a town of Asia, on the coast of Malabar in the East Indies, and where the East India Company have a factory, fortified with two bastions. The valleys about it abound in corn and pepper, which last is the best in the East Indies. The woods on the mountains abound with quadrupeds, such as tigers, wolves, monkeys, wild hogs, deers, elks, and a sort of beves of a prodigious size. The religion of the natives is Paganism; and they have a great many strange and superstitious customs. E. Long. 73. 7. N. Lat. 15. 6.

CARYA, -Æ, (Stephanus); Caryæ, -arum, (Pausanias); a town of Laconia, between Sparta and the borders of Messenia; where stood a temple of Diana, thence called Caryatides, -idis; whose annual festival, called Caryæ, -orum, was celebrated by Spartan virgins with dances. An inhabitant, Caryotes, and Caryatis. Caryatis apis a Laconian bee, (Stephanus.)

CARYÆ, -arum, in Ancient Geography, a place in Arcadia, towards the borders of Laconia. Whether from this of Arcadia, or that of Laconia, the Columnæ Caryatides of Vitruvius and Pliny (which were statues of matrons in stoles or long robes) took the appellation, is disputed.