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C H I  and reproduction of s was very current, not only in the of Ju or of the learned, but also among the, Ho-chang or the religious of Fo, and among the Tao-e or followers of Lao Kiune, that it to ay, among the three great , who have the mot influence in the. Tchao-cang-tie etablihed then a great period of 129,000 s, called Yuene, compoed of twelve equal parts, called hoei, or conjunctions, which were each of 10,800 s. In the firt conjunction, aid he, was formed by little and little, by the motion which the Tai-ki, or the, impreed upon  which was formerly at perfect ret. During the econd conjunction, the was produced in the ame manner. At the middle of the third conjunction, and all other beings began to pring up, in the manner that s and s are produced in the, which afterwards preerve their everal kinds by their. At the middle of the eleventh conjunction, all things hall be detroyed, and the hall fall back again into its primitive, from whence it hall not arie till after the twelfth conjunction is expired.

It is not difficult at preent to conceive, that the Tao-e had invented that prodigious number of reigns before Fou-hi, for no other reaon, but to fill up that interval, which, according to them, had elaped from the production of man, to the beginning of the Chinee, that is to ay, to the reign of Fou-hi. The ame calculator determined the half of Yuene, or of his great period of 129,000 s, at the reign of Yao.

Thee Tao-e, as was aid already, laid down thee ten ages or ten Ki as an indiputable principle; each Ki comprehended everal, whoe duration they determined as they thought fit, and as their calculation require: but if they were at liberty to increae or diminih the duration of the ten Ki, it was not the ame as to their number, which was in ome ort a fundamental principle of their ect, from which they were not allowed to depart.

Some, to whom this doctrine of Tao-e was not unknown, imagined, that they dicerned in thee ten Ki, the ten generations before ; and as the writers cited by Lopi, and by Cong-ing-ta, ay, that of thee ten Ki, ix were before Fou-he, and four after him; thee ame have imagined, that Fou-hi was. It mut be owned, in the mean time, that Tchine-huene and everal others do not oberve the ame order; that they place Chine-nong in the ninth Ki, Ho-ang-ti in the tenth, &c. By this computation Hoang ti would be, and Fou-hi , which contradicts their hypotheis.

The opinion which coniders the ten Ki of the Chinee as the ten generations which preceded, is very ingenious, and not improbable. Towards the end of the reign of Tcheou, about 300 s before the, ome  travelled into , who might have made the writings of  known there, and, of conequence, the ten generations which preceded the : beides, this knowledge was common to the ns, who might have penetrated into  before the.

 CHINEY, a of the   on the confines of the  of, about twelve miles outh-eat of : E.  5°, N.  50° 20′.

 CHINON, a of  in the  of the, about twenty three miles outh-wet of ; E.  20′, and N.  47° 15′.

 CHIO, C, X, or S, an, lying near the  of , in  or , about one hundred miles wet of. It is called by the Sakiaduci, and is about one hundred miles in ; being chiefly inhabited by  of the, who are aid to have three hundred es in the.

 C is alo the capital of the above, ituated on the eat : E. 27°, and N.  38°.

 CHIONANTHUS, or, in , a of the diandria-monogynia. The divided into four oval egments; and the  contains but one. There are two, viz. the virginica and zeylonica, both natives of the.

 CHIOZZO, or, a on an  of the ame name, in the  of , by which there is a paage into the , ituated about twelve miles outh of the  of.

 CHIPPENHAM, a - in, about twenty two miles north-wet of : W. 2° 12′, and N.  51° 25′. It ends two members to.

<section end="CHIPPENHAM" /> <section begin="CHIPPING" />CHIPPING, or, a - of , about ten miles outh of : W. 42′, and N.  51° 35′. It ends two members to.

<section end="CHIPPING" /> <section begin="CHIROGRAPHY" />CHIROGRAPHY, a under one's own hand.

<section end="CHIROGRAPHY" /> <section begin="CHIROMANCY" />CHIROMANCY, a pecies of, drawn from the different lines and lineaments of a peron's ; by which means, it is pretended, the inclinations may be dicovered.

<section end="CHIROMANCY" /> <section begin="CHIRONIA" />CHIRONIA, in, a of the pentandria monogynia. The is rotated; the  declines; the  are inerted into the tube of the ; the  are piral: and the  is bilocular. There are eight, none of them natives of.

<section end="CHIRONIA" /> <section begin="CHIRONOMY" />CHIRONOMY, in antiquity, the of repreenting any pat tranaction by the getures of the body, more epecially by the motions of the : this made a part of liberal ; it had the approbation of, and was ranked by  among the  s.

<section end="CHIRONOMY" /> <section begin="CHIROTONY" />CHIROTONY, among eccleiatical writers, denotes the impoition of ued in conferring  s.

However, it is proper to remark, that chirotony originally was a method of, by holding up the.

<section end="CHIROTONY" /> <section begin="CHIRVAN" />CHIRVAN, a of, lying on the western  of the.

<section end="CHIRVAN" /> <section begin="CHIRURGERY" />CHIRURGERY. See.

<section end="CHIRURGERY" /> <section begin="CHISLEY-LAND" />CHISLEY-LAND, in, a of a middle nature between  and ey , with a large admixture of s.<section end="CHISLEY-LAND" />