in the leather manufacture, are prepared and dressed by the tanners, skinners, and curriers, who sell them for the use of the shoemakers, saddlers, bookbinders, and other artificers, who employ them in their several manufactures.

CALF-SKIN draped in fumach, denotes the skin of this animal curried black on the hair side, and dyed of an orange colour on the flesh side, by means of fumach, chiefly used in the making of belts.

The English calf-skin is much valued abroad, and the commerce thereof very considerable in France and other countries; where divers attempts have been made to imitate it, but hitherto in vain. What is like to baffled all endeavours for imitating the English calf in France is, the smallness and weakness of the calves about Paris; which at 15 days old are not so big as the English ones when they come into the world.

Sea-CALF. See PHOCA, MAMMALIA LIV.

CALL, a town of Popayan in South America, situated in a valley of the same name on the river Cauca. The governor of the province usually resides there. W. Long. 78° 5'. N. Lat. 3° 15'.