Khezi/, a river of Alia, which rife; 



icharii!, N.E. of .Samarcand, ar.d for- 



fea ; but the RiifTians, in 17 19, 



ream, were put to death by the 



jf tlie river into lake Aral, 



KEY 



tfie other branches of academical inftruillioii. Wlien he had 

 fmiilied his lludies, he was invited to fuperinteiid tlie educa- 

 tion of Charles Maximilian, and Chriilian diaries, counts 

 of Oiech-Buchau, with whom he repaired to Halle in 17 17, 

 and then accompanied them on their travels in foreign coun- 

 tries. In his journey he met with the celebrated Roland, 

 who recommended to his attention the immenfe field of 

 German antiquities, as yet almoll untouched : he accord- 

 ingly caught at the idea, and formed the rcfolutioii of un- 

 dertaking fomethinjj fyllematic on the antiquities of Ger- 

 many, and the origin of its inhabitants. He went through 

 the principal towns m Germany and the Low Countries, 

 coUefting, as they occurred, materials for his intended 

 work. In confcquence of the preat reputation whicli he 

 acquired in his firll tour, M. Bernllorff, miniller of his 

 Britannic majelly in Hanover, an enlightened ftatefman, en- 

 gaged him as a travelling tutor to his fons. After remain- 

 ing two years in hanover, he obtained permiiTion, in 1718, to 

 vifit England for his own improvement. At I. udon and 

 Oxford he met with a kind reception, but nothing, probably, 

 pleafcd him more, than the honour of being elected a mem- 

 ber of the Royal Society. He wrote fome tradls at this 

 period, oiie containing feveral curious obfervations on Stone- 

 heno'e, and a diflertaiion on the confecrated mifletoe of the 

 Druids ; and on his return to Hanover in 1720, he publiilied 

 his immortal work, entitled «' Antiqnitates felettK Septen- 

 trionales et Celtics," in which the author is exceedingly 

 happy in folving a great number of difficulties never before 

 fufficiently explained. In 1727, Keyfler's pupils, who con- 

 tinued under his care more than ten years, accompanied him 

 to Tubingen, and, in 1729, they began their travels, which 



comprifed the whole of Germany, SwifTerland, Italy, Hun- in the province of Tremecen, feated on an eminence near 

 gary, France, England, and Holland. On their return am- the river ShellifF. Dr. Shaw concludes from its ruins, 

 pie provifion was made for the tutor, and they entrufted which are about three miles in circumference, that it was once 

 him, at the fame time, wiih a valuable library, their coUec- a large place. According to Ptolemy, its ancient name 

 tion of medals and natural curiolities, and even gave him was " Zucchabbari," and according to Pliny " Succabar" 

 the chief management of their domellic concerns. M. Key- and " Colonia Augufta." Eaitward are the remains of a 

 fler, in the courfe of his traveL', had made a valuable col- Hone bridge, probably the only one ever built over the 

 leftion of book-!, antiques, S:c , to which he added, by pur- S'lelliff, though travellers are much inconvenienced, in the 



winter feafon, by waiting a whole month before they can 

 ford it ; j," miles S.S.W. of Algiers. 



KHALEKAN, EnN, in Bw^rcphy, a celebrated biogra- 

 pher of ilhiilrious MulTulmen, particularly of fuch as were 

 diiUnguiflied by their proficiency in the fcienccs, was born 

 in. the year 608, and died in 6t) l of the Hcgira. His work 

 is entitled " Vafiat Alaian," or " The Deaths of illuftrious 

 Men," and was undertaken by him at the city of Cairo, in 

 Egypt, under tjie reign of Bibars, a lultan of the Mame- 

 ing appointed by that prince cadi of Da- 

 • 659, the duties of his new employment 

 o far interrupted his Itiidies, that he was not able lo finifh 

 his work before (he year 672. 



KHAMI, in Geography See Hami. 



KHAMIES Bekg, a clutter of mountains belonging 



K II A 



KEYZER's Bay, a bay 0,11 the S. coaft of the ifland of 

 Sumatra. N. lat. 5 40'. E long. 104 \;5S'. 



KEZEMSKA, a town of Ruiha, in the government of 

 Irkutik, on the Angara ; 40 miles S.W. of 'Uimlk. 



KEZEREH, a town of Naiolia ; 40 miles E. of Caf- 

 tamena. 



KEZIL, a river of Perfia, which runs into the Cafpian 

 fea. near Refhd. 



Kezil, Khef.l, ( 

 in the mountains of 

 merly ran into the Cafpian 

 endeavouring to trace the Itream 

 Tartars, who turned the current 



by uniting it with the Giho:i : but this change of the 

 courfe_ of the Gihon has been difputed. See Oxis. See 

 alfo KnARASM. 



\^v:/.\.i.-Agqfh, a town of Porfia, in the province of Glii- 

 lan ; 20 miles N. of Lenkeran. 



IvEZlL-A'tyn, a town of Natolia ; 25 miles S. of If. 

 barteh. 



KEZIN, a town of Poland, in Volhvnia : 10 miles W 

 of Krzeminicc. 



KEZMA, a town of Rufiia, in the gover)«nent of 

 Irkutflc, on the Tungufl<a ; 160 miles N.N.W. of liimik. 



KEZUC, a town of Perfian Armenia; 4 miles 6. of 

 Erivan. 



KHABUR, a river of Afiatic Turkey, which rifes 20 

 miles E. of Harran, and runs into the Euphrates at Ker- 

 kiiia. — Alfo, a river of Curdillan, which palTts by Betlis 

 and runs into the Tigris ; ij miles S.E. of Ge/.ira. 



KHADARAH, El, or Chadra, a town of Algiers 



chafe, that of M Eckard, and to prevent the whole from 

 being difoerfed, he deilined it after his death to be added to 

 that of M. Bernflorff. He was of an open and communi- 

 cative dilpohtioH, and ready to affilt in their literary labours, 

 all thofe who Itood in need of his advice. He rendered 

 M. Eckard great fervice when about to publidi his German 

 Antiquities, after the model of the " Thefaurns Antiqui- 

 tatum Gricarum ct Romanarum," by Grxvius and Gro- 

 novius. This work was never printed. In 172S, when 

 M. Jark reprinted the work of Schedius, on the German luke dynally 

 deities, Keyfler not only corrected it, but furnidied him mafcus in the y 

 with confiderablc additions, and I'nbjoined an ingenious dif- 

 fertatiim " De cnhu Solis." He died luddemy, in June 

 I 743, at Stentenbourg, an eftate be ongingto M. Bernftorff. 

 His travels were tranllated into the Englilh language from 

 the fecond edition in German, and publifhed in four vols. 

 4^0. Gen. Biog, 



to the colony of the Cape of Good Plope, lituated in the 

 itry, that was formerly inhabited by tlie 



middle of tin 



KEYSERSrUL, in Geography, a town of Switzerland, Namaaqua Hottentots, at the dill 



of 



in the co-inty of Baden, on the river Rhine, with a wooden 

 bridge to SchafThaufen ; 9 miles N.N.E. of Baden. N. lat. 

 47° 37'. E. long. 8' 15'. 



KEY-SIM A, an ifland of Japan, between Corea and the 

 W. coaft of Niphon. 



KEY-WALE'LA, an illnnd in the Eaft Indian ,l"ea, 

 about 45 miles in circumference. S. lat. 5 36'. E. long. 

 138. 



KEYWAWA, a fmall inand near Ciiarlcilon harbour, 

 .Sou*h Carohna. 



Vol. XIX. 



jouniey 



N.VV. from the Hantiim, (whick fee,) over a dry faiidy de- 

 fert almoll delHtute of water. Tiiis duller ot mou;;taiiif 

 being the belt, and indeed almoll the only habitable part 

 in tlie Namaaqua country, has been taken pofftlfioii of by 

 the wandering peafaiitry, who, to the advantage of a good 

 grazing country, had the additional inducement of fetthng 

 ttiere, from the eafy means of increaliiig their flock of 

 iTieep from the herds of the native Hottentots, who, however, 

 are now fo reduced and Icattered among the Dutch farms, 

 as Icarccly to be coiilldercd .1 diilinct tribe of people. The 

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