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CANANDAIGUA 320 CANABT BIRD to Bay Head, N. J.; the Pennsylvania an extreme length of 15 miles, and a canal, 193 miles long, costing nearly $8,- width of one mile. Its outlet is Seneca 000,000, and extending from Columbia river. Of^ OATUN CAKE . . GATE D V 1 lOCHT ©ATE ATLANTIC LEVei g — ^ l ^ l--, , ' ■-: / GATUN LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL to Northumberland and Wilkes-Barre, CANAR, a small province of Ecuador, Pa. ; and the Miami and Erie canal, 274 between the provinces of Chimborazo and miles long, extending from Cincinnati to Azuay; capital, Uzogues. Pop. about Toledo, 0., and costing over $8,000,000. 65,000. CROSS SECTION OF LOCK CHAMBERS, PANAMA CANAL A. Sidewall Culverts B. Center Culverta C. Lateral Culverts For detailed account of the Panama canal, see Panama Canal; and for New York Barge canal see that title. CANANDAIGUA, village and county- seat of Ontario co., N. Y.; at the N. ex- tremity of Canandaigua Lake; on the New York Central, and Pennsylvania railroads; 29 miles E. of Rochester. The site is elevated and commands a beauti- ful view of the lake, and has many hand- some residences and churches, the Can- andaigua Academy, private and public schools, National bank, several private banks, Ontario Orphan Asylum, insane asylum, a Catholic orphanage, several manufactories, and newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,217; (1920) 7,356. CANANDAIGUA LAKE, a lake in •western New York, 668 feet above the sea and 437 feet above Lake Ontario. It lies mostly in Ontario county and has CANARD, a false report; a sill^ rumor. The word was coined from the French canard=a duck, and arose from the story of cannibalism among a flock of ducks, who ate one of their number each day until at last they were reduced to one individual, the survivor having thus, it was argued, eaten all his com- panions. The story was the "rage" in Paris for a time, and afterward when any marvelous recital was heard, the auditor would shrug his shoulders and exclaim, "C'est un canard!" (That's a canard, or duck!). CANARY BIRD, an insessorial sing- ing bird, a kind of finch from the Canary Islands, the Carduelis Canarh, or Frin- gilla Canay-ia. They were introduced into Europe 300 or 400 years ago. A large proportion of the cage canaries are really mules, produced by the inter-