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TFiefe plants afford variety among other plauts of the 

 green-houfe kind, that are in pots. 



KIGLEY, or KiGiiLEV, in Geography. SlC Keioh- 

 rF.Y. 



KIJASA, a mountain of Thibet; 25 miles S.E. of 

 Giti. 



KIKACCO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 

 Congo ; JO miles S.E. of Pango. 



KIKALA, a town of &>veden, in South Finland; 40 

 miles E.S.E. of Abo. 



KIKIANY, one of the fmall Japanefe iflands. N. lat. 

 29" 40'. E. long. 1^2 35'. 



KIKOV", a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon ; 15 

 miles S.E. of Iwata. 



KIKUKOVI, a to>vn of Rnfiia, in tlie government of 

 Tiibolfe, on the Tchutim ; 64 miles N.W. of Atchinlk. 



KIKUTZ, a town of Japan, in the ifland »f Xinio ; 15 

 miles N.N.E. of Udo. 



KIL, a town of Sweden, in the prOTince of Warmeland ; 

 12 miles S. of Chriflinehanm. 



KIL AN, a province of the fouth-callern part of Great 

 Bi'.charia, deriving its name, like the other provinces of this 

 coimtry, from its chief city. 



KILANG. See Kelaxg. 



KILANOI, a town of Sweden, in Well Bothnia; 105 

 miles N. of Tornca. 



KILAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak ; 14 

 miles S.E. of Taheran. 



KILBARCHAN, a fmall town of Renfrewftire, about 

 4 miles N.W. from Paifley, and nearly the fame dillance 

 from Renfrew. Kilbarchan is a thriving place, chiefly in- 

 habited by the tradefpeople employed in the various pro- 

 cefTes of the extenfive cotton manufactures carried on 

 through the whole of this diftrift. There are alio confider- 

 abie manufaclories of Scotch thread eftabliflied here. 



KILBEGGAN, a po.t-town of the county of Weft- 

 meath, Ireland, which, before the union, had the privilege 

 of fending members to the houfe of commons. It is a fmall 

 town, on the river Brofna, and is remarkable for two old 

 monafteries. It is on the road from Dublin to Galway ; 

 44 miles W. from Dublin, and 15 E. from Athlone. 



KILBIRNIE, a village of Renfrewihire, near Beith, 

 where there is a fine loch or lake of water. It is a populous, 

 thriving, little place, engaged, like moil others in that part 

 of the country, in the manufaftures of cotton goods and 

 thread. 



KILBRIDE, East, is a fmall village in Lanarkfhire, 

 about 10 miles S.E. from Glafgow. It is remarkable for 

 fome Roman antiquities, which have engaged the attention 

 of antiquarians, who have pubhflied detailed accounts of 

 various curioiities found and dug up in this neighbourhood. 

 At prefent the great quantities of fine lime, which are 

 worked in its neighbourhood, engage a confiderably greater 

 portion of attention, as it is found of great advantage to the 

 whole furroundmg dillricl, both for the purpofes of agri- 

 culture and building. 



Kilbride, Wejl, is a fmall village contiguous to the 

 firtli of Clyde, in Ayrlhire. 



KILBURG, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Jarre, and chief ],-lace of a canton, in the diltrift of 

 Prum. The place contains 561, and the canton 4307 in- 

 habitants, in 26 communes. 



KILCH, in Ichthyology, a name ufed by fome for a 

 fpcciei of hill of the albula kind, caught in the lakes of Ger- 

 many, of a fine firm fleftl and delicate flavour, and fcems 

 Tery li-'le, if at all, different from the ferra. 



klLCOCKj in Geography, a poft-iown of the county of 



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KUdarc, province of Leinfter, Ireland, fituated upon the 

 rivir Blackwater. It is a fmall town, 14 miles W. by Ni 

 from Dublin, on the road to Mullingar. 



KILCOKNELL, a fmall potl-town or village of the 

 county of Galway, Ireland ; 7S miles W. from Dublin, and 

 almoll 2j E. from Galway. 



KILCULLEN, or KiLCUiLEN-BRincE, a poft-town 

 of the cotnity of Kildare, province of Leinller, Ireland, 

 fituaied on the river Liffey, over which it has a bridge. It 

 is on the great fouthern road from Dublin, in confequcnce 

 of which its inns are mucli frequented. One mile and half 

 fouth of it is the village of Old Kilcu len, where is a church, . 

 and refident clergyman. Here is a round tower, not ex- 

 ceeding JO feet in height ; and tlie (haft of a crofs, of a 

 fingle Hone, 10 feet higlu KJcuUeu-bridge is 3a miles 

 S.W. from Dubhn. Cariifle. 



KILDA, St., or Hiiita, a remote ifland among the 

 Hebrides, or weftern iflands of Scotland. It is feated m 

 the Northern ocean, at the diilance of about 60 miles from 

 Harris, and 160 miles from the nearelk point of the main 

 land of Scotland. This ifland is fmall, being only three 

 miles in diameter from eall to well, and tvvo miles in a tranf- 

 verfe direction : the whole circumference is about ten miles.. 

 It is nearly furrounded with a perpendicular face of rock, 

 which rifes to a confiderable elevation ; a fmall bay or land- 

 ing-place is found to the fouth-call. Mr. Macaulay, the 

 hillorian of this ifland, fay?, it " may be ranked among the 

 greateil curiofities of the Britifli empire. The lituation of 

 the place, the genius of the inhabitants, their maimers and 

 cuiloms, the conftitution of their little commcmwealth, that 



dexterity with which they manage the moll im- 

 portant branches of their bufincfs, that unexampled courage 

 with which they encounter dangers infurmountable to any 

 other race of men, and that perhaps happy ignorance which 

 renders them abfolute ilrangers to thofe extravagant defirea 

 and endlefs purfuits which keep the great and active world 

 in a conftant agitation ;— all theie, and fome other extra- 

 ordinary circumllances, taken together at one view, feem 

 highly to merit the attention of the inquifitive." The fur- 

 face of the ifland is moftly rocky : in fome places are patches 

 of mofs, and in others grafs. The foil, though in many 

 places well adapted to corn, is chiefly employed in pailure ; 

 as the inhabitants are rather averfe to agricultural purfuits. 

 In the vicinity of the village a little corn is cultivated, and 

 the pailure is richly manured. Barley and oats are only 

 fown : potatoes and cabbages, and fome other garden plants, 

 have recently been introduced into the ifland. Several 

 fprings ifl"ue from the hills, and form two fmall ilreams 

 which run into the fea on the eail and on the well. The 

 village confills of two rows of houfes, which are fituated 

 about a quarter of a mile from the bay, and contains all the 

 inhabitants of Kilda. In the year 1 764, when Macaulay 

 publilhed his Hillory, the ifland contained only 88 perfons ; 

 but he aflerts that a contagious diflemper (the fmall-pox) 

 " fwept away the greateil part of the people about four- 

 and-thirty years ago." Martin found 180 perfons, when 

 he vilited the ifland at the time here alluded to, .;. f. 1690. 

 The dwellings are all low, common huts, or cottages ; di- 

 vided into two rooms each, and peculiarly flat in the roof. 

 One of the apartments is appropriated to the dwelling and 

 fleeping of the inhabitants, and the otlicr for the cattle 

 during winter. In thefe rooms they prepare the chief ma- 

 nure tor the lands. Befides thefe cottages, there are feveral . 

 cells or (lorehoufes in different parts ot the ifland. Thcfc, 

 are compofed wholly of Hones, and are from lito I S feet 

 in length, by 7 feet in breadth and height. Fowl, eggs, 

 and flieep are the pvincipal objects oJ care and-Xulidlude 'o 



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