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PANAMA CANAL A. Sidewall Culverts B. Center Culverts For detailed account of the Panama canal, see PANAMA CANAL; and for New York Barge canal see that title.

CANANDAIGUA, village and countyseat of Ontario co., N. Y.; at the N. extremity of Canandaigua Lake; on the New York Central, and Pennsylvania railroads; 29 miles E. of Rochester. The site is elevated and commands a beautiful view of the lake, and has many handsome residences and churches, the Canandaigua Academy, private and public schools, National bank, several private banks, Ontario Orphan Asylum, insane asylum, a Catholic orphanage, several manufactories, and newspapers, etc.

Pop. (1910) 7,217; (1920) 7,356.

CANANDAIGUA LAKE, a lake in western New York, 668 feet above the sea and 437 feet above Lake Ontario.

It lies mostly in Ontario county and has C. Lateral Culverts CANARD, a false report; a silly rumor. The word was coined from the French canard a duck, and arose from the story of cannibalism among a flock of ducks, who ate one of their number each day until at last they were reduced to one individual, the survivor having thus, it was argued, eaten all his companions. The story was the "rage" in Paris for a time, and afterward when any marvelous recital was heard, the auditor would shrug his shoulders and exclaim, "C'est un canard!" (That's a canard, or duck!).

CANARY BIRD, an insessorial singing bird, a kind of finch from the Canary Islands, the Carduelis Canaria or Fringilla Canaria. They were introduced into Europe 300 or 400 years ago. A large proportion of the cage canaries are really mules, produced by the inter- CANARY ISLANDS breeding of canaries with allied species, artificial channels for the purpose of such as the goldfinch, siskin, linnet, bull- irrigation. bullfinch.

CANARY ISLANDS TENERIFFE, the largest island of the