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oblong form, the fummit of which is one continued plain, 
From the quantity of medals, intaglios, fragments of'in- 
fcriptions, See. that are occasionally found here, it is be¬ 
lieved to be the fpot where the ancient and powerful city 
of Tarquinii once Hood. On the fouth-eaft fide of it runs 
the ridge of a hill which unites it to Corneto. This ridge 
is three or four miles in length, and almoft entirely co¬ 
vered with artificial tumuli, called by the inhabitants 
tnonti roffi. About twelve of them have at different times 
been opened ; and in fome were found Etrufcan vafes of 
various forms ; in others facrophagi of ftone, with bones 
in them. The interior of thefe tumuli confift of divers 
final] apartments, molt of them ltuccoed, and ornamented 
in various manners, with a double row of Etrufcan in- 
1'criptions running round the upper part of the walls, and 
under them a kind of frieze of figures in painting, very 
handfomely executed. 
Cl'VITA VECCHIA, or MALTA, a town fituated on 
a hill in the center of the Ifland of Malta, Itrongly forti¬ 
fied. It is the fee of a bilhop, and, befides the cathedral, 
which is very large and liandfome, it contains feveral 
other churches and convents. The town is fo fituated, 
that from it may be feen the whole ifland, and fometimes 
the coalts of Africa and Sicily. 
CI'VITA VECCHIA, a feaport town of Italy, in the 
Hate of the Church, and patrimony of St. Peter. The 
port was enlarged and rendered commodious by Trajan; 
it is one of the bell in Italy, and declared free by Bene¬ 
dict XIV. The pope’s gallies lie here. The air is un¬ 
healthy, and the water not good : twenty-feven miles 
north-weft of Rome. Lat. 42. 3. N. Ion. 29. 30. E. Ferro. 
CIVITA'RA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Capitanata: two miles north-eaft of 
Dragonera. 
CIVITEL'LA, a fortrefs of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Abruzzo Ultra: feven miles north 
. of Teramo. 
CIVITEL'LA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Otranto: five miles north-eaft of 
Tarento. 
CIVO'LI, or CIGOLI, (Lewis), an Italian painter, 
whofe family name was Cardi, was born at the caftle of 
Cigoli, in Tufcany, in 1559. His ecce homo, which he 
performed as a trial of {kill with Barochio and Michael 
Angelo da Caravaggio, was judged better than thofe exe¬ 
cuted by them. He excelled in defigning, and was em¬ 
ployed by the popes and princes of his time. He died at 
Rome in for 3. 
CIVR A'C, a town of France, in the department of the 
Gironde : feven miles eaft of Libourne. 
CIVRAY', or SIVRAY, a town of France, and prin¬ 
cipal place of a diitrifit in the department of the Vienne, 
on the Charente : eight leagues and a half fouth of Poi¬ 
tiers, and a half fouth-weft of Montmorillon, 
CIVRY', a town of France, in the department of the 
Eure and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCt of Chateaudun : feven miles eaft-north-eaft of Cha- 
teaudun. 
CPUS, in ancient geography, a river and town of Bi- 
thynia, which gave name to the Sinus Cianus. The town 
was afterwards called Prujia, Cius having been deftroyed 
by Philip father of Perfeus, and rebuilt by Prufias king 
of Bithynia. In the river, Hylas the favourite boy of 
Hercules was drowned. Apollonius. 
CIZE, f. [perhaps from incifa, Lat. fhaped or cut to a 
certain magnitude.] The quantity of any thing with re¬ 
gard to its external form : commonly written flze .—If no 
motion can alter bodies, that, is, reduce them to fome 
other cize or figure, then there is none of itfelf to give 
them the cize and figure which they have. Grew. 
CIZE / , a valley of France, of which St. Jean-Pie de-port 
as the capital. 
CKEBO'E, a town of Norway : fix miles fouth-fouth- 
ealt of Dronthiem. 
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CLACH'LAND, a fmall ifland of Scotland, near the 
eaft coaft of the ifland of Arran. 
CLACK, f. [klatcben , Germ, to rattle, to make a noife.] 
Any thing that makes a lafting and importunate noife 5 
generally ufed in contempt for the tongue : 
But ftill h is tongue ran on, 
And with its everlafting clack 
Set all mens’ ears upon the rack. Hudibras. 
The clack of a mill; a bell that rings when more corn is 
required to be put in : 
Says John,-juft at the hopper will I (land, 
And mark the clack how juftly it will found. Betterton . 
To CLACK, 'v.n. To make a chinking noife; to let 
the tongue run. 
To CLACK, <v. a. As to clack wool, is to cut off the 
ftieep’s mark, which makes it weigh lefs; as to force wool, 
fignifies to clip off the upper and hairy part thereof; and 
to bard it, is to cut the head and neck from the reft of the 
fleece. 
CLACKMANNAN, a county of Scotland, is furround- 
ed on all fides by Perth (hire, except on the fouth-weft, 
where it ip bounded by the river Forth, which divides it 
from Stirlingfhire. It is about nine miles broad from 
north to louth, and where longeft from eaft to weft about 
twelve miles. This is a plain fertile country towards the 
Forth; but the north, which is bordered by the-Ochill- 
hills, abounds both with corn and pafture. It produces 
great quantities of coal, which is in high efteem. It is 
watered by the Devron, which runs into the Forth, and 
its principal towns are Aloa and Clackmannan. It.car¬ 
ries on a good foreign trade, and has manufactures of 
fail-cloth and coarfe linen, girdles, camblets, and plaids, 
for the Highland regiments ; and exports fait, &c. 
CL ACKMAN'NAN, a town of Scotland, in the county 
to which it gives name, fituated on a fmall river, about a 
mile from the forth: 7 miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Stirling. 
CLAD, part. pret. [this participle, which is now re¬ 
ferred to clothe, feems originally to have belonged to clo- 
den, or fome fuch word, like kleeden, Dutch.] Clothed; 
invefted ; garbed.—He hath dad himfelf with a new gar¬ 
ment. 1 Kings. 
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad 
In flefh and blood. Wallers 
GLA'DES,/ - . \elida, deta, cleia, from the Brit, die, and 
the Irifh c/fo.] A wattle or hurdle ; and a hurdle for pen¬ 
ning or folding of (heep is ftill in fome counties of Eng¬ 
land called a cley. Baroch. Antiq. p. 575. 
CL.CER, f. A chemical term for the bone-flour, which is 
prepared from the bones of the fore part of the cranium 
of a calf, depurated from the fat by boiling, then calcined 
to whitenels, and levigated finely, afterwards moiftened 
with water, and calcined again in an earthen pot clofed, 
and, after cooling, reduced again to a iubtil powder, 
which is fprinkled through a lieve upon earthen veflels, 
to prevent their contracting chinks. 
CLA'GENFURT, a town of Germany, and capital of 
the duchy of Carinthia, fituated on the Gian, built fquare, 
and furroundecl with a good wall. It contains fix churches 
and three convents. Here is a manufacture of cloth, and 
a fociety for the promoting of agriculture and ufeful arts. 
This city was taken in March 1797, by the French re¬ 
publican army, after it had defeated the Auftrians, killed 
two hundred, and taken many prifoners : fifty miles north 
of Trieft, and 132 fouth-welt of Vienna. Lat. 46. 4^5. Ni 
lon. 31. 57. E. Ferro. 
CLA^GETT (William), an eminent and learned di¬ 
vine, born in 1646. He was preacher to the fociety of 
Gray’s-inn ; which employment he exercifed until he died 
in 1688, being then alfo one of the king’s chaplains.- Arch- 
bifhop Sharp gives him an excellent character 5 and bithop 
Burnet has ranked him among thofe worthy men whole 
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