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Cifalpine with regard to the Romans, is Tranfalpine with 
regard to us. 
CISAL'PINE REPUBLIC. The Cifalpine republic 
w.as created by the French republic in the year 1796; it 
was firmly eltabliflied, in confequence of the peace of 
Campo Formio, in 1797 ; and was acknowledged by the 
emperor of Germany, the king of Sardinia, Spain, Swifler- 
land, the pope, &c. It comprehends, befide the whole 
of Auftrian Lombardy, and part of the former republic 
of Venice, the territories of the duke of Modena, the 
papal provinces of Ferrara, Bologna, and Romagna. 
The different provinces of the- Cifalpine republic are: 
fi.tuate between 26 and 32 degrees of longitude, and .be¬ 
tween 43 and 45 degrees of latitude. The republic is 
bounded on the north by Swifferland, the Tyrol, and 
Maritime Auftria, (the name now given to the ftates of 
Venice, ceded by the French to the emperor of Germany, 
in confequence of the peace of .Campo. Formio;) on the 
eaft by the Adriatic Sea and Auftria Proper; on the fouth 
by territories formerly belonging to the pope, by. Tuf- 
cany, the Mediterranean, and Parma; on the weft by 
Parma, and the ftates of the king of Sardinia. 
The whole territorial dimenfions of the Cifalpine repub¬ 
lic contain 3,567 fquare miles, and 3,447,384 fouls, viz. 
Square Miles., Inhabitants. 
t. The duchy of Milan - - 811 1,116,892 
2. The duchy of Mantua, with (3.) the 
principalities Caftiglione and Salferino 185 207,331 
4. The acquired provinces formerly 
belonging to the republic of Venice, 
viz. the Bergamefco, the Brefciano, 
and the territories of Verona and Ro- 
digo, fituated on the right bank of 
the Adige, the White Canal, the 
Tartaro, the canal Polifella, and the 
Po. 
5. The duchy of Modena, with the prin¬ 
4“3 
<j 65 ,ooo 
cipalities of Mafia and Carrara - 
6, The lands obtained from the duke 
of Parma, the duchy of Guaftillo, 
Sabionetta, and Bozzola 
7. The three legations, Ferrara, Bolog¬ 
431 
460,000 
27 
I S,ooo 
na, and Romagna, formerly papal 
8. The territories of the Grilons, belong¬ 
ing to Worms, Cleves,andtheValteline 
9. The four (commonly termed) Italian 
1 15 * 
775 , 86 r 
324 
100,000 
bailiwicks - 
174 
103,000 
Total 3,567 3,447,384 
CIS'LEU, f. in Hebrew chronology, the ninth month 
of their ecclefiaftical, and third of their civil, year, an- 
fwering nearly to our November. 
CIS'MAR, a-town of Germany, in the duchy of Hol- 
ftein, not far from the Baltic: feventeen miles north of. 
Travemunde. Lat. 54. 14. N. Ion. n.z.E. Greenwich. 
CIS'ME. See Chisme. 
CIS'MONE, a town of Italy, in the Trevifan, on the 
Brenta: eighteen miles north of Vicenza, and twenty- 
four north-weft of Trevigio. 
CIS'MONE, a river of Germany, in the county of Ty¬ 
rol, which runs into the Brenta, near Kofel. 
Cl'SORS. See Scissors. 
CISPADA'NA GAL'LIA, in ancient geography, a 
diftridt of Italy, to the fouth of the Po, occupied by the 
Gauls in the time of the kings of Rome, feparated front 
Liguria on the weft by the Il ia, running from fouth to 
north into the Po ; bounded on the fouth by the Apen- 
nine, and on the eaft by the Adriatic. The term is 
formed analogically, there being much mention in Cicero, 
Tacitus, Suetonius, and ancient infcriptions, made of the 
< Tranfpaaani ; which, and Cifpadani, are terms ufed with 
relpect to Rome. Ptolemy calls the Cifpadana peculiarly 
Gallia Togata, extending between the Po .and Apennine, 
to the Sapis and Rubicon. 
C I s 
CIS'SA, f, [from xicro-x, a gluttonous bird.] A de¬ 
praved appetite, proceeding from previous gluttony and 
voracity. 
CIS'SA, or Cissum, in ancient geography, a town of 
the Hither Spain, in Lacetania, on the eaft fide of the 
Iberus thought to be Guiflona, where the Carthaginians 
were fir ft defeated by Scipio. Another Cilia of Thrace, 
fituated on the river Aigos Potamus, which Scylax feems 
to call Crejfa, or CriJJa ; fo that the reading is doubtful. 
C IS S AM'PELO S , f. [xi2yay.7TE7.of, he dene <vitis , vine of 
ivy.] In botany, a genus of the clafs dioecia, order mo- 
nadelphia, natural order farmentaceae. The generic 
charadters are—I. Male. Calyx: none, unlefs the corolla 
be called fo. Corolla: petals four, ovate, flat expanded; 
nedfary, the membranaceous difk of the flower, wheel- 
fhaped. Stamina : filaments four, very fmall, coalefcent; 
antberse broad, flat. II. Female. Calyx : none, except 
the btable. Corrolla: none ; nedlary the membrana¬ 
ceous lateral edge of the germ, dilated outwards. Pif- 
tillum : germ roundifh.; ftyles three ; ftigmas three, eredt, 
acute. Perianthium: berry globular, one-celled. Seed: 
folitary, wrinkled, fomewhat comprefied.— EJfential Cha¬ 
racter. Male. Calyx, four-leaved ; corolla, none; nec¬ 
taries, wheel-fhaped; Stamina, four, with connate fila¬ 
ments. Female. Calyx, one-leafed, ligulate-roundifh j 
corolla, none ; ftyles, three; berry one-feeded. 
Species. 1. Ciflampelos pareira: leaves peltate, cordate, 
emarginate, and entire. Stem climbing and twining, from 
ten to fifteen feet in height; flowers numerous, dufky yel¬ 
low, minuce ; The fruit is a roundifh, comprefled, Icarlet 
drupe; contain ingafingle nut, or very hard feed,comprefled, 
triply echinate,wrinkled at theedge, two-celled. In moun¬ 
tain coppices it is flnooth, with cordate entire leaves, hoary 
underneath. In champaign calcareous fituations it is hir- 
iute, with cordate-roundilh emarginate leaves, which 
are tomentofe. Native of the Weft-Indies. Linnaeus 
fuggefts that it is, perhaps the female of the following 
fpecies: but Swartz afferts that it is not; that having the 
leaves petioled (not peltate) and entire. The leaf ap¬ 
plied whole or bruifed to a wound, cures it very effec¬ 
tually ; it is alfo a remedy againft the bite of poifonous 
animals; the root is excellent in the ftone ; it is looked 
upon as an excellent diuretic, and is in frequent ufe 
among the negroes in all obftrudlions of the urinary paf- 
fages. The root, which is the part chiefly ufed, has a 
pleafant bitterifh tafte, and anfvvers well in decodtions. 
2. Ciflampelos caapeba: leaves petioled at the bade, 
entire. The fecond fort has round heart-fliaped leaves, 
which are extremely woolly and foft to the touch; thefe 
have their foot-ftalks placed at the bafe between the two 
ears ; the flowers of this come out in bunches from the 
fide of the ftalks, in the fame manner as the firft. The 
flalks and every part of the plant is covered with a foft 
woolly down. The feeds of both thefe plants were lent 
from Jamaica, by the late Dr. Houftoun, and fucceeded 
in the Chelfea garden, where the plants produced their 
flowers for feveral years 5 the fruit of the firft: fort was 
produced, but would not grow, though it deemed to be 
perfedfly ripened : but the plants growing at fome dif- 
tance from the male, were probably not impregnated. 
3. Ciflampelos fmilacina, or fmiiax-leaved ciflampelos : 
leaves cordate, acute, angular. The ftalks are flender, 
running up walls, and twining about polls and trees. 
The leaves referable thofe of common ivy. The berries 
are red, about the bignefs of fmall peas, and grow in 
clufters. Linnaeus had not an opportunity of feeing the 
frudHfication complete. It is a native of Carolina. In¬ 
troduced about 1776, by John Hope, M. D. 
4. Ciflampeios fruticofa: item eredl, fhrubby, leaves 
ovate, petioled, entire. 5. Cilfampdos Capeniis : Item 
twining, leaves ovate, obtule, petioled, entire. Found at 
the Cape of Good Hope by Thunberg. 
Propagation and Culture. Thefe plants are propagated 
by feeds, which fhould be- lown upon a hot-bed in the 
fpring ; and the plants muft afterwards be treated in the 
fame 
