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he was fent ambaflador to the court of Stockholm, where 
he appeared with great magnificence. On his return to 
Petersburg he was honoured with the marfhal’s ftaffi ; but, 
finding his appointments infuflicient for the fupport of his 
dignity, he accepted an invitation from Frederic king of 
Pruffia to enter his fervice. That monarch fettled an 
ample penfion upon him, made him governor of Berlin, 
and received him to his particular intimacy. In the war 
of 1756, Keith entered Saxony, in quality of field-m'arlhal 
of the Pruffian army. It was he who fecured the fine re¬ 
treat after the railing of the fiege of Olmutz, in 1753. He 
was killed in that year at the furprife of the camp of 
Hochkirchen by count Daun. General Keith underftood 
the art of war theoretically, and was equally able in the 
council and the field. He alfo poffefl’ed many eftimable 
qualities asa man, of which the following paffage in a let¬ 
ter from his brother, the earl-marfhal of Scotland, to Mad. 
Geofrin, is an honourable teftimony. “ My brother has 
left me a noble inheritance. He had juft laid all Bohemia 
under contribution at the head of a great army, and I 
have found feventy ducats in his chert.” The king of 
Pruffia honoured his memory with a fine monument at 
Potzdam. 
KEITH, a town of Scotland, in the county of Bamff. 
The old town of Keith is reduced to a fmall village, and 
another town has been built about half a century, called 
New Keith, on a regular plan 5 containing a very confi- 
derable market for cattle; and a port-office-. James Fer- 
gufon, the celebrated mathematician, was a native of 
Keith: fixteen miles fouth-weft of Bamff, and fifteen 
fouth-eaft of Elgin. Lat. 57. 31. N. Ion. 2. 52. VV. 
KE'KI, a town of Japan, in the illand of Ximo : fifteen 
miles north-north-weft of Naka. 
KE'KO, a town of Hungary, with a caltle : fifteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Ivorpona. 
KE'LA, Kelay', or Quil'la, a town of Africa, on 
the Slave Coaft, in the canton of Koto. 
KELAI'A, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 
jas : fifty miles eaft'-fouth-eaft: of Calaat el Moilah. 
KELAI'AH, [Hebrew.] The name of a man. 
KELANG', a fmall illand in the Eailern Indian Sea, 
near the weft coaft of the illand of Ceram. Lat. 3. 3 .S. 
Ion. 128. E. 
KE'LAR, a town of Perfin, in the province of Irak : 
feventy miies eaft-fouth-eaft of Cafoin. 
KE'LAT, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chora- 
fan, fituated at the edge of a high rqountain furrounded 
by rocks; taken by Timur Bee in the year 1382 : twenty- 
five miles eaft of Abiverd. 
KEL'BRA. See ICalbra. 
KEL'DER, f. [Dut.] The belly ; the womb. “Hans 
in kdd.tr ,” a health to a woman with child. 
KE'LEH, a town of Egypt: three miles north-weft of 
Edfu. 
KELEMA'RCK, a town of Pomerelia: ten miles fouth- 
eaft of Dantzic. 
KE'LEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Suda- 
via : three miles fouth of Angerburg. 
KE'LES, a town of Aiiatic Turkey, in Natolia: twen¬ 
ty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Ephefus. 
KEL'ESTIN, a town of Hungary: two miles fouth of 
Levens. 
KEL'KEIM, a town of Bavaria, fituated on an illand, 
formed at the conflux of the Altmuhl and the Danube : 
fixteen miles fouth-eaft of Dietfurt, and forty-fix north- 
north-eaft of Munich. Lat. 4.8. 52. N. Ion. 11.52. E. 
KEL'HERA, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Adirbeitzan, near Ardebil. 
KELIKDO'NI, a river of Afiatic Turkey, in Carnma- 
nia, which runs into the Mediterranean five miles fouth 
of Selefkeh. 
KELI'TA, or Kelitah, [Hebrew.] The name of a 
man. 
KE'LIUB, or Kal'jub, a town of Egypt, on the Ka- 
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lits abu Meneggi, the capital of a diftrift; fix miles north 
of Cairo. 
KELL,yi A fort of pottage fo called in Scotland, be¬ 
ing a foup made with Ihredded greens. 
KELL, or Caul , f. The omentum; that which in¬ 
wraps the guts.—The very weight of bowels and kdl, in 
fat people, is the occafion of a rupture. Wifemans Surgery. 
KEL'LAH, a town of Abyffinia : feventy-five miles 
eaft of Axum. 
KEL'LAH, a town of Ilindooftan, in Bahar: twenty 
miles north of Hagypour. 
KEL'LAT. See Kalhat. 
KEL'LER (James), an able writer among the Jefuits 
was born at Seckingen, one of the four foreft-towns, in 
the year 1568. He became a member of the fociety irj 
1588, and greatly diftinguillied liimfelf as a profefibr of 
belles-lettres, philofophy, and moral and fcholaltic theo¬ 
logy, in different feminaries belonging to the order. He 
publillied leveral pieces in theological controverfy, and va¬ 
rious political works relative to the affairs of the times, 
chiefly under difguifed names. 
KEL'LER (John Balthafar), a celebrated artift, was 
bom at Zurich in 1638. He learned the art of a gold- 
fmith, in which he difplaved great ingenuity, and went to 
Paris, by the invitation of his brother, who was cannon- 
founder and commiffary of artillery to the king of France.. 
While in the French fervice he caff a great many cannons 
and mortars, together with the ftatues in the gardens of 
Verfailles; but he acquired the greateft fame by theequef- 
trian ffatue of Louis XIV. erected in the Place Louis Le 
Grand, and executed after the model of Girardon ; it was 
completed in one calt, on the 1 It of December, 1691 ; and 
is twenty-one feet in height. He was infpedor of the 
loundery at the arfenal; and died at Paris in 1702. 
KEL'LER (Godfrey), a native of Germany, who fettled 
in England about the beginning of the laft century, and 
had much practice as a harpfichord-mafter. In 1711, he 
publiffied at Amfterdam fix fonatas, dedicated to the 
queen Anne. 
As a compofer, Keller was foon forgotten ; but he was 
remembered a confiderable time as the author of a port hu¬ 
mous treatife on thorough bafs, which he had finiflied, but 
did not live to publiffi. It was, however, printed, a ffiort 
time after, by Cullen, at the Buck, between the Temple- 
gates and Fleet-ftreet, with the following ample title : “ A 
complete Method for the attaining to play a Thorough- 
Bafs upon either Organ, Harpfichord, or Theorbo-Lute; 
by the late famous Mr. Godfrey Keller, with Variety of 
proper Leffons and Fugues, explaining the feveral Rules 
throughout the whole Work ; and a Scale for tuning the 
Harpfichord or Spinet: all taken from his own Copies, 
which he did defign to print.” This treatife, though mea¬ 
gre, was the belt our country could boaft, till Lampe, in 
1737, publiffied his Plain and Compendious Method of 
teaching Thorough-Bafs. See Lampe. 
KEL'LERN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Er- 
meland .• five miles.fouth of Allenftein. 
KEL'LERN, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg; three 
miles fouth-louth-weft of Volchacb. 
KEL'LI, a town and fortrefs of Hindoollan, in the 
Tanjore country : twenty-feven miles louth of Tanjore, 
and fifty-two fouth-welt of Negapatam. Lat. 10. 20. N. 
Ion. 79. 7. E. 
KAL'LINGTON. See Callington, vol. iii. 
KELLINO'RE, a town of Hindoollan, in the Carnatic: 
ten miles north of Pondicherry. 
KELLERAM'PT, a bailiwick of Swifferland, in the 
canton of Zurich, of which Bremgarten is the principal 
place. 
KEL'LOM, for Kkn'elm, a man’s name. 
KELLS, a town of Ireland, in the county of Meath 
and province of Leinrter, thirty-one miles from Dublin. 
This place gives title of vifeount to the family of Cbol- 
mondeley - } and near it is Headforr, the magnificent feat 
of 
