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both ate fond of rowing about, and procuring fuftenance 
by bunting, rather than by cultivating the earth. Nature 
teems to have implanted in their hearts a reciprocal af¬ 
fection for each other; they fociate together, and live 
on the moll amicable terms; and to this one eircum- 
ttance, more than to any other caufe, is to be attributed 
that wonderful afcenaency which the French were ever 
known to have over the Indians,.whilft they had polleffion 
of Canada. Itis very remarkable indeed, that in the up¬ 
per country, notwithftanding that prefents to 1'uch a very 
large amount are given amongft the Indians through the 
hands of the Englilh inhabitants, and that their natural 
rights are protected, yet an Indian, even at this day, will 
always go to the houfe of a poor French farmer, in pre¬ 
ference to that of an Englilhman. 
CHINE'SE, c.Jj.' Any thing belonging to China, or its 
inhabitants. 
CHINE'SE SHADES, an ingenious amufement, in 
•imitation of dramatic performances; the artifice of which 
confifts in moving, by means of pegs or wires fallened to 
them, a variety of figures cut out of palteboard, the joints 
of which are made pliable by turning on a pin or pivot. 
Thele figures are exhibited fo as to reprelent various 
fcenes, behind a partition of fine painted gauze, fixed 
before an opening in a curtain, the fliadows of which are 
thrown on the gauze by means of a light reflected from 
a mirror, towards the apartment where the IpeClators lit. 
When it is required to cattle thefe figures to perform a 
variety of movements, it is neceflfary to have feveral per- 
fons, who mult be exceedingly expert. This amufement, 
which can hardly be feen the firlt time without pleafure, 
is really a Chinefe invention, mollly ufed at their well- 
known fealt of lanterns, when they exhibit an infinite 
variety of tragic and comic fcenes, feats of agility, com- 
'bats between men and animals, Ihips and vefiels moving 
on the water, &c. That thefe amulements were common 
in Egypt, we are told by Profper Alpinus, who admired 
them much; though he was not able to difcover the me¬ 
thod by which they were performed, it being then kept a 
profound fecret. The magic lantern is an optical illufion 
arifing out of this Afiatic invention. See Dioptrics. 
CHI'NEY, or Ciney, a town of Germany, in the circle 
•of Weltphalia, and bilhopric of Liege, in the country of 
Condroz: ten miles north-eaft of Dinant, and twenty- 
eight fouth-fouth-weft of Liege. 
CHING, a town of China, of the fecpnd rank, in the 
province of Pe-tche-li, 125 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pe¬ 
kin. Lat. 38.4.N. Ion. 133.6. E. Ferro. 
CHING, a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
•province of Tche-kiang, ten leagues fouth of Chao-hing. 
CHING-CONGO, a river of Hindooftan, which rifes 
in the Ellichpour country, and runs into the Godavery, 
fixteen miles fouth-weft of Neermul. 
CHING-HAI, a town of Alia, in the kingdom of Co¬ 
rea, fixty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Kang-tcheou. 
CHING-KIEOU, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Ho-nan, fifteen leagues north-eaft of 
Yun-hing. 
CHING-LI, a town on the north-weft coait of the Chi- 
nele ifland of Hai-nan, of the third rank, twelve miles 
well of Kiong-tcheou. 
CHING-MOU, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
1 the province of Chen-fi, on the river Kiu, fifty miles 
north-north-well of Kia. 
CHING-TCHEN, a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Chen-fi, twenty miles north of Tong. 
CHING-YANG, or Moucdan Hotxin, a town of 
Chinefe Tartary, .320 leagues eaft-north-eaft of Pekin. 
Lat. 41. 52. N. Ion. 141.3. E. Ferro. 
CHINGOLEAGU L, a fmall ifland of America, near 
the eaft coall of Virginia. Lat. 37.56. N. Ion. 75.26. E. 
Greenwich. 
CHI'NIZ, a town of Perfia, in the province ofFarfiftan, 
iituated on the gulf of Perfia, 140 miles weft of Schiras. 
CHINK, /„ [cinan, to gape, Sax.l A fmall aperture 
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longwife; an opening or gap between the parts of an^ 
thing.—Though birds have no epiglottis, yet they fo 
contract the chink of their larinx, as to prevent the ad- 
milfion of wet or dry indigefted. Brown. 
In vain flie fearch’d each cranny of the houfe, 
Each gaping chink impervious to a moufe. Swift. 
To CHINK, <v.a. [derived by Skinner from the found-l 
To fliake fo as to make a found: 
He chinks his purfe, and takes his feat of ftate; 
With ready quills the dedicators wait. Pope. 
To CHINK, nj.n. To found by linking each other.—• 
Lord Strutt’s money Urines as bright, and chinks as weii, 
as Tquire South’s. Arbnthnot. 
CIHN'KY, adj. Full of holes; gaping; openthg into 
narrow clefts: 
Grimalkin, to domeftic vermin fworn 
An everlafting foe, with watchful eye 
Lies nightly brooding o’er a chivky gap. Philips. 
CHIN'NA BALABARAM', a town of Hindooftan, 
in the Myfore country, eighty-five miles north-eaft of 
Seringapatam. Lat 13.25.N. Ion. 77. 56.E. Greenwich. 
CHINNOR', /. A mulical initrument among the He- 
• brews, confifting of thirty-two chords. _ 
CHINON', a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftridl, in the department of the Indre and Loire, fitu- 
ated on the Vienne, and defended by a ftrong caltle ; it 
contains about 5000 inhabitants. It is eight leagues weft- 
fouth-weft of Tours, and four and a half louth-eaft of 
Saumur. 
CHIN'QUAPINE, J'. in botany; fee Fagus. 
CHINSU'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Bengal, fituated on the weft fide of the Ganges, be¬ 
longing to the Dutch. The houfes are built in the Eu¬ 
ropean ftile ; the town is populous and commercial. The 
fortrels is defended by four baltions and a ditch, accord¬ 
ing to the European form of military architefture ; twen¬ 
ty-four cannons defend the paflage of the river. It is 
feventeen miles north of Calcutta. 
CHINTS,/ Cloth of cotton made in India, and printed 
with colours : 
Let a charming chints, and Bruflels lace. 
Wrap my cold limbs, and fhade rny lifelefs lace. Pope. 
CHINY', a town of the Netherlands, in the duchy of 
Luxemburg, on the Semoy, the capital of a comte; it 
was firft furrounded with walls about the year 950, by 
Arnold de Bourgogne, and was heretofore celebrated for 
its beauty and riches, but has fuffered greatly in different 
wars. The comte is of great extent, including thirteen 
cities or capital towns, viz. Baltogne, Chiny, Dierich, 
Durbuy, Honfalize, Marche-en-Famine, Neufchateau, 
Roche," St. Hubert, St. Vit, Schleyden in tlie diocefe of 
Treves, Vianden, and Virton, with all the villages de¬ 
pending thereon ; in a word, this comte comprehends 
more than fome maps deferibe under the name of the 
duchy of Luxemburg. A pealant of Condroz, being 
a Iked what was the extent of the comte of Chiny, an- 
fvvered very ingenuoully, he had heard at Metz that it 
comprehended one-half of the world, and that the other 
half was dependant on it. Neither the city nor comte are 
dependant on the duchy of Luxemburg, having its own 
particular juriidi&ion. The comte fometimes is called 
imperial, and has been at all times conliderable. Bruno, 
the twentyTeventh archbilhop of Cologn, and chancellor 
of the empire, erefited it into a comte, about the fame 
time the city was furrounded with walls. It pafled after¬ 
wards to the houfe of Looz, by the marriage of Jane, 
comteflfe de Chiny, with Arnold, comte de.L'ooz, whole 
youngeft fon Louis became comte of Chiny; but he dying 
without a fon, the comte pafled to Thierry, lord of Ki.nl- 
berg, and afterwards to Margaret, only daughter of Louis 
c®mte of Chiny, and Jeanne de Blamont. After the 
death 
