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did landfcapes in watsr-colours extremely well, and was 
accounted an admirable draughtfman. 
COO'PER (John Gilbert),, of Thurgarton, in Not- 
tlnghamfliire, was the ion of a gentleman of fortune and 
family. After paffmg through Weftminfter-fchpol under 
Dr: Nichols, he became fellow-commoner of Trinity- 
College, Cambridge. He married Mifs Wright, daughter 
to the recorder of Leicefter, and fettled at his family feat. 
He died in April, 1769, after {offering' a long and excru¬ 
ciating illnefs ariling from the (tone. Belides the Life 
of Socrates, Cooper was author of Curfory Remarks on 
Warburton’s new Edition of Pope’s Works ; occafioned 
by that modern Commentator’s injurious Treatment, in 
one of his Notes upon the Effay on Criticifm, of the 
Author of the Life of Socrates, 1751, 8vo. He wrote 
Lome numbers of the periodical paper called the World ; 
was author of Ver Vert, or the Nunnery Parrot; an he¬ 
roic poem, in four cantos, tranflated from the French of 
Monf. Greffet, and publifhed a volume of poems on fe- 
veral fubjefts, 1764, Svo. reprinted in the fecond volume 
of Dodlley’s Fugitive Pieces. He wrote an elegant La¬ 
tin epitaph on an infant fon, who died the day after he 
was born, 1749. A Father’s Advice to his Son, by 
Cooper, is in the ’third volume of Pearch’s Colleftion. 
On the firft appearance of the Letters on Tafte, it was 
©bferved, that Cooper’s “ genius feemed to fhine more 
in defeription than in definition; that he had more of 
imagery than of fpeculation ; that his imagination was 
the ftrongeft talent of his mind; and that, if he had not 
attempted to offer any thing new on the l’ubjeft of taffe, 
he was always fo entertaining, fpirited, and fplendid, in 
his diftion, that the reader who is not inftrufted by him, 
cannot fail of beftig pleafed.” 
COO'PER (Dr. Miles), one of the minifters of the 
epifcopal chapel of Edinburgh, and formerly prefident of 
the college of New York. He was formerly of Queen’s- 
college, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. 
April 16, 1760, and D. C. L. by diploma, Feb. 25, 1767. 
He publifhed a volume of poems in 1758 ; and a fermon 
on the origin of civil government, preached before the 
univerfity of Oxford, on the Faff, 1777. He died at 
Edinburgh on the iff: of May, 1785. 
COO'PER, a large navigable river of North Ame¬ 
rica, which mingles its waters witli Afhley river, below 
Charleftown city, in South Carolina. Thefe form a fpa- 
cious and convenient harbour, which communicates with 
the ocean, juft below Sullivan’s illand, which it leaves 
on the north, feven miles fouth-eaft of the city. In thele 
rivers the tide riles fix feet and a half. Cooper river is 
a mile wide at the ferry, nine miles above Charleftown. 
COO'PER’s ISLAND, an illand on the north eoaft 
of the illand of Java, near Batavia. 
COO'PER’s ISLAND, one of the Virgin Illands, in 
the Weft Indies, about five miles long, and from one to 
two wide. Lat. 18. 7. N. Ion. 65. 57. W. Greenwich. 
COO'PER’s ISLAND, an illand in the South Pacific 
Ocean, near South Georgia. Lat. 74. c7- S. Ion. 26. 4. 
W. Greenwich. 
COO'PER’s TOWN, a poft-town of the American 
States, in Otfego county, New York. It is plealantly 
lituated at the fouth-weft end of the lake Otfego, on its 
banks, and thole of its outlet. It is .twelve miles north- 
weft of Cherry Valley, and leventy-three weft of Albany. 
Here are a court-houfe, jail, and academy. Lat. 42. 44. 
N. Ion. 74. 48. W. Greenwich. 
COO'PER’s TOWN, belonging to the American States, 
in Pennlylvania, fituated on the Sufquehannah river. This 
place, in 1785, was a wildernefs. Nine years after, it con¬ 
tained eighteen hundred inhabitants, a large and hand- 
fome church, a market-houfe, and a bettering-houle, or 
houfe ol induftry ; a library of twelve hundred volumes, 
and an academy of fixty-four fcholars. Four hundred and 
ieventy pipes were laid under ground, for the purpofe of 
bringing water from Weft Mountain, and conducing it 
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to every houfe in town, on the fame principle as the New 
River water-works near London, 
COO'PERAGE,yi The price paid for coopers’work. 
A place where coopers’ work is done. 
To CO-O'PERATE, v. n. [aw and opera, Lat.] To 
labour jointly with another to the fame end : it lias with 
before the agent, and to before the end..—By giving a 
man a free will, he allows man that liigheft fatisfaftion 
and privilege of co-operating to his own felicity. Boyle .— 
To concur in producing the fame eftetl.—All thefe caufes 
co-operating, muff, at laft, weaken their motion. C/icyve .—1 
The fpecial afts and impreflions by which the Divine 
Spirit introduces this change, and how far human liberty 
co-operates with it, are fubjedf s beyond our comprehenfion, 
Rogers. 
CO-OPERA'TION, f The aft of contributing or 
concurring to the lame end.—We might work any eifeft 
without and againft matter ; and this not holpen by the 
co-operation of angels or fpirits, but only by the unity and 
harmony of nature. Bacon. 
CO-O'PERATIVE, adj. Promoting the fame end 
jointly. 
CO-OPERA'TOR,/. He that, by joint endeavours, 
promotes the fame end with others. 
CO-OPTA'TION, J'. Ico-opto, Lat.] Adoption; af- 
fumption. 
CO-OR'DINATE, adj. [ con and ordinatus , Lat. ] Hold¬ 
ing the fame rank ; not being fubordinate. Thus fhell- 
filh may be divided into two co-ordinate kinds, cruftaceous, 
and teftaceous ; each of which is again divided into many 
fpecies , fub-ordinate to the kind, but co-ordinate to each 
other.—The word analyfis fignifies the general and par¬ 
ticular heads of a difeourfe, with their mutual connexions, 
both co-ordinate and fub-ordinate, drawn out into one or 
more tables. Watts. 
CO-OR'DINATELY, adv. In the fame rank ; in the 
fame relation; without fubordination. 
CO-OR'DINATENESS, J. The ftate of being co¬ 
ordinate. 
CO-ORDINA'TION, f. The ftate of holding the 
fame rank; of Handing in the fame relation to fomething 
higher ; collateralnefs.—In the high court of parliament 
there is a rare co-ordination of power, a wholefome mixture 
betwixt monarchy, optimacy, and democracy. Howell. 
COOR'GA, a country of Hindooftan, fituated to the 
weft of Myfore : it is full of mountains and forefts, which 
fhelter innumerable hyaenas, tigers, and elephants. In 
the woods are found the fandal, and other valuable trees, 
with the richelt fpices of the eaft : the foil is fertile, and 
the climate temperate. Periapatan was formerly the ca¬ 
pital ; but the raja has lately refided at Mercara. 
COOS, or Cohos, the country called Upper and 
Lower Coos, lies on Connecticut river, between twenty 
and forty miles above Dartmouth college. Upper Coos 
is the country fouth of Upper Amonoofuck river, on 
John and Ifrael rivers. Lower Coos lies below the town 
of Haverhill, fouth of the Lower Amonoofuck. The 
diftance from Upper Coos, to the tide in Kennebeck ri¬ 
ver, was meafured in 1793, and was found to be but 
ninety miles. 
COOS-BAYHAR, a town of Hindooftan, in the coun¬ 
try of Bengal : thirty miles weft of Rangamutty. The 
Eaft-India company had formerly a factory at Coos-Bay- 
har, for the purpofe of extending their commerce to 
Affam, and other adjacent countries. This town was at 
that time fiercely attacked by the Bootanners, a favage 
race, who had never met in the plains any other than 
the timid Hindoos flying naked before them. Their 
aftonifhment was therefore great, when they faw, for the 
firft time, a body of troops uniformly clothed and accou¬ 
tred, moving in regular order, and led on by men of 
complexion, dreffed, and with features fuch as they never 
beheld before ; and then the management of the artil¬ 
lery, and inceftant fire of the mulketry, was beyond any 
