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XVIII. 389; diet for reduction of, VII.

204.

CORPUS CHRISTI, church festival, vi. 436.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, Cambridge,

IV. 731.

CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, Oxford,
XVIII. 96.

CORPUSCLES, Blood, 1. 845.

CORTES, Spanish legislature, XXII. 303.
-, Hernan, conqueror of Mexico, VI.
441; I. 707; X. 182.

647; Greek school of medicine at, XV. 800.

COSCAROBA, bird, XXII. 732.

Martin, his Art of Navigation, COSCINOMANCY, divining with a sieve,

XVII. 252.

CORTHOL, musical instrument, XVII.

705.

CORTI, Rods of, in the ear, I. 894; VII.
593.

Ultramundane, in Le Sage's atomic CORTICATA, division of Protozoa, XIX. theory, III. 46.

CORPUSCULAR THEORY, of light, XIV.

580, 598.

CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM GRÆCARUM,

XIII. 122.

CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM LATINARUM,

XIII. 127.

CORPUS JURIS, of Justinian, XIII. 794.
CORPUS JURIS CANONICI, V. 18.
CORREA, greenhouse plant, XII. 263.

DA SERRA, José Francisco, Portuguese politician and scientist, VI. 436. CORRECTION, Houses of, XIX. 748. CORREGGIO, Antonio Allegri, Italian painter, VI. 437; XXI. 437, 443. CORRESPONDENCE, in geometry, X.

392.

CORRÈZE, department, France, VI. 438.
CORRIB, Lough, Ireland, X. 55; XIII.
216; XV. 650.

CORRICHIE, Scotland, Battle of (1562),
XV. 595.

CORRIE, mountain recess, XXI. 525.
CORRIENTES, town, Argentine Republic,
VI. 439.

CORRIEVRECKAN, whirlpool, Scotland,

XXIV. 542.

CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, a chloride of
mercury, XVI. 33; as poison, XIX.
277.
CORRUPT

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ACT (1854), IV. 278. CORRY, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., vi. 439.

CORSICA, island, Mediterranean, VI.

439; XIII. 440; XV. 820; dialect of, XIII. 494; ceded to ancient Rome, xx. 748; its connexion with France, XVII. 193; under Theodore I., XVII. 362. CORSINI, Lorenzo (Pope Clement XII.), v. 823.

—, Marietta, wife of Machiavelli, xv. 147.

CORSINIEE, class of liverworts, XVII. 69.

CORSLET, defensive armour, VI. 692. CORSOTHE, town, Mesopotamia, XVI. 48.

CORSSEN, Wilhelm Paul, German philologist, VI. 440.

CORT, Cornelius, Dutch engraver, VI.

441. CORTAILLOD, town, Switzerland, XVII. 362.

CORTE NOVA, town, Italy, XVII. 608. CORTE-REAL, family of Portuguese navigators, VI. 441.

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VII. 293; XVII. 818.

COSECANT, in trigonometry, XXIII. 563.
COSEGUINA, volcano, Nicaragua, XVII.
477.

COSENZA, town, Italy, VI. 445; province,
IV. 651.

COSIMO I. (dei Medici), grand-duke of
Tuscany, XV. 789.

II., of Tuscany, XV. 792.
III., of Tuscany, XV. 793.

DEI MEDICI (the Elder), ruler of
Florence, xv. 784; IX. 138.

COSIN, John, bishop of Durham, VI. 445; as hymn-writer, XII. 592.

CORTOREAL, Gaspar, explorer of New- COSINE, in trigonometry, XXIII. 563.

foundland, XVII. 385.

CORUISK, Loch, Skye, Scotland, XXII.

127.

CORUÑA, province, Spain, XXII. 298;
town, VI. 443.
CORUNDOPHYLLITE, mineral, XVI. 414.
CORUNDUM, mineral, XVI. 385; XXI.
47; deposits of, in North Carolina,
U.S.A., XVII. 560.

CORUNNA, or Coruña, town, Spain, VI.
443; battle of (1809), XVI. 805; Lord
Paget at, II. 31.

CÖSLIN, town, Prussia, XIV. 143. COSMAS, Byzantine hymn-writer, XI. 146. surnamed Indicopleustes, ancient geographer, VI. 445; X. 177.

of Prague, Bohemian historian, VI. 446. COSMATI, family of architects and sculptors, Rome, XX. 834. COSMO DE' MEDICI. See Cosimo. COSMOGONY, VI. 446; Chaldean, III. 193; myths of, I. 460; XVII. 143, 156; of the Stoics, XXII. 564.

CORVARA, Pietro di (Nicholas V., anti- COSMOGRAPHY, Heylin's, XI. 785.
pope), XVII. 484.

CORVEY, Benedictine abbey, Saxony, VI.
443; library of, XIV. 513.
CORVIDE, family of birds, VI. 617;
XVIII. 48.

CORVINUS, John Hunyady, king of
Hungary, XII. 367, 368; XXIII. 642.

Marcus Valerius Messala, friend
and patron of Tibullus, XXIII. 348.

Matthias, of Hungary, XII. 367, 368; xv. 634; library of, XIV. 515. CORVISART-DESMARETS,

Baron de,

French physician, VI. 443; XV. 816.
CORVO, island, Azores, III. 172.
CORVUS, genus of birds, VI. 617; XIII.
532; XX. 295, 842.

M. Valerius, Roman general, vi.
444.
CORY, Giles, executed for witchcraft, in
U.S.A., XXIV. 622.

CORYATT, Thomas, English writer, VI.
444.

COSMOLOGICAL THEISM, XXIII. 248.
COSMOLOGY, Parmenides's, XVIII. 315;
Philo's, XVIII. 762; Pythagorean, XX.
139.
COSMOS, Humboldt's work, XII. 345.

-, Anaxagoras's theory of the, II. 1; Kepler's, XIV. 47.

COSNE, town, France, VI. 448; xvII.
496.

COSSA, Balthasar (Pope John XXIII.),
XIII. 712.

Luigi, Italian economist, XIX. 394. COSSACKS, Russian tribes, VI. 448; v. 263; XXI. 79; origin of the name, XIV. 95; in Russian army, II. 610. COSSIMBAZAR, town, India, XIV. 14. COSSYA HILLS (Khasi Hills), district, India, XIV. 58.

COSSYRA, island, Mediterranean, XVIII.

214.

COSTA, Lorenzo, Italian painter, XXI. 437, 443.

CORYBANTES, in Greek mythology, VI. COSTE, or Ribs, Anatomy of, 1. 822.

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COSTELLO, Louisa Stuart, English writer, | COTTON, VI. 482; of Brazil, IV. 227;
COTTON, VI. 482; of Brazil, IV. 227; | COUMARIN, perfume, XVIII. 526.

VI. 45I.

COSTER, Laurens, Dutch printer, XIV. 143; XXIII. 689, 691.

Samuel, Dutch writer, XII. 94. COSTERMONGERS, in London, XIV. 829. COSTILLA, mountain, New Mexico,

U.S.A., XVII. 399.

COSTNITZ, or Constance (q.v.) town,

Baden, VI. 297.

COSTS, Legal, VI. 451.

COSTUME, VI. 453; Celtic, v. 801;
Egyptian, VII. 723; early Irish, XIII.
254; Persian, XVIII. 630.
COSTUS, incense, XII. 718.
COTA, Rodrigo, Spanish poet, VI. 479;
VII. 420.

COTAN (Khotan), district and town,
Turkestan, XIV. 67.

COTANGENT, in trigonometry, XXIII. 563.

CÔTE D' OR, department, France, VI. 479. COTENTIN, district, Normandy, France, XV. 458; XVII. 540.

COTES, Roger, English mathematician, VI. 479; his Logometria, XVII. 256; Newton's correspondence with, XVII.

447.

of Egypt, VII. 708, 786; of India, XII. 748; bleaching of, III. 812; growth of, in Bombay, IV. 23; in the United States, XXIII. 824; in Georgia, U.S.A., X. 435; manufacture of, VI. 487; manufacture in England, VIII. 230; in India, XII. 761, 763; in Russia, XXI. 849; at Lowell, U.S.A., xv. 29; dyeing of red colours on, VII. 576.

Charles, English writer, VI. 508; his share in the Compleat Angler, XXIV. 342.

George Edward Lynch, bishop of Calcutta, VI. 508.

726.

John, New England Puritan, XII.

Sir Robert Bruce, political writer and founder of Cottonian library, VI. 509.

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Stapleton, Viscount Combermere, COUNTRY WIFE, The, Wycherley's play,
VI. 181.
XXIV. 706.

FIBRE, IX. 133.
COTTONIAN LIBRARY, in British
Museum, VI. 509.
COTTONIAN MSS., British Museum,
XIV. 515.

CÔTES-DU-NORD, department, France, COTTON PAPER, XVIII. 218.

VI. 479.

COTTON-SEED CAKE, XVII. 739.

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COTYLOPHORA, group of ungulate mammals, XV. 430.

COTYORA, town, Asia Minor, XIX. 459.

COTYS, Thracian kings, VI. 509. COUAGGA (Quagga), ungulate mammal, XX. 146.

COUCH, fish, XXI. 223.

COUCHES, furniture, IX. 850.

COUGHING, abnormal respiration, xx. 479.

COTTAGERS OF GLENBURNIE, Mrs COUGOUAR, carnivorous mammal, XV.

Hamilton's story, XI. 415.

435; XX. 104.

Livry, XXI. 703.

COTTAGE SYSTEM, for farm labourers, COULANGES, Christophe de, Abbé de in Scotland, I. 409. COTTBUS, town, Prussia, XIV. 144. COTTENDORF, Cotta von, German publishers, VI. 480. See Cotta. COTTEREAU, Jean, French royalist, v. 686.

COTTIAN ALPS, I. 623.

COTTIN, Sophie, French novelist, VI. 481. COTTIUS, chief of Segusio (Susa), Italy, XXII. 722.

COULOMB, Charles Augustin, French physicist, VI. 509; his contributions to the science of electricity, VIII. 9, 18; to science of magnetism, XV. 237, 249. electrical unit of measurement, XXIII. 116.

COUNTY, administrative area, VI. 512; origin of, in England, VIII. 273; American, XXIII. 731, 827.

COURT, Jurisdiction of, VI. 513. COUP D'ÉTAT, of Louis Napoleon (1851),

XVII. 228.

COUP DE SOLEIL, or Sunstroke, XXII. 666.

COURAYER, Pierre François le, French

theologian, VI. 514.

COURBARIL, tree, II. 55.

COURIER, of ambassador, L. 658; Government, XIX. 562.

Paul Louis, French writer, VI. 514; IX. 673.

COURLAN, bird, XX. 223.

COURLAND, province, Russia, VI. 515; XXI. 69.

COURNOT, Augustin, French economist,
XIX. 386.

COURONS, tribe, Lithuania, XIV. 702.
COURS, town, France, XX. 529.
COURSER, bird, XIX. 228.
COURSING, with greyhounds, VI. 515.
Court, COURTS, Judicial, VI. 516; of

appeal, 11. 209; of summary jurisdic-
tion, XXII. 641; English, VIII. 261;
records of English, XX. 311; Federal,
United States, XXIII. 750; Moslem,
XVI. 591.

Contempt of, VI. 318.

Antoine, French Protestant, VI. 519; XIX. 695; missionary of the Camisards, IV. 744.

DE GEBELIN, Antoine, French scholar, VI. 520.

COURTESY TITLES, British, xix. 665.
COURT FOOLS, IX. 366.

COURTHOSE, Robert, founder of New-
castle-on-Tyne, XVII. 379.
COURT MARTIAL, VI. 517; XVI. 297.

COULTER, Loch, Stirlingshire, Scotland, COURTNEY, William, archbishop of

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COURT OF SESSION, in Scotland, XXI. 535.

COURTOIS, Jâques and Guillaume,

French painters, VI. 520.
COURTRAI, town, Belgium, VI. 520;
battle of (1302), IX. 544.
COURTS. See Court.

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COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH,
Longfellow's poem, XIV. 861.

COUSA, or Phalanger, marsupial mam-
mal, XVIII. 727.

his friendship with John Newton, | CRAMP, muscular disease, VI. 543; rings XVII. 449; hymns by, XII. 594; his place in English literature, VIII. 429. COWPER, William, anatomist, I. 813. COWPER'S WRITING TELEGRAPH,

XXIII. 121.

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Cow-Pox, XIII. 623; XXIV. 25, 204.
COWRY, shell and money, VI. 535, 766.
COWSLIP, plant, XIX. 737.

Cows OF ATHOR, in Egyptian
mythology, III. 14.

COUSIN, Victor, French philosopher, VI. Cox, David, English painter, VI. 535.
521; IX. 674.

COUSTOU, Nicholas and Guillaume,
French sculptors, VI. 528.

Richard, bishop of Ely, VI. 537. CoxCIE, Michael, Flemish painter, VI. 537.

COUTANCES, town, France, VI. 529; Coxcox, the Mexican Noah, XVI. 209. district, XVII. 539.

COUTHON, Georges, French Revolu-
tionist, VI. 529; XX. 604.
COUTTS, Thomas, English banker, vi.
529.

COVELLINE, mineral, XVI. 393.
COVENANT, Book of the, Pentateuchal,
XVIII. 509.

National (1638), in Scotland, XI. 651; XXI. 512.

Solemn League and, in Scotland (1643), VI. 530; XXI. 513. COVENANTERS, in Scottish history, VI.

529; XIX. 682; XXI. 515; persecution of, by Claverhouse, VII. 537. COVENT GARDEN MARKET, London, XIV. 829, 847.

COVENTRY, town, England, VI. 530; population, XXIV. 379; ribbons of, XX. 532.

CHAIR, driven as tricycle, XXIII. 560.

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English Bible, VI. 531; his version,
VIII. 385.

COVERED WAY, in engineering, XXIII.
622; in fortification, IX. 445.
COVILHA, town, Portugal, vi. 531; XIX.
537.

COVILHAM, Pedro de, Portuguese
traveller, 1. 65; x. 180.
COVINGTON, town, Kentucky, U.S.A.,
VI. 531; XVII. 406.
Cow, Milch, management of, 1. 390; VI.
768; diseases of, XXIV. 204; milk of,
XVI. 303; respect paid to, by Hindus,
IV. 211; by Zoroastrians, XXIV. 822.

The, statue by Myron, XVII. 120.
COWELL, John, English jurist, VI. 531.
COWES, West and East, towns, Isle of
Wight, VI. 531.

COXE, William, archdeacon, English
writer, VI. 537.

worn as preservative against, XX. 561. CRAN, river, England, XVI. 279. CRANACH, Lucas, German painter and caricaturist, VI. 543; V. 104; XXI. 438, 443.

CRANBERRY, plant and fruit, VI. 545 ;
XII. 270.

CRANBORNE CHASE, Wilts, England,
XXIV. 593.

CRANBROOK, town, England, vi. 546.
CRANE, bird, VI. 546.

hoisting machine, VI. 547.
Francis, English tapestry designer,
XXIII. 213.

DANCE, in Greece and Siberia,
XXIII. 294.
CRANE-FLY, insect, VII. 256.
CRANESBILL, plant, X. 439.
CRANGANORE, town, India, XIV. 135.
CRANGON, genus of Crustacea, XXI.
846.

COXON, John, buccaneer, IV. 410.
COXWELL, Henry T., aeronaut, I. 193.
COYNE AND LIVERY, right of free
quarters, in Ireland, XIII. 262.
COYPEL, family of French painters, VI. CRANIADÆ, family of Brachiopoda, IV.
537.

COYPU, rodent mammal, XV. 420; XVI.
301.

COYSEVOX, or Coyzevox, Charles An-
toine, French sculptor, VI. 537; XXI.
563.

CRAB, crustacean, VI. 538, 655; sperma-
tozoon of, XX. 411; fisheries, IX. 265.
CRABBE, George, English poet, VI. 539.
CRAB ISLAND, West Indies, XXIV. 261.
CRAB ORCHARD, spa, Kentucky, U.S.A.,
XVI. 436.

CRACINE, group of birds, VI. 709.
CRACKER, in pyrotechny, XX. 136.
CRACKNELS, biscuits, III. 252.
CRACOW, town, Austrian Poland, vi.
540; university of, XIX. 300, 306;
XXIII. 840, 851.

194.

CRANIAL NERVES, 1. 880; XIX. 42.
CRANIATA, division of vertebrate
animals, XXIV. 181, 812.
CRANIUM, or Skull, 1. 822; XXII. 113;
of American Indians, XII. 824; surgery
of, XXII. 688; successive stages of, in
the fowl, III. 700.
CRANK-SHAFT, of steam-engine, XXII.
509.

CRANMER, Thomas, archbishop of Canterbury, VI. 548; VIII. 333, 340; XI. 664; leader of the Reformation in England, XX. 330; his influence on the English Church, VIII. 376. CRANNOGS, Celtic lake dwellings, VI. 552; II. 384; XIV. 223. CRANTOR, Greek philosopher, VI. 552. CRADLE MOUNTAIN, Tasmania, XXIII. CRANTZ, Albert, German historian, XIV. 72. CRAFT-GUILDS, VI. 39; XI. 261. CRAFTSMAN, The, Amhurst's paper, I. 738; XX. 104.

146.

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CRAON, Robert de, grand-master of
Knights Templars, XXIII. 160.
CRAPE, silk fabric, VI. 553.

CRAFTSMEN, as distinct from labourers, CRASHAW, Richard, English poet, VI.

XIV. 166.

CRAIG, John, Scottish Reformer, VI. 541.
Dr John, friend of Napier, XVII.
182.

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Sir Thomas, Scottish jurist and poet, VI. 541; XVII. 177; XXI. 543. CRAIGENTINNY MEADOWS, Edinburgh, Sewage irrigation of, 1. 374. CRAIGNETHAN CASTLE, Lanark, Scotland, XIV. 251.

553.

CRASSAPUILL TROUT, fish, XXI. 223.
CRASSUS, L. Calpurnius, conspirator
against the emperor Nerva, XVII. 353.
Lucius Licinius, Roman orator,
VI. 553.

Marcus Licinius, Roman triumvir,
VI. 554; XIX. 451; XX. 763, 765; his
invasion of Mesopotamia, XVIII. 596.
CRATÆGUS, genus of plants, XI. 536.

CRAIK, George Lillie, English writer, CRATER, ancient cup, XIX. 180, 614.

VI. 542.

CRAIL, town, Scotland, VI. 542.
CRAJOVA, town, Roumania, XIV. 146.
COWEY STAKES, in Thames, Middlesex, CRAKE, bird, VI. 542; XX. 224.
England, XVI. 281.
COWLEY, Abraham, English poet, VI.
532; VIII. 418.
COW-PARSNIP, as forage plant, I. 378.
COWPER, William, English poet, VI. 533;

CRAMALT CRAIG, mountain, Scotland,
XVIII. 451.

CRAMER, Gabriel, his method of deter-
minants, I. 516.
CRAMMING, for examinations, VIII. 779.

CRATES of Athens, actor and writer of comedies, VI. 554.

of Mallus, grammarian and Stoic philosopher, VI. 554; XI. 43; XV. 516.

of Thebes, Cynic philosopher, vi. 554. CRATHIS, river, Lucania, Italy, XV. 37. CRATINUS, Greek comedian, VI. 554. CRATIPPUS, Greek historian, VI. 554

CRATIPPUS, Peripatetic philosopher, VI.

554.

CRATYLUS, Plato's dialogue, XIX. 202. CRAU, district, France, IV. 169. CRAUFORD, Quentin, English antiquary, VI. 554.

CREEK INDIANS, North America, x.

437; XII. 828, 835.

CRESWICK, Thomas, English painter,
VI. 568.

CREEK TOWN, Calabar, West Africa, CRETACEOUS ROCKS, X. 357.
IV. 649.

CREFELD, town, Germany, VI. 565; silk
manufacture of, XXII. 65.

CREIL, town, France, XVII. 749.
CREMA, town, Italy, vI. 565.

CRAWFORD, Earl of, his observatory,
Dun Echt, Scotland, XVII. 711.
-, Thomas, American sculptor, VI. CRÉMAILLÈRE LINES, in fortification,

554.

William Harris, American statesman, XXIII. 759, 761, 788.

ISLAND, Sierra Leone, Africa, XXII. 45. CRAWFURD, John, English political writer, VI. 555.

CRAYER, Gaspard de, Flemish painter, VI. 555.

CRAY-FISH, crustacean, VI. 643, 658; of Mammoth Cave, U.S.A., XV. 450. CRAYON, material for drawing, VI. 555.

CRAZY MOUNTAINS, U.S.A., xxIII.

797.

CREAM, of milk, XVI. 303, 305; clotted, VI. 771.

OF TARTAR, chemical salt, VI. 556; XXIII. 69. CREAMOMETER, XVI. 305. CREASOTE, or Creosote, antiseptic, drug, and poison, VI. 556; XXIII. 57. CREATIN, or Creatine, nitrogenous carbon compound, XVII. 519; XIX. 24. CREATION, in Arabian philosophy, II. 266; evolutionist view of, VIII. 752; myths of, XVII. 146, 156; theories of, VI. 446.

The, Haydn's oratorio, XI. 539.
OF MAN, The, early traditions
regarding, I. 136, 137; myths of,
XVII. 157.

OF THE WORLD, Era of the, v.
713.
CRÉBILLON, Claude Prosper Jolyote,
French novelist, VI. 556; IX. 666.

Prosper Jolyote de, French poet, VI. 557; VII. 425; IX. 665. CRÉCY, or Cressy, town, France, VI. 557; battle of (1346), VII. 686; VIII. 318; IX. 546.

CREDI, Lorenzo di, Italian painter, VI.

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IX. 435, 437.

CREMATION, method of disposing of human corpses, VI. 565. CREMNA, town, Asia Minor, XIX. 130. CREMONA, province, Italy, vI. 567. -, town, Italy, vI. 567; its school of painting, XXI. 437, 443; violin makers of, XVII. 98.

CREMORNE, musical instrument, XXIII. 489.

CRENELLE, in architecture, II. 463. CRENIDES (Philippi), ancient town, Macedonia, XVIII. 746.

CRENILABRUS, genus of fishes, XXIV. 686.

CREOLE, VI. 567; XVII. 319.

CRÊT DE LA NEIGE, mountain, Switzerland, XIII. 781.

CRETE, or Candia, island, Mediterranean, VI. 569; XV. 820; XXIII. 653; its connexion with Phoenicia, XVIII. 805; cession of, to the Turks (1669), XI. 121; XXIV. 147; coins of, XVII. 635, 643; Greek dialect of, XI. 133; weights and measures, XXIV. 490. CRÉTIN, Guillaume, early French writer, IX. 647.

CRETINISM, disease, VI. 572; XIII. 98; XVIII. 375, 385.

CREUSE, department, France, VI. 574. CREUSOT, or Creuzot, town, France, vi. 575; XXI. 302.

COMPANY, France, their iron works, XXI. 332.

CREUTZ, Gustav Philip, Count, Swedish poet, VI. 574; XXII. 756. CREUZER, Georg Friedrich, German philologist, VI. 574; on mythology, XVII. 137.

CREUZNACH, town, Prussia, XIV. 148.

CREON, king of Corinth, in Greek fable,
VI. 567; XIII. 596.
king of Thebes, in Greek fable, vI. CREUZOT, or Creusot, Le, town, France,
VI. 575; XXI. 302.

567.
CREOSOL, product of wood-tar distilla- CREVASSES, in glaciers, X. 627.
tion, XXIII. 57.

CREOSOTE, or Creasote, antiseptic, drug, and poison, VI. 556; XXIII. 57.

OIL, XXIII. 59; as fuel, IX. 809. CRESCENT, The, its adoption by the Turks as their symbol, IV. 615.

AND THE CROSS, Warburton's work, XXIV. 367. CRESCENTIA, Roman martyr, XXIV. 266.

CREVAUX, Jules, explorer of Pilcomayo river, XIX. 188.

CRÈVE-CŒUR, fowl, XIX. 645.
CREVIER, Jean Baptiste Louis, French
writer, VI. 575.

CREWE, town, England, vi. 575.
CREWELS, worsteds, XIV. 127.
CREX, genus of birds, XX. 222.
CRIBBAGE, game, VI. 575.
CRIBLÉ, method of engraving, VIII. 437.
CRICETUS, genus of rodent mammals,
XI. 433; XV. 419.

CRESCENTIUS, or Crescenzio, Roman patrician, XIII. 711; XX. 789. CRESCENZIO, Cardinal, president of CRICHTON, James, The Admirable

council of Trent, XXIII. 546. CRESCIMBENI, Giovanni Mario, Italian poet, VI. 568; XV. 145. CRESOL, product of wood-tar distillation, XXIII. 57. CRESPHONTES, king of Messenia, Greece, XVI. 53.

CRESPI, Daniele, Italian painter, VI. 568.

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Giovanni Battista, Italian sculptor, VI. 568.

Giuseppe Maria, Italian painter, VI. 568. CRESPY, France, Peace of (1544), IX. 557. CRESS, vegetable, XII. 281, 289. Water, plant, XVII. 239. CRESS-SEED OIL, XVII. 744. CRESSWELL, Sir Cresswell, English judge, VI. 568.

CRESSY, or Crécy, town, France, VI. 557; battle of (1346), vII. 686; VIII. 318; IX. 546.

CREST, in heraldry, XI. 709.

-, town, France, VI. 568.

Crichton, VI. 577.

—, Sir William, Scottish chancellor, XXI. 493.

CRICKET, game, VI. 578.

insect, VI. 578; XIII. 152; mole cricket, as wheat pest, XXIV. 534. CRICKLADE, town, England, VI. 582; representation, XXIV. 594.

CRIEFF, town, Scotland, vI. 582; XVIII. 667.

CRIME, VI. 582; in primitive communities, VIII. 624; in British army, XVI. 299; juvenile, XX. 338; police action. in regard to, XIX. 334; punishment of, XIX. 747; Roman law in relation to, XX. 675. CRIMEA, peninsula, Russia, VI. 585; III.

796; population of, XXIII. 70; conquest of, by Russia (1771), XXI. 100; annexed by Russia (1783), XXIII. 647; ancient plate found in, XIX. 182. CRIMEAN WAR (1854), XXIII. 651; 1. 46; VIII. 366; IX. 623; XVII. 228, 486; XX. 220; XXI. 102; its influence on

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CRIM (or KRIM) TATARS, XVI. 748; CROFTERS, Scottish, XXI. 531; XXII.

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127; in Orkney and Shetland, XVIII. 847.

CROFTING, in bleaching, III. 820. CROFTON, Sir Walter, his system of prison discipline, XIX. 754.

CROGAN PALACE, Roscommon, Ireland, XX. 850.

CROGHAN KINSHELA, mountain, Ireland, XXIV. 521. CROIX-DE-RAU (Rocroi), town, France, xx. 616.

CROPS, Agricultural, 1. 354; in Middle
Ages, I. 294; rotation of, I. 340;
Liebig's chemical analysis of, XIV.
567.

CROQUET, out-door game, vI. 608.
CROQUIS, Alfred (Daniel Maclise),
Scottish painter, XV. 165.
CROSBIE, aeronaut, I. 191.
CROSBY'S STEAM INDICATOR, XXII.

490.

CROSIER, or Crozier, archbishop's staff, VI. 463, 614.

CROSS, instrument for inflicting capital punishment, VI. 610; sacred symbol, VI. 612; supposed relics of Christ's, VI. 611; stigmatization of, XXII. 549.

in architecture, II. 463. in heraldry, XI. 695. CROSS-BEARINGS, of the sun, in navigation, XVII. 271.

CROSSBILL, bird, VI. 614; migrations of, III. 769.

CROSS-BRED SHEEP, I. 393.

CROKE, Richard, early English scholar, CROSSES, Sculptured, English, XXI. 557.

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Thomas Crofton, Irish antiquary, VI. 595.

CROLL, James, on climate, X. 218.

VI. 595.

CROMARTY, county, Scotland, VI. 596; XX. 853; XXI. 528; town, vI. 596; XX. 854.

CRISTOFORI, Bartolomeo, inventor of CROLY, George, English divine and poet, pianoforte, XVII. 94; XIX. 70. CRITIAS, Greek orator and poet, VI. 591; on the development of man, VIII. 756. Plato's dialogue, XIX. 209. CRITIC, The, Sheridan's play, XXI. 799. CRITICISM, relation of Italian humanism to, XX. 386.

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CROME, John, English painter, VI. 596;

XXI. 441, 444.

CROMLECH, monumental stone or circle of stones, VI. 597; II. 383; III. 397; XXI. 51; in Cornwall, England, VI. 427; in Wiltshire, England, III. 144; in Ireland, VII. 383; in Peru, II. 451. CROMMYONIAN SOW, of Greek legend, XXIII. 294. CROMPTON, Samuel, inventor of the spinning mule, VI. 597, 496. CROMWELL, Oliver, Lord Protector of the British Commonwealth, VI. 597; VIII. 347, 348; his rule in Ireland, XIII. 267; his invasion of Scotland, XXI. 514; his relations with Presbyterianism, XIX. 689; Milton's relations with, XVI. 332.

CROSSING OF BREEDS, of animals, IV.

246, 250.

CROSSING THE BROOK, Turner's picture, XXIII. 666.

CROSSLEY'S OBSERVATORY, Bermerside, England, XVII. 711.

CROSSOPUS, genus of insectivorous mammals, XV. 403; XXI. 844. CROSSORHINUS, genus of sharks, XXI. 775.

CROSSRAGWELL, Abbot of, his disputation with Knox, XIV. 132. CROSS STAFF, astronomical and nautical instrument, XVII. 251, 254; use of, in finding latitude, X. 187. CROTALIDÆ, family of snakes, XXII. 193, 198.

CROTALUS, genus of snakes, XX. 293; XXII. 198.

CROTCH, William, English musical composer, VI. 615; XVII. 97. CROTONA, or Croton, ancient town, Italy, VI. 615; Pythagoras at, XX. 138. CROTON AQUEDUCT, New York, U.S.A., II. 223; XVII. 465; tunnel, XXIII. 624.

CROTON OIL, VI. 615; XVII. 744. CROUCHBACK, Edmund, earl of Lancaster, XIV. 255.

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CROCE, Pania della, mountain, Italy, CRONION, sacred hill, Olympia, Greece, CROUSAZ, Jean Pierre de, Swiss philo

XIII. 438.

CROCHET, looped thread work, XIV. 127. CROCIN, red-colouring matter, XXI. 146.

CROCKET, in architecture, II. 463. CROCODILE, reptile, VI. 592; in Africa, 1. 260; in Egypt, VII. 713; Aristotle on, XX. 432.

(Limpopo), river, South Africa, I. 250; XXIII. 517. CROCODILIA, order of reptiles, VI. 592;

XVII. 768.

CRONSTADT, town, Austria, vi. 608.
-, town, Russia, VI. 607.
CRONSTEDTITE, mineral, XVI. 414.
CRONUS, of Greek legend, XXI. 320.
CROOKED LAKE, New York, U.S.A.,
XVII. 451.

CROOKESITE, mineral, XVI. 392; XXIII. 219.

sopher, VI. 617; XXII. 798. CROW, bird, VI. 617; XX. 842. CROWBOROUGH BEACON, Sussex, Eng

land, XXII. 723.

CROWD, musical instrument, XXIV. 242.
CROWE, Eyre Evans, English historian,
VI. 619.

CROWLAND, town, England, VI. 619;
abbey of, XIV. 656; bridge at, IV. 331.

CROOMEN, or Croos, Negro race, West CROWN, of king or emperor, VI. 619.
Africa, XIV. 149.
in heraldry, XI. 710.

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