cila

Updated: May 13, 2025

Hence it is evident, that the sea surrounds all the country of China and Sila or Cila, the uttermost parts of Turkestan, and the country of the Chozars, and that it communicates by the strait with that which washes the coast of Syria.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

When there were only two Secretaries of State, the rule was that one should sit in each House. At present it is not necessary that more than one should be a peer, though it is more usual for two to be members of the Upper House. Fitzpatrick, writes to his brother, Lord Ossory: "To the administration it is cila mors, but not victoria loeta to us.

Charles Duke Yonge - The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860