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vides the townfliips of Wells and Arundel. It runs a 
Ihort courfe,.and empties into the fea between Cape Por- 
poife and Cape Neddick. See Wells. 
KEN'NEDY’s CREEK, a river of Kentucky, which 
runs into the Ohio in lat. 58. 30. N. Ion. 83. 36. W. 
KEN'NEL, f [ canalis , Lat.] The watercourfe of a 
ftreet.—Bad humours gather to a bile ; or, as divers ken¬ 
nels flow to one fink, to in fliort time their numbers in- 
creafed. Hayward. 
[From chenily Fr.] A cot for dogs.—A dog fure, if 
he could fpeak, had wit enough to' deferibe his kennel. 
Sidney. 
From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept 
A hell-hound, that doth hunt us all to death. Skakejp. 
A number of dogs kept in a kennel : 
A little herd of England’s tim’rous deer, 
Maz’d with a yelping kennel of French curs. Skakefpearc. 
The hole of a fox, or other bead. 
Mr. Beckford, in his Eflays on Hunting, is very parti¬ 
cular in deferibing a kennel for hounds; and a kennel he 
thinks indifpenfably neceflary for keeping thofe animals 
in proper health and order. “ It is true (fays he), hounds 
may be kept in barns and ftables ; but thofe who keep 
them in fucli places can bell: inform you whether their 
hounds are capable of anfwering the purpofes for which 
they are defigned. The fenfe of duelling is fo exquifite 
in a hound, that I cannot but fuppofe that every ltench 
is hurtful to it. Cleanlinefs is not only abfolutely necef- 
fary to the nofe of the hound, but alfo to the prefervation 
of his health. Dogs are naturally cleanly; and feldom, if 
they can help it, dung where they lie. Air and trefli flraw 
are neceflary to keep them healthy. They are fubjeft to 
the mange; a diforder to which poverty and naftinefs 
will very much contribute. The kennel Ihould be fitu- 
ated on an eminence ; its front ought to be to the eafl, and 
the courts round it ought to be wide and airy to admit 
the funbeams at any time of the day. It is proper that it 
ihould be neat without, and clean within; and it is proper 
to be near the mader’s houfe, for obvious reafons. It 
ought to be made large enough at fil'd, as any addition to 
it afterwards may 1 ’poil it in appearance at lead.” Two 
kennels, however, in our author’s opinion, are abfolutely 
neceflary to the well-being of hounds: “ When there is 
but one (fays he), it is feldom fweet; and, when cleaned 
out, the hounds, particularly in winter, fufler both while 
it is.cleaning and afterwards as long as it remains wet.” 
When the feeder firfi comes to the kennel in a morn¬ 
ing, he fliould let out the hounds into the outer court; 
and in bad weather Ihould open the door of the hunting- 
kennel (that in which the hounds defigned to hunt next 
day are kept), led want of red fliould incline them to go 
into it. The lodging-room ihould then be cleaned out, 
the doors and windows of it opened, the litter Ihaken up, 
and the kennel made fweet and clean before the hounds 
return to it again. The floor of each lodging-room fliould 
be bricked, arid doped on both iides to run to the centre, 
with a gutter left to carry ofl’ the water, that when they 
are waffled they may loon be dry. If water fliould remain 
through any fault in the floor, it mud be carefully mop¬ 
ped up; for damps are always very prejudicial. The 
kennel ought to have three doors; two in the front and 
one in the back; the lad to have a lattice-window in it 
with a wooden Ihutter, which is confiantly to be kept 
doled when the hounds are in, except in ftimmer, when 
4t ihould be left open all the day. 
At the back of Mr. Beckford’s kennel is a houfe thatch¬ 
ed and furzed up on the tides, large enough to contain at 
lead a load of draw. Here fliould be a pit ready to re¬ 
ceive, the dung, and a gallows for the flefli. The gallows 
Ihould have a tha'tched roof, and a circular board at the 
pods to prevent vermin from climbing up. Headvifes to 
cpclofe a piece of ground adjoining to the kennel for inch 
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dog-horfes as may be brought alive; it being fometimes 
dangerous to turn them out where other horfes go, on ac¬ 
count of the diforders with which they may be infeftetl. 
In fome kennels a dove is made life of; but, where the 
feeder is a good one, Mr. Beckford thinks that a mop 
properly ufed will render the dove unnecedary. “I have 
a little hay-rick (fays he) in the grafs-yard, which I think 
is of ufe to keep the hounds clean and fine in their coats. 
You will frequently find them rubbing themfelves againft 
it. The (hade of it is alfo ufeful to them in l'ummer. If 
ticks at any time be troublel'ome in your kennel, let the 
walls of it be well wadied; if that ihould not dedroy 
them, the walls mud then be white-waffled.” Bc-fides the 
direfiions already given concerning the fituation of the 
kennel, our author recommends it to have a ltream of wa¬ 
ter in its neighbourhood, or even running through it if 
poifible. There fliould alfo be moveable flages on wheels 
for the hounds to lie on. The foil ought at all events td 
be dry. 
To KEN'NEL, v. n. To lie ; to dwell ; ufed of beads, 
and of min in contempt.—The dog kennelled in a hollow 
tree, and the cock roofled upon the boughs. L'EJlrangc. 
Yet, when they lid, would, creep, 
If ought didurb’d their noife, into her womb, 
And kennel there: yet there ltili bark’d and howl’d 
Within, unfeen. Milton's Paradife Lojl. 
KEN'NELLING, f. The aft of lying in company as 
beads; of putting dogs into a kennel. 
KEN'NERY, a fmall iiland near the coad of Malabar, 
furrounued with a wall and towers. Lat. 18. 42. N. 
KEN'NET, a river of England, which riles in a vil¬ 
lage of the fame name, about four miles from Marlbo¬ 
rough in Wiltfliire; pafles by Marlborough, Hungerford, 
and Newbury, from whence it is made navigable to the 
Thames, which it joins a little below Reading. See the 
article Canal Navigation, vol. iii. p.690. 
KEN'NET, a townlhip of United America, in Cheder 
county, Pennfylvania. 
KEN'NETH, the name of three kings of Scotland, 
tlicit article 
KEN'NETS, f. A fort of coarfe Welfli cloth, men¬ 
tioned in the flat. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 3. Alfo fmall pieces 
of timber, nailed to the infide of the Ihip, into which the 
tacks and fheets are fadened. 
KEN'NETT '"(White), a learned Engliih prelate and 
antiquarian, was the fon of the Rev. Baiil Kennett, rec¬ 
tor of Dimchurch in Kent, and was born at Dover in the 
year 1660. He had the fil'd part of his education at Eie- 
ham and Wye, two country fchools in the neighbourhood, 
where he made a good progreis in claflical learning ; and 
went to Oxford in 1678, where he was placed under the 
care of Mr. Allam, a celebrated tutor at that time. By 
the diligence of his application to his dudies, and his ra¬ 
pid improvement, he gained the warm edeem of his tu¬ 
tor, who took a particular delight in impofihg talks and 
exercifes upon him, which he would often read in the 
common room, before the maders and gentlemen com¬ 
moners, in order to furnifli himfelf with opportunities of 
commending his pupil. The fame gentleman alfo intro¬ 
duced him very early, while he was an under-graduate, to 
the acquaintance of Anthony Wood, who employed him 
in coliefting epitaphs, and other notices, of eminent and 
learned men who had been members of the univerfity of 
Oxford. The dudies to which he was chiefly attached 
were the did'erent branches of polite literature; but with a 
particular genius and inclination for the fludy of antiqui¬ 
ties and hiflory. His career as an author, however, com¬ 
menced in the publication of a political traft, while he 
was an under-graduate, and entitled, “ A Letter from a 
Student at Oxford to a Friend in the Country, concerning 
the approaching Parliament, in Vindication of his Majedy, 
the Church of England, and the Univerfity,” 1680, 8vo. 
It, was written, in defence of the court-meafures, and fup- 
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