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CAGNA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra: three miles north- 
north-weft of Aquila. 
•CAGNE'FE, Canete, or Guarco, a town of South 
America, in Peat, and principal place of a government of 
tlie fame name, in the archbifhopric of Lima, near the fea 
eoad. It is eighty miles fouth-ead of Lima. Lat. 13. to, 
S. Ion. 58. 30. W. Ferro. 
CAGNE'TE, or Guarco, a didridt of South Ame¬ 
rica, in the country of Peru, extending a didance of about 
twenty-four leagues along the fea-coaft, fouth-fouth-ead 
of Lima. 
CAGNICOU'RT, a town of France, in the department 
of tlie Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in 
the didridi: of Bapaume: three leagues north-north-ead of 
Bapaume. 
C A'GNO, a town of Germany, in the county of Tyrol, 
ten miles fouth-wed of Bolzano. 
CA'GNY. See Boufflers. 
CAGUAN', a didrift of Terra Firma, with a town of 
the fame name, in the fouthern part of New Grenada. 
CAGUANA'BO, a town of the idand of Cuba, fixty 
miles north-north-ead of St. Yago. 
CAGUANI'CO, a town of the idand of Ctiba, fifty- 
five miles north-north-ead of St. Yago. 
CAGUR'Rl A, a town of Spain, in Navarre, on a fmall 
river which furrounds it, and alnioft immediately runs in¬ 
to the Ebro : fix leagues north-wed of Calahorra. 
CA'HA, a town of Perda, in the province of Irak, 
forty miles north-ead of Amadan. 
CAHIR', a fmall idand in the Atlantic, near the wed 
coad of Ireland, five miles louth of Clare idand. Lat. 
53.4+. N. Ion. 9. 53. W. Greenwich. 
C A H 1 RCON RE'E, a mountain of Ireland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Kerry, between Dingle and Tralee. 
CAHO'RS, a town of France, and principal place of a 
didridt, in the department of the Lot; before the revolu¬ 
tion, the capital of Quercy, and fee of a bifhop, fuffragan 
of Alby. This town is fituated on the Lot, which nearly 
furrounds it, in a country celebrated for its wine, which 
adbrds the principal article of commerce. Henry IV. 
took this town by adault in the year 1580, when mortars 
were fird made life of. It is thirteen pofrs and a half north 
of Touloufe, and feventy-two and a quarter fouth of Paris. 
Lat. 44. 27. N. Ion. 19. 7. E. Ferro. 
CAHUSAC' (Lewis de), born at Montauban, where 
his father attended the bar, began his dudies in that town, 
and went to finifh them at Touloufe, where lie was admit¬ 
ted an advocate. On his return to Montauban, he obtain¬ 
ed the pod of fecretary of the intendance. It was while 
he filled this odice in 1736, that he brought out his trage¬ 
dy of Pharamond, in which he errs againd hidorical truth. 
Notwithdanding this, and various other defedfs of the 
piece, it was attended with condderable fttccefs on its re- 
prefentation. The defire of enjoying the applaufes of the 
parterre, made him quit the country to go to Paris. Here 
the count de Clermont gave him the title of his fecretary. 
In this quality lie made the campaign of 1743 with that 
prince, whom he afterwards left in order to devote liini- 
felf entirely to literature. The opera was his principal 
employment; lie was lucky enough not to be didippointed 
in this career. His verification, rather cold, and fome- 
tinies dry, is however natural; and therefore Rameau pre¬ 
ferred Calnifac to other poets, who, with a greater dock 
of wit, cannot redact themfelves to dimple ornaments, nor 
bend to their ideas. This author died at Paris in June 
1759. He was of a redlefs, lively, and arrogant, temper, 
extremely tender about his reputation, and of fo acute a 
fenfibility that it turned his head, and in all probability 
dtortened his days. Praife and cenfure equally raifed his vi¬ 
vacity. Ajournalid having highly praifed hisoperaof Zo- 
roader, Cahufac went to him, and, embracing him, faid, 
“ Oh, what obligations I owe you ! You are the only man 
hi France who has had the courage to fpeak well of me.” 
He wrote, s. Gr.igri, in ;2tno. a romance. 2. The llidory 
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of the Dance, ancient and modern, three vols. i2tno. well 
received by the public. 3. Pharamond, and the Earl of 
Warwick, two tragedies; Zeneide, and the Algerine, two 
comedies, the former of which properly belongs to M. 
Watelet, as Cahufac did no more than put it in verfe. 
The Fedivities of Polyhymnia; the Eedivities of Hymen, 
Zais, Nais, Zoroader; the Birth of Oliris, and Anacreon; 
all operas ; beiides the Loves of Tempe, which is attri¬ 
buted to him. He left in MS. a tragedy of Manlius; 
with two comedies, the Mal-adroit par Fineffe, and the 
Dupe de foi-meme. 
CAHUSAC'" a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot and Garonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 
didridt of Lauzun : five miles ead-north-ead of Lauzun. 
CAIIUZAC'-sur-VERRE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Tarn, and chief place of a canton, in 
the didridt of Gaillac: two leagues north of Gaillac, and 
four north-wed of Alby. 
CA'HYS,/ a dry tneafure for corn, 11 fed in fome parts 
of Spain, particularly at Seville and Cadiz. It is near a 
budiel of our meafure. 
CAI-FONG, or Kai-fong, a city of China, and capi¬ 
tal of the province of Ho-nan, is dtuated at the didance 
of two leagues from the river Hoang-ho ; but the ground 
around it is fo low that the river is higher than the city. 
To prevent inundations, drong dykes have been raifed, 
which extend more than thirty leagues. This city having 
been befieged in 1642, by an army of 100,000 rebels, head¬ 
ed by one Ly-tchuang, the commander of the troops fent 
to relieve it formed the fatal dedgn of drowning the ene¬ 
my, by breaking down the large dyke of Hoang-ho : this 
dratagem fucceeded ; but at the fame time the city was 
overflowed, and the inundation was fo violent and hidden, 
that it dedroyed 300,000 inhabitants. It appears by the 
ruins, which dill fubdd, that Cai-fong mud then have 
been three leagues in circumference. It has been re-built 
fince this fatal event, but in a (lyle far inferior to its for¬ 
mer magnificence. Nothing at prefent didinguifhes it 
from ordinary cities but the extent of its jurifdidtion, which 
comprehends four cities of the fecond clafs, and thirty of 
the third. This town is 315 miles fouth-wed of Pekin. 
Lat. 34. 53. N. Ion. 132. 14. E. Ferro. 
CAI-KIEN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Quang-tong: forty-fix miles north-wed of 
Tchao-king. 
CAI-PING, a town of China, in the province of Pes. 
tche-li, twenty-two miles wed-fouth-wed of Lan. 
C AI-PING, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
the province of Quang-tong: thirty-four miles fouth of 
Tchao-king. 
CAI-TCHANG, a town of Ada, in the kingdom of 
Corea, thirty miles north-wed of King-ki-tao. 
CAI-TCHEOA, a city of Chinefe Tartary, on the gulf 
of Leaotong: 24o miles ead of Peking. Lat. 41. 30. N. 
Ion. 139. 3:9. E. Ferro. 
CAI-YUEN, a town of Chinefe Tartary, in the pro 
vince of Leaotong: 376 miles ead-north-ead of Peking. 
Lat. 42. 40. N. Ion. 141. 27. E. Ferro. 
CA'J A, a river of Portugal, which runs into the Gua- 
diana, feven miles ead of Elvas. 
CAIAC', a town of Perda, in the province of Irak, fix ? 
ty-four miles wed-fouth-wed of Ifpahan. 
CA'J AN,/, in botany. See Cytisus. 
CAJA'NA, or Cajanerorg, a town of Sweden, and 
capital of Ead Bothnia, fituated on a lake on the borders 
of Lapland, where the river Pytia forms ' a tremendous 
cafcade. It contains but few inhabitants, and forms part 
of a pnridi, near dxty leagues in length, and fixteen in 
breadth. Lat. 64. 14. N. Ion. 45. 25. E. Ferro. 
CAIAON', a kingdom of the idand of Java. 
CAl'APHAS, [.x‘ 5 ir] Heb. an encompafFer.] A higji 
pried of the Jews after Simon, who condemned Chrid to 
death, and was put out of his place by the emperor Vitei- 
1 ins ; for which difgrace he made away with himfelf. . 
CAJ ARC', a town of France, in the department of the 
Lot, 
