Cololite

[Gr. kolon, colon, and lithos, a stone.] ( Pal.) A worm-like fo il; petrified intestines of fishes. Colo'lo, in S. America, a mountain-peak of the Andes, near the boundary of Peru and Bolivia, in Lat. 14° 57' S., Lon. 69° 10 W. It is about 17,930 feet high. Colo'ma, in California , a post-village and township of El Dorado co., on the S. fork of the American River, 10 m. N.W of Placerville. stagnant state, and the country, speaking generally, a hundred years behind the times. The inhabitants of C. comprise the usual Hispano-American varieties of race; and to the educated Creole cla must be conceded the merit of being in the first rank of native S. Americans in point of mental culture. This republic is divided into nine departments; viz., Antioquia, Bolivar, Boyaco, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Magdalen a, Panama, Santander, and Tolima. The Roman Catholic religion is that of the State, but other creeds are tolerated.-Prin. towns . Bogotá (the capital), Me dell in, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cart a gena, Santa Marta, Chagres, and the sea-ports of Asp in wall and Panama on the Panama Isthmus Hist. New Granada was discovered by Ojeda in 1499, and the first settlement was made by the Spaniards in 1510. The people proclaimed their independence in 1811. The State was united with Venezuela and called COLOMBIA, in 1819, and with our S. American States in 1823. This union was di olved in 1829. Now Granada then became an independent republic, and Gen. Santander was installed president in 1833. A new treaty of union was concluded by the plenipotentiaries of the States of New Granada, in 1861, when the republic took the name of the UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Proposals being made to Ecuador to join this union, and rejected, a war ensued, which resulted in the triumph of Colombia, and a treaty of peace, signed Dec. 30, 1863, by which Gen. Mosquera, on the part of C., abandoned the project of bringing in Ecuador by force. From 1864 to 1875 civil war was almost continuous, and in 1886, the federal constitution having proved unsatisfactory, a more сепtralized government was formed under the name of the REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA. Pop . (1897) 4,600,000. Colombo, or COLUMBO, a fortified sea-port town of Ceylon, the modern cap. of the island, and seat of govt., on the S. extremity of the W. coast of the island; Lat. 6° 55′ N., Lon. 79° 45′ E. The town within the walls is regularly laid out in the European style, with one-storied houses, faced with verandahs. It po e es some fine public buildings, and is, taken altogether, a handsome and flourishing place. The harbor of C. is now excellent, owing to the building of a substantial stone breakwater, at a cost of about $5,000,000. The first stone whereof was laid in 1875, but is now completed and C. is now the depôt for nearly all the foreign trade, and also po e ing a large up-country traffic, In 1517, the Portuguese affected a settlement; in 1656 it was captured by the Dutch, and was then a prosperous place; in 1796 the Dutch were dispo e ed by the British, who still retain po e ion. Pop . 1891, 126,926. Coloma, in Indiana , a post-office of Parke co. Coloma, in Iowa , a village of Marion co., about 34 m. Colon, n. [Fr., from Gr. kolon .] ( Anat . ) The central