KAN 
KAN-TCHEOU', a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
•the province of Kiang-fi. This is a city of great refort; 
it is fituated on the river from which it has its name, al¬ 
though it receives another in this place, which they call 
Tchang-ho. Near the wall of Kan-tcheou, and where 
thefe two rivers unite, there is a bridge of boats, which 
are fattened to one another with iron chains. One of thefe 
boats belonging to the bridge is fo contrived that they 
can open a paffage to let the barks through. The jurif- 
diftion of this city extends a great way, for it contains 
twelve towns of the third order; its foil produces a great 
many of the trees from which varnith diltils, and this var- 
nifli is reckoned the belt in China : 84.0 miles louth of 
Pekin. Lat. 25. 52. N. Ion. 114. 30. E. 
KA'NA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Heds- 
jas : forty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Hajar. 
KAN'AAP, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: forty- 
feven miles fouth-fouth-welf of Patna. 
KANADE'I, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Simbirlk : feventy-two miles fouth-fouth-weft: of Siinbirlk. 
KA'NAH, [Hebrew.] The name of a river. 
KANAHOO'DY, a town of Perlia, in the province of 
Coheftan : one hundred miles welt-fouth-weft ofNifabur. 
KANAKAN',/ Vaflals of the fultan of Mindanao who 
polTefs large ellates. 
K ANAK APALEAM', a town of Hindooftan, in Ba- 
ramaul: eleven miles north-ealt of Sankeridurgam. 
KAN'AKI, a fmall iftand in the gulf of Engia, near 
the weft coaft of Coluri. 
KANAMBAD'DY, a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore : eight miles weft of Seringapatam. 
KA'NAN, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Cayor, 
near the Atlantic. Lat. 16. 4.0. N. Ion. 15.55. W. 
KANANIKOL'SKOI, a town of Ruflia,in the govern¬ 
ment of Upha : fifty-two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Ster- 
litamatzk. 
KA'NAR, a large lake or expanfion of the river De- 
wah, in the country of Kemaoon : twenty miles Youth of 
Doulou Baflendar. 
KANARADMERD', a town of Perfia, in Farfiftan : 
ninety miles fouth of Schiras. 
KANAR'NA, a town of European Turkey, in Bulga¬ 
ria : twenty-two miles noith-eaft of Varna. 
KANA'RY, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
furrounded by a number of iflets, which take generally 
the name of Kanary. Lat. 1, 44. S. Ion. 129. 54. E. 
KANA'RY (Great), an ifland mentioned by captain 
Forrelt as near New Guinea; but its exact fituation he 
lias not noted. 
KA'NAS, or Kan'gas, a town of Turkifh Armenia: 
fixty miles fouth-eaft of Erzerum. 
KAN'AUTS,/. [Indian.] Walls of cloth, fuch as thofe 
of tents. 
ICANAWAGE'RES, an Indian village on the weft fide 
of Geneffee river, four miles weft-fouth-welt of Hartford, 
in the Geneffee country, in New York, North America. 
KANAZA'VA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ni- 
phon : 186 miles north-weft of Jeddo, and 130 north-eall 
of Meaco. 
KANCA'BA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Mandingo, on the Niger; a mart for flaves: fixteen miles 
fouth-eaft of Kamalia. 
KAN'DA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Xicoco : 
fixteen miles fouth-eaft of Ovutfi. 
KAN'DA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Con¬ 
go : thirty miles north-eaft of St. Salvador. 
KANDABA'GA, mountains which form part of the 
boundary between Ruflia and Chinefe Tartary, a part of 
the grand chain weft of the river Oka. 
KANDABIL', a town of Perfia, in the province of Me- 
cran : 285 miles louth of Candahar. Lat. 28, 28. N. Ion. 
67. 20. E. 
KAN'DAL, a towm on the North coaft of the ifland of 
Java. Lat. 6. 48. S. Ion. no. 18. E, 
Vfli. XI. No. 779. 
KAN 601 
KAN'DAL, a town of Abyflinia, near the coaft of the 
Red Sea. Lat. 14. 30. S. Ion. 41.15. E. 
KAN'DALAH, f. An outcaft. A name given to thofe 
of the Hindoos who have been turned out of their calls; 
their condition istheloweft degradation of human nature; 
no perfon of any call will have the leall communication 
with them ; if one approaches a perfon of the Nayr calf, 
he-may put him to death with impunity ; water and milk 
are conlideredas defiled by their fhadovv pafling over them. 
KANDALAK'S, a town of Ruflia, in. the government 
of Archangel, on the north coaft of the White Sea: 149. 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kola. 
KANDAYRUB', f. One of the five fuperior modes of 
marriage among the Hindoos : it is when a man and wo¬ 
man exchange necklaces or firings of flowers, and make 
an agreement in fome lecret place. 
KANDEGHE'RI, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car¬ 
natic. In the year 1599 this town was the capital of a 
kingdom, called Narfinga, the reiidence of a Hindoo king, 
whole dominions extended over Tanjore and Madura; 
and, in the year 1640, a defcendant of that prince who 
reigned here, permitted the Euglilh to form a f’ettlement 
at Madras: fifty miles fouth-welt of Nollore, and feventy 
north-weft of Madras. Lat. .13. 46 N. Ion. 79. 24. E. 
KAN'DEK, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in' the province 
of Natolia : forty-eight miles ealt of Ifmid, and fifty-five 
weft of Boli. 
KAN'DEL, a town of Fiance, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine : feven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Lan¬ 
dau, and fix north of Lauterburg. 
KAN'DEL of the IN'DIANS,/! in botany. SeeRm- 
ZOPHORA. 
KAN'DER, a river which rifes in the margravate of 
Baden, and runs into the Rhine ten miles below Bale. 
KAN'DER, or Kandel, a river of Swifterland, which 
runs into lake Thun by a canal made between Thun and 
Spietz. 
KAN'DERI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia; 
twenty-four miles north-eaft of Ifmid. 
KANE SEE, a lake of Pruflia, in the province of Erme- 
land, near Bifchburg. 
KAN'EKING, a town of the Arabian Irak : twenty- 
three miles north-north-eaft of Shehrban. 
KA'NEM, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bor- 
nou: 125 miles north of Bornou. Lat. 32.N. Ion. 21.40.E. 
KANEPOU'R, a town of Candahar, on the Attock : 
fixty miles north of Attock. 
KANG-CHAN', a town of Corea : fixteen miles fouth- 
weft of Kang-tcheou. 
KANG-TCHEOU', a town of Corea, in Kinchan : 
170 miles fouth of Pekin. Lat. 35.46. N. Ion. 128.49. E. 
KANG-TCHIN', a town of Corea : forty-eight miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Koang-tcheou. 
KAN'GA, a feaport of Africa, in the kingdom of Lo- 
ango, fituated in a landy bay of the Atlantic, where vef- 
fels may ride at anchor within mulket-lhot of the fliore in 
four or five fathoms water. 
KANGAANPA'A, a town of Sweden, in the govern¬ 
ment of Abo : tvventy-feven miles north-eaft of Biorne- 
borg. 
KANGA'NI, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore: twen¬ 
ty-five miles weft of Tademeri. 
KANGASAK', a town of Weft Greenland. Lat. 62. N, 
Ion. 48. W. 
KANGASA'LA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Tavaftland : thirty miles north-north-weft of Tavafthus. 
KANGASNI'EMS, a town of Sweden, in the province 
of Tavaftland : eighty-five miles north-eaft of Tavafthus. 
KANGE'E, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Kaf- 
fon : thirty-three miles fouth-eaft of Kooniakary. 
KANGELANG', an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
of an irregular form, about twenty-four miles from eall to 
welt; on the fouth coaft it is greatly indented with two 
or three confuierable bays, fo that from north to fouth it. 
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