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LIST OF LOCALITIES. 



KALAMAZOO. A town in the .south 

 west of Michigan. 



KAMTCHATKA, ] A peninsula of 



KAMTSCHATKA. J Siberia, between the 

 Okhotsk and Kamtchatka Seas. 



KANAWHA. A county in West Vir- 

 ginia. The home of the peerless 

 Argynnis Diana. 



KANAWHA RIVER. A branch of the 

 Ohio River, in west Virginia, run- 

 ning through the counties of Mason, 

 Putnam, Kanawha and Fayette, 

 and between Raleigh and Green- 

 brier, and Mercer and Monroe. 



KANGAROO ISLAND. An island near 

 the south coast of N. S. Wales 

 Australia. 



KANSAS. One of the United States, 

 south of Nebraska, north of Indian 

 Territory, east of Colorado, and 

 west of Missouri. 



KE ISLANDS. Directly south of west- 

 ern New Guinea. 



KENTUCKY. One of United States 

 of N. Am., divided bv the Ohio 







River on the north from Illinois, 

 Indiana and Ohio, on its east is 

 Virginia, and south of it is Tenn- 

 essee. 



KERN COUNTY. In Southern Cali- 

 fornia, lying north-west of San Ber- 

 nardino, and south of Tulare coun- 

 ties; it contains a river and a lake 

 of the same name. 



This is a sort of a memorial definition ; 

 asprobably very few persons now living know, 

 and still fewer care, why it was so named, hut 

 inasmuch as the three persons to \vhom this 

 county, river and lake were dedicated, were 

 own brothers to the writer's maternal rela- 

 tive, he of course feels it incumbent to write 

 these few facts. In Philadelphia were three 

 brothers bearing respectively the names of 

 Ben., Richard and Edward Kern, and they 

 were sons of a ertain John Kern, who was 

 a " man in place," having for many years, up 

 to the time of his death, which event was 

 caused by the falling of a derrick in the 

 Philadelphia Navy Yard, enjoyed the com- 

 forts and emoluments arising from the 

 collectorship of the Port of Philadelphia. 

 The eldest of these brothers, Ben., was a doc- 

 tor, and the other two, Richard and Edward, 

 were artists all three were naturalists ; many 

 years since, when California was a terra in- 

 cognita, these brothers accompanied Fremont 

 on his pioneer expedition over the Rocky 



Mts., where Ben. had his career rather summa- 

 rily ended by either the arrows of the noble In- 

 dian or from the slower but less painful effects of 

 cold and starvation, which was the proximate 

 cause, has I helieve, never been definitely set- 

 tled, neither at this late date can it be of any 

 material importance. Some years later, in 

 1853, the second brother, Richard, was massa- 

 cred along with Gunnison's surveying party 

 on the Sevier river, by Utah Indians, who by 

 these sanguinary means became the joyous 

 possessors of sundry mules, arms and engi- 

 neering instruments. The youngest and 

 surviving brother, Edward, ' accompanied 

 Perry's Expedition to Japan, and shortly 

 after the return of the expedition to the 

 United States, he died of heart-sickness, or 

 starvation, or something of the sort, which, 

 however, is also at this late date of no particu- 

 lar import. Whether the name of these 

 brothers was bestowed on the desolate earth 

 and water in question, by Fremont, or them- 

 selves, or whether it was an honor conferred 

 by the administration, is a point I am not 

 able to decide, neither does this much matter 

 now, though we will trust it was thelatter, as we 

 have no record of any further or other fid* 

 of munificence done by a grateful govern- 

 ment in acknowledment of their services and 

 the sacrifice of their lives. Requiescant. 



N. B. Capt. Gunnison's name is also rend- 

 ered immortal by an island in the northern 

 part of Great Salt Lake, which, on a verv 

 large map, is represented by a spot or two 

 quite the size of a speck of fly dirt. 



KIACHTA. A town on the Selinga 



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River in Irkutsk, south east Siberia. 



KIRGH., ] Great Siberian 



KIRGHIS, V deserts sonth- 



! KIRGHIS STEPPES, j east of the Ural 

 River. 



KHORASSEN, "I North-eastern Persia, 



KORASSEN. /bordering on Afghan- 

 istan and Turkistan. 



KODIAK. An island south of Alaska, 



KOOLLOO. A mountainous district of 

 northern Hindostan. 



KORDOFAN. A territory in eastern 

 Africa, south of Nubia, west of Sen- 

 nar and Abyssinia, and south-east 

 of the Libyan Desert 



KOORILE ISLANDS. A chain of snial I 

 islands, running from near the south 

 point of Karatchatka to near \"esso, 

 one of the Japanese Islands. 



KOORDISTAN. The territory of the 

 Kurds, a mountainous district on 

 the borders of Asiatic Turkey and 

 Persia. 



KUMA. A river south of Astrachan, 



