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 398 COSWAY COTIN tributaries of the Rio Grande. Fort Garland, a government post, is in the county. Stock raising is the leading industry. The chief pro- ductions in 1870 were 7,420 bushels of wheat, 1,650 of Indian corn, 2,155 of oats, 45,020 Ibs. of wool, 13,430 of butter, and 278 tons of hay. There were 228 horses, 1,672 milch cows, and 22,510 sheep. Capital, Costilla. COSWAY, Richard, an English painter, born at Tiverton in 1740, died July 4, 1821. He re- moved to London, where he painted minia- tures, in the execution of which he had no rival among his contemporaries. His wife, Maria Hadfield, also an artist, and a woman of great accomplishments, contributed for years to the exhibitions of the royal academy. COTA, Rodrigo de, a Spanish poet, born at Toledo, died in 1470. He was the supposed author of the first and longest act of the Ce- lestina, a dramatic story in 21 acts or parts, originally called the " Tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibcea." He was also supposed to have written the celebrated eclogue, Mingo Revulgo, a spirited satire against the latter part of the reign of Henry IV. of Castile ; and the " Dia- logue between Love and an Old Man " is at- tributed to him. COTE-D'OR, an E. department of France, in Burgundy, bordering on the departments of Aube, Haute-Marne, Haute-Sa6ne, Jura, Saone- et-Loire, Nievre, and Yonne; area, 3,383 sq. m. ; pop. in 1872, 374,510. A chain of hills, the Cote d'Or, crosses the department from S. W. to N. E., forming with the Vosges the wa- tershed between the valleys of the Seine and Sa6ne. In the S. W. is the eastern portion of the hill range known as Mont de Morvan. The rivers are numerous, but small, the Saone being the only one that is navigable. The Bur- gundy canal passes through the department from N. W. to S. E., uniting the river Yonne with the Saone. Most of the land is fertile, and well adapted to hemp, flax, and various kinds of fruit and grain. The culture of the vine is one of the principal employments. The Cote de Nuits and Cote Beaunoise, E. slopes of the Cote d'Or, are famous for their wines, the former producing the red wines, Romance, Chambertin, and Nuits; the latter both red and white of unsurpassed quality. Large quan- tities of honey are obtained. A considerable portion of the country is occupied by forests of oak, beech, elm, &c. The mineral productions are iron, coal, marble, limestone, potters 1 clay, and several varieties of stone useful for build- ing and for lithography. The iron mines are chiefly in the N. E. mountains, and are among the most productive in France. Large quan- tities of charcoal are consumed in the manu- facture of malleable iron and steel at the fur- naces and founderies near the mines. Other manufactures are linen, woollen, cotton, beet- root sugar, leather, and earthenware. The de- partment is divided into the arrondissements of Dijon, Beaune, Cbatillon-sur-Seine, and Se- mur. Capital, Dijon. COTES-DU-NORD, a N. W. maritime depart- ment of France, in Brittany, bordering on the English channel and on the departments of Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan, and Finistere, and including the islands of Brehat, Sept Isles, and others; area, 2,668 sq. in.; pop. in 1872, 622,295. The coast line is very much indent- ed, the largest bay being St. Brieuc, at the head of which are the harbor and town of that name. In many places granite cliffs, with sandy beaches beneath,' characterize the coast. The S. half is hilly, and on the S. W. boundary are the Montagnes Noires, which are at some points over 1,000 ft. high. The Kance is the only river of importance, though a few others are accessible at high tide to ships. The Hie and Ranee canal connects the channel with the bay of Biscay, and a canal from Nantes to Brest crosses the department in the southwest. Agriculture is poorly conducted. Cider, hemp, and flax are the chief products, though suffi- cient oats, wheat, and rye are raised for home consumption. Excellent horses and cattle are reared, but the sheep are inferior. . Asses are employed for farm work in some cantons. The coast fisheries of herring, pilchard, and mack- erel are profitable. Hemp and flax are manu- factured into sail cloth and linen, and leather, beet-root sugar, paper, and shoes are made. Iron and lead are mined to some extent. The people mostly speak the Bas Breton tongue, and are ignorant and superstitious, but make fine seamen and soldiers. The department is divided into the arrondissements of St. Bri- euc, Dinan, Guingamp, Lannion, and Loudeac. Capital, St. Brieuc. COTES, Roger, an English mathematician, born at Burbage, Leicestershire, July 10, 1682, died in Cambridge, June 5, 1716. He was educated at Cambridge, and in 1706 was made Plumian professor of astronomy, upon the establishment of the chair. In 1713 he took orders, and edi- ted the second edition of Newton's Principia, with a preface treating of gravitation and the objections to it ; other works of his were an account of the great meteor of 1715, and his Harmonia Mensurarum, which was the earli- est work of importance on the application of logarithms and of the properties of the circle to the calculus of fluents. COTHURNUS, a high laced boot worn by the ancients. It rose nearly to the knee, was laced in front, and highly ornamented. The soles were made sometimes very thick for the use of tragic actors, who wished to increase their ap- parent height ; hence it became the symbol for tragedy, as the sock was for comedy. COTIN, Charles, a French abbe, born in Paris in 1604, died there in 1682. He became the butt of the satire of Boileau, consequent upon his advice to him to adopt a different style of writing. In his play of the Femmes savantes, Moliere makes Trissotin imitate Cotin's speech and manner. Cotin was almoner to the king, a member of the French academy, and author of a volume of poems and of several prose