CUR 



fmooth, recurved, 



CuUumia. Ait. 



-Leaves awl-fliaped, recurved or fpreading, 

 prickles ; furrowed beneath ; nearly fmooth 



and 42. 



6.757. 



.9992, 

 ■ 9382. 



2, r. 



liu's fyn.) — Leaves ovato-lanceolatc, 

 fringed with prickles. 



«. C. fquarrofa. Recurved awl-lcaved 

 n. t (Berkheya fquarrofa ; WiUd. 2272. " Rohna fquar 

 rofa; Thunb. in Aft. Soc. Nat. Scrut. Hafn. v. 3. part i 

 100. t. 5.")- 

 fringed with 

 like the branches. 



Thefe are green-houfe (lirubs, with yellow radiant /ow^«, 

 all natives of the Cape of Good Hope. , „ 



CULLUMPTON. By the return of t8i I, the parilU 

 contains 609 houfes, and 2917 inhabitants. 



CULPEPPER, I. 3. '•• 1810, i'8,967, and 8312. 

 CULROSS. In i8i I, the burgh and parifh contained 

 279 houfes, and 161 1 perfons ; i.ra. 725 males, and 886 

 females: 78 families being employed in agriculture, and 

 183 in trade, manufaftures, and handicraft. 

 CUMANA, 1. 4, r. Welfees. 



CUMBERLAND, 1. 23, r. and by the return of 181 1, 

 24,002 houfes, aod 133,344 inhabitants. 



Cumberland, in Maine, 1. 7, 1: 24 townfhips ; 1. 9, r. 

 1810, is 42,831. 

 Cumberland, in New Jerfey, 1. 5, r. 1 2,678 

 Cumberland, a county of Pennfylvania, 1. ;///. r 

 and 307. 



Cumberland, a county of Virginia, 1. 3 and 4, 

 and 6102. 



Cumberland, a county of N. Carolina, 1. 2, 

 and 2796. 



Cumberland, a county of Kentucky, 1. i and 

 6o8j, and 902. 



Cumberland, in Rhode illand, 1. 2, r. 2140. 

 Cumberland, in Pennfylvania, r. 1591. And at the 

 clofe, after Bedford, add — containing 570 inhabitants. 

 CUMMINGTON, I.3, r. 1009. 



CURCULIO, 1. 17, add— Mr. Marfham, in his " En- 

 tomologia Britannica," enumerates no fewer than 234 Bri- 

 tifh fpecies ; 1. 27, add — The larva, when properly fried 

 and boiled, is confidered as one of the bell dainties in the 

 Weft Indies. P. 3, C. Granarius, add — See Weevil. 

 P. 5, col. 2, Nucum, add — Tho various changes which the 

 nut-maggot pafFes through, from its introduftion into the 

 nut in Auguft to its efcape, are worthy of attention. Dr. 

 Darwin, in his " Botanical Garden," thus beautifully de- 

 fcribes the egrefs of this infeft from the cavity of the nut : 



" So fleeps in filence the curculio, (hut 

 In the dark chambers of the cavcrn'd nut ; 

 Erodes with ivory beak the vaulted Ihell, 

 And quits on filmy wings its narrow cell." 



CURD, Chemical Properties of. See Milk. 



CURIA Claudenda, a writ that lies againft liim who 

 fhould fence and inclofe the ground, but refufes or defers 

 to do it. 



Curia Advifare vult, a deliberation which the court 

 fometimes takes, before judgment is given in a caufe, with 

 regard to which there feems to be any point of difficulty, 



CURRIE, James, M.D., in Biography, dillinguifhed 

 both as a phyfician and a writer, was the fon of an efta- 

 bhflied miniller at Kirkpatrick-Fleming, in Dumfriesfhire, 

 in which parifh he was born in the year 1756. Originally 

 defigned for commerce, he was educated with that view ; 

 but upon a change of his deftination, he commenced, in 

 1776, a courfe of medical ftudy at Edinburgh : and having 

 graduated in that univerfity, fettled, in 1781, at Liverpool, 

 where he foon rofe to eminence in his profefRon and in his 

 literary charafter. His firft performance as a writer was an 



C Y A 



elegant tribute to the memory of his intimate friend. Dr. 

 Bell of Manchefter, pubhfhed in 1785 in the firft volume of 

 the Manchefter Tranfaftions. His paper on Tetanus, &c. 

 ■was pubUfhed in the Memoirs of the London Medical 

 Society, vol. iii. In 1 792 he was elefted a member of the 

 Royal Society ; and his curious paper on the lamentable 

 effefts of a (hipwreck was printed in the Phil. Tranf. for 

 that year. Difapproving of the war between this country 

 and France in confequence of the revolution, he was fup- 

 pofed to be the author of an interefting pamphlet, which 

 appeared in 1793 under the title of " A Letter, Commer- 

 cial and Political, addrefled to the Right Honourable Wil- 

 ham Pitt, by Jafper Wilfon." In 1797 his medical reput- 

 ation was much advanced by a treatife in 8vo., entitled 

 " Medical Reports on the Effefts of Water, cold and 

 warm, as a Remedy in Febrile Difeafes, &c." by which 

 the praftice of effufion of cold water in fevers, fug- 

 gefted by Dr. Wright's narrative in the London Journal, 

 was much extended. With a view to the relief of the dif- 

 trefled family of the ruftic poet, Robert Burns, with whom 

 he became acquainted in 1792, he pubhfhed in 1800 an 

 edition of his works, with an account of his life, &c. in 

 4 vols. 8vo. It is with real regret we farther report, that 

 Dr. Currie's health began to decline in 1804, and that his 

 friends and patients at Liverpool were deprived of the 

 pleafure of his fociety and advice by his removal, towards 

 the clofe of the year, to Clifton and Bath. His diforder, 

 which was of the pulmonary kind, fomewhat abated in con- 

 fequence of the change of his fituation, and at the com- 

 mencement of the following year he began to praftife in 

 his profeflion with encouraging profpefts of fuccefs. But 

 it again recurred with alarming fymptoms, and he was under 

 a neceflity of removing to Sidmouth, where his valuable 

 life terminated on the 3iftof Aoguft, 1805, in the 50th 

 year of his age. The caufc of literature and fcience, and 

 the interefts of humanity and benevolence, fufFered great lofs 

 by his death. 



CURVO, in Geography, a towuHiip of America, in the 

 diftrift of Maine, and county of Somerfet, containing 275 

 inhabitants. 



CUSERUND, a town of Mekran in Perfia, fituated in a 

 fertile valley, about 2 1 miles broad, with a river running through 

 it. It contains 500 huts, and a large mud fort. Wheat, 

 rice, and dates, are abundant ; and the town belongs to an in- 

 dependent chief, whofe revenue is about 1 000 rupees a year. 

 CUSHING, 1. 3, r. 532. 



CUTIS, Chemical Properties of. See Integuments. 

 CYANOGEN, in Chemifiry, the name given by M. Gay 

 Luflac to the recently-difcovered bafis of the pruflic acid, 

 and which he has demonftrated to be a compound of carbon 

 and azote. The name is derived from xuxvo,, blue. Cyano- 

 gen may be obtained by expofing dry prufliate of mercury 

 in a fmall retort, to a heat rather under rednefs. The fait 

 blackens, and a gafeous fluid is extrafted in abundance, 

 which mull be coUedled over mercury. This gas is cyanogen. 

 It is colourlefs, and poflefles the mechanical properties of 

 common air. Its fmell is quite pecuhar, and very ftrong and 

 difagreeable. Its fpecific gravity, as afcertained by Gay 

 Luiiac, is 1.8064. I' 's inflammable, and burns with a 

 purphfh-blue flame. It is not decompofed by expofure to 

 a red heat. Water diflblves 4^ times its volume, and alcohol 

 23 times its volume of this gas. It reddens tindlure of 

 litmus. Phofphorus, fulphur, and iodine, may be volatilized 

 in it without alteration. Potaffium burns in it, and abforbs it. 

 For complete combuftion, it requires twice its volume of 

 oxygen gas ; and the produfts are twice its volume of car- 

 bonic acid, and its own volume of azotic gas. Hence it is 



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