CHILE (2,867), the most advanced and stable of the S. American States, occupies a strip of country, 100 m. broad, between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, and stretching from Cape Horn northward 2200 m. to Peru, with Argentine and Bolivia on its eastern borders.  The climate is naturally various.  In the N. are rainless tracts of mountains rich in copper, manganese, silver, and other metals, and deserts with wonderful deposits of nitrate.  In the S. are stretches of pastoral land and virgin forest, with excessive rains, and cold, raw climate.  The central portion enjoys a temperate climate with moderate rainfall, and produces excellent wheat, grapes, and fruits of all kinds.  The Andes tower above the snow-line, Aconcagua reaching 23,500 ft.  The rivers are short and rapid, of little use for navigation.  The coast-line is even in the N., but excessively rugged and broken in the S., the most southerly regions being weird and desolate.  The people are descendants of Spaniards, mingled with Araucanian Indians; but there is a large European element in all the coast towns.  Mining and agriculture are the chief industries; manufactures of various kinds are fostered with foreign capital.  The chief trade is with Britain:  exports nitre, wheat, copper, and iodine; imports, textiles, machinery, sugar, and cattle.  Santiago (250) is the capital; Valparaiso (150) and Iquique the principal ports.  The government is republican; Roman Catholicism the State religion; education is fairly well fostered; there is a university at Santiago.  The country was first visited by Magellan in 1520.  In 1540 Pedro Valdivia entered it from Peru and founded Santiago.  During colonial days it was an annex of Peru.  In 1810 the revolt against Spain broke out.  Independence was gained in 1826.  Settled government was established in 1847.  Since then a revolution in 1851, successful wars with Spain 1864-66, with Bolivia and Peru 1879-81, and a revolution in 1891, have been the most stirring events in its history.

CHILLIANWALLA, a village in the Punjab, 80 m.  NW. of Lahore, the scene in 1849 of a bloody battle in the second Sikh War, in which the Sikhs were defeated by Gen. Gough; it was also the scene of a battle between Alexander the Great and Porus.

CHILLINGHAM, a village in Northumberland, 8 m.  SW. of Belford, with a park attached to the castle, the seat of the Earl of Tankerville, containing a herd of native wild cattle.

CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM, an able English controversial divine, who thought forcibly and wrote simply, born at Oxford; championed the cause of Protestantism against the claims of Popery in a long-famous work, “The Religion of Protestants the Safe Way to Salvation,” summing up his conclusion in the oft-quoted words, “The Bible, the Bible alone, is the religion of Protestants”; though a Protestant, he was not a Puritan or a man of narrow views, and he suffered at the hands of the Puritans as an adherent of the Royalist cause (1602-1643).