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•nd yokes, It is alfo an excellent fuel, Linnxus obferves 
that the wood is very white and tough, harder than haw¬ 
thorn, and capable of fupporting great weights; and that 
the inner'bark is much tiled in dying wool yellow. The 
leaves remain upon the trees till the young buds in the 
fpring tliruft them off, fo that they afford much flicker to 
birds in winter: this alfo renders them very proper to 
plant round the borders-of other plantations in expofed 
Situations, to defend and promote the growth of more ten¬ 
der trees. The horn-beam preferves itfelf well from the 
bruttings of deer, fo that clumps of this tree are proper in 
parks, both for beauty and flicker. There is a variety 
with ftriped leaves, which is propagated by budding on 
the common fort, but the colours are not ftrong or lively. 
The hop horn-beam may be increafed in the fame manner 
with the common fort: and they may all be propagated 
by layers. The (lools for the eaftern horn-beam fliould be 
a yard afunder, and the others about two yards : they 
fliould be laid in the autumn ; and in twelve months 
they will have flruck root, and may be takeii oft' to plant 
in the nurfery ; or this may be done the fpring following. 
See Dodon^a, Euqnymus, and IIedysarum. 
CAR'PIO, a town of Spain, in the country of Leon : 
three leagues weft-foutli-weft of Medina del Campi. 
CAR'PIO, a town of Spain, in the province of Cor¬ 
dova : eight leagues north of Cordova. 
CAR'PIO, a town of Spain, in the province of Eftra- 
madura: two leagues and a half from Badajoz. 
G AR'PO, a daughter of Zephyrus, and one of the fea- 
fons. She was loved by Calamus, the fon of Majander 
•whom flie equally admired. She was drowned in the M;e- 
ander, and was changed by Jupiter into all forts of fruit. 
Paulinus. 
CARPOBAL'SAMUM, f. [from y.a^ot;, fruit, and 
f 3 a.Aa-a.iJ.ov, balfam.] The fruit of the tree that yields the 
balm of Gilead. See Amyris, and Balsam. 
CARPOBO'LUS,/. in botany. See Lycoperdom. 
CAP^POCRA'TlANS, a branch of the ancient gnof- 
tics, fo called from Carpocrates, who in the fecond cen¬ 
tury revived and improved upon the errors of Simon 
Magus, Menander, Saturninus, and other gnoftics. lie 
owned, with them, one foie principle and lather of all 
things, whole name as well as nature was unknown. The 
world, he taught, was created by angels, valtly inferior to 
the firft principle. He oppofed the divinity of Chrift; 
making him a mere carnal man, though poffeffed of un¬ 
common gifts which fet him above the reft of his cotem¬ 
poraries. He inculcated a community of women ; and 
taught, that the foul could not be purified, till it had 
committed all kinds of abominations, making an incen¬ 
tive to vice a necefiary condition of perfection. 
CARPO'DETUS,/! [from y-cc^iror^, fruit, and to 
bind ; the fruit being funounded or bound by a ring or 
fillet.] In botany, a genus of the clafs pentandria, order 
monogynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : peri¬ 
anth turbinate, fattened to the germ, five-toothed ; teeth 
fubulate, deciduous. Corolla: petals five, ovate, fmall, 
infected into the margin of the calyx. Stamina : filaments 
five, fubulate, fhort, inferted into the margin of the calyx; 
anthers roundifti. Ptftillum : germ inferior ; ftyle fili¬ 
form, longer titan the ftamens ; ftigma flat-headed. Pe- 
ricarpium: berry dry, globular, furrounded with the 
margin of the calyx fattened to it like a ring, five-celled. 
Seeds: a few, (lightly angular. — EJJential Character. Ca¬ 
lyx five-toothed, fattened to the germ ; corolla five-pe- 
talled ; digma flat-headed ; berry globular, five-celled. 
Only one fpecips known, called carpodetus ferratus, a 
native of New Zealand. 
CARPOLI'THl, f [from and aftone.] 
A name given by writers on fulfils ro fuch ftones as rep re- 
fent fruit. The kalis is a martial jalper, in which nodules 
of rounded calcareous and hrpentine are included. De¬ 
nominations of this kind are now but little regarded. 
CARPOLO'Gf A, [Lat. from carpo , to pluck or pull 
gently.] That delirious fumbling which in the termina- 
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tion of bad fevers is not uncommon. The patient appears 
as if he were gathering up or plucking lomething olf the 
bed-clothes. 
CAR'P(JS,y. [xaf9r© j , Gr. perhaps from “nj gar ah, to 
feize, Heb.] The w rift, fo named by anatomifts, whidt is 
made up of eight little bones, of different figures and'thick- 
nefs, placed in two ranks, four, in each rank. They are 
ftrongly tied by the ligaments which come from the ra¬ 
dius, and by the annulary ligament. See Anatomy.— 
I found one of the bones of the carpus lying loofe in the 
wound. IVifcman. 
CARPU'TH, a town and fortrefs of Afiatic Turkey, 
in the province of Aladalia : twelve miles from Arzengant 
CAR'RA, a lake of Ireland, formed by a river of the 
fame name, in the well part of the county of Kerry, four 
miles from Dingle Bay. 
CAR'RA, a river of Ireland, which runs into Dingle 
Bay, fourteen miles well of Killarney. 
CARR AB AT', a town of Alia, in the country of Can- 
dahar: 120 miles north-eaftof Candahar. 
CAR'RACK. SeeCARACK. 
CAR'RAGH LOUGH, a lake of Ireland, in the county 
of Mayo, ten miles fouth of Caftlebar. 
CaRRAGHRO'E, mountainsof Ireland, in the county 
of Tyrone : lixteen miles fouth-wett of Strabane. 
CA.RRANTAS'CA LAGOON, a large gulf on the 
fouth fide of the bay of Honduras, about 70 miles north- 
weft of Cape Gracios a Dios, and nearly as far fouth-eaft 
from Brewer’s Lagoon. 
C ARRAPATEI'RA, a town of Portugal, in the pro¬ 
vince of Algarve : ten miles north of Sagres. 
CARRA'RA, a town of Italy, in the principality of 
Mafia; celebrated for its quarries of beautiful while mar¬ 
ble : .three miles north of Mafia. 
CARRA'RA MARBLE, a fpecies of white marble, 
which is called viarmor lunenfe, and lig.ujtrium by the an¬ 
cients : it is dittinguilhed from the Parian, now called the 
ftatuary marble, by being harder and lefs bright. 
CARRE' (Lewis), born in 1663, at Brie, in France. 
His father intended him for the church ; but young Carre, 
after going through the ufual courfeof education for that 
purpofe, having an utter averfion to it, refufed to enter 
upon that function ; by which he incurred his father’s dif- 
pleafure. His refources being thus cut off, he was obliged 
to quit the univerfity, and look out for fome employment. 
In this exigency he had the good fortune to be engaged 
as an amanuenlis by the celebrated father Malebranche; 
by which he found himfelf tranfported all at once from 
the mazes of fcholaftic darknefs, to the fource of the mutt 
brilliant and enlightened philofophy. Under this great 
matter he ftudied mathematics and the moft fublime mc- 
taphyfics. After feven years fpent in this excellent 
Ichool, M. Carre began to teach mathematics and phi- 
lofophy in Paris; but efpecially that philofaphy which, 
on account of its tendency to improve our morals, he' 
valued more than all the mathematics in the world. 
And accordingly his greateft care was to make geometry 
ferve as an introduction to his well-beloved metaphyfics. 
Mott of M. Carre’s pupils were of the fair lex. One 
of thefe, who foon perceived that his language was rather 
the reverfe of elegant and correct, told him pleal'antly, 
that, as an acknowledgment for the pains he took to teach 
her philofophy, fhe would teach him French ; and he ever 
after owned that her leffons were of great fervice to him. 
In general lie feemed to fet more value upon the genius 
of women, than on that of men. 
M. Carre, although he gave the preference to meta¬ 
phyfics, did not negleCt mathematics; and, while lie-taught 
both, he took care to make himfeif acquainted with all 
the new difeoveries in the latter. This was all that his 
conftant attendance on his pupils would allow him to do, 
till the year 1677, when M. Varignon, fo remarkable for 
his extreme fcrupnloufnefs in the choice of his-t’leves, 
took M. Carre to him in that ftation. Soon after, viz in 
the year 1700, he publifhed the firft complete work on 
