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CAPE GIRARDEAU. 167 CAPELLA. ings. The jjovernmcnt is administered by a mavor, elected biennially, and a city council. Population, in ISOO, 4297; in 1900, 4815. CAPE GREGORY. See Cape Arago. CAPE HAITIEN", a'e'tyaN'. The second city of Haiti in importance and size (Map: West Indies. L 5) . It is situated on the northern coast, overlooking a spacious harbor and sur- rovinded by picturesque mountains. The town is well laid out. and lias the appearance of the older Eurofx-an toiis. In 1842 it was nearly de- stroyed by a disastrous earthquake, in which several thousand people perished, and from which the town has not recovered since. Dur- ing the French occupation, Cape Haitien was the capital of the island. The commerce is very important, and the chief exports are coffee and logwood. The population is estimated at 29,000. A United States consul resides here. CAPE HATTERAS. A cape in latitude 3.5° 1.5' X. and longitude 75° 31' W., projecting into the Atlantic from Ilatteras Island, a long, nar- row, sandy island bordering Pamlico Sound (Map: North Carolina, G 2). It is a dangerous part of the American coast for navigators, on ac- count of shoals and frequent gales and storms. Coasting vessels are apt to pass in toward this cape, on account of the Gulf Stream, which is only about 20 miles east. The cape has a light, flashing every ten seconds, 191 feet above mean high water; also, about three-quarters of a mile south, a fixed white beacon light, 35 feet above the sea. CAPE HENLO'PEN. A point of land on the east coast of Delaware, in latitude 38° 47' N. and longitude 75° 5' W., at the south side of the entrance to Delaware Bay (Map: Delaware, Q 5). It is about 13 miles a little west of south of Cape May, on the opposite New Jersey shore. The Cape Henlopen light, 126 feet above sea- level, is a fixed white light, with a fixed red sec- tor between southeast one-eighth east and south one-eighth east. CAPE HENRY. A point of land on the coast of Virginia, in latitude 36° 56' N. and longitude 76° 1' W., at the south entrance to Chesapeake Bay, opposite Cape Charles (Map: Virginia, J 5). Cape Henry has a life-saving station and a lighthouse. The light is 157 feet above sea-level, shows fixed white, with a fixed red sector between south-southeast and south- ■west by west. CAPE HORN (from Hoorn, a city of Hol- land), or HooRX. The most southerly point of America, terminating an island of its own name, in the Archipelago of Tierra del Fuego (Map: Chile, D 15). It is situated in lati- tude 55° 50' S. and longitude 67° 16' W. It has a perennially Antarctic climate, and is merely a detached link, bare and rugged, of the chain of the Andes. It was discovered by Schouten, a native of Hoorn, in Holland, in 1616, about 90 years later than the Strait of Magellan, and since then the course of naviga- tion of sailing vessels has been round the cape, instead of through the strait. CAPE HTJNTING-DOG. See Hunting-Dog. CAP'EL, Artihr. Lord (e.1610-49). An English Royalist leader during the Revolution. Jle represented Hertford in both the Short Par- liament and the Long Parliament, and was in- clined to side with the popular party under the leadership of PjTU, in so far as that party demanded merely a redress of grievances: but, strongly opposing a democratic revolution, he joined the Court party, and in August, 1641, was made Lord Capel of Hadham. He became an officer in the Royalist Army, and in 1643 served as lieutenant-general of Shropshire, Che- shire, and North Wales. He then acted for a time as a member of the advisory council of the Prince of Wales, and on the success of the popu- lar party retired to his estate at Hadham; but in 1648 he strongly advocated the renewal of civil war, and, with Goring and Lucas, attempted in vain to hold Colchester against the forces of Lord Fairfax. Soon afterwards he was tried and convicted of treason, and on March 9, 1649, was beheaded. CAPEL, Thomas John (1836—). An Eng- lish Roman Catholic priest, born October 28, 1836. When but seventeen years old he, with others, founded a normal training college for the education of school-teachers, of which, in 1856, he was made vice-principal. Being compelled to seek southern Europe on account of ill health, he founded at Paii a mission for English-speak- ing Roman Catholics, in consequence of which the Pojie advanced liim to 'monsignore.' Re- turning to England, in 1873 he established the Roman Catholic Public School at Kensington, and devoted much of his time to preaching, be- coming widely noted for his eloquence, and was particularly successful in making converts to Romanism among the gentry of the Church of England; but since 1884 he has not been heard from. He is said to be the original of Catesby in Disraeli's Lothair. In 1874 he published a Rephi to Gladstone's Political Expostulation, and in 1884 "Catholic," an Essential and Exclu- sive Attrihiile of the True Church. He lived in California many years. CAP'ELL, Edward (1713-81). A critical editor of Shakespeare, born at Throston, near Bury Saint Edmunds. He was educated at Catharine's Hall. Cambridge, appointed deputy inspector of plays in 1737, and devoted his life to the stud}' of Shakespeare, whose plays he transcribed ten times. In 1760 he published Prolusions, or Select Pieces of Ancient Poelri/, including a reprint of Edicard III., as possibly Shakespeare's. His edition of Shakespeare (10 vols., 1768) was followed by commentaries in three volumes, w-hieh were not all published till 1783, two j-ears- after Capell's death. They bore the title, 7^'otes and Various Readings of tihake- speare. Capell collated the quartos and the first two folios more carefully than any previous ed- itor. CAPEL'LA (Lat., kid). A bright star of the first magnitude, on the left shoulder of Au- riga. Capella is also called Capra, or the She- Goat, a name also sometimes given to Capricorn. 'J'he poets fable Capella to be Amalthea's goat, which suckled Jupiter in his infancy. CAPELLA, IMartianus Mineus Felix. A learned author belonging to the second half of the Fifth Century. He was born in Africa, per- haps at Madaura, as Cassiodorus says. Of his life nothing whatever is known. The w'ork which has preserved his name to posterity is the Satiri-