[Cheops], king of Memphis, in Egypt, of the 4th dynasty; builder of the largest of the pyramids about 3000 B.C.
[Chepstow] (4), a port on the Wye, Monmouthshire, 17 m. N. of Newport; with a tubular suspension bridge, and where the tides are higher than anywhere else in Britain.
[Cher], an affluent of the Loire below Tours; also the dep. in France (359) to which it gives name; an agricultural and pastoral district; capital Bourges.
[Cherbourg] (40), a French port and arsenal in the dep. of Manche, opposite the Isle of Wight, 70 m. distant, on the construction and fortifications of which immense sums were expended, as much as eight millions; the fortifications were begun by Vauban.
[Cherbuliez, Victor], novelist, critic, and publicist, born at Geneva, of a distinguished family; professor of Greek at Geneva; holds a high place, and is widely known, as a writer of a series of works of fiction; b. 1826.
[Cher`ibon] (11), a seaport of Java, on the N. of the island.
[Cherith], a brook E. of the Jordan, Elijah's hiding-place.
[Cherokees], a tribe of American Indians, numbering some 20,000, in the NW. of the Indian Territory, U.S.; civilised, self-governing, and increasing; formerly occupied the region about the Tennessee River.
[Cherone`a], a town in Boeotia, where Philip of Macedon conquered the Athenians and Thebans, 338 B.C., and Sulla defeated Mithridates, 86 B.C.; the birthplace of Plutarch, who is hence called the Cheronean Sage.
[Cherra Punji] (5), a village in the Khasi Hills, Assam, with the heaviest rainfall of any place on the globe.