Chillon

Castle, a fortre of Switzerland, in the canton Vaud, 6 miles S. E. of Vevay. It stands on an isolated rock at the E. end of the Lake of Geneva. It was built in 1288, by A made us IV. of Savoy, and was long used as a State prison. Chiloé, the insular province of Chile; consists of the island of that name on the W. coast, which is 115 miles long, with a maximum breadth of 43 miles, and is separated from the mainland by a narrow strait on the N., and by a gulf 30 miles wide on the E.; and of a number of neighboring islets, mostly unin- -habited; total area, 8,590 square miles; population, 77,750, almost all a living on the principal is and.