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bounded on the north by the county of Limerick, on the 
eaft by the counties of Tipperary"and Waterford, on the 
iouth, fouth-eaft, and fouth-weft, by the fea, and on the 
weft by the county of Kerry ; ninety-nine Englifh miles 
in length, and l'eventy-one in breadth. It contains 269 
parilhes, 76,739 houfes, and 416,000 fouls. The county 
contains more l’oii that is good than bad, and forne parts 
of the county are highly cultivated ; the whole is hilly, 
and, a few places excepted, barren of timber. The prin¬ 
cipal towns are Cork, Kinfale, Youghal, Mallow, Do- 
neraile, and Bandon-bridge ; the principal rivers are 
Bandon, Blackwater, and Lee, which is the moll con- 
fiderable. 
CORK, a city of Ireland, and capital of the county of 
that name, the fee of a bifhop, united with Rofs, fuffra- 
gan of the archbilhop of Calhel, lituated on an ifland in 
the river Lee, with two large ftone bridges over the prin¬ 
cipal branches of the river. The fee of Cork is reputed 
worth two thoufand feven hundred pounds a-year. The 
chapter confifts of a dean, chanter, chancellor, treafurer, 
archdeacon, and twelve prebendaries. The church is 
dedicated to St. Barr, or Finbarr; and the diocefe is di¬ 
vided into five deaneries. There is very little to be found 
in ancient writers concerning the foundation of the cathe¬ 
dral of Cork; yet it is generally afcribed to St. Barr in 
the feventh century. Many of its bilhops have been 
great benefactors to it. Through length of time, the 
church became quite ruinous; but, between the years 
1725 and 1735, it was completely rebuilt, and is now an 
elegant modern ftruclure. To defray the expence, the 
then Irifh parliament laid a tax on all coals coni timed 
in the city. In confequence of this fpirit of liberality, 
the city itfelf became much improved and enlarged, 
feveral broad ftreets have been added, by filling up the 
canals that formerly ran through them, and they are now 
built up with elegant houfes : tire parade is very fpacious, 
and is adorned with an equeftrian llatue of George II. It 
is partly lituated on feveral iflands, formed by the river 
Lee, which are banked and quayed in, fomewhat like the 
towns in Holland; and partly on riling grounds, on the 
north and fouth lides of the river. The earl of Marl¬ 
borough befieged and took this city from king James’s 
army in 1690; when the duke of Grafton, who ferved 
as a volunteer, was llain in the attack. It contains about 
eight thoufand fix hundred houles, and upwards of feventy 
thoufand inhabitants. Befides its ftately cathedral, it is 
adorned with feveral handfome parilh churches. It lias 
alfo an elegant exchange for the merchants, a new and 
beautiful cullom-houfe, a town-hall, feveral noble hof- 
pitals, and various other public ftruCfures. The city 
polfelfes an annual revenue of about one thoufand three 
hundred pounds, out of which the mayor enjoys for his 
falary, and the fupport of his dignity, live hundred 
pounds. The wealth and grandeur of Cork arife from 
its capacious and commodious haven, where almoft any 
number of fnips may ride fecure from every wind. Ships 
from England, bound to all parts of the Weft Indies, 
take in here a great part of their provilions ; and on the 
fame account the haven of Cork is viiited by thole alfo 
of moll other nations. The llaughtering leafon continues 
from the month of Auguft to the end of January ; in 
which fpace it has been computed, that they kill and 
cure feldom lei's than 100,000 head of black cattle. 
The reft of their exports conlilt of butter, candles, hides 
raw and tanned, linen cloth, pork, calves, lambs, and 
rabbit fkins; tallow, wool for England, linen and woollen 
yam, and worfted. The merchants of Cork carry on a 
very extenlive trade to almoft all parts of the world ; lo 
that thei’r commerce is annually increafing. The only 
thing that feemed wanting to the fecurity of the port of 
Cork, was fupplied in the earl of Chefterfield’s memo¬ 
rable adminiftration, by building a fort on the great ifland, 
to command the entrance of the haven. The outlets of 
Cork are cheerful and pleafant. The country around 
the city, on both Tides of the river, is hilly and pictu- 
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refque ; and the harbour, called the Cove, is one of the 
bell in the world; the entrance is fafe, and the whole 
navy of England might ride in it. Ships of burden, how¬ 
ever, afe obliged to unload at Paffage, five.miles and a 
half from Cork, the channel not admitting vellels of 
above one hundred and fifty tons. It is one hundred and 
twenty miles fouth-weft of Dublin. Lat.51.54. N. Ion. 
S. 30.W. Greenwich. 
CORK-JACKET, f. A kind of clofe waiftcoat, lined 
or covered on the front and back with cork, to aflift per- 
fons in learning to fwirn, and to enable others to fvvim 
to a conftderable diftance. This invention mull have 
been very ancient, lince we are informed that the Roman 
whom Camillus fent to the capitol when befieged by the 
Gauls, made ufe of this device to fwim acrofs the Ti¬ 
ber, and fucceeded. 
CORK-STONE, /. [fuber montanum , Lat.] A name 
given to a ftone which is a l'pecies of amianthus, confid¬ 
ing of flexible fibres loofely interwoven, and fomewhat 
refembling vegetable cork. It is the lighted of all ftones. 
By fire it is fulible, and forms a black glaf's. It polfelfes 
the general properties of'amianthus, and is commonly 
called fojfd cork. 
CORK-TREE,/, in botany. See Quercus. 
CORK'ING-PIN, f. A pin of the largeft fize.—When 
you put a clean pillow-cafe on your lady’s pillow, be 
lure to fallen it well with three corking-pins, that it may 
not fall off in the night. Swift. 
CORK'Y, adj. Confiding of cork ; refembling cork.—. 
Bind fall his corky arms. Shakefpearc. —Tailing of cork. 
COR'LAY, a town of France, in the department of 
the North Coafts, and chief place of a canton, in the dii- 
trifil of Loudeac : five leagues north-weft of Loudeac. 
COR'LING, a town of Germany, in the circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and duchy of Pomerania, on the Perfante. 
It lias oonfiderable woollen manufablures, and is the 
chief place of a bailiwic : fourteen miles fouth-eaft of. 
Colberg, and thirty-fix eaft ol Cammin. 
COR'MANTIN (Little), a town of Africa, on the 
Gold Coaft, where the Dutch have a fort: four miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Great Cormantin. 
COR'MANTIN (Great), a town of Africa, on the 
Gold coaft, in the territory of Fantin : large and popu¬ 
lous, containing a great number of traders and filliermen. 
Lat. 5. 5. N. Ion. 18. 54. E. Ferro. 
CORMEIL'LF.S, a town of France, in the department 
of the Oife, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrifit of 
Breteuil: four miles weft-north-weft of Breteuil. 
CORMEIL'LES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Eure, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Pont Audemar : three leagues north-nortli-eaft of 
Lifieux. 
COR'MERY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Indre and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dillrifit of Tours : feven miles fouth-eaft of Tours. 
COR'MICY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricTof 
Reims : ten miles north-weft of Reims. 
CORMOLAI'N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Calvados : ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bayeux. 
CORMO'NS, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Goritz : feven miles fouth-weft of Goritz. 
COR'MORANT, or Corvorant, /. [cormorant, Fr. 
from corvits mannus, Lat.) A bird that preys upon fifti, 
proverbially greedy and rapacious; whence it is applied 
to voracious perfons or gluttons. See Pelecanus. 
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives. 
Live regifter’d upon our brazen tombs ; 
When, fpite of cormorant devouring time, ■ 
TIP endeavour of this prefent breath may buy 
That honour which Ihail bate his feythe’s keen edge. 
Shakejpeare. 
CORN,/ [cojrn. Sax. horn. Germ. It is found in all 
the Teutonic dial efts. 3 The feeds which grow in ears, 
not 
