KAN 



the water fiilliiig over a rock that traverres tlie bed of the 

 river about fifty feel perpendicularly. T!ie obltack-s te the 

 navigation of this river are the Great Falls, ninety miles 

 above its mouth ; and from thefc falls to the month of Green 

 Briar is a diftance of loo miles. Its mouth, where it falls 

 into the Ohio, in the north-welt part of Virginia, (N. lat. 

 38^ 55'. W. long. 82" 15') is 280 yards wide. 



Kaniiaway, Little, a fmall navigable river of Virginia, 

 1-50 yards wide at its mouth in the Ohio, (N. lat. 39' 6'. 

 W. lonu;. Si-* 5_^') and navigable only ten miles. 



KANJA, Yansiia, or Tatija, a town of Perfian Ar- 

 menia, on a fmall river which runs into the Kur ; 150 miles 

 E.N.E. of Erivan. 



KAN.IEE, a town of HinJoollan, in Berar ; 20 miles 

 N. of Notchagong. 



KANIKA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bam-' 

 barra, feared on the Niger ; 100 miles S.W. of Sego. 



KANIOW, a town of Iluliiau Poland, in the palatinate 

 of Kiev, on the Dnieper ; ^6 miles E. of Bielacerkiev/, 



KANISS, a town of Africa, in Nirbia, on the weft 

 fide of the Nile ; 25 miles E. of Dongala. 



KANITZ, a town of Moravia, in the circle of Brunn ; 

 I-o miles S.W, of Brunn. N. lat. 49 ' 4'. E. long. 16' 

 21'. 



KANKANAN, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore ; 12 

 miles S.E. of Lahore. 



KANKARU, a town of Africa, in Mandingo. N. lat. 

 12 20'. W. long. 5' 45'. 



KANKERARA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 

 of Kottah ; ^2 miles W. of Kottah. 



KANKY'-LABY, a town of Africa, in the country of 

 Foota. N.lat. 10' 55'. W. long. 16 '5'. 



KANNAKA, a town of Hindooltan, in the country of 

 Kattack, at the mouth of the river Bramnee ; 15 miles 

 NAV. of Point Palmiras. 



KANNCOONGAN Point, a cape on the eaft coaft of 

 Borneo. N.lat. 13'. E. long;. 119'. 



KANNE.AH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 

 Sumbul ; 15 miles N. of Nidjebabad. 



KANNYA, a town of Hindooftan, in Rohilcund ; ^5 

 miles S. of Bereillv. 



KANOOERAH, a town of Hmdooftan, in Goond- 

 wanah ; 75 miles N.N.E. of Nagpour. 



KANOON, a town and fortrefs of Hindooftan, in the 

 country of Mewat ; 70 miles S.W. of Delhi. N. lat. 2S-' 

 3'. E. lone;. 76 30'. 



K.ANOUNG, LiTTi.E, or Kanoungley, a town of 

 the Birnian empire, on the L-rawaddy, in the vicinity of 

 ■which are plantations of various fruit trees, and fields well 

 fenced and regularly laid down ; with every afpcdl of in- 

 duftry and plenty. 



Kaxouno, Great, or Kanourtgghe, a long town, fituated 

 like the preceding, with a good quay, and well conftrufted 

 wooden ftairs, confilling of 100 lleps, defcending to the 

 ,pater'ii^ edge. The population in the neighbourhood of 

 this and tiic forementioned town is confiderable. 



KANOWLY, a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 

 Vifiapour; 22 miles E.S.E. of Poonah. 



KANSA, in HinHrto mjlory, the unrle of Kriftina, 

 whom, as liis predeiliiied dellroyer, Kanfa made many vam 

 attempts to put to death. After feveral fruillcfs efforts, 

 Kanfu ordered all male infants to be (lain ; in a manner that 

 reminds us of the cruelty of Herod on a fimilar occafion. 

 See KillsifNA. 



• KANSAKL ill Gecgraphy, a town of Japan, in the 

 inind of Niphon ; 2S miles' S;W. of Meaco.— Alio, a 



KAN 



town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo ; ij miles S.W. of 

 Ikna. 



KANSEZ, a river of Louifiana, which runs into the 

 Miftburi, N. lat. 38- 45'. W. long. 95 i$' . 



Kan.sez, Little, a river of Louifiana, which nnis into the 

 Miftburi, N. lat. 38= 17'. W. long. 94 53'. 



K.'VN.SEZ, a town of Louifiana, (eated on the river Kan. 

 fez; 240 miles W. of Genevieve. N. lat. 38 5'. W. long. 



95 54'- 



KANSKOL a town of Ruflia, in tiie government of 

 Kolivan, on the Kan, in which is carried on a confiderable 

 trade in furs ; 140 miles E. of Kraf-noiarfl<. 



KANSON, an ifland in (he Red fea, about twenty 

 miles long, and from two to five broad. N. lat. 16 44'. 

 E. long. 42' 40'. 



KANSZILL a tovi-n of European Turkey, in BL-fi.;- 

 rabia ; 28 miles S. of Bender. 



KANT, in Biojrraphy. See Kantism. 



K.'^NTAMATI, a name of Radha, the wife or miftui^ 

 of Kriftina. See Radha. 



KANTERA, El, in Geography, a town of Africa, i-. 

 the kingdom of Turns ; 14 miles N. of Tunis. 



KANTI5M, or philofophy of Emanuel Kant, in the 

 Hi/lory of Literature, is the denomination of a fyftem of meta- 

 pliylical icience, invented and propagated with great avidity 

 on the continent, towards the clofe of the eighteenth century. 

 It is now, even in its birth-place, much neglected ; and will 

 probably, in another half century, fall into utter obhvioi;. 

 The celebrity, however, to which it attained, requires that 

 a pretty full account ftiould be given of it, in a work de'- 

 vo-ed to the illuftration of the principles efpoufed and vin- 

 dicated by men endowed with fuperior talents and ardent 

 tempers. We ftiall, accordingly, firft give a biograpiucal 

 flcetch of the philofopher, and then endeavour to unravel and 

 develope the fecrets of his fyftem. 



Emanuel Kant was born April 2 2d, 1724, in the fuburbs 

 of Konigfiierg, in Pruflla. His father, John George Kant, 

 was a fadler, born at Mcmel, but originally defcended from 

 a Scotch family, who fpelt their name with a C ; but tlie 

 philofopher, the fubjeft of this article, in early life, con- 

 verted the C into a K, as being inore conformable to Ger- 

 man orthography. Emanuel, the fecond of fix children, 

 was indebted to his father fur an example of the ftrideft in- 

 tegrity, and the greateft induilry ; but he had neither time 

 nor talent to be his inftruAor. From his mother, a woman' 

 of found fenfe and ardent piety, he imbibed fcntiments of 

 warm and animated devotion, which left, to the lateft pe- 

 riods of his life, the ftrongeft and mott reverential imprefTions 

 of her memory on his mind. He received his firlt inllruc-. 

 tions in reading and writing at the cliarity fchool in his 

 parifti ; but foon gave fuch indications of ability and inclina- 

 tion to learn, as induced his uncle, a wealthy ftioe-maker, to 

 defray the expence of his farther education and ftudies. 

 From fchool he proceeded to the college of Fridericiaiium. 

 This was in the year 1 740 ; and his firft teacher was Martin 

 Kautzen, to whom Kant was ftrongly attached, and who 

 devoted himfelf with no lefs zeal to the inllruftion of his 

 pupil, and contributed very greatly to the unfolding of his 

 talents. His favourite ftudy at the univerfity was tiiat of 

 mathematics, and the branches of natural philofopliy con- 

 nected with theiri. On the completion of his ftudies, he 

 accepted a fituation as tutor in a clergyman's family. In 

 this, and in two otiier fimilar fituations, he was not able to 

 fatisfy his mind that he did his duty fo well as he ought : he 

 was,- according to his own' account, too much occupied with 

 acquiring knowledge to be able to communicate the rudi- 

 ments 



