LA, a town of Switzerland, canton of Fribourg, and 10 miles N.W. of Neuchâtel, in the rugged and narrow valley of the Jura, 3100 feet above the level of the sea. It is celebrated for the manufacture of gold and silver watches, which employ about 500 of its inhabitants. Pop. 8500.

CHAVES, a fortified town of Portugal, province of Tras-os-Montes, on a plain near the right bank of the Tamega, which is here crossed by a fine old Roman bridge of eighteen arches. It has hot saline springs. Pop. about 6000.