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lib arms from the reft of his monftrous body. Tliat part 

 of the neftareous fluid, that he had time to fwallow, fecured 

 his immortahty ; his trunk and dragon-Hke tail fell on the 

 mountains of Malaya, where Mini, or Brahman, carefully 

 preferved them by tlie name of Ketu ; and, as if a complete 

 body had been formed from them, like a difmembered 

 polype, he is fald to have adopted Ketu as his own child. 

 The head, with two arms, fell on the fands of Barbara, 

 where Pitheiias was then walking with his wife Sinhika : 

 they carried the Daitya to their palace, and adopted him 

 as their fon. This extravricjant tale is no doubt adronomical ; 

 Rahu and Ketu being the nodes, or what aftrologcrs call tlie 

 head and tail of the dragon. It is added, that t'ney appeafed 

 Vifhnu, and obtained re-;(dmifiion to the firmament, but 

 •were no longer viiible from the earth, their enlightened fides 

 being tnrned from it ; that Rahu drives, during echpfcs, to 

 wreak vengeance on the Sun and Moon who detected him ; 

 and that Ketu often appears as a comet, a whirlwind, a fiery 

 meteor, or water-fpout, or a column of fand. Fifty-fix 

 comets are faid, in a book called Chintamani, to have fprung 

 from Ketu ; and Rahu had a numerous progeny of Grahas, 

 or crocoddes." A plate of the Hindoo zodiac includes 

 Rahu and Ketu, the latter appearing merely as a head of 

 a black colour, handfomely ornamented, and relling againft 

 a pillow. In a plate of the Indian zodiac, pubhflied by fir 

 V\''. Jones in t!ie fecond volume of the Afiatic Refearches, 

 Ketu is mounted on a frog ; the meaning of which, if it 

 have any, has not been explained. See Rahu. 



KETVER, in Geography, a town of Grand Bucharia, 

 on a mountain, taken by Timur Bee in 139S ; ico miles S. 

 of Badaklhan. 



KETZIN, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle Mark ; 

 8 miles N.W. of Potzdam. 



KETZLDQRF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Chrudim ; J 2 miles S.E. of Leutinifchl. 



KEVALCOTTY, a town of Tiubet ; 18 miles N.W. 

 of Sirinagur. 



KEVEL of Buffon, in Zo'Jogy. Anuhpe Ke-vella of 

 Linnajus, Ahy of Kxmpfer, 3.nA Jlcit-honicd antelope of Pen- 

 nant, has large horns, which are flattened, and bent in form 

 of a lyre ; the fur is yellowifli, with pale ftreaks, and a dark 

 coloured band runs along each fide. This animal inhabits 

 Barbary, Senegal, and Perfia. It is about the fize of a 

 fmall roe ; lives in large flocks, and, hke moll fpecies of the 

 genus, is reckoned very delicate food, though it has a 

 muiky odour when ahve. In both fexes the horns are 

 furrounded with prominent rings, ufually from 14 to 18, 

 except the ends, which are fmooth : they are bent in the 

 fame manner with thofe of the antilope dorcas, and in 

 general the two animals referable each other very much, ex- 

 cept thai the horns of this fpecies are flattened, and have a 

 greater number of i-ings. 



KEVELS, or Cukvils, in a Sh'ip, are two pieces of 

 timber nailed to the infide of a fliip, from whence the upper 

 ends branch outward into arms or horns, ferving to belay 

 the great ropes, by which the bottoms of the mainfail and 

 forefail are extended. 



KEUKZER, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in Farfif- 

 tan ; 40 miles S. of Jezdkall. 



KEULA, a town of Germany, in the county of 

 fichwartzburg ; 1 1 miles N. of Mulhaufen. 



KEURA, in Botany, Forflt. TEgypt. Arab. 172. 

 Thunb. Nov. Gen. 3,-. See K.vida and' Pan dan ls. 



KEURBOOM RlVKR, in Geography, a river on the S. 

 joail of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, which, hke 

 the Knyfna, runs up into the midft of tall foreils, and 

 roight be navigated by boats to a confiderable diilance ; 



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but its mouth, in Plettenberg's bay, is completely landed 

 up by tlie almoft perpetual rolling fwell of the lea, from 

 the fouth-eaftward upon the fandy beach. 



KEURN, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Wafa ; 96 miles S.E. of Wafa. 



KEVROI., a town of Ruflia, in the government of 

 Archangel ; 100 miles S.E. ot Archangel, 



KEUSCHBERG, or Kiade, a town of Saxony, re- 

 markable for a victory obtained by Henry the Fowler over 

 the Huns, in 933 ; 6 miles S.E. of Merfeburg. 



KEW, a village and parifli in the hundred of Kingfton, 

 and county of Surry, England, is pleafanlly feated on the 

 fouthern banks of the river Thames, at the diilance of 6| 

 miles wetlward of London. In the year iSoo it contained 

 85 houfes, and 424 inhabitants. Previous to the year 1769, 

 this place was only a hamlet to Kingllon, but in that year 

 an aci of parliament was obtained to unite this and Peter- 

 fham in one vicarage. The neighbouring inhabitants then 

 fubfcribed to build a chapel on a piece of land given by 

 queen Anne. In this is a tablet to the memory of Jere- 

 miah Meyer, a celebrated miniature painter ; and in the 

 adjoining cemetery repofe the remains of Thomas Gainf- 

 borough, an artilt of dillinguifhed merit. (See Gaiks- 

 BOROUGH.) Over the Thames, at this place, is a handfome 

 ftone bridge of feven arches, built from a defign by Paine. 

 It was opened in 1789, and is private property ; to defray 

 the expences of which a toll is exacled from all perfons, 

 carriages, horfes, &c. palling over it. In this village is 

 one of the royal palaces, which is held on leafe. It is a 

 fmall houfe, in a bad Ityle of architeflure, and in a flat, 

 confined fituation ; yet, from its contiguity to the fine and 

 intereiling gardens of Kew, has contmued a royal refidence 

 for many years. His prefent majefty, George III. has 

 commenced a new palace upon a larger fcale ; but the 

 works have been long fufpended, and it is not improbable 

 that both tliefe ftruttures may be utterly defertcd by 

 the next monarch. It is built from defigns of James 

 Wyatt, efq. The gardens of Kew are the pride and or- 

 nament of tlie place. They are comprifed in 120 acres of 

 land, and are planted with almoft every fpecies of exotic 

 tree, flirub, and plant that can be preferved ahve in this 

 country. Sir William Chambers publilhed a particular 

 account of thefe gardens, and of the various ornamental 

 buildings within them ; but fince iir William's deceafe many 

 additions and improvements have been made to the exotic 

 garden. The late Mr. Alton, gardener, gave fome account 

 of the rare plants, &c. cultivated here, in a work, entitled 

 " Hortus Kev.enfis." The following are the names and 

 dates of the different buildings eretted by fir William 

 Chambers within thefe gardens : The Orangery, or Green- 

 houfe, built in I 761, is 145 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 25 

 feet high. In the fame year, and near the fame building, 

 was ere&ed " The Temple of the Sun," partly refembling 

 one of the temples of Balbec. In the Flower Garden is au 

 " Aviary," and near it a " Menagerie," with a pavilion 

 defigned in imitation of a Chinefe opening. Contiguous 

 to this ftands " The Temple of Bellona," built in 3760, 

 of the proilyle kind, with portico tetraftyle Doric. In a 

 folitary walk, near the lake, is " The Temple of the God 

 Pan," of the monopterous kind, of the Doric order, built in 

 1758. On an eminence ftands " The Temple of Eolus," 

 of fimilar figure with the preceding. Not far from tin.'', at 

 the head of the lake, is a Chinefe oiTtagon, of two llories, 

 called " The Houfe of Confucius," built from defigns 

 by Goupy. Pafiing hence through a winding fliady walk, 

 the rtraiiger is next condufted to a Corinthian colonnade, 

 called *' The Theatre of Augulla," built iii 1760. " The 



Temple 



