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is, where wideft, fixteen miles, but in the narroweft parts 
hardly four, Lat. 6. 37. S. Ion. 115. 44. E. 
KAN'GTK, a river of European Turkey, which runs 
into the Black Sea in the province of Romania. 
K AN'GIS, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia: eighty- 
miles north of Tornea. 
KANGOO'N, a town of Pegu, on the Ava: ten miles 
■north of Lund fey. 
KANGUROO'. See Didelpmis, vol. v. p. 806, 807. 
KANHAR', a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Bain Gonga fixty miles eaft of Nagpour. 
KAN'HAWAY, a large mountainous county on the 
weftern line of Virginia, having the Ohio river on the 
north-weft, and Kentucky weft. The population of this 
county is included in Green Briar, being 6015 inhabitants, 
including 319 (laves. About feven miles from the mouth 
of Elk river in this county, is a burning ipring, capa¬ 
cious enough to hold forty gallons. A bituminous va¬ 
pour conftantly iflues from it, which, agitating the fand 
around it, gives it the appearance of a boiling fpring. On 
prefenting a torch within eighteen or twenty inches of the 
mouth, it flames up in a column four or five feet in height, 
and about eighteen inches diameter, and which fometimes 
burns twenty minutes, and at other times has continued 
three days. 
KAN'HAWAY (Great), a river of Virginia, of confi- 
derable note for the fertility of its lands, and ftill more as 
leading towards the head-waters of James’s river. It 
is doubtful whether its great and numerous rapids will 
ever admit a navigation, but at an expence to which it 
■will require ages to render its inhabitants equal. The 
great obftacles begin at what are called the Great Falls, 
ninety miles above the mouth, below which are only five or 
fix rapids, and thefe paflable with fome difficulty even at 
low water. From the falls to the mouth of Green Briar 
is one hundred miles. It is two hundred and eighty yards 
wide at its mouth. The head-waters of this river are in 
the weftern part of North Carolina, in the moft eafterly 
ridge of the Alleghany or Appalachian mountains, and 
fouth of the 36th degree of latitude. Its head-branches 
encircle thofe of the Holfton, from which they are fepa- 
Tated by the Iron Mountain, through which it pafles ten 
miles above the lead-mines. About fixty miles from Lit¬ 
tle River it receives Green Briar River from the eaft, which 
is the only confiderable tributary ftream in all that dif- 
tance. About forty miles below the mouth of Green 
Briar River is a remarkable cataract. A large rock, a lit¬ 
tle elevated in the middle, erodes the bed of the river, 
■over which the water (hoots, and falls about fifty feet per¬ 
pendicularly, except at one fide where the defeent is more 
gradual. The Great Kanhaway is 196 miles below Pittf- 
burg, and is navigable moft of the year; and a w'aggon- 
road may be made through the mountain which occalions 
the falls, and, by a portage of a few miles only, a com¬ 
munication may be had between the waters of Great Kan¬ 
haway and Ohio, and thofe of James’s River in Virginia. 
.Down this river great quantities of goods are conveyed 
up the Kentucky River, others on horfeback or in wag¬ 
gons to the fettled part, and fold on an average at 100 per 
cent, advance. 
KAN'HAWAY (Little), a fmall navigable river of 
Virginia, 150 yards wide at its mouth, and navigable ten 
miles only. Perhaps its northerly branch, called Junius 
Creek, which interlocks with the weftern waters of Mo- 
nongahela, may one day admit a (horter pafiage from the 
latter into the Ohio. / 
KAN'JA, Yan'sha, or Yan'ja, a town of Perfian Ar¬ 
menia, on a fmall river which runs into the Kur: 150 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Erivan, and 75 weft-fouth-weft of 
Sdamachie. 
KANJEE', a town of Hindooftan, in Berar : twenty 
miles north of Notchegong. 
KAN'IKA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bam- 
barra, on the Niger; one hundred miles fouth-weft of 
Sago. 
KAN 
KANIOW', a town of Ruffian Poland, in the palati¬ 
nate of Kiev, fituated on the Dnieper ; remarkable for an 
interview, in the year 1787, between the emprefs of Ruf- 
fia and the king of Poland, on-board a veflel which the 
emprefs had chofen to convey herfelf and train to Cher- 
fon : fifty-fix miles eaft of Bialacerkiew. 
KANIS'CA, a very Itrong town of Lower Hungary, 
capital of the county of Selawar. It was taken by the Im- 
perialifts in 1690. It is feated on the river Drave, in lat. 
46.23.N. Ion. 17. 37. E. 
KANISS', a town of Africa, in the country of Nubia, 
on the weft fide of the Nile: twenty-five miles eaft of 
Dongala. 
KAN'ITZ, a town of Moravia : ten miles louth-w'eft 
ofBrunn -. Lat. 4.9.4. N. Ion. 16.21. E. 
KANJU'NES, or Kanjonness'e, a village of Palef- 
tine : fix miles fouth of Gaza. 
KAN'KAD, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Woolly. 
KANKAN'AN, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Lahore. 
KANKARU', a town of Africa, in Mandingo. Lat. 
12. 20. N. Ion. 5. 45. W. 
KANKERA'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Kottah : thirty-two miles weft of Kottah. 
KAN'KY-LA'BY, a town of Africa, in the country 
of Foota. Lat. 10. 55. N. Ion. 10. 5. W. 
KAN'NAKA, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Cattack, at the mouth of the river Bramnee, fifteen 
miles north-welt of Point Palmiras, and fixty eaft-north- 
eaft of Cattack. 
KANNCOONGAN' POINT, a cape on the eaft coaft 
of Borneo. Lat. 1.3. N. Ion. 119.E. 
KANNE, f. A Swedifh meafure very frequently named 
in.Dr. E. Cullen’s tranflation of Bergmann’s Effkys, though 
he has no-where given an account of its contents, nor re¬ 
duced it to our meafures.—If we allow one kanne (origi¬ 
nally cyathus, a word of an indefinite meaning) per diem 
to each adult, our calculation will rather fall (hort than 
exceed. EJfays i. 107.—The Swedifli kanne contains 88 oz. 
troy-weight of diliilled water at 50 0 of Fahrenheit’s 
thermometer. 
KANNE AH', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Sumbul : fifteen miles north of Nidjebabad. 
KANNIEN', a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Obvrland : nine miles north-eaft of Soldau. 
KANN'YA, a town of Hindooftan, in Rohilcund : 
thirty-five miles fouth of Bereilly. 
KANOOA'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Goond- 
wanah : feventy-five miles north-north-eaft of Nagpour. 
KANOO'N, a town and fortrefs of Hindooftan, in the 
country of Mewat: leventy miles fouth-weft of Delhi. 
Lat. 28. 3. N. Ion. 76. 30. E. 
KAN'OUS. See Kanas. 
KANOW'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Vifiapour : twenty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Poonah. 
KAN'SA, a town of Nepaul: thirty-five miles north- 
north-eaft of Nogarcot. 
KANSA'KI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphons 
twenty-eight miles Ibuth-weft of Meaco. 
KANSA'KI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo t 
fifteen miles fouth-weft of Ikua. 
KAN'SEZ, a river of Louifiania, which runs into the 
Milfouri in lat. 38. 45. N. Ion. 95. 35. W. 
KAN'SEZ (Little), a river of Louifiania, which runs 
into the Miflouri in lat. 38.17.N. Ion. 94. 53. W. 
KAN'SEZ, a town of Louifiania, on the river Kanfez : 
24.0 miles weft of Genevieve. Lat. 38.5. N. Ion. 95. 54. W. 
‘KANSJI'RAM-MARAVA'RA. See Epidendrum. 
KAN'SKOI, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Kolivan, on the Kan, with a confiderable trade in furs : 
340 miles eaft of Eraf-noiarlk. 
KAN'SON, an ifland in the Red Sea, about twenty 
miles long, and from two to five hroad, Lat. 16. 44. Ion. 
42. 40. E. 
KANS'ZILIj 
