fomewhat thicker than cinnamon, arid both externally and 
internally of a wlutifh or light-brown colour, with a yel- 
lowilli hue, and commonly intermixed with thicker pieces, 
which are probably obtained from the trunk of the tree. 
In tafte it is moderately warm, aromatic, and bitterifh. its 
finell is agreeable, and refembles that of cloves. Its vir¬ 
tues are extracted molt perfectly by proof fpirit. The 
ufe of canella alba now lupercedes that of the old bark of 
Winter, on the authority of both the I.ondon and Edin¬ 
burgh pharmacopoeias. It has been fuppofed to pofTefs 
conliderable virtues, and is faid to be ufeful in fccrbutic 
and many other complaints. It is now, however, conlidered 
merely m the light of an aromatic, and, like many oilier 
I pices, is employed for the purpofe of correcting difagree- 
able drugs. It is therefore an ingredient in the pulv. aloet. 
•Pharin. Lond. and in the tinclura amara, vinum amarum, 
vimim rhei, &c. of the Pharm. Edinb. 
Propagation and Culture. This tree is too tender to live 
in England out of a dove. The plants require to be plun¬ 
ged in the tan-bed, and in winter Ihould be fparingly wa¬ 
tered; in fummer they Ihould have it in greater plenty, 
when alio they Ihould have a good lhare of air admitted 
to them when the weather is warm. With this manage¬ 
ment tlie plants may be preferved very well, but they are 
difficult to propagate either by layers or cuttings. The 
furelt method is to procure frelh feeds from the Well Indies. 
CANEL'LA, a diftriril in the ifl.and of Cexlon. It con¬ 
tains mines of precious hones, but the principal riches, 
arife from the quantity of cinnamon with which it abounds. 
C ANEL'LI, a town of Piedmont, in tire county of Alii, 
twelve miles louth-louth-welf of 'Alii. 
CA'NELOS, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Tras-os-Montes, five miles north-north-eaft of Lamego. 
CA'NEM, or Kanem, a country of Africa, in Negro- 
land, well of Nubia, about lat. 17. N. Ion. 40. E. Ferro. 
CA'NENS, in fabulous hiftory, a nymph, wife to Pious 
king of the Laurentes. When Circe had changed her 
hulband into a bird, (he lamented him fo much, that Hie 
pined away, and was changed into a voice. She was reck¬ 
oned as a deity by the inhabitants. Ovid. 
C ANEPHO'R I A, felti vals at Athens in honour of Bac¬ 
chus, or, according to others, of Diana, in which all mar¬ 
riageable women offered (mail balkets to the deity. Cicero. 
CA'NES VEN A'TICI,_/. the Hounds, or the Greyhounds , 
one of the new ccnftellations of the northern hemilphere, 
which Hevelius has formed out of the unformed liars of 
the old catalogues! Thefe two dogs are farther dillin- 
guilhed by the names of ajlerion and chara. They contain 
twenty-three liars according to Hevelius, but twenty-live 
in the Britilh catalogue. 
CANET', a town of France, in the department of the 
Eallern Pyrenees : five miles eait of Perpignan. 
CANET', a town of France, in the department of He- 
rault: ten miles fouth-eall of Lodeve. 
CANE'TO, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Mantua, 
on the Oglio; taken by the Imperial troops in 1701; re¬ 
taken by the French in 1702; by the Imperialills, end 
again by the French, in 1705. Twenty miles W. of Mantua. 
CAN'FRANC, a town of Spain, in Arragon, three 
leagues north of Jaca. 
CAN'GA,/. a wooden clog borne on the neck, by way of 
punilhment, in China. The canga iscompofed of two pieces 
of wood notched, to receive the criminal’s neck ; the load 
lies on iris fhoulders, and is more or lefs heavy according 
to the quality of his offence. Some cangas weigh joolb 
the generality from fifty to fixty. The mandarins con¬ 
demn to the punilhment of the canga. Sentence of death 
is fometimes mitigated to this punilhment. 
CANGAREE', a river of United America, in South 
Carolina, formed by the union of the Saluda and the Ty- 
ger, about five miles north-well of Columbia. 
C AN'GE (Charles du Frefne fieur du), one of the moll 
learned writers of his time, was born at Amiens in 1601, 
and lludied at the Jefuits college in that city. Afterwards 
he applied to the lludy of the law at Orleans, and gained 
CAN 
great reputation by his works; among which are, 1. 'PJic 
Hiftory of the Empire of Conftantinople under the French 
Emperors. 2. John Cinnamus’s Six Books of the Hiftory 
of the Affairs of John and Manuel Comnenus, in Greek 
and Latin, with hillorical and philological notes. 3, Glof- 
farium ad Scriptores mediae et infimae Latinitat.is. 
CAN'GI, Ceang e, or Cang ani, anciently a people of 
Britain, concerning whofe lituation antiquaries have been 
much perplexed. Cambden difeovered fome traces of 
them in many diftant places, as in Somerfetlhire, Wales,, 
Derbyfhire, and Chelhire ; and he might have found 
others in Devonlliire, Doi fetlhire, E-ffex,. Wiltfliire, &c, 
Mr. Horlley and others appear no lefs perplexed and un¬ 
determined in their opinions on this lubjedl. But Mr. 
Baxter Teems to have difeovered the true caufe of all this 
perplexity, by obferving that the Cangi or Ceangi were 
not a diftincl natior.feated in one particular place,but Inch 
of the youth of many different diftririls as were employed, 
in prifturage, in feeding the flocks and herds of their re- 
lperitive tribes. Almoll all the ancient nations of Britairy 
had their ceangi, their palloritia pubes, the keepers of 
their flocks and herds, who ranged about the country in 
great numbers, as they were invited' by the leafon and 
plenty of pafture for their cattle. This is the reafon that 
velliges of their name are to be found in fo many different 
parts of Britain; but chiefly in thofe parts which are-moft 
fit for pafturage. 
CANGIA'GIO, or Cambiasi (Ludovico), one of the 
moli eminent of the Genoefe painters, was born in 1527. 
His works at Genoa are very numerous ; and he was em¬ 
ployed by the kingof Spain to adorn part of. the Efeu rial. 
It was remarked of him, that he was not. only a moft ex¬ 
peditious and rapid painter, but alfo that he worked equally 
well with both hands ; and by that unufual:power lie ex¬ 
ecuted more defigns, andfinifhed more grand w orks with 
his own pencil, in a Ihorter time titan nteft other artifts- 
could do with feveral afliftants. He died in 1585. 
CANGIA'NO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Principato Citr.a: tvventy-leven. 
miles north of Policaflro. 
CAN'GON, a town of Africa, in the country of Batta. 
CAN'LLAR, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Soane, five miles fouth-w>eft of Bidzigur. 
CANHA'RA, a province of weftern Hindooflan, fitu- 
ated between Cape Rarnas and Car war, and extending, 
along the coaft 230 miles, until it terminates at mount 
Dilla. It is the cis-ghautian part of Bednore. Before 
Hyder All made himfelf mailer of this important traril, it 
was little known ; its numerous forefts, its precipitous- 
chains of mountains, and the inhabitants a w itd race, under 
Polygars, who never before had fubmitted to any yoke. 
At the partition treaty at Seringapatam under the marquis. 
Cornwallis, this whole province was left to Tippoo; but 
on the lari of that afpiring fultan, when Seringapatam 
was ftormed and taken by general Harris, on the 4th of 
May, 1799, this rich province, with the whole of Tip- 
poo’s other dominions, were fiirrendered to the kingof 
Great Britain. Its principal cities are Mangalore, Barce- 
lore, Onore, and Carwar. 
CA'NI, two fmall illands of Africa, in the Mediterra¬ 
nean, near the coaft of Tunis. Lat. 37. 45. N. Ion. 10. 
30. E. Greenwich. 
CANTADERA'GO, a lake of North America, in the 
ftate of New York. Lat. 42.43. N. Ion. 37, W. Greenwich. 
CANI'CULA,/! a name given by many, of the earlier 
aftronomers to the conftellatioi. which w e call the LtJJ'tr 
Dog and Cam's Minor , but fome Procyon and Antecanis. It 
is alio ufed for one of the liars of the cor.ftellation Canis 
Major; called limply the Dog.-ftar ; and by the Greeks, 
Zei^ioc, Sirius. It is fituated in the mouth of the conftel- 
lation, and is the larged and brigbteft of all the liars in the 
heavens. From the heliacal riling of this liar, that is, its 
immerfion from the fun’s ray.',, which now happens with 
us about the nth of Auguft, the ancients reckoned their 
dies canicularcs } or dag-days. The ./Egyptians and uiEthio- 
