nd the Bay of Suda (latitude 35
deg. 31' N., longitude 24 deg. 1' E.). Surrounded by a massive Venetian
wall, it forms a closely built, irregular and overcrowded town, though
of late years a few of its streets have been widened. The ordinary
houses are of wood; but the more important buildings are of more solid
materials. The Turks have a number of mosques; there are Greek churches
and a Jewish synagogue; an old Venetian structure serves as a military
hospital; and the prison is of substantial construction. The town is now
the principal seat of government; the seat of a Greek bishop, who is
suffragan to the metropolitan at Candia, and the official residence of
the European consuls. The harbour, formed by an ancient transverse mole
nearly 1200 ft. long, and protected by a lighthouse and a fort, would
admit vessels of considerable tonnage; but it has been allowed to silt
up until it shoals off from 24 ft. to 10 or even 8, so that large
vessels have to anchor about 4 or 5 m. out. The principal articles of
trade are oil and soap, and there is a pretty extensive manufacture of
leather. The fosse is laid out in vegetable gardens; public gardens have
been constructed outside the walls; and artesian wells have been bored
by the government. To the east of the town a large Arab village had
grown up, inhabited for the most part by natives of Egypt and Cyrenaica,
who acted as boatmen, porters and servants, but since the fall of the
Turkish government most of these have quitted the island; while about a
mile off on the rising ground is the village of Khalepa, where the
consuls and merchants reside. The population of the town is estimated at
20,000. Canea probably occupies the site of the ancient Cydonia, a city
of very early foundation and no small importance. During the Venetian
rule it was one of the strongest cities in the island, but it fell into
the hands of the Turks in 1646, several years before the capture of
Candia. In 1856 it suffered from an earthquake. The neighbouring plain
is famous for its fruitfulness, and the quince is said to derive its
name _Cydonia_ from the town. (See also CRETE.)

CANE-FENCING (the Fr. _canne_), the art of defending oneself with a
walking-stick. It may be considered to be single-stick fencing without a
guard for the hand, with the important difference that in cane-fencing
the thrust is as important as the cut, and thus _canne_ approaches
nearer to sabre-play. The cuts are practically ident