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duke of Guife, under a ftrong effort, marched to the 
houfe ot the admiral. A crew of affaflins, headed by a 
domeftic of the hotil'e of Guife, entered fword in hand, and 
found him fitting in an elbow-chair. “ Young man,” 
laid Coligni, in a calm and tranquil manner, “ thou 
Ihouldeft have relpedled my grey hairs r but, do what 
thou wilt; thou canlt only Ihorten my life by a few days.” 
The mifcreant, after dabbing him in feveral places, threw 
him out at the window into the court-yard of the houfe, 
•where the duke of Guife Hood waiting. Coligni fell at 
the feet of hi3 bale and implacable enemy, and faid, ac¬ 
cording to fome writers, as he was juft expiring: “ Oh! 
that 1 had died by the hand of a gentleman, and not by 
that of a turnfpit!” His body was expoled for three 
days to the fury of the populace,'and then hung up by 
the feet on the gibbet of Montfaucon. Montmorenci, 
his coulin, had it taken down, in order to bury it fecretly 
in the chapel of the chateau de Chantilli. An Italian, 
having cut off the head of the admiral, carried it to 
Catherine de Medicis; and this princefs caufed it to be 
embalmed, and fent it to Rome. The perlonal courage 
of this great man, was the lead of the numerous qualities 
which adorned him. He, of all the chiefs, perhaps alone, 
from conviction, had renounced the errors of the church 
of Rome, and embraced the doctrines of Calvin. Brave, 
generous, and fincere, he was actuated by no felfifh views, 
he was impelled by no bafe or private paflions. To ob¬ 
tain liberty of confidence for himlelf, and for thofe who 
profefled the fame tenets, was all that he required; and 
it was with the reluctance of a patriot, that he found him- 
felf compelled to feek it amidft the horrors of civil war. 
CO'LlGNI, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ain, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of Bourg- 
en-Breffe : twelve miles north of Bourg. 
CO'LIHAUT, a town on the weftern fide of the ifland 
of Dominica. 
COLI'MA, a large and rich town of Meclioacan, in 
New Spain, on the South Sea, near the borders’of Xalifca, 
and in the molt pleafant and fruitful valley in all Mexico, 
producing cocoa, caffia, and other things of value, befides 
gold. Dampier takes notice of a volcano near it, with 
two fharp peaks, from which fmoke and flame iffue con¬ 
tinually. The famous plant oleacazan grows in the 
neighbourhood, which is reckoned a catholicon for re- 
ftoring decayed ftrength, and a fpecific againft all forts of 
poifon. The natives apply the leaves to the parts affected, 
and judge of the fuccefs of the operation by their flicking 
or falling off. Lat. 19. 50. N. Ion. 8.7. W. .Ferro, 
CO'LIMER, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ome, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Mortagne : four miles weft of Mortagne. 
CO'LIN, a mountain of Ireland, in the county of An¬ 
trim : fifteen miles north of Antrim. 
CO'LIN, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Caurzim, 
with a ftrong caftle : twenty-eight miles eaft of Prague. 
COLIN'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Bengal: twenty-eight-miles fouth of Comillah. 
COLI'PHIUM,/. [from xahov, a limb, and i(pi, ftrong- 
ly.] A kind of bread formerly given to wreltlers. It was 
made of the flour and bran all together, was thought to 
make men athletic, and was ufed by the Greeks. Bread 
made of fine flour neither nourifhes nor ftrengthens fo 
much as the coarler made with the addition of the bran. 
Indeed bread made of bran alone is more ftrengthening 
than that of fine flour, when made for labouring men. 
The Romans, for three hundred years, only made bread 
of bran. In Norfolk, that fort of bread is faid to be now 
in ufe, and alfo in Weftphalia. Some of the mod ancient 
nations called the bread thus made panis furfuraceus ; 
Aulius Gellius, panis impurus ; Hippocrates, fyncomijion, 
bread prepared of unfifted meal; Ccelius Rhodiginus, pa¬ 
rtis cibarius, and panis gregarius ; and Terence, pants ater. 
COLISE'UM, f. An amphitheatre, built at Rome by 
Vefpafian, in the place where flood the bafon of Nero’s 
gilded lioule. The word is formed from colofatum, on ac- 
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count of the colcflus of Nero that flood near it; or, ac¬ 
cording to Nardini, from the Italian colifeo. In this wer.e 
placed tlatues, reprefenting all the provinces of the em¬ 
pire ; in the middle whereof llood that of Rome, holding 
a golden apple in her hand. The fame term, colifeum , is 
alio gi'ven to another amphitheatre of the erhperor Seve- 
rus. In thefe colifea were reprefented games, and com¬ 
bats of men and wild beads; but there are now little v re- 
maining of either, time and war having reduced them 
to ruins. * 
CO'LIIJS, f. in ornithology, the Coly ; a genus of 
birds belonging to the order of pall'eres, the generic cha- 
radlers of which are as follow : Bill fhort, thick, convex 
above, plane below ; upper mandible curved apart; nof- 
trils final], generally covered with feathers at the bale of 
the bill; tongue fringed at the tip; tail wedge-ftuped, 
and long. Of this biid there are five fpecies now known, 
all natives of Africa. Linnaeus knew but two; one of 
which he placed with the /bribes, the other with the 
grofbeaks, contrary to the fentiments of Briffon, who had 
put them in a genus by tbemfelves. Dr. Gmelin has ju- 
dicioufiy united them again into one, and added the 
other fpecies more recently difcovered. 
1. Colius Capenfis, or'coly from the Cape of Good 
Hope ; about the fize of a chaffinch. The body is entirely, 
cinereous, pure on the back and rump, and mixed with 
vinaceous on the head; the throat and neck have a light 
lilac tint, which deepens on the bread; the belly is a 
dull white; the quills of the tail are cinereous, but the 
two lateral ones on each fide are edged exteriorly with 
white; the two intermediate quills meafure fix inches 
and nine lines ; thofe on the Tales diminilh gradually in 
length ; the legs are grey, and the nails blackfill; the bill 
is grey at its bade, and blackiffi at its extremity. The 
length of the bird, including the long quills of the tail, 
is ten inches and three lines; fo that the real fize of the 
body exceeds not three inches and a half. It inhabits 
the country round the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Colius Senegalenfis, or crefted coly of Senegal, much 
refembling the preceding, though it differs in point of 
fize, being two inches longer. It has a creft formed by 
projetling feathers on the head, approaching to a fea-green 
colour, with a well-defined bar of fine lky-blue behind 
the head, at the origin of the neck; the general colour 
of the plumage is cinereous grey, with a vinaceous tint 
on the head, neck, and bread; the tail tapers from its 
bafe to its extremity; the bill is not entirely black; the 
upper mandible is white from its bafe to two-thirds of 
its length, and its tip is bluilh-black ; the feathers of the 
tail are of unequal length, the middle ones being near 
eight inches long, and thorten by degrees to. the outer 
ones, which are lefs than one inch. Found in the coun¬ 
try of Senegal. 
3. Colius erythropus, the white-backed coly ; length 
twelve inches. The upper mandible is white at the bale, 
and black the reft of its length ; the under white; gene¬ 
ral colour of the plumage blufih afh-colour; the head is 
abundantly crefted, fome of the feathers longer than the 
head itfelf, and when eredled Hand quite upright, and 
are pointed in thape; the under parts, from the breaft, 
are dull white ; near the vent quite white ; the lower part 
of the back, the rump, and upper tail coverts, are pur¬ 
ple, with a ftripe of pure white the whole way down the 
middle; the tail is very long, and cuneiform, as in the 
two preceding, and the lhafts chefnut; the two outer 
feathers have the outer webs white, and are only an inch 
and a half in length ; the legs are very (lout, of a fine red 
colour, and all the four toes placed forward, as in the 
fwift; the claws large, hooked, and dulky. Tnis inha¬ 
bits the neighbourhood of the Cape of Good Hope, and 
the Angularity of all the toes being placed forwards, is 
linking. 
4. Colius ftriatus, the rayed coly; length thirteen 
inches; bill black above, whitilh beneath ; the plumage 
above is of a dull grey, with a light tinge of lilac, which 
1 inclines 
