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Let thy blo\TS, doubly redoubled. 
Fall like amazing thunder on th e cafque 
Of thy pernicious enemy. Skakefpeare. 
Le Gendre obferyes, that anciently,' in France, the gens 
d’armes all wore cojks, The king wore a cafe gilt; the 
dukes and counts iilvered ; gentlemen of extrusion po- 
liflied Reel ; and the red plum iron. 
CAS'KET,/. [a diminu-five of caijfe, a cheft, Fr. cajje,^ 
cafflttc. ] A final 1 box or'cheft for jewels, or tilings of 
particular value : 
O ignorant poor man! what dod thou bear 
Lock’d up within tiie cajkd of thy bread ? 
\V-hat jewels and what riches had thofrthere? 
What hcav’nly treafure in fo weak a died > Davies. 
To CAS'KET, v. a. To put in a cafket. —1 have writ 
my letters, cnjkeiecl my treafure, and given order lor our 
horfes. Shakejpeare. ' 
CAS'LON (William), eminent in an art of the greated 
eonfequence to literature, the art of letter-founding, was 
born in 1692, at Hales Owen, in Shropfhire. Though lie 
juftly attained the charafler of being the Coryph&us in 
that employment, he was not brought up to the bufinefs; 
and it is obferved by Mr. Mores, that this art is lo con¬ 
cealed among the profelfors of it, that he could not dif- 
cover that any one had taught it to another, but every 
perfon who had ufed it had learned iQof his own genuine 
inclination. Mr. Cad on ferved a regular apprehticefhip to 
an engraver of ornaments on gun-barrels; and, after the 
expiration of his term, carried on this trade in Vine- 
ffreet, near the Minories.' He did not, however, folely 
Confine his ingenuity.to' that indrument, but employed 
fiim'felf likewit'e in making tools for book-binders, and 
for the chafing of filver-plate. Whild he was engaged in 
this bufinefs, ”1116 elder Mr. Bowyer accidentally faw, in 
a bookfeller’s (hop, the lettering of a book uncommonly 
neat ; and enquiring who the artid was by whom the let¬ 
ters were made, was hence induced to feek an acquaint¬ 
ance with Mr. Calion. Not longafter, Mr. Bowyer took 
Mr. Call on to Mr. James’s foundery, in B.irtholomew- 
atlofe. Caflon had never before feen any part of the bufi¬ 
nefs; and being alked by his friend, if he thought he 
could undertake to cut types, he requeded a (ingle day 
to conlider the matter, and then replied that he had no 
doubt but he could. Upon this anfvver, Mr. Bowyer, 
Mr. Bettenham, and Mr. Watts, had fueb. a confidence in 
hi?'abilities, that they advanced him 500I. to begin the 
undertaking, and lie applied himfelf to it with equal afli- 
duity and fuccefs. In 1720, the fociety for promoting 
Chridian knowlege, in eonfequence of a ■repreientation 
from Mr. Solomon Nigri, a native of Damafcus in Syria, 
-who was well (killed in the Oriental tongues, and had been 
profellbr of Arabic in places of note, deemed it expedient 
to print, for the. ufe of the Eadern, churches, the New 
Tedameiit and Plalter, in the Arabic language. Tliefe 
■were intended for the benefit of the poor Chriltians in Pa- 
ledine, Syria, Mefop.otamia, Arabia, and Egypt, the con- 
ilitution of which countries did not permit the exercifeof 
the art of printing. Upon this occafion Mr. Caflon was 
- employed to cut the fount ; in his fpecimens of which he 
diflinguilhed it by the na-’.rte of Englifli Arabic. Under 
the farther encouragement of Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Betten- 
liam, and Mr. Watts, lie proc-eeded with vigour in his 
employment; and he arrived at length tofuch perfection, 
that he not only freed us from our former necellity of im¬ 
porting types from Holland, but in the beauty and ele- 
■ gance of thole made by him, he fo far exceeded the pro¬ 
ductions of the bed artificers, that his workmanlliip was 
foon exported to tiie continent. In fliort, his foundery 
became, in procels of time, the mod capital one that ex¬ 
uded in this, or in any foreign country. Having acquired 
opulence in the courfe of his employment, he was put in¬ 
to the commiffion of the peace for the county of Middle- 
fex. Towards the latter end of his life, his elded foil be- 
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ingin partnerfliip with him, he retired in a great meafure 
from the adtive execution of bufinefs. His death, hap¬ 
pened in January 1766, in the 74211 ycarof his age. 
CAS'MA LA BARCA, a town of South America, in 
the country of Peru, and jur’fdiftion of Santa. 
CA'SO, a (mail i 11 a ml in the Mediterranean, about fix 
miles fouth from the illand of Scarpanto. 
CASO'LT, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples,- 
and province of Abruzzo Citra: fifteen miles fouth? 
fputh-ead of Civita di CJiieta. 
CAS'PE, a town of Spain, in Aragon, fitnated at the 
conflux of the Guadaloupe and the Ebro. The country 
round produces corn, wine, oil, and lullYon. Here Ferdi¬ 
nand IV. was elected king of Aragon: forty-four miles 
fouth-eafl of Saragofla, and thirty-five foutli of Balbaflro. 
CAS PI AN SEA, a large lake of Alia, bounded on the 
north by Ruflia, on the eafl by Tartary and Perlia, 011 the 
fouth by Perlia, and on the wed by Perlia, Gjfcafiia, and 
Rullia; according to the new map of Rutlia, about 700 
miles in length, from north to fouth, and from 150 to 
220 in breath; fuppofed to be the larged lake in the eafl- 
ern part of the globe. The water E fait and of an ochre 
colour, without ebb or How. Though in lome places it 
is exceedingly deep, yet it abounds in (hallows, fo a^ to 
prevent the navigation of lliips wlfich draw more than nine 
or ten feet water. The fidreries there, which are very va¬ 
luable, occupy and train many feamen. The Cofacs of 
Ural poflefs thefe filheries on their coads for the fpace of 
thirty-two verlts, on both banks of the river Ural; and 
the.inhabitants-of Aflrac.an poflefs all the red belonging to 
Ruflia. Among other filh are durgeon and beluga, whole 
eggs furnilh abundance of what the Ruffians call caviare, 
a'kind of difli, of which they are very fond ; the dry and 
fait fiflt alfo form a very,important article in the diet of 
the Ruffians. The Cafpian Sea likewife abounds with Tea 
dogs, wliofe flefh the Cofacs eat, and from which they ex¬ 
tract oil in confiderable quantities. The coads are divided 
among the Ruffians, Perfians, and Tartars. 
CASQUE, f. An helmet. See Cask;, 
C ASQUE,yi A name given to a (beciesof murex, call¬ 
ed the helmet-fliell. See Conchology. 
CASR BAND, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Mecran : 185 miles welt of Mecran. 
C ASS A'D A or Cassava,/ In botany. See I a t r 0 ?k a . 
CAS'SADGA'l H, a lake of North Amer en. Lut. 
62. 32. N. Ion. 106. 15. W. Greenwich. 
CASS AON A'S, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lozerre, and chief place of a canton, in the diltnct 
of Florae : eight miles fouth-eafl of Florae. 
CASSA'GNK (La), a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diflri.ft of Montignac : (even miles S. E. of Montignac. 
CASSA'GNES, a town of France, in the department 
of Aveiron, and chief place of a canton, in the d; dried of 
Rhcdez : ten miles fouth of Rhodez. 
CASSALE'GAS, a town of Spain, in Old Cadile : 
four leagues from Talavera. 
CASSA'NA (Nicholo), called Nico letto, an emi¬ 
nent J alian painter, born at Venice in 1659, and became 
adifciple of his father Giovanni Francefco Caifano, a Ge- 
noefe, who had been taught the art of painting by Ber¬ 
nardino Strozzi. He fuon diltinguiflied himfelf not only 
by the beauty of his colouring, but by the gracefulnefs of 
his figures in hidorical compofitions, as well as in portrait. 
'Fhe molt eminent perfonages foheited him to-enrich their 
cabinets with fome of his performances ; and were more 
particularly ddirous to obtain their por'raits, becaufe in 
that branch he excelled beyond competition. The grand 
duke of'1 ulcany, who was an excellent judge.of merit in 
all profelfions, invited Nicoletto to ivs court; and he 
there painted the portraits of that prince, and princels, 
and was employed and care fled by the principal nobility 
of Florence. Befides the feveral hidorical fubjedts painted 
by this mafler while he redded in that city, one was theCW- 
fpiracy of Cat aline ; a very mallerly performance. Some 
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