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Btrr'iet fmall, four or five-cornered, or round, wrinkled 

 about the edge, fmooth, ftd't, flat at the top, crowned with 

 a (hort llyie.' S.eJs from lix to i.ine, foTnetimi.-s only fiom 

 one to tiiree, in a vifcid mucilage. A native of marfiies in 

 Holland, Germany, and the whole north of Europe. Its 

 roots are very acrid ; but Linnxus informs us, that the 

 Laplanders extrad from tlieni a fccnla of which they make 

 bread, j. C. crkiitalis, Linn. Sp. PI. (Anim Carfaami, 

 Rauw. itin. 115. A. minus orientale, NIor. Hid. j. 544. 

 Rai. Slip. 5S0.) " Leaves tgg-fliaped." Peicnnial. Pdi- 

 oU] long. Si-iip; about fix inches high ; Jloiver white. A 

 uativcofthc munntaini about Aleppo. This fpccies reds 

 entirely on the authority of Rauwolf ; and, tlioiigh admitted 

 by Linnxus into his Species Plantarum, docs not .appear in 

 the latl edition of his Syftema Naturie, and has fnice been 

 rcjcclcd by mod of the editorsof the Syllema Vegetabilium. 

 4. C. o:cuba, Mjityn's Miller. Loureiro Cochnich. 533. 

 " Leaves lieart-egT-fhaped ; fpathe fpiral ; fpadix with an- 

 thers and filaments intermiiigltd at the bottom ; anthers only 

 at the top." Perennial. About a foot high, with fcarccly 

 any Halk. Leaves rrany, fmooth, diffufcd; with long chan- 

 lullcd petioles, dihitcd at the bafc, embracing the inner ones. 

 Spathe long, concealing the flowers even in their ftate of 

 maturity. Spidix oblong. Stt^ma concave, trilid, felTlle. 

 B:rry three-lobed, thvec-celled, yellow, containing many 

 feeds. A native of Cothinchina in moid places. 



PropngrXion and Culltire. Tiie ^thiopica propagates 

 very fad by offsets, which Hiould be taken off about the end 

 of Augnrt, and each planted i'eparatcly in a pot filled with 

 kitchen-garden earth. Tiiey may be kept in the open air 

 till winter, and then fliould be removed under cover. The 

 plant will live in the opm air in mild winters, without any 

 cover, in a warm border and dry foil ; and may always be 

 preferved with a little dielter from hard froft. The paludris 

 mud be planted in an artificial bog, or the mud of a pond, 

 or tub fet in water. Miller. 



Call. \-Su/uri^', in Geogivphy, a town and capital 

 of the ifland of Bouton, in the Indian fea, feated about a 

 mile from the coad, on an eminence fnrrounded with co- 

 coa-nut trees. It has a bad liarbonr with a rocky bottom. 

 The inhabitants are Maiiometans, and fpeak the Malay 

 language. 



CALLABASH-BAY, See Calabash. 



CALLAC, a town of France in the department of the 

 North Coads, and chief place of a canton in the didrift: of 

 Guingamp ; ,;i Kaguis N. of Rodrenau. The place con- 

 tains 1,543, and the canton 10,5 32 inhabitants ; the ten i- 

 tory incl'ides 327; kiliometres, ar.d 9 communes. 



CALLAC.-\LLliS, a nvcr of Chili which falls into the 

 South S;a at Baldi\ia. 



C.ALLAF, or Calaf, in fiato/y. (Alpin.) See Salix 



.^GVPTIACA. 



CALL.^H, or Gei.lah, \n Geography, a town of Af- 

 rica, in the country of /Mgier-, 50 miles S. of Bona Alfo, 



a town of Africa, in the country uf Aliriers ; ? i miles W. 



buef. 

 _ CALL AH, El, a town of Africa, in the weftern pro- 

 vince of Algiers, Tiemfan or Tremeccn, fituate ^ leagues 

 to the N. E. of Mafcar, and 40 miles E of Oran, on an 

 eminence, as the .Arabic name imports, and in the midd of 

 other mountains, which form part of Mount Atlas. It is 

 larger than Mafcar, but a dirty ill-contrived town, without 

 drams, pavement, or caufeways.' It is the greated market of 

 this country for carpets and b'nrnoofes. There are feveral vil- 

 lages of the fame nature, and ahke fituate round about it, all 

 of .vliich are profitably employed in the fame woollen manu- 

 fact jrcs. llie Turks have here a fmall gartifon and citadel ; 

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and, fromfome few large dones and pieces of marble of ancient 

 workmandiip, we may inter that it was formerly a city of the 

 Romans; perhaps the " GitUii," or " Apfar," of Ptolemy. 

 CALL.AICI, or Call;eci, in Anc'unI Geography, a 

 people of Spain, who inhabited the north-wtdern part of 

 the country. Their name ftcms to have been formed from 

 " Calle," which was that of one of their ports. Tliere 

 were feveral dilTerent people comprehended under this deno- 

 mination ; fuch as the Bracari; Cxlerini, Gravii, Simici, 

 Querquerni, Artabri, and others. Ptolemy divides them 

 into the " Callaici Bracarii," and " Callaici Lucenfes." 

 The former extended thcmfclves from the Durius to the 

 Minius ; and the latter from the Miuius to Allures. Their 

 principal rivers were the Uia, Minius, and Durius ; and 

 their chief towns were Brigantium, Adrobicum, Lncus 

 Augudi, Iria Flavia, Tyde, Bracara Augufla, Calle, and 

 AqucB r'lavls. 



CALLAN, a mountain in the county of Clare, Ireland^ 

 near the Wedcrn Ocean, remarkable for a large (lone oi" 

 monument, fuppofed to have an infcnption in the Ogham 

 or Ogum characters. An account of it may be found m the 

 id vol. of the Tranfaftions of the Royal Irifii Acadeny, 

 and in the 7th volume of the Archceologia ; and iome re- 

 marks on it in Ledwich's Iridi Antiquities. 



CALLAN0RE,orKuLLANORt,a town of Hindoodan, 

 in the county of Lahore, feated on the Rauvee, about E. 

 30° N. from Lahore, or dillant f-jm it jj common coffes. 

 N. lat. 32° 30'. E. long. 74° 40'. 



CALLAO, a fea-port town of Spanidi South America, 

 in Peru, feated on a river of the fame name near the Pa- 

 cific Ocean, and ferving as a port to the city of Lima, from 

 which it is didant about 5 miles. The harbour of Callao 

 is the larged, mod beautiful, mod convenient, and moil 

 fecurc in the South Sea ; and the Spanifli government has, 

 at differcrt periods, expended large fums in improving and 

 ftrengthening it. The largcfl velfels may lie with perfcft 

 fafety in the road of this port, as the water is very deep, 

 without rocks, and always tranquil. Two iflands, named 

 St. Lawrence and Callao, and the peninfula which nearly 

 reaches them, defend vedels, from the fouth wind ; and though 

 the road is open to the north and north-north-well, thefe 

 winds fo fcldom blow here, or with fuch inconfiderable force, 

 that no danger is apprehended. The ifland of St. Law- 

 rence breaks off the lea from the S. W. to the S. E. In 

 this port every neccffary commodity which vefTels need, may 

 be procured. The fmall river that conies down from Lima, 

 and difcharges itfclfinto the fea under the walls of Callao, 

 furnidies plenty of good water; and a mole, on which cranes 

 are treSed, makes it eafy for fiiips to load and unload. 

 The town, which the Spaniards' have confijered as almoft 

 impregnable, was, before the calamity, which it fntfeied by 

 an earthquake, fortified by h^flions and fome batteries, 

 which have never been thoroughly repaired ; and it is de- 

 fended by a garrifon. There are two fauxbourgs inhabited 

 by Indians. The trade of Callao is confiderable, in confe- 

 qnence ot its convenience as a port, and its vicinity to Liina, 

 which fee. This place, as well as the adjacent country, has 

 frequently fuffered much from earthquakes. The mod dread- 

 ful earthquake, however, feems to have been that which 

 commenced in 1746, and continued at intervals till 1747. 

 On this occafion the port of Callao was totally fubmerfcd ; 

 nothing remained except a piece of the wall of the fort of 

 Santa Cruz, as a memorial of this terrible devadation. Of 23 

 fhips and veffels, great and fmall, which were then in the 

 harbour, 19 were wholly funk, and the other four were 

 carried by the force of the waves to a great didance up the 

 country. Of the number of inhabitants, amounting to about 



400^ 



