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LEFT CORFU 151 CORINTH jah"; "The Sorrows of Satan" (the last two in 1895) ; "Cameos" and "Mighty Atom" (both in 1896) ; "The Master Christian" (1900) ; "God's Good Man" (1904) ; "Holy Orders" (1908) ; "Life Everlasting" (1911); "My Little Bit" fl919). CORFIT (anciently Corcy'ra), a Greek island in the Mediterranean, the moat northerly of the Ionian Islands, at the mouth of the Adriatic, near the coast of Albania, about 40 miles long, and from 3 to 20 miles wide; square miles, 277. The surface rises at one point to the height of 3,000 feet, the scenery is beau- tiful, the climate pleasant ana healthy, the soil fertile. Oranges, citrons, grapes, honey, wax, oil, and salt are abundant. A Corinthian colony settled in the island in the 8th century B. C. The Venetians possessed Corfu from 1386 to 1797, the British from 1815 to 1864. Pop. about 100,000. Corfu, the capital, is finely sit- uated on a promontory which terminates in a huge insulated rock crowned by the citadel; the streets are Italian in style; chief edifices, the cathedral, government palace, and Ionian academy. There is a CORIGLIANO (ko-rel-ye-a'no), a town of southern Italy, in the province of Cosenza, on a hill above the right bank of the Corigliano, near the site of the ancient Sybaris, of which no vestiges remain. Pop. about 17,000. CORINTH, a famous city of Greece within the Morea (ancient Peloponne- sus), near the isthmus of the same name, between the gulfs of Lepanto {Corinthia- cus Sinus) on the W., and of ^Egina {SaronicTis Sinus) on the E., 48 miles W. of Athens. Corinth was destroyed by an earthquake in 1858, and has now but few remains of its ancient splendor. The only interesting monument of an- tiquity is the citadel or Acrocorinthus. Corinth was first founded by Sisyphus, son of .(Eolus, A. M. 2616, and received its name from Corinthus, the son of Pelops. It was totally destroyed by L, Mummius, the Roman consul, and burnt to the ground, 146 B. c. The government of Corinth was monarchial till 779 B. C, when officers, called Prytanes, were insti- tuted. Its inhabitants formed numerous colonies, and Paul preached the Gospel in it for upward of a year. After the RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT CORINTH food harbor and considerable trade, 'op. about 27,000. The town is a winter resort for invalids. It was occupied bv the Allies in the World War after 1915. CORIANDER, an umbelliferous plant, Coriandrum sativum. It has an erect, leafy stem, the lower leaves bipinnate, the upper more divided, the uppermost of all nearly setaceous. Fruit globose, nearly undivided, with 10 obscure lines or ribs. It has escaped from cultivation and become wild in many places. It is a native of southern Europe and the Levant. The word occui-s in Exod. xvi: 81, and Num. xi: 7. It is the rendering of the Hebrew word gad, and the trans- lation is probably correct, for Celsus snys that goid is coriander. taking of Constantinople it fell into the hands of the Turks, from whom it was retaken in 1687 by its former possessors, the Venetians. In 1715 it was again pos- sessed by the Turks, who held it till 1823. Pop. about 5,000. CORINTH, a city and county-seat of Alcorn co., Miss., on the Southern, Il- linois Central, and Mobile and Ohio rail- roads, 93 miles E. of Memphis, Tenn. It has machine shops, woolen mills, and other industries. During the Civil War Corinth was the scene of many battles. Brisk skirmishes were fought April 24 and 29, 1862, and on the 30th its railroad communications N. were cut by the Union forces. During May of the same year several encounters took place