7*8 COB 
that fin are eafily difcernible; but in the male, only three 
are vifible ; the reft are bent round a projected tube, co¬ 
vered with a membrane, which becomes ftiff, flicking out 
from the body. On removing the membrane carefully, 
the other'iix rays are unfolded, and the tube juft l'poken 
of is vifible. This is the male organ of this viviparous 
fi(h. The leed and urine run through this tube; which 
is confirmed by the fwelling of the feed-veflels, and of 
the ureters, when air is blown through that tube, as ex¬ 
emplified in the engraving, where b b fluws the feed-vef- 
fels; c, the ureters; d, the tube ; e,. the fix rays loft in 
the membrane. 3. The fins of the breaft, anus, and tail, 
are almoft entirely covered with fcales ; which is very 
rare in fifties of this clafs. 
This lingular filh is found in the rivers of Surinam. 
It multiplies faft, and is efteemed by the inhabitants as 
food. It grows from fix to ten inches in length. The 
feminal velfels are double, as reprefented on the plate. 
It will naturally be alked if this fpecies couples regularly, 
or whether propagation is performed by the mere contad 
or approach of the genitals, as in the thornback ? It is 
moft reafonable to luppofe that there is a real intromif- 
fion, as the male is provided with the proper inftrument. 
5. Cobitis heteroclita, the mudfilh of Carolina; of 
■which the lpecific charader is, no barbies at the mouth ; 
the dorfal and anal fins dotted with white, the tail ftriped 
with black. There are five rays in the membrane of the 
gills, twelve in the dorfal fin, fixteen in the pedoral, fix 
in the ventral, ten in the anal, and twenty-five in the 
tail. The head is fiat, the fcales broad and thin; the 
lips are ferrated; the dorlal fin lies farther hack than the 
point of equilibrium, the anal is oppofite to it; the tail 
fin is round. Found in moft of the muddy and ftagnant 
waters of North America, efpecially in Carolina. 
6. Cobitis Japonica, the Japan loach. This fpecies has 
a flat head, and teeth in the jaws, but no barbies. The 
dorfal fin has twelve rays, the pedoral eleven, the ven¬ 
tral eight, the anal nine, the tail twenty. It is of a ta¬ 
per fliape, five inches long, and found in Japan. 
COBLE'NTZ, a city of Germany, in the circle of the 
Lower Rhine, in the eledorate of Treves, fituated at the 
conflux of the Rhine and the Mofelle, with a bridge of 
boats over the former, and a ftone bridge over the latter. 
In‘the time of the Romans, it was the ftation of the firft 
legion ; after them the refidence of the fucceifors of 
Charlemagne. It was furrounded with walls in the year 
1249, and fortified fince that time. The eledor has a 
palace here, built in a magnificent ftyle, and finifhed 
about the year 1786. It contains three large churches, 
two of which are collegiate, a college, eight convents, 
&c. The town was formerly imperial, and at the time 
of the revolution in France, it afforded an afylum to two 
of the royal brothers, moniieur and the comte d’Artois, 
who held their court here ; but it was taken by the French 
republican army in October, 1794. It is 36 miles north- 
well of Mentz, 54 north-eaft of Treves, and 82 eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Liege. Lat. 50. 24. N. Ion. 29. 4. E. Ferro. 
COBLEN'Z, a town of Swifferland, in the diftrid of 
Baden, at the conflux of the Aar and the Rhine : ten 
miles north-north-weft of Baden. 
CO'BLESKILL, a new town of the American States, 
in the county of Schoharie, New York, incorporated in 
March 1797. 
COB'LOAF, /. An uneven crufty loaf. Sbakefpeare. 
COB'NUT,/ A boy’s game; the conquering nut. The 
Barcelona hazie. 
COBO'ZE, ajfmall ifland in the Indian Sea, near the 
ealt coaft of Siam. Lat. 12.43. N. Ion. 97. 20.E. Greenwich. 
COBRA, or Naja,/ a Angularly dangerous fpecies of 
viper. See Coluber. 
CO'BRAS, an ifland of South America, in the Atlan¬ 
tic, near the coaft of Brafil, on the fouth lide of the river 
Janeiro, oppofite the city. 
CO'BRR (El), a town of the ifland of Cuba: ten miles 
weft of St. Jago. 
c o c 
CO'BSWAN, f. The head or leading fwan 3 
I am not taken 
With a cobfwan, or a high-mounting bull, 
As foolifh Leda and Europa were. Ben Jonfon. 
COBURG (principality of), fituated near the river 
Saal, between the territories of Bareitb, Thuringia, Hen- 
neberg, and Bamberg, in the circle of Franconia, but 
dependent on the circle of Upper Saxony. It formerly- 
belonged to the counts of Henneberg, but palled by mar¬ 
riage to the houfe of Saxony, and is divided among four 
branches, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, or Saxe-Saalfeld, Saxe- 
Meinungen, Saxe-Gotha, and Saxe-Hildburghaufen. The 
land is generally fertile, and the inhabitants export corn, 
wool, fat cattle, tiles, works in wood, pitch, and pot-afts. 
CO'BURG, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, but infulated in Franconia, of which it formerly 
made a part when in the poffefiion of the counts of Hen¬ 
neberg, in the fourteenth century. It is now the reffi- 
dence of the dukes of Saxe-Saalfeld, and is fituated bn 
the river Itfch, in a valley between two mountains; the 
town andfuburbs are furrounded with a wall. Here are 
four churches and a college, founded by John Cafimer, 
duke of Saxony, in 1597, and a public fchool; with ma¬ 
nufactures of gold, filver, china, and petrified wood, with 
which the country abounds. It is twenty-three miles north 
of Bamberg, and forty ftjuth of Weimar. Lat. 50.14.N. 
Ion. 28. 47. E. Ferro. 
COB'VVEB, f. [kopweb, Dutch.] The web or net of a 
fpider: from cob, a fpider.—Is fupper ready, the houfe 
trimmed, rufhes ftrewed, and cobwebs fwept t Sbakefpeare. 
—Any fnare, or trap: implying infidioufnefs and weak- 
nefs.—Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch finall flies, 
but let wafps and hornets break through. Swift. 
CO'CA, a town in Spain, in Old Caltile, on the Eref- 
ma: twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Valladolid, and 
twenty-two north-weft of Segovia. 
CO CALUS, a king of Sicily, who hofpitably received 
Daedalus, when he fled before Minos. When Minos ar¬ 
rived in Sicily, the daughters of Cocalus deltroyed him. 
Ovid. 
COCCE'IUS (Nerva), a friend of Horace and Mecae- 
nas, and grandfather to the emperor Nerva. He was one 
of thole who fettled the difputes between Auguftus and 
Antony. Horace. 
COCCE'IUS, an able architect of Rome, whom fome 
have affirmed to be an anceftor of the emperor Nerva, 
who bore that name, made himfelf famous by feveral no¬ 
ble buildings. Some of them have efcaped the ravages 
of time ; fuch as the temple which Calphurnins dedica¬ 
ted to Auguftus, in the town of Puzzoli, in the kingdom 
of Naples, and is at prefent the cathedral of that,place- 
An enterprize ftil! more coniiderable has immortalized 
his name, viz. the grotto that led from Cuma to the lake 
of Avernus. An ancient tradition, to which the con- 
ftrudion of the temple of Puzzoli and the grotto of Cuma 
may have given rile, attributes to him hkewife that of 
Naples or Puzzoli. It is a mountain hollowed to the 
length of about a mile, in which two carriages may eafily 
pais. Our countryman, Addifon, thought with great 
probability, that nothing more was at firft intended than 
to dig ftones from the mountain for building the city and 
moles of Naples ; and that afterwards they conceived the 
idea of excavating the mountain through, in order to 
form a road. His conjecture is founded on this circum- 
ftance, that no heaps are to be feen about the mountain/ 
COCCE'IUS (John), profeflor of theology at Bremen, 
was founder of a fed called Cocceians: they held, amonglt 
other Angular opinions, that a vifible reign of Chrift would 
take place in this world, after a general converfion of the 
Jews and all other people to the true Chrillian faith, as 
laid down in the voluminous works of Cocceius. Fie 
died in 1699, aged fixty-fix. 
COCCE IUS (Samuel), a German baron, born at Franc- 
fort on the Oder, towards the dole of the feventeenth 
century,; 
