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Canton

city and county-seat of etc. Pop. (1910) 4,797; (1920) 5,945. is the seat of the Massachusetts

Canvas

a kind of coarse, unbleachea linen cloth, used in old times for sifting, now for sails, tents, paintings, etc.

Canvas-Back

a species of duck, Fuligula or Aythya valisneria. It is a great favorite with huntsmen in the United States. It lives mainly on a CANVAS-BACK DUCK species of wild celery, which makes its flesh a great delicacy. It derives its name from the speckled feathers on the back.

Cap

in ships, a strong piece of timber placed over the head or upper end of a mast, having in it a round hole to CAP CAPEN in 1909. receive the top or top-gallant masts, company was formed, and work begun which are thus kept steady and firm.

Cap

a covering for the head, usually of softer materials and less definite form than a hat.

CAPE COD CANAL. See CANAL.

CAPE COLONY. See CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Cape Coast Castle

a settlement of Great Britain in the Gold Coast Col-

Cape Hatteras

a dangerous cape on the coast of North Carolina, the projecting point of a long reef of sand. There is a lighthouse.

Cape Nome

a cape and center of a rich gold mining region, on the S. face of the peninsular projection of Alaska, which separates Kotzebue Sound on the N. from Bering Sea on the S., and terminates on the W. in Cape Prince of Wales, the extent of the North American continent.

Cape Ortegal

a rugged promontory forming the N. extremity of Spain, extending into the Bay of Biscay, in lat. 43° 45′ N., lon. 7° 56′ W.

Cape River

or RIO DE SEGOVIA (properly Vaunks, or Wanx), a river of Nicaragua, which after a generally N. E. course of nearly 300 miles, enters the Caribbean Sea, after forming part of the boundary between Honduras and Nicaragua.

Cape Verde

the most westerly headland of Africa, jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean, between the rivers Gambia and Senegal, in 14° 53′ N. lat., 17° 34′ W. lon. It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1443. the North Atlantic Ocean, belonging to

Cape Wrath

a pyramidal promontory of unrivaled wildness and grandeur, the N. W. extremity of Scotland and of Sutherland, and running out into the Atlantic; lat. 58° 38′ N., lon. 4° 58' 5" W. Cape Wrath is 600 feet high, and there is a lighthouse near it, 400 feet above the sea, visible 25 miles off. 38' N