ing, but his patronage was somewhat capricious. Diderot expressed
this fact in an epigram in his _Salon_ of 1765: "La mort nous a delivres
du plus cruel des amateurs." Caylus had quite another side to his
character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most
disreputable sides of Parisian life, and left a number of more or less
witty stories dealing with it. These were collected (Amsterdam, 1787) as
his _Oeuvres badines completes_. The best of them is the _Histoire de M.
Guillaume, cocher_ (c. 1730).

The _Souvenirs du comte de Caylus_, published in 1805, is of very
doubtful authenticity. See also A. and J. de Goncourt, _Portraits
intimes du XVIII^e siecle_; Ch. Nisard's edition of the
_Correspondance du comte de Caylus avec le pere Paciaudi_ (1877); and
a notice by O. Uzanne prefixed to a volume of his _Faceties_ (1879).

CAYMAN ISLANDS, a group of three low-lying islands in the West Indies.
They consist of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, and are
situated between 79 deg. 44' and 80 deg. 26' W. and 19 deg. 44' and 19
deg. 46' N., forming a dependency of Jamaica, which lies 178 m. E.S.E.
Grand Cayman, a rock-bound island protected by coral reefs, is 17 m.
long and varies from 4 m. to 7 m. in breadth. It has two towns,
Georgetown and Boddentown. Little Cayman and Cayman Brac are both about
70 m. E.N.E. of Grand Cayman. Excepting near the rocky coast, the
islands are fruitful, mahogany and other valuable timbers with some
dyewood are grown, and large quantities of coco-nuts are produced by
the two smaller islands. Phosphate deposits of considerable value are
worked, but the principal occupation of the inhabitants is catching
turtles for export to Jamaica. The people are excellent shipwrights and
do a considerable trade in schooners built of native wood. The islands
are governed by a commissioner, and the laws passed by the local
legislative assembly are subject to the assent of the governor of
Jamaica. The population of the group is about 5000. The islands were
discovered by Columbus, who named them Tortugas from the turtles with
which the surrounding sea abounds. They were never occupied by the
Spaniards and were colonized from Jamaica by the British.

CAZALES, JACQUES ANTOINE MARIE DE (1758-1805), French orator and
politician, was born at Grenade in Languedoc, of a family of the lower
nobility. Before 1789 he was a cavalry officer, but in that year was
returned as deputy