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Ranches at Naples, whither he had retired for the re-/ 
covery of his health, brought a diftemper upon him of 
which lie died in 1609, when he was 49 years of age. His 
veneration for Raphael was fq great, that it was his death¬ 
bed requelf to be buried in the fame tomb with him ; 
which was accordingly done, in the pantheon or rot undo 
at Rome. There are extant feveral prints of the bieffed 
Virgin, and fome other fnbjefls, etched by the hand of 
this incomparable artift. He is laid to have been a friend¬ 
ly, plain,- honed, and open-hearted, man ; very communi¬ 
cative to his fcholars ; and fo extremely kind to them, that 
lie generally kept his money in the fame box with his co¬ 
lours,'where they might recourfe to either as they had 
occafion. While Hannibal Caracci worked Rome, Lewis 
was courted from all parts of Lombardy, efpecially by the 
clergy, to make pictures in their churches ; and we may 
judge of his capacity and facility, by the great number of 
pictures he made, and by the preference that was given 
him to other painters. I11 the nvidlf of thefe employments 
Hannibal folicited him to come and afTift him in the Far- 
nefe gallery ; and fo e'arneftly, that he could not avoid 
Complying with his requelf. He went to Rome ; correct¬ 
ed feveral things in that gallery; painted a figure or two 
himfelf; and then returned to Bologna, where he died in 
1619, aged 64. 
CARAC'CIO (Anthony), a Roman baron of the 17th 
century, acquired fame by his Italian poems. Among his 
tragedies, that of II Corradino is dillinguillied above the 
reft, printed at Rome in 1694. He employed himfelf in 
a work of far greater importance ; this was his Imperio 
Vendicato, an epic poem in forty cantos, printed at Rome 
in 1690, in 4to. The Italians place it immediately after 
Ariofto and TaflTo ; but perfons of tafte, while they ad¬ 
mire the facility and abundance of the author, rank his 
poem far beneath the Orlando Furiofo and Gierufalemme 
Liberata. 
CARACHABAN', a town of Perfia, in the province 
®f Adirbeitzan : eighty miles weft of Tauris. 
CA'RACK,yi [caraca, Span.] A large (hip of burden; 
the fame with thole which are now called galieons. 
The bigger whale like fome huge carack lay, 
Which vvanteth fea-room with her foes to play. Waller. 
CA'R A COLE,[ caracole , Fr. from caracal, Span, a 
fnail.J In horfemanfhip, an oblique tread, traced out in 
femi-rounds, changing from one band to another, without 
obferving a regular ground.—When the horfe advance to 
charge in battle, they ride fometimes in caracoles, to amufe 
the enemy, and put them indoubt whether they are about 
to charge them in tire front or in the flank. In architec¬ 
ture, a ftaircafe in a helix or fpiral form, is called a caracole. 
To CA'R ACOLE, v. n. To move in caracoles. 
CARACO'LI,y. A mixed metal of which the Carib- 
■bees, or natives of the LeflTer Antilles, make, a fort of or¬ 
nament in the form of a crefcent, which they alfo call ca~ 
racoli. This metal is a compound of filver, copper, and 
gold, like the Corinthian brafs among the ancients. Thefe 
metals are fo perfectly mixed and incorporated together, 
that the compound which refujts from tljem, it is faicl, 
has a colour that never alters, how long foever it remains 
in the lea, or under ground. 
CA'RACT, or Carat, J. \_carat , Fr. from cer'atium, 
■Lat.] A name given to the weight which exprelfes the 
degree of goodnefs or finenefs of gold. The whole quan¬ 
tity of metal is confidered as confiding of twenty-four 
parts, which are the carats, fo that the carat is the twen¬ 
ty-fourth part of the whole; this carat is 'divided into 
four equal parts, called grains of a carat, and the grain 
into halves and quarters. When gold is purified to the 
titmoft degree pofiible, fo that it lofes no more by farther 
trials, it is confidered as quite pure, and (aid to be twen¬ 
ty-four carats fine; if it’iofe-Jj in purifying, it was of 
twenty-three carats fine ; and, if it lofe two carats, it was 
twenty-two fine ; and fo on. 
CAR AC'TACUS, a renowned king of the ancient Bri- 
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tifli people called Silurcs, inhabiting South Wales. Hav¬ 
ing valiantly defended his country for feven years againft: 
the Romans, he was at length defeated ; and flying to 
Cartifmunda, queen of the Brigante's (inhabitants of York- 
fhire), was by her treaclveroufly delivered up to the Ro¬ 
mans, and led in triumph to the emperor Claudius, then 
at York; where his noble behaviour, and heroic fpe'ech, 
obtained him not only his liberty, but the efieem of the 
emperor, A. D. 52. 
CARA'Fl, the furname of Ahmed Ben Edris, do£Ior 
of the left of Malek, who died about the year 684 of the 
hegira. He is author of the book intitled Agiubat al 
fakherah an alilat al caferah : An anfvver to the queftions 
and difficulties proposed by the Jews and by the Chrif- 
tians againft Mohammedanifm. He alfo compofed th.e 
following books: 1. Anvar al Voruk, the Corufcations 
of Lightning. 2. Alikam fi Tamauz al Fadva, Rules to 
be obferved concerning the Cartel of Ranfoms, and of 
Exchanges. 3. Eftebfar fi ma Yodrak Belabfar, Confi- 
derations on the Things that are to be known by the In- 
fpedlion and by the Sight. All thefe books treat of laws 
of Muifulmanifm. The author is likewife named Sheha- 
beddin Abulabbas. Carafi is alfo the furname of Yahia. 
Ben Abdabrahman ai Esfahani, who wrote a commentary' 
on the poem of Ben Farah, intitled Mandhumah fil Ha- 
.dith, Verfes on the Traditions or Narrations that are af- 
cribed to Mohammed. 
CAR A.GA'NA./i in botany. See Robinia. 
CARA'GLIA, a town of Piedmont, in-the province 
of Coni : five miles and a half north-weft of Coni. 
CARA'GOS, a province of the illand of Mindanao, 
near the eaftern coaft : the principal production is fago. 
C ARAGROU'CH,y A filver coin of the German em¬ 
pire, weighing nine drachms. 
C ARAGUA'TA,y. in botany. See Bromelia. 
CARAHIS'SAR. See Aphiom Karahissar. 
CA'RAITES, a religious left among the Jews, where¬ 
of there are fome fubfifting in Poland, Ruffia, Conftanti- 
nople, Cairo, and other places of the Levant ; whole dif- 
tinguifhing tenet it is, to adhere clofely to the words and 
letter of the Bible, exclufive of allegories, traditions, See. 
Leo of Modena, a rabbin of Venice, obferves, that of all 
the hereftes among that people, before the deftruftion of 
the temple, there is none now left but that of the Car aim , 
a name derived from Micra , which fignifies the pure text 
of the Bible ; becaufe of their keeping to the Pentateuch, 
obferving it to the letter, and rejecting all interpretations, 
paraphrases, and conftitutions of the rabbins. Aben Ezra, 
and fome other rabbins, treat the Caraites as Sadducees ; 
'but Leo de Juda calls them, more accurately, Sadducees 
reformed ; becaufe they believe the immortality of the foul, 
which the ancient Sadducees denied. He adds, however, 
that they were originally real Sadducees, and fprang up 
from among them. Scaliger, VolTius, and Spanheim, rank 
the Caraites among the Sabeans, Magi, Manichees,, and 
Mu.tfulmans, but by miftake : Wolfgang, Fabricius, &c. 
fay the Sadducees and Eifeni were called Caraites, in op- 
pofition to the Pharifees: others take them for the doc¬ 
tors of the law, fo often mentioned in the gofpel ; but 
thefe are all conjectures. Jofephus and Philo make no 
mention of them ; which fliows that they are of a more 
modern date than either of thefe authors. Peringer fays, 
that the Caraites in Lithuania are very different both irt 
afpeft, language, and manners, from the rabbinifts, w here¬ 
with that country abounds. Their mother tongue is the 
Turkifto ; and this they ufe in their fchools and fyna- 
gogues. In vifage they referable the Mahometan Tartars. 
Their fynagogues are placed north and foiith ; and tlie 
reafon they give for it is, that Shalmanefer brought them 
northward ; fo that in praying, to look to Jerufalem, they 
mud turn to the fouth. He adds, that they admit all the 
books of the pid Teftament ; contrary to the opinion of 
many of the learned, who hold that they rejeft all but the 
Pentateuch. 
CARAMAN', a town of France, in the department of 
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