CAMPEACHY (12), a Mexican seaport on a bay of the same name; manufactures cigars.

CAMPEGGIO, LORENZO, cardinal; twice visited England as legate, the last time in connection with the divorce between Henry VIII. and Catherine, with the effect of mortally offending the former and being of no real benefit to the latter, whom he would fain have befriended; his mission served only to embitter the relations of Henry with the see of Rome (1474-1539).

CAMPER, PETER, a Dutch anatomist, born at Leyden; held sundry professorships; made a special study of the facial angle in connection with intelligence; he was an artist as well as a scientist, and a patron of art (1722-1789).

CAMPERDOWN, a tract of sandy hills on the coast of N. Holland, near which Admiral Duncan defeated the Dutch fleet under Van Winter in 1797.

CAMPHUYSEN, a Dutch landscape painter of the 17th century, famous for his moonlight pieces.

CAMPI, a family of painters, distinguished in the annals of Italian art at Cremona in the 16th century.

CAMPINE, a vast moor of swamp and peat to the E. of Antwerp, being now rendered fertile by irrigation.

CAMPION, EDMUND, a Jesuit, born in London; a renegade from the Church of England; became a keen Catholic propagandist in England; was arrested for sedition, of which he was innocent, and executed; was in 1886 beatified by Pope Leo XIII. (1540-1581).

CAMPO-FORMIO, a village near Udine, in Venetia, where a treaty was concluded between France and Austria in 1797, by which the Belgian provinces and part of Lombardy were ceded to France, and certain Venetian States to Austria in return.

CAMPO SANTO (Holy Ground), Italian and Spanish name for a burial-place.

CAMPOS (13), a trading city of Brazil, in the prov. of Rio Janeiro.

CAMPVERE, now called VERE, on the NE. of the island of Walcheren; had a Scotch factory under Scotch law, civil and ecclesiastical.

CAMUS, bishop of Belley, born at Paris; a violent enemy of the mendicant monks (1582-1663).

CAMUS, a learned French jurisconsult, member of the National Convention; a determined enemy of the Court party in France; voted for the execution of the king as a traitor and conspirator; was conservator of the national records, and did good service in preserving them (1740-1804).

CANAAN, originally the coast land, but eventually the whole, of Palestine W. of the Jordan.

CANAANITES, a civilised race with towns for defence; dependent on agriculture; worshippers of the fertilising powers of nature; and the original inhabitants of Palestine, from which they were never wholly rooted out.