CHINANDEGA, or CHINENDEGA

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CHINANDEGA, or CHINENDEGA , the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the department of Chinandega in western Nicaragua, 10 m. N.N.E. of the seaport of Corinto by the Corinto-Managua railway. Pop. (19oo) about 12,000. Chinandega is the centre of a fertile corn-producing

district

DISTRICT

, and has a large transit trade owing to its excellent situation on the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

Nicaraguan railway. Its manufactures includecoarse cloth, pottery and Indian feather ornaments.

Cotton

COTTON
COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
COTTON, GEORGE
EDWARD
- EDWARD
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
(1813–1866)
COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

, sugar-cane and bananas are cultivated in the neighbourhood.
CHI-NAN FU, the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of Shan-tung, China, in 36 40' N., 1170 1' E. Pop. about 100,000. It is situated in one of the earliest settled districts of the Chinese empire. The city, which lies in the valley of the present channel of the Yellow river (Hwang-Ho), and about 4 M.

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of the river, is surrounded by a triple line of defence. First is the city

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

, strongly built and carefully guarded, outside this a granite

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

, and beyond this again a mud rampart. Three springs outside the west gate throw up streams of tepid water to a height of about 2 ft. This water, which is highly prized for its healing qualities, fills the moat and forms a fine lake in the northern quarter of the city.
Chi-nan Fu was formerly famous for its manufacture of silks and of imitation precious stones. It is now the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

commercial entrep8t of Western Shan-tung but no longer a manufacturing centre. A highway connects it with the Yellow river, and it is joined by a railway 28o m. long to Kiaochow. The city has a university for instruction on Western lines, and an efficient military school. American Presbyterians began mission

work

WORK

in the city in 1873; it is also the see of a Roman Catholic bishop.

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