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though now, for the greater part, covered with ivy; 
but exhibiting, with Tome of the adjoining buildings, the 
principal improvements which were made to the caftle 
when inhabited by John of Gaunt, in the days of Richard 
II. The privy-chamber, the prefence-chamber, Leicef- 
ter’s buildings, and lir Robert Dudley’s lobby, are the ad¬ 
ditions on the fouth-eaft and eaflern (ides of the inner 
court, which were made between 1563 and 1575. King 
Henry’s lodgings form perhaps the only portion of the 
main ftruiture which was built by Henry VIII. the Plefans 
cr Marys, which he erefted near the Swan-tower, was only 
removed from the tail of the pool, where it had been built 
by Henry V. The outer walls, which occupy within their 
circuit (even acres, are ftrengthened at proper diftances by 
very ancient towers. At the fouth-weft angle is the fally- 
port ; in the corner, on the north-weft, the fwan-tower ; 
on the north, the gate-houfe ; at the north-eaft corner, 
Lun’s-tower ; on the eaft fide the (tables, and beyond them 
the water-tower; and laftly, on the fouth-eaft, Mortimer’s 
tower (rebuilt by Leicefter), leading through the tilt-yard 
to the gallery-tower, which, as we have before mentioned, 
appears in ancient times to have been the grand entrance 
of the caftle. But even beyond this, at a confiderable 
diftance toward the Warwick road, are other fortifications, 
which do not appear to have been noticed by the writers 
on the caftle. The pool, or lake, we have fo frequently 
mentioned, is now quite dry; and both the earth-works 
and the ruins fall decaying. Monthly Mag. for Dec. 1806. 
KE'NITES, [Hebrew, a poflellion.] A people who 
dwelt weft of the Dead Sea, and extended themfelves pret¬ 
ty far into Arabia Petnea. Jethro, Mofes’s father-in-law, 
and a prieft of Midian, was a Kenite ; and in Saul’s time 
the Kenites were mingled with the Amalekites. 1 Sam. 
xv. 6. Although the Kenites were among thofe people 
whofe lands God had promifed to the defendants of 
Abraham, neverthelefs, in confideration of Jethro, all of 
them who fu» mitted to the Hebrews were differed to live 
in their own country : the reft fled, in all probability to 
the Edomites and Amalekites. The lands of the Kenites 
■were in Judah’s lot. Balaam, when invited by Balak king 
of Moab to curie Ifrael, (food on a mountain forn whence, 
addrefling hirnfelf to the Kenites, he (aid, Strong is thy 
dwelling-place, and thou puttejl thy neji on a rock ; neverthelefs 
the Kenite fall be wajled, until After fall carry thee away 
captive. Numb. xxiv. 21, 22. The Kenites dwelt in 
mountains and rocks, almolt inacceflible. Ken fignifies 
a neft, a hole, a cave; and Kinnin, in Greek, may be 
tranflated Troglodytes, (or Caveites.) After Saul, the 
Kenites are not mentioned ; but they fubfifted, be¬ 
ing mingled with the Edomites and other nations of 
Arabia-Patrasa. For the hiftory of Keber the Kenite, 
hufband to Jael, who killed Sil'era, fee Judges iv 17, &c. 
KEN'IZZITES, ancient people of Canaan, whofe land 
God promifed to the defcendants of Abraham. Gen.xv. 19. 
It is believed they dwelt in the mountains fouth of Judaea. 
Kenaz, the fon of Eliphaz, probably took his name from 
the Kenizzites, among whom he fettled. 
KEN'KER. See Caggar, vol. iii. p. 596. 
KEN’KRI, a town of European Turkey, in Livadia: 
forty miles weft of Athens. 
KENKS, /. [a fea term.] Doublings in a cable or rope, 
when it is handed in or out fo that it does not run fmooth. 
When any rope makes turns, and does not run fmooth 
and clever in the block, they lay it makes kenks. 
KEN'LET, a river of Wales, which runs into the Ta- 
not in the fouth-eaft part of Denbighshire. 
KENMA'RE, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, 
at the mouth of a river of the fame name : twelve miles 
fouth of Killarney. 
KENMA'RE RIV'ER, a river or arm of the Atlantic 
Sea, on the coaft of Ireland, which extends about twenty 
miles in length, and about three in breadth, fituated at 
the fouth-weft fide of the county of Kerry. It affords a 
fafe and capacious harbour, but little frequented: the 
mouth is fituated in lat. 51. 40. N. Ion. 9. 57. W. 
K E N 
KENMO'RE, a town of Scotland, In the county of 
Perth, on an irthmus, which projeCls into the eaflern ex¬ 
tremity of Loch Tay, over which is a bridge in theroad 
to Inverary; the parifli is extenfive : feventy-fix miles 
north of Edinburgh, and thirty-five fouth-eaft of Inverary. 
KEN'NAMICK (Great), a river of the weftern terri¬ 
tory of America, which runs into Lake Michigan in lat. 
42. 14. N. Ion. 86. 52. W. 
KENNEBECCA'SIUS, a river of New Brunfwick, 
which runs into the St. John in lat. <15. 25. N. Ion. 66. 
5. W. 
KEN'NEBECK, a river of North America, and, next to 
Penobfcot, the fined in the Diftricl of Maine. Three miles 
from the Chops', Swan Ifland, (even miles long, divides the 
waters ofthe river. The waters on both fules of it are na¬ 
vigable ; but the channel on the eaft fide is moftly ufed. 
Thirty-eight miles from the fea is the illand Nahunkeag, 
which fignifies “ the land where eels are taken.” Within 
three miles of this ifland, a (mail river coming weft from 
ponds which are in the town of Winthrop, runs into the 
Kennebeck, and is known by the name of Cobhefeconte, 
called by the Indians Cobbifeconieag , which in their lan¬ 
guage fignifies “the place where fturgeon are taken.” Six 
miles further up the river we find the head ofthe naviga¬ 
ble waters : this is a bafon forty-fix miles from the fea, and 
■very commodious for the anchoring of velfels. On the 
eaft’bank of the (mail fall which terminates the navigation 
of the Kennebeck, is Fort Weftern, which was erected in 
the year 1752. From that fort to Taconnet Fall is eigh¬ 
teen miles. This is a great fall of water; and on the bank 
of it, on the eaftern lide of the river, is Fort Halifax, 
erefted in 1754, and fituated on the point of land formed 
by the confluence of the Sebaftacook with the Kennebeck, 
by which the latter is increafed one third in iize. The Se¬ 
baftacook comes from lakes nearly north from its mouth ; 
and in its windings receives brooks and frnall rivers, 
for the (pace of one hundred and fifty miles. Thirty 
miles above Fort Halifax, as the river runs, the ftream 
called Sandy river flows into the Kennebeck, at the point 
where the ancient town of Norridgewock Hood ; forty 
miles or more further up, the Kennebeck takes a fouth- 
weftward courfe. The Kennebeck, turning again weft- 
ward, receives the eaftern branch fifty miles from Nor¬ 
ridgewock. The main branch of the Kennebeck, winding 
into the wildernefs, forms leveral carrying-places ; one of 
which, called the Great Carrying-place, is five miles 
acrofis, and the river’s courfe gives a diftance of thirty- 
five miles, for that which is gained by five on the dry land. 
At about 100 miles diftance from the mouth of the eaftern 
branch, the fource of the main or weftern branch of the 
Kennebeck is found extended a great diftance along the 
fide of the Chaudiere, which carries the waters from the 
high lands into the St. Lawrence. There are no lakes, 
but a few fmail ponds and moraffes at the fource of this 
branch. The carrying-place, from boatable waters in it 
to boatable waters in the river Chaudiere, is only five miles 
over. The eaftern branch of the Kennebeck, which unites 
with the other above Norridgewock, ifiues from a body of 
waters which lie north about twenty miles from the conflu¬ 
ence of the two branches. Thefe. waters are called Moofe 
Pond or Moofe Lake. The Kennebeck affords great quan¬ 
tities of lumber, and is inhabited at different feafons by fe- 
veral fpecies of valuable fifli. Salmon and fturgeon are taken 
here in great abundance, and (had and alewives relieve the 
wants of the necefiitous part of the inhabitants. This ri¬ 
ver forms the neared fea-port for the people on the upper 
part of the river Connecticut. From the Upper Cohos, 
or Coos, on the latter river, to the tide-water in Kenne¬ 
beck, is ninety meafured miles. 
KEN'NEBUNK, the Indian name of a place fince call¬ 
ed Wells, in the diltridt of Maine, North America : about 
thirty-three miles below Portfmouth in New Hampftfire. 
KEN'NEBUNK, a river of the diftrift of Maine, hav¬ 
ing a good harbour at its mouth, from whence great quan¬ 
tities of lumber are (hipped for a market. This river di- 
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