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WILLIAM, an English printer and and scholar, born in the Weald of Kent, about 1422. His "Recuyell (collection) of the Histories of Troy," translated by him from the French, appears to have been printed in 1474. It was the first book in English reproduced by typography. He set up a printing-office in Westminster, 1477; and on Nov. 18 of that year issued "The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers," folio, a work ever memorable as the first book printed in England. He printed in all 99 separate works, very many of them translated by him from the French; his translations even of Latin classic authors were made, not directly from the original language, language, but from French versions. He died in 1491. CAYENNE (ki-yen'), a fortified seaport, capital of French Guiana, on an island at the mouth of a river of the same name. A new town is connected with the older portion by the Place d'Armes, bordered with orange trees.
The harbor is the best on the coast, but insecure and shallow. Cayenne is the entrepôt of all the trade of the colony and was formerly chiefly known as a great French penal settlement. The climate is extremely unwholesome for Eu- CEBUS ropeans. The French took possession of the island in 1604, and again, after it had been held by the English and Dutch, in 1677. Pop. about 14,000.
CAYENNE PEPPER. See CAPSICUM.