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rey, who was bred to the proteflion of a printer, and was 
one ffcafoh on the Covent-Garden ftage, is author of a 
Lefture on Mimicry, which lie delivered with fome fuc- 
cefs; and of feveral fmall dramatic performances. 
CARTA, a town of Arabia: 176 miles N.W.Jamama. 
CARFAGNA'NO, or Castel-nuova di Carfag- 
nano, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Modena, and ca¬ 
pital of a Iordfhip, which is partly in the Modenefe, part 
in the Bolognefe, and part in the republic of Lucca : eigh¬ 
teen’ miles north of Lucca, and thirtv-feven fouth-fouth- 
weft of Modena. 
CAR'GASON,yi [cargaqon, Span.] A cargo. Not ujcd. 
.—My body is a cargajon of ill humours. Houiell. 
CAR'GO,/i [charge, Fr.] The lading of a (hip ; the 
merchandife cr wares contained and conveyed in a fhip.— 
The ark was a fliip, whofe cargo was no lefs than a whole 
world, that carried the fortune and hopes of all pofferity. 
Burnet. —Bulk; quantity; number.—This gentleman was 
a young adventurer in the republic of letters, and juft fit¬ 
ted out for the univerfity with a good cargo of Latin and 
Greek. Addifon. 
Super-C A'RGO, a perfon deputed by merchants to go 
a voyage, infpebt the cargo, and difpofe of it to the beft 
advantage. 
CARGOU', a fmall ifland in the Gulf of Perfia, near 
the coaft of Farfiftan. 
CAR'HAIX, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftribl, in the department of Finifterre, fituated on the 
Yer, in a fertile country, that feeds great numbers of Cat¬ 
tle, and has plenty of game : fix leagues and a half fouth of 
Morlaix, and nine and a quarter fouth of St. Pol de Leon. 
CARTI AM, a village in the county of Northumberland, 
famous fora battle fought between the Englifh and Danes, 
in which eleven bilhops and two Englifh counts were flain, 
befides a great number of foldiers. Here likewife was 
fought, in xqi8, a battle between the Englifh and Scots, 
in which the latter were victorious. In the twenty-fourth 
year of Edward I. an abbey was burned here by the Scots, 
under the command of Wallace ; and in the 44th of Ed¬ 
ward III. 1370, Sir John Lifburn was defeated near this 
place, by tlie Scots, under the command of Sir John Gor¬ 
don, and taken prifoner with his brother. It is five miles 
eaft of Kelfo, and twenty-eight north-weft of Alnvsick. 
CA'RIA, a country of Afia Minor, whofe boundaries 
have been different in different ages. Generally fpeaking, 
it was at the fouth of Ionia, at the eaft and north of the 
Jcarian fea, and at the weft of Phrygia Major and Lycia, 
It has been called Phoenicia, became a Phoenician colony 
firft fettled there ; and afterwards it received the name of 
Caria, from Car, a king who firft invented the auguries 
of birds. The chief tow n was called HalicarnalTus, w here 
Jupiter was the chief deity. The people were called Cares. 
CARIABAD', a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of 
Oude : forty miles north of Lucknow. 
CARIACOU', or Carinacou, the chief of the fmall 
ifles dependent on Grenada, in tlie Weft-Indies; fituated 
four leagues from Ille Rhonde, which is a like diftance 
from the north end of Grenada. It contains near 7000 
acres of fertile and well cultivated land, producing about 
a million lbs. of cotton, befides corn, yams, potatoes, and 
plantains, for the negroes. It has a town and port called 
Hillfborough. 
CARIATHA 1 N 1 , a town of Arabia : 140 miles eaft- 
north-eaft of Mecca. 
CARI A'Tl NUOV A, a town of Italy, in the kingdom 
of Naples, and province of Calabria Citra, the fee of a 
bifhop, fuffragan of St. Severino, on the fouth-weft coaft 
of the Gulf of Tarento : twenty-five miles north of St. 
Severino. Lat. 30. 38. N. Ion. 34. 52. E. Ferro. 
CAR I A'TI VEC'C HI A, a town of Italy, in the king¬ 
dom of Naples, and province of Calabria Citra : two miles 
Ibuth-weft of Cariati Nuova. 
CARIBBE'AN SEA, that part of the Atlantic Ocean, 
which is bounded on the north by the ifiands of Jamaica, 
St. Domingo, Porto-Rico, and the Virgin Ifiands, on the 
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eaft by tlie Caribbeaivlflands, on the fouth by the country 
of Terra Firmu, and on the weft by the Mtifquito Shore. 
CARIBBEE' ISLANDS, in the Weft-Indies, a name 
which has been loofely applied to the whole of the Well- 
India ifiands, but is more particularly underftood of that 
archipelago which lies between the 58th and 63d degrees 
of weft longitude from Greenwich, and the nth and 19th 
of north latitude. Thefe ifles extend in a femicircnlar 
form from the ifland of Porto Rico, the eafternmoft of the 
Antilles, to the coaft of South America ; and the fea thus 
inclofed by the main land and the ifles is the Carribbean 
Sea ; and its great channel leads north-weftward to the 
head of the Gulf of Mexico, through the Sea of Hondu¬ 
ras. The chief of thefe itlands are Santa Cruz, Sombuca, 
Anguilla, St.Martin, St.Bartholomew, Barbuda, Saba, St. 
Euftatia, St. Chriftopher, Nevis, Antigua, Montferrat, Gua- 
rialotipe, Defeada, Mariagalante, Dominico, Martinico, Sr. 
Vincent, Barbadoes, and Grenada; the particulars of which, 
fee under their proper heads. Thefe are again clafled 
into Windward and Leeward Ifiands by f’eamen, with re¬ 
gard to the ufual comfes of fliips-, from Old Spain or to 
the Canaries, to Carthagena or New Spain and Porto Bel¬ 
lo. The geographical tables and maps clafs them into 
great and little Antilles ; and authors vary much concern¬ 
ing this laft diftinflion. The Charaibes, or Caribbees, were 
the ancient natives of the Windward Ifiands, hence many 
geographers confine the term to thefe ifles only. Mod of 
thefe were anciently poftefted by a nation of cannibals, the 
terror of the mild and inoffenfive inhabitants of Hifpanio- 
la ; who frequently exprefled to Columbus their dread 
of thefe fierce invaders. Thus, when thefe ifiands were 
afterwards difeovered by that great man, they were deno¬ 
minated Charibbean Ifles. The infular Charaibs arefup- 
pofed to be immediately defeended from the Galibis In¬ 
dians, or Charaibes of South America. 
CARIBOU', an ifland towards the eaft end of Lake Su¬ 
perior, in North America, north-weft of Crofs Cape, and 
fouth-wefterly of Montreal Bay. 
CA'RICA,./. [from Caria, a kingdom of Afia.] The 
Papaw-Te.ee; in botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, 
order decandria, or rather polygamia, natural order tricoc- 
cae. The generic characters arc—I. Male. Calyx: fcarce 
manifeft : it has however five very fhort (harp teeth. Co¬ 
rolla : monopetalous, funnel-form ; tube flender, very 
long, gradually fienderer downwards ; border five-parted, 
divifions lanceolate-linear ; obtufe, obliquely and fpirally 
re volute. Stamina : filaments ten, in the top of the tube 
of the corolla; the five alternate ones inferior.: anthers 
oblong, fixed to the filaments on the inner fide. II. Fe¬ 
male, or rather hermaphrodite. Calyx: perianthium ve¬ 
ry fmall, five-toothed, permanent; teeth ovate, acute, 
fpreading. Corolla : five-parted ; parts lanceolate, fharp, 
erebt below the middle, but reflected and twifted above. 
Stamina: filaments ten ; five alternate fhprter fubulate, 
all united by a membrane at the bafe ; anther® ovate, 
erebf, two valved, fertile. Germ: ovate; ftyle none; 
ftigmas three or five, broad, flat-expanding, multifid ; 
fegmenls very fhort, blunt. Pericarpium : berry veiy 
large, angulated with three or five furrows, unilocular, 
flefhy. Seeds : numerous, ovate, green, very fmooth, 
tunicated, neftling in the middle of the berry. — EJfcntial 
Charader. Male. Calyx very final!, five-toothed ; co¬ 
rolla five-parted, funnel-form ; filaments in the tube of 
the corolla, alternately fhorter. Hermaphrodite. Calyx - 
five-toothed; corolla five-parted; ftigmas five; berry 
one-celled, many-feeded. 
Species . 1. Carica papaya, or common papaw tree : 
lobes of the leaves finuated. The papaw-tree rifes with 
a thick,Toft, herbaceous, ftem, to the height of eighteen 
or twenty feet, naked till within two er three feet of the 
top, and having marks of lire fallen leaves great part of 
its length ; the leaves come out on every fide the ftem up¬ 
on very long foot ftalks; thofe which are fituated under- 
mofl are aimed horizontal, but thofe on the top are erebt: 
thefe leaves, in full-grown plants, are very large, and di¬ 
vided 
