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are extremely admired for fweetnefs of colouring, elegance 
of delign, and delicacy of pencil. Sandrart laments that 
the world was deprived of fo pro-mi ling a genius, in the 
very bloom of life, when his reputation was daily advanc¬ 
ing. He died in 1657. At St. John Lateral) are to be 
feen, the Battle of Conftantine and Maxentius, and the 
Triumph of Conftantine, which are noble and grand com. 
pofitions; and they afford fufficient proofs of the happi¬ 
ness of his invention, and the correefnefs of Iris execution. 
Alfo at Wilton, the feat of the earl of Pembroke, there 
is a pifhire of Venus and tire Graces, faid to be by the 
hand of Camaffei. 
CA'MATOS, f. to be weary.] Tliat fort of 
vvearinefs which is produced by bodily exercife and labour. 
CA'MAX,/. [Gr. the prop of a vine, aftake or pole.] 
In botany, a genus of the clais pentandria, order mono- 
gynia. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
one-leafed, five-parted; parts roundift). Corolla: one- 
petalled, wheel-fhaped ; tube very ftiort; border five- 
parted ; parts roundift), villofe above. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments five, inferted into the corolla between the fegnients, 
villofe. Piftiilum: germ roundift), villofe, fuperior; ftyle 
capillary ; ftigmas three or four, (harp. Pericarpium : 
berry ovate, villofe, four-celled. Seeds: very many, nett¬ 
ling in a vifeid pulp. —EJfcntial CharaEler. Corolla, wheel- 
fhaped ; filaments inferted between the fegments of the 
corolla; berry four-celled, many-feeded : all villofe. 
There is only one fpecies, called camax guianenfis. It 
is a thrub growing to the height of twelve or fifteen feet, 
with a Cm pie, knotty, cylindric, (lem. Leaves many, in 
whorls at the joints, declining, unequally pinnate, witli 
fix alternate leaflets, which are fedile, oval, acuminate, 
the largeft of them ten inches long, and three broad, and 
a little above each of them is a fmall fpine iffuing from 
the midrib, which is three feet or more in length. The 
flowers are fefiile in great numbers at the bafe of the 
leaves, and in the intervals between them. It is called 
bois gaulctc by the Creoles, and aroupeuren by the Coufiaris, 
one of the nations of Guiana, where it is a native, and 
flowers in January. The inhabitants and negroes ufe the 
branches of this flmib for wattling their huts. 
CAMAYEU'. See Camaieu.' 
CAMBA'DAS, a town of Spain, in Galicia, near the 
fea-coaft : four leagues weft of Ponte-Vedra. 
CAMBAHE'E, a river of United America, which runs 
into the fea, near St. Helena’s Sound, on the coaft of 
South Carolina. 
CAMBAT', the rnoft foathern province of Abyftinia, 
inhabited by a people called Seb-a-adja, who are a mix¬ 
ture of Chriftians, Mahometans, and Pagans, under a 
prince nominally tributary to the Negus. It is abundant 
in fruits. Lat. 7. to 8. N. Ion. 52. to 53. E. 
CAMBA'YE, one of the largeft and moft beautiful 
cities in weftern Hindooftan, fituated about a league from 
the gulf to which it gives name, on the river Myhie. The 
houfes are built of ftone, bricks, or marble. There are 
three bazars, or public markets, and four public citterns, 
which are-capable of fupplying the whole town with wa¬ 
ter, in times of the greateft drought. Canibaye was once 
the capital of a kingdom, and is ftill a vaft city, walled 
round with brick, upwards of five miles in circumference. 
It may be called tlie mother of Surat, which it fupport§ 
by its various rich articles of commerce, ftill very contl- 
derable, notwithftanding the retreat of the tea near a mile 
and a half from it. This place furnifires the coarfe nn- * 
bleached cloths, much in ufe in Perlia, Arabia, Egypt, 
and Abyftinia'; alfo blue pieces for the fame countries, 
and for the Hngliftiand Dutch trade in Guinea; blue and 
white checks for mantles in Arabia and Turkey, feme 
plain, others enriched with gold ; white pieces called 
baftas; muffins with a gold ftripe at each end for turbans; 
gauzes, and mixed fluffs of tl lie and cotton ; ft) aw Is made 
of the Cachemirian wool; betides iuimenfe bales of raw 
cotton font annually to Surat, Bengal, China, Perfia, and 
Arabia, Lat. 32. 17’-. N. Ion. 72. 36. E. Greenwich. 
C A M 
CAMB A'YES, f. The cotton goods, &c. manufac¬ 
tured at Canibaye. 
CAMBA'ZA, a town of Japan, .in Jetfingo province, 
CAM'BE (La), a town of Prance, in the department 
of the Calvados, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridt of Bayeux : four leagues weft-north-weft of Bayeux. 
CAMBEL'LO, a town of the ifland of Ceram, and 
principal market for cloves. 
CAM'BER, one of the three fons of Brute, who, upon 
his father’s death, had that part of Britain affigned him 
for his fhare, called from him Cambria , now Wain . 
CAM'BER-BE AM, f. A piece of timber cut arch- 
wife, or with an obtttfe angle in the middle. They are 
commonly ufed in platforms, as for church-roofs, and 
other occaftons where long timbers are wanted to lie at a 
Email ftope. A camber-beam is much ftronger than ano¬ 
ther of the fame dimenfions; for, being laid with the hol¬ 
low fide downwards, and having good butments at the 
ends, they ferve for a kind of arch. 
CAM'BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, and Lower Elefforate : twenty-two miles 
north ot Mentz, and thirty eaft of Coblentz. 
C AM'BERING, f. \_chambrc, Fr.] A word mentioned 
by Skinner, as peculiar to thipbuilders, who fay that a 
place is cambering , when they mean arched. 
CAMBERNON', a town of France, in the department 
of the Channel : one league north-eaft of Coutances. 
CAM'BERT, a French mufician in the feventeenth 
century,, was at fir ft admired for the mafterly manner in 
which he touched the organ, and became fuperintendant 
of the rnufic to Anne of Auftria the queen-mother. The 
abbe Perrin afiociated him in the privilege he obtained of 
his majefty, of felting up an opera in 1669. Cambert fet 
to mufic two paftorals, one entitled Pomona, the other 
Ariadne, which were the firft operas given in France. He 
alio wrote a piece intitled the Pains and Pleafures of Love. 
Thefe pieces pleated the public; yet, in 1672, Lully ob¬ 
taining tire privilege of the opera, Cambert was obliged 
to come to England, where he became fuperintendant of 
thq mufic to Charles II. He died in 1,677. 
CAM'BERWELL, a confiderable village in the coun¬ 
ty of Surrey: two miles fouth of London. 
CAM'BIST, f. [(from cambium, Lat.] A name given 
to thofe who trade in notes and bills of exchange. The 
word is technical among merchants and bankers. 
CAM'BIUM,/! [cambio, Lat. to exchange.] That nu¬ 
trition" humour which is changed into the matter of which 
the body is compoted. 
CAM'BLET. See Camelot. 
CAMBODU'NUM, anciently a town of the Brigantes, 
in Britain, near Almonbury in Yorldhire. Weftchefter, 
(Talbot.) Alfo a town of Vindelecia, on the Cambns; 
now Kempten in Suabia. 
CAMBO'GI A,f. [fo named becaufe it comes from the 
province Cambodia or Cambodje.'] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs polyandria, order monogynia, natural order of tri- 
coccse. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
four-leaved ; leaflets roundift), concave, deciduous. Co¬ 
rolla : petals four, roundifh-oblong, concave, with oblong 
claws. Stamina: filaments very many, (hort; antherae 
roundift). Piftiilum: germ roundift), ftriated ; ftyle none ; 
ftigma four-cleft, obtule, permanent. Pericarpium : pome 
roundifti, eight-angled, eight-celled. Seeds: folitary, re~ 
niform oblong, flightly compreffed*.— EJfntial Character. 
Corolla four-petalled; calyx four-leaved ; pome eight- 
celled ; feeds folitary, 
There is but one fpecies, commonly called cambogia 
gutta. It is a tall tree, with a trunk fometimes as thick 
as two men can compafs, with fpreading oppofite branches. 
Leaves lanceolate-ovate, quite entire, flat, thick, fcatter- 
ed, fmall, oppofite, petiolcd. Flowers in whorls, feffile, 
faffron-coloured. Fruit two inches in diameter, on pedun¬ 
cles an inch in length ; rind yellow', thin, fmooth ; pulp 
yellow, fucculent, fweet, efeulent. According to the Hot- 
tus Malabaricus^ the fruit is firft green, then yellowith. 
