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mandy, including the towns of Coutances, Valogne, St. 
Sauvenr, Cherbourg, Barfleur, Carentan, Ville-Dieu, 
Granville, &c. 
COTARIN'GEN, a town of the ifland of Borneo, on 
the fouth coaft : one.hundred miles weft of Banjar Maftin. 
CO'TATE, a town of India, in the kingdom of Tra- 
vancor : fourteen miles fouth-eaft of Travancor. 
CO'TATIS, or Kutatis, a town of Afia, the capital 
of Imiretta, on the river Riona, containing the palace 
of the prince. The wall is thick, and it is defended by 
Itrong towers. In 1770 it was taken by the Ruffians, who 
put the Turkifh garrifon to the fword. It is one hun¬ 
dred and fifty miles weft from Teflis, and fifty-five north 
from Acalzike. 
COT'BUS, or Cotuitz, a town of Lufatia, fituated 
on the Spree, belonging to the king of Pruftia. It was 
pillaged by the Imperial troops in 1631 : thirty-fix miles 
fiouth-fouth-weft of Francfort on the Oder, and forty- 
eight north-north-eaft of Drefden. 
COTE, f. [Sax. ahoufe.] A cottage.—Come every 
day to my cote and woo me. Shahefpearc. —A pen for fheep : 
Watching where fhepherds pen their flocks at eve 
In hurdled cotes. Milton. 
To COTE, v. a. To leave behind; to overpafs : 
Words her worth had prov’d with deeds, 
Had more ground been allowed the race, and coted far 
his fteeds. Chapman's Iliads. 
We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming 
to offer you fervice. Shahefpearc. 
COTE (La), one of the richeft, moft populous, and 
moft beautiful, diftriCts in Swifferland, in the country of 
Vaud; about five leagues in length, at a little difta.nce 
from the lake of Geneva ; celebrated for its wine, which 
bears the name of the diftriCt. 
COTE SAINT ANDRE', a tow r n of France, in the 
department of the Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriCt of Vienne ; celebrated for its wine : fix leagues 
fouth-eaft of Vienne. 
COTE D’OR, a department of France, from a moun¬ 
tain of that name, fituated to the fouth of Dijon. It is 
bounded on the north by the department of the Aube, 
on the north-eaft by that of the Upper Marne, on the 
eaft by the Upper Saone, on the fouth-eaft by the depart¬ 
ment of Jura, on the fouth by the Saone and Loire, and 
on the weft by the departments of Nyevre and Yonne. 
It is formed chiefly out of the province of Burgundy. 
The form is irregularly oval, lixty-five miles from north 
to fouth, and from twenty-five to fifty from eaft to weft. 
Dijon is the capital. 
COTEAU'X (Les), a town on the road from Tibu- 
ron to Port Salut, on the fouth fide of the fouth penin- 
fula of the ifland of St. Domingo, thirteen leagues and a 
half eaft by fouth of the former, and four north-weft of 
the latter. Lat. 18.12. N. 
COTECK'NEY, a river of United America, in the 
ftate of North Carolina, which runs into the Nufe : 
twenty miles weft of Newbern. 
COTELE'RIUS (John Baptift), fellow of the Sor- 
bonne, and king’s Greek profetlor at Paris, was born at 
Nifmes, in Languedoc, in 1627. He made a collection 
of the fathers who lived in the apoltoliq age, which he 
publiftied at Paris in two volumes folio, in 1672, review¬ 
ed and corrected from feveral manuferipts, with a Latin 
tranflation and notes. He alfo publiftied Monumenta 
Ecclefiae Grsecse, in 3 vols. being a collection of Greek 
traCts out of the king’s and M. Colbert’s libraries, and 
which had never been publiftied before ; to thefe he 
added a Latin tranflation and notes. He intended a far¬ 
ther profecution of this work; but his intenfe ftudies 
broke his conftitution, and deprived him of life in 1686. 
Befides his great fkill in languages and ecclefialtical an¬ 
tiquities, Cotelerius was remarkable for his probity and 
candour. 
Vol. V. Ns. 270. 
COT ®6l 
COTEM'PORARY, f. One living at the fame time ; 
contemporary with another. It is improperly ufed as an 
adjeCtive. See Contemporary, p. 134 of this volume. 
CO'TEMUL, a town of the ifland of Ceylon : twenty 
miles fouth of Candi. 
COTEREL'LUS, f. Cotarius, and coterellus, according 
to Spelman and Du Frefne, were fervile tenants; but in 
Doomfday and other ancient manuferipts, there ap¬ 
pears a diftinCtion, as well in their tenure and quality, 
as in their name : for the cotarius had a free foccage te¬ 
nure, and paid a ftated firm or rent in provifions or mo¬ 
ney, with home occafional cuftomary fervices; whereas 
the coterellus feems to have held in mere villenage, and 
his perfon, iffue, and goods, were dilpofable a-t the plea- 
fure of the lord. 
COTERI'E,yi [French.] A term adopted for a fe- 
leCt meeting or club, where the objeCt is to difleminate 
wit and humour, and perhaps loofenefs of manners and 
difeourfe. It rs commonly underftood of a club or fociety 
of women, not of the moft virtuous character. 
COTES (Roger), an eminent mathematician, pliilo- 
fopher, and aftronomer, born July 10, 1682, at Burbuch, 
in Leicefterftiire, where his father was reCtor. He was 
early placed at Leicefter fcliool ; where, at twelve years 
of age, he difeovered a ftrong inclination to the mathe¬ 
matics. This being obferved by his uncle, the Rev. John 
Smith, he gave him all the encouragement he could ; 
and prevailed on his father to fend him for fome time to 
his houfe in Lincolnftiire, that he might aflift him in 
thofe ftudies; and here he laid the foundation of that 
deep and extenfive knowledge in the mathematics, for 
which he was afterwards fo defervedly famous. He was 
from thence fent to St. Paul’s fchool, London, where .he 
made a great progrefs in claflical learning; and yet he 
found leifure to fupport a conftant correfpondcnce with, 
his uncle, not only in mathematics, but alfo in rneta- 
phyfics, philofophy, and divinity. He next removed to 
Trinity-college, Cambridge, where lie took his degrees, 
and became fellow. In January 1706, he was appointed, 
profeffor of aftronomy and experimental philofophy, up¬ 
on the foundation of Dr. Thomas Plume, archdeacon of 
Rochefter ; being the firft that enjoyed that office, to 
which he was unanimoully cholen, on account ot his 
high reputation and merits. He entered into orders in 
1713 ; and the fame year, at the defire of Dr. Bentley, he 
publiftied at Cambridge the fecond edition of Newton’s 
Mathematica Principia ; inferting all the improvements 
which the author had made to that time. To this edition 
he prefixed an admirable preface, in which he pointed 
out the true method of philofophifing, fhewing the foun¬ 
dation on which the Newtonian philofophy was railed, 
and refuting the objections of the Cartefians and all 
other philolophers againft it. The publication of this 
edition of Newton’s Principia added greatly to his repu¬ 
tation ; not was the high opinion the public now con¬ 
ceived of him in the leaft diminiftied, but much increafed,, 
by feveral productions of his own, which afterwards ap¬ 
peared. He gave in the Philofophical TranfaCtions two. 
papers, viz. 1. Logometria, in vol. 29; and a Defcription 
of the great Fiery Meteor that was feen March 6, 1716, 
in vol. 31. He died June 5, 1716, in the prime of life, 
being not quite thirty-four years of age. Mr. Cotes left 
behind him fome very ingenious tracts, part of which,, 
with the Logometria above-mentioned, were publiftied, 
in 1722, by Dr. Robert Smith, his coufin and fucceffor 
in his profefforftiip, afterwards mailer of Trinity-college,, 
under the title of Harmonia Menfurarum, which contains 
a number of ingenious and learned works. He wrote 
alfo a Compendium of Arithmetic; of the Refolution of 
Equations; of Dioptrics ; and of the Nature of Curves.. 
Belide thefe pieces, he drew up,, in the time of his lec¬ 
tures, a courle of Hydroftatical and Pncumatical Lec¬ 
tures, in Englilh, which were publiftied alfo by Dr.,' 
Smith in 8vo, 1737, and are held in great eiftimation. 
3.X COTES. 
