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fey Walter de Brienne, fent by the pope to defend the 
young king’s dominions. 
The traces of the town of Cannae are now very faint, 
Confiding of fragments of altars, cornices, gates, walls, 
vaults, and under-grouad granaries. It was defiroyed the 
year before the battle; but, being rebuilt, became an 
epifcopal fee in the infancy of Chriftianity. It was again 
ruined in the fixth century, but feems to have fubfilted in 
an humble date many ages later. 
CAN'NEQUINS,/. white cotton cloths, manufactured 
in the Ea(t-Indies. They area proper commodity for trad¬ 
ing on the coaft of Guinea, particularly about the rivers 
Senegal and Gambia. Thefe linens are folded fquare-wife, 
and are generally about eight ells long. 
CAN'NEL COAL. See Ampelites. 
CANNE'TE, a town of Spain, in the provincfe of Cor¬ 
dova, eighteen miles eaft of Cordova. 
CANNE'TE, a town of Spain, in the country of Se¬ 
ville, five leagues fouth of Olfuna. 
CANNET'TE, a town of South America, in Peru, fi- 
tuated in a valley, about a league and a half from the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean. The country yields corn enough for home 
confumption and exportajion. Sixty-five miles from Lima. 
CAN'NIBAL,yi An anthropopagite ; a man-eater. See 
the article Anthropophagi, vol. i. p. 760. 
The captive ' cannibal , oppreft with chains, 
Yet braves his foes, reviles, provokes, difdains j 
Of nature fierce, untameable, and proud, 
He bids defiance to the gaping crowd ; 
And lpent at laft, and fpeechlefs, as he lies, 
With fiery glances mocks their rage, and dies. Granville. 
CAN'NIBALLY, adv. In the manner of a cannibal.—■ 
Had he been cannibally given, he might have broiled and 
eaten him too. Shahefpearc. 
C AN'NIPERS,y. [corrupted from Callipers, which 
fee.] The fquare is taken by a pair of cannipers, or two 
rulers, clapped to the fide of a tree, meafuring the diftance 
between them. Mortimer. 
CAN'NON ,f. [ cannon, Fr. from canna, Lat. a pipe, 
meaning a large tube.] A great gun for battery. A gun 
larger than can be managed by the hand. They are of fo 
many fizes, that they decreafe in the bore from a ball of 
481b. to a ball of 50Z. —The making, or price, of thefe 
gunpowder inftruments, is extremely expenlive, as may be 
eafily judged by the weight of their materials ; awholera«- 
non weighing commonly 8ooolbs. a half cannon , 5000? a 
culverin, 4500 ; a demi-culverin, 3000; which, whether 
it be in iron or brafs, muft needs be very cofily. Wilkins. 
The invention of brafs cannon is by Laney afcribed to 
J. Owen: he fays, that they were firll: known in England 
in the year 1535 j but yet acknowledges, that, in 1346, 
there were four pieces of cannon in the Englifh army at 
the battle of Crelfy, and that thefe were the firft that were 
known in France. The Germans carry the invention far¬ 
ther back, and attribute it to Albertus Magnus, a Domi¬ 
nican monk, about the year 1250. Voffius rejedts all thefe 
opinions, and finds cannon in China upwards of 1700 years 
.ago. According to him, they were mounted by the em¬ 
peror Kitey, in the year of Chrift 85. See Artillery, 
vol. i. p. 234. For the catling of cannon, fee Founder y. 
For their different parts, proportions, management, opera¬ 
tion, and effect, fee Gun, and Gunnery. 
CAN'NON, f. with letter-founders and printers, the 
name of the larged types they ufe. 
CAN'NON-BALL, Cannon-bullet, or Cannon- 
shot, f. The balls or bullets which are fliot from great 
guns.—He reckons thofe for wounds that are made by bul¬ 
lets, although it be a cannon-plot. Wifeman. 
To CANNONA'DE, v. n. To play the great guns; to 
batter or attack with great guns. See Gunnery. 
To CANNONA'DE, v. a. To fire upon with cannon. 
CANNONEER, f. The engineer that manages the can¬ 
non: 
Vol. III. No. 158. 
Then let the kettle to the trumpets fpeak. 
The trumpets to the cannonier without, 
The cannons to the Jieav’ns, the heav’ns to earth. Shake/. 
CAN'NOT, a word compounded of can and not ; no¬ 
ting inability.—I cannot but believe many a child can tell 
twenty, long before he has any idea of infinity at all. Locke. 
CAN'NULA, /. [of canna, Lat. a reed.] In furgery, a 
tube made of different metals, principally of filver and 
lead, but fometimes of iron. They are introduced into 
hollow ulcers, in order to facilitate a difeharge of pus or 
other matter ; or into wounds, either accidental or arti¬ 
ficial, of the large cavities, as the thorax or abdomen : 
they are ufed in the operation of bronchotomy ; and, by 
fotne, after, cutting for the done, as a drain for urine. 
They are alfo ufed for introducing cauteries, either actual 
or potential, into hollow parts, in order to guard the parts 
adjacent from injury. They are of various figures; fome 
oval, fome round, and others crooked. 
CA'NO, or Gana, a kingdom of Africa, in Negro- 
land, with a town of the fame name. It is bounded by 
the great defect of Sahara on the north, by the river.Ni¬ 
ger on the fouth, by the kingdom of Agades on the wed, 
and that of Caffina on the ead. Lat. 18. o. N. Ion. 30.0. 
E. Ferro. 
CANO'A, a town of Japan, in the province of Iwami, 
CANO'BIO, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe, on the 
wed fide of lake Maggiora : thirteen miles ead-fouth-ead 
of Domo d’Ofello. 
CANO'E,y. an Indian boat or vefTel, formed of the 
trunk of a tree hollowed, and fometimes only of pieces of 
the bark put together. The largeft canoes are made of 
the cotton-tree : fome of them will carry between twenty 
and thirty hogfheads of fugar or molaffes. Some are made 
to carry fail: and for this purpofe are deeped in water till 
they become pliant; after which their fides are extended, 
and ftrong beams placed between them, on which a deck 
is afterwards laid that ferves to fupport their fides. The 
other forts very rarely carry fail, unlefs when going be¬ 
fore the wind: their fails are made of a fort of fhort fills; 
grafs or rufltes. They are commonly rowed with paddles, 
which are pieces of light wood fomewhat refentbling a 
corn-fhovel; and, infiead of rowing with it horizontally, 
like an oar, they manage it perpendicularly. 
Mr. Weld, in his Travels through North America, pub- 
lithed in 1799, informs us, that the Indians in Upper Ca¬ 
nada fafhion their canoes of one entire piece of elm bark, 
taken from the trunk of the tree, which is bound on riba 
formed of (lender rods of tough wood. There are no ribs 
at the ends of thefe canoes, but only in the middle, where 
the palfengers fit, which is the only part that refis upon 
the water ; for, the bottom of the canoe being of a curved 
form, both the ends are raifed confiderably above the fur- 
face. They bring them into this (hape by cutting, nearly 
mid-way between tire ftem and ftern, two deep Hits, one 
on'each fide, in the back, and then lapping the disjointed 
edges one over the other. No care is taken to make the 
ends water-tight, becaufe they never touch the water. 
From the conftrudlion and appearance of one of thefe ca¬ 
noes, one would fuppofe it could never carry even a fingle 
perfon fafely acrofs a fmooth piece of water ; they are ne- 
verthelefs conlidered as perfectly fafe, and the Indians re- 
folutely embark in them in very rough weather. They are 
fo light that they ride fecurely over every wave, and the 
only precaution neceffary in navigating them is to fit fleady. 
One of thefe canoes will convey a dozen people with great 
eafe; yet a fingle perfon can carry one of them upon his 
head ; by which means the favages overcome every obfia- 
cle thrown in their way by rocks, water-falls, precipices, 
&c. and they will even carry their canoes from one river 
to another, -whenever requifite to facilitate their progrefs 
through the country. 
CANO'GE, a town of Hindoofian, on the weft fide of 
the Ganges, and in the nabobfitip of Qude, feated at the 
junction with the Calini or Callynuddi, and luppofed to 
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