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puted by the farmers and friends to agriculture in the 
county of Norfolk, to prelent him with this cup, as a to¬ 
ken of their refpedt and efteem, “ for his integrity and 
impartiality between landlord and tenant, in his profeffion 
as a furveyor of land ; and for his liberal and upright at¬ 
tachment to the interefts of agriculture.” He then pre- 
fented the cup, with the above infcription, to Mr. Kent$ 
■who, in his reply, gave the following account of his pro- 
feffional life : “ My happy deftiny threw me very early in 
life into what I may call the very lap of agriculture. In 
the capacity of fecretary to fir James Porter, at Bruflels, I 
had an opportunity to make myfelf well acquainted with 
the hutbandry of the Auftrian Netherlands, then luppofed 
to be in the higheft perfection in any part of Europe. 
No fpot was there to be found that was not highly culti¬ 
vated. The induftry of the Flemings was altonithing, 
and their care in collecting every fort of manure that 
could be ufefully applied was highly commendable. Com¬ 
ing to England in the year 1766, fir John Cult, the then 
fpeaker of the houfe of commons, requefted of me fome 
written account of the Flemilh hulbandry, with which he 
exprefled himfelf much pleated ; and he and my firft great 
friend, the eldeft brother of the late lord Anton, who was 
the true friend of merit, and the encourager of fcience 
wherever he found it, advifed me to quit the diplomatic 
path, and apply myfelf clofely to agriculture, in which I 
had a handfome promife of afliftance from the latter ; I 
did not hefitate a moment in adopting their advice. 
About this time I made a moll valuable acquaintance wdth 
the late Benjamin Stillingfleet, one of the greateft natu- 
ralills we had, who was confidered as the Englifii Lin¬ 
naeus. It was he who imprefled me with the importance 
©f taking Nature for my guide, and of learning to deduce 
my ideas of the value of land, not from local inquiry 
which might miflead my judgment, but from the wild 
plants and grafies ; as thefe would invariably exprefs the 
voice of nature. Accordingly, where I found the oak 
and elm as trees, and the rough cock’s-foot and meadow 
fox-tail as grafies, I was allured that fucli land was good. 
And, where I found the birch-tree, the juniper-fiirub, and 
■ihe maiden-hair, and the creeping bent-grafies, I was 
equally certain that fuch land was poor and fteril. In 
the year 1775, I publithed my ‘Hints to Gentlemen of 
Landed Property,’ in which I characterized and defcribed 
a great number of different forts of land, by what grew 
upon them, and fuggeffed the mott obvious means of im¬ 
proving them. I flatter myfelf this book has been the 
caufe of confiderable improvement, and will of more when 
I am mouldered into dull. I now found myfelf employ¬ 
ed as a land-valuer upon a large fcale ; but it is my fatif- 
faClion to refleft, that I did not undertake this office till 
I had fatisfied my own confidence that I was capable of 
it. When a gentleman put his etlate into my hands, I 
confidered it was the Higheft trull he could repofe in me 5 
it was leaving it to me to mete out his fortune by allot¬ 
ting him what I thought proper upon the objeft fubmit- 
ted to me. It was therefore incumbent on me to take 
care of bis intereftj at the fame time there was another 
perfon who had an equal claim to juftice from me, which 
was the occupier, who had a right to be recompenfed for 
his labour, judgment, and capital. In weighing thefe in- 
terefts, whsre there was doubt, I confefs I gave the turn 
<of the fcale to the latter. Aiding thus, the landlord and 
tenant in general exprefled reciprocal fatisfaftion. I am 
much flattered by your approving of me as a land-valuer, 
and prefume to hope that you will alfo confider me as a 
land-improver. Allow me to fay, that the embankment 
between the Lincolnlhire walhes, which fecured land from 
the fea to the amount of 2.00,oool. in value, was princi¬ 
pally brought about and effected by my advice; and there 
are many thoufand acres of wafte land in different parts of 
the kingdom, that likewife owe their improvement to me. 
It is now forty years, gentlemen, fince I have been clofely 
conneCled with this county. I have had the fatisfaClion 
4 q make a vaft number of valuable friends j and, if I have 
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any enemies, I trull they are but few. I liave always 
aCted from a confcientious confideration of the bulinefs 
laid before me 5 and Shakefpeare, the great judge of the 
human heart, fays, “ Above all be to thine own felf true, 
and it mull follow, as the night the day, thou canll not 
be falfe to any man.” 
KENT’S HOLE, a curious cavern among the rocks to 
the eall of Teignmouth, in Torbay, Devon. It is fituated 
at the foot of a rock, and has two entrances, around which 
grow various plants, and among them the deadly night- 
Ihade. The largell and bell entrance is about four feet 
high, and, continuing about twelve feet, terminates in a 
chamber, with a defcent leading on to the other vaults, 
fometimes the pafiage being only high enough for a per¬ 
fon to creep along, fuddenly leading into an apartment 
fpacious enough to contain a hundred perfons. There are 
five of thefe, but the largell is at the end of an entrance 
two hundred feet long, which barely admits a perfon go¬ 
ing through ; this is called the Oven, and here we meet 
with a lake of water, which prevents a farther progrefs. 
The whole cavern is hung with petrifaction, glittering 
witli a beautiful appearance when the party chances to 
difperfe and throw their lights in various directions in a 
place where darknefs is truly viflble; for it is necelfary 
that everyone who ventures in Ihould take a light, to pre¬ 
vent accidents by foul air. See. Attempts have been made, 
to work the Hones and fpars, but they do not prove orna¬ 
mental. 
KENTAIS'SE, a mountain of Thibet,, between the 
heads of the Ganges and the Sanpoo. Lat. 30.40. N. Ion. 
80. 49.E. 
KEN'THI, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cra¬ 
cow : thirty miles fouth-well of Cracow. 
KEN'TIGERN, or St. Mungo, a famous faint of the 
popilh church, who flouriffied in Scotland in the fixth 
century 5 faid to have been of the royal blood of both 
Scots c.nd PiCts, being the fon of Thametis, the daughter 
of Loth king of the Piets, by Eugene III. king of Scot¬ 
land. The billioprics of Glafgow and St. Afaph were 
founded by him in 560. He obtained the appellation of 
Mungo from the affeCtion of his tutor St. Serf or Servanus* 
billiop of Orkney, who called him Mongah, which, in the 
Norwegian language, fignifies dear friend. 
KEN'TISH, adj. [from A'ercr. ] Belonging to Kent 5. 
produced in the county of Kent. 
KEN'TISH TOWN, Middlefex, a village in the parifh 
of St. Pancras, three miles north from London, between. 
London and Hampftead, containing feveral handl’ome 
houfes, particularly an elegant feat built by the late Gre¬ 
gory Bateman, efq. as a kind of miniature of Wanftead 
Houfe. It is the property of Meffrs. Biddulph, Cocks, 
Cocks, and Ridge, bankers, and the refidence of Richard 
Johnftone, efq. Here is a handfome chapel of eafe to St. 
Pancras. In its vicinity are many pleafant fpots, which 
will be reliffied by the lovers of rural feenery. At this 
village, in 1798, died, in the 84th year of his age, a gen¬ 
tleman of the name of Little, who, with an income of 
upwards of 4000I. per annum, denied himfelf the abfolute 
neceffaries of life, and aftually died for want of food fuit- 
ed to his age! See Pancras. 
KEN'TON, a townffiip of Northumberland, with 885 
inhabitants : three miles north-well of NewcaMe. 
KEN'TON MAN'DEVILL,. or Magnaville, a vil¬ 
lage in the hundred of Catafh, in the county of Somerfet, 
fituated four miles and a half eaftw ; ard from Somerton, 
and in the turnpike-road thence to London by Salilbury. 
The fituation is lofty and pleafant, the number of houles 
is thirty, forming a long ftreet in the ffiape of an L. 
Thefe houfes are built of ftone, neatly chipped and dug 
in the parilh. As this is a very fine kind of flab-ftone, it 
demands particular obfervation. It is found in an open 
arable field in the higheft ground, from two to four feet 
below the furface (which is a yellowilh clay inclining to 
brick-earth) to a great depth, lying in llrata or layers 
nearly horizontal from north-eaft to iouth-weft, the lay¬ 
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