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iv^diilriiJl one city of the focond clafs, and five cities of 

 the third. On one fide tliis diftrirt is fiirroiindtd by the 

 fea, ar.d on ths other by niountaius ; and it nboimds with 

 peacocks, and feveral forts of birds of prey. In the vicinity 

 of die town is a kind of ftone, rcfcinbling marble, and re- 

 p:-i?feiiting, naturally, rivers, mountains, trees, and landfcapes ; 

 this ftone is cut into (labs, and formed into tables and other 

 .curious pieces of furniture. Crabs are alfo found on the 

 co.^lls, fimilar to tliufe of Europe ; but when they are taken 

 cut of the water, they become petrified, without any change 

 of their natural figure. The Chinefe phyficians iife them 

 as a remedy ffgainft levers. N. lat. 2i'-'' 40'. E. long, no'- 4'. 



K AO-TCHUEN, a town of Corea ; 104 miles N.E. 

 of- King-ki-tao. 



KAPAR, a town of Pruffia, in the circle of Smaland, 

 10 miles W. of Konigflierg. 



, K.APAW, a town of the ifland of Borneo, near the E. 

 coaft ; ICO miles E.S.E. of Nagara. 



KAPI, a term in the eaftern countries for ^f^.V. 



Thus the chief gale of the palace of the emperor of Per- 

 fai is called ofej Lapl, the Gate of God. Hence alfo, the 

 ofricer who haS the command of the grand fcignior's palace 

 gates, i= called cap'r^hl inch:. 



■ KAPILA, in Bio^raphj. a very eminent literary charac- 

 ter among the Hindoos, and founder of one of their philo- 

 fophical fchoois, hav;i;g many tenets in common witli the 

 theories introduced to Europe by Pythagoras, efpecially that 

 of the unlawfulnefs of flaying animals to eat, under pre- 

 tence of a facrifice ; as feemed to have been very cxtenfively 

 practifed in India. Thia benevolent doflrine became fo ap- 

 proved, that the grateful Hindoos have deified Kapila ; 

 affirming that he was an incarnation of the god Vifhnu, un- 

 der the name of Vafudeva, as Kapila is called in their facred 

 romances, the Puranas. His theory is named Sankya, which 

 feems a modification of that called Mimanfa, which corre- 

 fponds with the Platonic. Thefe points are flightly touched 

 on in Moor's Hindoo Pantheon, and the fame writer, in a 

 pofterior work, (Hindoo Infanticide,) fays that" Kapila ex- 

 pounded to the Hindoos the fame tenet (the immortality of 

 things) modified, to give it the attraftion of variety and 

 novelty. He, as- Epicurus did after him, tricked out his 

 theoi-y in fo meretricious a ftile, as to have provoked, from 

 more lober reafoners, the opprobrium of atheifm." See 

 Ml.MAX.SA and S.\NKyA. 



KAPLANIK, in Geography, a town of European Tur- 

 key, in Macedonia; 60 miles N.E of Akrida. 



> KAPLITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Bechin ; 

 pmilesS.E. of Crumau. 



KAPOS, a town of Hungary. — Alfo, a river which 

 ru:!S into the Danube, fix miles from Mohacs. 



KAPOSVAR, a town and caftie of Hungary, formerly 

 very lirong, but now much reduced; 12 miles W. of Al- 

 tenburg. N. lat. 46° 30'. E. long. 17' 51'. 



KAPPAS, a tribe of Illinois Indians, in Louifiana, for- 

 merly very numerous. Their countr\- has gooa pallurage. 

 — Alfo, a town of Louifiana, on the MiffifTippi ? 130 miles 

 S.S.W. of New Madrid. N. hi. 34° 36. W. long. 91 '. 



Kapi>as Old Fort, fituatcd in JLouiliami, at the mouth of 

 the river St, Francis, and built by the French, principally 

 for a magazine of llores and provifions during their wars 

 with the Chickafaws, by whom their lUinois convoys -.vcre 

 attacked and deilroyed. 



K \PRIAN, a town of European Turkey, in Moldavia ; 

 60 mil-s E. of Jafii. 



K.APSBERGER, Joiiaknes HiEROxiMrs, in Biogra- 

 fhy, a German of noble birth, celebrated by Kircher (Mu- 

 fiirgia), and by many others, was not more famed fur the 



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number and variety of iiis compofitions, than for his cxfjui- 

 fite flvill in performing upon almoft every fpocics of inllru- 

 ment ; but more particularly on the theorbo lute, which 

 feems to have been a new invention in the 17th century. The 

 author's name has not been recorded ; but it is faid to have 

 been of Neapolitan conftruftion. The diflerence between 

 the common lute and theorbo, was in the latter having two 

 necks, and thence called in Latin Cilhara bijuga. 



Kapfberger, who afiiftcd Kircher in compiling many 

 parts of his Mufurgia, is highly prail'ed by that laborious, 

 but often credulous and vifionary author ; but, according to 

 Bapt. Doni, Kapfberger was loquacious and prefumptuou?. 

 The truth is, that the praftical mufician and the dilettante 

 theorift were rivals in the favour of cardinal Barbcrini, af- 

 terwards Urban VIII., a lover and pam-n of mufic. Both 

 tiie difputants were reformers, but with different views : 

 Doni, a credulous believer in the miraculous powers of the 

 mufic of the ancients, without underlianding the modern ; 

 and Kaprtierger, an innovator, wl;o wilhcd to have the compo- 

 fitions of Paleflrina bauifiied the church, in order to make 

 way for his own. The feuds of muficians and their pnrti- 

 zans are feldom worth recording ; as it (*ftcn happens that' 

 they are untible to explain to the public the caufe of their 

 difterence. 



KAPSDORF, in Geography, a town of Hungary;. 

 26milesN.N.W. of Caffovia. 



KAPTliRO, anifiandin the gulf of Bothnia, near the 

 E coalt, about eight miles long and two broad ; z miles W. 

 of Wafa. 



KAPTSCHAK, a large and wcll-compaaed ftate, 

 which Banty, the kinfman of the groat Tchingis or Zingif- 

 khan, founded, about the year 1240, fell, in the year 1441, 

 into four khanates, -viz. Kazan, Allrachan, Kaptfchak, and 

 the Krim. The fitil of thefe were, fomewhat more than 

 100 years afterwards, conquered by the Ruffians ; but the 

 fourth of thefe ftates preferved its independency above 230 

 years longer.' At prefent, however they altogether form a 

 part of the Ruffian empire. The khanate of Kaptfch.ik. 

 which, from the time of its feparation in 14.fl, hr.s had its 

 principal feat in the plain, which is now called the Ailra- 

 clian-ileppe, fell firlh So long ago as the year I Jc6, it loll 

 its lull khan, and was divided among the fovereigns of Ka- 

 -zan, Allrachan, and the Krim, on which at length it came 

 to Ruffia by the conquelt of the two former ftates. Thefere- 

 peated lubjugations had reduced the Kaptfchak Tartars to 

 an infignificant refidue, which, now removed fiora its ancient 

 homellead, dwells among Bafchkirs and Kirghifes, though 

 lUU retaining its appellation, and the m.emory of its origin. 

 Tooke. 



KAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak ; 156 

 miles N. of llpahan. 



KARA, a river of Rufiia, which runs into the Karfkoi 

 fea, at Karfkoi. - Alfo, ato/.nof Hindoodan, in Gu-/.erat ; 

 (o miles S.'W. of Gogo. — Alfo, a town of Hmdoollan, in 

 Berar; 8 -niles N. of Cha-.,da. 



KARA-AC-ATZ, .a town of European Turkey, in Ro- 

 mania ; 6 miles S. of Adrianople. 



KAR.fi BAG/vN, a town of A fiatlc Turkey, in Nato- 

 lia ; 24 mil's S. of Milets. 



KARABAGH, or the Blaeh Garden, a mountainous 

 province of the principality of Georgia, fouth of the river 

 Aras. 



K.-iRAB.\S, a mountain of Grand Bucharia ; jo miles 

 N.W. of Samai-caiid- Alfo, a tov/n of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Irak ; 76 miks S.S.W. of Hamadan. 



K.-^RA.BASAR, a town of Ruffia, in the gavernmcnt 

 of Taiuis ; 3? mil«s N.E. of Baraferay. 



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