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CHAR'LOTTE, ox- Charlottesville, apoft-town 
hi Salifbury diftrif!, North Carolina, and chief town of 
Mecklenburg county, fituated on Steel creek, which joins 
the Sugaw, and falls into Catabaw river about ten miles 
north of the South Carolina boundary, and forty-four 
foutb of Salifbury. 
CHAR'LOTTE, a county of United Ameiica, in. Vir¬ 
ginia, lies fouth-weft of Richmond, on the head waters 
of Staunton x'iver, and contains 10,078 inhabitants. The 
couxt-houfe is twenty-one miles fouth-fouth-weft of Prince 
Edward court-houfe, and 379 about the fame courle fi'om 
Philadelphia. 
CH AR'LOTTE FORT, in South Cax-olina, is fituated 
on the point of land where Tugloo and Broad rivers 
uniting their waters, form Savannah river. According 
to Bartram, it is one mile below Fort James, Dartmouth. 
Lat. 34. N. Ion. 82. 35. W. 
CHAR'LOTTE HA'VEN, is fituate at the mouth of 
Charlotte river in Eaft Florida; having Caidos bay on 
the fouth, and Rock point on the north, in lat. 2.7. N. 
Ion. 82. 40. Charlotte lfiver is fed by Spiritu Santo La¬ 
goon, which communicates by Delawai-e river with Chat¬ 
ham or Punjo bay, which is ninety miles fouth-eaft from 
Charlotte Haven. 
CHAR'LOTTE TOWN, a town of the ifland of Do¬ 
minica, on the weft, formerly called Rofeau. Lat. 15. 
25. N. Ion. 69. 24. W. Greenwich. 
CHAR'LOTTE TOWN, a town of St. John, in the 
Gulf St. Lawrence, fituated about the centre of the iftand, 
towards the fouth coaft. Lat. 46. 15, N. Ion. 62. 50. W. 
Greenwich. 
CHARLOT'TEBURG, a town of United America, in 
Brunfwick county, North Carolina. It ftands on an ifland, 
and has an inlet and found of the lame name a little 
fouth of it. 
CHARLOT'TENBURG, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Weftphalia, and county of Holzapfel, built by 
the French refugees: four miles fouth-weft of Holzapfel. 
CHARLOT'TENLUND, a town of Denmark, in the 
ifland of Zealand : four miles north of Copenhagen. 
CHARLOTTESVIL'LE, the capital of Albemarle 
county in Virginia, in United America, fituate on the 
poll: road from Richmond to Danville, in Kentucky, 
eiglity-fix miles weft-north-weft of the former, and 557 
eaftward of the latter, and forty fouth-eaft by eaft of 
Staunton. It contains a court-houfe and a goal, and is 
about half a mile north from a water of Rivanna river. 
CHARLOT'TIA, a town of United America, on the 
eaft Ihore of St. John’s river, Eaft Florida, were that ri¬ 
ver is about half a mile wide. It was founded by Dennis 
Rolle, efq. and is fituated on a high cliff, fifteen or twen¬ 
ty feet perpendicular from the river. The aborigines of 
America had a large town in this place, as appeai-s from 
the great tumuli and conical mounts of earth and fhells, 
and other traces of a lettlement which yet remain. The 
river, for near twelve miles above Charlottia, is divided 
into many channels, by a number of iflands. 
CHARL'TON, an ifland in the fouthern part of Hud- 
fon’s Bay. Lat. 52. 8. N. Ion. 80. W. Greenwich. 
CHAR'LY, a town of France, in the department of 
Aifne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Cha¬ 
teau Thierry: two leagues fouth-weft of Chateau Thierry. 
CHARM, f. [ chartne, Fr. carmen, Lat.] Words, or 
philtres, or characters, imagined to have fome occult or 
unintelligible power. See Magic. —There have been 
uled, either barbarous words, of no fenfe, left they Ihould 
difturbthe imagination ; or words of fimiiitude, that may 
iecond and feed the imagination : and this was ever in 
heathen thanns, as in charms of later times. Bacon. 
Antaeus could, by magic charms, 
Recover ftrength whene’er he fell. Swift. 
Something of power to fubdue oppofition, and gain the 
affections; fomething that can pleafe irrefiftibly ; 
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Well-founding verfes are the charm we ufe, 
Heroic thoughts and virtue to infufe. Rofcommon. 
To CHARM, c v. a. To fortify with charms againft evil: 
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crefts ; 
I bear a charmed life which mull not yield 
To one of women born. Shakefpeare . 
To make powerful by charms.—To fummon by incan¬ 
tation : 
I chartn you by my once commended beauty. 
By all your vows of love, and that great vow 
Which did incorporate and make us one. Shakefpeare. 
To fubdue by fome fecret power; to amaze; to overpower e 
Mufic the fierce!! grief can charm . Pope . 
To fubdue the mind by pleafure : 
Amoret! my lovely foe, 
Tell me where thy ftrength doth lie : 
Where the power that charms us fo, 
In thy foul, or in thy eye ? Waller. 
CHARM'ED, adj. Enchanted.—Arcadia was the 
charmed circle, where all his fpirits for ever ihall be eix- 
chanted. Sidney. 
CHARM'ER. f. One that has the power of charms or 
enchantments. See the article Magic. 
She was a charmer, and could almoft x-ead 
The thoughts of people. Shakefpeare. 
Words of endeai-ment among lovers. 
CHAR'MES, a town of Fi-ance, in the department of 
the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Mirecourt : two leagues and a half north-eaftof Mire- 
coui-t. This place is famous for a ti-eaty between the 
duke of Loraine and cardinal Richelieu, in the year 1633, 
by which the duke furrendered the dukedom to France. 
CHARM'ING, part. adj. Pleafing in the higheft de- 
"gjree.—For ever all goodnefs will be charming, lor ever all 
wickgdnefs will be moll odious. Spratt. 
CHARM'INGLY, ada>. In iuch a manner as to pleafe 
exceedingly.—She fnxiled very charmingly , and difeover- 
ed as fine a fet of teeth as ever eye beheld. Addifcn. 
CHARM'INGNESS, f The power of pleafing. 
CHARMOGOL', a-town of Perfia, in the pi'ovince of 
Chorafan : 200 miles north of Herat. 
CHARMONT', a town of France, in the department 
of the Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Vitry-le-Fram;ais : fourteen miles north-eaft of Vitry. 
CHAR'MOUTH, a village of England, on the. coal! 
of the county of Dorlet, at the mouth of a fmall river 
called Char, where the Danes made a defeent and ravag¬ 
ed the country in 883, and 840 : three nxiles eaft of Lira. 
CHAR'NEL, adj. Containing fleftx, or cavcaffcs: 
Such are tlxofe thick and gloomy fliadows damp, 
Oft found in charnel vaults"and fepuldxres 
Ling’ring, and fitting by a new-made grave. Milton. 
CI-IAR'NEL-HOUSE, \_charnier, Fr. from caro, car- 
nis, Lat.] The place in or near churches, where the bones 
of the dead are repofited : 
If charnel-houfes and our graves muff fend 
Thofe, that we bury, back; our monuments 
Shall be the maws of kites. Shakefpeare. 
CHARNIZAY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Indre and Loire: ten miles fouth of Loches. 
CHAR'NOCK (Stephen), deicended from an ancient 
family of that name in Lancaftiire, was bonr in London, 
and educated firft in Emanuel college, Cambridge, from 
whence he i-emoved to Oxford in 1649, and'obtained a 
fellowfliip by the parlimentarian intereit. Afterwards he 
went into Ireland, where he pi-eaclxed, aixd was much 
efteemed by the prefbyterisns and independents. Upon 
