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 16 CARON of Gibraltar, he was informed by a vessel which he met of the disposition entertained concerning him at court. He at once turned his ship about and directed his course to Lis- bon. He had already anchored in this port, when a heavy sea beat his vessel against a rock, and it went to the bottom with its passengers and cargo, one of his sons alone being saved. He wrote a " Description of Japan," published in 1636. CARON, Rene Edonard, a Canadian jurist and statesman, born in the parish of Ste. Anne Cote de Beaupr, Lower Canada, in 1800. He was educated at the seminary of Quebec and the college of St. Pierre, Riviere du Sud, and admitted to the bar in 1826. In 1827 he was elected mayor of Quebec, which office he filled till 1837. In 1841 he was appointed member of the legislative council for Lower Canada, of which body he was speaker from 1843 to 1847, and subsequently from 1848 to 1853. In 1841 he entered into a correspondence with Mr. Draper, then at the head of the government of Canada, with a view of bringing into the cabi- net some French Canadians ; but the project was not favored by the real chief of the French Canadians, Mr. Lafontaine, and failed. Caron became a member of the Lafontaine- Baldwin administration in 1848, and aban- doned political life in 1853, becoming judge of the court of queen's bench, Lower Canada, in which the French civil and the English crimi- nal law are administered. This post he tem- porarily vacated in 1857, on receiving the ap- pointment of commissioner for codifying the laws of Lower Canada; and when this work was done he returned to his duties as judge. Be- ing superannuated for this office, Mr. Caron entered on the duties of lieutenant governor of Quebec in February, 1873, in the 73d year of his age. CAROOR, a town of British India, in the presidency of Madras, district of Coimbatoor, on the Ambrawutty river, near its junction with the Cavery, 38 m. W. N. W. of Trichi- nopoly, with which it is connected by railway. It contains about 1,000 houses, has near it a fort and a large temple, and has been in the possession of the British since 1760. CAROIGE, a town of Switzerland, on the left bank of the river Arve, in the canton and 1 m. S. of Geneva, with which it is united by a bridge ; pop. about 5,000. It contains a fine Roman Catholic and a Protestant church and a syna- gogue. Cotton, leather, and earthenware are manufactured here. Victor Amadeus III. of Sardinia founded the town in 1780, as a rival to Geneva. For a short time it was a re- sort of political refugees and a centre of the smuggling trade with France; tjut it declined in importance after the occupation of Geneva by French troops in 1 798. It ceased to be under Sardinian rule in 1816, and was assigned to Switzerland. One of the favorite roads from Geneva to the summit of the neighboring Mont Salere is by way of Carouge. CARP CAROVf, Friedrieh Wilhelm, a German philos- opher and publicist, born at Coblentz, June 20, 1789, died in Heidelberg, March 18, 1852. He was an advocate, held some judicial offices, was made doctor of philosophy by the univer- sity of Heidelberg, and officiated for a short time as professor at Breslau. He was one of the founders of the Heidelberg Burschenschaft, and participated in the famous Wartburg fes- tival. He was afterward a member of the provisional German parliament of 1848. His most elaborate works are attacks on the Ro- man Catholic religion, and include Ueber die alleinseliginachende Kirche (2 vols., Frankfort, 1826) ; Was heisst rdmisch-Jcatholische Kirche f (2d ed., Altenburg, 1847); Die Buchdrucker- kunst in ihrer weltgeschichtlichen Bedeutung (Siegen, 1843); and Ueber das sogenannte germanwche und sogenannte christliche Staatt- princip (1843). CARP, a malacopterygian fish, of the family cyprinidcB, genus cyprinus, having the body^ covered with large scales, a single elongated' dorsal fin, fleshy lips, small mouth, with a bar- bel at the upper part of each corner in the common species, and a smaller one above ; teeth in the pharynx, but none in the jaws ; branchial rays three ; the ventrals behind the Cyprlnus cnrpio. pectorals, without any connection with the bones of the scapular arch ; the second dorsal ray and the first anal serrated posteriorly ; the tail forked; 12 rows of scales between the ventral and dorsal fins. The C. carpio (Linn.) is of a golden olive-brown color above, yellow- ish beneath, and the fins dark brown. It in- habits the fresh-water lakes and streams of central and southern Europe, whence it has been spread by man over the northern parts. It is noticed by Aristotle and Pliny, but was not held in much estimation in ancient times ; it grows rapidly, lives to a considerable age, and is exceedingly prolific ; it seems to have been introduced into England about 300 years ago. Carps prefer quiet waters, with soft or muddy bottoms, spawning in May or June, i according to locality ; the food consists of lar- vffi of aquatic insects, worms, and soft plants, though they eat almost any vegetable food in artificial ponds. They are very tenacious of life, and will pass long periods, especially in winter, without food ; they afford but lit- tle sport to the angler, being very uncertain, and are difficult to take in nets. Their size varies from ^ to 2 feet, and their weight from