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CHAUMO'NT, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftrift, in the department of the Oile; it takes its 
name from an artificial mountain, on which a fortrefs 
was built, as a boulevard of France, when Normandy 
was in the hands of the Englifh : thirteen miles fouth- 
ibuth-wefl of Beauvais, and twenty-feven weft of Senlis. 
Lat. 49. 15. N. Ion. 19. 33. E. Ferro. 
CHAUMO'NT, a town of Savoy, in the Genevois, near 
the frontiers of France : fix miles north-eaft of Seiffel. 
CHAUMO'NT, a town of the Netherlands, in the du¬ 
chy of Luxemburg : fix miles fouth of Baftogne. 
CHAUMO'NT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Ardennes, and chief place of a canton, in the dil- 
trift of Rethel: nine miles north-north-weft of Rethel. 
CHAUMO'NT, a town of France, in the department 
of the Loire and Cher, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Romorantin ; feventeen miles eaft of Blois. 
CHAUMUSS AY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Indre and Loire : twelve miles fouth of Loches. 
CHAUMU'ZY, a town of France, in the department 
of the Marne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Reims: eight miles fouth-weft of Reims. 
CHAUNAY', a town of France, in the department 
of the Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Civray : two leagues north-weft of Civray. 
CHAU'NCY (Sir Henry, knt.), author of the Hifto- 
rical Antiquities of Hertfordfhire, was defcended from a 
family which came into England with William the Con¬ 
queror. He was admitted in Gonvil and Cains college, 
Cambridge; from whence he removed, in 1649, to the 
Middle-Temple, and in 1656 was called to the bar. In 
1681 he was elefted reader of the Middle-Temple; and, 
on the,4th of June, the fame year, received the honour 
of knighthood at Windfor-calfle from Charles II. He 
was chofen treafurer of the Middle-Temple in 1685. On 
the nth of June, 1688, he was called to the degree of 
ferjeant at law, and the fame year advanced to be one of 
his majefty’s juftices of the peace for the counties of Gla¬ 
morgan, Brecknock, and Radnor, in the principality of 
Wales. After being thrice married, he died in the year 
170o. He publilhed the valuable antiquities of Hert- 
fordlhire, with the original of counties, hundreds, wa¬ 
pentakes, boroughs, corporations, towns, parilhes, vil¬ 
lages, hamlets. &c. 
CHAU'NY, a town of France, and principal place of 
a diftrift, in the department of the Aifne, fituated on the 
Oile : two polls eaft of Noyon, and three and a half north 
of Soiffons. Lat. 49. 37. N. Ion. 20. 53. E. Ferro. 
CHAUP (La), a town of France, in the department 
of the Drome, five leagues and a half eaft of Le Buis. 
CHAURIAT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, in the dif¬ 
trift of Billom : four miles north-weft of Billom. 
CHAUS, or Cost, the molt eafterly and moll exten- 
five province of the kingdom of Fez : in general moun¬ 
tainous, ftony, and unfruitful; but in feme places fer¬ 
tile, and.capable of feeding numerous herds of cattle. 
CHAUS'SF. (Michael Angelo de la), a learned anti¬ 
quary of Paris in the fever.teenth century, went early in 
life to Rome for the fake of ftudying antiquities. His 
Mufaeum Romanum, Rome 1690, fol. and augmented to 
2 vols. fol. in 1746, evinced the fuccefs of his applica¬ 
tion. This valuable colleftion comprifes a numerous 
fuccefiion of antique gems, which had never before been 
given by impreflion to the public. It has gone through 
feveral editions. Graevius inferted it at length in his 
Recueil des Antiquites Romaines. The fame author pub¬ 
lilhed at Rome, in 1707, a Recueil des Pierres-gravees 
Antiques, in 4to. The explanations are in Italian, and 
the plates are executed by Bartoli There is alfo by 
him, Pifturse Antiques Cryptarum Romanarum et Sepul- 
chri Nafonum, 1738, fol. Thefe different works prefent 
a great ftock of erudition and fagacity; and are much 
valued by the curious. 
CHAU'SETRAPPES, / or Caltrops, or Crows. 
C H A 
feet. Iron inftruments with fpikes, about four inches 
long, made like a liar, in fuch a manner, that whichever 
way they fall, one point Hands always upwards, like a 
nail. They are ufually thrown and lcattered into moats 
and breaches, to gall the horfes feet, and ftop the hally 
approach of the enemy. 
CHAUSSIN', a town of France, in the department of 
the Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Dole : three leagues fouth of Dole. 
CHAUTLAN', a town of North America, in the 
country of Mexico, and province of Chiapa; the inha¬ 
bitants carry on a confiderable trade in cocoa, pottery, 
lalt, and dates. 
CHAUVIGNY', a town of France, in the department 
of Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
Montmorrillon, on the Vienne: 4 leagues eaft of Poictiers. 
CHAUVIN' (Stephen), a celebrated proteftanc divine, 
born at Nifmes, but left France at the revocation of the 
edift of Nantz, and retired to Rotterdam, where he be¬ 
gan a new'Journal des Sgavans; and, afterwards remov¬ 
ing to Berlin, continued it there three years. At Berlin 
he was made profeffor of philofophy, and dilcharged that 
office with much honour and reputation. His principal 
tvor< is a philolophical diftionary, in Latin, which he 
publilhed at Rotterdam in 1662 ; and gave a new edition 
of it, much augmented, at Lewarden, in 1713, fol. He 
died in 1725, aged eighty-five. 
CHAUX, a towm of France, in the department of the 
Charente : twenty miles fouth-weft of Angouleline. 
CHAUX de FoNDS, a beautiful town of Swiflerland, 
in the principality of Neufchatel, and capital ot a jurif- 
diftion, which produces but little corn, but feeds a great 
number of cattle: the inhabitants are induftrious, and 
annually export from ten to fixteen thoufand watches of 
gold and filver: 9 miles north-north-weft of Neulchatel. 
To CHAW, <v. a. \_kavjen , Germ.] To champ between, 
.the teeth; tomafticate; to chew : 
The man who laugh’d but once to fee an afs 
Mumbling to make the crofs-grain’d thillles pafs, 
Might laugh again, to fee a jury cisw 
The prickles of unpalatable law. Lryden. 
CHAW,/ The chap; the upper or under part of a 
beaft’s mouth.—I will turn thee back, and put hooks in¬ 
to thy c/mwj, and will bring thee forth and all thine 
army. Ezekiel. 
CHAW'DRON,/. Entrails. 
Add thereto a tyger’s chanxidron , 
For the ingredients of our cauldron. Sbakefpearei 
CHAW'STICK,/ in botany. See Gouania. 
CHAYAU'TAS, a jurifdiftion of South America, ill 
the country of Buenos Ayres, about forty leagues in 
circumference, famous for its gold and filver mines. 
CHAYO'TA,/ in botany. See Sechium. 
CHAZELET', a town of France, in the department 
of the Indre, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Argenton : leven miles fouth-fouth-weft of Argenton. 
CHAZEL'LES, a town of France, in the department 
of the Rhone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrift of Montbrifon; feven leagues weft-fouth-weft 
of Lyons. 
CHAZEL'LES (John Matthew), a French mathema¬ 
tician and engineer, born at Lyons in 1657, and educated 
there in the college of Jefuits, from whence he removed 
to Paris in 1675. He firll became acquainted with Du 
Hamel, fecretary to the academy of fciences, and through 
him with Caffma, who employed him with himfelf at 
the obfervatory, where Chazeiles greatly improved him¬ 
felf, and alfo aflifted Caffini in the meafurement of the 
fouthern part of the meridian of France. Having, in 
1684, inftrufted the duke of Montemar in the mathema¬ 
tical fciences, this nobleman procured him the appoint¬ 
ment of hydrography-profeffor to the galleys ot Mar- 
feilles. In difeharging the duties of this department, he 
made 
