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and uncultivated manners of the inhabitants, and drew 
them from the country to inhabit twelve fmall villages 
which he had founded. He gave them laws and regula¬ 
tions, and introduced among them the worfliip of thof'e 
deities which were held in adoration in Egypt. He mar¬ 
ried the daughter of Aftceus, a Grecian prince, and was 
deemed the firft founder of Athens. He taught his (ob¬ 
jects to cultivate the olive, and inftrudted them to look 
upon Minerva as the watchful patronefs of their city. It 
is laid that he was the firft who railed an altar to Jupiter 
in Greece, and offered him lacrifices. After a reign of 
fifty years, fpent in regulating his newly-formed kingdom, 
and in polifhing the minds of his fubjedts, Cecrops died, 
leaving three daughters, Aglauros, Herle, and Pandrolos. 
He was fucceeded by Cranatts, a native of the country. 
Some time after, Thefeus, one of his fucceffors, formed 
the twelve villages w hich he had eftabliflied, into one city, 
to which the name of Athens v as given. See Athens. 
Some authors have deferibed Cecrops as a monfter, half 
a man and half a ferpent ; and this fable is explained by 
the recolledfion that lie was mailer of two languages, the 
Greek and Egyptian; or that he had the command over 
two countries, Egypt and Greece. Others explain it by 
an allufton to the regulations which Cecrops made amongft 
the inhabitants concerning marriage and the union of the 
two fexes. 
CECU'TIENCY, f. [cizcutio, Lat.] Tendency to blind- 
nefs; cloudinefs of fight. 
CE'DAR, an ifland of United America, on the coaft of 
Virginia. Lat. 37. 37. N. Ion. 76. 40. W. Greenwich. 
CE'DAR, a river of Canada, which runs into Lake 
Michigan. Lat. 47. 30. N. Ion. 86. 50. W. Greenwich. 
CE'DAR, a lake of North America. Lat. 53. 8. N. 
Ion. 100. 5. W. Greenwich. 
CE'DAR, BARB ADOES, f. in botany ; fee Cedrela. 
CEDAR, BERMUDAS and CAROLINA ; fee Junipe- 
rus. CEDAR, JAMAICA ; fee Theobroma. CE¬ 
DAR, LIBANUS or LEBANON ; fee Pinus Cedrus. 
CEDAR, LYC 1 AN, PHENICIAN, and VIRGINIAN; 
fee Juniperus. CEDAR, VIRGINIAN and WHITE ; 
fee Cupressus. No modern botanifts find any of the 
cedar-trees that agree with the feripture account of their 
loftinefs ; but rather with that account of them which the 
plalmift gives, when he fays, the flouriftiing ftate of a 
people is, that they fpread their branches like the cedar- 
tree. Maundrell, in his travels, fays, he meafured the 
trunks of fomeold cedar-trees, and found one to be twelve 
yards in circumference, and thirty-feven yards in the fpread 
of its boughs-; but the altitude he does not mention as re¬ 
markable, nor correfpondent either to the feripture ac¬ 
count, or to that in the following paflage; 
I niuft yield my body to the earth : 
Thus yields the cedar to the axe’s edge, 
Whole arms gave flielter to the princely eagle; 
Under whofe (hade the ramping lion flept ; 
Whofe top branch overpeer’d Jove’s fpreading tree. 
And kept low fiirubs from winter’s povv’rful wind. Shakf. 
CE'DAR POINT, a port of entry in Charles county, 
Maryland, on the eaft fide of Pa to tv mac liver, about twelve 
miles below Port Tobacco, and ninety-fix fouth by weft of 
Baltimore, in the American States. Its exports are chiefly 
tobacco and Indian corn, and in 1794, amounted in value 
to 18,593 dollars. 
CEDEY'RA, a town of Spain, in the province of Ga¬ 
licia : five leagues north of Ferrol. 
CED'MA, f. [from y.i^au, Gr. to difperfe.] A de¬ 
fluxion, or rheumatic aftedtion fcattered over the parts 
about the hips. 
CEDOG'NA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Principato Ultra, the fee of a bifhop, 
fuffragan of Conza, at the foot of the Apennines ; in a ftate 
of decay : twelve miles north-weft of Melfi. 
CEDR.ET.A, f. Barbad.ojss Base Cedar ; in botany, 
3 genus of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia, natural 
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order mifcellaneae. The generic characlers are—Calyx : 
perianthium monophyllous, campanulas, very fmall, five, 
toothed, withering. Corolla: funnel-form, pentapeta- 
lous, the tube bellied below ; petals linear-oblong, ob- 
tufe, eredf, adjoined to the receptacle at one-third beneath. 
Stamina : filaments five, fubulate, feated on the receptacle, 
ftiorter than the corolla ; antherae oblong, bent outwards 
at the tip. Piftillum : receptacle proper five-cornered ; 
germ globular; ftyle cylindric, length of the corolla; 
ftigma headed, deprrfled. Pericarpinm : capfule fuperior, 
woody, roundifti, five-celled, five-valved ; valves decidu¬ 
ous. Seeds numerous, flefhy, imbricate downwards, ter¬ 
minated by a membranaceous wing. Receptacle woodv, 
five-angled, tree.— EJJential Character . Calyx withering; 
corolla five-petalled, funnel-form, faftened by the bafe to 
the receptacle to one-third of its length ; capfule woody, 
five-celled, five-valved; feeds imbricate downwards, with 
a membranaceous wing. 
Only one fpecie% called cedrela odorata : flowers pani- 
cled. This tree riles with a ftraight ftem to the height of 
feventy or eighty feet: while young the bark is fmooth, 
and of an afh-colour ; but, as it advances, the bark becomes 
rough and of a darker colour. Towards the top it (hoots 
out many fide branches, garniftied with winged leaves, 
compofed of fixteen or eighteen pair of leaflets, fo that 
they are fometimes near three feet long ; the leaflets are 
broad at their bafe, and are near two inches long, blunt 
at their ends, and of a pale colour ; thefe emit a very rank 
odour in the fummer feafon, fo as to be very offenfive. 
The fruit is oval, about the fize of a partridge’s egg, 
fmooth, of a very dark colour, and opens in five parts, 
having a five-cornered column (landing in the middle, be¬ 
tween the angles of which the winged feeds are rlofely 
placed, lapping over each other like the feales of filh. 
The trunk is covered with a rough bark, marked with lon¬ 
gitudinal fiflitres. This, as well as the berries and leaves, 
has a fmell like aflafoetida, when frefh. The timber how¬ 
ever has a pleafant fmell. This is commonly known un¬ 
der the name of cedar in the Britxfh Weft-India tllands. 
The trunk is fo large as to be hollowed out into canoes 
and periaguas, for which purpofe it is extremely, well 
adapted, the wood being foft, it may be cut out with great 
facility, and, being light, it will carry a great weight on 
the water. There are canoes in the Weft-Indies, which 
have been formed out of thefe trunks, forty feet long and 
fix broad ; the wood is of a brown colour, and has a fra¬ 
grant odour, whence the title of cedar has been given to 
it: it is frequently cut into fhingles for covering houfes, 
and is found very durable ; but, as the worms are apt to 
eat this wood, it is not proper for building (hips, though 
it is often ufed for that purpofe, as alfo for (heathing of 
(hips. It is often ufed for wainfeoting of rooms, and to 
make chefts, becaufe vermin do not fo frequently breed in 
it, as in many other forts of wood, this having a very bitter 
tafte, which is communicated to whatever is put into the 
chefts, efpecially when the wood is frefti; for which realon 
it is never made into calks, becaufe fpirituous liquors will 
dilfolve part of the refill, and thereby acqure a bitter tafte. 
Dampier mentions fome of thefe trees in the ifland of St. 
Andreas near the ifle of Providence, tire bodies of which 
were forty or fifty, and many fixty or (eventy, feet long. 
Loureiro has another fpecies, to which he has given the 
name of cedrela rofmarinus. It is a ftirub, about four feet 
high, with linear leaves, and axillary one-flowered pe¬ 
duncles; the feeds are not winged. It grows wild in Co- 
chinchina and about Macao in China. It yields a fine 
elfential oil, and a fpirit not inferior to that which is drawn 
from rofemary. 
Propagation and Culture. It is propagated by feeds, which 
may be ealily procured from the Weft-Indies. They mud 
be lown upon a hot-bed in the fpring, and the plants treated 
in the fame manner as the mahogany. See S-wietenia. 
They are of much quicker growth, for in four years the 
plants will be upwards of ten feet high. 
CEDRE'NUS (George), a Grecian monk, who lived 
in 
