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fuhjeft to the marquis of Montferrat; Luchin Vilconti, 
prince of Milan; a fecond time to Jane, queen ot Na¬ 
ples ; Galeas, and John Galeas de Vil'conti: Valentina, 
the daughter of this laid prince, married Louis, duke of 
Orleans, and brought with her as a portion the town of 
Cherafco, and the country round : from the fucceflbrs of 
this prince it came to Charles V. who gave it, in the year 
1530, to Charles III. duke of Savoy, firnamed the Good, 
in confideration of his marriage with Beatrice of Portu¬ 
gal. It was taken more than once in the fame century 
by the Auftrians and the French, but reftorecl to Ema¬ 
nuel Philbert, fon of Charles, by the peace of Cambray, 
in 1539. Vidtor Amadeus gave it the title of City, making 
it the capital of a province, and refidence ot a governor. 
The civil government is conducted by three fyndics, 
twenty-eight counfellors, and eight matters of aecompts. 
It is in the diocefe of Afti, and has f'even parifh churches, 
four within the walls, and three without. The comte is 
about nine miles in diameter, the land is fertile, the plains 
producing great plenty of corn, and the hills, which are 
fome higher, fome lower, produce wine, both good, and 
in quantities for exportation : twenty miles fouth-Iouth- 
eaft of Turin, fifteen miles ealt of Saluzzo. Lat. 44. 33. N. 
Ion. 25. 27. E. Ferro. 
CHERAW'S, a dillriCl of North America, in the up¬ 
per country of South Carolina. Its length is about 
eighty-three miles, and its breadth fixty-three; and is 
fubdivided into the counties of Darlington, Chelterfiejd, 
and Marlborough. By the cenfus of 1791, there were 
10,706 inhabitants, of which 7618 were white inhabi¬ 
tants, the reft fiaves. It fends to the ftate legillature fix 
reprefentatives and two fenators ; and, in conjunction 
with Georgetown dillriCl, one member to congrefs. This 
diitridt is watered by Great Pedee river, and many 
fmaller ftreams, on the banks of which the land is thickly 
fettled and well cultivated. The chief towns are Green¬ 
ville and Chatham. The court-houfe in this diftridl is 
fifty-two miles from Camden, as far from Lumberton, and 
ninety from Georgetown. The mail flops at this place. 
CHER'BURG, a lea-port town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Channel, fituated at the bottom of a large 
bay, between Cape Barfleur and Cape la Hogue, contain¬ 
ing about 6000 inhabitants. Before the revolution, it 
was the feat of a governor and an admiralty. Building 
of fmall veffels, and a manufadture of woollen fluffs, form 
the principal employment of the inhabitants. In the year 
1758, the town was taken and plundered by the Englifh, 
the port deftroyed, and the fhips burned in the harbour. 
This port has always been confidered by the French as 
an objedl of great importance in the navigation of the 
Englifh Channel, and immenfe fums have been expended 
in the eredtion of piers, deepening and enlarging the har¬ 
bour, and eredting fortifications. Veffels of 900 tons can 
be admitted in high-water, and 250 in low: ten polls 
north of Coutances, and forty-one weft-north-wefl of Pa¬ 
ris. Lat. 49. 39. N. Ion. 16. 2. E. Ferro. 
CHERCHESF/NE, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Curdiflan : fixty-two miles fouth of Kerkuk. 
CHE'RCY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Yonne : four leagues weft of Sens. 
CHE'REM, a kind of excommunication in ufe among 
the Jews. There are fome who affert that the peifons 
thus devoted were afterwards put to death 5 whereof 
Jephtha’s daughter is a memorable example. Judges xi. 
29, &c. 
CHE'REN-TABANAN', a town of Chinefe Tartary. 
Lat. 41. 32. N. Ion. 137. 17. E. Ferro. 
CHE'RI-KIA'MEN, a poll of Chinefe Tartary: fif¬ 
teen miles louth-eafl of Petoure Hotun. 
CHE'RI-OU'JOU, a town of Chinele Tartary : eight 
miles fouth of Geho. 
CHE'RILUS, a Greek poet of Samos, flouriffied 479 
years before Chrifl. He fung the vidlory gained by the 
Athenians over Xerxes, and was rewarded with a piece 
a 
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of gold for every verfe. His poem had afterwards the ho¬ 
nour of being rehearfed yearly with the works of Homer. 
Ho CHE'RISH, c v. a. [ckerir, Fr.] To fupport and for¬ 
ward with encouragement, help, and proteClion ; to IheF- 
ter; to nurfe up : 
Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate 
Upon your grace, and not with duteous love 
Doth cherijh you and yours, God punifh me 
With hate in thole where I expeCt moll love. Shake/. 
CHF/RISHER, f. An encourager; a fupporter.—One 
of their greateft praifes it is to be the maintainers and 
cherijhers of a regular devo.ion, a reverend worlhip, a 
true and decent piety. Spratt . 
CHE'RISHMENT,/. Encouragement; fupport; com¬ 
fort. It is now oblolete : 
The one lives her age’s ornament, 
That with rich bounty, and dear che/ifhmeut, 
Supports the praife of noble poefie. Spenfer. 
CHERLE'RIA, / [from Jo. Hen. Chenier, Ion-in-law 
to John Bauhin, whom he alTilled in his hiltory.J .In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order trigyriia, na¬ 
tural order caryophyllei. The generic characters are—- 
Calyx : perianth five leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, concave* 
equal. Corolla : petals none (unlels you rather call the 
calyx or nectaries fo) ; neftaries five, emarginate, placed 
in a circle, very fmall. Stamina: filaments ten, tubu¬ 
late, of which the alternate ones are affixed to the back 
of the neilaries ; anthers Ample. Pillilium : germ ovate; 
llyles three, fpreading; lligmas Ample. Pericarpium: 
capfule ovate, three-celled, three-valved ; feeds two or 
three, kidney-fhaped.— EJ/ential Charadler. Calyx, five- 
leaved ; neilaries five, bifid, refembling petals ; anthers 
alternate barren; capfule one-celled, three-valved, three- 
leeded.—There is only one fpecies, called cherleria fe- 
doides, or (lone-crop cheleria, with leaves oppofite, li¬ 
near, rugged about the edge, connate at the bafe into a. 
(heath. When the leaves are fallen, the (heaths remain, 
with the keel of the leaves, invelting the lower part of 
the Item; hence the affinity of-this with the caryophyl- 
leous plants. It forms large green molly tufts. Stems 
about two inches high, dole matted. Flowers from the 
fummits of the branches, Angle, ereCl, on very fhort pe¬ 
duncles, yellowilh green: leaflets of the calyx Itreaked 
on the back with three lines. NeClaries much Ihorter 
than the calyx, flelhy and conneCled. Seguier defcribes 
the flower as having five petals : Haller and Scopoli deny 
its having any : Villars lays, that they are fo fmall, as to 
require the affillance of a glafs to view them ; but they 
are oblong, and cloven at the end. Found on the moun¬ 
tains of Dauphine, Switzerland, Savoy, the Valais, Auf- 
tria, Carniola, and the Highlands of Scotland. Peren¬ 
nial ; flowering in July and Augull. 
CHERMANSICK', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Natolia: thirty, miles north-north-eaft of 
Milets. 
CHER'MES, f. in entomology, a genus of infeCls be¬ 
longing to the order of hemiptera. Their characters are 
drawn from the fituation of the rollrum, which is placed 
in the bread; and from the ffiape of the antennae, which 
are longer than the thorax. The wings are four in num¬ 
ber, folding clofe along the fides of the abdomen ; the 
feet are formed for leaping, their tarfi having two arti¬ 
culations. Thefe animals are found inhabiting a great 
variety of different trees and plants, -upon wliich they 
produce very Angular excreicences : the Linnsean names 
affixed to each lpecies are, for the mod part, derived 
from the particular tree upon which they feed ; that 
of the fig-tree is the largell, and therefore mors eafily 
examined than any of the reft of the tribe. The whole 
body of this infeCt is brown above, and green beneath ; 
the antennae are large, hairy, and of the fame hue with 
the back. Tht wings, which are twice the length of the 
abdomen-, 
