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nice, and was there received in the most flattering man- 

 ner. Her happiness, howtver, was distined to be of 

 short duration. The footman of a German count, who 

 personated his master, contrived to get himself intro- 

 duced at court, and persuaded Angelica to marry him. 

 . however, was soon discovered ; and it 

 was . him 300, that he came under an 



to Germany, and cease to molest 

 wards married an Italian painter of the 

 nam .1 ; and, after a residence of seventeen 



I, she returned with him to the Gri- 

 - -,..e time afterwards she settled at Rome, 

 where her house was the resort of artists and men 

 of gen-us of all countries. >he died at (tome, on the 

 ,'.th November, 1SU7, in the 67th year of her age, and 

 she was honoured ith a splendid public funeral, which 

 was under the direction of the celebrated Canova. 



K \/ \N, or CASAX, is a city of Russia, and capital 

 of a government of the same name, situated on the 

 high bank of the riv ulet Kazinka, about five versts to 

 the left of the Volga. It consists of a strong fort, built 

 with stone of a to.wn, built of wood and of several 

 suburb*, one of which u inhabited by the Tartars. 

 There are here several churches built of stone, and 

 eleven convents. At one end of the town is cloth 

 : factory, the produce of which is bought by go- 

 vernment at a fix.-d price, for the purpose of clothing 

 "i. It Hi* also been long celebrated for its 

 manufacture of Russian leather. In the com tut of 

 Sclandowa, which is situated about two versts from 

 the town, on the river Kazanka, is a school for the 

 education . .irUrs, who are instructed in the 



Kuttian and Latin languages, in the elements of philo- 

 sophy, and in the principles of the Christian religion, 

 in order to qualify them as preachers. Kazan is also 

 the see of an p. The garrison of tin 



consist* of three regiments, for the use of whom 

 is a good hospital. The surrounding countr 

 in wheat, liarley, oats, &c. ; and -li and east 



are , are cm 



to St. Petersburg!) 'I he city was 



consumed by fire in 



Moscow is 4OO miles east, and from St. ! 

 MX) south-east. It is situated in East Long, I 

 and in North Ijt. 55 45'. 



Kl r I'. KEI-HT. or Corros, is town of Egypt, si- 

 tuated on a canal made from the ri. ht bank of the 

 At * tillage to the north of the town, art the ruins 

 of a small temple. There is a lake about 300 paces 

 long and 200 broad, to the east of the high ground of 

 the old city, which seems to have been reservoir for 

 the supply of the town. Over the canal which rises 

 to the south of this, are the remains of two bridges, 

 one of which has five piers, but no arches, large stones 

 beiri. m one pier toanot' 



Cairo 250 miles south, East Long. 32 tf, and North 

 Lat. S.r Off. 



HI i\, a celebrated mathematician and na- 



tural philosopher, was bom at -,.h in the year 



||>~I, and -tmlied in th.it university under the cele- 

 brated l)r Gregory. In HJiH, he entered Balio! 

 lege. ' where he acquired considerable reputa- 



tion, by reading private lectures on experimental phi- 

 losophy. He succeeded Dr. Millington in 17PO, as 

 Sedlsian professor of natural philosophy. In 1 70S he 

 was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1709, he 

 went to New Fr.gl.md, ai treasurer to the Palatines, 

 and upon his return in 17K>, he was chosen Savilian 

 professm of astronomy in Oxford. About the year 

 1711, he WM appointed by Queen Anne, decypherer 



to her majesty, an office which he held till 17lC. Kl ' ;11 

 Having been seized with a violent fever, he died on U 

 the 1st September 1721, in the 50th year of his age. ._ ^ 

 The following is a list of the principal works of Dr. 

 Keill : 



An Examination of Dr. Burnet't Theory nfllie Earth, 

 frith tome remarks on A/r. H'histnn's Xttr I'i.eon/ of the 

 Earth. Lond. 1G98. A second edition of this work 

 appeared in 1737- 



Inlroductio ad Vcram Physicam. Lond. 1702. A new 

 edition of it appeared in 1736. 



An edition of Euclid, with two tracts on Trigono- 

 metry, and the nature of logarithms, 1713. 



Intrnduclio ad feram Antronomiam, in 1701, which 

 was afterwards translated into English. 



His papers in the Philosophical Transactions, are. " 



1. On the Laws of Attraction, and other Physical 

 Principles. Phil. Trans. 1708. No. 315. p. 97. 



2. Of the Laws of Centrifugal Force, 1708. No. 

 317. p. 17k 



3. The Newtonian Solution of Kepler's Problem of 

 finding the true motion of the Planets, &c, &c. 1713 

 No. S37. p. 1. 



4. Throrcmata qua-darn infinitam materia- divisibili- 

 tatem spectantia, 1714. No. S.>7 p >j. 



5. Observations on Mr. John Bernoulli's remarks on 

 the inverse problem of Centripetal Forces, with a new 

 solution of the Problems, ITU. No. :;50. p. 91. 



See our life of JOHN BERNOULLI, for an account of 

 our author's quarrel with that mathematician ; and our 

 article FLUXIONS, for an account of his dispute with 

 Leilu 



Kl-'. ITH i-, the name of a town and parish of Scot- 

 n the county of Banff. town of Keith 



was founded in I7. r >0, by the Karl of Fimll.iter, upon a 

 , moor, which was let in lo- 

 '.icturers speedily formed establishments, and the 

 'nally increased. Flax dressing, spinning, 

 and weaving, afford employment to many O/UM inha- 

 bitants. In 17;)l. the population of tiie town was - 



In 1MX), the population of the whole parish 

 was 3289; and in 181 1. it was S >j r John 



!lami, vol. v. 



Kl I VI. See MKKI.XV 



K 1. 1. 1 1 is the produce of the burning of certain Fi ( i, 

 as particularly specified under that article, and ren. 

 useful in the arts, by the quantity ot' -o<!.i and 01 neu- 

 tral salts which it contain-, IM-UI;; in tV IOMD of ent-n- 

 ish or blucish masses approaching i . . Importance 



come an object of great attention to individuals, from <* '"'P* 

 the value which the manufacture of it aclcjs to : 

 landed estates which have any great extent ot'st-a shore 

 adapted to the raising of the fuci ; uml In public bo- 

 die*. especially the Highland Society of Scotland, it is 

 cherished as an important internal resource, by which 

 the wealth of the country ii extended. This active l>o- 

 dy has made many laudable exertions for disco- e.-ing 

 the means of cultivating it to advantage, and of turn- 

 ing it to account in the other manufactures to which it 

 is applied. In the first volume of their prize tss.ys 

 ami transaction*, we have, from the late Dr. Walker, an 

 excellent account of the manufacture, in the state in 

 which it existed at the time when the essay was writ- 

 ten; together with valuable suggestion-, for improving 

 its quality, and for enlarging the manufacture, by the 

 cultivation of sea- weed*. V\ e have also the subsequent 

 extended oWrvations of his sue c--or, Professor Jame- 

 son, which were first published in his account of the 

 mineralogy of the Scottish isles. Considerable precau- 

 tions are required, both in the gathering, drying, and 



