KAY 



■vliicJi runs into Bonl bay. S. lat. 4'' 59'. E. long, izo"* 

 40'. 



KAYCOON Point, a cape on the W. coaft of iheifland 

 of Ce'ebes. S. lat. 3- 22'. E. long. 129 50'. 



KAYDANOW, a town of Litlui-'nia, in the palatinate 

 .of Minflc ; 16 miles S.S.W. of MMk. 



K.A YE, a to>vn of Africa, in the kingdom of Loango ; 

 10 miles N.W. of Loango. 



K-AYe's IJland, an ifland in the N. Pacific occaif, near the 

 W. coaft of North America, difcovered by Capt. Cook in 

 his third voyage, May 1778, and thus named in honour of 

 Dr. Kaye, late dean of Lincoln. It is n or 12 leagues in 

 length, in the direction of N.E. and S.W. ; but its breadth 

 is not above a league, or a league and a half, in any part of 

 it. The S.W. point, which lies in lat. J9 49', and long. 

 2t6' jS', is a naked rock, confiderably elevated above the 

 land within it. Towards the fea, the ifland terminates in 

 bare Hoping cliffs, with a beach, a few paces wide, of lar^e 

 pebble itones, intermixed here and there with a browniih 

 clayey fand. Parts of the (hore are interrupted by fmall 

 valhes and gullies ; in each of which a torrent ruflies down 

 with violence, which is furnilhed by the melted fnow. Thel'c 

 vallies are tilled with pine-trees, extending from the en- 

 trance toabont tlie middle part of the illand. This ifland 

 is covered with a broad girdle of wood, fprcad upon its 

 iiJ.e, included between the top of the cliffy fhore, and the 

 higher parts in the ceatre. The trees are of diminutive fixe. 

 Aiiout the wood were obferved a crow, and white headed and 

 ■white brealted eagles ; and fowls of various kinds were feeii 

 apon the water and near the (hore. No animals were feen 

 except a fox ; nor were perceived any iigus of inhabitants 

 ever having been upon the ifland. Cooke's Third Voyage, 

 vol. ii. 



KAYEE, a town of Africa, in Kajaaga, on the Sene- 

 gal. N. lat. 14 30'. W long. 9° 35'. 



KAY KI YA, in Hlmioo Mytbuhjgical Hijlory, is one of the 

 three wives of Dafarat'ha, the father of Rama-chandra. 

 About the period of the birth of the latter hero, Kaykiya, 

 or Kahikeya, produced Lucins, his half brother, to afli(l 

 liim in the wars of Lanka or Ceylon, as detailed at great 

 length in R^mnyjna, which fee. 



KA YMEN, in Geography, a town of Pruffm, in the pro- 

 wnce of Samland ; 12 miles E.N.E. of Konigiberg. 



KAYMOUR.A, a town of Africa, in Bondou ; 15 miles 

 B.S.W. of Fdtteconda. 



KA.YN3, a race of mountaineers in the Birman empire, 

 perfectly diiHndl; from the Carianers, and fpeaking a language 

 differing radically both from theirs and that of the Birmans. 

 They were originally inhabitants of the Arracan mountains, 

 whom the Birmans, fiuce their conqueft of that kingdom, 

 have prevailed on, partly by force, and partly by mild treat- 

 ment, to abandon their native hills, and fettle on the plain. 

 There are feveral fmall focieties of thefe people ellablifhed 

 near the foot of the mountains further north. The Ca- 

 fianers are not to be found higher up than the city of 

 Prune. 



KAYOO, a town of Africa, in Bambarra, on the Niger. 

 N. lat. 13 . W. long. Y SO' 



KAYOR, or Cavor, a kingdom of Africa, near the 

 fn-coaW, between the r:ver< Gambia and Senegal, 



KAYSERSWERT, a tov.n of Germany, on the E. 

 fide of the Rhine, once fortiF.--d, bat now wit.'iout walls ; 

 for a long time annexed to the bilhopric of Cologne, but in 

 the year 1 762, rellored to the eleitor palatine ; 24 miles N. 

 of.Iuliers, N.kit. 51 )6'. E. long. 6 ^7'. 



KAYUWAH, a town of Pegu, on the left bank of 

 theAva; 15 miles S. of Prome. 

 Vol. XIX. 



K A Z 



+ K.\YZEVAN, a town of Turkilh Armenia ; 60 n-.iloi 

 S.W. of Envan. - 



KAZAKOV.%, a town of RufTui, in the govcriinrcnt of 

 Irkutik ; \ 2 miles W. of Nertchinfk. 



KAZi^N, 'a city of Ruffia, and capital of a'govei'nmcnt 

 of the fame name, 'lltuated on the Volga. In the Turkilli 

 and Tartarian languages, ka/.an fignificd a catildron large 

 enongh to contain viduals for many perfons ; and hence the 

 name has been given by the Crim and Bud/iak Murfes tothc 

 families of their fubjeds or valfals, reckoning about 10 men 

 to a kazan. This city confifls of a Itrong fort, built with 

 ftone ; the wooden town, as it is called ; andfe\eral adjoining 

 flobodes, or fuburbs ; and amon^ tiiem is one inhabited by 

 Tartars, in which are four metlheds. Here are alfo feveral 

 churches biiik with ftone, and 1 1 convents in and le-.ir the 

 town. The governor of the fort has the command of ike 

 garrit'ons and regiments ; the garrilon of the city confiils of 

 three regiments, for which a good hofpital is provided. 

 Kazan is alfo an archbifhop's fee. Here are alfo a manu- 

 fafture of cloth, and a fchool, in which are taught the 

 Rufiisnand Latin languages, the principles of the Chriftiau 

 religion, and the elements of philolophy, in order to qualify 

 preachers for the converfion of the nations to which they 

 belong. This city was totally dettroyed by lire in the years 

 1749 and 1752. Kazan was oiicc the capital of a principal 

 part of Tartary, and the feat of government, where the 

 royal family refided. The RulTians firtl made tiiemfelves 

 mailers of this important place on the 3d of October IJJ2 ; 

 400 miles E. of Mofcow. N. lat. '53- 45'. E. long. 

 49 i'- 



This khanate (fee Kaptsciiak) fubfifted as a peculiar 

 ftate till the year above-mentioned, I Jj2, when it was con- 

 quered by czar Ivan II., and incorporated f»r ever with 

 the Ruffian empire. The city of Kazan had been built 111 

 the year 12J7 by a fon of Banty, nephew of Tfcliingis-khan ; 

 and this khajiate afferted its independency about the fame tin^c 

 ( 1441) when the Krim disjoined ilfelf from Kaptfchak. The 

 prelent Kazan Tartars are b'lt a feeble remnant of what they 

 were, partly confilling of thufe who remained in their old 

 feats, and partly fuch as fettled as fi:gitives, in other dif- 

 tricts of RulTia.' They principally dwell at prefent in the 

 governments of Kazan, Simbirik, Riefan, V'iatk.i, Pern.e 

 and Ufa (particularly in the Orenburg diftnit of that 

 government) ; their number is upon the whole conlidorable, 

 but in no degree proportionate to the idea we form of their 

 ancient population, from liillorical accounts ; for, as far as 

 we are able to conclude from particular ftatcments, they 

 cannot amount to much above ico,ooo. Thefe Tartars form 

 the root of the native of Ruffia ; being not only unmingled, 

 but alfo of a fupcrior civilization to moll of the remaining 

 branches of their brethren. Tooke. 



KAZANOW, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 

 Sandomirz ; 40 miles N.N.W. of Sandomirz. 



KAZANSKAIA, a town of RufTw, in the country of 

 the CofTacks, on the Don ; loo miles S.S.E. of Veronetz. 



KAZANSKOE, or Government of Kaz.\n, a govern-, 

 ment of Ruffia, bounded on the N. and N.E. by Viatfkoe, 

 on the E. by Uphimllioe, on the S. by Simbirikoe, and oij 

 the W. by Niznei-Gorodfkoe ; about 100 miles in length, 

 and from 100 to no broad ; tlie capital is Ka?an, 



KAZARON, a town of Perfia, in the province of par- 

 fiftan ; 55 miles W.S.W. of Schiras. N. lat. 29 44'. E. 

 long. ; 1-28'. 



KAZIKIRAN, a town of Perfia. in the province of 

 Adirbeit7an; 45inilc»S.K. of Urmia. 



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