Carraca, a name given by the Portuguese to the vessels they send to Brazil and the East Indies, being very large, round built, and fitted for fight as well as burden. Their capacity lies in their depth, which is very extraordinary. They are narrower above than underneath, and have sometimes seven or eight floors; they carry about 2000 tons, and are capable of lodging 2000 men; but of late they are little used. Formerly they were also in use among the knights of Rhodes, as well as among the Genoese, and other Italians. It is a custom among the Portuguese, when the carracas return from India, not to bring any boat or sloop for the service of the ship beyond the island of St Helena; at which place they sink them on purpose, in order to take from the crew all hopes or possibility of saving themselves, in case of shipwreck.

Carrara Marble, among our artificers, the name of a species of white marble, which is called marmor lunense, and ligustrium by the ancients; it is distinguished from the Parian, now called the statuary marble, by being harder and less bright.