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pear on the outfide of the partition, in an inverted polition; which we will fuppofe to be a flower. (69) Before the partition, and beneath the aperture, place a little flower pot D, the top of which should be even with the bottom of the aperture, that the eye, placed at G, may fee the flower in the fame pofition as if the ftalk came out of the pot. Paint the space between the back part of the partition and the mirror black, to prevent any reflections of light from being thrown on the mirror; and to difpofe the whole that it may be as little enlightened as poffible.

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(10.) A perfon placed at the point G will perceive the flower that is behind the partition, at top of the pot at D, but on putting out his hand to pluck it, he will find that he attempts to grafp a fhadow. If in the opening of the partition a large double convex lens of a fhort focus be placed, or, (though it is not quite fo well,) a bottle of clear water, the image of the flower reected thereon will appear much more vivid and diftinct.

friend's portrait, the inviter must be previously in poffeffion. In order to produce this phantom, inftead of the hole in the partition AB in the laft figure, there must be a door which opens into an apartment to which there is a confiderable defcent. Under that door place the portrait, which must be inverted and ftrongly illuminated, that it may be clearly reflected by the mirror, which must be large and well polithed. Then having introduced the credulous fpectator at another door, and pla ced him in the proper point of view, upon faddenly throwing open the door at AB, to his great aftonishment, he will immediately fee the apparition of his friend.

(1) Nothing in Catoptrics is more curious and aftonihing than the phenomena that may be produced by means of concave mirrors. By their help, SPECTRES of various kinds may be exhibitd. Suppofe, for example a perfon with a drawn ford places himself before a large concave mirror, but farther from it than its focus; he will fee an inverted image of himfelf in the air, between him and the mirror, of a lefs fize than himfeit. If he fteadily prefent the fword towards the centre of the mirror, an image of the fword will Come out therefrom, towards the fword in his hand point to point, as it were to fence with him: and by pushing the fword nearer, the image will appear to come nearer him, and almoft to touch Lis breaft, having a ftriking effect upon him. (2.) If the mirror be turned 45 degrees, or one eighth round, the reflected image will go out perpendicular to the direction of the fword prefented, and apparently come to another perfon placed in the direction of the motion of the image. If that perfon is unacquainted with the experiment, and does not fee the original fword, he will be much furprised and alarmed.

(74.) It will be objected, perhaps, that this is not a perfect apparition, becaufe it is only visible at one point of view, and by one perfon. But it fhould be remembered, that it was long an eftablished maxim, that a fpe&tre might be vifible to one perfon and not to others. Thus Shakespeare makes both Hamlet and Macbeth fee apparitions that were not visible to others, prefent at the fame time. And it is not unlikely, that this maxim took its rife from certain apparitions of this kind, raifed by the monks, to ferve their purpofes; as they alone were in poffeffion of what little learning was in the world, in the dark ages.

(73) This experiment may be another way diverified, by telling any perfon, that at fuch an hour, and in fuch a place, he fhould fee the apparition of an abfent or deceafed friend. Of this

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(75.) Glafs mirrors are fometimes ground con cave in one direction only, as it is faid longitudi nally. This is in fact a concave portion of a cylinder, the breadth of which may be confidered that of the mirror. A perfon looking at his face in this mirror, in the direction of its concavi ty, will fee it curiously distorted in a very lengthened appearance; and by turning the CYLINDRICAL MIRROR a quarter round, his vifage will appear distorted by an apparent increafe in breadth only.

(76.) Another curious and fingular property at tends this fort of mirrors: If in a very near fituation before it, one puts his finger on the right hand fide of his nofe, it will appear the fame in the mirror; but if in a diftant fituation, fomewhat beyond the centre of concavity, he again looks at his face in the mirror, his finger will appear to be removed to the left hand fide of his nofe. This, though fomething extraordinary, will in its caufe appear very evident, from flightly confidering the properties of fpherical concave mirrors.

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CATOPTROMANCY, [from Karogs, a mirfor, and parrua, divination,] a kind of divination among the ancients; fo called becaufe confifting in the application of a mirror. Paufanias fays, it was in ufe among the Achaians; where thofe who were fick, and in danger of death, let down a mirror, fastened by a thread, into a fountain before the temple of Ceres: then looking in the glafs, if they faw a ghaftly disfigured face, they took it as a fure fign of death: on the contrary, if the flesh appeared fresh and healthy, it was a token of recovery. Sometimes glaffes were ufed without water, and the images of things future reprefented in them. See GASTROMANCY.

CATOPTRON, an optical glafs, or mirror. CATOUCH CAPE, the NE. promontory of Yucatan, in Mexico, N. AMERICA. Lon. 86. 30. W. Lat. 22. 10. N.

* CATPIPE. n. f. [from cat and pipe.] The fame with catcal; an inftrument that makes a fqueaking noife.-Some fongsters can no more fing in any chamber but their own; put them out of their road once, and they are mere catpipes and dunces. L'Etrange.

CATRINE, a village in Ayrshire, beautifully fituated on the N. fide of the river Ayr, in the western extremity of the parish of Sorn. It is of a regular, oblong form, and in the middle is a fquare of 300 feet, with ftreets leading from it on the E. S. and W. and thefe are interfected with other cross ftreets at right angles. This village owes its eftablishment entirely to the cotton manufacture. In 1787, Mr Alexander of Ballochmyle, the proprietor, in partnerthip with the well known patriotic Mr David Dale of Glafgow, eftablifhed extenfive fpinning machinery, and built this village for the accommodation of the work people; fince which time it has increafed confiderably, and now contains about 1400 inhabitants. It is 14 miles from the town of Ayr.

CAT-ROPE, in hips, the rope that hawls up

the CAT.

CATROPITA. See AGONISTICI. CATROU, Francis, a famous Jefuit, born at Paris, in 1656. He was engaged for 12 years in the Journal de Trevoux. He alio wrote a Hiftory of the Mogul empire, and a Roman hiftory, in which he was aflifted by Rouille. Catron died in 1737; and this laft hiftory, was continued by Rouille, who died in 1740.

CAT-SALT, a name given by our falt workers to a very beautifully granulated kind of common falt. It is formed out of the bittern, or leachbrine, which runs from the falt when taken out

SWORD, experiment with a, 71.

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VERTEX defined, 10. VITELLO, a writer on Catoptrics, 5.

VISTA, boundless, 41-43

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of the pan. When they draw out the common falt from the boiling pans, they put it into long wooden troughs, with holes bored at the bottom for the brine to drain out; under thefe troughs are placed veffels to receive this brine, and across them fmall sticks to which the cat-falt affixes itfelf in very large and beautiful cryftals. This falt contains fome portion of the bitter purging fat, is very fharp and pungent, and is white when powdered, though pellucid in the mafs. Its ufed by fome for the table, but the greateft part of what is made of it is ufed by the makers of hard foap.

(1.) CATS-EYE. A ftone.-Cat's-eye is of a gliftering grey, interchanged with a firaw colour. Woodward on Foils.

(2.) CATS-EYE. See SUN-STONE. (1.) CATS FOOT. n.f. An herb; the fame with alehoof, or groundiny; which fee. (2.) CATS-FOOT, in botany. See GLECHOMA (3.) CATS-FOOT, MOUNTAIN. See GNAPHA

LIUM.

CATSGROVE-HILL, a village in Berwickfhire, near Reading.

CATSHANITZ, a fortrefs of Bulgaria, which defends the pafs over the mountains.

(1.) CATS-HEAD. n. f. A kind of appleCat's-head, by fome called the go-no-further, is a very large apple, and a good bearer. Mortim. H

(2.) CATS-HEAD is alfo a name given to a for of wafte ftony lumps, not inflammable, found 1 coal mines. They have frequently impreffions of ferns.

*

(1.) CAT-SILVER. n.. A kind of fuffle.Cat-filver is compofed of plates that are genera plain and parallel, and that are flexible and elastick and is of three forts, the yellow or golden, the white or filvery, and the black. Woodward. (2.) CAT SILVER. See MICA. CATSLEY, a village in Dorfetfhire. CATS-PAW, a light breath of wind perceived at a diftance in a calm, by the impreflion ma on the furface of the fea which foon decays. (1.) * CATS-TAIL. 7. f. 1. A long round fo ftance, that grows in winter upon nut-trees, pies, &c.

2. A kind of reed which bears a spike like the tail of a cat. Phillips's World of Words. (2.) CATS-TAIL, in botany. See TYPHA. CATSTOCK, a village in Dorfethire, NW. of Frampton.

CATSTREET, in Suffex, to miles S. of Tur

bridge-Wells.

* CATSUP... A kind of Indian pick imitated by pickled mushrooms.

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CATTERWORTH, near Bowditch, Somer

Swift.

And, for home-bred British cheer, Botargo, catfup, and cavier. CATTACK. See CUTTACK. CATTAL MAGNA, two villages, in Yorkfh. CATTAL PARVA, near Boroughbridge. CATTARICK, a village near Richmond, in the W. Riding of Yorksh. fo named from a catarad in the Swale near it. It has a bridge over that river, and was a great city in the time of the Romans, one of whofe high roads croffed the Swale at this place, on its banks are the foundation of great walls, and a high artificial mount. The city was deftroyed by the Danes; and Roman coins and urns have been fince dug up in it. (1.) CATTARA, or CATARO, a territory in (1.) CATTARO, Lower Dalmatia.

(2) CATTARO, a very ancient town, and capital of the above territory, formerly called ASCRIVIUM. It is 1200 paces in circumference, and has a caftle, ftrong walls, narrow ftreets, and good houfes; fituated on a gulf of the fame name, 25 miles SE. of Ragufa, and 30 W. of Scutan. Lon. 18. 40. E. Lat. 42. 40. N.

(3) CATTARO, GULF OF, a long crooked bay on the coaft of Lower Dalmatia, improperly named a canal, being an arm of the Adriatic, which extends 18 miles in the country, and forms feveral fmall bays.

CATTEL-CATCHING, adj. obf. Ufing all methods to get rich. Chauc. Afh.

fetfhire.

CATTERAL, a village in Lancashire. CATTERLY, near Penrith, Cumberland. (1.) CATTERTHUN, [i. e. Camp Town,] a hill with an ancient Caledonian poft on it, a few miles NW. of Brechin. "It is (fays Mr Pennant,) of an oval form, made of a fupenduous dike of loofe white ftones, whofe convexity, from the bafe within, to that without, is 122 feet. On the outfide a hollow, made by the difpofition of the tones, furrounds the whole. Round the bafe is a deep ditch, and below that about 100 yards, are veftiges of another, that went round the hill. The area within the ftony mound is flat; the axis, or length of the oval, is 436 feet, the tranfverfe diameter 200. Near the E. fide is the foundation of a rectangular building; and on moft parts are the foundations of others fmall and circular: all which had once their fuperftructures, the fhelter of the poffeffors of the poft: there is alfo a hollow, now almost filled with ftones, the well of the place."

CATTESFIELD, a village in Suffex, W. of

Cowhurft.

CATTESHALL, near Godalming, Surry. CATTHORP, NE. of Hallaton, Leicestershire. (1.) CATTI, an ancient people of Germany, who inhabited the country, reaching on the E. to the river Sala, and on the N. to Weftphalia; befides Heffe, Wetteravia, and part of the tract on the Rhine, and the banks of the Lohne. The Hercynian foreft began and ended in their country. (2.) CATTI. See CATY, N° 3. (3.) CATTI, or CATTIVELLAUNI,

an ancient people of Britain, feated in the country which is now divided into the counties of Hertford, Bedford, and Bucks. The name of this people is written in different ways by Greek and Roman authors, being fometimes called Caf fi, Catieuchlani, Catticuchlani, Cattidudani, Catticludani, &c. That they were of Belgic origin cannot be doubted, and it is not improbable, that they derived their name Catti, from the Belgic,. word Katten, which fignifies illuftrious or noble, and that the addition of Vellauni, which means on the banks of the rivers, might be given to them after their arrival in Britain, as defcriptive of the fituation of their country. However this be, they were one of the most brave and warlike of the ancient British nations, when Cæfar invaded Britain, and long after. CASSIBELAN, their prince, was made commander in chief of the confederated Britons, not only on account of his own perfonal qualities, but also because he was at the head of one of their braveft and moft powerful tribes. In the interval, between the departure of Cæfar and the next invafion under Claudius, the Cattivellauni had reduced feveral of the neighbouring ftates under their obedience; and they again took the lead in opposition to the Romans at their fecond invafion, under their brave but unfortunate prince CARACTACUS. The country of the Cattivellauni was much frequented and improved by the Romans, after it came under their obedience. See DUROCOBRIVA, SALENA, and VERULAMIUM. The territories of the Cattivellauni made part of the Roman province called Britannia Prima. See BRITAIN, N° 1. § 4.

(2) CATTERTHUN, BROWN, another fortification, but of inferior ftrength, near the above, (N° 1.) feated on a neighbouring hill, and fo called from the colour of the ramparts, which are compofed of earth. It is of a circular form, and confits of various concentric dikes. On one fide of this rifes a fmall rill, which, running down the hill, has formed a deep gully. From the fide of the fortrefs is another rampart, which extends parallel to the rill, and then reverts, forming an additional poft or retreat. Mr Pennant thinks both pofts occupied by the Caledonians before their engagement with the celebrated AGRI

thefe were

COLA.

CATTERTON, a town in Yorkshire, near Belton, and Bilburgh.

(1.) CATTLE. n. f. [a word of very common ufe, but of doubtful or unknown etymology. It is derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman, from capitalia, que ad caput pertinent; perfonal goods: in which fente chattels is yet ufed in our law. Mandeville ufes catele for price.] 1. Beasts of pafture; not wild nor domeftick.-And God made the beaft of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. Gen. i. 25. 2. It is ufed in reproach of human beings.-Boys and women are for the moft part cattle of this colour, Shakefp.

(2.) CATTLE is a collective word, implying thofe quadrupeds, which ferve either for tilling the ground, or for food to men. They are dif tinguished into large, or black cattle, and fmall cattle: the former including hores, bulls, oxen, cows, calves, and heifers; the ter rams, ewes, S 2

heep,

heep, lambs, goats, kids, &c. chier ftock of a farm.

Cattle are the

CATTON, four English villages, viz. 1. in Derbyfh. near Stafford: 2. in Lonsdalevale, Lancah.: 3. NW. of Pocklington; and, 4. SW. of Thirfk; both in Yorkshire.

that feemed attached to the duties of that office. But though he wifhed to spend the reft of his days in repofe, his patriotifm led bin to comply with the defire of the ftate, by going on an e baffy to England, in the delicate juncture in which the republic flood during the protectorate of Cromwell. At his return, he retired to his leat at Sorgvliet, where he lived in tranquillity till 1665, when he died. He wrote a great number of poem in Dutch; most of which are on moral fubjects, and fo efteemed, that they have been often re printed.

CATUL, the ancient name of KETTLE. CATULLUS, Caius Valerius, a Roman poet, born at Verona, A. U. C. 666, and A. A. C. 86. The harmony of his numbers acquired him the eftcom and friendship of Cicero, and other great men of his time. Many of his poems, however, abound with grofs obfcenities. He wrote fatirical xerfes again Cæfar, who inftead of refenting them, heaped favours upon the poet. Catullus, however, lived in poverty; and died in the flower of his age, and the height of his reputation. Jofeph Scaliger, Pafferat, Muret, and Ifaac Vof fius, have written learned notes on his pocms.

CATURCINI, See BANKERS, § 4. CATURIGI, a nation of ancient Gaul, who inhabited the territory, fince called AMBRUNOIS. CATURUS, in botany, a genus of the triandria order, belonging to the diccia clafs of plants. CATUS, in zoology. See FELIS.

CATWADE BRIDGE, a town in Suffolk. CATWATER, a name of Plymouth harbour. CATWICK, a town near Hornfey, Yorkshire. CATWORTH, GREAT, two villages in HunCATWORTH, LITTLE, tingdonthire, near Spladwick.

CATWYCK, a village of S. Holland, on the German Ocean, near which the only branch of the Rhine that retains its original name, is loft in the fands. It is 6 miles N. by W. of Leyden. (1.) CATY, a money of account, used in Java, and fome of the neighbouring islands, amounting to about 19 forins Dutch. In Sumatra, it is a piece of money, worth 6s. 8d.

(2.) CATY, a fmall weight of 3 grains, whereby the lapidaries of the Eaft weigh their emeralds. (3) CATY, CATI, or CATTI, an Eaft India weight, ufed cfpecially at China, equivalent to 25 ounces, and two drams English. It is divided into 16 TARLS, and 1oo catics inake a pic. It is alfo ufed in Japan, Batavia, and other parts of the Indies, where it weighs more or lefs, according as it contains a greater or lets number of taels: the caty of Java is equivalent to ze taels; that of Cambaga, to 27; the caty of Siam is double that of China, and amounts to about 150 lb. French.

CATZ, James, an eminent Dutch civilian, politician, and poet, was born at Browerhaven, in Zealand, in 1577. He acquired by his pleadings fuch reputation, that the city of Dort chofe him for its penfionary; as did alfo that of Middleburg, in 1634, he was nominated pensionary of Holland and Weft Friefland; and in 1648, he was elected keeper of the feal of the fame ftate, and ftadtholder of the fiefs; but fome time after, he refigned thefe employments, to enjoy the repofe which his advanced age demanded. As the poft of grand pentionary had been fatal to almoft all there who had enjoyed it, from the beginning of the republic till that time, Catz delivered-up his charge on his kntes, before the whole aflembly of the ftates, weeping for joy, and thanking God for having preferved bim from the inconveniences

CATZENELVOGEN, a town and caftle of Germany, in the late circle of Upper Rhine which gives name to a county. The river of Maine, and the city of Mentz, with its territori, divide the county into Upper and Lower; the for mer belongs to Heffe Darmstadt, and is called Darmstadt from its capital; and the latter to Heffe Reinfields, of which St Goar is the capital. The town of Catzenelvogen lies 28 miles NNW, of Mentz, and has an iron mine near it.

CATZURUS, in old records, a hunting horf. (1) CAVA, a fmall ifland of Orkney, 2 mi S. from Pomona, and belonging to the parish of Orphir. It is about a mile long, and a quarter of a mile broad; and in 1796 was inhabited by 3 f milies. There is a ruinous chapel on the land, and a church yard round it.

(.) CAVA, a confiderable and populous town of Naples, in the Hither principality. It is fit ated at the foot of Mount Metelian, 16 miles 5. of Naples, and 3 W. of Salerno. Lon. 14.55. E. Lat. 40. 26. N.

(III.) CAVA, a trading town of Italy, in the dep. of Upper Po, near the river. Honey and flax are its chief commodities.

(IV.) CAVA, in anatomy, the largest vein in the body, terminating in the right ventricle of the heart. It is divided into

1. CAVA ASCENDENS, and See ANATOMY, I 2. CAVA DESCENDENS. Sdex. CAVADO, one of the principal rivers in Por tugal. It rifes in Tra-los-montes, below Barcelo, and runs into the fea.

(1.) CAVAILLON, a town of France, in Vena fin, which was fubject to the Pope, before the re volution, but is now incorporated with the te public. It is feated in an inland formed by the r ver Durance, 20 miles SE. of Avignon. Loa. 5. 17. E. Lat. 43. 52. N.

(2) CAVAILLON, a town on the S. fide of H paniola, 9 miles NE. of Cayes, and 15 W. by S of St Louis. Lat. 18 16. N.

* CAVALCADE. . . [Fr. from cavallo, horfe, Ital.] A proceflion on horfeback.

Your cavalcade the fair fpectators view, From their high ftandings, yet lock up to you! From your brave train each fingles out a ray, And longs to date a conqueft from your day. Ligden. CAVALCADEUR, or anciently denoted a

CAVALCADOUR, riding-mafter, but is now only applied to a fort of equerries who have the direction of princes ftables.

CAVALCANTE, Guido, a nobleman of Fl rence in the 13th century, who having follo the party of the Guelfs, experienced the cha

ables

ableness of fortune. He showed great ftrength of
mind in misfortunes. He wrote a treatife in Ita-
la concerning ftyle, and fome verfes which are
teemed. His poem on the love of this aworld,
has been commented on by feveral learned men.
(1.) CAVALIER. adj. [from the fubftantive.]
Gay; fprightly; warlike. 2. Generous; brave.
The people are naturally not valiant, and not
much cavalier. Now it is the nature of cowards
to hurt, where they can receive none. Suckling.
3. Difdainful; haughty.

(2) CAVALIER. . . [cavalier, Fr.] 1. A horfe-
na knight. 2. A gay fprightly military man.
For who is he, whofe chin is but enrich'd
With one appearing hair, that will not follow
Thefe cull'd and choice drawn cavaliers to
France?
Shak.
The appellation of the party of king Charles
the Firt.-Each party grows proud of that appel-
lation, which their adverfaries at firft intend as a
proach: of this fort were the Guelfs and Gibe-
ines, Huguenots, and Cavaliers. Swift.

(3) CAVALIER, 1. def. 3. See ENGLAND,

HISTORY OF.

(4) CAVALIER, in fortification, an elevation of earth of different fhapes, fituated ordinarily in the gorge of a baftion, bordered with a parapet, and cut into more or fewer embrafures, according to its capacity. Cavaliers are a double defence for the faces of the oppofite baftion: they defend the ditch, break the befiegers galleries, command the traefes in dry moats, fcour the faliant angle of the counterfcrap, where the beliegers have their counter batteries, and enfilade the enemies trenchor oblige them to multiply their parallels. They are likewife very ferviceable in defending the breach and the retrenchments of the befieged, and can very much incommode the entrenchments which the enemy make, being lodged in the baf

tion.

(1) CAVALIERI, an ifland in the Archipelago, between the SW. point of the inland of Negroport, and the continent of Greece. Lon. 24. 17. B. Lat. 38. 7. N.

(2) CAVALIERI, Bonaventure, an eminent mathematician in the 17th century, a native of Mi, and a friar of the order of the Jefuati of St Jerome, was a profeffor of mathematics at Bolog, where he published feveral mathematical books, particularly the Method of Indivifibles. He was a fcholar of Galileo. His Directorium geneFale Uranometricum contains great variety of moft ueful practices in trigonometry and aftronomy. His trigonometrical tables in that work are ex

cellent.

*CAVALIERLY.adv. [from cavalier.] HaughLily; arrogantly; difdainfully.

CAVALINO, a village of Italy, in the late Dogado of Venice, and Auftrian diftrict of Tor

ceila.

hufband and plowmen be but as their workfolks, you may have a good cavalry, but never good ftable bands of foot. Bacon.

(2.) CAVALRY, ANCIENT. The Roman cavalry confifted wholly of EQUITES, or knights. The Grecian cavalry were divided into cataphractæ and non-cataphracte, i. e. into heavy and light armed. Of all the Greeks, the Theffalians excelled most in cavalry. The Lacedemonians, inhabiting a mountainous country, were but meanly furnished with cavalry, till, carrying their arms into other countries, they found great occafion for horfes to fupport and cover their foot. The Athenian ca valry, for a confiderable time, confifted only of 96 horfemen: after expelling the Perfians out of Greece, they increafed the number to 300; and afterwards to 1200, which was the higheft pitch of the Athenian cavalry.

(3.) CAVALRY, MODERN. The Turkish cavalry conlifts partly of Spahis, and partly of horfemen raised and maintained by the Zaims and Timariots. The chief ufe of the cavalry is to make frequent excurfions to difturb the enemy, intercept his convoys, and deftroy the country: in battle to fupport and cover the foot, and to break through and diforder the enemy; alfo to fecure the retreat of the foot. Formerly, the manner of the fighting of the cavalry was, after firing their pistols or carabines, to wheel off, to give opportunity for loading again. Gustavus Adolphus is faid to have first taught the cavalry to charge through, to march ftraight up to the enemy, with the fword drawn in the bridlehand, and each man having fired his piece, at the proper diftance, to betake himself to his fword, and charge the enemy as was found moft advantageous.

(1.) CAVAN, a county of Ireland, in the province of Ulfter, 42 miles long, and 24 broad; bounded on the W. by Leitrim; on the N. by Fermanagh; on the E. by Monaghan, Louth, and Eaft Meath; and on the S. by Weft Meath and Longford. It contains upwards of 8000 houfes, 37 parifhes, 7 baronies, and 2 boroughs; viz. Cavan, (N° 2.) and Kilmore. It is populous, and carries on the linen manufacture; the annual average of which is estimated at 68,200 l. In fends two members to parliament.

(2.) CAVAN, the capital of the above county, (N° 1.) 54 miles NW. of Dublin. Lon. 7. 9. W. Lat. 54. 4. N.

CAVANELLO, a populous town of Italy, on the Adige, in the Dogado and diftrict of Chioggia.

(1.) CAVARZERE, a fertile diftrict of the late Maritime divifion of Auftria, in the Dogado, bounded on the N. by the Paduano, on the S. by the Polefine, and W. by Adria; containing 6 pa rithes, feveral villages, and 11,000 fouls.

(2.) CAVARZERE, a large and rich town in the above diftrict, anciently called Cape of Argine, containing 7000 inhabitants, who carry on a profitable trade.

(1) CAVALLO, a mountain of Italy, in Friuli. (2) CAVALLO, a fea-port of Terra Firma, in the province of Venzuela, 25 miles NE. of St Jago de Leon. Lon. 68. 12. W. Lat. 10. 15. N. (1) CAVALRY. n. J. (cavaliere, Fr. Horfe n.j. troops; bodies of men furuifhed with horfes for *To CAVATE. v. a. [cavo, L.at.] To hollow war.-If a state run moft to gentlemen, and the out; to dig into a hollow,

CAVASO, a village of the late Maritime Auftria, in the territory of Trevifo, and pretorflip of Afolo. It has confiderable woollen and filk manufactures.

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