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idea they could have before conceived of it. On the 
other hand, our people found themfelves engaged with 
a race. of rnen unlike all their former opponents in India, 
uncouth in their appearance, and fierce in their alfault, 
wrapped in furs, and 'armed with bows and arrows, and 
other weapon^ peculiar to the natives Of Bootan. They 
were feverely beaten by the Englilh, and quite driven 
out of the country of Bengal, which they had long 
ir.fefled. 
COO'SA, or Coosa Hatcha, a river which rifes in 
the high lands of the Cherokees’ country, and, joining 
Tailapoofe, forms Alabama river. Itscourfe is generally 
fouth, running through the country of the Natchez, and 
other tribes of the Upper Creeks, the roughed and mod 
broken of the whole nation. It is rapid, and full of 
rocks and fhoals, hardly navigable for canoes. 
COO'SA HATCHEE, or Coosaw, a river of South 
Carolina, which rifes in Orangeburg dibrift, and running 
a fouth-fouth-wed courfe, empties into Broad river and 
Whale Branch, which feparate Beaufort Idand from the 
main land. 
COOSA'DES, an Indian town on Alabama river, 
about dxty miles above its mouth, on Mobile river ; 
below Mac Gillivray’s town, and oppofite the mouth of 
the Oakfufkee. 
COOSAWAT'CHIE, or Coosah atchie, a pod-town 
in Beaufort didrift, South' Carolina, dtuated on the 
fo.uth-wed fide of Coofa river, over which a bridge lias 
b,een lately ereCtcd. It is a fiourilhing pi we, having 
about forty hotifes, a court-houfe, and jail. The courts 
formerly held at Beaufort, are held here. It is thirty- 
three miles from Beaufort, and feventy-feven web-fouth- 
vv;ed of Charledown. 
COO'SY, or Cosa, a river of Afia, which rifes in the 
mountains of Thibet, and runs into the Ganges, twenty 
miles Cad of Boglipour, in the country of Ballar. 
COOT, /. [maer-koet, Dut. cotec, Fr. ] A fmall black 
water-fowl, common in fens and marflies. See Fulica. 
A lake, the haunt, 
Of coots, and of the fibring cormorant. Drydert. 
COOTE (Sir Eyre), born in 172 6 • and, having at an 
early period devoted himfelf to arms, ferved in his 111a- 
jedy’s troops during the rebellion in 1745. In the be¬ 
ginning of 1754, the regiment under colonel Aldercon, 
tq which dr Eyre Coote belonged, embarked from Ire¬ 
land for the Ead Indies. In January, 1757, fir Eyre, then 
a captain, was ordered by admiral Watfon to take pof- 
feflion of Calcutta, furrendered by the nabob, of which 
he was appointed governor, but of which he was almod 
immediately difpolfefled by colonel Clive, who claimed 
to be the fuperior officer. He was afterwards employed 
in the reduction of Houghley, and of Chandernagore. At 
the battle of Plalfey, in June, he fignalized himfelf fo 
much as to be entitled to a condderable (hare of the ho¬ 
nour of that important viftory. In July, being then a ma¬ 
jor, he was detached with a party in purfuit of Monf.Law, 
who had collected together the difperfed French; which 
expedition, though it did not fucceed as to its principal 
objeCt, .the capture of Mr. Law, was yet attended with 
advantages both to the company and tiie country at large. 
In the fame year, general Lally threatening the fiege of 
Trinchinopoly, major Coote, then become a colonel, 
drew together what forces he could, and inveded Wande- 
waffi, which he took the 30th of November, in three 
days. Knowing the advantage of this place, general 
I,ally attempted to retake it, which brought on .an en¬ 
gagement the 22d of July, 1760, in which the French 
troops were entirely routed, and, with their general, lied 
in defpair to Pondicherry. The dege of this place com¬ 
menced on the 26th of November, and was carried on 
with unremitted diligence until the middle of January, 
1761, when the Englifi; forces took polfeifion of this im¬ 
portant town ; the garrifon, confiding, of fourteen hun¬ 
dred European foldiers, became prifoners of war ; and a 
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vad quantity of military bores, and great riches, were 
given up at diferetien to the victors. This was the dnal 
blow to the French power in India. On tire colonel’s re¬ 
turn to England the next year, he was prefented by the 
court of directors with a diamond-hiked fword, which 
cod feven hundred pounds, as a tedimony of gratitude 
for the important fervices he had done. At the clofe of 
1769, or very early in 1770, he was appointed commander 
in chief of the Ead-India company’s forces in India. He 
l-eached Madras in 1770, but left that place a gain-in Oc¬ 
tober to proceed to BuTorah, from whence he profecutcd 
his journey to Europe over-land. On the 31b of Augud, 
1771, he was inveded with the order of the Bath ; and 
in March, 1773, was made colonel of the 37th regiment 
of foot. On the death of general Clavering in the Ead. 
Indies, fir Eyre Coote was appointed a member of the 
fupreme council at Bengal, and commander of the Bri- 
tifii troops. In 1780, Hyder Ally having invaded the 
Carnatic, general Coote was lent againd him. About 
July 1781, he, with ten thoufand men, Europeans and 
natives, defeated Hyder’s army, confiding of more than- 
one hundred and fifty thoufapd, near Porto Novo. This 
was the fil'd check of moment given to his career; and, 
during the fucceeding progrefs of the war, Hyder was re¬ 
peatedly defeated byfir Eyre Coote. In 1783, the public 
fervice again requiring his prefence in the Carnatic, he, 
though in a dying date, again left Calcutta for Madras, 
in order to re-alFume the command of the army upon that 
coab. He arrived at Madras the 24th of April, 1783, 
and died two days after. His corpfe was fent to England, 
and landed the 2d of September, 1784, and depodted in 
the chapel at Plymouth pntil the 7th, when it proceeded 
to Wed Park, the family feat in Hampfhire, and was from 
thence removed on the 14th for interment in:the parifli- 
church of Rockwood. 
COOT'EHILL, a town of Ireland, in the county of 
Cavan : eleven miles north-ead’of Cavan. 
COOT'WICH (John), of Utrecht, doCtor in the ca¬ 
non and civil laws. After having traverfed feveral coun¬ 
tries of Europe, he travelled into Ada, went to Palebine, 
and vidted with great particularity all the places that had 
any thing to attraCt his curiolity. The account of his 
travels in the Levant appeared in 1619, under the title of 
Travels into Jerufalem and Syria, in Latin, 4to. This 
work, now become fcarce, is curious, from the various 
particulars it contains, on the manners and cudoms of the 
Levantines. 
COP, J. [_kop, Dut. cop, Sax.] The head; the top of 
any thing; any thing riling to a head : as, a cop , vulgarly 
a cock, of hay ; a cob-caJUc, properly cop-cajllc, a fmall cable 
or houfe on a hill ; a cob of cherry-bones, for cop, .a pile 
of bones one laid upon another; a tuft on the head of 
birds. 
CO'PAIBA, or Balsam of Capivi, /. a liquid-refin- 
ous juice, flowing from the inciflons made in the trunk 
of the copaifera balfamum. See Balsam. 
COPAI'FERA, /. [from copaiva, the Indian name, 
and fero, to bear.] In botany, a genus of the clafs decan- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order of legurninofae. The 
generic characters are—Calyx: none. Corolla: petals 
four, oblong, acute, concave, very fpreading. Stamina: 
filaments ten, filiform, incurved, a little longer than the 
corall^ ; anthene oblong, incumbent. Pidillum : germ 
round, comprefled, fiat, pedicelled; flyle' filiform, in- 
curvate, length of the damens ; digma obtufe. Pericar- 
pium : legume ovate, bivalve, pointed with part of the 
dyle. Seed: dngle, ovate, involved by a berried aril.— 
EJfential CkaraEitr. Calyx, none; petals, four; legume 
ovate; feed, one, with a berried aril. 
There is but one fpecies, called copaifera officinalis, 
qr balfam of capivi tree. This is a lofty elegant tree, 
with a handfome head; the extreme branches at the axils 
are flexuofe, and have a fmoothidi bark of a. brownifh 
afh colour. Leaves alternate,, pinnate, the midrib or 
rachis round, and four inches long; leaflets three or four 
