CAULABAGH, a town of Afghanistan, in the province of Caubul. It is a singularly built place, the houses being situated on terraces cut out of the declivity of the hill. Here it is that the country of the real Afghans commences; and that country as far as Peshawer is inhabited by a variety of tribes. In the vicinity of the town are large rocks, which yield an inexhaustible store of the pure rock salt; and there is, besides, a considerable manufacture of alum; in both of which articles an extensive trade is carried on with the neighbouring provinces, and proves highly beneficial to the inhabitants. The river Indus here flows in one channel, and is about 400 yards wide, but deep and rapid. The proper name of the town is Khara Baghi, or Garden of Salt. Long. 70. 46. E. Lat. 32. 11. N.

CAULIFLOWERS, in Gardening, a much esteemed species of cabbage. See Horticulture.

CAUNE, LA, a town of the department of Tarn, in France, on the Sigon, with 340 houses, and 2830 inhabitants, chiefly Protestants, who are employed in the manufacture of woollen fabrics.

CAURSINES, or Coursini, were Italians who came into England about the year 1235, terming themselves the pope's merchants, but driving no other trade than that of lending money; and, having great banks in England, they differed little from Jews, save that they were rather more merciless to their debtors. Some think that they were called Coursines, quasi Causa Ursini, bearish, or cruel in their causes; and others Caursini or Corsini, as coming from the isle of Corsica; but Cowell affirms that they derived their name from Caorsium, Caorsi, a town in Lombardy, where they first practised their arts of usury and extortion, and whence they carried their unpopular trade through most parts of Europe, and were regarded as a common plague to every nation which they visited. The then bishop of London excommunicated them; and King Henry III. banished them from the kingdom in the year 1240. But, being the pope's solicitors and money changers, they were permitted to return in the year 1250; though in a very short time they were again driven out of the kingdom on account of their usurious exactions.