an island lying near the coast of Chili, in South America, under the 43rd degree of south latitude. It is the chief of an archipelago of 40 islands, and its principal town is Castro. It rains here almost all the year, infomuch that nothing but Indian corn, or some such grain, that requires but little heat to ripen it, can ever come to perfection. They have excellent shell-fish, very good wild-fowl, hogs, sheep, and beves; as also a great deal of honey and wax. They carry on a trade with Peru and Chili; whither they send boards of cedar, of which they have vast forests.

CHILTERNHAM, a town in Gloucestershire, six miles from Gloucester; noted for its purgative chalky-beat spring, which has rendered it of late years a place of fashionable resort. This water, which operates with great ease, is deemed excellent in scorbustic complaints, and has been used with success in the gravel.