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made numerous geometrical and aftronomical obferva- 
tions, from which he drew.a new map of the coaft of 
Provence. He alfo performed many other fervices in 
that department, and as an engineer along with the ar¬ 
mies and naval expeditions. To make obfervations in 
geography and aftronomy, he undertook all'o a voyage to 
the Levant, and among other things he measured the 
pyramids of Egypt, and found the four fides of the 
largeft of them exactly to face the four cardinal points' 
of the compafs. He made a report of his voyage, on his 
return, to the academy of fciences, upon which he was 
named a member of their body in 1695, and had many 
papers inferted in the volumes of their memoirs, from 
1693 to 1708. Chazelles died at Marfeilles the 16th of 
January, 1710. 
CHAZINZA'RIANS,/ Heretics who rofe in Armenia 
in the feventh century. The word is formed of the Ar¬ 
menian chains, “ crofs.” They are alfo called ftaurola- 
tra, which in Greek fignifies the fame as Chazinzarians 
in Armenian, viz. adorers of the crofs ; they being charged 
with paying adoration to the crofs alone. In other re- 
fpefts they were Neftorians ; and admitted two perfons in 
Chrift. Nicephorus afcribes other fmgularities to them ; 
particularly their holding an annual feaft in memory of 
their falfe prophet Sergius, which they called arizi- 
bartzes. 
CHE, a town of China, of the third rank, in the pro¬ 
vince of Ho-nan : twelve leagues weft-north-weft of Se. 
CHE-CHEOU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Hou-quang, on the river Yang-tfe: eleven 
leagues eaft-north-eaft of Fong. 
CHE-CONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Se-tchuen : ten miles fouth-eaft of Tong- 
tchouen. 
CHE-FANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Se-tchuen : ten miles north-w r eft of Han. 
CHE-KANG, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Kiang-nan: eleven leagues eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Tchi-tcheou. 
CHE-LEOU, a. town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chanli: fourteen leagues fouth-weit of 
Fuen-tcheou. 
CHE-MEN, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Tche-kiang: twenty miles fcuth-fouth-weft 
of Kia-hing. 
CHE-P 1 NG, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
the province of Yun-nan: 410 leagues fouth-fouth-weft: 
of Peking. Lat. 23. 49. N. Ion. 120. xo. E. Ferro. 
CHE-PING, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Koei: live leagues weft of Tchi-yuen. 
CHE-SI'NEN,. a town of China, of the third rank, in 
in the province of Chen-fi: fifteen leagues north-weft of 
Hing-ngan. 
CHE-TCKEOU-OUE'I, a town of China, in the pro¬ 
vince of Hou-quang: 700 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pe¬ 
king. Lat. 30.16. N. Ion. 126.40. E. Ferro. 
CHF.-TCHING, a town of China, in the province of 
Quang-tong : eight leagues weft-fouth-weft of Hoa. 
CHE-TCHING, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Kiang-fi : thirty leagues fouth-eaft of 
Ki-ngan. 
CHE-TSI'EN, a city of China, of the firft rank, in the 
province of Koei-tcheou : 875 miles fouth-louth-weft of 
Peking. Lat. 27. 30. N. Ion. 125. 30. E. Ferro. 
CHE-TSU'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Se-tchuen : 30 miles north-ealt of Mao. 
CHE-TSUNG, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
the province of Yun-nan: 340 leagues fouth-fouth-weft 
of Peking. Lat. 24. 56. N. Ion. 121. 24. E. Ferro. 
CHE-YAM-HO'EI-HO'TUN, a town of Afia, in the 
kingdom of Corea : 437 miles eaft-north-eaft of Peking. 
CHEA'DLE, a fmall town in Staffordlhire, 146 miles 
from London, ten from Uttoxeter, twelve from New- 
caftle, fifteen from Stafford, feven from the Staffordlhire 
potteries, and in the midway between Birmingham and 
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Mancheller, being forty-two miles from each place- 
It is pleafantly fituated on the fide of a hill facing the 
fouth. Here is a good market on Fridays, well fupplied 
with-all kinds of provifions, and four fairs for cattle, 
liorfes, hogs, and pedlary, viz. on Lady-day, Holy 
Thurlday, Auguft 21, and October 18. The town is fur- 
rounded with coal of an exceeding good quality, which, 
from its abundance and cheapnefs, has occafioned feveral 
great w'orks to be erefted in the neighbourhood; viz. 
brafs-works, copper-works, tin-works, and brafs and cop¬ 
per wire-works ; all of w hich are very extenfive, and em¬ 
ploy a great number of poor. There is alfo a large ma- 
nufa&ory of tape, lately let on foot. The church is an 
ancient itrufture, dedicated to St. Giles. The reblory is 
worth about 500 1 . per annum. Here is a free-fchool, 
well endowed, for twelve boys. The country round 
Cheadle is beautifully diverfified with hill and dale, and 
enriched with a great number of gentlemen’s feats. 
CHEAP, adj. [ceapan, Sax. koopcn, Dutch, to buy.] 
To be had at a low rate ; purchafed for a fmall price.— 
Where there are a great many fellers to a few buyers, 
there the thing to be fold will be cheap. On the other 
fide, raife up a great many buyers for a few fellers, and 
the fame thing will immediately turn dear. Locke. —Of 
fmall value; eafy to-be had ; not refpefted.—He that is 
too much in any thing, fo that he giveth another occa- 
fion of fociety, maketh himfelf cheap. Bacon. 
CHEAP,/. [ cheping is an old word for market ; whence 
Eojlcheap, Cheapfnle.~\ Market; purchafe; bargain: as, 
good cheap, a bon marche, Fr.—It is many a man’s cafe 
to fire himfelf out with hunting after that abroad, which 
he carries about him all the while, and may have it bet¬ 
ter cheap at home. VEftrange. 
Ta CHEA'PEN, <v. a. [ceapan, Sax. to buy.] To at¬ 
tempt to purchafe; to bid for any thing; to alk the 
price of any commodity : 
To (hops in crowds the daggled females fly, 
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy. Snvift . 
To leflen value: 
My hopes purfue a brighter diadem, 
Can any brighter than the Roman be ? 
I find my proffer’d love has cheapen'd ms. Dry den. 
CHEAP'LY, adj. At a fmall price ; at a low rate : 
Blood, rapines, maffacres, w r ere cheaply bought, 
So mighty recompence your beauty brought. Dryden. 
CHEAP'NESS, f. Lownefs of price.—The diferedit 
which is grown upon Ireland, has been the great dif- 
couragement to other nations to tranfplartt themfelves 
thither, and prevailed farther than' all the invitations 
which the cheapnefs and plenty of the country has made 
them. Temple. 
CHEA'PO, a river of America, which runs into the 
bay of Panama : thirty miles eaft of Panama. 
CHEAR. See Cheer. 
To CHEAT, <v. a. [of uncertain derivation ; probably 
from acheter, Fr. to purchafe, alluding to the tricks ufed 
in making bargains.] To defraud; to impofe upon; to 
trick. It is uled commonly of low cunning.—It is a 
dangerous commerce, where an honeft man is lure at 
firft of being cheated ; and he recovers not his Ioffes, but 
by learning to cheat others, Dryden. —It has of before 
the thing taken away by fraud : 
I that am curtail’d of man’s fair proportion, 
Cheated of feature by djlfembling nature, 
Deform’d, unfinilh’d. Shakefpeare. 
CHEAT,/ [from the verb. Some think abbreviated, 
from efeheat, becaufe, many fraudulent mealures being 
taken by the lords of manors in procuring efeheats, cheat. 
the abridgment was brought to convey a bad meaning.] 
A fraud ; a trick ; an impolture : 
When I confider life, ’tis all a cheat.; 
Yet, fool’d with hope, men favour the deceit 1 
M.m ’ Truft 
