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COAST GUARD 34 COBALT fortified. As fast as possible, the old 12-inch guns have been superseded by 14-inch guns that are designed to fire projectiles weighing 1,660 pounds to a distance of 18,000 yards. At Cape Henry it is proposed to mount 16-inch "wire-wound guns, throwing a projectile of 2,200 pounds. The present policy of the navy department is to mount one 16- inch gun in the system of fortifications guarding every important harbor. The regular establishment of the coast de- fense is divided into three districts, the North Atlantic Coast, the South Atlantic Coast, and the Pacific Coast. The former has 77 companies; the second, 43; and the third, 36. Besides these there are in Manila bay 11 companies, in Hawaii 6, and in Panama 8. The regular estab- lishment of the coast artillery is 1,201 The men. who are generally old men-of- war's men of good character, have high pay, and are furnished with free cottages. The force numbers with officers and men about 4,000. In the United States the force is part of the Treasury Department- See Coast Survey, United States. COATESVILLE, a borough of Penn- sylvania, in Chester co., on the Pennsyl- vania and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads. It is an important industrial center and has manufactures of iron and steel, boilers, brass works, silk, tobacco, automobiles, etc. Its notable buildings include the Y. M. C. A. building and a hospital. Pop, (1910) 11,084; (1920) 14,515. COATI, or COATI-MONDI, a name of South American plantigrade carnivorous 1. Rampart. 2. Loading Platform. COAST DEFENSE 3. Auxiliary Station. 4. Battery Chief's Station. 5. Calculating Room. 6. Observation Stand. 7. Disappearing Guns. officers and 29,973 men. As regards their duties, the troops of the coast defense are thus classified: Coast artillery regulars who man the guns, coast artillery mi- litia who serve as substitutes or auxili- aries to the regular gun crews, coast artillery supports to protect against land raids, and the coast guard, which in- cludes bodies of infantry, cavalry, and field artillery to oppose any landing by the enemy. COAST GUARD, a British force foniierly under the customs department, and intended only to prevent smuggling, but now organized also for purposes of defense and governed by the admiralty. mammals, of the genus Nasua, belonging to the ursidss or bears, but recalling rather the raccoon or civet, and having a long proboscis or snout. They feed on worms, insects, and the smaller quad- rupeds, but chiefly on eggs and young birds. COAT OF ARMS. See HERALDRY. COBALT, a metallic element, at. wt. 59, symbol Co. The metal was first ob- tained in an impure state by Brandt, in 1733. It occurs as speiss cobalt, or tin- white cobalt CoAs2, and cobalt-glance, CoAsS. Cobalt occurs in meteoric iron. Metallic cobalt is a hard, magnetic, duc- tile, reddish-gray metal, with a high