Ca'no, Alonzo

a Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect; he was surnamed the "Michael Angelo" of Spain. His colo al statues of St. Peter and St. Paul were so admirably executed, that foreign artists from all parts travelled to see and copy them. Unhappily, in the midst of his triumph and celebrity, he became the victim of a horrible suspicion. During his absence from home, his wife was murdered and his house robbed by an Italian servant; and C. being suspected, was put to the rack. The torture itself could not shake his firmne , and as there was no evidence against him, he was released. He then entered the Church; and although he strictly attended to his religious duties, his love of the arts was unabated, and the "ruling pa ion" was so strong, that on his death-bed he averted his face from the crucifix of his confe or, because it was illy carved. B. 1600; D. 1664. Ca'no, in Iowa, a township of Iowa co.; pop. about 400. Canoe, ( ka - noo',) n. [Of Indian origin.] A small boat used by uncivilized nations, and usually formed of the body or trunk of a tree, excavated by cutting or by burning, and then trimmed into a suitable shape. Sometimes the C. is made of the tough bark of trees ingeniously sewed together, and the fi ures and joints filled up with bitumen: others are made of seal-skins stretched out by ribs and bars of whalebone; and others again of frames of wicker-work, covered with skins or hides. The C. is adapted to receive either one or twenty occupants; it is generally impelled by paddles instead of oars, made with large blades like wooden shovels, and used perpendicularly. The C. used by the Canadian Indian is remarkably light and fragile, and though made of bark not more than a quarter of an inch in thickne , he will fearle ly trust himself on the mighty rivers of his country, permit himself to be sucked into the rapids, and flashing onwards as if riding the lightning, shoots the roaring cataract, and after some moments lost in mist and foam, emerges from the seething caldron a hundred feet below, dancing on the heaving pool like a sea-bird, and dashing the tide in sprays of silver from his merged wings. Some nations and tribes display great ingenuity in the construction of their C., and join the bark or skin so neatly, by means of long gra or shreds of sinews for thread, as almost to defy discovery of the seam. The Esquimaux extends his skins so artistically, both at bottom and top, as to form for himself a deck, leaving only a round hole for his body to enter, so that when seated his legs are under the deck, which then comes level with his middle. These are called raiak , or man-boats; while the larger, undecked C. are denominated umiak , or the woman-boats, from being used to transport the females and domestic appurtenances. The paddle to this C. is about 10 feet long, and flat at both ends. In the South Sea, the natives, in addition to their small fishing-boats, have large C., consisting, in fact, of two long C. firmly united by means of a stage or platform that rests on the gunwale of each, and on which they can step either one or two masts, to expand their straw mats in the shape of lateen sails; or they are propelled by the paddles, a row of natives being placed on each side to propel the ve el through the water. Such double C. are used either for mercantile purposes or as war-ships, the great sweep of deck admitting the conveyance of a considerable number of warriors. See also CANOEING, in SECTION II. Canoe', in Iowa, a township of Winneshiek co., 30 m. W. of Lansing. Canoe, in Pennsylvania, a township of Indiana county. Canoe Creek, in Alabama, flows into Coosa river, through St. Clair co. Canoe Place, or New'man's Mills, in Pennsyl vania , a village of Indiana co., on Susquehanna River, 70 m. from Pittsburg. Cano'ga, in New York, a post-village of Fayette township, Seneca co., 10 m. S.E. of Waterloo,