Chalons
Chalons, Sun Svoxr., The Cabillonum Of The An Ccints, Is A Town In The Department Of The Saone And The Loire, Is Situated In A Beautiful And Fertile Valley, On The Right Bank Of The Saone. It Is Surrounded By Walls, And Defended By A Citadel, And Consists Of The ...
Champion
Champion, He Who Undertakes To Maintain, By Sin Gle Combat, His Own Right Or That Of Another. By The Law Of England, A Species Of Trial Was Formerly In Use, Known By The Name Of Wager Of Battel, A Rude Mode Of Terminating Disputes Practised By Most Barbarous Na Tions. ...
Chance Medley
Chance-medley, (fr. Chance, Lapsus, And Melcr, Miscere,) In The Criminal Law Of England, Is The Lowest Species Of Homicide To Which Punishment Attaches. It Consists In Killing A Human Being In Selfclifence, Upon Occasion Of Any Sudden (chance) Quarrel. The Self-de Fence Must, Of Course, Be Real, And After Every ...
Chancellor
Chancellor, A Judicial Officer, Who Appears Ori Ginally To Have Been Only A Principal Register Or Scribe Under The Emperors ; But In Modern Times Has Greatly Advanced In Dignity, Having Become, In Different King Doms Of Europe, The Chief Administrator Of Justice. The Name Has Also Been Extended To ...
Chancery
Chancery, (canccllaria,) The High Court Of Judica Ture, In Which The Lord Chancellor, In His Judicial Cha Racter, Exercises His Very Extensive Authority. It Is Of Great Antiquity, And Is Inferior Only To The Parliament In Point Of Dignity And Power. Its Jurisdiction Is Twofold, And Is Commonly Distinguished Into ...
Change In The Colour
Change In The Colour Of The Clorning.—the Dif Ference In Point Of Colour Between The Summer And Winter Dress Of Animals Is Very Conspicuously Displayed Both Among The Quadrupeds And Birds. We Are Not Aware That It Has Been Observed Among The Cold-blooded Animals. Among Quadrupeds, The Alpine Hare (lepus ...
Chaplain
Chaplain, (copellanus,) One Attendant On The Household Of The King, Or Other Honourable Person, To Say Divine Service, Which Is Commonly Performed In The Family Private Chapel. Each Individual Of The Royal Fa Mily May Retain Any Number Of Chaplains; But By Stat. 21 Hen. Viii, C. 13, An Archbishop ...
Character Of Keys
Character Of Keys, In Music. Most Of Those Writers Who Have Brought Forward Irregular Systems Of Temperament, Or Such Wherein An Invariable Law Is Not Observed (as Far As The Scale Or Number Of Notes In The Octave Will Admit) In The Temperament Of The Different Concords, As In Regular ...
Charadrilts
Charadrilts, Lin. &c. Plover. Bill Shorter Than The Head, Slender, Straight, Compres Sed, Mandibles Protuberant, Near The Tip ; Nostrils Basal And Longitudinal, Cleft In The Middle Of A Large Membrane, Which Invests The Nasal Foss ; Legs Long, Or Moderately So, Slender, With Three Toes Before, The Outer Connected ...
Charcoal
Charcoal. This Is A Well Known Black Substance, Which Possesses Many Singular Chemical Properties, The Details Of Which Will Be Given Under The Article Cn Ems Tr Y. In The Present Article We Shall Confine Ours•ives To The Modes Of Preparation Employed In Britain And In France, And To Its ...
Charles Alston
Alston, Charles, M. D. A Writer On Medicine And Botany, And Lecturer On Botany And Materia Medica In The University Of Edinburgh. He Was Born In The West Of Scotland, In 1683, And Received The First Parts Of His Education At Glasgow. While A Student There, He Had The Good ...
Charles Banet
Banet, Charles, An Eminent Naturalist, Was Born At Geneva On The 13th March 1720, And Was The Only Son Of A Protestant Refugee, Who Sought For Shel Ter In Switzerland From The Religious Persecutions With Which France Was At That Time Agitated. His Father _sent Him Early To School ; ...
Charles Borromeo
Borromeo, Charles, A Celebrated Cardinal Of The Romish Church, Whose Piety And Zeal For Re Formation, Entitle Him To The Remembrance Of Poste Rity. He Was Born At The Castle Of Arona, Upon The Lago Maggiore, In October 1538, And Was The Son Of Gilbert Borromeo, Count Of Arona, And ...
Charles Churchill
Churchill, Charles, Was Born In Vine-street, In The Parish Of St John The Evangelist, 'westminster, In February 1731. His Father Was For Many Years Cu Rate And Lecturer Of That Parish, And Rector Of Rainham Near Grays, In Essex. Young Churchill Was Placed At Westminster School At Eight Years Of ...
Charles Etienne Lewis Camus
Camus, Charles Etienne Lewis, A Celebrated French Mathematician, Was Born At Cressy In Bric, On Elie 1.,th Of August, 1699, And Was Tlic. Son Of Etienne Cannes, A Surgeon Of That Place. At A Very Curly Age He Dinplayed A Great Attachment To Inechailical Pursuits, And While His Companions Were ...
Charles Goldoni
Goldoni, Charles, An Eminent Italian Dramatic Au Thor, Was Born At Venice In The Year 1707. He Displayed An Early Disposition For Study, And Could Both Read And Write When Only Our Years Old. The Perusal Of The Comic Wri Ters Of His Country Was His Favourite Occupation. Of These, ...
Charles Le Brun
Brun, Charles Le, Was An Artist Of Such Eminence, As To Add Lustre To The Age Of Louis X1v. He Was Born In 1619 ; And, As His Father (who Was A Sculptor By Pro Fession) Was Descended From A Scotch Family, It Is Pro Bable That The Name Was ...
Charles Maria De La
Condamine, Charles Maria De La, A Celebra Ted French Traveller And Philosopher, Was Born At Paris On The 28th January 1701, And Was The Son Of Charles De La Condamine, Receiver-general Of Finances For The Province Of Bourbonnois, And Of Margaret Louisa De Chources. At An Early Age He Was ...
Charles Rollin
Rollin, Charles, A Well-known French Historian, Was Born At Paris On The 30th January, 1661. He Was Intended For His Father's Profession Of A Cutler, But A Benedictine Having Observed His Turn For Literature, In Duced His Mother To Give Him A Liberal Education. In The College Of Du Plessis ...
Charleston
Charleston, The Capital City Of South Carolina, One Of The United States Of America, Is Situated On A Tongue Of Land, Formed By The Confluence Of The Rivers Ashley And Cooper. These Two Streams, Short In Their Course, But Wide And Navigable, Unite Immediately Below The City, And Form A ...
Chatterer
Chatterer. Bill Short, Straight, Elevated ; The Upper Mandible Faint Ly Curved Towards The Extremity, With A Very Marked In Dentation; Nostrils Basal, Ovoid, Open, Concealed By Rough Hairs Directed Forward ; Three Toes Before, And One Behind, The Outer Consolidated With That In The Middle; Wings Of Moderate Size, ...
Chelidosian Birds
Chelidosian Birds. Bill Very Short, Much Depressed, And Very Wide At The Base ; The Upper Mandible Curved At The Point ; Legs Short; Three Toes Before, Either Entirely Divided, Or Connected At The Base By A Short Membrane, The Hinder Often Reversible, The Claws Much Hooked ; Wings Long. ...
Chelmsford
Chelmsford, The County Town Of Essex, Is De Lightfully Situated At The Confluence Of The Rivers Chel Mer And Cann, The Former Of Which Is Crossed By A Bridge, Originally Built By Maurice, Bishop Of London, But Rebuilt In 1787. The Town Consists Of Four Princi Pal Streets, And Possesses ...
Chemistry
Chemistry Is The Science Which Treats Of Those Events Or Changes In Natural Bodies, That Are Not Accompanied By Sensible Motions. Its Object Is To Ascertain The Constituents Of Bodies, And The Laws By Which The Simple Atoms Of Mat Ter Unite Together And Form Compounds. Neither The Origin Nor ...
Chepstow
Chepstow, A Town Of England, In Monmouthshire, Situated Near The Mouth Of The River Wye, Partly In A Deep Hollow, But Chiefly On The Steep Side Of A Hill. The Houses Are Tolerably Built, And The Streets, Though Irre Gular, Are Broad And Well Paved. Chepstow Was Formerly Surrounded With ...
Cherson Or
Cherson Or Khenson, Koslof Gusl-ove, A Town Of Russia, In The Province Of Catharinenslaf, Is Agreeably Situated On A Small Eminence, At The Bottom Of Which Runs The Dnieper. The This River Is About Seven Versts, And It Forms Several Little Isles, Covered With Shrubs. Cherson Is About 14 Versts ...
Cheshire
Cheshire, One Of The Western Counties Of Eng Land, Is Bounded On The North By The Livers Mersey And Tame, Which Separate It From Lancashire ; On The East By The Counties Of Derby And Stafford, In Which Direction The Division Is Marked Chiefly By A Chain Of Hills, And ...
Chess
Chess, An Ingenious And Very Ancient Game Of Skill, Played On A Board Divided Into Squares Or Houses, Gene Rally 64 In Number, With A Variety Of Men Or Pieces Dif Fering From Each Other In Form And In Name. It Is Generally Played In Europe With 16 Pieces Of ...
Chester
Chester, An Ancient And Populous City Of Eng Land, The Capital Of Cheshire. It Is Situated In The Hun Dred Of Broxton, At The Distance From London Of 181 Miles, By Coventry And Newport ; By Litchfield Of 190. It Is Thus Placed Near To The Southern Boundary Of The ...
Chile
Chile Extends Along The Pacific Ocean From S. Lat. 24° 20' To S. Lat. 44° Or Through 1180 Minutes Of Tude, Equal To A Fraction Above 1356 Miles ; But The Breadth Inland From The Andes Does Not Exceed, If It Amounts To 100 Miles : The Area Is About ...
Chili
Chili Is Bounded On The North By Peru, On The South By The Land Of Magellan, On The West By The Pacific Ocean, And On The East By Tucoman Cujo And Patagonia. The Natural Limits Of Chili On The Land Side Are The Andes Or Cordillera And The Desert Of ...
Chime
Chime) In Its General Meaning, Is Applied To The Sound Ing Of Bells, Such As Change-ringing By Church Bells, Or The Striking Quarters Of The Hour By A Clock On Two Or More Bells, Or To Tunes Played By A Clock On A Series Of Nine, Twelve, Or Sixteen Bells, ...