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of the judges of the court of common pleas. To the ead 

 of the town are the remains of a cafUe, which is fuppofed to 

 have been built by the firll barons of Kendal. It was for- 

 merly a place of corfidcrablo extent and llrength ; but its 

 towers and wallj are much mutilated and reduced. Parts of 

 two fquare and two round towers, however, Hill remain, as 

 well as great part of the wall round the outer liallium. An- 

 other objeft of antiquity is an artificial mount, called by the 

 inhabitants Caftle-law-hilL In the town are chapeh. for 

 Quakers, Methodills, Pre^yteriairs, and Roman Catholics. 

 Tlie chief manufafturers and tradefmen of the town are 

 united into twelve companies, each of which has a hall : 

 -.•/:: Mercers, Tanners, Glovers, Sheermcn, Cordwainers, 

 Taylors, Pewterers, &c. Kendal is 2 2 miles from Lan- 

 cafter, and 260 N. of London. In the year iSoo it con- 

 tained 1424 houl'es, and 6892 inhabitants. Nichoifon and 

 liurn's Hillory of Wellnioreland, Sec. two vols. 410. ; and 

 Houfeman's " Defcriptive Tour through various Northern 

 Counties," &c. 8vo. iSoo. 



RENDER, a town of Hindooftan, in Sehaurunpour ; 

 Xo miles N. of Sehaurunpour. — Alfo, a town of Ci'.rdillan; 

 rB miles SAV. of Ik-tlis. 



KENDRICKs Island, an idand which forms the W. 

 Cde of Nootka Sound, into which there is an entrance from 

 the \V. by Maffachufctt's Sound, along the northern fide^ 

 of the ill'and. 



KENDUSKE AG, a river of America, which runs into 

 the Penobfcot at the town of Bangor, about two miles be- 

 low the head of the tide ; where is a thriving vidage 

 cf handfomc houfes, and a place of tlie greateil trade in the 

 river. 



KENDY, a town of Bengal ; 50 miles N.N.E. of Ram- 

 gur. N. lat. 24~ 16'. E. long. 85- 6'. 

 KENE'. SeeC.BNF.'andGniNNA. 



KENEE, a town of Perlia, in the province of Khora- 

 fan ; 4, miles N. of Herat. 



KENERA, or Kenereii, a mountain on the iflind of 

 Salfette, near Bombay, celebrated for the number aad extent 

 of its excavations. Its principal cavern is arched, in the 

 ftyle of that defcribed under the article Kakly; and was 

 evidently, from its ftile of fculpture, a temple of the god 

 Budha.'or Boodli. (See Boodh.) On each fide of the 

 veilibule are (landing figures of the god, in eafy attitudes, 

 of tolerable proportions, and well fculptured in alto-relievo, 

 fourteen feel high. This cave and three figures are ele- 

 gantly reprefented in Daniel's fine feries of oriental fcenery. 

 See Kaklv. 



KENFIG, or Cynek;, a parifh of Glamorganfhire, South 

 Wales, is noticed in this work, chiefly to correcl the errors 

 of other topographical writings ; in molt of which it is 

 defcribed as a town. Mr. Donavan, in his " Defcriptive 

 Excurfions through South Wales,'" defcribes it as a poor, 

 fmall village, inhabited moftlv by failors and fmugglers, and 

 reprefents thefe as being particukrly rude and infulting to 

 ftrangers. A duller of mean cottages, grouped together, 

 with a church on a ridge of rifing ground, conftitute this 

 village. In this parilh is Kenfig-pool, a lake of frefh water, 

 which " IS embolomed in a deprefiion of an irregular form, 

 in the midll of lands that have been apparently drifted upon 

 this fpot from the contiguous coall, and though lying within 

 a very Ihort diftance of the fea at flood tide, invariably re- 

 tains its freflmefs pure and untainted by the m.uriatic pro- 

 perties of the former. The circumference of this pool is 

 cilimated at a mile and three quarters. The dcpih is great 

 in fome plants. Indeed it has the reputation of being, in 

 many parts, unfatiiomable." It is traditionally faid, that a 

 town formerly occupied this fpot, and that it was fwallov.cd 



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up by an earthquake. At a (hort diflance from this lake, 

 on an eminence, are fome ruins, called Kenfig-caftle, which 

 was only a fmall fortrefs. In iSoo, this parifli contained 15S 

 houfes, and 65J inhabitants. 



KENGHEVAR, a town of Perfia, in Irak, on a river 

 which runs into the Karafa ; 240 miles N. of Ifpahau. 

 N. lat. 54 20'. E. long. 47 10'. 



KENJAR, a town of Hindoollan, in Eahar ; ;o miles 

 S.W. of Patna. 



KENIIAVORTH, a market town and parilh in the 

 hundred of Knightlow and county of Warwick, England, 

 is famed in the annals of the kingdom for its ancient caftle, 

 "which,"' fays Diigdale, " was tiie glory of all tiiefeparts, 

 and for many refpects may be ranked, in a third place at the 

 leall, with tlie moll ilately callles of England." This for- 

 trefs was built by Geoffry de Chnton in the time of Henry I. 

 He was chamberlain and treasurer to that monarch. By 

 fubfequent kings and occupiers it was greatly enlarged and 

 ftrengthencd at different times : and in the various civil and 

 domelUc wars of England, it was frequently the objeft of 

 contention with different monarchs and nobles. To detail 

 futh particulars would be foreign to the nature of this work,; 

 but the reader may find much curious and in'.crelling inlor- 

 rcation relating to the fame, in Dugdale's " Antiquities of 

 Warwickfliirc." What remains of tlie buildirijjs flicw that 

 the who'e was an immenfe and fpacious pi e : coniilling of 

 an outer wall with baftion towers, a tilt-yard, with towers' at 

 each end ; and fevera' buildings within the ballium, or bafe- 

 court. The area wiihin the walls confills of feven acres. 

 There were four gatehoufcs, and the walls were from ten 

 to fifteen feet in tliicknefs At a (hort diflance from the 

 callle was a priory for Black canons. Of the buildings, 

 parts of the gateway and chapel remain. Near thefe is the 

 parifh church, the wellern door-way of which is a curious 

 fpecimen of ancient architefture. In the town are two 

 meeting-houfes, or chapels. Kenilworth is five miles from 

 Warwick, and five from Coventry. In 1800, the town con- 

 tained 41 S houfes, and 1968 inhabitants. Dugdale's An- 

 tiquities of Warwickfliire. 



KENKRI, a town of Europenn Turkey, in Livadia ; 

 40 miles W of Athens. 



KENKS, in the St-a P/jiv/e, arc doublings in a cable or 

 rope, when it is handed in or out, fo that it does not run 

 fmooth, or when any rope makes turns, and docs not run 

 fmooth and clever in the block, they fay it make>" kenks. 



KENMARE Town, called AW..;«, in Gf<*^ra//.j.,a poft- 

 town of the county of Kerry, province of Munller, Ire- 

 land. It is lituated at the norlh-eall extremity of an exten- 

 five river or bay on the Atlantic ocean. Kenmare is 155 

 miles S.W. from Dubhn, and 12 miles S. from Killarney. 



Kknmake River, a river or arm of the Atlantic ocean, 

 on the coall of Ireland, which extends about 20 miles in 

 length, and about three in breadth, fituated at the fouth-weft 

 fide of the county of Kerry. It affords a fafe and capacious 

 harbour, but little frequented. The mouth is lituated in 

 N. lat. ji 40'. W. long. 9 57' 



KENNEBECK, a river of America, which, next to 

 Penobfcot, is the finell in Maine. Three miles from the 

 mouth, the waters of the river are divided by Swan ifland, 

 fcveii miles in length ; on both fides of which they are na- 

 vigable : at tiie dillance of 38 miles from the fea is the 

 ifiand Nahunkeag, fignifying the land where eels arc taken. 

 Within three miles of this illand, a fmall river, ilfuing from 

 ponds in the town of Winthrop, runs into the Kennebeck, 

 and it is known by the Indian name Cobbifleconteag, 

 denoting the place where flurgeons are taken. Six miles 

 higher is the head of the navigable waters, which is a 

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