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KEF'FING, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern-Indian Sea, 
near the fouth-eaft coaft of the ifland of Ceram. Lat. 
3. 28. S. Ion. 131. 11. E. 
KEF'FLE, or Kef'fol, f. A poor worn-out horfe. 
Ainfworlh. 
KE'FIL, a village of the Arabian Irak, celebrated for 
the fuppofed tomb of the prophet Ezekiel, which is an¬ 
nually vifited by abundance of Jews : fourteen miles fouth 
of Helleh. 
KEFKEBEH', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
twenty miles north-eaft of Efldftiehr. 
KEF'KEN, a fmall ifland in the Black Sea, near the 
coafl of Natolia. Lat. 41.6. N. Ion. 30. 40. E. 
KEFONETE'I, a river of Weft Florida, which runs 
into lake Pontchartrain in lat.30.ai-N. Ion. 89. 56. W. 
KEFR il BA'TIK, a town of Egypt: two miles fouth 
of Damietta. 
KEFR SU'LEIMAN, a town of Egypt: five miles 
fouth-fouth weft of Damietta. _ 
KEFREE'N, a town of Syria, on a large plain, to which 
it gives name, remarkable for the number of pigeons bred 
there : fifteen miles of Aleppo. 
KEFT. See Coptos, vol. v. and the article Egypt, 
vol. vi. p. 356. 
KEG, or Cag, /. [caque, Fr.] A fmall barrel. 
KEG'WORTH, a town of England, in Leicefterfhire, 
on the borders of Derbyfhire, containing about 1360 in¬ 
habitants: eleven miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Derby, and 
feventeen north of Leicefter. 
KE'HEEP, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : forty- 
five miles fouth of Attock. 
KEHE'LATH AH, [Hebrew.] The name of a place. 
KE'HEMEND, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Farfiftan : thirty-five miles north-eaft of Eftakar. 
KEHL, or Keil, a very important fortrefs of Ger¬ 
many, feated on the banks of the Rhine, built by the 
French after a defign of marfhal Vauban, for the defence 
of Strafburg, from which it is a mile and a half diftant. 
It was ceded to the empire in 1697, by the treaty of Ryf- 
wick. The French retook it in 1703, and it was peftored 
to the empire by the treaty of Raltadt. During the time 
of the French revolution, this fortrefs changed mailers 
feveral times; but, after 1801, it was demolilhed in terms 
of the treaty of peace. Lat. 48. 40. N. Ion. 7. 45. E. 
KEHO'A, a town of Afia, in Tonquin, near the coaft. 
Lat. 19. ii. N. Ion. 105. 21. E. 
KEH'RIEZ, a town of Perfia, in Chorafan : feventy 
miles north of Herat. 
KE'HUJ, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : fix miles 
fouth-eaft of Lahore. 
KE'I-SAN'. See Kao-chan. 
KEFA RE'GIAN, a towm of Perfia, in the province 
of Irak : fixty miles weft-north-weft of Hamadan. 
KEl'DER PEYAM'SBER, a mountain of Perfia, in 
the province of Irak : forty-four miles north-weft of Ha¬ 
madan. 
KEI'FLINGE, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Skonen : fix miles north-eaft of Lund. 
KEEGAN, a town of Corea: thirty miles fouth-eaft of 
Cou- fou. 
KEIGHLEY, a town in the Weft Riding of Yorklhire, 
near the river Air, fix miles to the fouth-eaft of Skipton 
in Craven, and 209 north-eaft of London. It has a mar¬ 
ket on Wednefdays; and fairs on May 8, and November 
8. The town Hands in a valley, furrounded with hills, at 
the meeting of two brooks, which fall into the river Air 
one mile below' it. Every family is fupplied water brought 
to, or near, their doors, in Hone troughs, from a never- 
failing fpring on the weft fide of it. The parilh is fix 
miles long, and two broad, and is fixty miles from the 
eaft and weft feas, yet at the weft end of it, near Camel- 
crofs, is a riling ground, from which the fprings on the 
eaft fide of it run to the eaft fea, and thofe on the weft to 
the weft fea. There is not half a mile of level ground in 
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the whole parilh except at the w'eft end of it, where is a 
pretty even field one mile and a half round, where are 
fometimes horfe-races. By the late inland navigation 
Keighley has communication with the rivers Merfey, Dee, 
, Ribble, Oufe, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, 
Avon, &c. which navigation, including its windings, ex¬ 
tends above five hundred miles, in the counties of Lincoln, 
Nottingham, Lancafter, Weftmoreland, Chelter, Stafford, 
Warwick, Leicefter, Oxford, Worcefter, &c. 
KEIGHT, for caught, pret. of catch : 
Her aged nourfe, whofe name was Glance hight, 
Feeling her leape out of her loathed neft, 
Betwixt her feeble arms her quickly kcight. Spsnfer. 
KEI'KIS, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo -. forty-eight miles north of Biorneborg. 
KEI'LAH, f. [Heb. file that divides.] A city in the 
tribe of J udah. 
KEILL (John), an eminent mathematician and philo- 
fopher, was born at Edinburgh in the year 1671. After 
being inftrufled in the rudiments of learning in his native 
city, he became a member of the univerfity there, in which 
he continued his ftudies till he was admitted to the degree 
of M. A. As his genius inclined him to the mathematics, 
he made great progrefs in thofe fciences under the tuition 
of Dr. David Gregory, the mathematical profeffor, who 
had embraced the Newtonian philofophy foon after it was 
publifhed, and read a courfe of leCtures to explain it. By 
this means Mr. Keill became early acquainted with the 
immenfe treafureof mathematical and philofophical learn¬ 
ing which is contained in fir Ifaac Newton’s Principia, 
which he made the ground-work of his future ftudies. In 
the year 1694, upon the removal of his tutor to Oxford, 
Mr. Keill followed him to that univerfity, where he was 
entered of Baliol college, and obtained one of the Scotch 
exhibitions in that fociety. Not long after this, Mr. Keill 
furnilhed himfelf with fuch an apparatus of inftruments as 
Iris fortune could command, and began to read leCtures in 
his chamber at college upon natural philofophy, according 
to the principles of the Newtonian fyftem, which he illuf- 
trated by proper experiments. This is faid to have been 
the firft attempt which was made to teach the doCtrines of 
the Principia by the experiments on which they are found¬ 
ed ; and the happy method in which it was conducted, 
acquired to the author confiderable reputation in the uni¬ 
verfity. In the year 1698, Mr. Keill’s pretenfioiTs to ma¬ 
thematical and philofophical learning became more gene¬ 
rally known, by the appearance of his Examination of Dr. 
Burnet’s Theory of the Earth, 8vo. By men of fcience 
this publication was highly applauded, and was juftly 
pronounced to contain a full and folid refutation of the 
philofophy in that celebrated Theory. To his Examina¬ 
tion our author had fubjoined fome Remarks upon Mr. 
Whifton’s new Theory of the Earth ; which induced that 
Angular genius to publilh a vindication of his-hypothefis,. 
About the fame time Dr. Burnet printed Reflections upon 
the Theory of the Earth. Thefe publications drew from 
our author, in the year 1699, An Examination of the Re¬ 
flections on the Theory of the Earth, together with a De¬ 
fence of the Remarks on Mr. Whifton’s new Theory, 8vo. 
in which he fatisfaCtorily fupports the animadverlions in 
his former mafterly production. In the year 1702, lie pub- 
lilhed his treadle", entitled, Introdaclio ad veram Phyficam , 
8vo. containing the fubftance of feveral leCtures upon the 
new philofophy. This is univerfaliy efteemed to be the 
belt and moft ufeful of our author’s productions, and de- 
fervedly met with a very favourable reception, both at 
home and abroad. The firft edition of it contained only 
fourteen lectures ; but to the fecond edition, in 1705, the 
author added two more upon the motions a riling from 
given forces. When the Newtonian philofophy began to 
be cultivated in France, this worlcwas held in high efteem 
there, being confideted as the belt introduction to the Prin¬ 
cipia j and a new edition of it in Engliflj was printed at 
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