670 CAN 
of his time), and other theological works, to the amount, 
it is faid, of 200 volumes. His definition of politics is 
jemaikable: Ars non tarn regendi, quam falkr.di, homines ; 
‘ the art not fo much of governing, as ot deceiving ’man¬ 
kind.’ He died in 1652. 
CAN,/ \_canne, Sax. ] A cup ; generally a cup made of 
metal, or Come other matter titan earth.—I hate it, as an 
unfiil’d can. Shahcfpcare. 
To CAN, v. n. [konnen , Dot. It is fometimes, though 
rarely, ufed alone; but is in conftant ufe as an exprefiion 
of the potential mood: as, I can do, thou canfldo, I could. 
do, thou cculdejl do. It has no other terminations.} To be 
able; to have power.—He can away with no company, 
whofe difcourfe goes beyond what claret and diflolutenefs 
infpires. Locke. —It exprelfes the potential mood; as, I 
can do it: 
If fhe can make me bleft ! (lie only can:, 
Empire and wealth, and all the brings befide, 
Are but the train and-trappings of her love. Dry den. 
It is dillinguifhed from may, as power from permillion; I 
can do it, it is in my power ; I may do it, it is allowed .me : 
but in poetry they are confounded. Can is ufed of the per- 
fon with the verb active, where may is ufed of the thing 
with the verb paffive ; as, I can do it, it may ot can be done. 
CAN-HOOK f. an inftrument ufed to fling a calk by the 
ends of the Haves : it is formed by fixing a broad and flat 
hook at each end of a Ihort rope ; and the tackle, by which 
the calk fb flung may be hoiked or lowered, is hocked to 
the middle of the rope. 
CA'NA, anciently a town on the confines of the Upper 
and Lower Galilee : memorable for the turning water into . 
wine (John). The birth-place of Simeon, called Cananile 
from this place, and of Nathaniel. 
CA'NA, one of the fmaller weflern iflands of Scotland, 
about eight miles fouth-weft from the illand of Skye. Lat. 
57.49. N. Ion. 6.40. W. Greenwich. 
CA'NA (El), a town of Aliatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Aladulia : thirty-fix miles fouth-weft of Malatia. 
CA'N'AAN, [jyja Heb. a merchant.] The fourth fon. 
of Ham. The irreverence of Ham towards his father 
Noah is recorded in Gen.ix. Upon that occaflon the pa¬ 
triarch curbed him in a branch of his pofterity : “ Curbed 
(lays he) be Canaan ; a fervant of fei vants fir all he be un¬ 
to his brethren.” This curfe being pronounced, not a gain ft 
Ham the immediate tranfgrefior, but againft Iris fen, who 
does not appear, from the words of Moles, to have been 
any way concerned in the crime, hath occafioned feveral 
conjectures ; and much difagreement amongft writers in 
divinity. Some have believed that Noah curled Canaan, 
becaufe he could not well have curbed Ham himfelf, whom 
God had not long before bieffed. Others think Mofes’s 
chief intent in recording this prediction was to raife tire 
Epsrits of the Ifraelites, then entering on a terrible war 
with the children of Canaan, by the afiurance,. that, in 
confequence of the curfe, that people were deftined to be 
fubdued by them. The opinion of thofe who imagine all 
Ham’s race were here accurfed, feems repugnant to the 
plain words.of Scripture, which confines the malediction 
to Canaan arid his-pofterity.; and is alfo contrary to faCt. 
Indeed, the prophecy of Noah, that Canaan “ fliould be 
a fervant of fervants to his brethren,” feems to have been 
w holly completed in him. The pofterity of Canaan were 
very numerous. His eldeft fon was Sidon, who founded 
and peopled the city of Sidon, and was the father of tire 
Sidonians and Phoenicians. Canaan had befides ten fons, 
who were the fathers of fo many people, dwelling in Pa- 
leftinc, and in,part of Syria ; namely, the Hittites, the Je- 
b-ufites, the Amorites, the Girgafites, the Hivites, the 
Arkites, the Smites, the Arvadites, the Zcmarites, and 
Hamathites. 
CA'NA AN, the country fo named from Canaan the 
fon of l-Iam. It lies between the Mediterranean fea and 
the mountains of Arabia, and extends from Egypt to 
Phoenicia, it is bounded on the eaft by the mountains of 
CAN 
Arabia ; on the foutli by the wildernefs of Paran, Idu- 
mtea, and Egypt; on the weft by the Mediterranean, call¬ 
ed in Hebrew the Great Sea ; on the nortl\ by the moun¬ 
tains of Libanus. Its length is about feventy leagues,, 
and its-breadth about thirty. This country, at firft called 
Canaan, was afterwards called Pnlejline, from the people 
which the Hebrews call Philiftines, and the Greeks and 
Romans corruptly Paleftines, who inhabited the fea-coafts, 
and were firft known to them. It likewife had the name 
of the Land cf Promife, from the promife God made Abra¬ 
ham ot giving it to him ; that of the Land of Ifracl, from 
the Ilraelites having made themfelves makers of it; that 
of Judah, from the tribe of Judah, which was the mod: 
confiderable of the twelve ; and laftly, the felicity it had 
in being fanCIified by the prefence, aCtions, miracles, and 
death, of our Saviour, gave it the name of the Holy Land , 
which it retains to this day. 
CA'NA AN, a town in Lincoln county, diftrift of Maine, 
in United America, (ituated on Kennebeck river, about 
feven miles north of Hancock, and 233 north-by-eaft of 
B'ofton. Incorporated in 1788, and contains454inhabitants. 
A plantation in Hancock county is alfo thus named. 
CA'NA AN, a town of Grafton county, New Hamp- 
fibre, in United America, ten miles eaft of Dartmouth 
College, Incorporated in 1761. 
CA'NAAN, a town in Litchfield county, Connefticuf* 
in the United States. Here is a forge and flitti-ng-mill, 
creeled on a new conftruftion; and the iron ufed here is 
faid to be excellent. In the mountains of Canaan, are 
found valuable ores, particularly lead and iron. It is 
fixty miles north of New-Haven, and forty north-weft of 
Hartford. 
CA'NAAN, a.town of in EfTex county, Vermont, in 
United America. It Hands at the foot of the Upper Great 
Monadnock. 
CA'NAAN, a town in Columbia county, New York,, 
having Kinderhook on the weft, and Maflachufetts on the 
eaft. It has 6692 inhabitants. 
CANABAC', an ifland contiguous to Bulam on the 
vveftern coaft of Africa, inhabited by a fierce people, go¬ 
verned by two kings or chiefs. 
CA'NACE, a daughter of ^Eolus and Enaretta, who 
became enamoured of her brother Macareus, by whom 
Ihe had a child, whom fhe expofed. The cries of the 
child difeovered his mother’s inceft ; and iEolus fent his 
daughter a fvvord, and obliged her to kill herfelf. Ma¬ 
careus fled, and became a prieft of Apollo at Delphi. 
Some fay that Canace was raviflied by Neptune, by whom 
flie had many children, among whom were Epopeus, Tri¬ 
ops, and A Ions. Apollodorus. 
CA'NADA, an extenfive country of North America, 
divided into Upper and Lower Canada, confiituted by aft 
of parliament in 1791, comprehending all the territory be- 
tween 6i° and 8i° W. Ion. from Greenwich, and between 
42 0 30' and 52 0 N. lat. in length about 1400 miles, and 
in breadth 500. Bounded north by New Britain and un¬ 
known countries ; eaft by New Britain and the gulf of St. 
Lawrence ; fouth-eaft and foutherly by the province of 
New Brunfwick, the diftrift of Maine, New Hamplhire, 
Vermont, New York, and the lakes ; the weftern bounda¬ 
ry is undefined. The province of Upper Canada is tliev. 
fame as what has been commonly called the Upper Coun¬ 
try. It lies north of tire great lakes, and is feparated from 
New York by the river St. Lawrence, here called the Ca- 
taraejui, and the lakes Ontario and Erie. Lower Canada 
lies on both Tides the river St. Lawrence, between 61° and 
7 i° VC. Ion. from Greenwich, and 45 0 and 52° N. lat. and 
is bounded fouth by New Brunfwick, Maine, New Hainp- 
ftiire, Vermont, and New York; and weft by Upper Ca¬ 
nada. The line between Upper and Lower Canada com¬ 
mences at a ftone boundary on the north bank of the lake 
St. Francis, in St. Lawrence river, at the cove weft of 
Point-au-Boudet, thence northerly to the Ottawas river,, 
and to its fource in lake Tomifcaning, thence due north. 
till it ftrikes the boundary of Hudfon-bay, or New Britain. 
3. ' Upper 
