy or lleward, and afting for the body 

 of the janizaries. 



CAI AC, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Irak ; 64 miles W.S.W. of Ifpahan. 



CAJ.^NA, or Cajaneborg, a town of Sweden in a 

 lehn or dillriil of the fame name, and capital of Eall Both- 

 nia, feated on a lake near the borders of Lapland, and al- 

 iiiofl furrounded by the river Pyha, which forms a tremen- 

 dous cataraft in the neighbourhood. The diltrift of v.-hich 

 it is a part is about 60 leagues long and 16 broad. It was 

 granted as a barony, in 1650, to Peter Brahc, under the 

 title of the fief of Cajana. N. lat. 64° 13' 30". E. long. 15° 



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CAIANI, in Ecclejiajlical Antiquity, a fort of heretics, 

 thus denominated from one Caianus of Alexandria, 

 their leader, otherwife denominated Aphthartodocetj^. 



The fame name is fometimes alfo given to the fe£t of Cai- 

 nians or Cainites. 



CAIAON, in Geography, a kingdom of the ifland of 

 Java. 



CAIAPHAS, in Scripture Hiftory, the high prieft of 

 the Jews, at the time of our Saviour's crucifixion. He 

 fucceeded Simon, the fon of Camithus, A. M. 4029, and 

 after pofTeffing this dignity nine years, till the year A. M. 

 40J85 was depofed by Vitellius, governor of Syria, and 



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