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KARNE, a town of Africn, in the kiii^rJom of Bomoii. 



KARNICAR, a town of Grand Bucharia ; 20 miles 

 N. E. of Termed. 



KARNKOWSKI, Stanislaus, in BUgmphy, celo- 

 brated as a Polifh writer and ftatefman, was born in 1525. 

 He was educated for the church, and obtained a bi(hopric 

 about the year I563, and upon the death of Sigifmund 

 Augailus, king of Poland, in 1572, he promoted tlie elec- 

 tion of Henry of Valuis, and, on his reception, made an 

 eloquent harangue to him in the name of the ftates. After 

 the abdication of this prince, Karnkowdvi nominated Anne, 

 the filler of the late Sigifmund, queen of Poland, and 

 crowned her hulband, Stephen Battori, upon the refufal of 

 the primate to perform this oflice. After this he placed the 

 crown on the head of Sigifmund III. prince of Sweden, 

 w!io was acknowledged by the kingdom. He had already 

 fiiccecded to the primacy, andj in IJ90, he joined a party 

 who were in oppofiiion to the great chancellor, Zamoifliy, 

 and convoked an extraordinnry aflembly at Kiow, in which 

 he endeavoured to cancel the ordinances of the laft diet. 

 This ftep rendering him unpopular, he was obliged to feek a 

 reconciliation with the chancellor. He died in 1603,31 the 

 sgc of ievL-nty-eight, and was interred in the Jefuits' college 

 ?.t Kalidi, which he had founded. As an inllruftor of youth 

 he did much to reform the fyftems of education : but as an 

 a\ithor he is known by " Hiftoria Interrcgni Polonici," 

 being a relation of the affairs of the interrf gnum fucceed- 

 ing the abdication of Henry of Valois : " De Jure Provin- 

 ciarum, Terrarum, Civitatumque Pruffia; :" " Epiftoli II- 

 I'lllrium Virorum, lib. iii."' This colleftion of letters is very 

 rare, and is faid to contain many important particulars re- 

 lative to the hiilory of Poland, from 1564 to 1^77. 



KARNOWL, in Geography, ■s.X.own of HindoDftan, in 

 Bahar; 3 S miles N.N.W. of Hajypour. N. lat. 26" 17'. 

 E. long.Sj' 11'. 



KAROLI, jAspr.n, in Biography, a Hungarian divine, 

 who flouritlicd towards the clofe of the fifteenth century, 

 wa.^ held in high eflimation for his talents as a philofopher, 

 theologian, and philologill, and much admired as a preacher. 

 Jlis memory is greatly revered on account of his having 

 trar.flated the bible from the original Hebrew into his native 

 language. This work was publilhed at Hanover, in 410., in 

 the year 1608, and another imprefTion of it was given to the 

 public from the prcfs at Frankfort, in Svo., by Albert 

 Molnar. The v/ork has been reprinted very frequently, in 

 different countries, and is ibil held in high cftimation. 



K AROLOU-KAL.-^, in Geography, a town of Turkilh 

 Armenia ; 42 miles E. of Erzerum. 



KAROP, a town of Rufiid, in the government of Nov- 

 gorod Sieverfkoi ; 28 miles S. of Novgorod Sieverfkoi. 



KAROo, an illand in the Grecian Archipelago, fix 

 miles in circumference ; 6 miles S.E. vif Na.xia. N. lat. 

 36 J3'. E. long. 25 39'. 



K.-\ROTTA,afmall illand in the Pacific ocean, belonging 

 to the chiller called M:anges. N. lat. 5' . E. long. 126 50'. 



KAROULI, a to.vn of European Turkey, lu BefTara- 

 bia ; 68 miles S.W. of Bender. 



KARPILAX, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland ; 14 

 jTile^ N.E. of Jamfio. 



KARPILOWKA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 

 ef Kiev : 8 miles N.N.W. of Kiev. 



K.\RRL\RPOUR, a town of the circar of Gohud ; 

 16 miles N. of Gohud. 



KARRIETEN, a town of Arabia, in Yomen ; 20 

 miles S.S.E. of Chamir. 



KARROO, a Hottentot name given, in the colony of 

 i!be Cape of Good Hope, to vaft p ains, wliich are inter- 



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pofed between the great chains of mountains. Out of the J" 

 impenetrable furfaces of clay, gliftening with fmall cryftah 

 of quartz, and condemned to perpetual drought and aridity^ 

 not a blade of grafs, and fcarcely a verd:iiit twig, occurs tO 

 break the barren uniformity. The hills, by which thefe fur- 

 faces are fometimes broken, are chiefly compofed of fragments 

 of blue (late, or maffes of feltfpar, and argillaceous iron- 

 done; and the furfaces of thefe are equally denuded of plants 

 as thofe of the plains. Yet, Mr. Barrow obferves, that 

 wherever the Karroo plains are tinged with iron, and water 

 can be brouglit upon them, tlie foil is found to be extremely- 

 productive. Barrow's Africa, vol. ii, p. 32. 



KARS, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Aladulia ; 2^ 

 miles N N.E. of Adana. — Alfo, a town of Perfia, in tl^ 

 province of Kerman ; 23 miles N. of Sirjian. This is tlie 

 extreme town on the frontiers of Perlia, and though an in^ 

 conliderable place, is tolerably fortified. 



KARSABOO, a town of Africa, in Bambarra. N\ 

 lat. 13- 10'. \\' . long. 5' 35'. 



KARSAMAKI, a town of Sweden, in the govern-- 

 mcnt of lUen ; 65- miles S. of Ulea. 



KARSEK, an illand near the weft coaft of Eaft Green- 

 land. N. iat. 60" 3y'- \V. long. 4,- 20'. 



KARSHAGNI, a fiery expiation among the Hindoos, 

 of which the following account is taken from Moor's 

 Hindoo Pantheon. " Cow-dung is a great purifier on 

 feveral occauons. It is related in the Agr.i-purana, that a 

 meft wicked perfon, named Chanyaka, had exceeded every 

 known poffibilky of falvation. At the court of Indra were 

 afTembled gods and holy men ; and as they were difcourfing 

 on fuch enormities, Indra, in anfwer to a pointed queilion, 

 faid that nothing certainly could expiate them except the 

 karfcigni. It happened that a crow, named, from her 

 friendly difpofitiop, Mitra-kaka, was prefent ; and fhe imme- 

 diately flew and imparted the welcome news to the defpair- 

 ing linner, wiio immediately performed the karfhagni, and 

 went to heaven. This expiation conlifts in the viftim cover- 

 ing his whole body with a thick coat of cow-dung, which, 

 when dry, is fct on fire, and confumes both fin and finner. 

 Until revealed by the crow, this potent expiation was un- 

 known ; and it has fince been occafionally reforttd to, par- 

 ticularly by the famous Sankara-Charya. The friendly 

 crow was punilhed for her indifcretiou ; and forbidden, and 

 all her tribe, afcenfion to heaven, and was doomed on earth 

 to live on carrion.'' P. 143. See S.\nk.\k.4.-chaky.\. 



KARSKOI, in Geography, a fettlement of Ruffia, in 

 the government of Archangel, at the mouth of the Kara ; 

 600 miles E N.E. of Archangel. N. lat. 68' 35'. E. 

 long. 64 14'. 



K.\RSKOi Sea, that part of the Frozen ocean which lies, 

 between the continent of Rufiia and NovaZembla, extending 

 from N. lat. 70- to 75 , and from E. long. 61' to 6S . 



K.\RsKol Gulf, is a large bay of the Frozen ocean, lying 

 to the iouth of the KarlkoLfea. N. lat. 68' to 70 . E". 

 long. 62 to 69 . 



KARSTORP, a town of Sweden, in the province of 

 Smaland ; 48 miles S.E. of Jonkioping. 



K.ARSTULA, a town of Sweden, in the government 

 of Wafa ; S5 miles E. of Wsla.. 



KARSUN, a town of Ruflia, in the government cf 

 Simbirfk ; 60 miles W.S.W. of Simbir.O:. 



KARSURUSK, a town, of Eaft G,i-eenlai.d. N. lat. 

 61 10'. W. long. 45". 



KARSYTSIAK, a towiv of Eaft Greenland. N. kt. 

 60 ' 16 . W. long 43. 



KARTAL, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, oa 

 the soail of the fea of Marmora ; 40 miles V/. of Ifmid; 



KAR.TAN, 



