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C H I the comes from the  tchehle minar, that is to ay, forty s.

Don Garcias de Silva Figueroa, Pietro della Valle, Sir John Chardin, and Le Brun, have been very particular in decribing thee ruins.

There appear, ay they, the remains of near four-core s, the fragments of which are at leat ix-feet high; but there are only nineteen can be called entire, with another detached from the ret, about an hundred and fifty paces: a rock of hard black erves as a  to the edifice: the firt plan of the  is acended to by ninety-five teps, all cut in the ; the  of the  is about twenty feet wide, with the figure of an  on one ide, and that of a  on the other, thirty feet high, and both of polihed : near thee s there are two s and not far from thence the figure of a. After paing this, are found fragments of magnificent s in white , the mallet of which are fifteen cubits high, the larget eighteen, having forty s three full inches wide each; from whence we may judge of their thicknes and other proportions. Near the is een an incription on a quare piece of black, containing about twelve lines; the characters are of an extraordinary figure, reembling s, or s: beides this, there are other incriptions, the characters of which reemble the , , or ; others the  or ; and others, in fine, the  characters. Dr Hyde, who hath explained the incription, by upplying ome s that are effaced, oberves, that the incriptions are engraved very negligently, and perhaps by ome ; or, if they are the work of an, he thinks that he was from , and conequently that they are in the  tongue: he adds, that as they are in praie of , they were probably done in the time of that conqueror.  CHILTERN, a chain of y s, running from eat to wet through.  CHIMÆRA, in, a  of  in , ituated at the entrance of the  of , in the province of , about thirty-two miles north of the  , near which are the s of Chimæra, which divide  from : E.  20° 40′, and N.  40° 20′.  CHIMAY, the name of a great, lying in the province of , between the and.  CHIMERA, a fabulous, which the feign to have the head of a , the body of a , and the tail of a ; and add, that this odd beat was killed by. The foundation of the fable was, that in there was a burning, or , of this name; that the top of this  was eldom without s, nor the middle, which had very good , without s; that  bred at the bottom, which was ; and that  rendered the mountain habitable.

By a chimera, among the, is undertood a mere creature of the , compoed of uch contradictions and aburdities as cannot poibly any where exit but in thought.  CHIMES of a , a kind of a periodical, produced at equal intervals of , by means of a particular apparatus added to a.  CHIMNEY, in, a particular part of a , where the is made, having a tube or funnel to carry away the. See.  CHINA, including Chinee, a large , ituated between 95° and 135° E. and between 21° and 55° N.  being accounted two thouand miles in length, and one thouand five hundred in breadth; it is bounded by   on the north, by the   on the eat and outh, and by , , and the territories of  on the wet. It is uually divided into ixteen provinces, which will be decribed in their ical order. In thee provinces there are computed to be one hundred and fifty-five capital, one thouand three hundred and twelve of the econd rank, two thouand three hundred and fifty even s, and upwards of ten millions of , which may amount to about fifty millions of people.

The principal of this country are, , , , and  dut; of all which the maritime  of  import great quantities, ending them  in return. <section end="CHINA" /> <section begin="CHINA-ROOT" />C, in, a , brought both from the  and , thence ditinguihed into oriental and occidental; it is the  of a  of. See. <section end="CHINA-ROOT" /> <section begin="CHINA-WARE" />C-ware. See. <section end="CHINA-WARE" /> <section begin="CHINCA" />CHINCA, a - of, in , ituated in an extenive , on a of the ame name, about ixty miles outh of : W.  76°, and S.  13°. <section end="CHINCA" /> <section begin="CHIN COUGH" />CHIN COUGH, a kind of, which children are chiefly ubject to. See. <section end="CHIN COUGH" /> <section begin="CHINESE" />CHINESE, in general, denotes any thing belonging to. See.

It is oberved by ome, that the Chinee has no analogy with any other  in the : it only conits of three hundred and thirty s, which are all monoyllables, at leat they are pronounced o hort that there is no ditinguihing above one yllable or ound in them; but the ame word, as pronounced with tronger or weaker tone, has different ignifications; accordingly, when the  is accurately poke, it makes a ort of, which has a real , that contitutes the eence and ditinguihing character of the Chinee tongue.

As to the Chinee characters, they are as ingular as the ; the Chinee have not, like us, any, containing the elements, or, as it were, the principles of their s: intead of an they ue a kind of , whereof they have above eighty thouand.

As the Chinee pretend to an antiquity both with regard to their and, far beyond that of any other , it will not perhaps be unacceptable to<section end="CHINESE" /> give