Stephen, a celebrated minister of the reformed religion, born at Nîmes, left France at the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and retired to Rotterdam, where he began a new *Journal des Savans*; and afterwards removing to Berlin, continued it there three years. At this last place, he was made professor of philosophy, and discharged that office with much honour and reputation. His principal work is a philosophical dictionary, in Latin, which he published at Rotterdam in 1602; and gave a new edition of it much augmented, at Leyden, in 1703, in folio. He died in 1725, aged 85.

**CHAVEZ**, a strong town of Tralos-Montes in Portugal, seated at the foot of a mountain on the river Tamega. It has two suburbs, and as many forts; one of which looks like a citadel. Between the town and suburb of Magdalena, is an old Roman stone bridge about 92 geometrical paces long. W. Long. 7. 1. N. Lat. 41. 45.