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KF,A, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bambarra ; 

 65 miles N.E. of Scgo. 



KEADUE, a poll-town of the county of Rofcommon, 

 province of Connaiitrht, Irehind ; 85' miles from Dublin. 



KEADY, a market and pod-town of the county of 

 Armagh, province of Uliler, Irchnd, fituated on the 

 xiver Callai), along the banks of which, from Armagh to 

 •this place, are many confiderable bleach greens, the linen 

 ■ inanufaAure being carried on here very extenfively. Keady 

 is 5Q miles N. 'from Dublin ; and, fix S. from Armagh. 



KEAJA, or KiAHiA, is the name of the lieutenant of 

 the chief officers of tlie Porte, or the fuperinteudant of their 

 particular <aaurt. 



KEALE, fmall fragments refembUiig chips o? broken 

 pieces of llone of various kinds ; fome of lime-llone, others 

 of free-ilone, a:id others of ragrftane, found mixed among 

 the eartli, of the upper flratum in many parts of tbis king- 

 dom, and giving that foil the name. of kealy.; hence, .fome 

 .of thefe pieces of keaie are thin and flat like bits, of flatc. 



KEALY Soil, in y^«rkulture, is ufed by the hufband- 

 jnen for a fort of land, plentifully Ilrewed with kealc or 



KEANPAN Head, in Geography, a cape on the E. 

 <;oail of the ifland of Lewis, forming the N.E. point of tlie 

 peninfula of Aird. N. lat. 58 ' I j'. W.long. 6' 5'. 



KEANGON, a town of Grand Bucharia; 75 miles 

 N.AV. of Anderab. 



-KEARAH, a town of Hindooftan, in"Bahar; 30 miles 

 S.S.W. of Patnn. 



KEATE, Geo'.ice, in Biography, an entertaining and 

 iriifcellaneous writer, was born at Trowbridge, in Wiltlhire, 

 in the year 1729. Plaving been educated at Kingllon, he 

 repaired to Geneva, where he refided fome years, and con- 

 traAed an intimacy with Voltaire. He made the tour of 

 -Europe, and returning to his native country, entered him- 

 felf as itudent in the Inner Temple, and was in due time 

 called to the bar, and fometimes attended the. courts in 

 Weltmmller Hall, though he did not praftife, either on 

 account- of his want of encouragement, or for want of a 

 den-ree of application fufficient to make himfelf mailer of 

 his profefiion. His firll literary performance was entitled, 

 " Ant-ient and Modern Rome,", a poem written at Rome 

 in the year 17JJ. It was publidied in 1760, and was very 

 well received by the public : he next produced " A fhort 

 Account of the Ancient Hillory, prefcnt Goveroment, and 

 Laws of the Republic of Geneva." In 1768 or 69, he 

 publifhed " Ferney," an epiiUe to Voltaire, in which he 

 introduced a fine eulogium on Shakfpeare, which procured 

 for him. the compliment, from the mayor and burgeffes of 

 ■Stratford, of a ilandifh mounted with filver, made out of the 

 roulberry-tree planted by that illullrious bard. In 1 7 79, he 

 publiOied " Sketches from Nature, taken aud coloured in a 

 Journey to Margate," iu two vols, l2mo. This, though an 

 iavowed imitation of Sterne's " Sentimental Journey," con- 

 tains fo many juft ftriftures on life and manners, enlivened 

 by ilrokes of genuine humour and delicacy of fentiment, as 

 to have been extremely popular, and it was thought that 

 Sterne never had-fo happy an imitator as Keate. In 1781, 

 he eoUefted his poetical works, and publifhed them in two 

 volumes, which he dcdicaled to Dr. Heberden. The lull, 

 •and his belt produclion, and tbat- which did mod credit to 

 his genius and liberality, was the "Account of thePelew 

 Iflands," which, he- diiiw up and publilhed in 1788. This 

 work is written with great elegance, and compiled with nnich 

 care : it had a confiderable fale, but the author drew it up 

 from the moft difinteieflcd motives,, and received no advan- 

 . tage from it whatever. .He died in.tjie year 17.9;, leaving 



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behind him feveral other publications befides thole ah'eady 

 noticed. Gentleman's and Monthly Magazines. 



KEATING, Geoffrey, an Iiifh hiftorian, was a 

 native of Tipperary, and flouriihed in the earlier _ part 

 of the feventeenth century. He was educated with a 

 view to the duties of the Roman Catholic church, and having 

 received at a foreign univer.'ity the degree of atxSlor of 

 divinity, he returned to his native country, and becnme a 

 celebrated preacher. Being well vcrfed in the ancient Irifh 

 language, he collcfted the remains of the early hillory, and 

 antiquities of the illand, aud formed them into a regular nar- 

 rative. This work he fmiflied about the tin.e cf the'accelTiorf 

 pf Charles I. to the tlirone : it comniencLS from the firit 

 planting of Ireland, after the dehige, and goes on to" ths 

 17th year of king Henry II., giving an account of the lives 

 .and reigns of one hundred and feventy-four kings of the 

 Milelian race. From the above circumilances, our readers 

 will readily fuppofe that this work is little better than fitlion. 

 Indeed the adrocates of the author allege iu his defence, 

 that he has given his extraordinary relations merely as fables, 

 and not as true hillory. It remained in MS. in the original 

 language, till it was tranflated into Englilh by Dei-mot 

 O'Connor, and publillied in London in 1723. A new edi- 

 tion was publilhed in 1738, with plates of the arms of the 

 principal Irifli families. Keating died about the middle of 

 the fevcnteeuth century. 



KEBAN, in Geo^i:aphy, a town of A fiat ic Turkey, in 

 the province of Diarbekir ; .70 miles N. of Diarbekir. 



KEEER, the name of a feet among the Perfians, who, 

 in general, are rich merchants. See Gabr^^S.. 



KEBET, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Eaft Indian 

 fea. S. lat. 7- 10'. E. long, i^o''^ 40'. 



KEBLA, or Keblah, called alfo KMeh, Kibhh, and 

 Alhclla, am.ong the Muifulmen, denotes that point, or 

 quarter, to winch they turn themfelvcs when they fay their 

 prayers. 



Mahomet, at firft, duril not propofe any other kebla to 

 his followers but the temple of Jerufalera, which was the 

 kebla of the Jews and Chrillians. In the courfe of time, 

 however, being willing to bring them off from any commu- 

 nication iu matters of religion, with the Jevvs and Chrilliaos, 

 he appointed them, in the Koran, to turn themfelves, at 

 prayer, towards the temple of Mecca: from which time they 

 called thofe two temples the kcllaum, or tw;o keblas. 



Ricaut adds, that it is not the temple of Mecca, properly 

 fpeaking, that the Turks call kebla, but rather the large 

 fquare tower in the middle of the amphitheatre of that 

 temple. , ...... 



The kebla of the Jews was the temple at Jernfalem;.lhat 

 of the Sabiaus, the meridian ; and that of the Magians, the 

 rifmg fun. To this the prophet EzekieL refers. diap. viii. 

 16. 



Kebla is alfo ufed for an altar ; or rather a.r.ick^, as 

 Ricaut calls ij, which the. Mahpsjietans hjjve in all tjicir 

 mpfques, and which is placed. very, exaftly on that .fide to- 

 wards the temple of Mecca. 



Hence alfo kebla comes to be ufed, metaphorically, for 

 the objeft, or end propofed, in doing any .thing. 



Thus, the keisla of kings,, is their, crown and authority ; 

 that of men of bufinefs,,b money.; that of gluttons, good 

 cheer, &c, ... c- . . 



KEBLA^NOM A, or Kebleu^noma, a name whicli the 

 Turks and Perfians give to a little pocket-compafe, which 

 they always carry with them V. in order to place them.fclv.cs 

 the more exailly when they, go tpj>jrayej-s. 



KEBLE, .losEPH, in Bk^niphj, fon of Richard KeJDle, 

 cfq. a lawyer of reputation ivt Ipfwich, was bpriiia l^qndon 



