a seaport of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Rajamundry, situated on the western side of the bay of Bengal. It is the best port on the coast of Coromandel, and affords the only smooth water on that coast in the south-west monsoon,—Point Godavery projecting out to the southward and breaking the swell from the sea. A wet dock has been constructed which is capable of admitting a frigate. Coringa carries on a considerable trade with Bengal and Pegu; the principal exports being teak wood and salt to the former, and piece goods to the latter. In 1787 a dreadful storm and inundation of the sea swept away the greater part of the town, and almost the whole inhabitants. A similar disaster occurred in 1832, when several vessels were carried into the fields by the inundation and left aground; and one new ship on the stocks was swept into the river and lost. The French had an establishment here before any other Europeans, and they still retain the neighbouring town and territory of Yanam. The English took possession of the place in 1759, and established their factory five miles to the south of Coringa. Long. 82° 29' E.; Lat. 16° 49' N.

CORINTHA, a Greek poetess, born at Tanagra in Boeotia. She is said to have been a contemporary of Pindar, and to have carried away the prize from him five times in the public games at Thebes. Plutarch says that she was the instructor of her antagonist; and Pausanias ascribes her victory to her beauty and the copious use of the familiar Eolic dialect, rather than to her talents. By the Greeks she was esteemed as the first of the nine lyrical muses, and her statues were to be found in almost every part of Greece. She received the popular surname of Myia or the Fly. The fragments of her poetry have been collected by Ursinus, Wolf, and Schneider.