CASAUBON, ISAAC

(1559-1614), I scholar; b. Geneva, of Huguenot part tage: prof. of Greek at Geneva, and at Montpellier; royal librarian in to Henry IV. 1598, but after tion of king came to London, and was made Prebendary of Canterbury, 1610. ©. po e ed little originality as a writer, but had ama ed a wonderful store of learning, and his merits as a commentator are very great. He edited tus, Strabo, Theocritus, Polybius, Per121° W.), mountain range, extending northwards through Oregon and Washington into Brit. Columbia; principal peaks about 14,000 ft.; numerous extinct volcanoes; heavily and extensively wooded; name derived from cascades formed by Columbia River in cutting way through range.