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of a fliining white, admirably contracting the ten black 
quills of the tail, which are tapering, and each termi¬ 
nating in a white fpot; the bill is fhort and thick, of a 
Alining black, as are the feet and nails. In feveral ca¬ 
binets this is defcribed as a Chinefe fpecies, which 
Vaillant doubts, becaufe he received the fpecimen in his 
own pofleflion from Cayenne ; and he adds that it was 
fluffed and prepared after the manner ufed in that iAand, 
which he fays is different from any other; fo that he is 
very much inclined to the opinion that Cayenne is the 
native place of this laft of the magpies. 
COR'VUS, f. the Raven-, in aitronomy, a fouthern 
Comftellation, fabled by theGreeks as taken up to hea¬ 
ven by Apollo, to whom it tattled that the beautiful 
maid Coronis, the daughter of Phlegeos, and mother of 
Efculapius by Apollo, played the deity falfe with Ifchys, 
under a tree upon which the animal happened to be 
perched. The ftars in this conftellation, in Ptolemy’s 
and Tycho’s catalogues are feven ; but in the Britannic 
catalogue, nine. 
CO'RYA.TE (Thomas), a very extraordinary perfon, 
the foil of a clergyman, born at Odcombe in Somerfet- 
Aiire, in 1577. He became a commoner of Gloucefter- 
hall, Oxford, in 1596; where he attained to fome flcill in 
logic, and to more in the Greek and Latin languages. 
After this time he went to London, and was received in¬ 
to the family of Henry prince of Wales. In 1608, he 
vifited France, Italy, Germany, &c. and on his return 
publifhed his travels under this title: “Crudities haftily 
gobbled up in five Months Travels in France, Savoy, 
Italy, Rhetia, Helvetia, fome Parts of High Germany, 
and the Netherlands, 1611,” 4to. reprinted in 3 vols. 
8vo. 1776. This work was ufhered into the world by an 
Qdcombian banquet, confiding of near lixty copies of 
verfes, made by the beft poets of that time, which, if 
they did not make Coryate pafs with the world for a 
man of great parts and learning, contributed not a little 
to the fale of his book. Among thefe poets were Ben 
Jonfon, fir John Harrington, Inigo Jones the architect, 
Chapman, Donne, Drayton, &c. In 1612, after he had 
taken leave of his companions in a fet fpeech, he took a 
long journey, determining not to return till he had fp.ent 
ten years abroad. The firft place he went to was Con- 
Aantinople, where he made good obfervations, and took 
from thence his opportunities of viewing divers parts of 
Greece. In the Hellefpont he noticed the two cafiles 
Seftos and Abydos, which Mufseus made famous by his 
poem of Hero and Leander. He faw Smyrna, from 
whence he found a paflage to Alexandria in Egypt, and 
there he obferved the pyramids near Grand Cairo. From 
thence he went to Jerufalem; and fo on to the Dead Sea, 
to Aleppo in Syria, to Babylon in Chaldea, to the king¬ 
dom of Perfia, and to Ifpa-han, where the king ufually 
refided ; to Seras, anciently called Shuflian ; to Canda- 
hor, the firft province north-eaft under the fubjection of 
the great mogul, and fo to Lahore, the chiefeft city but 
one belonging to that empire. From Lahore he went to 
Agra ; where, being well received by the Englifli fac¬ 
tory, he made an halt. Heftaid here till he had learnt 
the Turkifii and Morifco, or Arabian languages, in which 
ftudy he was always very apt, and I'ome knowledge in the 
Perfian and Hindooftan tongues. Thefe were of great 
ufe to him in travelling up and down the great mogul’s 
dominions. In the Perfian tongue lie afterwards made 
an oration to the great mogul ; and in the Hindooftan lie 
had fo great a command, that he is faid to have filenced 
a laundry-woman, belonging to the Englifli ambaffador 
in that country, who ufed to fcold all day long. After 
he had vifited fever.al other places in that part of the 
world, he went to Surat, where he fell ill of a flux, of 
which he died in 1617. What became of the notes and 
observations he made in thefe peregrinations, nobody 
knows ; only the following, which he fent to his friends 
in England, and were printed in his ablence. 1. Letters 
from Afrnere, the Court of the Great Mogul, to feveral 
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Perfons of Quality in England, concerning the Emperor 
and his Country of Eaft India, 1616, 4to. In the title of 
which is the author’s picture, riding on an elephant. 
2. A Letter to his Mother Gertrude, dated from Agra, 
containing the Speech that he fpoke to the Great Mogul 
in the Perfian Language. 3. Certain Obfervations upon 
the Mogul’s Court and Eaft India. 4. Travels to, and. 
Obfervations in, Conftantinople and other Places in the 
Way thither, and in his Journey thence to Aleppo, Da- 
xnafeus, and Jerufalem. 5. His Oration, Purus, Putus 
Coryatus ; Qumteffence of Coryate; fpoken extempore, 
when Mr. Rugg dubbed him a Knight on the Ruins of 
Troy, by the Name of Thomas Coryate the firft Englifk 
Knight of Troy. 6 . Obfervations of Conftantinople 
abridged. All thefe are to be found in the Pilgrimages 
ot Purchas. 7. Diverfe Latin and Greek Epiftles la 
learned Men beyond the Seas; fome of which are in his 
Crudities. 
CORYBAN'TES, the priefts of Cybele, called alfo 
Gallt. In the celebration of their feftivals, they beat 
their cymbals, and behaved as if delirious. They firft 
inhabited on mount Ida, and from thence pafled into 
Crete, and fecretly brought up Jupiter. Some fuppofe 
that they receive their name from Corybas Ion of Jafus 
and Cybele, who firft introduced the rites of his mother 
into Phrygia. There was a feftival at Cnoffus in Crete, 
called Corybantka , in commemoration of the Corybantes, 
who there educated Jupiter. Virgil. 
CORYCE'UM,y'. in antiquity, that part of the gym- 
nafiym where people undreffed. It was alfo called ape- 
dyterion. 
CORYCHOMA'CIIA, f. [from y.opvxoc, a ball, and 
y.xyj,, contention.] An ancient exercife, ufed by corpu¬ 
lent people, which confided in pufiiing a ball, fufpended 
by a firing, from them, and receiving it again in their 
hands as it receded. 
CO'RYCHUS, f. [from xofvxo;.] The ball ufed in the 
exercife above defcribed. 
CORY'CIDES, the nymphs who inhabited the foot 
of Parnaftus. This name is often applied to the mules, 
Ovid. 
CORY'CIUS, an old man of Tarentum, whofe time 
was happily employed in taking care of his bees. He is 
reprefented by Virgil as a contented old man, whofe af- 
fiduity and diligence are exemplary. Some fuppofe that 
the word Corycius implies not a perfon of that name, but 
a native of Corycus, who had fettled in Italy. 
CO'RYCUS, a lofty mountain of Cilicia, with a town 
of the fame name.—Another of Ionia, long the famous 
retreat of robbers.—Another at the foot of Parnaflus, fa- 
cred to the mufes. 
CORYDA'LES, f. [from y.opvs, a helmet.] In bo¬ 
tany, the twenty-eighth order in Linnaeus’s Fragment? 
of a Natural Method, and the twenty-fourth of his natu¬ 
ral orders. 
CORYDA'LIS, f. in botany. See Fumaria. 
CO'RYDON, a fictitious' name of a fhepherd, often, 
occurring in the paftorals of Theocritus and Virgil. 
CO'RYLUS,/ [Derivation uncertain; according to 
fome, from y.ccpva, a walnut. ] The Hasel or Nut-tree, 
In botany, this is a genus of the clafs monoecia, order 
polyandria, natural order of amentaceae. The generic 
characters are—I. Male flowers difpofed in a long ament. 
Calyx : ament common imbricated on every fide, cylin- 
dric, permanent; feales one-flowered, narrower at the 
bafe, wider at the top, and more obtufe, inflex, three- 
cleft ; middle divifion equal in length to the others, but. 
as wide again, and covering the others. Corolla : none. 
Stamina: filaments eight, very fhort, growing to the 
interior fide of the calycine fcale ; anthers ovate-oblong, 
fhorter than the calyx, ereCt.—II. Female flowers re¬ 
mote from the males, on a very fmall fubglobular ament, 
in the fame plant, feflile, included within the bud. Ca¬ 
lyx: perianthium two-leaved, leathery, lacerated on the 
margin, ereCt, length of the fruit, during the time ot 
ftorefcence 
