Coviello (ko-ve-el'lō)

The conventional clown IMG:content-0382.png:[ocr errors] Covilham Cozumel de. Born at Covilhão, Portugal, about 1450: died in Aby in i a about 1540 (?). A Portuguese navigator. He was sent by John II. of Portugal to Asia, in 1487, in search of the legendary Prester John. Having visited the principal towns of Aby in i a and Malabar, and sent home a report of his journey, he presented himself in 1490 at the court of Alexander, prince of Aby in i a, who treated him with great kindne , but constrained him to remain in the country. His report is said to have been of use to Vasco da Gama in the discovery of the route to India round the Cape of Good Hope. Covilhão (kō-vēl-yän'). A town in the province of Beira, Portugal, in lat. 40° 19′ N., long. 7°31′ W. It is noted for its cloth manufactures. Population (1890), 17,562. ✓ Coving ton (kuv'ing-ton). A city in Kenton ir County, Kentucky, situated on the Ohio River, at the mouth of the Licking, opposite Cincinnati. It has manufactures of iron, tobacco, etc., and is connected by a suspension-bridge with Cincinnati. - Population (1900), 42,938. - Cowell (kou'el), Edward Byles. Born Jan. 23, 1826: died Feb. 9, 1903. An English Sanskrit scholar, appointed profe or at the Presidency College, Calcutta, in 1864, and Sanskrit profe or at Cambridge, England, in 1867.