Catadupa
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A catadupa, or catadupe, is a cataract or waterfall, originally those of the Nile. The term catadupae refers to people inhabiting near such cataracts; there are suppositions that these people are deaf due to the constant din.
This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain. [1]