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rions to which they belong. In 1749 ant ^ r 75 2 > this city 
was totally deftroyed by fire. Kazan was once the capi¬ 
tal of a principal part of Tartary, and the feat of govern-* 
ment, where the royal family refided. The Ruffians firft 
made th'emfclves raafters of this important pffice on the 
3d of October, 1551: 400 miles eait of Mofcow, and 660 
iouth-eaft of Peterfburg. Lat. 55. 45. N. Ion. 49. 3. E. 
KAZANOW', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Sandomirz : forty miles north-north-welt of Sandomirz. 
KAZANSKA'IA, a town of Ruffia, in the country 
of the Coffacs, on the Don : one hundred miles loutli- 
Jowth-eaft of Veronez. 
KAZAN'SKO, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tobollk: 2.72 miles north-north-vveft of Turuchanfk. 
KAZAN'SKOE, or Government of Kazan, a go¬ 
vernment of Ruffia, bounded on the north and north-eaft 
by Viatlkoe, on the ealt by Uphimlkoe, on the fouth 
by Simbirlkoe, and on the welt by Nizne-Gorodfkoe: 
about 200 miles in length, and front too to 120 broad. 
Kazan is the capital. 
KAZ'BACH. See-KADERSEAcy. 
KAZERO'N, a town of Perfia, in the province of Far- 
filtan: fifty-five miles welt-foutlt-welt of Schiras, and 
fixty-five eaft of Bender Rigk. Lat. 29. 44. N. -Ion. 
51.28.E. 
KAZIKI'RAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Adirbeitzan : fcrty-five miles fouth-ealt of Urmia. 
KAZIMI'ERS. See Casimir. 
KA'ZY, f. in the Eaft Indies, a Mahometan judge or 
magiltrate ; appointed originally by the court of Delhi to 
adminifter juftice according to their written law;; but par¬ 
ticularly in matters relative to marriages, the fales of 
houfes, and tranfgreffions of the Alcoran. He attefls or 
authenticates writings, which under his feal are admitted 
as the originals in proof. Encyclopedia Brilanmca. 
KBELL, a town of Bohemia, in Bolellau : three miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Benatek. 
KE'A, a tow'n of Africa, in the kingdom of Bambarra: 
fixty-five miles north-eaft of Sego. 
KEACH, a river of South Wales, which runs into the 
Tivy about five miles above Cardigan. 
KEADU'E, a poft-towm of the county of Rofcommon, 
province of Connaught, Ireland : eighty-five miles from 
Dublin. 
KEA'DY, a market and poft-town of the county of 
Armagh, province of Ullter, Ireland, fituated on the river 
Callan, along the Banks of which, from Armagh to this 
place, are many confiderable bleach-greens, the linen ma¬ 
nufacture being carried on here very extenfively : it is 
fifty-nine miles north from Dublin, and fix miles fouth 
from Armagh. 
KEA'JA, or Kiahia, is the name of the lieutenant of 
the chief officers of the Porte, or the fuperintendant of 
their particular court. 
KEALE, f. Small fragments refembling chips or broken 
pieces of ltone of various kinds; fome of lime-ftone, 
others of free-ftone, and others of rag-ftone, found mixed 
among the $arth of the upper ftratum in many parts of 
this kingdom, and giving that foil the name of kealy ; 
hence, fome of thefe pieces of keale are thin and flat like 
bits of flate. 
KE'ALY, adj . A term applied by hulbandmen to a 
fort of land, plentifully ftrevved with keale or kale. 
KEAM'PAN HEAD, a cape en the eaft coaft of the 
Bland of Louis, forming the north-eaft point of the pe- 
ninfula of Aird. Lat. 58.15. N. Ion. 6. 5. W. 
KEANGON'j a town of Grand Bukharia : feventy-five 
miles north-weft of Anderab. 
KEA'RAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty 
miles louth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
KEATE (George), an entertaining and mifcellaneous 
writer, was born at Trowbridge, in Wiltlhire, in the year 
2729. Having been educated at Kingfton, he repaired to 
Geneva, where he refided fome years, and contracted an 
intimacy with Voltaire. He made the tour of Europe, 
Vol.XI. No. 783. 
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and, returning to his native country, entered himfelf as a 
ftudent in the Inner Temple, and was in due time called 
to the bar, and lometimCs attended the courts in Weftmin- 
fter Hall, though he did not pradtife, either on account 
of his want of encouragement, or for want of a degree of 
application fuflicient to make himfelf matter of his profef- 
fion. His firft literary performance was entitled Ancient 
and Modern Rome, a poem written at Rome in the year 
1755. It was published in 1760, and was very well re¬ 
ceived by the public: he next produced A Short Account 
of the Ancient Hiftory, prefent Government, and Laws, 
of the Republic of Geneva. In 1768 or 69, he publiflied 
Fcrncy, an epiftle to Voltaire, in which he introduced a fine 
eulogium on Shakefpeare, which procured for him the 
compliment, from the mayor and burgelfesof Stratford, of 
aftandilh mounted with filver, made out of the mulberry- 
tree planted by that illuftrious bard. In 1779, he publifli¬ 
ed Sketches from Nature, taken and coloured in a Journey 
to Margate, in 2 vols. i2ino. This, though an avowed 
imitation of Sterne’s Sentimental Journey, contains fo 
many juft ftriftures on life and manners, enlivened by 
ftrokes of genuine humour and delicacy of fentiment, as 
to have been extremely popular, and it was thought that 
Sterne never had fo-happy an imitator as Keate. In 17S1, 
he collected his poetical works, and publiflied them in 
two volumes, which he dedicated to Dr. Heberden. His 
laft and belt production, and that which did moft cre¬ 
dit to his genius and liberality, was the Account of the 
Pelew Illands, which he drew up and publiflied in 1788. 
This work is written with great elegance, and compiled 
with much care : it had a confiderable fale; but the author 
wrote it from the moft difinterefted motives, and receiv¬ 
ed no advantage from it whatever. He died in the year 
1797, leaving behind him feveral other publications be- 
fides thofe already noticed. Monthly Magazine. 
KE'ATING (Geoffrey), an Irith historian, was a na¬ 
tive of Tipperary, and flouriftied in the earlier part of the 
feventeenth century. He was educated to the prielthood 
in the Roman catholic church; and, having received at a 
foreign univerfity the degree of D.D. returned to his na¬ 
tive country, and became a celebrated preacher. Being 
extremely well verfed in the ancient Irilh language, he un¬ 
dertook to coiled all the remains of the early hillory and 
antiquities of the illand, and form them into a regular 
narrative. This he drew up in the Irilh language, and fi¬ 
nished about the time of the acceffion of Charles I. to the 
throne. Few histories embrace a longer period of time; 
for it commences from the firft planting of Ireland afteC 
the deluge, and goes on without interruption to the feven- 
reentli year of king Henry II. It ftates the year of the 
world in which the polterity of Gathelusand Scota fettled 
in the illand, and gives an account of the lives and reigns 
ol a hundred and leventy-four kings of the Milefian race. 
This work remained in manufcript in the original lan¬ 
guage, till it was translated into Englifli by Dennot 
O’Connor, and publiflied at London in 1723, folio. A 
new edition, with fplendid plates of the arms of the prin¬ 
cipal Irilh families, was printed in 1738. Several copies 
of the original are to he found in the public libraries of 
Great Britain and Ireland. It is needlefs to obferve, that 
great part of a work of fuch pretentions mult be founded 
on fable; and it has accordingly been generally consider¬ 
ed as little better a mafs of idle fiction. It has. been al¬ 
leged in defence of the vteracity of Keating himfelf, that 
he has given his extraordinary relations merely as fables, 
and not as true hiftory; and that he only luppofes real 
' facts to be difguiled under them. This writer probably 
died between 1640 and 1650. 
KE'BAN, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Diarbekir : feventy miles north of Diarbekir. 
KEB'BAR, or Culler, J. The refufe of fheep drawn 
out of a flock. Cooper's Thejaur. 
KE'BECK, a river of England, which runs into the 
Nid two miles above Knarelborough, in the county of 
KE'BER, 
