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German to the Latin. A pollhumoiis colleftion of his ana- 

 tomical writings was publiOied at Leydcn in 1717, with tlie 

 title of " Opera omnia Anatomica." Eloy. Did. 



KERCOLANG, in Geography, an ifiand in the Eaft 

 Indian fea, about 80 miles in cn-cuniference, inhabited by 

 Malays. N. lat. of the north extremity 4' 2S'. E. long. 

 126 30'. 



KERDA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 

 land ; ^8 miles W.N.W. of Wexio. 



KERDECAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kcr- 

 man ; 22 miles N \V. of Sirgian. 



KERDISTAN, a town of Perfia, in Chnfiftan ; 90 

 miles E.S.E. of Sniler. 



KERDIZ, a town of Candahar, in Cabuliilari ; 70 miles 

 E. of Ghizni. 



KEREDGE, a town of Perfia, in Irak ; 15 miles S.W. 

 of Sava. 



KERELO, a town of Tranfvlvania, on the Maros ; 20 

 miles W.N.W. of Scheftiur-, 



KEREMPIBURUN, called Cape Crampi, a cape on 

 the N. coall of Natulia, on a neck of land which projects 

 into the Black fea. N. lat. 42 45'. E. long. 33 to'. 



KEREN, a town of Perl'ia, in Irak; 45 miles W. of 

 Kermanflia. 



KERESB.AN.TA, a town of Tranfvlvania; .1.4 miles 

 S.S.W. of Colofvar. N. lat. 4f 16'. E long. 22' 25'. 



KERESOUN, a town of Turkifn .■\rmenia, at the 

 mouth of a river of the fame name, which runs into the 

 Black fea, anciently a city of PoKtus, called Cera/us ; which 

 fee. 



KERESZTUR, a town of Tranfylvaiiia ; 36 miles N. 

 of Schefti.rg. 



KERET, a town of RulTia, in the goveniment of Arch- 

 angel, on the White fea ; 14S miles S. of Kola. 



KERETSKOI, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 

 Archangel, on the White fea ; 32 miles N. of Archangel. 



KERF is the notch or flit that is made by the faw be- 

 tween two pieces of wood, when thev are Tawing afunder. 



KERFE-K ARUMFEL, in the Materia Medica, a name 

 given by Avicenna, and ethers, to the wood of the clove- 

 tree, as the wood of the cinnanion-trre was cdled Ltrfc Jjr- 

 Jini ; and many others in the fame manner. 



KERGONG, in Geography, a town of Hindoollan, in 

 Candtifh ; 4^ miles S. of Indore. 



KERGUELEN'.s L.^nd, otherwife called the JJland 

 ef Defo'.ation, an ifland in the Southern Indian ocean, firit 

 difcovered in 1772, and afterwards vifited, in 1773, by M. 

 de Kerguelen, who, in his fccond voyage, difcovered lome other 

 fmall iflands in its vicinity. Kerguelen has, fincc the death of 

 captain Cook, publilhed the}ournal of his proceedings in thefe 

 two fuccelfive voyages, and has annexed to his narrative a 

 chart of the coafts of this land, as far as he had explored 

 them in both voyages. M. de Pages, much about the fame 

 time, favoured the public with another account of the fec-ond 

 Toyage, in forr.t- rcfpefts fuller than Kerguelen's own, on 

 ISoard of whofe fhip he was then an officer Captain Cook 

 fell in with thefe idands in December 1776 ; and of the firll 

 he fays, that it is an ifland of confiderable height, and about 

 three leagues in circuit. To this iiland Kerguelen had 

 given the nap.-e cf " Croy," or «♦ Crouy ;" and the view 

 cf it in his chart exaftly correfponds with Cook's account 

 cf its being of conlidf rabU height. Cook obftrved another 

 «(hnd of the fame m.-iffnit-de, one league to the eaftward, 

 which Kerguelen had call- d " Ifle Rolland," after the name 

 ef his own fhip, and of which Ke hdS given a view in his chart. 

 Bt-twecn thefe two irt.inds C( ok obferved fome fmalier ones 

 »» the direction of S.£. In tbe dire^i> S, by £. \ £. frvm 



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the E. end of thie firft ifland, a third high iiland was feen. 

 This appears to have been Kerguelen's " Ifle de Clugny," 

 as marked on his chart. Another ifland in the N.E. direc- 

 tion was a high round rock, named by captain Cook 

 ' Bligh's Cap," which he juftly concluded to be the fame 

 which M de Kerguelen called the '• Ifle of Rendezvous," 

 though Cook fays " I know nothing that can rendezvous 

 at it but fowls of the air ; for it is certainly inacceflible to 

 every other animal." Bligh's Cap was afcertaincd to be 

 in S. lat. 48 29'. E. long. 68 40'. The French and 

 Englilli navigators agree very nearly with refpeft to the 

 latitude of tliis ifland; but they differ as to its longitude. 

 The pilot at Teneriffc made it only 64 57' E. irom Paris, 

 which is about 67 16' E. from London; or 1 24' more 

 weilerly than captain Cook's obfervations fix it. M. de 

 Pages fays it is 66 47' E. from Paris, that is, 69' 6' E. 

 from London, or 26 miles more eallerly than it is placed 

 bv captain Cook. Kerguelen himfelf only fays, that it is 

 about 68 E. long. The northern point of this land captain 

 Cook crroneoudy concluded to be the " Cape Louis" of 

 the firll difcoverers ; whereas, by an infpeftion of Kcrgue- 

 len's chart, this northern point defcribed by Cook, is the 

 fame with that to which the Fiench have given the name 

 of" Cape Fran9ois." The whole extent of coall lying be- 

 tween Cape Louis and Cape Francois, of which the French 

 faw very little during their firll vifit in 1772, and which 

 may be called the N.W. fide of this land, they had it in 

 their power to trace the pofition of in 1773 ; and they 

 have afiigned names to fome of its bays, rivers, and promon- 

 tories upon their chart. On the 25th of December (Chrill- 

 mas day), captain Cook anchored in the harbour from this 

 circumtlance denominated " Chriflmas Harbour," which 

 fee. On the 27th many of the Ihip's crew went on fliore, 

 and made excurlions, in different diredions, into the country, 

 which they found barren and defolate in the highell degree. 

 They brought with them a quart bottle, which was found 

 faflened with wire to a projecting rock on the N. fide of the 

 harbour. This bottle contained a piece of parchment, with 

 the following infciiption : " Ludovico XV. Galliarum 

 rcge, et D. de Boynes regi a fecretis ad res maritimas aniiis 

 1772 et 1773." Captain Cook, as a memorial of having 

 been in this harbour, caufed to be written on the other fide 

 of the parchment this infcriptio" : " Naves Refohition et 

 Difcovery de Rege Magnae Britannia, Decembris 1776." 

 This parchment was put again into a bott'e with a lilver 

 twopenny piece of 1772 ; and the bottle, having been 

 covered with a leaden cap, was placed on a pile of Hones 

 ereded for the purpofe, upon a liule eminence on the N. 

 fliore of the harbour, near the place where it was firll found. 

 The Chrillmas harbour of captain Cook is the fame with 

 the " Bale de I'Oifeau" of the French, and Cajic Francois, 

 and not Cape St. Louis, is the northern point of this land ; 

 and the account of the S. point of the harbour given by M. 

 de Pages and captain Cook remarkably agree. The land 

 on both fides of the inlet is high, and it runs in W., and 

 W.N.W. about two miles. Its breadtii is 1 1 mile, for more 

 than half its length ; above which it is on'y half a mile. The 

 depth of water is 45 fathoms at the entrance, and varies, in 

 proceeding farther inward, from thirty to five and four fa- 

 thoms. The fliores are Iteep, and the bottom is every where 

 a fine dark iand, except near the ihore, where are beds of 

 feaweed. I'he head of the harbour lies open only to two 

 points of the compafs ; and even thefe are covered by 

 iflands in ths offing, fo that no fea can fall in to hurt a (hip. 

 It i.^ high water here at the full and change da)s, about 

 10 o'clock ; and the tide rifes and falls about four feet. 

 Captain Cook explored this ifland, and other iflands adjacent- 

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