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LEFT CHILLON 465 CHIMPANZEE gion, and has flour and paper mills, foundries and machine shops, manufac- tories of furniture, shoes, wagons, etc., daily and weekly newspapers, and four National banks. Pop. (1910) 14,508: (1920) 15,831. CHILLON, CASTLE OF, a fortress which he immediately vacates for the benefit of others. CHIMBORAZO, a conical peak of the Andes, in Ecuador, 20,517 feet above the sea, but only about 11,000 above the level of the valley of Quito, to the N. The "silver bell" of perpetual snow and of Switzerland, in the canton Vaud, 6 glacier was long erroneously regarded as miles S. E. of Vevay. It stands on an the loftiest mountain not only in Amer- isolated rock at the E. end of the Lake ica but in the whole world. In 1745 La CASTLE OF CHILLON of Geneva. It was built in 1238, by Amadeus IV. of Savoy, and was long used as a State prison. In 1859 it was occupied as an arsenal. Near this castle Rousseau fixed the catastrophe of his "Heloise," and in it Bonnivard, Byron's "Prisoner of Chillon," was confined for several years. CHILTERN HILLS, a range of flint and chalk hills in England, extending through Oxford, Hertford, and Bucking- ham shires; loftiest summit 905 feet. These hills were anciently covered with forests, and were infested by numerous bands of robbers. The steward of the Uiiiitern Hundreds originally was an officer of the crown, appointed to pro- tect the people of Bucks from the rob- bers of the Chiltern hills. This office is now a sinecure, but as a member of Parliament can only resign his seat by accepting oflSce, he accepts this sinecure. Condamine ascended to 16,730 feet; no complete ascent had been made, till Whymper in 1880 twice reached the summit. The peak gives name to the province of Chimborazo, to the S. with an area of 5,523 square miles, and a pop. of about 125,000. CHIMERE (shl-mer'), the upper robe to which the lawn sleeves of a bishop are attached. CHIMPANZEE, a name formerly ap- plied to more than one of the lai'ger man- shaped apes, but properly belonging to the Troglodytes niger, a native of the equatorial parts of western Africa. Its associate in the genus troglodytes is the gorilla. The face is nearly hairless, the skin a dirty yellow ochre, teeth beauti- fully white, hair black and long. In the chimpanzee the arms are longer than the hind limbs, and when the animal is erect