and a village of the same name, on the opposite
side of the river, contains 362 inhabitants more.

Cognac, a town of France, in the department of
Charente, with a castle, where Francis 1. was born.
It is celebrated for excellent br i.nly, and seated
on the Charente, 17 m. west of Angouleme, and
40 east by south of Rochefort.

Cogne, a town of Piedmont, in a valley, and on
a river of the same name. The mountains which
surround it are rich in mines of iron and copper.
It is six miles south of Aosta.

Cogni, or Konieh, a city of Turkey, capital of
Caramania, and the see of a G reek archbishop.
The walls have 108 square towers at 40 paces dis-
tance from each other; and it has two large suburbs,
into one of which the caravans and strangers re-
tire. It has upwards of 100 mosques, and though
much declined of late years, it is still a place of
great trade, and seated on the east side of a ridge
of lofty mountains, in a country abounding in
corn, fruit, pulse, and cattle, 280 m. S. E. of Con-
stantinople, and about the same distance due east
of Smyrna.

Cohasset, a town on the south coast of Massa-
chusetts Bay, just without the entrance to Boston
harbour, 25 m. S. W. of Boston. Cohasset has a
tolerably good harbour; but a ledge of rocks at
its entrance renders its approach dangerous. Pop.
1,227.

Cohoes Falls, a village eight miles due north of
Albany, in New York : it is seated on the brinks
of the Mohawk River, over which is a bridge,
about a mile and a half above its entrance into the
Hudson : about three-quarters of a mile higher up,
the Mohawk, being about 350 yards wide, pours
down its waters over a precipice in an unbroken
sheet, a height of 70 feet perpendicular and next
to Niagara, forms the grandest cascade in the state
of New York.

Coimbetorc, a province of the peninsula of Hin-
doostan, lying south of Mysore, to which it was
lately subject, but ceded to the English on the
final defeat ofTippoo in 1799. It is 110 miles
long and 70 broad ; and is divided by the river
Noyelar into two districts, North and South, of
which Bhawanikudal and Daraporam are the chief
towns.

Coimbetore, a town of Hindoostan, the ancient
capital of the province of the same name. It was
taken by general Meadows in 1790, and retaken
in 1791 by Tippoo, who soon after destroyed the
fort. It contains 2,000 houses, an extensive mud
palace, and a tolerable mosque, built by Tippoo,
who sometimes resided here ; but it has no large
temple. The palace now serves as a barrack for
a regiment of British cavalry. The chief manu-
factures are muslins, and cotton cloths; and these,
with cotton wool and thread, tobacco, sugar, and
betel leaf are the principal articles of trade. It is
100 m. S. bv E. of Seringapatam. Long. 77. 6.
E. lat. 11. 0. N.

Coimbra, a citv of Portugal, capital of Beira,
and a bishop’s see, with a celebrated university,
the only one in Portugal, transferred hither from
Lisbon in 1306, where it was originally founded
in 1290. The cathedral is magnificent, beside
which there are nine churches, and eight con-
vents. It stands on a mountain, on the river
Mondego, over which is an elegant bridge about
25 miles above its entrance into the sea, 100 m. N.
E. of Lisbon. It suffered considerably by the
great earthquake in 1755. Pop. about 12,000.

Coire, or Chur, a town of Switzerland, capital
of the canton of the Grisons. and a bishop’s see
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It is surrounded by ancient brick walls, with
square and round towers, and divided into two
parts, the least of which is of the catholic religion
and the greatest of the protestant. The French
surprised and defeated the Austrian army at this
place in 1799. It is seated between two moun-
tains, on the river Plessur, near the Rhine, 65 m.
S. by W. of Constance, and contributes to render
Coire a place of considerable traffic. It was the
birthplace of Angelica Kauffman, the female pain-
ter.

Coitsville, a township in Trumbull Co. Ohio.

Coiking, a city of China, of the first rank, in
the N. W. part of the province Yu-nan, 1,160
m. S. S. AV. of Pekin.

Colalico, t. Lancaster Co. P a.

Colapoor, a small independent state of Hindoos-
tan on the coast of the Concan, bounded on the
south by the Portuguese territory of Goa. The ra-
jah of this district pretends to be descended from
the founder of the Mahratta empire. The na-
tives were formerly celebrated for their piracies;
Vingorla, the principal town, is in lat. 16. N.

Colar, or Coloram, a town of Hindoostan, in
Mysore, with a large mud fort, and the remains
of a hill-fort. It is the birth-place of Hyder Aly,
who erected here a handsome mausoleum for his
father; and near it is a mosque, and a college of
of Mussulman priests. The chief manufactures
are cotton cloths and muslins. It is 40. m. E.
N. E. of Bangalore, and 140 W. of Madras.
Long. 78. 9. E. lat. 13. 9. N.

Colbene, a town of Tripoli, on the S. W. part
of the Gulf of Sidra, 90 m. S. S. E. of Messurata.

Colberg, a fortified seaport of Further Pomera-
nia. It has a collegiate church, good linen man-
ufactures. and considerable saltworks. The Rus-
sians laid siege to this town in 1758 and 1769,
without success ; but it surrendered to them after
a long siege in 1761, and was restored at the sub-
sequent peace. It is seated at the mouth of the
Persant on the Baltic, 60 m. N. E. of Stettin.
Long. 15. 36. E. lat. 54. 9. N.

Colckagua, the ninth in order of the provinces
of Chile extending from the Pacific Ocean to the
Andes, in the lat. of 34. 30. S.’ It is intersected
by two or three rivers, falling into the Pacific;
but it has no port or harbour of note. Pop. about

15,000. San Fernando, about 50 miles from the
sea, and 100 south of St. Jago, is the chief town.

Colchester, a borough and market town in the
county of Essex, Eng. pleasantly situate on a
gentle eminence, on the west bank of the river
Colne, about eight miles above its entrance into
the English Channel. It is a place of antiquity,
supposed to have been a Roman station ; and was
formerly surrounded by a wall, some vestiges of
which still remain, and contained a castle of
great strength, supposed to have been built by a
son of Alfred the Great, the remains of which
now serve for a house of correction for petty of-
fenders. Prior to the civil war, in the time of
Oliver Cromwell, the wall, castle, and fortifica-
tions were entire, and held out with great obsti-
nacy against the parliamentary forces, until after
Charles I. was beheaded in 1648, in which year
it surrendered. The town sustained great dam-
age during the siege. It is now by far the larg-
est and most important town in the county, and
has undergone great improvement within the
present century; a spacious quay has been con-
structed, and the river made navigable up to the
town for vessels of 90 to 100 tons burthen. It is
a port of entry for vessels from foreign parts, and
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