c. 



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CASAL, 1. vlt. after Shaftftun-, iiifert— lord AOiley. 

 CABARRAS, in Geography, a county of N. Caro- 

 ima, with 6150 inhabitants, of whom 1234 are flaves. 



CABELL, a county of Virginia, with 2717 inhabitants, 

 of whom 221 are flaves. 



CABINET, col. 2, 1. 47, r. whether they be. 



CABOS. Add — The former contains 974, and the 

 htter 1003 inhabitants. 



Cabos, in Geography, a town of Caledonia, in the dif- 

 tri<5t of Vermont, haWng 886 inhabitants. 



CACHOLONG. See Mineralogy, Jddenda. 



CADIZ, in Geography, a town of Jefferfon county, in 

 Ohio, with 1374 inhabitants. 



CADMIUM, in Chemifiry, the name of a metal. This 

 metal was difcovered by M. Stromeyer- in tlie autumn of 

 1 81 7, while he was officially examining the apothecaries' 

 fhops in Hanover. 



Cadmium refembles tin in its colour, luftre, foftncfs, duc- 

 tility, and the found it produces when bent. Its fp. gr. is 

 8.6359. I*^ melts and volatilizes at a temperature a little 

 lower than zinc. It preferves its fplendour in the air, but 

 by heat it is changed into a yellow oxyd, which is not vola- 

 tile, and which is very eafily reduced. This oxyd does not 

 colour borax ; it diffolves very readily in acids, and forms 

 colourlefs falts, from which it is precipitated white by alka- 

 lies. The hydrofulphuric acid (folution of fulphurcttcd 

 liydrogen) precipitates it yellow, like arfenic. Zinc precipi- 

 tates it in the metaUic ftate. 



This is aU which at prefent we know of this metal, ex- 

 cept that it was firft obtained from the fublimate which 

 concretes in the chimnies of the zinc furnaces of Saxony ; 

 and, confequently, that it cxifts in the ores of zinc there 

 employed. We underftand alfo that it has been dete6l;ed in 

 feme fimilar ores of zinc in this country. 



CAERFILLY, &c. col. 2, 1. 49, add— It has a market 

 on Thurfday, and iix fairs in the year. By the parlia- 

 mentary returns of 1 8 1 1 , the number of houfes m this hamlet 

 of Eglwyfilan parifh was 196, and of inhabitants 10 13, 

 •u'i%. 462 males, and 551 females. 



CAERLEON, col. 3, 1. 18 from bottom, r. The town 

 confifts, by the return of 181 1, of 1 70 houfes, and 593 

 inhabitants. 



CAERMARTHEN, col. 3, 1. 17, after it contains, 



add by the parhamentary returns in 181 1, 1 189 houles, 



and 7275 inhabitants. The charter allows three markets, 

 ■■ci-z. on Wednefday, Friday, and Saturday, but the ktter 

 is the only one numeroufly attended by the farmers. It has 

 four fairs in the year, and, &c. 



CAERMARTHENSHIRE, 1. 7,— others reckon its 

 length 50, and breadth 25 miles. Gary citimates its hiper- 

 ficial contents at 512,000 acres; 1. 23, The Towy is 



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much celebrated for its fifli ; its falmon ii higlily efteemed ; 

 as is alio its fewin. The other rivers, not above enumerated, 

 are, the Llougher, Lloghor, or Lycher, which feparatcs this 

 county for fome diftance from Glamorganfhire, receiving in 

 its courfe the Amman, which united ftreams difcharge them- 

 felves into Caermarthen bay, by a wide eftuary called the 

 Bury river, navigable for fmall veffels as high as the town of 

 Lloghor. Another river, denominated Gwendracth vawT, 

 or great, has its fourcc in a lake at the upper extremity of 

 Mynudd mawr, and joins the fea below Kidwelly : ttiis is 

 joined by Gwendraeth vaeh, or the lefs. Other rivers are the 

 Pycottwr, which falls into the Dethia, and the Camdwer, 

 which augments the Towy. The river Bran unites with 

 the Towy below Llandovery ; the other tributary dreams 

 are, the Sawddy, proceeding from a lake in the Black moun- 

 tain, and the Cennen, which join the Towy, as well as the 

 Cothy and Gwilly, already mentioned. The Corwen and the 

 Taf unite at the village of St. Clears, and run into the 

 Caermarthen bay at Laugharne. The lakes of this county 

 are Llyn Tagwyn, or pwU yr Efcob, or tlie Bi(hop's pool, 

 fituated at the northern extremity, and on the higheft eleva- 

 tion of Mynudd mawr, an exteniivc bleak common, W. of 

 Llandybie, and occupying a furface about half a mile in 

 diameter. Another lake is fituated on the Black mountain, 

 at the foot of the ahno'l perpendicular declivity of the Caer- 

 marthenlhire Fan, or beacon, and extending in form of a 

 parallelogram about one mile in its greatcil length. The 

 other lakes are two, which communicate by a ftrait, and 

 appear like one, fituated on the banks of the river Cothy, 

 and near the ruins of the abbey of Talley. The mountains 

 are part of Plinlimmon, and on the E. the long chain 

 called the Black mountain, the fummit of which, called 

 y Fan, or Ban Sir Gaer, th; Caermarthenfhire beacon, is 

 the higheft ground in the county. The height of this peak 

 has been ellimated at about 2600 feet above the level of the 

 fea. It is feparated by a chafm from another eminence, of 

 fuperior altitude, in Brecknockfhire. Both are denominated 

 Bannau Sir Gaer, or Caermarthenfliirc beacons, in the plural,' 

 to diftinguifh them from thofe called Bannau Brecheinog, 

 or the Brecknockfhire beacons. Another mountain lies 611 

 the borders of Glamorganfhire, called Bettws mountain ; it 

 is a chain diverging from the Black mountain, at the upper 

 end of the valley of Tawe, and ftrctching along the cailern 

 Ihore of the Amman and Lloghor nearly to the fea: — I. 37 

 — The number of parifhes has been varioufly ellimated j 

 fome having reckoned them at 76, others at 85, and others 

 at 78, befides 12 chapelries. Tlie number of market -towns 

 is llated at eight. This county, by the lafl return in 1 8-! 1, 

 contained I4',856 houfes, and 77,217 inhabitwts ; 9878 

 families employed in agiiculture, and 5256 in trade and 

 manufaftures. 



CAERNARVON. Add— In 1 8 1 1 the pariili of Llaii- 

 3 F bcUig. 



