4m c r o 
ingly fylct by auction, October 10,. 1:780, for 2520I. and 
is now converted into calico-printing and whifftering 
groundin the gardens of which rifes the river Wandle, 
which, increafing in its pfogfefs, empties itfelf about 
Windfor into the river Thames. The market, which is 
eii Saturday, is chiefly for corn : its fairs are June 5 and 
October 2. Here was formerly a chantry. The adjacent 
lu lls arc well dored with wood, of which great quantities 
of charcoal are made for London. 
The fine walks and beautiful profpecls about Croydon 
are exceeded by no place in the kingdom. From Oak- 
of-Honour Hill, as it is called, you have in your eye 
nearly all the houfes, as well as churches, and other 
public edifices, from Putney-bridge to Cheifea, and all 
the adjacent villages, Wedminder, London, Deptford, 
Greenwich, Blackwall, a conquerable part of Kent, Ef- 
fex, and, beyond and over the great metropolis, High- 
gate, Hampftead, as far as the eye can reach. 
CROYI/ 3 TONE, J. Crydallized cauk. In this the 
crydals are fmall. Woodward. 
CROZE (Madvuriu Veyffiere la), a learned French 
writer, born at Nantes in i66r. His father, a merchant 
of that city, being fond of letters, bedowed a good edu¬ 
cation on his fen; and the latter, having a happy natu¬ 
ral genius, made a rapid progrefs in his (Indies. The 
profefiion of phytic was for fome time the object of his 
views; but a few conferences which he had with foine 
members of the congregation of St. Maur, induced him 
to embrace their order. He performed his noviciate at 
Saumur in 1677, and,entered the congregation in 1682. 
Here his propenfity to dudy, and his tafle for ancient 
manuferipts, found ample gratification, and the juftnefs 
of his critic!fm was confiderably improved by the op¬ 
portunity he had of examining a variety of old charters. 
The eafe and tranquillity of this kind of life were not, 
however, capable cf fixing him within the walls of a 
cloifier: he faw truth, and obeyed the dictates of his 
confidence. Some papers were found in his cell,'which 
contained things contrary to the dogmas of the Romiflr 
church ; and, as he was already fufp.e&ed by the order, 
he foon got intelligence that a plan was formed to im¬ 
mure him in a prilon. Alarmed by the threatened danger, 
he found means to efcape, took (belter under the roof of 
a Lutheran friend, and repaired to Bafil, where he made 
his abjuration in the fpring of 1696. There he remained 
four months, and then let out for Berlin, where, in 1697, 
lie was appointed librarian to the academy of fciences, 
with a penfion of two hundred crowns. His extraordi¬ 
nary bulk, which rendered him exceedingly unweildy, 
obliged him, during the lad years of his life, to confine 
himfelf to his apartment. He died in 1739, in the feven- 
ty-eighth year of his age. La Croze was a man of great 
learning, and had a 1110ft retentive memory. His friends, 
who fometimes amufed themfelves in putting it to the ted, 
never found it to fail. He was acquainted with almod all 
the dead and living languages; the Chinefe is the only one 
that baffled his application, or, at lead, in which he was not 
able to attain to that degree of knowledge which he wifli- 
ed. He pofleded an inexhaudible dore of the mod cu¬ 
rious anecdotes, and knew a multitude of tales and bon- 
mots, which he introduced into his converfation in the 
mod agreeable manner : had any one taken the trouble 
to colleft the Croziana, they would have furpafifed any 
collection of the kind. His principal works are, 1. Dif 
fertations HJloriquesfir divers Sujcts, Rotterdam, 1707, 8vo. 
vol. 1. a fecond to which was never publifhed. His 
Treatife on Atheifm, contained in this volume, was 
tranflated into Englidi, and appeared at London in 1712. 
2. Hijloire du Chrijlianifme des hides, a la Haye, 1724, 8vo. 
this is La Croze’s mader-piece ; it edablidied his repu¬ 
tation, and was highly fpoken of in all the journals. 
3. Hijloire du Chrijlianifme d'Armenie S 3 d'Ethiopie, a la 
Haye, 1739, j>vo. this was the lad work of the author, 
and exhibits marks of the infirmities of age. Befides 
thefe works, La Croze left the following in manuscript: 
C R U 
4. Ijifoirc du Couronnemctii de S. M. Frederic 1 . Pci de Prvjff* 
traduit de l'Allemand dc M. Erffer, Grand-maitre des Ceremo 
niesfous Frederic /. 5. A Sclavonic and Latin Dictionary. 
6. An Armenian Dictionary, in 2 vols. of more than 1300 
pages. 7. TraduBion d'un Poe me Hflorique Armenia:, avec 
d'autres Pieces relatives a cette Langue. 8. A Coptic Dic¬ 
tionary. 9. A Syriac Dictionary. His Coptic Dictionary 
was publifhed at Oxford in 1775, with additions by 
Sehuz, under the title of Lexicon Agvptiaco-Latinum , cx 
vetenhus illius lingua: Monumentisfummofudio colleElinn et ela- 
boratum a M. V. la Croze. Quod in compendium redegit, ita, 
ut nulla voces AEgyptiaca, nullaque earum fignifcationis omit- 
terentur Ckrijl. Schuler. Notulas quafdam et Indices adjccit 
Carol. Gothbfr. Woide Oxonii, 1775, 4to. As La Croze 
carried on a very extenfive literary correfpondence with 
many eminent men, profefibr Uhl, who died at Frank¬ 
fort on tire Oder, in the year 1790, did a great fervice 
to literature by making this correfpondence known. It 
was publidied at Leiplic in 1742 and 1746, in three vo¬ 
lumes quarto, illudrated with piates, under the title of 
Tkefaurus Epifolicus La Crozianus, ex Bibliotheca Jordaniana, 
edidit /. L. Uhl. All thefe letters are of importance, as 
they abound with ufeful refearches refpeCling the Cop¬ 
tic, Armenian, and Chinefe, languages; the hidory and 
antiquities of the church, the difeoveries of Hippolytus 
Martyr, the Chridians of Malabar, the Maronites, the 
celebrated Servetus, See. 
CRO'ZEN, a town of France, in the department of 
Finiderre, and chief place of a canton, in the didrift of 
Chateaulin : fixteen miles north-wed of Chateaulin. 
CROZET', a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire : ten miles north-wed of Roanne. 
CRUACHAN' BEN, a mountain of Scotland, in the 
county of Argyle : 23 miles fouth of Fort William. 
CRUANACAR'RA, a fmall iiland in the Atlantic, 
near the wed coad of Ireland. Lat. 53. 13. N. Ion. 9. 
55. W. Greenwich. 
CRUANAKIL'LY, a fmall ifland in the Atlantic, 
near the wed coad of Ireland. Lat. 53. 15. N. Ion. 9. 
59. W. Greenwich. 
CRU'CES, a town of Terra Firma, South America, 
dve leagues from Panama, and (ituated on C hag re river. 
CRU'CIAL, adj. [crux, crucis, Lat.] Tranfverfe; in¬ 
terfering one another.—Whoever lias feen the practice 
of the crucial incidon, mud be fenlible of the falfe rea- 
foning ufed in its favour, Sharp. 
CRUCIANEL'LA,/! [dimin. from crux, a-crofs, the 
leaves being placed crolfwife,] In botany, tire herb 
Petty Madder ; a genus of the clafs tetrandria, order 
monogynia, natural order dellatas, (rubiaceae, JiiJf.) The 
generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium two-leaved, 
inferior; leaflets lanceolate, (lightly keeled, acuminate, 
ftiff, converging-compreded. Corolla : one-petalled, 
funnel-form ; tube cyiindric, filiform, longer titan the 
calyx; border four-cleft; divifions tailed, with the 
points inflex. Stamina : filaments four, placed in the 
mouth of the tube ; antherse fimple. Piftillum : germ 
compreded, between the calyx and corolla ; dyle two- 
cleft, filiform, length of the tube ; digmas two, obtufe, 
oblong. Pericarpium : capfules two, connate. Seeds: 
folitary, oblong.— Eff ntial CharaEler. Calyx two-leaved ; 
involucre two or three-leaved, chaffy, calyx none; co¬ 
rolla one-petalled, funnel-form, w ith a filiform tube, and 
tailed border; feeds two, linear, inferior, naked, bald. 
Species. 1. Crucianella angudifolia, or narrow-leaved 
crucianella: ereft; leaves in fixes, linear; flowers in 
fpikes. This is an annual plant, which rifes with feve- 
ral upright dalks a foot high, having fix or (even very 
narrow leaves in whorls at each joint. The flowers grow 
in clofe fpikes at the top, and from the Tides of the 
branches; they are fmall, white, not longer than the 
calyx, and make no great appearance. It flowers in June 
and Juiy, and the feeds ripen in autumn. Native of the 
fouth of France and Italy. Cultivated in 1659 in the bo¬ 
tanic garden at Oxford. 
2. Crucianella 
