re a height of 3015 ft., command
admirable prospects.

CAHITA, a group of North American Indians, mainly of the Mayo and Yaqui
tribes, found chiefly in Mexico, belonging to the Piman family, and
numbering some 40,000.

CAHOKIA, the name of a North American Indian tribe of the Illinois
confederacy, and of their mission station, near St Louis. The "Cahokia
mound" there (a model of which is in the Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass.)
is interesting as the largest pre-historic earth-work in America.

CAHORS, a city of south-western France, capital of the department of Lot,
70 m. N. of Toulouse, on the railway between that city and Limoges. Pop.
(1906) 10,047. Cahors stands on the right bank of the river Lot, occupying
a rocky peninsula formed by a bend in the stream. It is divided into two
portions [v.04 p.0948] by the Boulevard Gambetta, which runs from the Pont
Louis Philippe on the south to within a short distance of the fortified
wall of the 14th and 15th centuries enclosing the town on the north. To the
east lies the old town, with its dark narrow streets and closely-packed
houses; west of the Boulevard a newer quarter, with spacious squares and
promenades, stretches to the bank of the river. Cahors communicates with
the opposite shore by three bridges. One of these, the Pont Valentre to the
west of the town, is the finest fortified bridge of the middle ages in
France. It is a structure of the early 14th century, restored in the 19th
century, and is defended at either end by high machicolated towers, another
tower, less elaborate, surmounting the centre pier. The east bridge, the
Pont Neuf, also dates from the 14th century. The cathedral of St Etienne
stands in the heart of the old town. It dates from the 12th century, but
was entirely restored in the 13th century. Its exterior, for the most part
severe in appearance, is relieved by some fine sculpture, that of the north
portal being especially remarkable. The nave, which is without aisles, is
surmounted by two cupolas; its interior is whitewashed and plain in
appearance, while the choir is decorated with medieval paintings. Adjoining
the church to the south-east there are remains of a cloister built from
1494 to 1509. St Urcisse, the chief of the other ecclesiastical buildings,
stands near the cathedral. Dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, it
preserves Romanesque capitals recarved in the 14th century. The principal
of the civil buildings is the palace of Pope John