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original from the miftakes of the tranfcribers after the time 

 of Ezra, and the obfer vations and correftions of the Ma- 

 forites. Thofe keri-chetibs, which are in the facred books 

 written by Ezra himfelf, or wliich were taken into the canon 

 after his time, could not have been noticed by Ezra him- 

 felf; and this affords a prefuir.ption, tliat the otliers are of 

 late date. Tliefc words amount to about a thoufand ; and 

 Dr. Kennicott, in his " Diflertatio Generaiis," remarks, that 

 all of th?m, excepting fourteen, have been found in the text 

 of manufcripts. 



KERJE, or El Kerdsje, in Geography, ^ dilh-ifl: of the 

 province of Neged, or Nedsjed, in Arabia, lying on the 

 $.W. part of tliis province, and of courfe on the frontiers 

 of Yemen, extending along the eall of Hedsjaz, or Hejaz, 

 a confiderable way to the N. In this diftricl is the city 

 of Imam, famous even before tiie days of Mahomet, for 



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KERKUK, a town of Curdiftan, the capital of a o •• 

 vernment, and refidence of a pacha ; furrounded with wnl.. 

 and defended by a caftlc ; 150 miles N. of Bagdad. N. Lit. 

 353 J9'. E. long. 4_:;'- 42'. 



KERKWYCK, a town of Holland, in the department 

 of Guelderland ; two miles S. Bommcl. 



KERL, John- Gaspau, in B}ogrnp'iy, a native of Saxony, 

 but halving acquired in early youtli (jrc.it reputation as an 

 organ player, he was called to Vienna by the archduke Leo- 

 pold, and appointed organill at his courC; and manifelHng 

 iigns of extraordinary genius for compofition, he was placed 

 under Giovanni Valentini, mneftro di cappella at the impe- 

 rial court, and afterwards fcnt to Rome to itudy under 

 Cariffimi. Upon his return to Germany, great offers were 

 made to him from the cleftnr palatine, if he would enter 

 nto his fervice : but he decl 



a prophet. This province alfo comprifes other townS; 

 which is Salernia, on the confines of Yemen. 



KERIGAR, a town of Hindooilan, in the foubal 

 Oude ; 80 miles N. of Lucknow. N. lat. 28^ 12'. E. Ic 



of 



taken by 



b^i ^- '.. r nT -1 ' 1 r 1 • r ir luLu ma icivitc ; uiiL iii: ucLinjvu them, and pr-cferrcd fet- 



eing the native city of Mozeilama, who fet himfelf up as ,,• . a/t ■ 1 1 11 /i j- ' n , 



°- ■' __,!__ ._ H" thug at Munich, where he became macftro di cappella to the 



eleCior of Bavaria, Fcrdinando Maria. His principal work, 

 as a compofer was his " Modulatio nrganica fupcr Magni- 

 ficat 0(3o Tonis Ecclefiallicis Refpondens," engraved and 

 publiflied at Munich, in 1686. Kerl was efteemcd one of 

 the moft able and ikilful organifts of his time. In a cora- 

 petition with fome Italian muficians at the court of the 

 elector of Bavaria, he is faid by ^Va!thcr to have compofed 

 a piece for the organ of wonderful contrivance, which nor.e 

 but himfelf could execute. 



KERLE, .Jacob de, canon of t!ie cathedral of Cum* 

 in the dillri-1 of ^"'^)'> ^^'°™ Ypres, was a very voluminous compofer, contem- 

 j.j^.gj. porary with Gafpar. He publiP.ied " Pecces fpecialis fuc- 



celfu," in 1569 J " Cafmen Italiea muficis raodulis ornata," 

 1,70; " Cantiones facras, j &: 6 vocem," 157 1 ; in 4to. 

 Venice, 1^7 J, two, four, and five-pait mutctti, four and 

 five-part nialies, and a l"e Deum. 



KERLEH, in Geography, a circar of liindooflan, in 

 Berar, N. ViT. of Goondwina, and S. E. of Hmdia and 

 Bopaltol. 



KERMAN, anciently diramania, a province of Pcr-la, 

 bounded on the N. by Segellan, on .the E. by Mekran, on 

 the S. by the Perfian gulf, ard on the W. by Farliltan 

 and Larillan. The northern part is barren and almoil dc- 

 fert, without rivers or brooks, and the air unhealthy ; tO"- 

 wards the S. the air is more pure, and the land fertile. 

 This province contains a city of the fame name (fee Sir- 

 yenr 167S. gi.\n); but fome aulliors reprefent Yezd as the capittil. 

 and dillin- (See Yezd.) The Guebres in this province are numerous : 



KERIKERD, a town of Perfia, in Chufift 

 Timur Bee in 1303 ; ij miles N. of Sufter. 



KERIMGUNGE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar 1 

 24 miles E.S.E. of Hajypour. 



KERION, a town of Thibet, 24 miles N.W. of Serang. 

 pour. N. lat. 32^35'. E. long. 83 '. 



KERISONGAR, a lake of America, 

 Maine, which fends its waters to Pcnobfcot river. 



KERIST, a town of Perfia, in Fariiltan ; ic6 miles 

 vS..S.E. of .Schi.-as. 



KERKA, a town of Perfia, in Chufifcan ; 4^ miles W. 

 of Toltar. 



KERKELAN, a town of Afi.ttic Turkey, in the go- 

 vernment of Sivas ; ^o miles W.S.W. of Amafieh. 



KERKENI, a fmall ifland near the E. coaft of Tunis. 

 N. Lit. 34^59'. E. long. 11' 12'. 



KERKER, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Aladulia, on 

 the Euphrates; 30 miles S. of Malatia. 



KERKHA, a town of Perfia, m Chufillan, on the Ka- 

 rafu; 15 miles N. of Sufter. 



KERKHERUERE, John- Gi-k.^rd, in Bh.raph, a 

 learned profelTor of the univerllty of Louvain, v.'as horn in 

 the neighboiwhood of Maellricht, about tl 

 He purfued his academical ftudies at Louva 



■guLlied himfelf during feveral years for his accurate and and are chiefly employed in manufaftures of Ihiffs and fil„- 

 tomprehenfive knowledge of hillory and the belles-lettres. Here are fome mises of copper, lead, and iron. The great 

 In J 708, he was appointed hiltoriographer to the emperor defert of Kerman joins with the Great Saline defert, by the 

 Jofeph I , and died in the year 1738. He was author of NaHben Dejiam, and extends about 350 miles. The Sahne 

 y works in generaUiiltory and theology,_of which the defert extends from tlie vicinity of Kom to that of the fea 



principal are entitled " De Monarchia Rom» Pagana; fecun 

 dum Concordiam inter S. S. Prophetas Danielem et Joan 

 nem, &c. :" and " Prodromus Danielicus five novi Conatiii 



of Zurra, in a line from E. to W. of about 402 Britifti 

 miles ; the breadth from N. to S. being about 250. Thefe 

 two extenfive deferts may be confidercd as flretehing N VV. 



hiftorici, critici, in celeberrimas diffieultates Hiftorice veteris and S.E. for a fpace of about 700 miles, bv a medial 

 Teftameiiti." ■ Thefe pieces are dillinguilhed by profound breadth of about 200 ovithout including in the length other 

 erudition and great critical acumen, and are faid to tlirow 200 miles of the defert of Mekran), thus interieding tlie 



light oil many obfcure pailages in the fcriptures re- 

 lating to hilfory, chronology, and geography. He pub- 

 lilhed a Latin grammar, and a number of Latin poems. 



KERKIL, or GnERGiL, in Gtograpby, a town of Cur- 

 diftan ; 35 miles S.S.E. of Amadieh. 



wide empire of Periia into two nearly equal portions. Tl 

 valt extent is impregnated with nitre and other fdits, which 

 taint the neighbouring lakes and rivers. 



Kkhman. See Sihoian. < 



KERMANA, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude ; 40 



KERivISlA, or Keukisif.h, a town of Afiatic Turkey, miles E. of Bahraiteh. 



in the province of Diarbekir, now decayed ; eight miles N. KExMANSHER, a town of Perfia, in the province, of 



of Rabba. N. lat. 3^' 18'. E. long. 40° 10'. ■ Kerman ; 130 miles S.E. of Sirgian. N. lat. 28^ 20'. E. 



KERKONI,- a town of Georgia ;• 2^ miles S.W. of long. 58^ 50'. .-...., 



/Teilis. EERMANTSCHUK, a town of CircaC.a, near which 



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