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fpars, ores, and many beautiful concretions, are given 
under that head, we mud refer the reader, for other ap¬ 
propriate and interefting matter, to that article. 
CRY Sd AL'LOMANCY, /. [of^uraXAd^and 
Gr.] A fort of divination or foretelling future events 
by means of a mirror or looking-glafs. 
CSAK'ATHURN, a town of Hungary, fituated on a 
fmall river, between the Muerand the Drave; celebra¬ 
ted for its wine: twenty miles weft of Canifcha, and 
ninety-five fouth of Vienna. 
CSA'NAD, a town of Hungary, on the river Maros : 
fixty-four miles north of Belgrade, and two hundred fouth- 
eaft of Vienna. 
CSEREPA'XA, a town and caftle of Hungary : eight 
miles north of Erlau. 
CSE'RINGRAD, a towrn of Sclavonia, on the Da¬ 
nube : five miles north of Peterwardin. 
CSER'NA, a river of Hungary, which runs into the 
Danube near Orlova. 
CSER'NA, a town of Sclavonia: twenty miles fouth 
of Efzek. 
CSER'NICK, a town of Sclavonia: eleven miles north- 
eaft of Gradifca. 
CSO'GOD, a town of Tranfilvania : fixteen miles eaft 
of Udvarhely. 
CSOKAKU', a town and caftle of Hungary : twelve 
miles north-north-eaft of Stulweifen. 
CSON'GRAD, a town of Hungary, at the conflux of 
the rivers Kores and Theys: twenty-two miles north of 
Zegedin. 
CTE'SIAS, a Greek hiftorian and phyfician, native of 
Cnidus in Caria, was prelent with Cyrus the younger in 
the battle fought by him, before Chrift 401, again!! his 
brother Artaxerxes Mnemon. Ctefias was taken pri- 
ioner, and was employed to cure Artaxerxes of a wound. 
He followed his profellion in that king’s court for the 
fpace of feventeen years. He wrote there the Hiltory of 
the Afiyrians and Perfians, in twenty-three books, hav¬ 
ing, as he alferts, had the advantage of copying his nar¬ 
rative from the royal archives. As he differs greatly 
from Herodotus, and alfo from the Jewifh fcriptures, it 
has been a fubjedt of controverfy what faith is to be 
placed in his accounts. Diodorus Siculus, Trogus, and 
others, preferred his authority to that of Herodotus ; 
and the lifts of Affyrian kings in Eufebius and Syncellus 
are primarily borrowed from him. But thefe lifts have 
many marks of forgery ; and Ctefias, from the quota¬ 
tions given by Ariftotle and Pliny of ftories which he 
lias recorded relative to natural history, appears to have 
been either very credulous, or much addicted to fable. 
Belides the work above-mentioned, he wrote ; 1. On In¬ 
dian Affairs; 2. On Mountains ; 3. On Rivers; and, 4. 
On the Tributes of Alia; of all which nothing remains 
but fome excerpts in Pholius. The fragments of Cte¬ 
fias are annexed to the folio edition of Herodotus, Lond. 
1679, and to other editions of that hiftorian. 
CTESI'BIUS, of Alexandria, -a mathematician, who 
lived in the time of Ptolemy king of Egypt, furnanied 
Phyfcon, about 120 years before Chrift, in the 163th 
Olympiad. He was the firft inventor of the pump. An 
accidental circumftance developed his tafte for mecha¬ 
nics. Upon lowering a mirror in his father’s (hop, he 
obferved that the counterpoife, which was included in a 
cylinder, produced a found, by driving the air before it; 
and, upon examining the phenomenon more ftridtly, he 
concluded that he might make an inftrument in which 
founds Ihould be produced by means of the adtion of 
water driving the air before it. This invention, in which 
he fucceeded, was again carried into effect by Nero, as 
we learn from Suetonius, in the life of that emperor. 
He alfo made a clepfydra, in which the fall of a column 
of water gave motion to a wheel, or, perhaps, a train of 
wheels.- A. Treatife of Geodefn, or the Art of dividing 
and meafuring Bodies, compofed by Ctelibius, is to be 
found, as Poitevin affirms, in the library of the Vatican, 
z 
CUB 
CTE'SIPHON, a famous architect, who is likewif® 
named Cherfiphron, made the deligns for the celebrated 
temple at Ephefus, which was partly executed under his 
direction, and partly under that of his fon Metaganes,. 
and other architects. Cteliphon invented a machine 
which he ufed to tranfport the columns of the temple, 
after having brought them front the quarries, as far as 
Ephelus. It conlifted of a fquare frame of wood of fuf- 
fieient dimenfions to inclofe one of the columns, and af¬ 
forded a focket at each end, into which certain ftrong 
iron pivots, proceeding from the column itfelf, were're- 
cefved. By this contrivance the column became a kind 
of rolling-ftone, and was drawn to its place of deftination. 
C I ii'SIPHON, an Athenian, who advifed his fellow- 
citizens to crown publicly Dentofthenes with a golden 
crown for his probity and virtue. This was oppofed by 
the orator riEfchines, the rival of Demofthenes, who ac- 
cufed Cteliphon of (editions views. Demofthenes under¬ 
took the defence of his friend, in a celebrated oration ftibl 
extant, and Hifchines was banilhed.—An elegiac poet, 
whom king Attains let over his polleflions inzEolia.—. 
A Greek hiftorian, who wrote an hiltory of Boeotia. 
CTE'SIPHON, in ancient geography, a city of Cha- 
lonitis, the molt fouthern province of Alfyria. It was 
lituated on the eaft fide of the Tigris, oppofite to Seleu- 
cia, and built by the Parthians, to rival Seleucia. Here 
the kings of Parthia palled the winter, as they did the 
fiimmer at Ecbatana. 
CUADA'C, a lea-port town of Afia, in Tonquin, on a 
river of the fame name. 
CUB,/! [of uncertain etymology.] The young of a 
bead; generally of a bear or fox.—In the eagle’s de- 
ftroying one fox’s cubs, there’s power executed with op- 
preflion. L’EJlrange. 
I would outdare the (terneft eyes that look, 
Pluck the young lucking cubs from the (lie-bear. Shakcf. 
The young of a whale, perhaps of any viviparous filh : 
Two mighty whales, which fwelling feas had toft, 
One as a mountain vaft, and witli her came 
A cub, not much inferior to his dame. Waller » 
In reproach or contempt, a young boy or girl: 
O thou diftembling cub! what wilt thou be. 
When time hath low’d a grizzle on thy cale ? 
Or will not el(e thy craft lo quickly grow, 
That thine own trip fltall be thine overthrow ? Skakef. 
To CUB, v. a. To bring forth : ufed of heads, or cf a. 
woman in contempt: 
Cubb’d in a cabbin, on a mattrefs laid, 
On a brown george with loufy fwabbers fed ; 
Dead wine, that dinks of the Borrachio, fup 
From a foul jack, or greafy maple cup. Dryden. 
CUB (North), a fmall ifland in James’s bay, Hudfon’s* 
bay. Lat. 54. 25. N. Ion. 80. 50. W. Greenwich. 
CUB (South), a fmall ifl.tnd in James’s bay, Hudfon’s 
bay. Lat. 33. 42. N. Ion. 80. 30. vV. Greenwich. 
CUB-DRAWN, part. adj. Slicked dry by her whelp. 
—-This night wherein the cub drawn bear would couch. 
Shakejpeare. 
CU'BA, a large ifland in the Weft Indies, about feven 
hundred miles in length from eaft to weft, and feventy 
in its mean breadtli from north to fouth : about one 
hundred miles fouth of Cape Florida, and feventy-five 
north of Jamaica. It was firft difeovered by Columbus, 
in the year 1492, but did not fiubmit to Spain till 1511. 
In 1519, a pilot having dilcovered that the channel be¬ 
tween Cuba and the continent of the North was the mod 
convenient pallage for lhips from Mexico to Europe, the 
Havannah was built on the north coaft, as a port to re¬ 
ceive them. It was firft built of wood, and the increaf- 
ing riches attracted the Englilh and French pirates, who 
frequently pillaged it. In 1669, it was taken by the 
freebooter Morgan. In 1741, admiral Vernon made an 
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