Colchis

A region east of the Black Sea, the native land of Medea. Cole brook. Eikonocl. (18) 3. 468, 472; Hist. Brit. (5) 5. 208. (See also Colnus.) A town of Bucking hams hire at the junction of the Colne with the Thames. Hist. Brit. (5) The pa age in Camden to which Milton refers in “The Cole falls into the 5. 208 is as follows: Thames dividing Bucks from Middle sex at a town called from Cole brook. it...... Here the Cole is divided into four channels. By these divisions the Coin forms several pleasant islands, to which the Danes retired before Alfred a. d. 894.” (1. 314.) Colnbrook, as the place is now called, must have been well known to Milton, for it is distant from Horton but a mile. Moscovia (1) 8. 472. 102