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 COTA,, a Spanish, poet of the 15th century, said to have been born at Toledo. Nothing is known of his life or death, saving that he was poor and of humble rank. To him is attributed the popular Coplas de Mingo Revulgo, an anonymous pastoral satire against Henry IV. of Castile, which, has been often edited and often imitated, and which is unquestionably one of the first attempts at dramatic poetry in Spanish literature. To him, too, is sometimes ascribed the authorship of a similar piece, the Dialogo entre el amor y un viejo. Besides these, he is supposed to have written the first act of the celebrated novel-drama, the Celestina (1480), which was finished in twenty-one acts by Fer nando de Rojas. For an account of the influence of the Celestina on the Castilian drama, and of the numerous editions, imitations, and translations of it, see Ticknor, History of Spanish Literature, vol. i. pp. 2 35-24 i.  CÔTE D'OR, a department in the east of France, formed of the northern region of the old province of Burgundy. It is bounded N. by the department of Aube, N.E. byHaute- Marne, E. by Haute-Saone and Jura, S. by Saone-et-Loire, and W. by Nie&quot;vre and Yonne, and lies between 46 55 and 48 2 N. lat. The surface is mostly rugged. A chain of hills runs from north-east to south-west through the centre of the department, separating the basin of the Seine from that of the Saone, and forming the connecting-link between the Ce vennes and the Vosges mountains. Extend ing southwards from Dijon is a portion of this range which, on account of the excellence of its vineyards, bears the name Cote d Or, whence that of the department. The rivers are numerous but small, the only one navigable being the Saone. The Burgundy Canal, connecting the Rivers Saone and Yonne, traverses the department from south-east to north-west. The soil is generally stony, but rich. &quot;Wine in large quantities, cereals, fruit, beetroot, rape-seed, mustard, honey, flax, hemp, and hops are produced ; and good horses, sheep, and cattle are reared. The iron mines furnish largo quantities of ore ; and anthracite, marble, lithographic stone, gypsum, and potter s clay are worked. The manu factures include iron, steel, nails, tiles, oil, leather, grind stones, paper, cloth, sugar, beer, and spirits. The depart ment is divided into the arrondissements of Dijon, Beaune, Chatillon, and Semur, containing 36 cantons and 717 communes. The chief town is Dijon. The total area is 3382 square miles, and the population in 1872 was 374,510.  COTES, (1682-1716), an English mathemati- cian and philosopher, born at Burbage, Leicestershire, of which place his father was rector. When only twenty-four years of age he was appointed Plumian professor of astro nomy and experimental philosophy in the university of Cambridge. He took orders in 1713; and the same year, at the request of Dr Bentley, he published the second edition of Newton s Frindpia with an original preface. He died June 5, 1716, at the age of thirty-three, leaving unfinished a series of elaborate researches on optics, in reference to which Newton observed, &quot; If Mr Cotes had lived, we should have known something.&quot; With regard to pure mathematics, the principal discovery of Cotes consists in a theorem which still bears his name, and which fur nishes the means of integrating by logarithms and arcs of the circle the rational fractions &quot;whose denominator is a binomial. His papers were collected and published by his successor Dr Robert Smith.  CÔTES-DU-NORD, a maritime department of the north-west of France, formed from the northern part of the province of Brittany, is bounded on the N. by the English Channel, on the E. by the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, on the S. by Morbihan, and on the W. by Finistere, and is situated between 48 3 and 48 57 N. lat. To the north the country is flat, but to the south it is rugged and undulat ing. A chain of granitic hills, the Monts du Menez, runs east to west through the department, dividing it into two unequal parts, of which the southern is the smaller, 