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ter was opened in 1767, where a quintal of mineral pro¬ 
duced eighteen ounces of filver. Here are alfo found 
mines of alum and faltpetre.; the granite of Corfica is 
nearly equal to the oriental. Porphyry, jafper, talc, 
amianthies, emeralds, and other precious Rones, are found 
fcattered in the mountains; and the fouth coaft abounds 
with beautiful coral. Corlica was at one time fubject to 
the Carthaginians, who, to render the inhabitants the 
more fubmitlive, deftroyed their vines and olive trees, a 
deteftable policy, and unworthy of any nation. The 
Romans drove out the Carthaginians, the Goths fuc- 
ceeded the Romans, and the Saracens the Goths. The 
Franks took it from the latter, and gave it to the pope. 
The pope ceded it to the republic of Pifa. The Ge- 
noefe, having vanquifhed the Pifans, became matters of 
this illand. . The Corficans mortally hated the Genoefc 
for their rigorous treatment, and feveral times attempted 
to throw off their yoke. In 1735, the malcontents con¬ 
certed a plan of a new and independent form of govern¬ 
ment; and in 1736 they proclaimed Theodore baron 
Newhoff, a native of Weftphalia, for their king. The 
Genoefe called in the French to their afliflance ; and 
Theodore, unable to refill their united power, left the 
illand to folicit friends in England and elfewhere ; but 
he folicited in vain. Involved in debt, he was feveral 
years confirmed in England a prifoner in the king’s-bench, 
till relieved by an aft of infolvency ; when he regiltered 
his kingdom of Corfica for the ufe of his creditors, and 
died at Weftminfler in 1756. In the abfence of Theo¬ 
dore, the malcontents were headed by Gaffori, who was 
aifaflinated in 1753. Pafchal Paoli fucceeded him, who 
governed with prudence, and fought with courage, till 
at length he was forced to feek an afylum in England; 
and in 1769. Corfica was ceded to France. The French 
ellablifhed their government on a milder fyliem. At 
the late French revolution, in 1789, Corfica was confti- 
tuted a department of France, at the particular requelt 
of Paoli. In confequence, however, of fome mifunder- 
ftanding, Paoli revolted, called in the afliflance of the 
Englilh, and drove the French from the illand. Thus, 
in 1794, Corfica was annexed to the Britilh dominions, 
and the fovereignty was declared to be in his majelly 
George III, king of Great Britain, and his fuccelfors, ac¬ 
cording to the order of fucceflion, and Corte waseftablifti- 
edasthe capital. It was evacuated by the Englilh, on the 
22d of October, when it was again annexed to the French 
republic. The number of inhabitants is about 1 60,000. 
COR'SICK, adj. [from ccrfie, old Eng. a protuberance. ] 
Prominent.—And melt the corfick rocks with ruthful 
tears. Spanifh Tragedy. 
CORSl'NI (Edward), a monk of the Ecoles-Pies, 
.born at Fanano in 1702, died at the age of fixty-three, 
in 1765, at Pifa, where the grand duke had given him a 
chair in philofophy. This fcience occupied his fir ft 
Rudies, and his luccefs foon appeared from the “ Philo- 
fophical and Mathematical Inflitutions,” in fix vols. 
oflavo, 1723 and 1724. For the dreams of Ariftotle, 
which then fettered a part of Italy, he fubftituted a fpe- 
cies of philofophy at once more ufeful and more true. 
Encouraged by the favourable reception his work had met 
with, he publillied, in 1735, a new “ Courfe of Geome¬ 
trical Elements,” written with precifion and perfpicuity. 
On being appointed profelfor at Pifa, he revifed and re¬ 
touched his two performances. The former appeared, 
with confiderable corrections, at Bologna in 1742; and 
the fecond, augmented with “Elements of Practical 
Geometry,” was publilhed at Venice in 1748, two vols. 
citavo. He'was well verfed in hydroftatics and hiftory. 
After having feduloufly applied for feveral years to 
the claflical authors, and particularly thofe of Greece, 
he propofed to write the “ Fafti of the Archons. of 
Athens.” The firft volume of this important work 
appeared in 1734, in quarto; the fourth and lad, ten 
years after. Being called in 1746 to the chair of moral 
philofophy and metaphyfi.es, and impelled by the vigour 
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of his genius, he compofed a “ Courfe of Metaphyfics, !> 
which appeared afterwards at Venice in 1758. His 
learned friends Muratori, Gorio, Maffei, Quirini, Paflio- 
nei, now perfuaded him to abandon philofophy ; and, 
at their folicitations, he returned to criticifm and erudi¬ 
tion. In 1747 he publilhed four differtations, in quarto, 
on the lacred games ol Greece, in which he gave an ex¬ 
act lift of the athletic victors. Two years afterwards 
he brought out, in folio, an excellent work on the ab¬ 
breviations ufed in Greek inferiptions, under the title, 
“ De notis Grsecorum.” This accurate and fagacious 
performance was followed by feveral differtations relative 
to objects of learning. The high efteem in which he 
was held by his acquaintance, on account of his virtues 
and induftry, was even an interruption to his labours. 
He was appointed general of his order in 1754. The 
leifure left him by the arduous duties of his Ration he 
now devoted to his former Rudies. The term of his 
generalfhip being expired, he haftened back to Pifa, to 
refume the functions of profelfor. They were the means 
of procuring to the public feveral new differtations, and 
efpecially an excellent work, one’of the beft of his per¬ 
formances, intituled, “ De praefeftis Urbis.” At length 
he confined the whole of his application on the “Hif¬ 
tory of the Univerfity of Pifa,” of which he had been 
appointed hiftoriographer; and he was near upon pub- 
lilhing the firfi volume, when a ftroke of apoplexy lud- 
denly ended his days, to the univerl’al regret of the ad¬ 
mirers of learned and polite literature. 
CORSO'ER, a feaport town of Denmark, on the weft 
coaft of the illand of Zealand, built on a promontory, 
which extends into the Great Belt. The harbour is ex¬ 
cellent for fmall veffels, but not deep. It is defended 
by a caftle furrounded with ramparts, which ferves alfo 
as a magazine for corn : fifty-two miles fouth-weft of 
Copenhagen. Lat. 53. 20. N. Ion. 11. 15. E. Greenwich. 
CORT (Cornelius), a celebrated engraver, born at 
Hoorn in Holland, in 1536. After having acquired the 
firft principles of drawing and engraving, he went to 
Italy to complete his Rudies, and vifited all the places 
famous for the works of the great mailers. At Venice 
he was courteoufly received by Titian; and engraved 
feveral platesfrom the pictures of that admirable painter. 
He finally fettled at Rome, where he died in 1578, aged 
forty-two. According to Baffin, he was the beft en¬ 
graver with the burin only, that Holland ever produced. 
We find in his prints correCtnefs of drawing, and an ex- 
quifite tafte. It is no fmall honour to this artift, that 
Agoftino Carracci was his fcholar, and imitated his Rile 
of engraving rather than that of any other mafter. 
COR'TE, a town of the ifland of Corfica, lituated in 
the centre of the ifland, at the foot of a rock, at the 
conflux of the rivers Reftonica and Tavignano ; enlarged 
and fortified by the French ; containing about three 
thoufand inhabitants. It was, on the conqueft of the 
ifland by the Englifh, made the capital, the feat of parlia¬ 
ment, and the refidence of a viceroy : twenty-feven miles 
fouth-weftof Baftia. Lat.42.14. N. Ion. 26. 55. E. Ferro. 
COR'TE M AGGIOR E, a town of Italy, in the duchy 
of Piacenza : lix miles weft of Piacenza. 
CORTEGA'NA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Andalufia: thirty-eight miles nortli-weft of Seville. 
CORTELLAZ'ZO, a fmall ifland near the fouth-eaft 
coaft of the ifland of Sardinia, on the north fide of the • 
gulf of Cagliari. 
CORTEMI'GLIA, a town of Italy, in the principa¬ 
lity of Piedmont, and duchy of Montferrat, fituated on 
the river Bormida. Part of the town is defended with a 
wall and ancient towers ; to the other part, which is 
built at the foot of a hill, the river ferves for a wall. 
It had anciently a large and beautiful caftle, now fallen 
to decay : four miles north of Gerzegno ; and fixteen eafl 
of Cheralco. 
COR'TES, a town of Spain, in Navarre feven leagues 
from Tudella, 
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