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KAFR EnHizt, a town of Egvpt, on the kfi Lank oi" 

 the Nile ; i8 miles S. of Cairo, 



Kafk .'/ Ri/i, a town of Egypt, on tlie lift bank of 

 the Nile ; 3 miles N.E. of Atfieh. 



KAGA, a town of Japan, on tlie N. W. coaft of 

 Niplion. N. Int. 57 15'. E. long. 1:57 4c'. 



EAGAN, a town of RuOia," between Aftrachan and 

 the Cafpian fea ; 10 miles S. of Aftrachan. 



KAGEROD, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Skone ; 12 miles S.E of Helllrgborg. 



KAGNAS, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Bothnia. N. 

 ht. 64^48'. E. long. 21 7'. 



KAGZEVAN, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the go- 

 vernment of Erzerum. N. lat. 39 35;'. E long. 45" 20'. 

 KAHAKAMAK, a fmall iiland in the Eaft Indian 

 fea, near the N. coait of Borneo. N. lat. 7' 21'. E. long. 

 H7; 3.?'- 



KAHEC, a town of Perfia, ir> Sccreftan ; 37 miles 

 S.W. of Dergafp. 



KAH.EDE, a town of Africa, on the N. fide of the 

 Senegal. N. lat. 16' 8'. W. long, ri' 47'. 



KAHEM, or C.^^JEM, a town of Aliatic Turkey, on 

 the Euphrates ; 50 miles W.S.W. of Ana. 



KAHGON, a town of Bengal; 20 miles S. of Moor- 

 fiiedabad. 



KAHIASSCE, in the Turkifh court, an officer of 

 ftate, anfwering to our mailer of the ceremonies. 



K.A.HIRIA, in Botany, Forlk. iEgypt. Arab. 153. 

 See Ethulia conyzotdes. 



KAHL, in Geography, a town of Germany, on a 

 river of the fame name, near the Maine ; 4 miles S. of 

 Hanau. 



KAHLA, a town of Saxony, in the principality of 

 Altenbur<r, on the Saal ; 36 miles W. of Altenburg. N. 

 lat. 50' 48'. E. long, n 27'. 



KAHOKIA, a poft-town of America, and chief town 

 of St. Clair county, in the Indiana territory, containing 

 719 inhabitants. 



K.^HONE, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bur- 

 fali. N. lat. 13° 56'. W. long. 16 8'. 



KAHUN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker- 

 nian ; 36 miles S. W. of Sirgian. 



KAHUNSILYA, or Kaonsali.*, in Hindoo Hijhry, 

 was the wife of Dafaratha, to whom (lie bore Rama, diilui- 

 guilhedby the epithet of Chandra, (meaning Lunarian,) 

 from other heroes of the fame name. See Ram.\. 



KAI, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Viatka, on the Kama ; 124 miles N.E. of Viatka. 

 KAJAAGA, or Gallam, as the French call it, a 

 fmall negro kingdom of Africa, which occupies the ex- 

 tremity of the naripablc courfe of the Senegal, terminated 

 in this place by the cataratt of F'low. Thi,? country is 

 bounded on the N. by the Senegal, on the S.E. by Bam- 

 boiik, and on the W. by Bondou and Foota Torra. The 

 refidence of the king is at Maana, within a fhort diilance 

 of '.he ruins of Fort St. Jofeph, where the French had for- 

 merly a fmall faftory. 'I'he air and climate are, according 

 to Mr. Park, more pure and falubrious than at any of the 

 fettlements towards the coalt ; the face of the country is 

 agreeably interfperfed with hills and vallies, and the wind- 

 ings of the Senegal, which defcends from the rocky hills of 

 the interior, render the fcenery on its banks pidturefque and 

 beautiful. The natives are called Sera- Woollies, and feem 

 to be pure negroes, without any Moorifh admixture, and 

 are naturally of a mild and docile difpofition. With re- 

 gard to their colour, which is a jet black, they are not to be 

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diRingiiilhed from the JalolFs. They are much addicted to 

 trade, and formerly carried on a coniiderable commerce v/ith 

 the French in gold and (laves : they are reckoned tolerably 

 fair and jull in their dealings, thcugh Mr. Park '.o[\ ainon^ 

 them about one-half of his goods and apparel : th^-y are 

 much devoted to the acquifition of wealth, and they derive 

 confidcrable profit from the fale of fait and cotton cloth in 

 dillant countries. Their language abounds much in gut- 

 turals, and is Icfs harmonious than that of the Foulahs ; 

 it is, however, well worth acquiring by thofe v. ho have oc- 

 cafion to travel through this p:irt of the African conti- 

 nent ; as it is very generally underflood in the kingdoms 

 of KafTon, Kaarta, Ludamar, and the northern parts of 

 Banibarra. In all thefe countries the Sera-Woollies are the 

 chief traders. 



KAIDA, in Botany, Rheede Hort. Mai. v. 2. t. 1—8. 



See PASDANf.'C. 



KAIDERM, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in Se- 

 gcftar. ; 90 milts W. of Zareng — Alfo, a town of Perfia, 

 in the province of Khorafan ; 15 miles E. of Tcrlhiz. 



KAI-FONG, orCAi-iONG, a city of the firll rank in 

 China, the capital of Ho-nan, fituated at the diilance of 

 two leagues from the river Hoang-ho. . As the river is 

 higher than the city, it is fubjecl to inundation.^, for the 

 prevention of which, flrong dykes have been raifcd wliicti 

 extend m^re than 30 leagues. On occafion of a fiege in 

 1642, by an army confiiling of 100,000 rebels, the com- 

 mander of the troops fent to relieve it determined to drown 

 the enemy by breaking down the large dyke of Floanr-ho ; 

 the llratflgem fucceeded, the city was overflonid, and 

 300,000 inhabitants perifhed. It has been rebuilt fince this 

 calamitous event, but in a ilyle far inferior to that of it^i 

 former magnificence. Its jurifdietion comprehends four 

 cities of the fecond clafs and 30 of the third. 



KAIGOL, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kho- 

 rafan ; 225 miles N. of Herat. 



KAIGUEZ, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on the S. 

 coail of Natolia; 18 miles S. of Mogla. N. lat. 36- jo', 

 E. long. 28 19'. 



KAIGUM, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Au- 

 rungabad ; 30 miles S.W. of Aurungabad. 



KAIHA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 

 vailland ; 60 miles N.N.E. of Jamfio. 



KAJIPET, a town of Hindooitan, in the circar of 

 Cuddapa, on the Pennar ; 20 miles S.E. of Cuddapa. 



KAILAFUETUEVSKOI, a town of Ruiiia, in the 

 government of Irkutlk, on the Argun; 160 miles S.S.E. 

 of Nenchinft. 



KAIL.^.SA. Hindoo mythologiflshave affigned different 

 places of refort or habitation to their different deities : tlmt 

 of Siva is Kailafa, fometimcs written Cailas, which is do- 

 fcribed as one of the three peaks of the wonderful moun- 

 tain, Mem. (See Mehu.) Here the gods, with their con- 

 forts, animated with mufic, dancing, and ambrofia, called 

 by the Hindoos amrita (fee Kuii.mavatau.\), pafs their 

 hours in banquets and happy d.illiancc, reminding us ilrongly 

 of the tales of our own c.'affics ; and appearing indeed to 

 be the fame ftories under different names. This fimilarity 

 occurs in every page cf Moor's Hindoo Pantheon, although 

 the author in that work profelFes to avoid the difcuffion of 

 fuch fimilarilics. (See Kaliva.) The following inltance, 

 from page 47, will farther illuftrate this and the prefeiit ar- 

 ticle. " The comparifon between Siva and Jove runs paral- 

 lel in many inllances. In the rapacity of avenger and de- 

 ftroyer Jove overthrew the Titans and giants whom Typhon, 

 Briareus, &c. led againfl the god of Olympus, to whom aa 

 eagle brought /(j/i/m'nj and ;ii«n<Arie/// during the warfirc 



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