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CASH-BOOK, f. See Book-keepTnc. 
CA'SH-KEE'PER, f. A man entrufted with money.—• 
Difpenfalor was properly a cajk-kccpcr, or privy purfe. 
Arbuthnot.. 
CA'SHEL, a city of Ireland, in the county of Tippe¬ 
rary, the fee of an archbilhop, formerly the capital of 
Munfter: a fvnod was held here by Henry 11 . king of 
England, in 1158, by which the kingdom of Ireland was 
confirmed to him. It contains about 600 boufes. The 
ruins of ihe old cathedral teftify its having been an exten- 
five as well as handlome Gothic ftruCture, boldly tower¬ 
ing on fhe celebrated rock of Cafliel, which together form 
a magnificent objeft, and bear honourable tellimony to 
the labour and ingenuity, as well as the piety and zeal, of 
its former inhabitants. It is teen at a great diftauce, and 
in many directions. Adjoining it are the ruins of the 
chapel of Cormac M'Culinan, at once king and arch- 
biflmp of Calhel, (uppefed to be the firft (lone building in 
Ireland ; and feems, by its rude imitation of pillars and 
capital.', to have been copied after the Grecian architec¬ 
ture, and long to luve preceded the Gothic. Cormac 
M‘Culinan was a prince greatly celebrated by the Irifir 
hitlorians for 1 1 is learning, piety, and valour. He wrote 
in his native language a hiftory of Ireland, commonly 
called the Pfaller of Cafiel, which is dill extant, and con- . 
tains the molt authentic account we have of the-annals of 
the country to that period, about-the year 900. On the 
top of the rock of Calhel, and adjoining the cathedral, is 
a lofty round tow er, which proudly defied the too fuccefs- 
ful attempts of archbilhop Price, who in this century un¬ 
roofed and demohfiied the ancient cathedral, founded by 
St. Patrick. In the choir are the monuments of Myler 
Magrath, archbilhop of this fee in the reign of queen Eli¬ 
zabeth, and Come other curious remains of antiquity. 
Calhel was formerly the royal feat and metropolis of the 
kings of Mlinfter; and on the afeent to the cathedral is a 
large Hone, on which every new king of Munfter was, as 
the inhabitants report from tradition, folemnly proclaimed. 
Here is a very elegant palace for the archbilhop, a hand- 
lonie matket-lioule, a ieflions-houfe, the county infirmary, 
and a chartered Icliool- for twenty boys and the lame num¬ 
ber of girls. It is thirty-one miles north-weft of Water- 
lord, and forty-three north-north-eaft of Cork. Lat. 52. 
31. N. Ion. 7. 50. W. Greenwich. 
CA'SHEL, mountains of Ireland, in the county of Gal¬ 
way : thirty miles weft-north-weft of Galway. 
CA'SHENDAL BAY, or Red Bay, a bay of Ireland, 
on the er.fi coafi ot Antrim. Lat. 55. 4. N. Ion. 5.53.W. 
CASHEW'-NUT, f, in botany. See Anacardium. 
CASHIE'R, [. [from cajh.~\ He that has charge of 
the money.—If a fteward or cafiier be Buffered to run on, 
without bringing him to a reckoning, Inch a forbearance 
will teach him to (liufrle. South. 
To CASH lE'R, v. a. \_cajjcr, Fr. cajfare, Lat. ] To dif- 
card ; to difmifs from a polt, or a fociety, with reproach. 
— Seconds in factions many-times prove principals; but 
many times, alfo, they prove cyphers, and are cafiicrcd. 
Bacon. 
The ruling rogue, who dreads to'be cafhier'd, 
Contrives, as lie is hated, to be fear’d. Swift. 
It feems, in the folios'ing palfages, to fignify the fame as 
to annul; to vacate; which is fivfficiently agreeable to the 
derivation.—If we fho\ild find a father corrupting his fon, 
or a mother her daughter, we mull charge tinsupon a pe¬ 
culiar anomaly and bafenefs of nature ; if the name of na¬ 
ture may be allowed to that which feems to be utter 
cajhiering of it, and deviation from, and contradiction to, 
the common principles of humanity. South. —Some cafiier, 
or at leaft endeavour to invalidate, all other arguments, 
and forbid us to hearken to thole proofs, as weaker falla¬ 
cious. Locke. 
CASHT.EH BAY, a bay of the Atlantic, on the weft 
coaftof Ireland. Lat.53.j3iN. Ion. 9. 36.W. Greemv. 
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CASHME'RE. See Cacf-v, re. 
CASH'N A, a city of Africa, .nd'er.f.tal of a kingdom, 
fituated between Bornou and TombuGou ; faid to contain 
a thoufand towns and v llages ; the emperor is called the 
iultan of all Soudan, i e Negroland. The principal arti¬ 
cles of traffic are fena, gold-dull, ilaves, cotton cloths, 
goat-Ikins, ox and buffalo nides, and civet; for which 
tliey receive in return coupes, fmall fea-(hells, which cors- 
Ititute the common coin of the country, horles, red wool¬ 
len caps, chequed linens. light coarle woollen cloths, 
baize, barakans, carpets, iilk wrought and unwrought, 
tiifues, brocades, brafs, fabres, knives, feififars, coral, 
beads, and fmall lookmg-glalf|s| Cafnn'a has no fait 
lakes or mines, and is fuppjied with that article from Bor- 
11011: 650 miles weft-fouth-weft of Bornou, and 690 eail- 
fouth-eaft from Tombuftou. Lat. 16. 30. N. Ion. 29. 20. 
E. Ferro-. 
CA'SIA, f. in botany. See Nitraria and Osyris. 
CASIAR', or Cesarea, a town of Afia, on the coafi: 
of the Mediterranean, in Paleltine. It was at firfi called 
the Tower of Strato. It was afterwards named Cefueg 
by Herod the Great, who built a temple here in honour 
of Auguftus, and made it a fea port: Cefarea by this 
means became one of the mod flourilhing cities of Palef- 
tine. In the year 635, it was taken by Omar, one of the 
lucceffors ot Mahomet, and was feveral times alternately 
in the poflelfionof the Chriftians and Mahometans during 
the religious wars, till i.t was finally left in the power of 
the latter; but its ancient fplendour is no more. Here it 
was that Herod Agrippa felt the wrath of heaven for his 
impious arrogance, in thinking himfelf a god : five miles 
norlh-north-weft of Jerulalem. 
C A'SIMERSBUKG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony,and duchy of Pomerania: fourteen miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Colberg. 
CA'SIMIR, a town of Poland, on the Viftula, on the 
fide oppofite to Cracow, from which it is only feparated by 
a bridge, built by king Calimir the Great, for an unive.r- 
fity; it contained eleven colleges and fourteen fchools. 
CA'SIMIR, the name of feveral kings of Poland. 
CA'SIMIR (Matthias Sarbievlki), a Polifli Jefuit, bom 
in 1597. He was a molt excellent poet; and is, fays Mr. 
Baillet, an exception to the general ruleof Ariftotle and 
dther ancients, which teaches 11s to expect nothing ingeni¬ 
ous and delicate from northern climates. His odes, epodes, 
and epigrams, have been thought not inferior to thofe of 
the finefi wits of Greece and Rome. Dr. Watts has trans¬ 
lated fome of his fmall pieces, which are added to his 
Lyric Poems. He died at Warfaw in 1640, aged forty- 
three. There have been many editions of his poems; the 
belt of which is that of Paris, J759. 
CASI'NO, a river of Italy, which runs into the fea, 
two miles north-weft of Cape Stilo. 
CASIR' EL CABIR, lee Alcacar Qjjiber. 
CA'SIUS, a mountain near the Euphrates.—Another 
beyond Pelufium, where Pompey’s tomb was raifed by 
Adrian. Jupiter, furnamed Callus, had a temple there. 
Lucan. — Another in Syria, from who.fe top the fun can be 
feen riling, though it be (till the darknefs of night at the 
bottom of the mountain. Pliny. 
CASK,/. [ cafque , Fr. cadus, Lat.] A barrel; a wooden 
veffel to (top up liquor or provifions : 
Perhaps to-morrow lie may change his wine, 
And drink old fparkling Albin, or Sctine, 
Whole title and whole age, with mould o’ergrown, 
The good old cafi for ever keeps unknown. Drydcn. 
It has caft in a kind of plural fenfe, to fignify the com¬ 
modity or provifion of calks.—Great inconveniences grow 
by the bad cajk being commonly fo ill leafoned and con¬ 
ditioned, as that a great part of the beer is ever loft-and 
caft away. Raleigh. 
CASK, or Casque,/ [ cafque , Fr. cajjis , Lat.] A hel¬ 
met ; armour for the head : a poetical word : 
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