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viceroys; but at prefent it has only two, befides the go¬ 
vernors of So-tcheou and Kan-tcheou, which are the 
ftrongeft places in the country. This province in gene¬ 
ral is very fertile, commercial, and rich. It produced 
little rice, but the inhabitants have plentiful crops of 
wheat and millet; it is, however, fubjedt to long droughts, 
and clouds of locufts fometimes deftroy every thing that 
grows in the fields : the Chinefe eat thofe infedls boiled. 
The country abounds with drugs, rhubarb, mulk, cinna¬ 
bar, wax, honey, and coals, of which it contains inex- 
hauftible veins ; it has alfo rich gold mines, which, for 
political reafons, are not allowed to be opened : gold- 
duft is waflied down in fuch abundance among the fand 
of the torrents and rivers, that a number of people have 
no other fubfiftence but what they gain by collecting it. 
Travellers remark that the natives of this country are 
more polite and affable to flrangers, and have greater 
genius than the Chinefe of the other northern provinces. 
This province is divided into two parts, the eaftern and 
the weftern : it contains eight fou, or cities of the fir It 
clafs, and a hundred and fix of the fecond and third. Si- 
ngan-fou is the capital. 
CHEN-YANG, or Moug-den, a city of Chinefe Tar¬ 
tary, and capital of a department, or diftrict, in the coun¬ 
try of the Mantchew Tartars, fituated on an eminence : 
the Mantchew Tartars have been at great pains to orna¬ 
ment it with feveral public edifices, and to provide it 
with magazines of arms and ftore-houfes. They confider 
it as the principal place of their nation ; and fince China 
has been under their dominion, they have eltablilhed the 
fame tribunals here as at Peking, excepting that called 
Liipou: thefe tribunals are compofed of Tartars only; 
their determination is final; and in all their adts they 
trie the Tartar characters and language. It may be con- 
fidered as a double city, one of which is inclol'ed within 
the other: the interior city contains the emperor’s pa¬ 
lace, hotels of the principal mandarins, foveretgn courts, 
and the different tribunals; the exterior is inhabited by 
the common people, tradefmen, and all thofe who, by 
their employments or profeflions, are not obliged to lodge 
in the interior: the latter is almoft a league in circum¬ 
ference, and the walls which inclofe both are more than 
three leagues round : thefe walls were entirely rebuilt in 
1631, and repaired feveral times iince : fifty-four miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Peking. 
CHEN-YANG, a diftridl or department of Chinefe 
Tartary, comprehending what was called Leao-tong, and 
extends as far as the great wall, which bounds it on the 
fouth ; on the eaft, north, and weft, it is defended by a 
breaft-work and pallifade. 
CHENALO'PEX,/ [from yijv, a goofe, and a 
fox.] The {hell-drake, named from its being of the goofe - 
kind, and crafty like the fox. 
CHENAY', a town of France, in the department of 
the two Sevres, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tridh of St. Maixent: eight miles eaft of St. Maixent. 
CHEN'COUR, or Chemkon, a town of Armenia, on 
the frontiers of Gurgiftan, which has a beautiful caftle, 
grand caravanferas, and feveral mofques: 160 miles north- 
eaft of Erivan. 
CHEN'DI, or Chandi, a town of Africa, in the coun¬ 
try of Nubia, the capital of a diftridl, containing about 
350 houfes. Lat. 16. 39.N. Ion.33. 35. E. Greenwich. 
CHENDOU'L, a river of Afia, in the Cabuliftan, which 
runs into the Kamneh, 35 miles eaft of Paifhawur. 
CHE'NE, a town of Savoy, in the Genevois: two miles 
and a half eaft of Geneva. - 
CHENEN'GO, a river of United America, in the ftate 
of New York, which runs into the Sufquehana, two miles 
fouth of Chenengo. 
CIIENEN'GO, a town of United America, in the ftate 
of New York: 135 miles north-weft of New York. Lat. 
(J.3.8.N. Ion. 76. V/. Greenwich. 
CHENERA'ILLES, a town of France, in the depart- 
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ment of the Cereufe, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridl of Aubuffon : nine miles north of Aubuffon. 
CHENE'T, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : 100 miles fouth-weft of Cogni. 
CHENOCO'PRUS, f. [from y/iv, a goofe, and or, 
dung.] Goofe dung. It was formerly uled as a power¬ 
ful refolvent, diuretic, and anti-idleric. The green was 
thought the belt; it was collected in fpring, dried, and 
given from 5 fs. to 3 >• for a dofe. 
CHENOLE'A,/! in botany, a genus of the clafs pen- 
tandria, order monogynia, natural order of holoracea:. 
The generic characters are—Calyx : peiianth one-leafed, 
globular, fomewhat flefiiy, five-parted; fegments bent 
in. Corolla: none. Stamina: filaments five, filiform, 
from upright bent in, inferted at the bafe of the calyx, 
and of the fame length ; anthers minute. Piftillum: germ 
fuperior; ftyle filiform, very fiiort; ftigmas two, fnnple, 
fubulate, acute, from lpreading bent back, a little longer 
than the ftyle. Pericarpium : capfule round, {lightly de~ 
preffed, umbilicate, one-celled. Seed : fmgle, roundiih, 
bifid at the tip, fmooth.— EJfential Character. Calyx, glo¬ 
bular, one-leafed, five-parted ; capful, one-celled, con¬ 
taining one fmooth feed, bifid at the tip. 
There is but one fpecies, chenolea diffufa. Stems fe¬ 
veral, radical, filiform, herbaceous, diftufed, fimple, and 
branched, covered with leaves, purple, fmooth at bot¬ 
tom, fubtomentofe at top, unequal, the ends upright: 
branches alternate, fcattered, few, very fiiort. Leaves 
faftigiately oppofite, feflile, ovate-lanceolate, blunt with 
a point, flefliy, entire, flat above, convex beneath, fre¬ 
quent, the uppermoft more approximating and imbri¬ 
cate, from upright fpreading, filvery tomentofe, longer 
than the internodes. Flowers axillary, folitarv, or in 
pairs, feflile in each axil, towards the tips of the branches. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, on the low coalt. 
Cultivated in 1758, by Mr. Miller; flowers in Augurt 
and September. 
CHENONCEfAU, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Indre and Loire: two leagues fouth-eaft of 
Amboife. 
CHENOPO'DIO-MORUS,yi in botany. SeeBLiTUM. 
CHENOPO'DIUM,/ [from ynv, a goofe, and ttov;, a 
foot.] The herb Goose foot ; a genus of the clafs pen- 
tandria, order digynia, natural order holoraceae. The ge¬ 
neric characters are—Calyx : perianth flve-leaved, con¬ 
cave, permanent; divifions ovate, concave, membrana¬ 
ceous on the margin. Corolla : none. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments five, fubulate, oppofite the leaves of the calyx, 
and of the fame length ; anthers roundifli, twin. Piitil- 
lum: germ orbiculate; ftyle two-parted, fliort; ftigmas 
obtufe. Pericarpium: none; calyxclofed,five-cornered, 
five-angled, (angles compreffed,) deciduous; feed Angle, 
lenticular, fuperior. In fome fpecies the ftyle is obferved 
to be trifid. EJfential Charailer. —Calyx, five-leaved, 
five-cornered; corolla, none; feed one, lenticular, fu¬ 
perior. 
Species. I. With angular leaves. 1. Chenopodium bonus 
Henricus, angular-leaved goole-foot, Englifti mercury, or 
allgood, good Henry, good king Harry, or wild fpinacli : 
leaves triangular-fagittate quite entire; fpikescompound 
leaflefsaxillary. Root perennial, branched. Stem twelveto 
eighteen inches in height, at bottom round and fmooth, 
upwards finely grooved, and lomewhat angular, covered 
with tranfparent powdery globules, and branched. 
Leaves petioled, alternate, fmooth; underneath veiny,, 
paler and mealy, fomewhat waved. The female flowers 
numerous among the hermaphrodites. It is gathered 
while young and tender to eat as fpinach. At Bolton 
in Lincolnftiire it is generally cultivated, and is there 
preferred to fpinach. The young {hoots peeled, and'boil¬ 
ed, may be eaten as afparagus, and are gently laxative ; 
the leaves are often boiled in broth ; the roots are given 
to fheep that have a cough. As a medicine, this herb is 
ranked among the emollients, but rarely made ufe of in 
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