CAUDEBEC-LES-ELBETIF, a t. of France, in the department of Seine-Inferieure, 12 m. s. of Rouen. It has manufactures of cloth, and a pop. of (1876)11,338.—CAI,DEBEO is also the name of a t. in the same department, situated on the right bank of the Seine, 26 m. e. of Havre. It is one of the prettiest and most picturesque little towns on the Seine, with its old wooden houses and elm-shaded quays. It has a fine Gothic church of the 15th c., and manufactures of cotton, sail-cloth, leather, and soap. Formerly the capital of the Pays de Caux, C. was strongly fortified; and in 1419, so obstinate was its resist ance, that it took the great English gen., Talbot, 6 months to capture it. Pop. '76, 1951.
CAITDElg, a t. of Murcia, Spain, 50 m. e.s.e. of Albacete. The inhabitants, 5,500 in number, are chiefly engaged in agricultural pursuits. C. is also the name of a small place in New Castile, a few miles from Teruel, where there are some of the largest bone deposits, fossilized and unfossilized, in Europe.
CAlTDINE FORKS (Furcuke Gaudin), two high, narrow, and wooded mountain gorges near the town of Candium, in ancient Samnium, on the boundary towards Cam pania. These gorges are celebrated on account of the defeat here suffered by the Romans
in the second Samnite war (321 B. C.). Four Roman legions commanded by the two con suls Titus Veturius and Spurius Postmnius, after marching through a narrow pass, found themselves locked in a spacious valley, surrounded on all sides by lofty moun tains, with no way out save that by which they entered, and another pass on the opposite side. Attempting to defile through the latter, they found it blocked up with trees and stones, and commanded by the Samnites, who had also in the mean time made themselves masters of the other pass. Consequently, the four legions were compelled to encamp in the valley. After some days, famine compelled them to surrender uncondi tionally. The Samnite gen., Caius Pontius, according to old custom, compelled the Romans to pass under the yoke, and then permitted them to march back. This submis sion was regarded as too ignominious for Rome, and consequently the two consuls and the other commanders were delivered again into the hands of the Samnites, who, how ever, refused to have them.