COROZAL

[s. 216] : A town in British Honduras, situated 62 miles N. of Belize. Population 5,000. Station of the WMS, with (1901) 1 mi ionary, 7 native workers, 5 preaching centers, 1 Sunday school, 1 common Christians. school and 45 profe ing COSTA RICA: A republic of Central America. Area, 22,000 square miles. Population, 243,205, chiefly mestizoes, negroes and Indians. Language, Spanish. Religion, Roman Catholic. Tlie capital is San Jos6, in a beautiful valley in the central part of Costa Rica. Punta Arenas is the port of San 3os6, situated on the Gulf of Nicoya, the best harbor and only port of entry on the Pacific coast. The main range of the Andes, entering Costa Rica from the southeast, traverses its entire territory, widening toward the northwest, and forming a table land, on which are situated the principal towns and centers of population. The rivers of Costa Rica, altho numerous, are of inconsiderable size, the San Juan, which serves as a boundary between it and Nicaragua, being the only one navigable for steamers. It has no lakes of any great importance, but numerous small ones at the foot of the mountain ranges. Costa Rica lies in a volcanic belt and is therefore subject to frequent earthquakes. The soil is very productive, and, the le rich in minerals than some of the neighboring countries, it contains some rich gold-mines. The climate is mild and delightful in the uplands, hot on the plains, but everywhere healthful, except along the lagoons on the western coast. Costa Rica has been a republic since 1821, and governed under a constitution promulgated in 1859, but modified frequently since that date. Commerce is carried on with the United Kingis 199 dom, the United States and Germany. The exports are chiefly bananas, coffee and hides. The BFBS has a Bible depot and an agent at San Jos6 and the Central America Mi ion Society has a mi ion station there also. The Jamaica Baptist Mi ionary Society and the West Indies Wesley an Annual Conference have stations at Port Limon and Cartago. COTTA. See Kotta. COTTAYAM. See Kottayam. COVENANTERS; Mi ions of the. See Presbyterian, RErORMED. COWICHAN: A town on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, situated on Population, about 1,500. the Cowichan River. Station of the MCC (1900), with 1 mi ionary and Sunday school and 1 place of his wife, 1 worship. 217