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of four feet, (hoiild be clofe, the other open two inches wide. 

 At the back of the kennel fliould be a thatched houfe, fenced 

 up at the fides, to contain at lead a load of ftraw ; a pit for 

 receiving the dung, and a gallows for the ilefli. If a piece 

 of ground adjoining the kennel can be inclofed for fuchdog- 

 horfes as may be brought alive, it will be very ferviceable, 

 as the diforders of condemned horfes are not always to be 

 difcovered, and may be dangerous to other.t ; the hounds 

 may alio be brought into this field to employ themfelves after 

 feeding ; and the draft for the next day's hunting can here 

 be more acciu'ately made than when they are confined in the 

 kennel. Stoves arc ufcd in fome kennels ; but a good feeder, 

 and the mop properly applied, render them nccdlefs. Should 

 ticks at anytime be troublefome, the walls of the kennel fliould 

 be v.ell walhed ; and if they are not thus deftroyed, the walls 

 fliould be white-wafhed. When the hunting feafon is over, 

 one kennel will fuflice ; the other, with the adjoining grafs- 

 yard, may be allotted to the young hounds. If there 

 be convenience, the dogs (hoiild be kept feparate from the 

 bitches during the fummer months. When hounds are 

 very riotous, the feeder may fleep in a cot in the adjoining 

 kennel, and if they be well challifed at the firll quarrel, his 

 voice will be fufficient afterwards. A feeder in Oxfordfhire 

 pulls a bell, the meaning of which he has taught the hounds 

 to underltand ; and it filences them immediately, without 

 his having the trouble to leave his bed. The farther removed 

 a kennel is from a road or pathway, the quieter will it be. 

 The interior regulations of a kennel comprehend the feeder, 

 the forts of food, and the mode of preparing and adapting 

 it to the appetites of the hounds. A good feeder, young, 

 aftive, induilrious, and good-tempered, is efiential. The 

 exquilite fenfe of fmelling peculiar to the hound, being 

 that on which the fport principally depends, fliould be care- 

 fully preferved ; and nothing fo much contributes to this 

 purpofe as cleanlineis. It is, therefore, of the greateft im- 

 portance that the kennel fliould be kept clean and fwect. 

 The heartieft and beft food for hounds is oatmeal ; which 

 fhoiild be preferved in binns or fugar hoglheads ; for the 

 older the meal is the better. The boiler fliould be of 

 caft iron ; and in fize proportioned to the number of hounds 

 in kennel. The flefh fnould be thoroughly boiled, and taken 

 out of the broth with the llrainer, before the oatmeal is put 

 into it. After about three quarters of an hour's boiling, the 

 liquor may be taken off and left to cool, which will foon be- 

 come a flrong jelly, and tor hunting hounds it cannot be too 

 compaft. Five or fix pecks of good old oatmeal will thicken 

 a boiler of broth, fufficient for two feeds for ^o couple of 

 hounds. The meat fliould never be given to the hounds too 

 hot. The feeding troughs fliould be wide at bottom and 

 have wooden covers ; nor fliould they be made too long, as 

 they are lefs convenient for being moved. After all, 

 great attention to the time and mode of feeding will be re- 

 quired on the part of the kennel huntfman. He fliould be ac- 

 cuftomed to call each hound by name, when he is fed ; when 

 a hound is called, he (hi.uld approach the huntfman, and 

 when he is touciied with a ftick, he fliould follow any where. 

 By thus ufing hounds to their names, they will learn obedi- 

 ence. The day before hunting the hounds fhould be fed at 

 eight in the morning, and three in the afternoon. Thofe that 

 are to hunt the next day fhould be drafted into the feeding- 

 yard, when about three buckets of thick mixed oatmeal is 

 prepared for tliem ; and the tender and bad feeders fliould 

 have a handful of boiled flefti given to them afterwards. 

 If hounds be low in condition, and have far to go to cover, 

 they may all have a little thin lap again in the evening ; but 

 this fhould never be given, if you hunt early. Hounds 

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the better. During the hunting feafon, hounds fliould have 

 one pound of fulphur given them in their meat, and when 

 the feafon is over, half a pound of antimony flionld be 

 added to the fulphur and well mixed with the meat. Greens 

 boiled in their meat, once a week, are likewife proper. A 

 horfe killed and given to hounds whilll warm, after a very 

 hard day, is an CMcellent meal ; but they fliould not hunt till 

 the third day after it. The bones broken are good for poor 

 hounds ; fheep-trotters are very fvveet food ; and bullocks' 

 paunches may alfo be of fervice, in the fcarcity of liorfe- 

 flefli. Immediate!" when hounds return from hunting, they 

 fliould be fed ; and if they have had a fevere day, fome 

 hours after they fliould be fed again. By turning them out 

 from the lodging-houfe to be fed, they will be rcfreflied, and 

 flretch their limbs ; and befidcs the litter being fliaken up, 

 and the kennel cleaned out, they fettle themfelves better on 

 the benches afterwards. At all times after being fed, the 

 hounds fhould be turned into the grafs-coiirt to empty them- 

 felves ; as this practice will not a little contribute to the 

 cleanhnefs of the ker.nel. Hounds fliould be fliut up warm 

 at night after hinitmg. Daniel's Rural Sports, vol. i. See 

 Hounds and Hunting. 



KENNERY, \a Geography, a fmall ifland near the coaR 

 of Ma!abar, furrounded with a wall and towers. N. lat. 

 1 8 42'. 



KENNET, a river of England, which rifes near a vil- 

 lage of the fame name in Wiltfhire, paffes by Marlborough, 

 Hungerford, and Newbury, v.'hence it is made navigable to 

 the Thames, whichitjoinsalittlebelow Reading. SeeCAN.i,!,. 

 Kennet, a townlhip of America, in Chefler county, 

 Pennfylvania. 



KENNETH II., in Biography, king of Scotland, fuc- 

 ceeded his father Alpin in 823. He made war upon the 

 PiCts, and lubdued their dominions in the north, which he 

 divided among his foldiers. Ke tranflated the flone chair to 

 Scone, where his fuccefTors were crowned, till it was re- 

 moved by Edward I. He died in the year SJ4. 



Kenneth III., fon of Malcolm, fubdued the Britons of 

 StrathcUiyd, and was equally filfccefsful again II the Danes, 

 who had invaded his dominions, but attempting to alter the 

 fuccethon of his crown in favour of his family, he was afraffi- 

 nated in 994. 



KENNETS, in our Old IVnlers, a fort of coarfe Welflj 

 cloth, mentioned in the flat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 3. 



Kennets, in a Ship, are fmall pieces of timber, nailed to 

 the infide of the fhip, into which tlie taeks and fheets are be- 

 layed (as they call it), /. e, faftened. 



KENNETT, White, in Biography, a learned Englifli pre- 

 late, fon of the Rev. Bafil Kennett, rector of Dimchurcli, in 

 Kent, was born at Dover in the year 1660. He received 

 the early part of his education in the country, and made fuch 

 progrefs in claflical learning, that upon his being removed to 

 Welfminfter, he was admitted into the upper fchcol. Im- 

 mediately after his admifTion he fell fick of tiie fmall-pox, 

 which obliged him to wait another year before he could be 

 received into the fchool. During this period he undertook 

 the office of tutor to a gentleman's fon in the neighbourhood. 

 He entered himfelf at Oxford in 1678, and went through 

 the iludies and exercifes of the place with great reputation. 

 While he was an under-graduate, he was introduced to the 

 acquaintance of Anthony Waod, and employed by him in 

 collefting epitaphs, and other notices of eminent men, who 

 had been members of Oxford. Mr. Kennett was particularly 

 attached to the feveral branches of polite literature, connefted 

 witli antiquities and hiftory. But his career as an author 

 commenced in the publication of a political traft while he 

 was under-graduate, entitled " A Letter From a Student at 



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