h Jekyll, master of the rolls, in what capacity it is not
known; there are stories of his having waited at table as a servant out
of livery. His love of independence drew him back to Salisbury, where by
the kindness of friends he was enabled to devote the rest of his days to
his studies. He died on the 8th of February 1746. Chubb is interesting
mainly as showing that the rationalism of the intellectual classes had
taken considerable hold upon the popular mind. Though he acquired little
renown in England he was regarded by Voltaire and others as among the
most logical of the deist school (see DEISM). His principal works are _A
Discourse Concerning Reason_ (1731), _The True Gospel of Jesus Christ_
(1739), and _Posthumous Works_, 2 vols. (1748), the last containing "The
Author's Farewell to his Readers."

CHUBUT, a territory of the southern Argentine Republic, part of what was
formerly called Patagonia, bounded N. by Rio Negro, S. by Santa Cruz, E.
by the Atlantic and W. by Chile. Pop. (1895) 3748; (1904, estimate)
9060; area, 93,427 sq. m. Except for the valleys in the Andean
foothills, which are fertile and well forested, and the land along the
banks of the Chubut river, which flows entirely across the territory
from the Andes to the Atlantic, the country is a barren waste, covered
with pebbles and scanty clumps of dwarfed vegetation, with occasional
shallow saline lakes. The larger rivers are the Chubut and the Senguerr,
the latter flowing into Lake Colhuapi. There are a number of large lakes
among the Andean foothills, the best known of which are Fontana, La
Plata and General Paz, and, in the interior, Colhuapi or Colhue and
Musters, the latter named after the English naval officer who traversed
Patagonia in 1870. Petroleum was found at Comodoro Rivadavia, in the S.
part of the territory, toward the close of 1907, at a depth of 1768 ft.
Chubut is known chiefly by the Welsh colony near the mouth of the Chubut
river. The chief town of the Welsh, Rawson, is the capital of the
territory, and Port Madryn on Bahia Nueva is its best port. Other
colonies have been founded in the fertile valleys of the Andean
foothills, but their growth is greatly impeded by lack of transportation
facilities. (See further PATAGONIA.)

CHUDE, a tribal name used in both a special and a general sense. (1) It
was the name given by the Russians to certain Esthonian tribes with whom
they came in contact as they spread gradually over their