or, as the Germans call it, CHUR, a large and handsome town of Switzerland, and capital of the country of the Grisons, with a bishop's see whose prelate has the right of coining money. It is divided into two parts; the least of which is of the Roman Catholic religion, and the greatest of the Protestant. It is governed by its own laws, and seated in a plain, abounding in vineyards and game, on the river Pfeifure, half a mile from the Rhine. E. Long. 9. 25. N. Lat. 46. 50.