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CHILTERN

Volume 2 · 65 words · 1771 Edition

a chain of chalky hills, running from east to west through Buckinghamshire.

CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turkey in Europe, situated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimera, which divide Epirus from Thessaly: E. long. 20° 40', and N. lat. 40° 20'.