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of only four Hundred pounds.—What a mortifying reduc¬ 
tion from the many thoufahds per annum which he^ex- 
pefted i for great was the value of the Newport eftate. 
COL'MAK,/ [Fr.] A fort of pear. 
COL'IVIAR, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Hoi- 
Hein : five miles fouth-eaft of Gluckftallt. 
COL'MAR, a town of France, and capital of the de¬ 
partment of the Upper Rhine, fituated on two fmall rivers 
the Fecht and the Lauch, and furrounded by a wall, 
flanked with towers. It contains about 15,000 inha¬ 
bitants : ten leagues' and a half north of Bale. Lat. 47. 
35. N. Ion; 25. 2. E. Ferro. 
COL'MARS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Alps, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Caftellane: feventeen miles north-ealt of Digue, 
and-twenty-two north of Caftellane 
COLM'BERG, or KOLBENBERG, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of Franconia, and principality of An- 
ipach : nine miles north-weft of Anfpach. 
COLME (La), a river of France, which branches from 
the river Aa, at Watte, in the department of the Straits 
of Calais. See Aa. 
COL'MENAR, a town of Spain, in Old Caflile, on the 
confines of New Caftile : feven leagues north-weft 4 of Ta- 
lavera de la Reina. 
COL'MENAR, a town of Spain, in New Caftile: five 
leagues north-eaft of Efcurial. 
COL'MiTZ, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria : four miles foulh-fouth-weft of Droffendorf. 
COLN, a river of England, which paffes by Uxbridge 
and Colnbrook, and runs into the Thames at Staines, l’e- 
parating the county of Middlefex from Buckinghamlhire. 
COLN, a river of England, which runs into the fea 
near Colchefter. 
COLN, a river of England, which runs into the Thames 
at Cricklade. 
- COLN'BROOK, a market town in Buckinghamfhire, 
eighteen miles from London, and three from Wmdfor, 
fituated on four branches of the river Coin, over each of 
which is a bridge. A fmall part of it is in Middlefex, 
Here is an ancient chapel, laid to have been founded 
by Edward Ill. Some antiquarians have fuppofed this 
place to have been a Roman Ration, but this opinion 
Items unfounded. 
COLNE, a fmall town in Lancalhire, diftant from Man- 
chefter thirty miles, twenty from Halifax, and 215 from 
London. It is fituated near Pendle-hill, on the eait 
fide of the county, and appears to hav$ been very ancient, 
if not a Roman {ration, from the many coins, both of cop¬ 
per and lilver, that have been call up here by the plough. 
It has a market on Wednefdays, and fairs on May 14, 
and October 10. The manufactures carried ,on here are 
worfted and cotton. 
COLO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Kalifch, 
where the king, with his army, palled the Warta in 1655 : 
twenty miles north of Kalifch. 
COLOBO'MA,/. [y.a’hoQutJ.a, Gr.] A growing together 
of the lips, eye-lids, or noltrils; or a preternatural cleav¬ 
ing of the ears to the head. But Caftill. Renov. tells us 
(far more agreeably to the etymology of the word, which 
dignifies a mutilation ) that it is uled to exprefs fomething 
deficient in the lips, nofe, ears, or in the angles of the 
eyes; the defedl of whole glaudules is in particular ltyled 
■yhteas. 
COLOCA'SIA,/. in botany. See Arum. 
COLOCYN'FHIS, /. in botany. See Cucumis and 
Trichosanthes. 
COLOC'ZA, a town of Hungary, cn the Danube, the 
fee of an archbilhop, formerly a city of great extent, but 
now much gone to decay, in conlequence of repeated 
wars: fixty miles north of Bacs, and 136 fouth-eaft of 
Vienna. Lat. 46. 33. N. Ion. 36. 22. E. of Ferro. 
COLO'DI, a town of Italy, in the republic of Lucca: 
feven miles from Lucca. 
COLO'GNA, a podeltaria or did rift of the dogad of 
Venice, in Maritime Auftria, is fituated on the left bank 
of the Adige, and bounded on the ealt by the territory of 
Verona, which the river Rabbiofa leparates from it; on 
the fouth by the territory of Padua, and on the weft and 
north by the territory of Vicenza. It is one of the moll 
fertile diftrifts of the continent, affording an abundance 
of corn, wine, and filk-. The river Gna, which precipi¬ 
tates itfelf from the Vicentine mountains, divides this 
diftrift into two nearly equal parts. It comprehends one 
town, thirteen great villages, and 12,500 inhabitants. 
COLO'GNA , in the above diftrift, was built but at the 
latter end of the twelfth century, and is a very rich and 
flourifhing town, fituated on the new river, or Fiume 
Nuovo, which divides it into tyro portions. It contains 
300 lioules, fine churches' and convents, and 6,200 inha¬ 
bitants, who carry on a confiderable trade in wine and filk. 
COLO'GNE, an eledtorai bilhopric of Germany, in the 
circle of the Lower Rhine, divided into leveral diftrifts 
by other eftates: the greater part is fituated upon the 
Rhine, between the duchies of Juliets and Berg; ano¬ 
ther part is fituated between Julieis and Treves; the du¬ 
chies of Recklinghaufen and Weftphalia form another. 
It takes its name from the city of Cologne. The loil is 
unequal; being compofed of mountains and foreits, fandy 
lands, and fertile fields : there is plenty of game, fifti, 
and mineral fprings, and vineyards, from which is made 
excellent wine. It contains feventv-two towns and cities; 
the ftates are compofed of prelates, nobles, and cities ; 
the alfemblies are held at Bonn. The inhabitants are Ro¬ 
mans catholics in general. Cologne Was a bilhopric in 
314, and was erefted into an archbifhopric, in 799, by 
Charlemagne, with the biflioprics of Liege, Munfter, and 
Ofnabruck, for fuffragans, but enjoying no fpiritual power 
over the latter. The arChbifhop of Cologne has long fince 
borne the pallium and the croft, and takes the title of born 
legate of the holy fee, and arch-chancellor of the facred 
empire for Italy. He gives his vote after the eleftor of 
Treves, and fits at the right hand of the emperor at affem- 
blies held in his own diocefe, in Gaul, or in Italy. The 
metropolitan church and chapter are at Coldgne ; the 
chapter is compofed of twenty-five canons and thirty-fix 
dignitaries, ail of which are princes or counts, except 
eight doftors: the electorate pays 1828 florins for a Ro¬ 
man month, and is taxed for the .imperial chamber 811 
crowns fifty-eight kruitzers for each term. 
COLO'GNE, a free and imperial city of Germany, in 
the circle of Weftphalia, and capital of the archbifhopric 
to which it gives name. It is built in the form of a cref- 
cent, on the borders of the Rhine, and fortified in the 
ancient manner. They reckon at Cologne thirty-four 
gates, ten collegiate and forty-nine parifh churches, four 
abbies, fifty-fix convents, fixteen hofpitals, and fifty cha¬ 
pels. This city is perhaps the 1110ft remarkable of any in 
the world for the great number of popifti relics it con¬ 
tains. In the church of St. Urfula, they pretend to fhevv 
her tomb, and the bones of the 11,000 pretended virgin 
martyrs, though that ftory is entirely owing to a mistaken 
infeription. The heads of fome of tliefe imaginary mar¬ 
tyrs are kept in cafes of filver, others are covered with 
fluffs of gold, and fome have caps of cloth of gold and 
velvet. Brevat fays, he faw between 4 and 5000 fkulls, 
decked with garlands, and coronets, ranged on flielves. 
The canoneffes of St. Urfula, who muft be all countefies, 
have a handfome income. In their church they pretend to 
fhow three of the thorns of our Saviour’s crown, and one 
of the veffels which contained the water that he convert¬ 
ed into wine at the marriage of Cana. In the church of 
St. Gereon are 900 heads of Moorifli cavaliers, laid to 
have been in the army of Conftantine before it was con¬ 
verted, and to have been beheaded for refilling to facri- 
fice to idols. Every one of the heads has a cap of lcar- 
let, adorned with pearls. In the magnificent cathedral of 
St. Peter, the three wife men who came from the eaft to 
vifit our Saviour, are laid to be interred. They lie in a 
large purple flirine fpangled with gold let upon a pedeftal 
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