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Chilkat Inlet – Chonos Archipelago

Chilkat Inlet

western arm of Lynn Canal, an inlet in Alaska, in about 50° 7' N. lat.

Chillon

CASTLE OF, a fortress of Switzerland, in the canton Vaud , 6 miles S. E. of Vevay. It stands on an isolated rock at the E. end of the Lake

China Sea

that part of the North Pacific Ocean bounded N. by Formosa, N. W. by China, W. by Anam and the Malay peninsula, S. E. by Borneo, and E. by the Philippines. It contains numerous islands, receives several considerable rivers, and forms the important gulfs of Siam and Tonquin.

Chinese White

the white oxide of zinc, a valuable pigment introduced into the arts as a substitute for the preparations of white-lead.

Ching-Hai

or CHIN-HAI, a seaport of China, in the province of Cheh- Chiang (Cheh-Kiang), about 15 miles from Ning-Po. Pop. about 150,000.

Chinook

a term applied to a strong, warm, and dry south or west wind, which descends into the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, into Montana and Wyoming, where it evaporates or melts the snow and brings relief in cold weather. The name was probably given to it because the wind occurred in the territory occupied by the Chinook Indians.

Chinooks

a tribe of Indians, now nearly extinct, on the Columbia river, or in Oregon.

Chins

a savage tribe living in the mountainous region between lower Bengal and upper Burmah, of very primitive habits.

Chiselhurst

or CHISLEHURST, a village in Kent, England, 11 miles S. E. of London. Napoleon III. died here at Camden House in 1873.

CHISHOLM

Chisholm

a city in Minnesota, in St. Louis co. It is on the Great Northern, and the Duluth, Missabe, and Northern railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and lumbering region, and has large deposits of iron ore, the mining of which is the chief industry. Pop. (1910) 7,684; (1920) 9,039.

Chitral

a small mountain state in the upper basin of the Kashkar or Kunar, a tributary of the Kabul river, and bordering on Kashmir and Kafiristan, is 5,200 feet above sea-level. The people are Moslems, but mostly speak a language closely akin to that of their pagan neighbors in Kafiristan. Pop. about 175,000.

Chonos Archipelago

a group of islands lying off the W. coast of Chile, before he was 9 years of age he played mostly between lats. 44° and 46° S., and Polish composer and pianist, born near Warsaw in 1810. His musical education began when he was still a mere boy and habited.