Chat·ham (ch t  m) A municipal borough of southeast England east of London. Elizabeth I established the first dockyard here in 1588. Population: 73,400. |
| Chatham, First Earl of See William Pitt1. |
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| In the morning (17th) we landed on Chatham Island, which, like the others, rises with a tame and rounded outline, broken here and there by scattered hillocks, the remains of former craters. Pitt, afterward Earl of Chatham, who spent so much of his wondrous eloquence in endeavoring to warn England of the consequences of her injustice. Now let us suppose the mocking-thrush of Chatham Island to be blown to Charles Island, which has its own mocking-thrush: why should it succeed in establishing itself there? |
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