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of the legiflative body ; but, having a prefentiment of the 
intention of his enemies, he meditated an efcape, and was 
killed in the attempt, September 4, 1797. The modefty 
of Carnot’s manners ; the fimplicity of his appearance and 
demeanour; and his habitual taciturnity, do not lee m to 
indicate a fit perfonage to “ ride in the whirlwind and di¬ 
rect the revolutionary ftorm.” The active part, how¬ 
ever, that lie took in civil commotions, notwithftanding 
liis quiel'cent temper, ferves only to prove the truth of 
the maxim, that great talents are capable oj a very general ap¬ 
plication . 
CAR'NOUS, adj. [caro , carnis, Lat.] Flefliy.—The 
inufcle whereby he is enabled to draw himfelf together, 
the academifts defcribe to be a diftindl carnous mufcle, ex¬ 
tended to the ear. Ray. 
C ARNSO'RE POINT, the fouth-eafi point of Ireland, 
in the county of Wexford, in St. George’s Channel. Lat. 
52. 11. N. Ion. 6. 2C, W. Greenwich. 
C ARNTO'GHER, mountains of Ireland, between the 
counties of Londonderry and Tyrone : fourteen miles fouth- 
eafi of Londonderry. 
CAR'NULENT, adj. [carnulcntus , Lat.] Flefliy; full of 
flefh. 
CARN'WARTH, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Lanerk : fix miles eaft of Lanerk, and twenty fouth- 
well of Edinburgh. 
CA'RO, /. [Minfliew fays it means, juftly fpeaking, 
dead fiefii, and conies from careo , to want, quia caret ani- 
7nd, becaufe it is without life. But it is properly from 
ffO Heb. food.] Flefli ; the red part or belly of a muf¬ 
cle ; with botanifts, it denotes the fiefii or pulp of fruit. 
CA'RO (Hannibal), a celebrated Italian poet and ora¬ 
tor, born at Civita Nuova, in 1507 ; and afterwards re¬ 
moved to Rome, where he became fecretary to fome bi- 
Ihops. Soon diftinguifliing himfelf by uncommon parts 
and learning, he filled the fame office to the duke of Par¬ 
ma, and afterwards to the cardinal of Faruefe. Then he 
was made a knight of the order of Malta, and began to 
acquire a vaft reputation by his works. He tranflated Vir¬ 
gil’s yEneid into his own language, very delicately and 
very faithfully ; in fliort, with Inch purity of ftyle, and 
propriety of expreflion, that the beft judges did not fup- 
pofe him to have fallen fliort of his original. He tranf¬ 
lated alfo Arifiotle’s Rhetoric, which was publifhed at Ve¬ 
nice in 1570, and two Orations of Gregory Nazianzen, 
with a Difcourfe of Cyprian. He wrote a comedy, which 
Balzac has fpoken well of; and a mifcellany of his ori¬ 
ginal Poems was printed at Venice in 1584. His Sonnets 
have been defervedly admired ; and fo has a poem, which, 
by order of the cardinal of Farnefe, he wrote in honour of 
the royal houfe of France. Caftelvetro wrote a critique 
upon this, and took an occafion to decry Caro’s abilities 
and tafte ; but feveral academies in Italy, particularly that 
of Banclii, at Rome, flood up in his defence, and maintain¬ 
ed the credit both of the author and his poem, againft the 
ill-natured cavilsof Cafielvetro. Carodied at Rome in 1566. 
CA'RO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Montferrat: 
fixteen miles fouth of Acqui, and thirteen eaft of Ceva. 
CA'ROB TREE,/, in botany. See Ceratonia. 
CAROCE'DO, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Trasos Montes : fix miles fouth of Outeiro. 
CARO'CHE,/ [carpjfe, Fr.] A-coach ; a carriage of 
pleafure. It is ufed in the comedy of Albumazar, but. is 
now obfoltte. 
CA'ROL,/. £ caro/a, Itah. from choreola, Lat.] A fong 
of joy and exultation : 
Oppos’d to her, on t’other fide advance 
The coftly feaft, the carol, and the dance, 
Minfirels and mu Ik, poetry and play, 
And balls by night, and tournaments by day. Dryden,. 
A fong of devotion : 
They gladly thither hafte ; and, by a choir 
Of fquadron’d angels, hear his carol fung. Milton. 
A fong in general: 
CAR 
The carol they began that hour. 
How that a life was but a flower. Shakefpeare. 
To CA'ROL, v.n. [ caralore , Ital.] To fing ; to war¬ 
ble ; to fing in joy and feftivity : 
Hark, how the chearful birds do chant their lays, 
And carol of love’s praife. Spenfer. 
To CA'ROL, v. a. To praife ; to celebrate in fong : 
She with precious viol’d liquors heals, 
For which the fhepherds at their feftivals 
Carol her goodnefs loud in ruftic lays. Milton. 
CA'ROLATH, a town and principality of Silefia, in 
the circle of Glogau, on the Oder : three miles north- 
north-weft of Beuthen, and eight E.N.E. of Freyftadt. 
CA'ROLI,/. in forgery, venereal excrefcences in the 
private parts. 
CAROLI'NA (North), one of the United States of 
America, is bounded north by Virginia, eaft by the At¬ 
lantic Ocean, fouth by South Carolina, and weft by the 
ftate of Teneflee. It lies between 33. 50. and 36. 60. N. 
lat. and between 76. 8. and 83.-8. W. Ion. from Green¬ 
wich, being about 450 miles in length, and 180 in breadth,, 
containing about 34,000 fquare miles. The diftrkts of 
this ftate are chided in three divifions, viz. the eaftern dif- 
tridts, Edenton, Newbern, and Wilmington ; the middle 
diftrifts, Fayetteville, Hilllborough, and Halifax ; and 
the weftern diflridls, Morgan, and Salifbury. The eaftern 
diftridls are on the fea-coaft, extending from the Virginian 
line foutlivvard to South Carolina. The five others cover 
the whole fiate, weft of the maritime diftridls ; and the 
greater part of them extend acrofs the fiate from north- 
to fouth. Thefe diflridls are fubdivided into fifty- 
eight counties, which contained, in 1790, 393,751 inha¬ 
bitants. The chief rivers of North Carolina are the Cho¬ 
wan and its branches, Roanoke, Tar, Neus, and Cape Fear 
or Clarendon. Moff of thefe and the fmali rivers have 
bars at their mouths; and the coaft furniflies no good har¬ 
bours except Cape Fear. There are two remarkable 
fwamps in this ftate, the one in Currituck county, the other 
on the line between this ftate and Virginia. The moil re¬ 
markable founds are Albemarle, Pamlico, and Core; the 
capes, Lookout, Hatteras, and Fear. Newbern is the 
large!! town in the ftate ; the other towns of note are 
Edenfon,,Wilmington, Halifax, Hillfborongh, Salifbury, 
and Fayetteville ; each of which have been, in their turn, 
the feat of the general aifembly. Raleigh, lituated near 
the centre of the ftate, has lately been eftabliihed as the 
metropolis. North Carolina, in its whole width, for fixty 
miles from the fea, is a dead level, A great proportion of 
this tradl lies in foreft, and is barren. On the banks of 
fome of the rivers, particularly of the Roanoke, the land 
is fertile and good. Interfperfed through the other parts, 
are glades of rich fwamp, and ridges of oak land, of a 
black fertile foil. Sixty or eighty miles from tlie fea, the 
country riles into hills and mountains, as in South Caro¬ 
lina and Georgia. Wheat, rye, barley, oats, and flax, 
grow well in the back hilly country; Indian corn and 
pulfe of all kinds, in all parts. Cotton and hemp are al¬ 
fo confiderably cultivated here, and might be railed in 
much greater plenty: the cotton is planted yearly, as the 
ftalk dies with the froft : the labour of one man will pro¬ 
duce jodolb. in the feeds, or 2501b. fit for manufactur¬ 
ing, A great porportion of the produce of the back coun¬ 
try, confiding of tobacco, wheat, Indian corn, &c. is ear¬ 
ned to market in South Carolina and Virginia ; while tiie 
fouthern interior counties carry produce to Charleftown, 
and the northern to Peterfburg, in Virginia. The exports 
from the lower parts of the ftate, are tar, pitch, turpen¬ 
tine, refin, Indian corn, boards, fcantling, Haves, fhingles,. 
furs, tobacco, pork, lard, tallow, bees-wax, myrtle-wax, 
and a few other articles, amounting in the year, ending 
the 30th of September 1791, to 524,548 dollars. Their 
trade is chiefly to the -Well-Indies and the northern Hates. 
In the flat country near the fea-coaft, the inhabitants,, 
during fummer and autumn, are fubjedl to intermittent 
fevers, 
