not good enough to send to market, neither
will the cider made from it be good enough to place before the public.
Nevertheless, it may furnish a sufficiently palatable drink for home
consumption, and may therefore be so utilized. But when, as happens from
time to time in fruit-growing districts, there is a glut, and even the
best table fruit is not saleable at a profit, then, indeed, cider-making
is a means of storing in a liquid form what would otherwise be left to
rot on the ground; whilst if a proportion of vintage fruit were mixed
therewith, a drink would be produced which would not discredit the cider
trade, and would bring a fair return to the maker. (C. W. R. C.)

CIENFUEGOS, NICASIO ALVAREZ DE (1764-1809), Spanish poet and publicist,
was born at Madrid on the 14th of December 1764. He studied with
distinction at Salamanca, where he met the poet Melendez Valdes. His
poems, published in 1778, immediately attracted attention. He was
successively editor of the _Gaceta_ and _Mercurio_, and was condemned to
death for having published an article against Napoleon; on the petition
of his friends, he was respited and deported to France; he died at
Orthez early in the following year. His verses are modelled on those of
Melendez Valdes; though not deficient in technique or passion, they are
often disfigured by spurious sentimentality and by the flimsy philosophy
of the age. Cienfuegos was blamed for an unsparing use of both archaisms
and gallicisms. His plays, _Pitaco, Zoraida, La Condesa de Castilla_ and
_Idomeneo_, four tragedies on the pseudo-classic French model, and _Las
Hermanas generosas_, a comedy, are deservedly forgotten.

CIENFUEGOS (originally FERNANDINA DE JAGUA), one of the principal cities
of Cuba, in Santa Clara province, near the central portion of the S.
coast, 195 m. E.S.E. of Havana. Pop. (1907) 30,100. Cienfuegos is served
by the United railways and by steamers connecting with Santiago,
Batabano, Trinidad and the Isle of Pines. It lies about 6 m. from the
sea on a peninsula in the magnificent landlocked bay of Jagua. Vessels
drawing 16 ft. have direct access to the wharves. A circular railway
about the water-front, wharves and warehouses facilitates the loading
and unloading of vessels. The city streets are broad and regularly laid
out. There is a handsome cathedral; and the Tomas Terry theatre (given
to the city by the heirs of one of the millionaire sugar planters of the
jurisdiction),