KAN 



an avatara or incarnation of Siva ; liis confort, Parvati, 

 having been alfo incarnated, under the name of Malfara, to 

 accompany her lord in this manifeftation, which is faid by 

 fome to have occurred in the Carnatic, for the puipofe of 

 dertroying a giant named Manimal. A magnificent temple 

 is dedicated to the wordiip of Siva, in this incarnation, at 

 Jejur)'. It is defcribed under that article ; and by fome it is 

 faid, the incarnation happened there. The incarnated pair 

 are generally reprefented together on horfeback, with a 

 dog, he being four armed. Images and pidures of them are 

 very common in the Mahratta country, where Kandeh Rao is 

 a popular deity, and is very exto! fively propitiated. Several 

 engravings of the fubjeA of this article are given in Moor's 

 Hindoo Pantheon. 



KANDEK, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in the province of Natolia; 48 miles E. of Ifmid. 



KAKDEL, in Botany. See Rhizophoha. 



KAN'DEllI, in Geography, a town of Aliatic Turkey, 

 in Natolia ; 24 miles N.E. i-f Ifmid. 



KANEKING, a town of the Arabian Irak; 23 miles 

 N.N.E. of Shehrban. 



KANEM, a city of Africa, in the way from Fezzan to 

 the capital of Bornou. The ii. habitants of the adjacent 

 country are compofcd of Muifulmen and Pagans, and are 

 employed in breeding cattle, and raifing innumerable horfes 

 for the fervic;: of the king ; 125 miles N. of Bornou. N. lat. 

 32°. E. long. 21" 40'. — Alio, the name given by the 

 geographer Edrifi to the kingdom of Bornou ; which fee. 



KANG, or Chin.'fi Slovi, is a kind of Hove that is 

 heated by means of a furnace, which calls all its heat into 

 it. The furnace is adapted to the fire of the flove which it 

 is intended to heat ; and it may be placed either in a room 

 that is uied, or an adjoining room, or on the outfide of the 

 hoiife. T!)e lieat of this furnace, impelled by the outward 

 air, ruflies th-.-ough a flit into a tube or conduClor ; and pa(T- 

 ing through this into another pipe. or channel at right angles 

 to it, lying under the middle of the floor of the ftove, fprcads 

 through the ftove by vent-holes in thislaft pipe, and is com- 

 municated to the bricks which form the pavement of the 

 ftove, and from them through the whole room. The fmoke 

 is carried off by funnels at both ends of the (loves. See a 

 drawing and defcription of this kind of ftove in Phil. Tranf. 

 Vul. Ixi. p. i. art. 7. 



Any kind of fuel is ufed in the heating furnaces, but fca- 

 £Oai is gericraliy ufed : it is obferved, that in order to draw 

 off the noifome vapours of the air conllanlly heated by the 

 coal fue, the Chinefc always keep bowls of water in the 

 rooms, and occafionally renew them ; and the emperor's 

 apartments in the palace are decorated with flower-pots, and 

 little orange-trees, 3cc. which, as the Chinefe philofophers 

 allege, is the bell way of fweetening the air, and abforbing 

 the fiery particles difpcrfed in it. 



KANG A, in Geography, a fea-port of Africa, in the- 

 kingdom of Loango, fitualed in a fandy bay of the Atlantic, 

 where vefills may ride at anchor within mulket-(hot of the 

 Ihore, in fo.ir or five fathoms water- 



KANGAANPAA, a town ot Sweden, in the govern- 

 ment of .Abo ; 27 miles N.E. of Biorneborg. 



KANG.VNI, a town of Hindooibn, in Myfore ; 25 

 miles W. of Tademeri. 



KANGASAK, a town of Weft Greenland. N. lat. 

 62 . W. long. 4,3.'. 



KANGx\S.-\LA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 TavalUand; 30 miles N.N.W. of Tavafthus. 



KANG--\SNIEMS, a town of Sweden, in the province 

 cf Tayailland ; §5 miles. N.E_. of Tavailhus, 



KAN 



KANG-CHAN, a town of Corea; 16 miles B.'VT. of 

 Kang-tcheou. 



KANGEE, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Kaf- 

 fon ; 5 ^ miles S.E. of Kooniakary. 



KANGEI.ANG. an ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, 

 about 25 miles from eail to weft, indented on the foulh 

 coaft with two or three conliderablc bays. S. lat. 6 37'. 

 E. long, iiy 44'. 



KANGIS, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia; 80 

 miles N. of Tornea. 



KANG-TCHEOU, a town of Corei, in Kinchan ; 

 170 miles S.E. cf Peking. N. lat. 35 46 . E. Lng. 128' 

 49'-, 



K.\XG-T(HF.oi-, a city of China, of the firft rank, in the 

 province of Kiang-il ; lituatcd on a river of the fame name. 

 Its river, port, riches, and popidation, fcrve to attrafl 

 ftrangers. Near the walls of the city is a very long bridge, 

 compofed of 130 boats, joined togetl-.cr by ftrong iron 

 chains. The cuilom-houfe is upon this bridge, where a re- 

 ceiver conftantly refides, to vilit all barks, and exawine if 

 they have paid the neceffary duties. Two or three move- 

 able boats are fo placed, that by their means the bridge can 

 be opened or fliMt, to give or ftop a paflage ; and no barks 

 are fuffcred to pafs that have not been examined. In the 

 territory belonging to this city, a great number of lliole 

 valuable trees grow, from wliich varniih dillils. Its dillrict 

 is exlenfive, and contains twelve cities of the third clafs. 

 N. lat. 25 32'. E. long. 114' 30'. 



KANG-'"rCHlN, a town of Corea; 4S miles S.S.W. 

 of Koang-tcheou. 



KANGUROO, in Zoology, an animal on the coaft of 

 New Holland, which, when full grovvn, is as big as a flieep» 

 aiid in form refembling the jerboa. Tlie head, neck, and 

 flioulder, are very fmall in proportion to the other parts of 

 the body ; the tail is nearly as long as the bi;dy, thick neai- 

 the rump, and tapering towards the end : the fore-legs of 

 one of them mealured only eight inches in length, and the 

 hind-legs twenty-two : the progrefs is by fuccelTive l.-aps or 

 hops of a great length, m an erect poiture : the fore-legs are 

 kept bent dole to the brea'.l, and ieem to be of ufe only for 

 digging. The fl<in is covered with a fhort fur, of a dark 

 moufe or grey colour, excepting the head and ears, which 

 bear a (light relemblance to thofe of a hare. Hawkcf- 

 worth's Voyages, S:c. vol. iii. p. 1 74. 



KANHAWA, in Geography, a large mountainous 

 county of America, on the weltern line of Virginia, havuig 

 the Ohio river on the north-well, and Kentucky on the wtil. 

 The population confilts of 3C08 free inhabitants, and 231. 

 (laves. About fcven miles from the mouth of Elk river, in 

 this county, is a burning fpring, fufficientlv capacious to 

 hold forty gallons A bituminous vapour conlldntly idue* 

 from it ; and on prefenting a torcli within eighteen 6t twenty 

 inches of its mouth, a column of flame afcends to the height 

 of three or four feet, and about eighteen inches in diameter, 

 which burns fometimes for ten minutes, and at other times 

 continues three days. 



KANHAW AY, Giu:.\T, a river of Virginia, the 

 head waters of which are ni the wciltrn part of North Caro- 

 lina, in the moll cafterly ridge of the Alleghany or Ap- 

 palachian mountains, and louth of the thirty-lixth degree of 

 latitude. Thefe head branches encircle thofe of tJie Hoi- 

 fton, from which they are fcparalcd by the iron mountain, 

 through which it pafles ten miles above the lead mines. 

 About fixty miles from Little river it receives Green Briar 

 river. About forty miles below the mouth of Green Briar 

 river in Virginia, in the Kanhaway, is a remarkable catarai^t, 

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