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 112 COLOT at Tarentum a colossal statue, 60 ft. high, which Fabius, on the capture of that city during the see- on d Punic war, was anxious to remove to Rome, but was prevented by its weight. The earliest colossus at Rome was that of Jupiter Capitoli- nus, in bronze, erected by Spurius Carvilius after his victory over the Samnites ; but colos- sal statues soon became common. Those par- ticularly remarkable were that of Jupiter in bronze upon the capitol; one in bronze of Apollo, at the Palatine library; another in bronze of Augustus, in the forum Augusti ; a marble statue of Nero, said to have been 120 ft. high, placed in the vestibule of the golden house, afterward supplied with a new head by Vespasian, and converted into an Apollo ; and a gilt bronze statue of Domitian as the deity of the sun, in the forum. There are two statues which belong to recent art deserving the name of colossal. One is the statue of San Carlo Borromeo, at Arona, near the S. extremity of Lago Maggiore, erected in 1697. It stands on a hill. Its pedestal is 40 ft. in height, and the statue itself 66 ft. The head, hands, and feet are cast in bronze; the rest of the figure is formed by laying sheets of hammered copper upon a pillar of masonry. The statue may be entered and ascended ; there is sufficient room for three persons inside of the head, and for one person inside of the nose. The other is that of Bavaria, at Munich, in bronze, 61 ft. high, with a pedestal of 28 ft.; it was designed by Schwanthaler, and completed in 1850. COLOT, Laurent) a French surgeon, born at Tresnel, near Troyes, lived in the middle of the 16th century. He was instructed by Octavien Deville, a pupil of Marianus Sanctus, in the art of extracting stone from the bladder. He kept the process secret, and upon the death of Deville was appointed by Henry II. lithoto- mist at the Hotel-Dieu. The secret was trans- mitted to his grandson PHILIPPE (born in 1593, died in 1656), who had an extensive practice in lithotomy. He taught the process to Res- titut Girault and Severin Pineau. FBANQOIS COLOT, who died June 25, 1706, was instructed in the art by the son of Girault, and wrote a treatise upon the subject (Paris, 172V). COLQl'HOnV, Patrick, a British author, born at Dumbarton, Scotland, March 14, 1745, died in London, April 25, 1820. In early life he went to America, but returned to Scotland in 1756. On the outbreak of the American war he contributed to a fund for raising a regiment against the colonists. In 1782 he was elected chief magistrate of Glasgow. In 1789 he re- moved to London, and in 1792 was appointed a police magistrate. He published " A Trea- tise on the Police of the Metropolis " (London, 1796), "A Treatise on the Police of the River Thames," U A New System of Education for the Laboring People," "A Treatise on Indi- gence," and "On the Population, Wealth, Power, and Resources of the British Empire " (London, 1814). The first and last named works were translated into German. COLT COLOJCITT, a S. W. county of Georgia, bo ed E. by the Withlacoochee river, and inter- sected by the Ocopilco and branches of the Ocklockonee ; area, 600 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 1,654, of whom 137 were colored. The sur- face is level. The chief productions in 1870 were 24,132 bushels of Indian corn, 11,834 of sweet potatoes, 24,468 Ibs. of wool, and 327 bales of cotton. There were 183 horses, 1,804 milch cows, 3,852 other cattle, 9,061 sheep, and 6,348 swine. Capital, Moultrie. COLT, Samuel, an American inventor, born in Hartford, Conn., July 19, 1814, died there, Jan. 10, 1862. His restless spirit led him even when a child to prefer the work room to the school room, and he entered at the age of 10 a factory belonging to his father, who was a manufac- turer of woollen and silk goods. In his 14th year he was sent to school in Amherst, Mass., but ran away and shipped as a boy before the mast for an East India voyage. While at sea he made a model in w'ood of a revolving pistol, which was the germ of the celebrated weapon bearing his name. This model is still in exist- ence. After his return from Calcutta he fa- miliarized himself with the principles of chem- istry under the tuition of the manager of the dyeing and bleaching department in his father's factory at Ware, Mass. ; and having become a dexterous manipulator, he travelled through the United States and Canada, giving lectures on chemistry in almost every city. During the two years spent in this way he acquired means sufficient to prosecute his invention. In 1835 he visited England and France and secured patents for revolving firearms, and on his re- turn took out patents in this country. On a subsequent visit to Europe he discovered that there were in the tower of London ancient guns having a rotary chambered breech ; and in or- der to free himself from the imputation of claiming an invention which had previously been made, he read before the institution of civil engineers in England (of which he was the only American associate), in 1851, an elab- orate paper on the subject, in which he de- scribed the various early revolving firearms, and demonstrated the principles on which his own were constructed. In 1835, with the aid of New York capitalists, he established a company for the manufacture of his arms in Paterson, N. J., with a capital of $300,000. A large amount was expended in machinery and in experiments, but the company did not succeed in securing the general adoption of the weapon, though a few were used with success in the war with the Seminoles in 1837. In 1842 the patent arms company, as it was named, became insol- vent, and for five years no revolvers were made. In 1847, during the Mexican war, Gen. Taylor, who had learned the value of the weapon in Florida, sent for a supply, but none were to be found. The government ordered 1,000 to be made. Mr. Colt advertised in vain for one to serve as a model, and was compelled to make a new model, in which he incorpora-