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longing to the king of Ternate. N. lat. ^'6'. E. long. 

 125 24'. 



KARAKUM, or tlie B/aci Siimi, the name of a groat 

 defert, which forms the northern boundary of Khorafan 

 and modern Perfia. 



KARAKURODY, a town of Perfia, in the province 

 ef Schirvan ; 20 miles S.of Scamachie. 



KARALANSKA, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Irkutik, on the Tungulka ; 72 miles N.W. of 

 Ilimlk. 



KARALEIJANGO, a town of Africa, in Kaarta. 

 N. lat. 14- 20'. \V. long, ft 20'. 



KARALUKALA, a town of Turkifli Armenia, in 

 the government of Erzerum ; 30 milos E. of Erzeruni. 



KARAMAN, a town of European Turkey, in Bul- 

 garia ; 35 miles E.S.E. of Nicopoli. 



KAliAMEISCHEVO.atown of Rullia, in the govern- 

 ir.ent of Tver ; 72 miles N. of Tver. 



K\RAMIT,' a town of Natolia ; 30 miles EiS.E of 

 Maori. 



KARAMUSAH, a town of Natolia, on a bay of the 

 fea of Marmora ; 36 mile.<: N.N.E . of Burfa. 



KARAN, a town of Africa, in Benin, in which is a 

 manufacture of fine cloth. 



KARANKALLA, a town of Africa, in Kaarta ; 10 

 miles W. of Kemmoo. 



KARANSEBES, a town of Hungary, on the Temis ; 

 38 miles E.S.E. of Temifwar. 



KARASBAG, a town of Perfian .Armenia ; 174 miles 

 E.S.E. of Erivan. 



KARASM, or CiiARASM, a country of Afia, bounded 

 on the N. by Turkellan, oa the E. by Grand Bucharia, 

 on the S. by Khorafan, and on the \V. by the Cafpian fea ; 

 about 32c miles from N. to S. and about as much from E. 

 to W. The country is in general fertile, and is di\ided 

 among feveral Tartarian princes, one of whom takes the 

 title of khan, alTn.ming pre-eminence over the reft. The 

 capital is Urkonje, which is the ufual refidence of the 

 khan in winter ; but in fumnier he ufually encamps on 

 the fides of the river Amol ; his camp being called Khiva. 

 He is faid to be able to raife forty or fifty thoufand horfemen. 

 This country was formerly full of cities, towns, and caf- 

 tles, ftrong and populous : it was then a province of the 

 Perfian and Arabian empires ; but it was probably mod 

 fljurifliing, when it fubfi'.led as an independent kingdom, 

 under the family of the Kharafm khans, who by conquelt 

 annexed to it the whole of Iran, or Perfia at large, and 

 Turaa, or the countries N. of the Gihon or Amu, thus 

 forming a great empire, of which Urkonje was the capital. 

 At prefent its ciiies are few, and much reduced by the defo- 

 lating power of tlie Uibecks, who have introduced poverty 

 and dillrefs wherever they have fettled. 



KARASU, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania ; 

 JOG miles S.E. of Yurcup. — .Alfo, a river of Perfia, called 

 Karanjh, which rifes in the N.W. part of the province of 

 Irak, and runs into the Tigris, near BafTorah, anciently 

 called Eulaus and Chon/pifs.—AUo, a river of Afiatic 

 Turkey, called Koremox, which rifea near Kaifarieh in 

 Caramania, and runs into the Euphrates near Ilija. 



K.ARAT, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman ; 

 J90 miles S. W. of Mafcat. 



Kah.\t. See Cakat. 



KAR.ATA, by fome called caraguata maca, a kind of 

 aloe growing in America ; whofe leaves, when boiled, are 

 made into a thread, of good ufe for making cloth, fifhing 

 acts, &c. Its roots or leaves, thrown into the water, ftupify 

 the fifhes to that degree, that they are cafily taken with the 



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hard; its ftalk, when dried aud burnt, fcrves for tinder ; 

 and when brilkly rubbed on a harder wood, it takes fire, and 

 confumes itfclf. 



KAR.ATAS, in Botany, Plum. Gen. 10. t. 33, the Weft 

 Indian name of a fine plant referred by Linnsus to BromeLa ; 

 fee that article, fp. a. 



KARATCHIN, in Geosmphy, a Ruffian o<lrog, vi 

 the peninfula of Kamtfchatka ; lifty miles from Bolcheret- 

 Ikoi. It is pleafantly filuated by the fide of the river 

 Awatflva, and confills of three log-lioufes, threejourts, or 

 h;)ufes made under ground, and nineteen balagaiis, or fum- 

 nier habitations. The inhabitants are a fingularly hofpitable 

 people. 



KAR.ATOPE, a town of Rami, in Chijiefe Tartary ; 

 3omiles W.of Hami. 



KARAT-SIRIM, a town of Curdiltan ; 40 miles S.E. 

 of Kerkuk. 



KAR.ATUIN, a town of Perfia, in the province of 

 Irak ; 40 miles N.E. of Neiuivend. 



KARAULi^'Ol, a town of Ruffia, in the government 

 of Kolivan, on the Genifei ; 60 miles S. of Krafnoiarfiv. 



KAR.AVUN, a town of Hindooftan, in Dooab ; 40 

 miles W. of Pattiarv. 



KARBENING,'atown of Sweden, in Weilmannlar.d ; 

 ^o miles N. of Stroemfliohn. 



KARBY, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia; 20 

 miles N. of Lulca. 



KARCARA, a town of Perfia, in Segeftar. ; 70 miles 

 N.W. of Zareng. 



KARCOJA, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan ; 21 mile* 

 N.W. of Zareng. 



KARCZOW, a town of the duchy of Warfaw ; 16 

 miles S.W. of Czerlk. 



KARDAMA, in Hindoo Mythology, 2l being fometimes 

 faid to have been an avatara or incarnation of the god Siva, 

 and to have been produced by Brahma's fhadow ; fome- 

 times he is faid to be one of the Riihis. See Risiii. 



KARDANAH, \x^ Geography. See Bell's. 



KARDGHA, the name of a Ihort fword held in the 

 hand of Hindoo deities of avenging character ; the facrifical 

 weapon. 



KARDUH, in Geography, a town of Ptrfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Kerman ; 56 miles N. of Maftih. 



KAREDJUK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia; 

 20 miles S.S.W. of Degni/,lu. 



K.AREK, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan; 30 miles S. 

 of Fuiheng, 



Kahek, a town of Perfia, in the province of Lariftan ; 

 42 miles S. of Lar. 



Karek, or Garak, an ifland fftuated on the E. 

 coaft of the Perfian gulf, between Abu Scheehr and Bender 

 Rigk, containing only a fingle village ; but appearing, from 

 its aqueduAs cut in the rocks, to have been formerly 

 more populous in proportion to its extent, which is about 

 five leagues in circumference. The Dutch, who once had a 

 fettlement here, made the ifland famous, by carrying on a 

 great trade from ht nee to Balfura, under the direflion of ba- 

 ron Knipluufen. But Mir .Vlahenua, priucc of Beusler Rigk, 

 having made an unfuccefsful attempt upon the ifland, at 

 length concluded a peace with the Dutch governor, who was 

 the fecund in fucceffion to Kr.iphauftn, and the Dutch trade 

 for fome time met with no interruption. At a fubfequent 

 period Mir Mahenna made a defcent upon Karek, and 

 befieired the town. The Arab, having outwitted Van Hom- 

 ing, \he Dutch governor, entered the fort with a fmall re- 

 tinue, in order to fettle terms of accommodation ; and bav- 

 in j^ made the Dutch garrifon prifouers, fent them to Bat a.. 



