_Laus_ by P. F. Foggini (1777) are still valuable for their
commentaries. They are both included in the 28th volume of the Bonn
_Corpus scriptorum historiae Byzantinae_. The best modern editions are
by J. Partsch (in _Monumenta Germaniae historica_, 1879), with very
valuable prolegomena, and M. Petschenig (_Berliner Studien fur
klassische Philologie_, iv., 1886); see also Gibbon, _Decline and
Fall_, ch. xlv.

CORISCO, the name of a bay and an island on the Guinea Coast, West
Africa. The bay is bounded N. by Cape San Juan (1 deg. 10' N.) and S. by
Cape Esterias (0 deg. 36' N.), and is about 31 m. across, while it extends
inland some 15 m. The bay is much encumbered with sandbanks, which
impair its value as a harbour. Whereas the Muni river or estuary, which
enters the bay on its northern side, has a maximum depth of over 100
ft., vessels entering it have to come by a channel with an average depth
of six fathoms. The entrance to the southern part of the bay is
obstructed by the Bana Bank, which extends for 9 m., rendering
navigation dangerous. The bay encloses many small islands and islets,
some hardly distinguishable from sandbanks and submerged at high water,
giving rise to a native saying that "half the islands live under water."
The principal islands are four, Bana, Great and Little Elobey, and
Corisco, the last-named lying farthest to seaward and giving its name to
the bay.

Corisco Island, the largest of the group, is some 3 m. long by 1-3/4 m.
in breadth and has an area of about 5-1/2 sq. m. The surface of the
island is very diversified. On a miniature scale it possesses mountains
and valleys, rivers, lakes, forests and swamps, grassland and bushland,
moorland and parkland. The forests supply ebony and logwood for export.
The natives are a Bantu-Negro tribe called Benga. There are among them
many converts to Roman Catholicism and a few Protestants. Corisco and
the other islands named are Spanish possessions and are governed as
dependencies of Fernando Po.

See Mary H. Kingsley, _Travels in West Africa_, ch. xvii. (London,
1897); E. L. Perea, "Guinea espanola: La isla de Corisco," in _Revista
de geog. colon. y mercantil_ (Madrid, 1906).

CORK, RICHARD BOYLE, 1ST EARL OF (1566-1643), Irish statesman, second
son of Roger Boyle of Faversham in Kent, a descendant of an ancient
Herefordshire family, and of Joan, daughter of Robert Naylor of
Canterbury, was born at Canterbury on the 3r