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cific Ocean, called alfo Aghao or Orghao, and Kaybay. 
Lat. ig. 42. S, Ion. 184. 58. E. 
KA'O-C'HAN', a imall illand in the Chinefe Sea, and 
the mod wefterly of thofe called Mi-a-tau: eighteen miles 
north-weft of Teng-tcheou. 
KA'O-LIN', a town of China, of the third rank, in the 
province of Chen-fi : twenty-five miles fouth of Yao. 
K.A' 0 -LIN', f. The name of an earth which is ufed as 
one of the two ingredients in oriental porcelain. Some 
of this earth was brought from China, and examined by 
Mr. Reaumur. He found that it was perfectly infufible 
by fire, and believed that it was a talky earth ; but Mr. 
Macquer obferves, that it is more probably of an argil¬ 
laceous nature, from its forming a tenacious pafte with 
the other ingredient, called petuntfe, which has no tenacity. 
Mr. Bomare fays, that, by analyzing fome Chinefe kao¬ 
lin, he found it was a compound earth ; confiding of clay, 
to which it owed its tenacity ; of calcareous earth, which 
gave it a mealy appearance; of fparkling cryftals of mica; 
and of finall gravel, or particles of quartz cryftals. He 
Jays, that he has found a fimilar earth upon a ltratum of 
granite, and conjectures that it may be a decompofed gra¬ 
nite. This conjecture is the more probable, as kao-lins 
are frequently found in the neighbourhood of granites. 
See Porcelain. 
KAO'-MING', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Quang-tong : feventeen miles fouth-eaft 
of Tchao-king. 
KA'O-PING', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
the province of Chan-fi : twenty miles fouth of Loun- 
gan. 
K.V 0 -TCHE 0 U 7 , a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
the province of Quang-tong, fituated on a river, about 
thirty-fix miles from the fea. The tide flows and ebbs as 
far as this town, fo that the Chinefe barks go up to it ; 
the country is very fruitful. This city has within its dif- 
triff one city of the fecond order, and five of the third. 
This diftriff is furrounded on one fide by the fea, and on 
the other by mountains; there are a great number of pea¬ 
cocks, and feveral forts of birds of prey. There is alfo a 
kind of ftone like marble, which naturally reprefents the 
fall of water from the mountains, and landfcapes ; they 
cut it in leaves, and make tables and other curious houfe- 
hold goods of it. There is a kind of cray-fifli, like the 
common fort; but, when they are out of the water, they 
petrify, without lofing their natural form ; the Chinefe 
phyficians ufe them for a remedy 2gainft fevers: 1130 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 21. 40. N. Ion. 
a 10. 4. E. 
KA'O-TCHING', a town of China, of the third rank, 
in the province of Ho-nan, on the river Ho-ang; twenty- 
five miles north-weft of Koue-te. 
K A'O-TCHUEN', a town of Corea: 104 miles north- 
gaft of King-ki-tao. 
KA'O-YEOU', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
the province of Kiang-nan: 460 miles fouth-fouth-ealt of 
Peking. Lat. 32. 48. N. Ion. 118. 56. E. 
KA'PA-MA'VA. See Anacardium. 
KAPACKOW', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiev : four miles north-north-eaft of Bialacerkiew. 
KA'PAR, a town of Pruflia, in Samland : ten miles 
■weft of Konigfberg. 
KAPAW', a town of the ifland of Borneo, near the 
call coaft: 100 miles caft-fouth-eaft of Negara. 
KAPEL'LENDORF, or Capel'lendorf, a town of 
Germany, in the principality of Weimar: fix miles eaft 
of Weimar. 
KAP'FENBERGEN, a town of the duchy of Stiria : 
two miles north-north-eaft of Pruck. 
KAP'FENSTEIN, a tovra of the duchy of Stiria: ten 
miles north of Rackelberg. 
KA'PI,/ A term in the eaftern countries for gate. 
Thus the chief gate of the palace of the emperor of Per- 
fia is called Alla Kapi, the Gate of God. Hence alfo, the 
officer who has the command of the grand feignior’s pa¬ 
lace-gates is called capighi bachi . 
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KAPTLA, a very eminent literary character among 
the Hindoos, and founder of one of their philofophical 
fchools, having many tenets in common with the theories 
introduced to Europe by Pythagoras, efpecially that of the 
unlawfulnefs of flaying animals to eat, under pretence of 
a facrifice; as leemed to have been very extenfively prac- 
tifed in India. This benevolent doftrine became fo approved, 
that the grateful Hindoos have deified Kapila; affirming 
that he was an incarnation of the god Vifhnu, under the 
name of Vafudcva, as Kapila is called in their facred ro¬ 
mances, the Puranas. His theory is named Sankya, which 
feems a modification of that called Mimanfa, which corre- 
fponds with the Platonic. Moor's Hindoo Pantheon. 
KAP'LANIK, a town of European Turkey, in Mace¬ 
donia : fixty miles north-eaft of Akrida. 
KAP'NIK BANYA. See Nagy Banja. 
KAP'LITZ, a town of Boherna, in Bechin: nine miles 
fouth-eaft of Crumau. 
KA'POS, a town of Hungary: twelve miles fouth-weft 
of Szeregnye. 
KA'POS, a river of Hungary, which runs into the Da- 
nube fix miles from Mohacs. 
KAPOSVAR', a town and caftle of Hungary. This 
place was formerly very ftrong, but has been feveral times 
taken by the Turks, as in 1555, in 1664, and in 1686. 
It is now much reduced: twelve miles welt of Altenburg. 
Lat. 46. 30. N. Ion. 17. 51. E. 
KAP'PA-KELEN'GU. See Convolvulus batatas. 
KAP'PAS, a town of Louifiania, on the Miflilfippi ; 
130 miles fouth-fouth-weft of New Madrid. Lat. 34. 36. 
N. Ion. 91. W. 
KAP'PAS (Old), a town of North America, on the 
weft fide of the Miflilfippi, near which place Ferdinand de 
Soto firft difcovered the Miflilfippi in 1541. Lat. 34. 12. 
N. Ion 91. 12. W. 
KAP'RIAN, a town of European Turkey, in Molda- 
via : fixty miles eaft of Jalfi. 
KAPS'BERGER (Johannes Hieronimus), a German 
of noble birth, celebrated by Kircher (Mufurgia), for the 
number and variety of his compofitions, and for his ex- 
cjuiiite fkill in performing upon almoft every fpecies of 
inftrument; but more particularly on the theorbo lute, 
which feems to have been a new invention in the 37th 
century. The author’s name has not been recorded; 
but it is faid to have been of Neapolitan conftruftion. 
The difference between the common lute and theorbo, 
was in the latter having two necks, and thence called in 
Latin ciihara bijnga. 
KAPS'DORF, a town of Hungary : twenty-fix miles 
north-north-weft of Caflovia, and fixty weft-north-weft of 
Ungvar. 
KAP'TERO, an ifland in the gulf of Bothnia, near the 
eaft coaft, about eight miles long,and two broad : two miles 
weft of Wafa. 
KAPT'SCHAK, a large and vvell-compa£led ftate, 
which Banty, the kinfinan of the great Jengis Khan, 
founded, about the year 1240, fell, in the year 1441, into 
four khanates, viz. Kazan, Aftracan, Kaptfchak, and the 
Krim. The firft of thefe were, fomewhat more than one 
hundred years afterwards, conquered by the Ruffians 
but the fourth of thele ftates preferved its independence 
above 230 years longer. At prelent, however, they alto¬ 
gether form a part of the Ruffian empire. The khanate 
of Kaptfchak, which from the time of its feparation in 
1441, has had its principal feat in the plain, which is now 
called the Aftracan-lleppe, fell firft. So long ago as the 
year 1506 it loft its lart khan, and was divided among 
the fovereigns of Kazan, Aftracan, and the Krim ; on 
which, at length, it came to Rulfia by the conqueft of the 
two former ftates. Thefe repeated fubjugations had re¬ 
duced the Kaptfchak Tartars, to an inlignificant refidue, 
which, now removed from its ancient homeftead, dwells 
among the Bafchkirs and Kirghifes, though ftill retaining 
its appellation, and the memory of its origin. 
KAPUSTINIEC'Z, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Braclaw : eighty miles north-weft of Braclaw. 
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