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K H O 



KENNEBECK, !.«//. It contained, in 1810, 32,564 

 inhabitants. 



KENNED I A, in Botany, fo named in lionour of Mr. 

 Kennedy, the well-known cultivator at Hammerfmitli, 

 whole fl<ill and experience have fo mucli enriched the works 

 of his fon-in-law, Mr. Andrews. — Venten. Malmaif. 104. 



Brown in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 299 Clafs and order, 



Diaddphia Decandria. Nat. Ord. Papilloimcea, Linn. 

 Legumtnofit, JulT. 



EIT. Ch. Standard recurved, diftant from the keel and 

 wings. Legume of many fingle-feeded cells. Seeds 

 crelled. 



1. K. rubicunda. Dingy Kennedia. Vent. t. 104. 

 (Glycine rubicunda ; Curt. Mag. t. 268. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 V. 3. 1065. Schneev. Ic. t. 28.) — Leaves ternate, ovate. 

 Stalks moftly three-flowered. Legume very hairy. — Found 

 by fir J. Banks, in New South Wales. An elegant green- 

 houie Jlinib, with downy twining Jlems, and large Jloivers, 

 party-coloured with red and purple. 



2. K. coccinea. Tufted Scarlet Kennedia. Vent. t. 105, 



but not of Curtis Leaves ternate, obovate. Flowers 



capitate. Legume nearly fmooth. — Gathered by Mr. 

 Brown on the fouth-weft coaft of New Holland. 



3. K. projlrata. Few-flowered Scarlet Kennedia. Br. 

 in Ait. n. 3. (Glycine coccinea; Curt. Mag. t. 270. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. 3. 1065.) — Leaves ternate, obovate, 

 hairy. Stalks one or two flowered. Stem proilrate. — Na- 

 tive of New South Wales, from whence its feeds were 

 brought about 1790. 



4. K. monophylla. Simple -leaved Kennedia. Vent. 

 t. 106. ( Glycine bimaculata ; Curt. Mag. t. 263. Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. 3. 1067. G. violacea ; Schneev. Ic. t. 29.) — 

 Leaves fimple, fmooth, reticulated ; fomewhat heart -fhaped 

 at the bafe. Flowers racemofe. Difcovered by fir J. 

 Banks, in New South Wales. Introduced into England 

 with the lail. Flozuers violet, with two green fpots on the 

 L-eel. 



Mr. Brown appears to have fome unpubliflied fpecies. 



KENNET. Add — It contained, in 18 10, 947 inhabi- 

 tants. 



KENSINGTON, 1. 4, 181 1—1379—10,886. 



Kensington", in America, 1. 4, r. 781. 



KENT,]. 19, &c. ;•. In 181 1, Kent contained 62,063 

 houfes, 373,095 perfons ; 183, 500 being males, and 189,595 

 females. 



Kent, in America, 1. 4, r. 1 1,450 ; 1. 5, r. 4249 ; 1. 13, 

 r. 9834; 1. 24, r. 1794. 



Kent, Ne'w. See New Kent. 



KENTUCKY. Add— See United States. 



KERBALA. See Vologesia. 



KERKUK, or Kerkook, the largeft town in the lower 

 Kurdiftan,in N.lat. 35-' 29', 59furfungs from Bagdad, and 41 

 from Moful, on the road from one place to the other. It was 

 formerly a military llation, called by Strabo, Demetrias ; 

 and by Ptolemy, Corcura. Its population is ellimated at 

 18,000 fouls, Turks, Armenians, Neftorians, Kurds: this 

 eftimate, however, is fuppoCed to exceed the trutli by 5000. 

 The city is defended by a mud wall, has two gates, feven 

 mofques, fourteen coffee-houfcs, one hummum, one caravan- 

 fera, one Armenian church, and twelve pieces of ufelefs 

 artillery mounted on the baftions. In the fuburbs, are five 

 mofques, nine fmall caravanferas, thirteen coffee-houfes, three 

 convents, and three Catholic churches. Near it is a number 

 of naphtha pits, which afford an abundant fupply of that 

 commodity. 



KERMANSHAW, one of the. five diftrids of the pro- 

 vince of Irak in Perlia ; the capital of this extenfive and 



fruitful dlflrift of the fame name, and the refidence of Ma- 

 homet Ali Meerza, the king's eldefl; fon, and the moll able 

 and warlike of all the princes of Perfia. It is a flourifliing 

 town, containing about 12,000 houfes, at the extremity of a 

 fine plain, through the centre of which runs the Karafu. It 

 is adorned with many gardens, and fourteen hummums or 

 public halls, four mofques, and yields a revenue of 15,000 

 tomauns a year. 



KERRIA, in Botany, fo named after Mr. WiUiam Kerr, 

 a gardener, who has introduced the fiirub in queflion, with 

 many other Chinefe plants, into the Enghih gardens. — De 

 Candolle Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. I2. 156. — Clafs and order, 

 Icofamlria Polfsy""- Nat. Ord. Saiticofi, Linn. Rofacea. 

 Jufl-. ' J J , 



Efli". Ch. Calyx in five fimple fegments. Petals " 



;ive. 



Col. 2, 1. 4, for 



Capfules ? fuperior, diftincl, fingle-feeded. 



I. I'i.japonka. Japan Kerria. De Cand. (Rubus japoni- 

 cus ; Linn. Mant. 245. Corchorus japonicus ; Thunb. 

 Jap. 227. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. 314. Andr. Repof. 

 t. 587. Curt. Mag. t. 1296.) See RuBus under n. 38, and 

 Corchorus, n. 12. — A correft examination of ihe germens 

 has authorifed the learned profefi'or De Candolle to confidef 

 this favourite plant as a new genus, though the precife 

 nature of its feed-veflels is not known. 



KERSHAW, 1. 3 and 4, r. 9867—4847. 



KESWICK, 1. 7, r. 352—1683. 



KETTERING, 1, 24, &c. ,-. 1811—713—3242—587 

 — 126. 



KETU, 1. 4, for Karyapa r. Kafyapa. 

 or ;•. a. 



KEW, 1. 4 and 5, r. 181 1 — 73 — 560. 



KEYNSHAM, 1. 4 and 5, r. 181 1 ; the parifli confilled 

 of 318 houfes, and contained 1748 inhabitants. 



KHARASM, col. '2, 1. 3,;-. (See Kiiieva.) 



KHOEE, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Azerbijan, 22 furfungs from Tebreez. This town is the 

 capital of a rich and extenfive diftritl, and the emporium of 

 a confiderable trade carried on between Turkey and Perfia. 

 It is faid to contain a population of 25,000 fouls, and is 

 fituated on a plain, famous for a battle fought, in 15 14, be- 

 tween Shah limael and Selim I. in which 30,000 Perfians 

 encountered 300,000 Turks. There is no town in Perfia 

 better built or more beautiful than Klioee : the walls are in 

 good repair ; the llreets are regular, Ihaded with avenues of 

 trees ; and the ceilings of many of the houfes are painted 

 with extraordinary taile. 



KHONSAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak, 

 fituated at the bafe of two ranges of mountains, running 

 parallel with each other, and fo clofe that the houfes occupy 

 the bottom and alfo the declivity of the hills to fome height. 

 The town, placed in a beautiful and romantic fituation, and 

 formed of houfes and gardens, connected by means of its 

 plantations, is about fix miles in length, and about one-fourth 

 of a mile in breadth. It contains 2500 families under a 

 chief named Ali Shah, and yields an annual revenue of 5000 

 tomauns, exclufive of the fadir, which generally confiils of 

 dried fruits and a kind of cotton chintz. Although they 

 have no corn in the valley, fruit is fo abundant, that the 

 inhabitants procure for it every article which they can want 

 or defire. Of their apples, they make a kind of cyder, but 

 it will not keep above a month. The women are celebrated 

 for their beauty and vivacity. 



KHO HASSAN. Add— Khoraflfan is a level country, 

 interfperfed with fandy deferts, and irregular ridges of lofty 

 mountains ; the climate is accordingly various ; in fome parts 

 temperate, but in others very cold ; .ind the " had-e-femum," 

 wliich blows in the deferts for 40 days in the year, proves 



inftantan- 



