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KELA, or QuiLLA, a town of Africa, on the Slave 

 C6>a(l, in the canton of Koto. 



KELAIA,a town ofArabia.in the province of Hedsjas ; 

 50 miles E.S.E. of Calaat cl Moilah. 



KELANG, or KiLAs-G, a fmall ittrnd in the EaR Tn- 

 dian fea. near the W. coail of the iilanj of Ceram. S. lat. 

 5 »'. E.long. 128'. 



KELAR, a town of Perfia, in Irak ; 70 miles E S.E of 

 Cafhin. 



KELAT, a town of Perfia, in the province of Khora- 

 fan, at the edge of a mountain furroundeJ by rocks : it 

 Avas taken by Timur Bee in 1382 ; 12 miles E. from Abi- 

 •verd. 



KELES, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; :§ 

 miles E.N E. of Ephefus. 



KELHEIM, a town of Bavaria, fituatcd on an ifland 

 formed at the conflux of the .Vltmuhl and Danube ; 46 

 miles N.N.E. of Munich. N. lat. 48' 52'. E. long. 

 1 1^ ,2'. 



KELIUB, or Kaljub, a town of Egypt, on the Ka- 

 lit's Abu Meneggi, the capital of a diftrici ; 6 miles N. of 

 Cairo. 



KELL, in Rural Economy, a web, or kind of bag, in 

 which infects are bred. 



KELLAH, in Geography, a to>vn of Abyflinia ; 75 miles 

 E. of Axum. 



KELLER, JoHX BALTirASA«, in Biography, a cele- 

 brated artift, was born at Zurich in 163.S. Having learnt 

 -the art of a goldfmith, in whicli he difplayed great in- 

 genuity, he went to Paris by the invitation of his brother, 

 who held the polls of canon-founder, and commilTary of ar- 

 tillery to the king of France. While in the French ler- 

 vice he call a great many cannon, together with feveral 

 ftatues for the gardens of Verfailles ; but that by which he 

 is chiefly celebrated is the grand equeftrian Itatne of Lewis 

 XIV. executed after the model of Girardon. He was made 

 infpeiflor of the foundery'at the arfenal, and died at Paris in 

 the year 1702. Gen. Biog. 



Keller, Godfrev, a native of Germany, who fettled 

 in England about the beginning of the lall century, and 

 had much praflice as a harpfichord mailer. In 1711, he 

 publilhed. at Amfterdam, fix fonatas, engraved on copper- 

 plates ; of which the three fird were for two violins, a tenor, 

 a trumpet or hautbois, and a bafs ; the three lad for two 

 flutes, two hauttois or violins, and a baflo continuo. Tliefe 

 the author dedicated to queen Anne. After this he arid 

 Finger pubhihed fonatas, jointly, in five parts. 



As a compofer, Keller was foon forgotten ; but he was 

 remembered a confiderable time as the author of a poflhu- 

 mous treatife on thorough-hafe, which he had finilhed, but 

 did not live to publifli. It was, however, printed, a fliort 

 time after, by CuUen at the Buck, between the Temple 

 gates and Fleet-llroet, with the follov/ing ample title : " A 

 .complete Method for the attaining to play a Thorough- 

 Bafe upon cither Organ, Harpfichord, or Theorbo-Lute ; 

 by the late famous Mr. Godfrey Keller, with Variety of 

 proper LelFons and Fugues, explaining the feveral Rules 

 throughout the whole Work ; and a Scale for tuning the 

 Harpfichord or Spinet, all taken from his own Copies, which 

 he did defign to print." 



This treatife, though meagre, was the beft our country 

 could boall, till Lampe, in 1737, publifhed iiis " Plain and 

 Compendious Metliod of teaching Thorough-Bafe, after a 

 moil rational Manner, with proper Rules for practice ; the 

 Examples and I.,effon8 curioufly engraved on Copper- 

 plates." Of tliis work we ihall fpu-jik hereafter. See 

 t,AMi>i:. 



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KELLERAMPT, in Gfof,v//.Ay, a bailiwick of Swit- 

 zcrland ; in the canton of Zurich, al wliich Bremgarten is 

 the principal place. 



KELLEY, Edward, in Biography, the afibciate of Mr. 

 Dee (to whofe article the reader is referred), in his incanta- 

 tions, was born at Worcefter in the year 1,^55;. He was edu- 

 CMted in giaminar learning m his native city, and at the age of 

 fevcnteen he was fent to the univerfity of Oxford. According 

 to Anthony Wood he left Oxford very abruptly, and in his 

 peregrinations behaved lb ill, and comn\ilted lo many foul 

 matters, that at Lancaller he was for fome offence deprived 

 of his ears. After this he became acquainted with Mr. 

 Dee, and, as we have feen, they fet out for the continent. 

 For fome time Kelley lived in a very expenfive flyle, fup. 

 ported, probably, by the contributions which he levied 00 

 the credulou'!, till he was ordered into confinement by the 

 emperor Rodulpli. He obtained his releafe, and conciliated 

 the favour of the prince, who conferred on him the honour 

 of knightlwod. Freih dilcuveries of his knavery occafioned 

 a fecond iniprifonment, and in attempting to efcape from the 

 place of his confinement, he met with an accident which put 

 an end to his life in the year 1 5 95. He was author of 

 feveral works, of which " A Poem on Chemiftry," and 

 another on " The Pl^iiofopher's Stone," were inferted in 

 Afhmole's " Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum." He 

 publilhed at Hamburgh, in 1 6;6, a treatife, " De Lapide 

 Philofophorum ;" he was author, likewife, of " A True and 

 faithful Relation of what paffed, for many Years, between 

 Dr. John Dee and fome Spirits, &c." Several of his MSS, 

 are Hill preferved in the Aflimolean Mufeum, at Oxford. 

 Wood's Athen. 



Kelley, Hugh, a dramatic writer, was a native of Ire- 

 land, and bred a llay-maker, which profeffion he quitted 

 when he came to London, and became writer to an attorney. 

 He afterwards obtained a livelihood by his pen, and was 

 author of the following pieces: " Falfe Delicacy;" "A 

 Word for the Wife ;" " The School for Wives j" « The 

 Romance of an Hour." Thefe, as their titles denote, are 

 all comedies. He was author alfo of " Clementina," a 

 tragedy ; " Thefpis," a poem ; " Memoirs of a Magda- 

 len ;" " The Babbler ;" and a colkaion of Eflays. He 

 died in the year 1777. 



KELLI, in Geography, a town and fortrcfs of Hin. 

 dooftan, in the country of Tanjore ; 27 miles S. of Tan- 

 jore. N. lat. 10^ 20'. E. long. 79° 7'. 



KELLINORE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carna- 

 tic ; 10 miles N. of Pondicherry. 



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

 Mcath, province of Leinfter, Ireland. It was in former 

 times a city of note, and on the arrival of the Englifli wa» 

 walled and fortified with towers : a calUc was built in 1 178, 

 and there were feveral religious houfes. It was alfo a bo- 

 rough town, which, before the Union, fent two burgefles to 

 parliament. Kells is 32 miles N.W. from Dublin on the 

 river Blackwater, and nearly eight from Navan. 



KELLY, Earl of, in Biography, an illuflrious dilet- 

 tante mufician, in whom were united ai)plication, genius, 

 and a powerful hand on the violin. This nobleman went 

 through all the gradations of dudy neceffary to form a, 

 profound contrapuntill. When he quitted Great Britain to 

 make the tour of Germany, according to Pinto, he could 

 fcarcely tune his violin ; but ftopping at Manheim, he 

 heard the beil indrumental mufic in Europe, and {hut 

 himfelf up with the elder St.imitz, whofe originality and fire 

 fet his young pupil in a blaze, and fo congenial were the 

 tade and difpofition of the fcholar and the mailer, that they 

 feemed the growth of the fame foil. The fame energy and 



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