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have fpenr-fhaped leaves four inches long and’ one inch 
broad in the middle, on fiiort petioles; the leaves on 
the upper branches arc much narrower, and .end in acute 
points. The flowers are purple, and are produced in 
round bunches at the end of the ^ranches. Browne fays, 
that it feldom rifes above fixteen or twenty inches in 
height; that the (talk is generally pretty finirde below the 
middle, but towards the top throws out many branches, 
which reach nearly to an equal height, and carry their 
flowers in a lhady fpreading form at the top ; that the 
fmell is agreeable, and that it is kept by fome people 
among their clothes, to preferve them froth moths and 
other inl'cfts. Native of Jamaica, in the low marfliy 
lands. 
43. Conyza rigida, or ftiff fleabane : leaves petioled, 
obovate, entire, rugged, veined underneath, fpikes flex- 
uofe, flowers in pairs, all directed the fame way. Na¬ 
tive of Jamaica. 
Propagation and Culture. Common great fleabane, being 
a native, is feldom allowed a place in gardens. If the 
feeds be permitted to fcatter, the plants will come up 
the following fpring, and require no other care but to 
keep them clean from weeds. The thirteenth fort, rarely 
producing ripe feeds in this country,'is propagated here 
by flips, which, if taken from the old plants in June, 
and planted on an eaft-afpe£ted border, and covered 
with hand-glafles, will take root in fix or eight weeks. 
Thefe flips mult be frequently, but gently, refrefhed 
with water, and the-glaifes fliould be fiiaded in hot wea¬ 
ther; and, after they have been planted a fortnight, the 
glafies fhould be raifed on one fide to admit air to the 
cuttings ; and when they have taken root, they fhould 
be gradually expofed to the open air. In autumn thefe 
fliould be carefully taken up, preferving the earth to 
their roots ; fome of them may be planted in pots, that 
they may be fheltered under a frame in the winter; and 
the others fliould be planted in a warm border of dry 
poor earth, where they will endure the cold of our or¬ 
dinary winters very well, and continue many years. This 
is preferved in gardens, more for the beauty of its filvery 
leaves than its flowers, which have not much to recom¬ 
mend them. 
6, 7, 10 to 12, 14 to 21, 22 to 24, 27, 31 to 43. Thefe 
are too tender to thrive in the open air in this country ; 
the feeds therefore mud be fown upon a hot-bed the be¬ 
ginning of April, and when the gdants are fit to remove, 
they mull be each tranfplanted into a fmooth pot filled 
with light fandy earth, and plunged into a hot-bed, ob- 
ferving to fereen them from the lun till they have taken 
new root ; then they mufl have free air admitted to 
them every day, in proportion to the warmth of the fea- 
fen ; they muft alfo be frequently watered in warm wea¬ 
ther, but they fhould not have it in too great plenty. 
As the plants advance in ftrength, they muft have a 
greater fhare of air; and, if the feafon is warm, they 
may be expofed to the open air for a few .weeks in the 
heat of fummer, provided they are placed in a warm 
fi-tuation ; but, if the nights prove cold, or much wet 
fhould fall, they muft be removed into flicker ; if thefe 
plants are placed in a moderate ftove in winter, they will 
thrive better than in greater heat; and in fummer they 
fhould have a large fliare of air. With this management 
the plants will flower well in July ; but in general they 
will not perfect their feeds here. See Baccharis, Bi- 
d.ens,Buphthalmum, Cacalia, Chrysocom^, Cine¬ 
raria, Erigeron, Eupatorium, Gnaphalium, Inu¬ 
la, Pteronia, Senecio, Stoebe, Tarccnanthus., 
and Calea Lobata. 
CONYZBL'LA,y; in botany. See Erigeron. 
CONY'ZIS AFFI'NIS,/! in botany. See Inula.. 
CONYZOI'DES, [ in botany. See Erigeron. 
CONZ. See Consarbruck. 
CON'ZA, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and province of Principato Ultra, of which it is con- 
fidered the capital; fituated at the foot of the Apen- 
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nines, near the head of the Ofanto ; the fee of an arch- 
bifhop. Its principal commerce is marble : forty-eight- 
mileseaftof Naples. Lat.40. 50. N. Ion. 32. 56. E. Ferro. 
To COO, v.n. [from the found. J To cry as a dove or 
pigeon : 
The ftockdove only through the foreft cooes, 
Mournfully hoarfe. Thomfon. 
COOK , f. [coquus, Lat. ] One whofe profeffion is to 
drefs and prepare vicStuals for the table.—Their cooks 
could make artificial birds and fiflies, in default of the 
real ones, and which exceeded them in the exquifitenefs 
ofthetafte. Arbuthnot. 
COOK-MAID, /. A maid that drefies provifions.—- 
A friend was complaining to me, that his wife had turned 
off one of the beft cook-maids in England. Addifon. 
COOK-ROOM, /: A room on-board in which provi¬ 
fions are prepared for the lliip’s crew. The kitchefi of a 
fhip.—The commodity of this new cook-room the mer¬ 
chants having found to be fo. great, as that in all their 
lhips the cook-roovts are built in their fore-caftles, contrary 
to that which had been anciently ufed. Raleigh. 
To COOK, v. a. [coquo, Lat.] To prepare viftuals for 
the table.—Had either of the crimes been cooked to their 
palates, they might have changed mefles. Decay of Piety. 
—To prepare for any purpofe.—Hanging is the word, 
fir ; if you be ready for that, you are well cook’d. Shake/'. 
COOK (James), the celebrated circumnavigator, born 
October 27, 1728, at Marton in Cleveland, a village near 
Great Ayton, in the county of York. His father was a 
day-labourer, and afterwards employed as a bail iff to the 
late Thomas Scottowe, efquire, having the charge ot a. 
confiderable farm in that neighbourhood, known by the 
name of Airy holm. As the father continued long in that 
truft, young Cook was employed in afiifting him in va¬ 
rious kinds of hufbandry fuited to his years, until the 
age of thirteen. At that period he was put under the 
care of Mr. Pullen, a fchoolmafter who taught at Ayton, 
where he learned arithmetic, book-keeping, See. and is 
laid to have fltewn a very early genius'for figures. About 
January 1745, at the age of feventeen, his father bound 
him to the grocery and haberdafhery bufineis, at Snaith, 
a populous fiihing-town about ten miles irom Whitby ; 
but after a year and a half’s fervitude, having contracted 
a ftrong propenfity to the fea, he prevailed with his 
mailer to give up his indentures. In July 1746, he was 
bound to Mr. J. Walker of W r hitby, for the term of 
three years, which he ferved with fidelity. He firft failed 
on-board the ihip Freelove, chiefly employed in the coal 
trade from Newcaftle to London. In May 1748, Mr-. 
Walker ordered him home to affift in rigging and fitting 
for fea a fine new fhip, named the Three Brothers. This 
was (lefigned as a favour to him, as it would greatly 
contribute to his knowledge in his bufinefs. In this, 
vellel he failed from Whitby in the latter end of June. 
After two voyages, the fhip was taken into the fervice 
of government, and fent as a tranfport to Middleburgh, 
to cav-ry fome troops from thence to Dublin. When thefe 
were landed, another corps was taken on-board, and 
brought over to Liverpool. From thence the fit ip pro. 
ceeded to Deptford, where fhe was paid off fn April, 
1749. The remaining part of the feafon the veflel was 
employed in the Norway trade. 'In the fpring of 1750, 
Mr. Cook flipped himfelf as a fieaman on-board the 
Maria of Whitby, under the command of captain Gafkin. 
In her he continued all that' year in the Baltic trade. In 
February, 175-2, Mr. Walker made him mate of one of 
his veflels,. called the Friendfhip ; in which ftation he 
continued till June, 1753, in the coal trade. Soon after 
this he entered on-board his majefty’s fli.ip Eagle, of 
thirty guns, “ having a mind,” as he expreffed himfelf, 
“ to try his fortune thSt way.” Not long after, he ap¬ 
plied to Mr. Walker for a letter of recommendation to 
the captain of the frigate, which was readily granted-. 
On the receipt of this he got fome fmall preferment; 
and. 
