y was built to receive the body of Napoleon III., who died at Camden
Place in 1873; and that of his son was brought hither in 1879. Both were
afterwards removed to the memorial chapel at Farnborough in Hampshire.
Camden Place was built by William Camden, the antiquary, in 1609, and in
1765 gave the title of Baron Camden to Lord Chancellor Pratt. The house
was the residence not only of Napoleon III., but of the empress Eugenie
and of the prince imperial, who is commemorated by a memorial cross on
Chislehurst Common. The house and grounds are now occupied by a golf
club. There are many villa residences in the neighbourhood of
Chislehurst.

CHISWICK, an urban district in the Ealing parliamentary division of
Middlesex, England, suburban to London, on the Thames, 71/2 m. W. by S. of
St Paul's cathedral. Pop. (1901) 29,809. The locality is largely
residential, but there are breweries, and the marine engineering works
of Messrs Thornycroft on the river. Chiswick House, a seat of the duke
of Devonshire, is surrounded by beautiful grounds; here died Fox (1806)
and Canning (1827). The gardens near belonged till 1903 to the Royal
Horticultural Society. The church of St Nicholas has ancient portions,
and in the churchyard is the tomb of William Hogarth the painter, with
commemorative lines by David Garrick. Hogarth's house is close at hand.
Chiswick Hall, no longer extant, was formerly a country seat for the
masters and sanatorium for the scholars of Westminster school. Here in
1811 the Chiswick Press was founded by Charles Whittingham the elder, an
eminent printer (d. 1840).

CHITA, a town of east Siberia, capital of Transbaikalia, on the Siberian
railway, 500 m. E. of Irkutsk, on the Chita river, half a mile above its
confluence with the Ingoda. Pop. (1883) 12,600; (1897) 11,480. The
Imperial Russian Geographical Society has a museum here. Several of the
palace revolutionaries, known as Decembrists, were banished to this
place from St Petersburg in consequence of the conspiracy of December
1825. The inhabitants support themselves by agriculture and by trade in
furs, cattle, hides and tallow bought from the Buriats, and in
manufactured wares imported from Russia and west Siberia.

CHITALDRUG, a district and town in the native state of Mysore, India.
The district has an area of 4022 sq. m. and a population (1901) of
498,795. It is distinguished by its low rainfall and arid soil. It lies
within the valley of the