. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. COR COR the ears are large â the horns are about fix inches long, al- and fo near the metropolis, that they made ample compen- m-ft upright bending a little outwards in the middle, fatmn for the barrennefs of the foil. 1 hefe two naval roads and fomewhat approaching at the tips, the lower parts be- which opened a way into the Ionian and iEgean feas, might u- furrounded with circular wrinkles. This fpecies refem bits the kevel in colour, fize, fwiftnefs, and mulky odour ; but differs v
. The cyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature. Encyclopedias and dictionaries. COR COR the ears are large â the horns are about fix inches long, al- and fo near the metropolis, that they made ample compen- m-ft upright bending a little outwards in the middle, fatmn for the barrennefs of the foil. 1 hefe two naval roads and fomewhat approaching at the tips, the lower parts be- which opened a way into the Ionian and iEgean feas, might u- furrounded with circular wrinkles. This fpecies refem bits the kevel in colour, fize, fwiftnefs, and mulky odour ; but differs very much horn it in the figure of the horasi though Gmelin, after Pallas, fufpecls that it is the female of that fpecies. t .. CORINEA, in Ancient Geography, a country or Alia, in Armenia Major. Ptolemy places it between the fources of the Tigris and Euphrates, and to the fouth of Thof pinde. tafily have gained for them a fuperiority, if not a command, over all Greece, if this advantageous ntuation had not in- clined them more to commerce than war. For their citadel being almoft impregnable by nature, and commanding both feas, they could eafily cut off all communication betwixt one half of Greece and the other; fo that it was not without reafon called one of the fetters of Greece. But being led by their genius and difpofition to improve their advantages A'fo' an ancient town of Illyria on the Adriatic gulf; and partly from the influx of (bangers that flocked hither r ' 'r j . â ,lâ rr^â, r^; from Europe and Alia, their city became at length one of fuppofed to be the pretent Lon. r » /. a CORINTH, , a city of Greece in the the molt confiderable and ipiendid in Greece ; being adorned Peloponnefus, upon a gulf of the fame name. This city was the capital of a fmall ftate, fituate on the ifthmus of Corinth, having the bay of that name, now called " Golto di Lepanto," and the ifthmus or neck of land, which joins Peloponnefus to the continent, on the north
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