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xvdrds Dr., Boyce ; and was elefted organift of tlie king's 

 parifli church, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, where, of a Sun- 

 day afternoon, it was the cuftom, not only for young or- 

 ganifts, but the principal profeffors, to crowd under the 

 organ-loft to hear his voluntaries ; in which there was an 

 original and mafterly wildnefs, which long fupported his 

 charafter as a great player, in a flyle totally different from 

 other organiils ; bold, rapid, and fanciful. 



With his harpfichord playing we were unacquainted ; but 

 we have often been affured, that he conftantly kept in high 

 praftice, Scarlatti's belt and moft difficult leflbns, which he 

 executed in a manner peculituly neat and delicate. As to 

 compofition, it is to be lamented tliat he did not exercife 

 his pen and fancy more early in life, or that he ever attempted 

 it at all : for on the arrival of Bach, and appointment at 

 court as chamber-mufician to the queen, to whom he dedi- 

 cated his firll publication in this country, Mr. Kelway thought 

 it neceffary, as mufic-mailer to her majefty, to publidi a 

 book of harpfichord leffons, which are, perhaps, the moll 

 crude, aukward, and unplcafant pieces of the kind that have 

 ever been engraved. There is a manifeil want of facility 

 and experience, which proves, that though he was old in 

 praftical mufic, he was young in its theory and in com- 

 poiition. 



Handel, who ufed to go frequently to St. Martin's 

 church to hear him play, always, when indifpofed, requelled 

 Kelway to play the organ for him in Ids oratorios. 



This adinirable performer, the inoH brilliant we ever heard, 

 in point of fancy and finger, lived to a great age, but, un- 

 happily, during the lad years of his life, his intellects were 

 fomewhat deranged. He died in 17S2, and was fucceeded 

 at St. Martin's church by Dr. Benjamin Cook, organill of 

 Weltminiler Abbey. 



KEMA, in Geography, a town on the E. coaft of the 

 ifland of Celebes. N. lat. i' 8'. E. long. 125- 2'. 



KENf A, in Natural Hijlory, a name given by Leo Afri- 

 canus, and other writers of the African hiftory, to a fort 

 of . fubterranean production of the vegetable kind, greatly 

 efteemed as a delicious food. The Arabian writers on me- 

 dicine have often mentioned it, and that under names fuffi- 

 ciently refembling the modern African appellation, fuch as 

 iamahe, camah, L-emah, and camha. They are not the roots 

 of any plant, but a fine kind of fubterraneous murtiroom, or 

 truffle, white on the out fide, and which lie generally pretty 

 deep in the earth. 



KEM.AOON, in Geography, a fmall ftate, which, with 

 others, forms a tract of country feparated from Hindooftan 

 by lofty mountains, and utuated to the N. of Oude and 

 Rohllcund. 



KEMAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia ; eight 

 niiles S. of Sinob. 



KEMBELA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Ulea ; five miles S. of Ulca. 



KEMBERG, a town of Saxony ; fix miles S. of Wit- 

 tenberg. 



KEMER, a town of Afiatic Turkev, in the government 

 of Trebifond ; i 2 miles E.N.E. of Rileh. 



KEMGUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 27 miles 

 N.N.E. of Durbunga. 



KEMI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Olonetz, 

 at the mouth of the river Kem, on the W. of the White 

 fea. N. lat. 64^ 55'. E.long. 28 38'. — Alfo, a fea-port 

 town of Sweden, in Ealt Bothnia, fituated on the right bank 

 of the river Kemi, which runs into the gulf of Bothnia, about 

 three miles from its mouth; 10 miles E. of Tornen. N. 

 lat. 66' 49', E. long. 24" 2;'. 



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KEMIJ.'\N, a town of Hindooilan, in Bahar ; 31 miles 

 S.S.W. of Patna. 



KEMITRASK,atown of Sweden, in Ealt Bothnia, at 

 the N. extremity of a confiderable lake formed in the river 

 Kemi ; 90 miles N.E. of Kemi. N. lat. 6642'. E.long. 

 27 14'. 



KEMLUC, or Ghio, a town of Afiatic Turkey, on tlje 

 b.iv of the fea of Marmora ; 20 miles W. of Ifnik. 



KEMMOO, a town of Africa, the metropohs of Kaarta •■, 

 formerly large and populous, but deftroyed fince it was 

 vifi'ed by Mr. Park. N. lat. 14' 20 . V/. long. 7" 46'. 



KEMNAT, a town of Bavaria ; 26 miles N. of Am- 

 berg. N. lat. 49" 53'. E. long. 1 1" Jj'. 



KEMNITZ, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 

 Jauer, on a river of the fame name, which runs into the 

 Bober ; fix miles W. of Hirfchberg. 



KEMPACH, a town of Tyrol ; fix miles N. W. of 

 Schwas. 



KEMPEN, a town of France, in the depai-tment of the 

 Roer, and chief place of a canton, in the diltrift of Cre- 

 veldt ; 15 miles N.E. of Ruremond. The place contains 

 2870, and the canton 12,830 inhabitants, in 12 communes. 

 It formerly contained a college and three convents, wirh 

 fome linen manufadtures. — Alfo, a town of the duchy of 

 Warfaw % 26 miles S. of Siradia. 



KEMPFERA, in Botany, fo named by Houftoun, in 

 honour of Dr. Engelbert Kempfer, or rather Ksempfer, 

 the celebrated traveller and naturalift. See Vekben-a, and 

 K/t;mpff.r. 



KEMPIS, Thom.\s a, in Biography, was born in the 

 year 1 3S0, at a vil'age in the diocefe of Cologne, whence he 

 derived his furname. The circumftances of his p.irents were 

 fuch as led them to feek for hmi an education on a charitable 

 foundation. At this place he was dittinguifhed for his ta- 

 lents, piety, and attachm.ent to a contemplative hfe. He 

 entered the monailery of Mount St. Agnes, received the 

 habit in 1406, and was ordained prieit in 1423. He occa- 

 fionally filled very important pofts of his order, though it 

 was much againft his v.-ill that he engaged at all in tiie aftive 

 duties of life. He died in 147 1, at the advanced age of 

 ninety-two. His works are chiefly devotional, and written 

 in an animated ftyle. The m.olt complete edition of them 

 is in three volumes, octavo, publilhed at Antwerp in 1600, 

 and in 1615. Many of them have been tranflated into a 

 variety of languages, particularly that entitled " De Imita- 

 tione Chrifti," which is to be found in almoft every known 

 tongue in the world. The bell Enghlh verfion is that by 

 Dr. George Stanhope, which was printed in 1696, and has 

 been feveral times reprinted. The learned are not agreed 

 as to the real author of this celebrated work, though given 

 to Thomas a Kempis by general confent, many have offered 

 reafons why he cannot be the writer. The queftion was 

 w^irmly agitated for fixty years, and gave rife to many 

 curious difcuffions, an account of which is given byDupin. 



KEMPSVILLE, in Geography, apoft-town of America, 

 in Prince Ann county, Virginia ; 243 miles from Wash- 

 ington. 



KEMPTEN, a town of Bavarb, on the river Her, lately 

 Imperial, The burghers and magillracy profefs Lutheran- 

 ifm, and in the tov.m are a handiome pariih church and a 

 grammar fchool. In 1801, this town and its abbey were 

 given to the eleth^r of Bavaria ; 36 miles S. of Augfburg. 

 N. lat. 47-' 43'. E. long. lo- 17'. — .\lfo, a princely abbey, 

 founded, or at leaft repaired and enriched, by Hildegard, 

 wife of Charlemagne, in the 8th century. To this abbey 

 belonged fome towns and villages. 



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