CATTARAUGES, a co. in w. New York, on the Pennsylvania border, watered by the Allegheny and other rivers, and intersected by the New York and Erie and the Atlantic and Great Western railroads, and the Genesee Valley canal; 1250 sq.m.; pop. '75, 47,130. The surface is undulating and the soil fruitful. The chief products are wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, hay, cheese, butter, wool, hops, and maple sugar. Iron, manganese. marl, peat, and sulphur are found. Co. seat, Little Valley.
CArTARO, a t. of Austria, in the crown-land of Dalmatia, is situated at the head of the gulf of ('attaro, about 36 in. s.e. of Ragusa. It is strongly fortified, and surrounded on all sides by mountains. The castle, a massive and almost inaccessible building, stands on a precipitous rock immediately behind the town. C. has a cathedral several churches and hospitals, and a population of 3,000. C., which was at one time the capital of a small republic, was in 1807 annexed to the kingdom of Italy, but was handed over to Austria in 1814 by the treaty of Vienna.—CATTAItO, GULF OF, or Bocca DI
OATTAtio, an inlet of the Adriatic, near the s. extremity of the Dalmatian coast. It consists of three basins or lakes. connected by straits of about half a mile in breadth. The outer entrance is only a mile and a half wide, and the total length of the gulf is about 30 miles. Mountains protect it from all winds, and it has a depth of from 15 to 20 fathoms.
or KATTEGAT (Sinus Codanus), the bay or arm of the sea situated between the e. coast of Jraland and the w. coast of Sweden, to the n. of the Danish islands. It is connected with the Baltic sea by the Great and Little Belt (q.v.). and by the sound. The Skager Rack (q.v.) connects it with the North sea. The length of the C. is about 150 in . and its greatest breadth 85 miles. It is of unequal depth, and has dangerous sand-hanks. The principal islands are LasOe. Sainsoe, and Anhalt. The Danish shores of the C. are low, but the Swedish shore is very steep and rocky.