Colburn, Warren

an American mathematician, B. at Dedham, Ma ., 1793. He is the author of a series of valuable text-books on elementary mathematics, the best of which is his First Le ons in Intellectual Arithmetic. D. 1833. Colbyville, in Kentucky, a post-village of Clarke co., 39 m. S.E. of Frankfort. Colchagua, a dep. of Chili, lying mostly between Lat. 34° and 35° S., stretching from the Andes to the Pacific Ocean; having N. and S. the departments of Santiago and Maule. Area , 8,120 sq. m. Its plains are fertile, and watered by the Maule and Maypu rivers. Pop . 142,438. Col chester, a borough, and sea-port of England, co. E ex, 50 m. N.E. of London. This is a very ancient and flourishing place, and po e es some fine architectural remains. Manf . Silk. It has a large oyster-fishing trade, and exports of corn and malt. In 1648, C. stood a memorable siege of 11 weeks against the parliamentary forces, who eventually starved out the royalist garrison, and hung the leaders. Col'chester, in Connecticut, a post-village and township of New London co., 20 miles N.W. of New London. Col chester, in New York, a post-township of Delaware county, on the Pop act on River, about 20 miles S. of Delhi. Co'ker-nut, n. ( Com .) A corrupted spelling of Cocoa-Col chester, in Vermont , a post-township of Chittenden NUT, 9. v. Cokesbury, in S. Carolina, a village and township of Abbeville district, 50 m. S. of Greenville. Col, n . [Fr., a neck.] The name, with various postfixes. of many pa es acro the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont; as, the Col de Balme. Coin'jock, in N. Carolina , a P. O. of Currituck co. Co-instantaneous, a . Happening at the same in- Colamo'ka, or KOLEMOKEE CREEK, in Georgia , traverses IMG:content-0253.png:[blocks in formation] Early co., and enters the Chattahoochee River a few m. below Fort Gaines,