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•welt territory of United America, emptying into the fouth 
end of Lake Michigan about lat.42. 11.N—The waters 
of this river communicate, by a portage of thirty yards, 
with Little Kennomick, a fliort river which runs north- 
eaileriy into the lake. 
KEN'NOWAY, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Fife: five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Falkland. 
KE'NOCK,KNOcooE,or QuENOCQUE,afort of France, 
in the department of the Lys, built at the union of the ri¬ 
vers Ifere and Yperlee, in the village of Reuninghe, firft 
built about the year 1662, by order of Philip IV. king of 
Spain, and afterwards much enlarged by the famous Vau- 
ban, who made it a regular fortrefs, flanked with four baf- 
tions, built of freeftone, and two half-moons, by order of 
Louis XIV. when he made himfelf matter of Ypres, in 
1678. It is very final!, not above 750 feet in length, and 
500 in breadth. In the year 1692, fome French engi¬ 
neers marked out a plan for additional works; but the 
projeCt came to nothing. William III. king of England, 
lent fome troops, under the duke of Wurtemberg, to at¬ 
tack this fort, on the 19th of June, 1695, but only as a 
deception to cover his defign of attacking Namur. On 
the 6th of Oftober, 1712, a detachment from the garrifon 
of Oftend, which was then in the hands of the Dutch, 
made themfelves matters of this fort by furprife, through 
the treachery of the gardener; the French commander 
and the garrifon being made prifoners of war. It was 
ceded to the Dutch by the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, con¬ 
cluded in 1713 ; and taken by the French in 1744.: ten 
miles north-weft of Ypres, and ten fouth-eaft of Nieuport. 
KEN'ODOXY, f. [Greek.] Vainglory. 
KENPOU', a river of i hibet, which runs into the San- 
poo in the kingdom of Ava. 
KEN'RED, [Saxon.] A man’s name. 
KEN'RIC, [Saxon ] A man’s name. 
KEN'RTCK (William), an author of confiderable abi¬ 
lities, was the ion of a citizen of London, and brought 
•up, it is faid, to a mechanical employment. This, how¬ 
ever, he feems early to have abandoned ; and to have de¬ 
voted his talents to the cultivation of letters, by which he 
fupported himfelf during the reft of a life which might be 
faid to have palled in a ftate of warfare, as he w'as feldom 
without an enemy to attack or to defend himfelf from. 
He was for fome time a ftudent at Leyden, where he ac¬ 
quired the title of J.U.D. Not long after his return to 
England, he figured away as a poet in Epiftles philofophi- 
cal and moral, 1759, add refled to Lorenzo; an avowed 
defence of infidelity, written whilft under confinement for 
debt, and with a declaration that he was much lets ambi¬ 
tious of the character of a poet than of a philolopher. 
From this period he became a writer by profeflion ; and 
the Proteus lhapes under which he appeared, it would be 
a fruitlefs attempt to trace. He was for a confiderable 
time a writer in the Monthly Review ; but, quarrelling 
■with his principal, began a new Review of his own. 
When our great lexicographer’s edition of Shakefpeare 
firft appeared in 3765, it was followed in a fortnight by a 
pamphlet, entitled, “A Review of Dr. Johnfon’s new Edi¬ 
tion of Shakefpeare, in which the ignorance or inattention 
of that editor is expofed, and the poet defended from the 
perfecution of his commentators, 1765.” This pamphlet 
was followed by an Examination of it, and that by a De¬ 
fence in 1766 ; in which year he produced his pleafant 
comedy of FalftalPs Wedding, at firft intended to have 
been given to the public as an original play of Shakef¬ 
peare retrieved from obfcurity, and is, it mult be acknow¬ 
ledged, a happy imitation of our great dramatic bard. 
With the celebrated Engliih Rofcius, Dr. Kenrick was at 
one time on terms of the ftri< 51 elt intimacy ; but took oc- 
cafion to quarrel with him in print, in a mode too un¬ 
manly to be mentioned. In politics alfo he made him- 
lelf not a little confpicuous ; particularly in the difpute 
between his friends Wilkes and Horne. He was the ori¬ 
ginal editor of the Morning Chronicle ; whence being 
culled for negleCt, he let up a new one in oppolition. He 
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tranflated, in a very able manner, the Emilius and the 
Eloifa of Rouffeau; the Elements of the Hiftory of Eng¬ 
land, by Milot, (to injure, if poffible, a tranllation of the 
fame work by Mrs. Brooke ;) and produced feveral dra¬ 
matic performances, together with an infinite variety of 
publications both original and tranflated. To him alfo 
the public are indebted for the collection (imperfect as it 
is) of the Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd, M.A. 1774, 
2 vols. 8vo. Dr. Kenrick died June 9, 1777. 
KEN'SEY, a river of England, in tire county of Corn¬ 
wall, which joins the Tamar loon after its rife. 
KEN'SINGTON, a large village, in the county of 
Middlefex, one mile and a half from Hyde-park-corner ; 
part of which, from the palace-gate to the Bell, is in the 
parifli of St. Margaret’s, Weftminfter. It is populous, 
containing many genteel houfes' and feveral boarding- 
fchools, and 1088 inhabitants. The old church was pulled 
down in 1696, and a much better built in its place. At 
the farther end of the town is Camden-houfe, an ancient 
edifice, which was, in the reign of James I. the feat of fir 
Baptift Hicks, a mercer in Cheapfide, afterward vifcount 
Camden; it is now a ladies’ boarding-fchool. Kenfington 
contains the hamlets of Brompton, Earl’s-court, the Gra¬ 
vels, and a part of Little Chelfea. At Earl’s-Gourt was 
the villa of the late celebrated John Hunter, who here 
profecuted his curious and ufeful experiments and difco- 
veries, and whole valuable mufeum was lately purchafed 
by parliament, and prefented to the College of Surgeons. 
Kenfington-palace was the feat of fir Heneage Finch, 
afterward earl of Nottingham, and was fold by bis foiv 
(Daniel the fecond earl) to king William, who greatly 
improved it, and caufed a royal road to be made to it, to 
run through St. James’s and Hyde parks. Queen Mary 
enlarged the gardens ; queen Anne improved what Mary 
had begun, and was fo pleafed with the place, that (lie 
frequently fupped in the beautiful green-houfe; but queen 
Caroline completed the defign, by extending the gardens 
from the great road in Kenfington to that leading to Ac¬ 
ton ; bringing the Serpentine-river into them ; and taking 
in fome acres out of Hyde-park, on which (lie caufed a 
mount to be ereCted, with a chair on it that could be ea- 
fily turned round for fnelter from the wind ; lince decay¬ 
ed. This mount is planted about with evergreens, and 
commands a fine view over the noble gardens, and the 
country fouth and weft. They were originally defigned by 
Kent, and have been fince much improved by Brown ; and, 
though they contain no ftriking beauties, which their flat 
fituation will not admit, yet they have many pleafing 
parts, and do not only afford delight to the inhabitants 
of London, whofe profelfions will not allow of frequent 
excuriions to more diftant places, but they have been, for 
fome years paft, a very falhionable Sunday-promenade. 
Thefe gardens are three miles and a half in compafs, and 
are kept in great order. The palace is irregular in point 
of architecture. The royal apartments, however, are very 
noble. It was at this place king William, prince George 
of Denmark, queen Anne, and king George II. died. 
We firft alcend the great ftair-cafe, in which there are 
painted balconies; with the portraits of particular people, 
who appear to form groups in them ; as Multapha the 
Turk, and Ulric in a Polifti drefs, both pages to George 
I. Peter the Wild Boy; and other perfons well known at 
that time. We next proceed through the apartments 
in the following order: The Prefence Chamber, the 
Privy Chamber, the Queen’s Drawing Room, the Queen’s 
Dining Room, the Queen’s Drelfing Room, the Queen’s 
Gallery, the Cube Room, the Great Drawing Room, the 
King’s State Bedchamber, the Pruflian Clofet, the Green 
Clofet, which was king William’s writing-clofet, contain¬ 
ing his table and efcrutoir, and his Majefty’s Gallery. 
We are next conducted down ftairs to the Guard Cham¬ 
ber. Tliele various apartments are adorned with paint¬ 
ings, tapeftry, and fculpture, the productions of matters 
of diftinguifhed celebrity. This palace was the frequent 
refidence of king William and queen Mary, queen Anne, 
George 
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