Cohoes

a city in Albany county, N. Y.; at junction of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers; on the Hrie canal and several railroads; 9 miles N. of Albany; has a fine waterfall, and cotton, woolen, and knit goods, machinery, paper, and tube plants. Pop. (1910) 24,709. " Coimbra, capital of the Portuguese province of Beira, on a hill above the Mondego river, here cro ed by a stone bape, 185 miles N. N. Hi. of Lisbon. oimbra was the capital of Portugal for about two centuries and a half from its erection into a kingdom in 1139, The University of Coimbra, the only one in Portugal, was originally established at Lisbon in 1288, but was permanently transferred here in 1537; attached to it are & museum, an observatory, a botanical garden and a library of over 60,000 volumes. Pop. 17,300.