It was provided with a railway in 1901 by the opening of the 11
m. required to connect with the gaekwar of Baroda's line through Petlad.

CAMBAY, GULF OF, an inlet in the coast of India, in the Gujarat division
of Bombay. It is about 80 m. in length, but is shallow and abounds in
shoals and sandbanks. It is supposed that the depth of water in this
gulf has been decreasing for more than two centuries past. The tides,
which are very high, run into it with amazing velocity, but at low water
the bottom is left nearly dry for some distance below the latitude of
the town of Cambay. It is, however, an important inlet, being the
channel by which the valuable produce of central Gujarat and the British
districts of Ahmedabad and Broach is exported; but the railway from
Bombay to Baroda and Ahmedabad, near Cambay, has for some time past been
attracting the trade to itself.

CAMBER (derived through the Fr. from Lat. _camera_, vault), in
architecture, the upward curvature given to a beam and provided for the
depression or sagging, which it is liable to, before it has settled down
to its bearings. A "camber arch" is a slight rise given to the
straight-arch to correct an apparent sinking in the centre (see ARCH).

CAMBERT, ROBERT (1628-1677), French operatic composer, was born in Paris
in 1628. He was a pupil of Chambonnieres. In 1655, after he had obtained
the post of organist at the church of St Honore, he married Marie du
Moustier. He was musical superintendent to Queen Anne of Austria, mother
of Louis XIV., and for a time held a post with the marquis de Sourdeac.
His earlier works, the words of which were furnished by Pierre Perrin,
continued to be performed before the court at Vincennes till the death
of his patron Cardinal Mazarin. In 1669 Perrin received a patent for the
founding of the _Academie Nationale de musique_, the germ of the Grand
Opera, and Cambert had a share in the administration until both he and
Perrin were discarded in the interests of Lulli. Displeased at his
subsequent neglect, and jealous of the favour shown to Lulli, who was
musical superintendent to the king, he went in 1673 to London, where
soon after his arrival he was appointed master of the band to Charles
II. One at least of his operas, _Pomone_, was performed in London under
his direction, but it did not suit the popular taste, and he is supposed
to have killed himself in London in 1677. His other principal operas
were _Ariadne ou l