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CUTANEOUS SENSATIONS. 692 CUTLASS-FISH. very weakly if at all sensitive to temperature from the pharj-nx downward. Bibliography. For a general account of ex- perimental work upon the cutaneous 'spots,' consult: Titchener, Experimental Psychology (New York, 1001) ; Donaldson, Mind (London, 1883) ; for the quality of heat, Alrutz, Mind, A'ols. vi., vii. (London, 1897-98) : for tickling, Kuelpe. Outlines of Psychology (London, 1895). aee Paix. CUTCH or KACHH (Skt. kaccha, shore). A 7jrotected principality under the Presidency of Bombay. British India, occupying the peninsula south of Sindh, between the marshy tracts of the Eann of Cutch and the Gulf of Cutch. It covers an area of 6500 square miles (Map: India. A 4), Its soil is mostly sterile. The climate and me- teorological conditions are extremely unfavorable for vegetation. The Rann'is a morass nearly 7000 miles in area. It is flooded during the monsoon by salt water, but by December 1st it is compara- tively dry. Cutch has a feudal system of gov- ernment, the ruling power being confined to the dynasty of .Jliarija i?ajput. of which there are about 200 members. The chief town is Bhuj and the principal seaport Mandvi. The population, in 1891, was .5.58.41.5: in 1901. 487,374. About one- third of the inhabitants are Mohammedans, the Test Hindus of various castes. CUTCH, or KACHH GUNDAVA, gun da'- va. A region in Baluchistan, east of Khelat. The Hala range of mountains extends along the western frontier (ilap: Central Asia, E 4). The soil is rich, producing grain and cotton. The climate is damp and unhealthful. CUTCH, Gulf of. An inlet on the northern Ijorder of the Arabian Sea, l.ving between Cutch and the peninsula of Kathiawar, British India (Map: India, A 4). It is about 30 miles wide and 100 miles long, and connects at its upper end with the Little Eann (or Runn) of Cutch, and through this with the great western Eann, the remarkable salt marshes lying to the east and north of Cutch. CUTHBEET, kuthlicrt. A to-sra and the county-seat of Randolph County, Ga., about 120 miles southwest of Macon; on the Central of Georgia and the Georgia, Florida and Alabama railroads (ilap: Georgia, B 4). It contains colleges for young men and women. Cuthbert is the commercial centre of a fertile agricultural and fruit-crowing section. Population, in 1890, 2328: in 1900, 2(141. CUTHBERT, Saint (e.635-6S7). Bishop of Lindisfarne and one of the most popular saints in England in the Jliddle Ages. He was born about G3o, probably of Lowland Scotch parents. In 651, moved by a vision of angels cariying to heaven the soul of Saint Aidan, he entered the monastery of !Me!rose. Ten years later he was put at the head of this monastery, and did noble missionary work in the surrounding country. He left it in 676 for an austerer hermit life, from which he was withdrawn in 684 to accept the bishopric of Hexham, which he exchanged for that of Lindisfarne. liolding the latter only two years and returning to his solitary hut on Fame Island. Here he died, March 20. 687. The influence of Saint Cuthbert upon his con- temporaries was great, but his fame became even greater after his death. His body remained at Lindisfarne tijl 875, when the monks, bearing it on their shoulders, lied from the fury of the Danes. After many wanderings through the south of Scotland and the north of England, they found a resting-place at Chester-le-Street in 883. In 995 Uie remains were transferred to Ripon, and theu to Durham, where, inclosed in a costly shrine, and believed to work frequent miracles, they remained until the Reformation, when the shrine was defaced and the bod.v buried under the pavement of the cathedral. The tomb was opened May 17, 1820, when a coffin ascer- tained to have been made in 1541 was found to inclose two others. The innermost case contained the skeleton of Saint Cuthbert, still entire, wrapped in five robes of embroidered silk, and also the head of King Oswald, killed in battle (642), which it was known had originally been buried with the saint. His life was twice written by the Venerable Bede, and still earlier by a monk of Lindisfarne. Besides these lives, all of which have been printed more than once, and what is told of him in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica (icntis Anglorum, there are three modern lives, by Raine (Durham, 1828), Eyre (London, 1849; 3d ed. 1S87). and Fryer (London, 1880). CUTHBERT OF CANTERBURY ( ?-758). An English prelate. He was born in the King- dom of ^lercia, become Bishop of Hereford in 736, and Archbishop of Canterbury' in 740. He died on October 26, 758. An instructive letter was addressed to him by Saint Boniface, in reply to one from him relating the doings of a council which determined upon closer relations between the English Church and that of Rome, in which Boniface shows that he too had adopted Roman usages. This letter has been printed more than once, and will be found in the appendix to Hus- sev's edition of Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (Ox- ford, 1846). CU'TICLE. See Skin. CUTICLE (Lat. cuticulfi, dim. of cutis, skin). In plants, a hyaline film covering the surface of plants, and derived from the outer walls of the epidermal cells. The film consists of 'cutin.' which is a transparent, elastic substance, only slightly permeable to water. The process of formation of the cuticle is called 'cntinization' or 'cutieularization.' The term cuticle is some- times loosely used instead of epidei-mis, and is not to be confused with the same term as used by zoologists. See Anatomy of Plants. CU'TIN (in plants). See Cuticle. CUTINIZA'TION (in plants). See Cuticle. CUTLASS (Fr. coutelas. from OF. coutel, eultel, Fr. couteau, knife, from Lat. eultellus. dim. of culter, knife). A short curved sword formerly used in men-of-war as a side arm for the men. The blade was usually about 27 inches long, an inch wide, and had a bowl-shaped guard on the hilt. See Swoed. CUTLASS-FISH. A remarkable fish (Trichi- iirus lepturus), alone representing in this coun- try a family (Trichiuridfe, the hair-tails) of pelagic fishes allied to the sailfishes and better known elsewhere. Its body is long, band-like, tapering into a hair-like tail, scaleless, and cov- ered with a glistening white skin, so that its resemblance to a sword or to a silver scal)bard justifies the European 'scabbard-fish.' or the names 'swordfish,' prevalent along the Gulf