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la More, Gulielmus Gemiticcnfis, Giraldus Cambrenfis; 
plerique nunc in lucem editi, ex bibliotheca Gulielmi 
Gamdeni.” Having laid a tide the delign he once formed 
of writing a civil hiltory of England, he thought himfelf 
obliged in juftice, to add to the fmall ftock of materials 
already prepared by thefe original and valuable authors. 
This account he himfelf gives in his epiftle to Sir Fulke 
Grevile, to whom he dedicated this collection in acknow¬ 
ledgment of the good offices he had done hint, in procur¬ 
ing him to be made king at arms. In the year following 
lie publifhed his “ Remaines of a greater Work concerning 
Britain, the Inhabitants thereof, their Languages, Names, 
Surnames, Emprefes, wife Speeches, Poelies, and Epi- 
taphes.” This was a collection of things which had been 
communicated to him, while he was gathering materials 
for his Britannia. After the dil'covery of the gunpow¬ 
der-plot, king James, being defirous to put the reformed 
churcheaabroad upon their guard againit the enemies of 
the proteftant religion, and to fatisly foreign princes of 
the juftice of his proceedings, made choice of Camden as 
belt qualified to draw up the whole cafe in Latin. In 1607, 
Camden publifhed the complete edition of his Britannia, 
in folio, amended, enlarged, and adorned with maps and 
cuts ; a tranflation of which was publilhed in 1695, by 
Edmund Gibfon, of Qncen’s-college, Oxford, afterwards 
bilho'p of London. Dr. Holland, a phyfician of Coventry, 
who publifhed a tranflation of Camden’s Britannia in 1611, 
had inferted therein feveral things of his own. Thefe in¬ 
terpolations, which a great many readers could not diftin- 
guifh, occalioned fome writers to allege the authority and 
teflimony of Camden to prove faffs which he never ad¬ 
vanced. To prevent this miftake for the future, Gibfon 
refolved to give a new tranflation of Camden, purged from 
all foreign interpolations: but, becaufe Holland’s'addi- 
tions were fometimes good, and'it was generally believed 
that he had confuited Camden himfelf when he met with 
any obfeurities, Gibfon preferved them, and placed them 
at the bottom of the page. He alfo added remarks at the 
end of each county, either to confirm what Camden had 
advanced, or to give a more particular account of places 
which he had deferibed, or defeription of places omitted 
by him; with a lift of the perfons by whom he was fur- 
nifhed with his materials. In 1615, Camden publifhed in 
Latin his annals of queen Elizabeth, under the following 
title, “ Annales rerum Anglicarum & Hibernicaram, 
regnante Elifabetha, ad annum falutis mdlxxxix-.” The 
continuation of thefe annals was finiffied about 16 ri ; but 
he never would confent to its being publifhed in his life¬ 
time. Camden, not contented with having employed his 
pen in the fervice of the republic of letters, refolved alfo 
to beftow part of his-property in founding a leblure on 
hiftory in the univerfity of Oxford. By a deed executed 
March 5, 1622, he made over all his right in the manor 
of Bexley in Kent, with all profits, &c. arifing there¬ 
from, to the chancellor, matters, and fcholars, of the uni¬ 
verfity of Oxford, and their fucceffbrs, with this provifo, 
that the profits of the faid manor, which were computed 
to be of the yearly value of 400I. ftrould be enjoyed by 
Mr. William Heather, his heirs and executors, for the 
fpace of ninety-nine years from the death of the donor ; 
during which time, the faid William Heather was to pay 
to the profeflbr of hiliory in Oxford 140I. per annum, by 
half-yearly payments; and, after the expiration of that 
term, the whole eltate to be vetted in that univerfity: for 
■which ample donation lie was unanimoufly declared and 
received into the number of benefactors to the univerfity. 
He appointed Degory Wheare, M. A. fellow of E.xeter- 
college, to be his fird profettor. He died Nov. 9, 1623, 
at his houfe at C hi (Tel h u rft in Kent; and was interred in 
the iouth aile of Weftmintter-abbey, near the learned 
Gafaubon, and over-againft the celebrated Chaucer. He 
was not lefs illuflrious for his virtues than for his learn¬ 
ing. In his writings he was candid and mode ft, in his 
converfation eafy and innocent, and in his whole life even 
-and exemplary. The work he was engaged in for the ho- 
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nour of his native country, gained him refpcCt at home 
and admiration abroad, fo that he was looked upon as a 
common oracle 7 and for a foreigner to travel into Eng¬ 
land, and return without feeing Camden, was thought a 
very grofs omillion. He was vifited bv fix German noble¬ 
men at one time, and at their requell: wrote his lemma, 
in each of their books, as a teftimony that they had fecn 
him. The lateft ami bell tranflation of his Britannia, is 
that by Mr. Gough, which polfelles many conliderable 
improvements. 
CAM'DEN (Lord). See Pratt. 
CAM'DEN, in Gloucefterfhire. See Camfden. 
CAM'DEN, a county of United America, in North 
Carolina, on the north-eaft corner of the ttate. Jcnefbo- 
rough is the chief town. 
CAM'DEN, a diftrifl of United America, in the up¬ 
per country of South Carolina, has Cheraws diftritt on 
the north-eaft ; Georgetown dillrict on the fouth-eafl; and 
the ttate of North Carolina on the north ; and is divided 
into the following counties : Fairfield, Richland, Claren¬ 
don, Claremont, Kerlhaw, Salem, and Lancafter. It is 
cighty-tvvo miles from north to fouth, and fixty from eaft 
to weft, and contains 38,265 inhabitants. This dillrict is 
watered by the Wateree, or Catabaw river, and its branch¬ 
es ; the upper part is variegated with hills, generally fer¬ 
tile and well watered. It produces Indian corn wheat, 
rye, barley, tobacco, and cotton. The Catabaw Indians, 
the only tribe which refide in the Hate, live in the north 
part of this diftribh 
CAM'DEN, a pod town, and chief of Camden dittrift, 
in South Carolina, in Kerlhaw county, (lands on the eaft 
fide of Wateree river, thirty-five miles north-eaft of Co¬ 
lumbia, fifty-five fouth-weft oLCheraw, 120 north-by-wefl 
of Charleftown, and 643 fouth-weft of Philadelphia. It 
is regularly laid out, and contains an epifcopal church, a 
court-houle, and gaol. The navigable river on which tlie 
town Hands, enables the inhabitants to carry on a lively 
trade with the back country. This town, or near it, was 
the feene of two battles in the American war: One the- 
16th of Augufit, 1780, between general Gates and lord 
Cornwallis, in which the American general was defeated. 
The other was a brilk action between lord Rawdon and 
general Greene, on the 25th of April, 1781. Lat. 34. 12. 
N. Ion. So. 54. W. 
CAM'DEN, a county of United America, in the low¬ 
er dillricl of Georgia, at the lotith-eaft corner of the (fate, 
on St. Mary’s river. The chief town is St. Patrick’s. 
CAM'DEN, a fmall poll poll town of United America, 
on the weftern fide of Penobfcot-bay, in the diftriit of 
Maine, and the fouth-eafiermoft town (hip of Lincolncoun- 
ty, having Thomaftown on the fouth-weft. It is thirty- 
five miles north-north-eaft of Povvna -1 borough, and 228 
north-eaft of Bofton. 
CAME, the preterite of To Come: 
Till all the pack came up, and ev’ry hound 
Tore the fad huntfman; grov’lmgon the ground. Addifun. 
GA'MEL, f. in zoology. See Camei.us. 
CA'MEL, J in mechanics, a kind of machine ufed in 
Holland for railing or lifting finips, in order-to bring them 
over the Pampus, which is at the mouth of the river Y, 
where the (hallow nets of the water hinders - large l’nips 
from palling. It is alfo ufed in other places, particularly 
at the dock of Peterfburg, the vefiels built there being in 
their paffhgeto Cronftadt lifted over the bar by means of 
camels. Thefe machines tire faid to have been originally 
invented by the celebrated De Wit, forthe purpofe above- 
mentioned ; and were introduced into Ruffia by Peter the 
Great, who obtained the model of them when he worked 
in Holland as a common -Ihipwright. A camel is compofed 
of two feparate parts, whole- outfides are- perpendicular, 
and whofe infides are concave, lhaped fo as to embrace the 
hull of a fhip on botl. Tides. Each part lias a fmall cabin, 
with fix teen pumps, and ten plugs, and contain twenty 
men. They are braced to a (hip underneath, by means of 
cable s a 
