Caroline Bonaparte, Grand

-DUCHESS OF BERG, and QUEEN OF NAPLES, youngest sister of the emperor Napoleon I., B. at Ajaccio, 1782. She came to France in 1793, married Joachim Murat (q. v.) in 1800, became grand-duche of Berg in 1806, and queen of Naples in 1808. She gained the affections of the people, patronized letters, restored the Neapolitan museum of antiquities, and ordered the excavations at Pompeii. Becoming a widow in 1815, she retired to Haimburg, in Austria, and took the title of Counte of Lipano, the anagram of Napoli. D. 1839. Caroline Centre, in N. York , a P. O. of Tompkins co. Caroline Depot, in N. York , a P. O. of Tompkins co. Caroline Island, in the S. Pacific Ocean. It is one of the Marques as group, lying N. of Eineo; Lat. 9° 57′ S., Lon. 150° 25′ W. It is but 5 m. in circumference. Caroline Islands, or NEW PHILIPPINES, a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, extending over a space estimated at 2,000 miles. They include various groups; as the Pellew, the Yap, the Egoi, and others. The Ulalan is the most E. of the group, and has a circumference of 24 miles.- Desc. Many of the various groups are mere coral reefs, and but little elevated above the surface of the ocean. Those, however, which are capable of bearing vegetation, produce palms, bananas, and bread-fruit-trees. Lat, between 3o and 12° N., Lon. between 132° and 170° E. -The inhabitants of these islands comprise various races, and live mostly by fishing. A great portion of Carous'ingly, adv . In a carousing or jovial manner. Carp, v. a. [Lat. carpo .] To catch at small faults or errors; to censure, cavil, or find fault with, without adequate reason; generally with at before an object. "And at my actions carp and catch." -Herbert.