Cane
or KEN, a river in Bundelkhand, India, a tributary of the Jumna river. It follows a N. E. course and is about 250 miles in length. In its upper region is an important reservoir.
CANEA (Greek Khania), the capital and chief commercial town of Crete, situated on the N. W. coast, with a fine harbor. It occupies the site of the ancient Cydonia, but the present town is due to the Venetians, from whom it was wrested by the Turks after a two years' siege in 1669. Canea is the principal center for exporting the productions of the island.
Pop. about 25,000. See CRETE.
CANEBRAKE (Ludolfia (Arundi naria) macrosperma), a colossal reed, nearly allied to the bamboo, which reaches a height of 30 or 40 feet, and forms dense swamp-jungles (sometimes of wide area) in marshy places, and along the banks of the Red river, the Arkansas, the Mississippi, and their tributaries.
CANES VENATICI (Latin "the Hunting-dogs," Asterion and Chara), one of the northern constellations added by Hevelius in 1690, between Boötes and Ursa Major. On the maps, the two dogs, Asterion and Chara, are represented as held in leash by Boötes, and pursuing Ursa Major, and the celestial pole.