rman
Music_ (1854), _Handel Studies_ (1859), and _Thirty Years' Musical
Recollections_ (1862). He died in London on the 16th of February 1872.

See his _Autobiography, Memoir and Letters_, edited by H.G. Hewlett
(1873).

CHORLEY, a market town and municipal borough in the Chorley
parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, on the river Yarrow, 202
m. N.W. by W. from London and 22 m. N.W. from Manchester, on the
Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North-Western railways and the Leeds
& Liverpool Canal. Pop. (1891) 23,087; (1901) 26,852. The church of St
Lawrence is of Perpendicular and earlier date, largely restored; it
contains fine woodwork and some interesting monuments. Cotton spinning
and the manufacture of cotton and muslin are extensively carried on, and
there are also iron and brass foundries and boiler factories.
Railway-wagon building is an important industry. The district contains a
number of coal-mines and stone-quarries. Close to the town is the
beautiful Elizabethan mansion of Astley Hall, which is said to have
sheltered Oliver Cromwell after the battle of Preston (1648). The
corporation consists of a mayor, 6 aldermen and 24 councillors. Area,
3614 acres.

CHORLU, TCHORLAU or SCHORLAU, a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet
of Adrianople; on the left bank of the Chorlu, a small left-hand
tributary of the Ergene, 20 m. N.E. of Rodosto. Pop. (1905) about
12,000, of whom one-half are Greeks, one-third Turks, and the remainder
Armenians and Jews. Chorlu has a station on the Constantinople-Adrianople
branch of the Oriental railways. It manufactures woollen cloth (_shayak_)
and native carpets, and exports cereals, oil-cloth, carpets, cattle,
poultry, fresh meat, game, fruits, wine, alcohol, hides and bones.

CHOROGRAPHY. (1) (From the Gr. [Greek: chora], a tract of country, and
[Greek: graphein], to write), a description or delineation on a map of a
district or tract of country; it is to be distinguished from "geography"
and "topography," which treat of the earth as a whole and of particular
places respectively. The word is common in old geographical treatises,
but is now superseded by the wider use of "topography." (2) (From the
Gr. [Greek: choros], dance), the art of dancing, or a system of notation
to indicate the steps and movements in dancing.

CHORUM, the chief town of a sanjak of the Angora vilayet in Asia Minor,
altitude 2300 ft., situated on the edge of a wide plai