an island of the Arabian Irak, formed by a river running from the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf, which extends from Bussora nearly to El Katif, 240 miles in length and thirty in breadth.

CHÆRONEA, in Ancient Geography, a town, or rather village, of Boeotia, immediately adjoining Phocis; celebrated as the birthplace of Plutarch, and as the scene of the fatal defeat of the confederate Greeks by Philip of Macedon.