or, as the Germans call it, Chur, a large and handsome town of Switzerland, and capital of the country of the Grisons, with a bishop's see whose prelate has the right of coining money. It is divided into two parts; the least of which is of the Roman Catholic religion, and the greatest of the Protestant. It is governed by its own laws, and seated in a plain, abounding in vineyards and game, on the river Plessure, half a mile from the Rhine. E. Long. 9. 25. N. Lat. 46. 50.

COTTON, the intercourse between male and female in the act of generation.

It is observed that frogs are forty days in the act of coition, Bartholine, &c. relate, that butterflies make 130 vibrations of the wings in one act of coition.