K A S 
KARULSA'IF, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
'Segeftan : fifty-one miles weft of Zareng. 
KA'RUN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chufif- 
tan : feventy miles fouth of Sufter. 
KA'RUN. See Karasu. 
KAR'VIA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo: forty-feven miles north-north-eaft of Biorneborg. 
KARU'NA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo : thirteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Abo. 
KA'RUP, a town of Denmark, in North Jutland: four¬ 
teen miles north-welt of Aalborg. 
KA'RUP, a town of Sw-eden, in the province of Hol¬ 
land : fifteen miles fouth of Halmftadt. 
KARWIN'DEN, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland : ten miles eaft of Holland. 
KARYSZAN'KA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Kiev : forty-eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bialacer- 
kiew. 
KAR'ZALA, a town of Ruftia, in the government of 
Saratov, on the Choper: eighty miles north-weft of Saratov. 
KAR'ZERON. See Kazeron. 
KAS, Kyen, Guess, or Quesche, a low fertile ifiand 
in the gulf of Perfia, feparated from the continent of Perfia 
by a good channel about twelve miles broad. Lat. 26.34. 
N. Ion. 54. 4. E. 
KAS, or Ras ICasa*ron, a mountainous cape of Egypt, 
on the coaft of the Mediterranean : three miles north of 
Catieh. Lat. 30. 58. N. Ion. 33. 22. E. 
KAS'ABI, a town of Syria, on the Euphrates: twenty- 
live miles eaft of Der. 
KASAKU'RA, a town of Japan, in the ifiand of Xi- 
mo : twenty-two miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Taifero. 
KAS AM AN'S A, a river of Africa, which runs into 
the Atlantic forty miles fouth of the Gambia. 
KA'SAN. See Kazan. 
KAS'BAITE, or Gasbaite, a town of Algiers, anci¬ 
ently called Salafa: fifty miles fouth-weft of Conftantina. 
KAS'CAN. See Caschan, vol. iii. p. 868. 
KASH'GAR, Caschgar, or Kaschgar, a city of 
Afia, which at one time gave name to Little Bukharia, of 
Which it was the capital. Since the Tartars have been in 
poffeflion of the country, Kafligar has loft much of its an¬ 
cient fplendour; yet at prefent carries on a confiderable 
commerce with the neighbouring countries : 530 miles 
north-eaft of Cachemire. Lat. 39. 35. N. Ion. 80. 14. E. 
KAS'CHIL, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Ben- 
guela. 
KAS'CHIN, a town of Rufifia, in the government of 
Tver: fixty miles north-eaft of Tver. 
KAS'CHING, a town of Bavaria: five miles north-eaft 
of Ingolftadt. 
KASCHI'RA, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 
Tula : fifty-fix miles north of Tula. 
KASCHKARANT'ZI, a town of Rufiia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Archangel, on the White Sea: 140 miles 
north-weft of Archangel. 
KASCHPER'SKY HO'RY. See Reichenstain. 
KASHAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of CI10- 
rafan : fifty miles eaft-north-eaft of Herat. 
KASHAN', a town of Turkeftan : twenty-five miles 
north of Andegan. 
KASHAKLU', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Carama- 
nia : fifty-five miles fouth-weft of Cogni. 
KASHEE'D, J\ A term in Indian mufic, which figni- 
fies length, or continued found. .i 
KASH'EKA, in the hiftoric legends of the Hindoos, 
is the father of a very renowned afcetiq and fage named 
Vifnavitra. See the article Mythology. 
KA'SI, or Kas'si, fometimes written Kajhi ; a Sanfcrit 
name of the revered city of’Benares; the lattgr popular 
name being probably a corruption of its clalfical appella¬ 
tion Vara-nari, fo called from two rivers that form a junc¬ 
tion of waters and name near its fcite. Seb Benares. 
KA'SI, /. A term in the Eaft, applied to the fourth 
pontiff of Perfia, who is alfo the lecond lieutenant civil, 
Vol. XI. No. 783. 
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and judges of temporal as well as fpiritual affairs. He 
has two deputies, who determine matters of lefs confe- 
quence; particularly quarrels arifing in coffee-houfes, 
which make a great part of their bufinefs. 
KAS'ILAX, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sa- 
volax : twenty-five miles eaft of Nyflot. 
KASIMADAB', or Cassemabad, a town of Perfia, in 
the province of Irak : eighteen miles fouth of Com. 
KASIMI'ERS. See Casimir, vol. iii. p. 868. 
f KASIMOV', a town of Rufiia, in the government of 
Riazan, on the Oka, formerly the refidence of a Tartar 
prince : feventy-fix miles eaft-north-eaft of Riazan. 
KAS'KAREL ME'LIK, a town of the Arabian Irak: 
thirty-fix miles north of Bagdad. 
KASKAS'KIAS, a river on the north-weft territory of 
the American States, which is navigable for boats 130 
miles. Its courfe is fouth-fouth-weft, and near its mouth 
it turns to the fouth-fouth-eaft, and flows into the Mifilf- 
fippi river eighty-four miles from Illinois. It runs through 
a rich country, abounding in extenfive natural meadows, 
and numberlefs herds of buffaloes, deer, &c. 
KASKAS'KIAS, an Indian nation near the above ri¬ 
ver of that name in the north-weft territory. They can 
furnilh 250 warriors. Three miles northerly of Kalkalkias 
is a village of Illinois Indians, of the Kalkalkias tribe. 
Containing about 210 perfons, and fixty warriors. They 
were formerly brave and warlike, but are now degenerated 
and debauched. 
KASKAS'KIAS, a village in the American States, on 
the fouth-weft bank of the river of the fame name, a wa¬ 
ter of the Mifliflippi, in the north-weft territory, oppofite 
Old Fort, and twelve miles from the mouth of the river, 
but not half that diftance from the Mifliflippi. It con¬ 
tains eighty houfes, many of them well built; feveral of 
ftone, with gardens, and large lots adjoining. About 
twenty years ago it contained about 500 whites, and as 
many negroes. 
KASKASKUNK', a town of the Delawares, between. 
Great Beaver Creek and Alleghany River, in Pennfylvania, 
North America. Here the Moravian miflionaries had a 
fettlement. It is forty miles north of Pittfburg. 
KASKF.I'RA, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Irak: twenty-five miles north of Sava. 
KASKINOM'PA, a river of Kentucky, which runs 
into the Mifliflippi in lat. 36. 28. N. 
KAS'KIS, a towm of Sweden, in Tavaftland : thirty 
miles eaft of Tavafthus. 
ICAS'KO, a fmall ifiand in the gulf of Bothnia, near 
the coaft of Finland. Lat. 63. 16. N. Ion. 90.10. E. 
KASKOYAR', a fmall ifiand in the gulf of Bothnia s 
Lat. 63. 16. N. Ion. 90. 10. E. 
KAS'LACH, a river of Auftria, which runs into the 
Danube three miles eaft of Paflau. 
KASLE'KEN, a town of Pruflian Lithuania: eight 
miles foutli-eaft of Gutnbinnen. 
KASNIE'H, a town of Perfia, in the province of Cho- 
rafan: twelve miles fouth of Zauzan. 
KASR, a town of Egypt; fix miles north-north-weft of 
Afiimunein. 
KASR, a fortrefs of Perfia, in the province of Segeftan s 
fixty miles foutli-eaft of Dergafp. 
KASR, a fort of the Arabian Irak: twenty miles fouth 
of Sura. 
KASR ABDUL'LA, a fortrefs of the Arabian Irak, 
on the Tigris: forty-two miles north-weft of Korna. 
KASR AH'MED, a town of Tripoli, on the coaft: 100 
miles eaft of Tripoli. Lat. 32. 4. N. Ion. 15. 20. E. 
KASR AH'NAF, a fortrefs of Perfia, in the province 
of Chorafan : eighteen miles fouth of Maru-errud. 
KASR BAND, a fortrefs of Perfia, in the province of 
Mecran : ninety miles north of Kie. 
KASR ESS A PAD, a fortrefs of Egypt, on the right 
bank of the Nile : twenty miles weft ot Kene. 
KASR GE'DID, a fortrefs of Egypt, on the right bank 
of the Nile : eight miles fouth of Denutar. 
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