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CANCALLE

Volume 4 · 101 words · 1797 Edition

a town of France, in Upper Brittany, by the sea-side, where there is a road. Here the British landed in 1758, in their way to St Maloës, where they burnt a great number of ships in the harbour, and then retired without loss. This town was in their power; but they acted like generous enemies, and did no hurt to this nor any other on the coast. W. Long. o. 13. N. Lat. 48. 41.

CANCELLIER, in falconry, is when a light brown hawk, in her swooping, turns two or three times upon the wing, to recover herself before she seizes.