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inches high, fupporting one white flower at the top. Na¬ 
tive of the mountains near Aleppo. This plant refls on 
the authority of Rauvvolf, and is omitted in all the edi¬ 
tions of the Syftema Vegetabilium. 
4. Calla occulta : leaves cordate-ovate, fpathe fpiral; 
fpadix male at top. Plant one foot high, perennial, with 
fcarcely any (talk ; leaves many, fmooth, diffufed, with 
long channelled petioles. Native of Cochin-china, in moift 
places. 
Propagation and Culture. The firft fort propagates very 
fad by offsets, which (hould be taken off the latter end of 
Auguft, at which time the old leaves decay ; but this 
plant is never deftitutc of leaves;,for before the old ones 
decay there are young leaves produced, which advance in 
height all the winter; but at this feafon the roots are in 
their mod inactive date. Thefe roots have generally a 
great number of offsets about them, fo that ttnlefs there 
is a want of them, the larged only fhould be chofen ; which 
fhould be feparated from all the fmaller, and each planted 
in a feparate pot, filled wdth kitchen-garden earth, and 
placed with other hardy exotic plants in the open air till 
autumn, when they mud be removed into fhelter for the 
winter feafon, during which time they mud not have too 
much wet, for that will rot the roots. This plant is fo 
hardy as to live in the open air in mild winters, without 
any cover, if it be planted in a warm border, and have a 
dry foil ; but with a little fhelter in hard frod, it may be 
preferved in the full ground very well. It flowers in 
May, and the feeds ripen in Augud; but, as the roots 
increafe fo plentifully, few perfons care to low the feeds, 
becaufe the young plants will not flower in lefs than three 
years. The fecond fort is rarely admitted into gardens, 
and mud be planted in an artificial bog, or at lead in the 
mud of a pond, or in a pot or tub fet in water. The roots 
of the third fort fhould be planted in pots filled with light 
edrth, and in dimmer they may be placed with other exo¬ 
tic plants in the open air; but in winter they fn On Id be 
placed under a common hot-bed frame, to fcreen them 
from frod, to which if they are expofed, the roots will 
be dedroyed ; there is little beauty in this plant, fo it is 
only preferved in botanic gardens for variety. 
C AL'LA-SUSUNG, a town and capital of the ifland of 
Bouton, in the Indian Sea, about a mile from the coad. 
The harbour is not good, and the bottom rocky. The 
inhabitants are Mahometans, and fpeak the Malay lan¬ 
guage. Lat.5.0. S. Ion. 141.20. E. Ferro. 
C ALT,ABASH-BAY, a bay on the fouth coad of the 
ifland of Jamaica : eleven miles ead of Pedro Bluff. Lat. 
17. 53. N. Ion. 77. 25. E. Greenwich. 
C AL'LAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
North Coads, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt 
©f Rodrenen : three miles and a half north of Rodrenen. 
CAL'LAH, a town of Africa, in the country of A 1 -, 
giers: thirty-five miles wed of Suef. 
CAL'LAH (El), a town of Africa, in the country of 
Algiers, a place of confiderable trade, and the greated 
market for carpets in the country 1 forty miles ead of 
Oran, tmd thirty north-north-ead of Mafcar. 
CALLANO'RE, a town of Hindoodan, in the country 
of Lahore : fifty miles ead of Lahore, and 254 north-wed 
of Delhi. 
CALLA'O, a fen-port town of South America, in Pern, 
fituated on a river of the fame name, near the Pacific 
Ocean. The road is one of the mod beautiful, the larged, 
and fafeft, in the South Sea. Two illands, named St. Law¬ 
rence and Callao, and the peninfula, which nearly reaches 
them, defend veffels from the fouth wind ; towards the 
wed and north it is open, but thefe winds never blow with 
violence ; the lea is always tranquil, the water is deep and 
without rocks. In the port every commodity is to be-pro- 
cured, which veffels can hand in need of; the final! river 
Turtiiflies plenty of good water, and a mole, with cranes, 
makes it eafy to load and unload. The town was fortified 
bv ten badions and fome batteries, and defended by a gar- 
rifou. There are two fauxbourgs inhabited by Indians, 
cal 
In the year 1746, there were 4000 inhabitants, when the 
whole town was dedroyed by tin earthquake, the houles 
and inhabitants were fwallowed up, with nineteen veffels, 
four of Which were thrown a confiderable way inland. 
Two hundred perfons only efcaped this dreadful calamity: 
fines that time, Callao has been rebuilt upon the fame 
plan, but a little farther from the fea. Lat. 12. 9. S. Ion. 
59. 10. W. Ferro. 
CALLA'O, an ifland of South America, in the Pacific 
Ocean, at the entrance into the port of Calao. 
CALLA'O, or Campei.lo, a finall ifland, vifited by 
fome of lord Macartney’s fuite on their voyage to China, 
and deferibed in Sir George Staunton’s Account of the 
Embaffy, as follows : “ It lies oppofite to the mouth of a 
confiderable river on the coaft of Cochin-china, on the 
banks of which is fituated the town of Fai-foo, a place of 
fome note, not far from the harbour of Turon. The bear¬ 
ing of the highed peak of Callao from this harbour is a- 
bout fouth-ead, didance thirty miles. The extreme points 
of the ifland lie in latitude 13° 53', and 15 0 57' north ; the 
greated; length is from north-wed to fouth-eaff, and is 
about five miles, and the mean breadth two miles. The 
only inhabited part is on the fouth-vveft coad, on a flip of 
ground riling gently to the eaft, and contained between 
the bottom of a femilunar bay and the mountains on each 
fide of it. Thofe mountains, at a didance, appear as if 
they formed two diftinCt iflands. The fouthern mountain 
is the highed, and is about 1500 feet: the lower grounds 
contain about 200 acres. Tnis finall but enchanting fpot 
is beautifully diverfified with neat houfes, temples, clumps 
of trees, among which the elegant areca, rifing like a Co¬ 
rinthian column, is eminently confpieuous. The houfes 
are clean and decent; a few are built with done, and co¬ 
vered with tiles. One, probably the nianfion of the chief 
perfon of the idand, is incloied by a done wall, and the 
approach to it is through a- gateway between two done 
pillars. Behind the village is a cave, acceffible only by 
one way, through an irregular range of rocks. Within the 
cave, but near its mouth, is a fmall temple, commanding 
a view of the whole vale. Several other temples are dif-. 
perfed over the plain, all of which are open in front, with 
a colonnade before them of round wooden pillars, painted 
red and varniflied. The number of houfes on the ifland 
Icarcely exceed fixty. Behind every houfe, not immedi¬ 
ately in the principal vdllage, are inclofures of fugar-canes, 
tobacco, and other vegetables, growing in great luxuri¬ 
ance. The inhabitants of'this ifland are fo exceedingly 
fhy, that, upon the approach of the Englifh veffel, they 
retired on-board their galleys. When the Britifli landed, 
therefore, they found the doors -of all the houfes open, 
with feveral domeftic animals feeding before them, but 
neither man, woman, nor child, within. After fome time, 
however, a perfon was perceived lurking among the neigh¬ 
bouring trees, who, finding he was obferved, came for¬ 
ward with reluctance and evident marks of fear. While 
he was yet at fome diftance, he fell upon his knees, and 
touched the ground with his forehead feveral times. On 
approaching to him, it was noticed that the fir ft joint of 
every one of his fingers and toes wa,s wanting, and as if 
twifled off by violence ; it was poffible that he might have 
thus been treated by way of punifhment for fome crime, 
and that he was confidered as the fitted perfon to be ex¬ 
pofed to the fuppofed danger of watching the movements 
of the ftrangers coming afhore. In a little time fome 
others, hidden in the thickets, finding that no mifehief 
was fuffered by the firft, ventured out. None of them 
could underlland the Chinefe interpreter; and, not being 
able to read or write, there'was no converfing with them 
by the medium of the Chinefe characters. Recourfe was 
had to hieroglyphics, and rude figures were drawn of the 
articles which were propofed to be purchafed ; and this 
method fucceeded tolerably v eil : poultry and fruits were 
brought for fale, for which high prices were given, pur- 
pofely to conciliate the good-will of thofe iflanders. The 
few that were found foon grew familiar; and one old man 
preftingly 
