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IS generally involved in the difgrace of his principal, and if 

 he do not lofe his head as frequently as the other, his for- 

 tune always, in that cafe, runs tiie greateft rifle. Although 

 he has no military rank, it may be faid that he occupies the 

 fecond adminiftrative place in the empire, conliderin^ the 

 importance and multiphcity of his funftions. If the fultan 

 be diflatisfied with his fervices, he receives, on quitting his 

 office, the dignity of fimple vifir, or pacha with three tails. 

 It feldom happens that he is given only the two tails when 

 he is fent to govern a province. See Bev. 



KIBBIED, in Geography, a town of Africa, in Bornou ; 

 150 miles S.E. of Bornou. 'N. lat. 18' 23'. E. long. 24" 16'. 



KIBES. See CiiiLCLAix. 



KIBITKA, 2 travelling carriage in Ruffia, which is a 

 fmall cart capable of contaming two perfons abreaft, while 

 the driver fits on the farther extremity clofe to the horles' 

 tails. It is about five feet in length, and the hinder half is 

 covered with a femi-circular tilt, open in front like the top 

 of a cradle, made of laths, interwoven and covered with birch 

 or beech-bark. There is not a piece of iron in the whole 

 machine. It has no fprings, and is faftened by means of 

 wooden pins, ropes, and fticks to the body of the carriage. 

 The Ruffians, when they travel in thefe kibitkas, place a 

 feather-bed in the bottom, admirably calculated to break the 

 intolerable jolts and concuffioiis occafioned by the uneven 

 timber roads. With this precaution, a kibitka, though in- 

 ferior in iplendour, equals in comfort the mod commodious 

 vehicle. Tlie traveller llretches himfelf at length upon the 

 feather-bed; and, if inclined, may dofe away the journey 

 in perfcft tranquillity. 



KIBOLA, in Geography, a town of Mingreha ; 35 miles 

 S.E. of Anarjjhia. 



KICKAPOO, a town of America, in the Weftern ter- 

 ritory. N. lat. 40" 20'. W. long. 87" 10'. 



KICKAPOUS, an Indian nation, whofe different tribes 

 inhabit near the entrance of lake Superior, where, fome years 

 ao-o, they had 400 warriors ; fome refide at lake Michigan, 

 and between that and the Miffifippi, near the Outtagomies, 

 &c. ; and another tribe near the Piankefhaws, and on the 

 Wabafh and its branches. The Kickapout and Kalkadiias, 

 two Indian nations lately hoftile, ceded lands to the United 

 States at the treaty of Greenville, Aug. 3, 1795. ^'^^ ^-**" 



KASKIAS. 



KICKEMNIT, a river of America, being the north- 

 weftern arm of Mount Hope bay ; about two miles long, 

 and half a mile broad. North-weft of it hes the town of 

 Warren, in the ftate of Rhode ifland. 



KICKER, in ylgricuhure, a term applied to fuch horfes 

 as have the habit of kicking : this Ihoiild be particularly 

 CTuarded againft in the rearing and managing of young 

 horfes, efpecially thofe intended for team labour. 



Kicker againft the Spurs, in the Manege. See Ra- 

 WINGLE. • 



KICKTOOL, in Geography, a town of Eaft Greenland. 

 N. lat. 61^ 15'. W. long. 45' f'. 



KICYDANI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 

 Wilna; 4S miles N N.\y. of Troki. 



KID, a fmall idand near the weftern coaft of Ireland, a 

 little N. of Broadhaven ; 3 miles S.W. of Browy Head. 



Kid, a name apphed to the young of the goat kmd. See 

 Goat. 



Kid, in Rural Economy, a fmall faggot of under, or brufti- 

 wood. 



KID ARNAUT, in Geography, a town of Thibet ; 100 

 miles N. of Sirinagur. N. lat. 32'' 4'. E. long. 79'' 12'. 



KIDDER, Richard, in Biography, a learned Englifh 

 prelate, of whofe earlj life no account has come down to 



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us. In the year 1649, ^^ ^^^ f^"* '° Emanuel college, 

 Cambridge, where he took his degrees. Two years after- 

 wards, he was incorporated at the univerJity of Oxford. 

 He was prefented by his college to the vicar.ige of Stan- 

 ground, in Huntingdonftiire, from which he was ejetted for 

 non-conformity, under the Bartholomew Acl, in 1662. 

 Either the fear of fuffering, or fome other motive, foon 

 brought him back to the bofom of the church, and lie was, 

 in 1664, prefented by the earl of Effex to the rqdlory of 

 Raine. Here he continued about ten years, efteemed by 

 his connexions, and in high reputation for learning, particu- 

 larly for his exienfive and deep knowledge of the oriental 

 languages. In 1674, he became rector in the melrofiohs, 

 and, in i68l, he obtained a prebendaryin the cathedralchurch 

 of Norwich, which was fucceeded by his nomination to the 

 deanery of P-^-terborough in the year 1689. About this 

 period he took his degree of D. D. and in 1691 he was con- 

 fecrated bilhop of Bath and Wells. In 1693, he preached 

 the lefture founded by Mr. Boyle, and afterwards inferted 

 his fernions on that occafion in his " Demonftration of the 

 Meffias," of winch work they conftitute the firft three 

 chapters in the fecond part. The biihop continued his la- 

 bours as an author till he was unhappily killed in his bed, 

 together with his lady, by the fall of a ftack of cliimnies in 

 his palace at Wells, during the great ttcrm in the night of 

 Nov. 26^h, 1703. He was efteemed one of the heft divines 

 in his time. His largeft work, next to that already men- 

 tioned, was "A Commentary on the Five Books of Mofes, 

 with a Diflertation concerning the Author or Writer of 

 thofc Books, &c." in 2 vols. 8vo. Bifltop Kidder was 

 author of " The Life of Dr. Anthony Horneck," 1698 : 

 " Critical Remarks upon fome difficult Pailages of Scrip- 

 ture in a Letter to Sir Peter King," 1719, a pofthumous 

 publication ; feveral practical treatifts ; tracts on the Popifti 

 controverfv, Sec. Biog.Brit. 



KIDDERlNIINSTER, in Domefday Book written 

 Chideminjler, in Geography, a market town and parifh in the 

 hundred of Halfftiire, and county of Worcefter, England, 

 is feated on the river Stour, at the diftance of 1 3 miles of 

 Worcefter, and 126 N.W. of London. In the year. 1800, 

 the town contained 1695 houfes, and 8036 inhabitants, 

 the majority of whom were dependant on, or connefted 

 with, the manufactures of the place. In the time of king 

 Henry VIII. Kidderminfter was noted for its manufaftures, 

 lirft of broad clo;hs, afterwards of wolfeys, and fubfequently 

 of bombafine-S crapes, and poplins. But early in the laft 

 century the carpet bulinefs was introduced here, and has 

 been continued, with increafing fuccefs, up to the prefcnt 

 time. In the year 1772, the town and its fnburbs contained 

 no lefs than 2^0 looms, and fince that time a larger number 

 has been employed. At lirit, the carpets made here were of the 

 Scotch and flat fpecies; but foon the cut carpets were invent- 

 ed, and this kind has fince continued to be the diftinguiftied 

 clafs of Kidderminfter. By fundry charters from Henry II., 

 Richard II., Henry VI,, and Henry VIII., the inhabitants 

 are granted an exemption from toll, pontage, and murage 

 throughout the whole kingdom ; all thefe privileges are 

 alfo confirmed by a charter from queen Elizabeth. In this 

 town tlie lord of the manor, or his deputy, occafionally 

 holds a court-leet, principally for the prevention of encroach- 

 ments and public nuifanccs ; here is alfo a court of requeft 

 for recovery of debts under forty ftiillings. No county- 

 juftice has a right to exercife any judicial authority in this 

 town, which is governed by a recorder and bailiff ; the 

 latter is annually eleiiled by his brother aldermen, twelve in 

 number, with the concurrence of twenty-five common-coun- 

 cil-mcn, who coUeftively are enabled by charter 1 2 Cliailes I. 



