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kp-eb0706-052003-3763 | CHEVALIER, a French term, ordinarily signifying a knight. The word is formed from the French cheval, a horse, and the barbarous Latin cavallιιs. It is used in heraldry to signify any cavalier or horseman armed at all points, and is the same as the Romans called cataphractus eques. CHEVAUX-de-Frise. See Cheval-de-Frise. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052004-3763 | CHEVIOT, or Tivιoτ Hills, run from north to south through Northumberland and Cumberland, and formerly constituted the borders or boundaries between England and Scotland, where many a bloody battle was fought between the two nations, one of which is recorded in the ballad of Chevy Chase. These hills are the first land d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052005-3763 | CHEVREAU, Urban, a learned writer, born at Loudun in 1613. He distinguished himself in his youth by his knowledge of the belles-lettres, and became secretary of state to Queen Christina of Sweden. Several German princes invited him to their courts; and Charles Louis, the elector palatine, retained him under the title o... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052006-3763 | CHEYNE, Dr George, a physician of great learning and abilities, born in Scotland in 1671, and educated at Edinburgh under Dr Pitcairn. He died at Bath in 1742, aged seventy-two. He wrote several treatises that were well received; particularly an Essay on Health and Long Life, and the English Malady, or a Treatise of Ne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052007-3763 | CHIABRERA, Gabriel, esteemed the Pindar of Italy, was born at Savona, in the republic or state of Genoa, in 1552, and went to study at Rome. The Italian princes and Urban VIII. gave him public marks of their esteem. He wrote a great number of poems; but his lyric verses are the most admired. He died at Savona in 1638, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052008-3763 | CHIAPA, an intendancy of Mexico is bounded on the north by Tabasco, on the north-east by Yucatan, on the west by Oaxaca and Vera Cruz, and on the south by So-conusco. This province, lying alike contiguous to Mexicoand the central states, was claimed by both; but the option being given to the inhabitants, Chiapa declare... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052101-3776 | CHIARAMONTE, a town of the intendancy of Sa-ragosa, in the island of Sicily. It is in a healthy situation, on the top of a mountain, has good buildings, and contains 7000 inhabitants, who cultivate extensive vineyards. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052102-3776 | CHIARI, Joseph, a celebrated Italian painter, was the disciple of Carlo Maratti, and adorned the churches and palaces of Rome with a great number of fine paintings. He died of apoplexy in 1727, aged seventy-three. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052103-3776 | CHIARO Scuro. See Claro Obscuro. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052104-3776 | CHIAVARI, a city of Italy, in the Sardinian province of Genoa. It is situated in the Bay of Rapallo, where the Sturla empties itself into the sea. It contains 7680 inhabitants, who subsist by the fisheries, and by the cultivation of wine, oil, and silk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052105-3776 | CHIAVENNA, a market-town of Italy, in the Austrian delegation of Sondrio. It is situated on the river Maira, where two roads over the Alps meet. It contains about 2800 inhabitants, who chiefly depend for subsistence on the silk trade. Long. 9. 16. E. Lat. 46. 15. N∙ | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052106-3776 | CHIAUSI, among the Turks, officers employed in executing the viziers, pashas, and other great men. The orders for this purpose are sent by the grand signior wrapped up in a black cloth; on the reception of which the chiausi immediately perform their office. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052107-3776 | CHICA Nayakana Hully, a large square town of Hindustan, in the province of Mysore, strongly fortified with mud walls and cavaliers at the angles. In the centre is a square citadel fortified in a similar manner. The town contains about six hundred houses, eighty of which are occupied by Brahmins. The houses are at prese... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052108-3776 | CHICHACOTTA, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Bootan, not far from Cooch Bahar, in Bengal. It was taken in 1772 from the Booteas, who defended it with great obstinacy; but with all their personal courage they could not long contend with matchlocks, sabres, and bows, against musketry and cannon. It was r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052109-3776 | CHICANE, or Chicanery, in Law, an abuse ofjudicial proceeding, tending to delay the cause, to puzzle the judge, or to impose upon the parties. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052110-3776 | CHICHAS, a province of Bolivia, in the department of Potosi, in South America. It is an elevated district, and hence the climate is cold. Some parts of it, however, enjoy a milder temperature, and accordingly the vegetation is more abundant and varied. Grain and wine are in such situations produced in considerable quan... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052111-3776 | CHICHESTER, a city, the capital of the county of Sussex. It is a well-built town, consisting of four principal streets, in the form of a cross, which are broad, well paved, and handsome, and to which formerly four gates corresponded. The situation is fine, in a fertile country at the foot of the South Down range of hil... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052112-3776 | CHICKLANA, a town of Spain, in the province of Andalusia. It is most delightfully situated, on the river Sante Pteri; and being but twelve miles from Cadiz, and accessible either by land or by water, it is the place of resort where the richer merchants have their country residences. It contains about 8000 inhabitants, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052113-3776 | CHICKOORY, a large and respectable town of Hindustan, in the territory of the Poonah Mahrattas. It has an extensive bazar, and is pleasantly situated near a rivulet. It has a manufactory of cloth, chiefly for the dress of the country people, and is forty-five miles S.S.W. from Merritch. Long. 74. 50. E. Lat. 16. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052114-3776 | CHIEF, a term signifying the head or principal part of a thing or person. Thus we say, the chief of a party, the chief of a family, and the like. The word is formed of the French chef, head, from the Greek κipaλjj, caput, head, though Menage derives it from the Indian capo, formed from the Latin caput. Chief, in Herald... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052201-3789 | CHIEFTAIN denotes the captain or chief of any class, family, or sept of men. Thus the chieftains or chiefs of the Highland clans were the patriarchal and feudal heads and captains of their respective clans or septs. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052202-3789 | CHIERI, a'city of Italy, in the province of Turin, and kingdom of Sardinia. It is well buììt, and contains several churches, monasteries, and nunneries, with 10,100 inhabitants, who are employed in manufacturing cotton, silk, and linen goods. It is a great mart for raw silk. Long. 7. 40. E. Lat. 44. 53. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052203-3789 | CHIETI, or Civita di Chicti, a city of Italy, the capital of the Neapolitan province Abruzzo Citeriore. It is situated near Pescara, on an elevated spot, commanding a fine prospect over the Adriatic. It is surrounded with walls, has a cathedral and twelve churches, and many religious and charitable institutions. It con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052204-3789 | CHIGI, Fabio, or Pope Alexander VII. was born at Sienna in 1599. His family finding him a hopeful youth, sent him carly to Rome, where he soon formed a friendship with the Marquis Pallavicini, who recommended him so effectually to Pope Urban VIII. as to procure for him the post of inquisitor at Malta. He was sent as vi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052205-3789 | CHIHUAHUA, a district of Mexico in the intendancy of Durango, is bounded on the cast by Cohahuila, on the south by Durango, and on the west by Sinaloa and Sonora. It contains several gold and silver mines, but being situated in an elevated region, it suffers from want of water.
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kp-eb0706-052206-3789 | CHILBLAIN (pernio), in Medicine, a tumour affecting the feet and hands, accompanied with an inflammation, pains, and sometimes an ulcer, in which case it takes the denomination of chaps on the hands, and of kibes on the heels. Chilblain is compounded of chill and 5Zα⅛; that is, a blain or sore contracted by cold. Perni... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-052207-3789 | CHILI.
The republic of Chili is situated on the western coast of South America, between the Cordillera of the Andes and the Pacific Ocean. On its eastern side the lofty chain of the Andes separates it from the Argentine republic, while the ocean forms its western boundary. To the north its boundary is formed by the ri... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054501-4088 | CHILIAD, an assemblage of several things ranged by thousands. The word is formed from the Greek ^λ∕αj, mille, a thousand. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054502-4088 | CHILIAGON, in Geometry, a regular plane figure of a thousand sides and angles. Though the imagination cannot form the idea of such a figure, yet we may have a very clear notion of it in the mind, and can easily demonstrate that the sum of all its angles is equal to 1996 right angles; for the internal angles of every pl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054503-4088 | CHILLAN, a province and town in the south of Chile-The province is fifty-five miles long from east to west, and forty broad from north to south, and contains about 2200 square miles of superficies. It extends from the summit of the Andes on the east, to the province of Itata, which separates it from the Pacific Ocean. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054504-4088 | CHILKA, a lake in Hindustan, at the north-castern ex-tremity of the Northern Circars, which province it separates towards the sea from that of Cuttack. It extends about thirty-five miles in length by ten or twelve in breadth, and appears to have originated in a breach of the sea over a flat and sandy shore. The border ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054505-4088 | CHILLAMBARAM Pagoda. This pagoda is situated on the sea-coast of the Carnatic, eight miles south of Porto Novo, and 120 south-south-west of Madras, and is held in high veneration by the Hindus. The whole structure extends 1332 feet by 936, and is entered by a lofty gateway under a pyramid 122 feet high, built of enormo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 11 27' N 79 52' E | CHILLAMBARAM |
kp-eb0706-054506-4088 | CHILLICOTHE, a post town, and capital of Ross county, Ohio, on the western bank of the Scioto, forty-five miles in a right line from its mouth. It is pleasantly situated on the borders of an elevated and fertile plain, regularly laid out, the streets crossing each other at right angles. This town is a flourishing place... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054507-4088 | CHILLINGWORTH, William, an eminent divine of the church of England, was born at Oxford in 1602, and educated at the same place. Being of a very quick genius, he early made great proficiency in his studies; and he became an expert mathematician, as well as an able divine and a respectable poet. As study and conversation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054508-4088 | CHILLIS, or Khillis, an ancient town of Syria, in the pashalic of Aleppo, situated at the foot of Mount Tauris. Coins are sometimes found there, and are the only remains of antiquity which it possesses. It has fifteen mosques and large bazars, and is a noted mart for cotton. It is fifteen miles north of Aleppo. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054509-4088 | CHILO, one of the seven sages of Greece, and of the ephori of Sparta, the place of his birth, flourished about 556 years before Christ. He was accustomed to say that there were three things very difficult—to keep a seeret, to know how best to employ time, and to suffer injuries without murmuring. According to Pliny, it... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054601-4101 | CHILOE. See Chile. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054602-4101 | CHILTERN, a chain of chalky hills forming the southern part of Buckinghamshire, the northern part of the county being distinguished by the name of the Vale. The air on these heights is extremely healthful. The soil, though stony, produces good crops of wheat and barley; and in many places it is covered with thick woods... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054603-4101 | CHIMAERA, in fabulous history, a celebrated monster, sprung from Echidna and Typhon. It had three heads, namely, that of a lion, that of a goat, and that of a dragon, and continually vomited forth flames. The fore parts of its body were those of a lion, the middle was that of a goat, and the hinder parts were those of ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054604-4101 | CHIMBORAZO, a mountain of Columbia, in the province of Quito. It is the most elevated summit of the Andes, rising to the height of 20,100 feet above the level of the sea, and to about 2500 feet from the top downwards covered with perpetual snow. At certain seasons of the year it presents a magnificent spectacle when se... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054605-4101 | CHIMES of a clock, a kind of periodical music, produced at equal intervals of time, by means of a particular apparatus added to a clock. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054606-4101 | CHIMNEY, in Architecture, a particular part of a house where the fire is made, having a tube or funnel to carry off the smoke. The word chimney comes from the French cheminée, and that from the Latin caminata, a chamber in which is a chimney; while caminata, again, is derived from caminus, and that from the Greek κάμιν... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-054801-4127 | CHINA.
The conterminous empires of Russia and China occupy between them about one fifth part of the habitable globe, in pretty nearly equal portions; but the population of the latter is about four times greater than that of the former, even after including its recent annexation of Poland. We can easily trace the bound... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058801-4647 | CHINA- Root, in the Materia Medica, the root of a species of Smilax, brought both from the East and West Indies, and thence distinguished into oriental and occidental. Both sorts are longish, full of joints, of a palc-reddish colour, with no smell, and very little taste. The oriental, which is the most esteemed, is con... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058802-4647 | CHINABALABARAM, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the rajah of Mysore. Between sixty and seventy years ago it belonged to an independent polygar chief, but was taken by Hyder Ali about the year 1759. During the wars in which Lord Cornwallis was engaged it was taken possession of by the British forces, and the ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058803-4647 | CHINAPATAM, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the rajah of Mysore. It is an open town, large and handsome, containing about 1000 houses, with a handsome stone fort at a little distance. Not far from this place is Pattala Durg, one of the horrid prisons in which Tippoo was wont to immure those unfortunate wretc... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058804-4647 | CHINCHILLA, a small city of Spain, in the province of Murcia, containing 4624 inhabitants. It is celebrated on account of a great fair held annually, in a large public building at Albacete, a village near to it. The plains of Almanza adjoin it, on which was fought the famous battle which established the Bourbons on the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058805-4647 | CHINCHOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad, pleasantly situated on the left bank of the Moria, on the road from Bombay to Poonah. Its population is said to amount to 5000, including 300 Brahmin families. It has the appearance of a commercial, industrious town, containing many good houses and well sup... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058806-4647 | CHINGLEPUT, the chief town and fortress of a district of the same name. The town is situated on the northeast bank of the Paiar river, thirty-nine miles southsouth-west from Madras, and was formerly the residence of the Hindu chief. In 1751 Chingleput was taken by the French, and was retaken in 1752 by Captain Clive. D... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058901-4660 | CHINIROPOORAM, a town of Hindustan, in the territories of the rajah of Mysore. It has no considerable trade, though it has a weekly fair. The town, fort, and suburbs contain above 900 houses, of which sixty are inhabited by Brahmins, and 200 by the garrison. The fort is well built, of stone and lime; and has a glacis d... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058902-4660 | CHINNACHIN, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the district of Jcmlah, of which it is the capital, and tributary to the rajah of Nepaul. It is situated in a valley bounded on the north side by the Himalaya mountains, between the Chinnachin and Kurnald rivers. This town is the frontier station of Nepaul, and is the best r... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058903-4660 | CHINNOR, a musical instrument among the Hebrews, consisting of thirty-two chords. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058904-4660 | CHINON, an arrondissement of the department of the Indre and Loire, in France, extending over 1060 square miles. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 119 communes, containing 90,314 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, is on the right bank of the Bienne, is fortified, and contains 840 houses, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 47 11' 4" N 0 5' 40" E | CHINON |
kp-eb0706-058905-4660 | CHINSURA, the principal Dutch settlement in Bengal, situated on the western bank of the Bhagarutty or Hooghly river, twenty-four miles above Calcutta. The Dutch erected a factory here in 1656, on a clear and healthy spot of ground, much preferable to that on which Calcutta is situated, and soon attracted a considerable... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058906-4660 | CHINUUB, or Chunaub, the ancient Acesines, a river which has its source near the eastern hills of Cashmere, in the province of Lahore, near the sources of the Ravey, the Beyah, the Sutlege, and the Jumna. Its general course is to the south-west, and remarkably straight. After leaving Jummoo, it flows through a flat cou... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058907-4660 | CHIO, or Chios, an Asiatic island lying near the coast of Natolia, opposite to the peninsula of Ionia. See Scio. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058908-4660 | CHIONE, in fabulous history, was daughter of Daedalion, of whom Apollo and Mercury both became enamoured. To enjoy her company, Mercury lulled her to sleep with his caduceus; but,- under the form of an old woman, Apollo, in the night, obtained the same favours as Mercury. From these embraces Chione became mother of Phi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058909-4660 | CHIPPENHAM, a market and borough town in the hundred of the same name, in the county of Wilts. It is ninety-seven miles from London, in a beautiful district, watered by the river Avon. It is a place of considerable woollen trade. The market on Saturday is well supplied. It is an ancient corporation, endowed with consid... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-058910-4660 | CHIPPING, a phrase used by the potters and chinamen to express that common accident both of our own stone and earthen ware, and of the porcelain of China, which consists in the flying off of small pieces, or breaking at the edges. Our earthen wares are particularly subject to this, and are always spoiled by it before a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059001-4673 | CHIPPING-NORTON, a market and borough town of the hundred of Chadlington, in Oxfordshire. It is governed by two bailiffs and twelve burgesses, and formerly sent two members to parliament. Near to it are the remains of a druidical temple. The church is a fine structure, remarkable for its windows, some brass monuments, ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059002-4673 | CHIPPING-ONGAR, a market-town in the hundred of the same name in Essex, twenty-one miles from London. Here is a castle, built originally by the Romans, upon a mount. The inhabitants amounted in 1801 to 595, in 1811 to 678, and in 1821 to 763. The market is held on Saturday. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059003-4673 | CHIPPING-SODBURY, a market-town in the hundred of Grumbald’s Ash, in the county of Gloucester, 113 miles from London, and ten from Bristol. It was formerly a borough, but its charter was revoked at the requisition of the inhabitants. The market is held on Saturday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1090, in 1811 to 11... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059004-4673 | CHIQUITOS, a province of Bolivia, in the department of Santa Cruz. The country is mountainous and marshy; but some portions of it are fertile, and these produce a variety of fruits, of which the varilla, and a peculiar species of the cocoa-nut, are the most common. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059005-4673 | CHIROGRAPH was anciently a deed which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment counterwise, leaving a space between, in which was written Chirograph, and through the middle of which the parchment was cut, sometimes straight, sometimes in-dentedly, and á moiety given to each of the pa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059006-4673 | CHIROMANCY, a species of divination drawn from the lines and lineaments of a person’s hand, by which means it is sometimes pretended that the dispositions may be discovered. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059007-4673 | CHIRON, a famous personage of antiquity, styled by Plutarch, in his dialogue on music, the wise Centaur. Sir Isaac Newton places his birth in the first age after Deu- .calion’s deluge, commonly called the Golden Age; and adds, that he formed the constellations for the use of the Argonauts when he was eighty-eight years... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059101-4686 | CHIRONOMY, in Antiquity, the art of representing any past transaction by the gestures of the body, more especially by the motions of the hands. This formed part of a liberal education; it received the approbation of Socrates, and was even ranked by Plato among the political virtues. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059102-4686 | CHIROTONY, among ecclesiastical writers, denotes the imposition of hands used in conferring priestly orders. It is proper to remark, however, that originally chirotony was a method of electing magistrates, by holding up the hands. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059103-4686 | CHISEL, an instrument much used in sculpture, masonry, joinery, carpentry, and other handicrafts. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059104-4686 | CHISME, or Cisme, the ancient Cystus, a sea-port of Anatolia, in Asiatic Turkey, separated by a narrow strait from the island of Scio. It is distinguished by a victory gained by the Russian over the Turkish fleet in 1770, and in ancient times by that gained over Antiochus by the Persians, in the 191st year before the C... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059105-4686 | CHITLONG, a small town of Northern Hindustan, consisting of a few brick and tiled houses, two or three stories high. It is said to have been formerly more flourishing; and is the first place that has the appearance of a town to the traveller coming from the south. The climate, owing to the height of the ground, is cold... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 27 29' N 85 52' E | CHITLONG |
kp-eb0706-059106-4686 | CHITORE, or Chetore, a Rajpoot district of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, situated to the south-west of Joudpoor, and bordering on Gujerat and Malwah. The country is subject to the ranah of Chitore or Odeypoor, whose family is the most ancient and honourable of all the Rajpoot chiefs, though they at present poss... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059107-4686 | CHITTAPET, a small town of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, seventy-five miles north-west from Madras, and fifty north-west from Pondicherry. It sustained several sieges during the wars in the Carnatic, and was finally taken by Colonel Coote after the battle of Wandiwash. Long. 79. 26. E. Lat. 12. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 12 25' N 79 26' E | CHITTAPET |
kp-eb0706-059108-4686 | CHITTLEDROOG, a town and celebrated fortress of Hindustan, and capital of a district belonging to the rajah of Mysore. The fort is situated on a rock which is surrounded by walls, and is considered as impregnable. Around it are low, rocky, bare hills. It was besieged without effect by Hyder Ali in 1776; but three years... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059109-4686 | CHITTOR, a town and fortress of Hindustan, situated on the western frontier of the Carnatic, eighty miles east from Madras. It was, in 1721, the residence of the military commander of the district, Tahir Khan, and was situated among mountains, and well fortified. It was selected by the nabob Anwarraddeen Khan as a plac... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 13 12' N 79 10' E | CHITTOR |
kp-eb0706-059201-4699 | CHITWAY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Malabar. It is situated on an island twenty-seven miles long, and in some places five miles broad, and is separated from the continent by inlets of salt water, which form the northern point of an excellent inland navigation. The soil is in general poor; but it produces s... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059202-4699 | CHIUSA, a town of Italy, in the province of Coni, in the kingdom of Sardinia. It stands on the river Pesia, near the ruins of the ancient castle of Mirabella. It contains 6100 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the spinning and weaving of silk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059203-4699 | CHIVA. See Khiva. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-059204-4699 | CHIVALRY.
The primitive sense of this well-known word, derived from the French chevalier, signifies merely cavalry, or a body of soldiers serving on horseback, and has been used in that general acceptation by the best of our poets, ancient and modern, from Milton to Thomas Campbell.
But the present article respects t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061701-5024 | CHIVASSO, a city of Italy, in the province of Turin and kingdom of Sardinia, near to where the Oreo falls into the Po. It is surrounded with fortifications, and contains several churches and monasteries, with 5450 inhabitants, supported chiefly by trading in corn and cattle. Long. 7. 45. E∙ Lat. 45. 3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061702-5024 | CHIUN, or Ciievan, in Hebrew antiquity, a word which we meet with in the prophet Amos, cited in the Acts of the Apostles. St Luke reads the passage thus: “Ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them.” The import of the Hebrew is, “Ye have borne the tabern... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061703-5024 | CHLOEIA, in Antiquity, a festival celebrated at Athens in honour of Ceres, to whom, under the name Xλo>j, or grass, they sacrificed a ram. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061704-5024 | CHLORINE. See Chemistry. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061705-5024 | CHOBAR, or Ciiubbar, a sea-port of Mekran, in Persia. It is situated on the cast side of an extensive bay, and consists of three hundred mat huts and a mud fort. Good water is procured from wells, although the country is arid and barren. At a month’s notice, however, a supply of dates and grain might be procured. Sheep... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061706-5024 | CHOCO, a province of Mexico in the department of Cauca. It abounds in woods and mountains, and is crossed by a chain of the Andes. Maize, plantains, and cocoa of excellent quality, are produced in abundance. It possesses rich gold mines, and a considerable trade is carried on with the neighbouring province of Popayan. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061707-5024 | CHOCOLATE, in commerce, a kind of paste or cake prepared of certain ingredients, the basis of which is cacao. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061708-5024 | CHODZESN, a circle in the Prussian government of Posen, extending over 418 square miles, and containing six cities and towns, with 22,898 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is a manufacturing town, containing 2506 inhabitants, of whom 906 are Jews. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061709-5024 | CHOERINAE, in Antiquity, a kind of sea-shells, with which the ancient Greeks used to give their suffrage in the public assemblies. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061710-5024 | CHOIR, that part of a church or cathedral where choristers sing divine service. It is separated from the chancel, where the communion is celebrated, and also from the nave of the church, where the people are placed; and the patron is understood to be under an obligation to repair the choir of the church. In the time of... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061711-5024 | CHOISI, or Choisy, Francis Timoleon de, dean of the cathedral of Bayeux, was born at Paris in 1644. His mother, who doated on him, used to amuse herself by clothing him in female attire, and his figure, which was feminine and pretty, aided this deception; but, it seems, “il abusa, auprès de plusieurs femmes, de l’erreu... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061801-5037 | CHOISY, a village of France, in the arrondissement of Sceaux, and department of the Seine. It is one of the most beautiful in the environs of Paris, where was formerly a royal palace and park. It now contains 1500 inhabitants. There is a printed-cotton manufactory, and some establishments for making morocco leather. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061802-5037 | CHOLERA Morbus. See Medicine. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061803-5037 | CHOLET, a city of the department of the Mayenne and the Loire, in France. It is in a beautiful situation on the Maine, and contains 750 houses, with 4695 inhabitants, who are employed in making linen cloths, especially some of the finer kinds, known by the name of this city; but its trade has been on the decline. Long.... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061804-5037 | CHOORHUT, a town of Hindustan, province of Allahabad, in the Bogilcund district. It is a fortress situated between the river Soane and the Vindhya Mountains, and is possessed by an independent chief. It is ninety-four miles south-west from Benares. Long. 81. 48. E. Lat. 24. 29. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061805-5037 | CHOP-CHURCH, or Church-Chopper, a name, or rather a nickname, given to parsons who make a practice of exchanging benefices. Chop-church occurs in an ancient statute as the description of a lawful trade or occupation; and some judges have thought it a good addition. Brook, however, holds that it was no occupation, but a... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061806-5037 | CHOPIN, or Chopine, a liquid measure, used both in Scotland and France, and equal to half their pint. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061807-5037 | CHORAL signifies any person who, by virtue of clerical orders, was in ancient times admitted to sit and serve God in the choir. Dugdale, in his History of St Paul’s Church, says that there were with the chorus formerly six vicars choral belonging to that church. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061808-5037 | CHORASS AN, or Khorassan. See Khorassan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0706-061809-5037 | CHORD, or Cord, primarily denotes a slender rope or cordage. The word is formed of the Latin chorda, and that from the Greek γοφη, a gut, of which strings may be made.
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kp-eb0706-061810-5037 | CHOREPISCOPUS, an officer in the ancient church, concerning whose functions the learned are much divided. The word is formed from ∙χp⅛οζ, a region, or tract of country, and í¶iß-Mnoi, a bishop or overseer.
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