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CHEADLE

Volume 2 · 73 words · 1771 Edition

market-town of Staffordshire, ten miles north-east of Stafford: W. long. $2^\circ$, N. lat. $53^\circ$.

Cheaspeak-Bay, a large frith or arm of the sea, which runs up about three hundred miles into the country between Virginia and Maryland, in North America: It is navigable almost all the way for large ships; being about twenty miles broad at the entrance between Charles-cape and Cape Henry, and between twenty and thirty miles broad afterwards. See Charles-Cape.