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centric circles, or other lefs regular figures, about a nu¬ 
cleus, in the manner of tliofe of agates. The pieces of car- 
ri£!iaii which,are ail of one colour,-and perfectly free from 
veins, are tliofe which our jewellers generally make ufe 
of for leals, though the variegated ones are much more 
beautiful. The carneliaii is hard, and capable of a very 
high polifli : it is not at all afiedted by acid menftruums. 
The fined Carnelians are thofe of the Ead-Indies ; but 
there are very beautiful'ones found in the rivers of Silefia 
and Bohemia; and we have foine found in England. 
Though the ancient phydeians have recommended thecar- 
nelian as adringent, and attributed a number of fanciful 
virtues to it, we know of no other ufe of the done than 
for cutting fcals, to which purpofe it is excellently adap¬ 
ted, as being not too hard for cutting, and yet hard enough 
to take a good polilh, and to feparate ealily from the wax. 
CAR'N EOUS, adj. \jifarneus, Lat.] Flelhy.—In a calf, 
the umbilical vedels terminate in certain bodies, divided 
into a multitude of carneous papillae. Ray. 
CARNE'RA, one of the ftnaller Cape Verd illands, 
which is little more than a rock. 
CARNES'VILLE, the chief town of Franklin county, 
in Georgia, N. America : ico miles north-wed of Augufta. 
C ARNI'COBAR, a fmall illand in the Indian Sea, 
north of the Nicobar i(lands. Lat.g.n.N. Ion. 93. 18. 
E. Greenwich. The following account of this idand is 
given by Mr. G. Hamilton, in the fecond volume of the 
Aliatic Researches:—“ Carnicobar is of around figure, 
about forty miles in circumference, and appears at a dif- 
tance as if entirely covered with trees ; however, there 
are ieveral well-cleared and delightful fpots upon it. The 
foil is a black kind of clay, and ntarfhy. It produces, in 
great abundance, and with little care, mod of the tropical 
fruits, finch as pine-apples, plantains, papayas, cocoa-nuts, 
and areca-nuts; alfo excellent yams, and a root called cacku. 
The only four-footed animals upon the idand are hogs, 
dogs,large rats, and an animal of the lizard kind, but large, 
Called by tire natives tolonqui-, thefe frequently carry off 
fowls and chicken. The only kind of poultry are hens, and 
thofe not in great plenty. There are abundance of fnakes 
of many different kinds, and the inhabitants frequently die 
of their bites. The timber upon the idand is of many forts, 
in great plenty, and fonie of it remarkably large, affording 
excellent materials for building or repairing (hips. 
“ The natives are low in dature, but very well made, 
and furprifingly adtive and drong ; they are copper-co¬ 
loured, and their features have a cad of the Malay, quite 
the reverie of elegant : the women, in particular, are ex¬ 
tremely ugly. 'I he men cut their hair fliort, and the wo¬ 
men have their heads diaved quite bare, and wear no co¬ 
vering but a fhort petticoat, made of a fort of rtifh or dry 
grafs, which reaches half way down the thigh. This grafs 
is not interwoven, but hangs round the perfon fomething 
like the thatching of a houfe. Such of them as have re¬ 
ceived prefents of cloth petticoats from the (hips, com¬ 
monly tie them round immediately-under the arms. The 
men wear nothing but a narrow drip of cloth about the 
middle. The ears of both lexes are pierced when young, 
and by fqueezing into the holes large plugs of wood, or 
hanging heavy weights of (hells, they contrive to render 
them wide, and di(agreeable to look at. They are natu¬ 
rally difpofed to be good-humoured and gay, and are very 
fond of fitting tit table with Europeans, where they eat 
every thing that is let before them ; and they eat mod 
enqrmoudy. They do not care much for wine, but will 
drink bumpers of arrack as long as they can lee. A great 
part of their time is (pent in leading and dancing. When 
a fealt is held at any village, every one that choofes goes, 
uninvited, for they are utter drangers to ceremony. At 
thefe fealts they eat immenfe quantities of pork, which is 
their favourite food. Their hogs are remarkably fat, be¬ 
ing fed upon the cocoa-nut kernel and fea-water; indeed, 
a 1 their domeffic animals, fowls, dogs, See. are fed upon 
the fame. They have likewife plenty of fmall fea-fidi, 
which they drike very dexteroufly with lances, wading in- 
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to the fea about knee deep. They are fare of killing a 
very fmall filh at ten or twelve yards didance. They eat 
the pork almoft raw, giving it only a hally grill over a 
quick fire. They road a fowl by running a piece of wood 
through it, by way of fpit, and holding it over a brilk fire 
until the feathers are burnt off, when it is fit for eating 
in their tade. They never drink water, only cocoa-nut 
milk,and a liquor called foura T which oozes from the cocoa- 
nut tree, after cutting off the young fprouts or flowers. 
This they fuffer to ferment before it is ufed, and then it 
is intoxicating ; to which quality they add much by their 
method of drinking it, by their fucking it (lowly through 
a 1 mull draw. After eating, the young men and women, 
who are fancifully dreded with leaves, go to dancing, an 1 
the old people fuiround them, fmoking tobacco, and drink¬ 
ing foura. The dancers, while performing, ling fome of 
their times, which are far from wanting harmony, and to 
which they keep exact time. Of nuidcal indruments they 
have only one kind, and that the dimpled : it is a hollow- 
bamboo, about 2§ feet long, and three inches in diameter, 
along the outfide of which there is firetched from end to 
end a tingle dring, made of the threads of a fplit cane, and 
the place under the dring is hollowed a little to prevent 
it from touching. This inffrument is played upon in the 
fame manner as a guitar; it is capable of producing but 
few notes; the performer, however, makes it (peak hanno- 
nioully, and generally accompanies it with the voice. 
“ What they know of phyfic is fmall and Ample. I 
had onceoccalion to fee an operation in furgery performed 
on the toe of a young girl, v\ho had been Hung by a 
fcorpion pr centipee. The wound was attended with con- 
fiderable dwelling, and the little patient feemed in great 
pain. One of the natives produced the under jaw of a 
fmall filh, which was long, and planted with two rows of 
teeth as (harp as needles: taking this in one hand, and a 
fmall dick, by way of hammer, in the other, he druck the 
teeth three or four times into the dwelling, and made it 
bleed fieely: the toe was then bound up with certain 
leaves, and next day the child was perfectly well. 
“ Their houfes are generally built upon the beach, in 
villages of fifteen or twenty houfes each ; and each houle 
contains a family of twenty perfons and upwards. Thefe 
habitations are raided upon wooden pillars, about ten feet 
from the ground ; they are round, and, having no win¬ 
dows, look like beehives, covered with thatch. The entry 
is through a trap-door below, where the family mount by 
a ladder, which is drawn up at night. This manner of 
building is intended to fecure tbe houfes from being in- 
feded with fnakes and rats, and for that purpofe the pillars 
are bound round with a fmooth kind of leaf, which pre¬ 
vents animals from being able to mount ; belides which, 
each pillar has a broad, round, fiat, piece of wood, near 
the top of it, the projecting of which effectually prevents 
the farther progrels of fuch vermin as may have palled 
the leaf- The flooring is made with thin drips of-bam- 
boos, laid at fuch didances from one another as to leave 
free admillion for light and air, and tlie inlide is neatly 
finifhed, and decorated with (idling lances, nets, Sec. 
“ The art of making cloth of any kind is quite unknown 
to the inhabitants of this idand ; what they have, is got 
from the (hips that come to trade in cocoa-nuts. In ex¬ 
change for their nuts (which are reckoned the fined in this 
part of India) they will accept of but few articles : what 
they chiefly wills for is cloth of different colours, hatchets, 
and hanger blades, which they life in cutting down the 
nuts. Tobacco and arrack they at e very fond of, but ex¬ 
pert thefe in prefents. They have.no money of their own, 
nor will they allow any value'to the coin of other countries, 
farther than as they happen to value them for ornaments, 
the young women fometimes hanging firings of dollars 
about their necks. However, they are good judges of gold 
and filver, and it is no eafy matter to impofe bafer metals 
upon them as fuch. They pttrehafe a much larger quan¬ 
tity of doth titan is confumed upon their own illand. This 
is intended for the Chottry market. Choury is a fmall 
x illand 
