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ciil'e fir Hugh Pallifer, at lead to fcreenliim from public rcfent- 

 ment, wrote home fucha letter a* fecuicd even to imply great 

 impropriety of behaviour in the commander himfelf. The con- 

 duct, however, of the rear-admiral was attacked in the pubbc 

 papers : he demanded of his commander a formal difavowal 

 of the charges brong!it againil him, v.'hieh Kcppcl indig- 

 Eantly refuftd. He immediately exhibited articles of acc.i- 

 f.jtion againil the commander-in-chief, for mifcondiicl and 

 r.egleft of duty, although he liad a fccond time failed with 

 him, and had never uttered a fyllable to his prejudice. The 

 lords of the admiralty, to the ailoninmieiit of the nation, in- 

 flantly fixed a day for the trial of admiral Kcppel : he was 

 mod honourably acquitted, and received the thanks of both 

 houfes of parliament for his fervices. Pallifer was next 

 tried, andefcaped with acenfure only, but the refentment of 

 the pubbc was fo great, that he was obliged to relign feveral 

 offices whicli he held luidcr government, and to vacate his 

 fcal in parliament. The acquittal of Keppel was celebrated 

 with the moll magnilicent illuminations, and other marks of 

 rejoicing which had never been known at that time in this 

 country, and the houfes of lord Sandwich, firft lord of the 

 admiralty, and iir Hugh Pallifer, were with difilculty faved 

 from deilruCtion ; the windows and much of the furniture 

 being demoliihed by the fury of the populace. In 1782, 

 admiral Kcppel was raifed to a peerage, with the titles of 

 vifcount Keppel, baron Elden : he v.as afterward', at two 

 diUerent periods, appointed liril lord of the admiralty. He 

 died Ocl. 3d, 1786, unmarried, and of courfe his titles be- 

 came extinei. He was a thorough feaman, and a man of 

 great integrity and humanity. Gent. Mag. 



Keppel's Buy, in Geogrnphy, a bay of the South 

 Pacific ocean, on the N.E. coalt of New Holla;:d. S. lat. 

 zy" 28'. E. long, ijo^ 33'. 



Kepi'F.I's Ijlaml, or Traitor's Ifiand, an ifland in the 

 South Pacific ocean. S. lat. 15' 53'. W. long. 172' n' 

 to 17J' 13' — Alfo, a fmall i.land on the N. fide of the 

 moft vvefterly of the Falkland iflands, in the S. Atlantic 

 ocean. S. lat. 51° 24'. W. long. 60" 15'. — Alfo, one of 

 thofe called- queen Ciiarlotte's illands, in the S.Pacific 

 ocean. S. lat. 10" ij'. \V. long. 134 56'. 



KeppivL's Ijlands, a group of illands near Keppel's bay, 

 on the N.E. coall of New Holland, difeovered by captain 

 Cook in the year 1770. Near thefc illands the water, 

 which was too Ihaliow for filh, abounded with crabs, which 

 were of two forts, and both fuch as had not been feen before : 

 one of them was adorned with the fincll blue that can bo 

 imagined, in every refpeCt equal to tlie ultramarine, with 

 which all his claws and every joint were deeply tinged ; the 

 under part of it was white, and fo exquifitely pohlhed, that 

 in colour and brightnefs it refembles the white of old China ; 

 the other was alfo marked with the ultramarine upon his 

 joints and toes, but fomewhat more fparingly, and his back 

 was marked with three broivn fpots, which had a fingular 

 appearance. S. lat 2j' 8'. W. long. 2oy i'. Hawkef- 

 worth's Voyages of Cook, &c. vol. iii. 



KEPSE, a town of Syria, on the cnaft of the J>fediter- 

 ranean, and on the N. fide of tlie mouth of the Oroiito.'i, 

 about a mile from the fea ; fitiiated, as it is fuppofed, on tiie 

 fcite of the ancient Scleuda, which fee. 



KEPTA, a town of Bootan ; J4 miles 3. of Tufla- 

 fudon. 



KERAMIANS, a heretical fea of Mahometans, the fol- 

 lowers of Mohammed Ebn Kerim, Called alio Mojatfemians, 

 orCorporealilh, who not only admittedarefemblance between 

 G.od and created beings, but declared God to be corporeal. 

 They were led to this notion by the literal afceptatioii of 

 thofe paflagcs in the Koran, which figurai'r\-ely attribute 



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corporeal aflions to God, and of the words of Mahomet, 

 when he faid, that God created man in his o-wn image, and 

 that himfelf had fill the fingers of God, which he laid on his 

 back, to be rolcl. 



KERAMO, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in Natoha ; 24 miles S.S.E. of Milcts. 



KERANA, a long fort of trumpet : fomewhat in form 

 of a fpeaking-trumpct, ufed by the PerCans. 



To the found of this, they add a confufed noife of haut- 

 boys, timbrels, drums, and other inflruments, every evening 

 at fun-fet, and two hours after midnight. 



KERATI, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 

 Caramania ; 26 miles N.W. of Beifliebri. 



KERATIA, a town of European Turkey, in Livadia ; 

 24 miles S.S.E. of Athens. 



KERATOPHYTUM, in Natural Iiy%ry, a fpecies of 

 Gorgonia ; which fee. 



KERAUN, in Geography, a town of Hindooilan, in 

 Lahore ; 15 miles W.N.W. of Gujurat. 



KERBEHj a town of Natolia ; 44 miles N.E. of 

 Ifmid. 



KERBOOZ.\. a town of Hindooilan, in Lahore ; 32 

 miles S E. of Attock. 



KERCAL, a town of Africa, in Fez, or. the coaft of 

 tke Mediterranean ; 45 miles E.S.E. of Tetuan. 



KERCH, or KeriscHt a fortified town of Ruflia, in tha 

 province of Tauris, on the channel between the Black fea 

 and the fea of Azoph. It was founded by a colony o£ 

 Greeks from Miletus, and afterwards fubdued by the kings 

 of Bofphorus. In the year of Rome 689, it was taken by 

 Mithridates. king c^f Ponti'.s, who, in confequu-.ce ct tlie 

 rebellion of his fo'n Pharnaces, wzs befieged in the calilc, and 

 at his own rcqi:elt put to death by an officer of the Gauls, 

 who had forced the wails ; ico miles E.S.E. of pcrekop. 

 N. lat. 4,- 16'. E. long. 36 14'. 



KERCHA, a town of Pcrfia, iii Chufillan ; 30 miles 

 N.W. of Suiter. 



KERCKRING, Theodore, in Biography, a celebrated 

 phyfician, was a native of A mftcrdam. He had attained 

 the age of eighteen, when he began the ftudy of the Latin 

 language, under the tuition of Francis Van Ende, and fooii 

 afterwards apphed himfelf to medicine with fo much zeal 

 and fuccefs, that he obtained a high, reputation, both 

 in the piaftice of the profeffiou, and by his anatomical 

 and chemical difcovcries. He continued the exercife of 

 his art at Amfierdam for feveral years, and married thq 

 daughter of his preceptor, before mentioned ; after which, 

 he fettled at Kambi.rgh in the yeai- 167S, where, after 

 liaviiig for a long time held the appointment of refident froiH 

 the grand duke of Tufcany, he died in November, j 693. 

 Anatomy was the favourite fubjeft of his refearches, and \,o 

 formed an anatomical mufeuni, which was long an objedl of, 

 admiration, and the refort of the curious, who vifited that 

 city. His principal writings were likeivife tipon anato-. 

 uiical fubiefts ; they arc as follows : 1. «' Spicilegium Ana- 

 tomicum," continent Obfervatioiium Anatomicarym rariorum. 

 Centuriam unam, nccnon Oilcogeniam Foetuunri, in qua, quid 

 cuique ofliculo fingulis accedat menfibus, quidquc decedat 

 & io to per varia immulctur tempora, uccuratiifimc pculi.^ 

 fubjicitur." Amll. 1670, 1673. 2. " Anthropogeniie ich-' 

 nographia, five, confbrmatio Fuctus ab ovo ufque ad olUlica'-' 

 tionis'principia, in Suppleir.entum Ofteogcnix Fa:tuuin."_ 

 (Ibid. 1671.) In this work the developement of the fcclus, 

 at di2«rent periods of its age, is traced with great- atlenli»ri 

 and minutenefs. 3. " Commentarius in Currum Trium, 

 phalem Antimonii Baf. .Valentiiii.' ' ( Ibid'. 167 u) This is 

 chiefiy a tranflatioii of Bafil Valcn-.iae's ,woik, from* tlie 

 4. Z i GcrnvdO 



