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and they pafs the night round fires. The minifters ufe 
great vehemence in their difcourfes. Frequently, in the 
middle of thefe fertnons, the heads of fome of the congre¬ 
gation are lifted up, their imaginations exalted, and they 
fall down, infpired, exclaiming, Glory ! Glory ! It is chiefly 
among the women that thefe inl'pirations take place. 
They are then taken from among the crowd, and put un¬ 
der a tree, where they lie extended fora long time, utter¬ 
ing deep fighs. There are fome of thefe aflemblies at 
■which as many as two hundred will fall in this manner, fo 
that a number of affiftants are employed to help them. 
While I was at Lexington, I attended one of thefe fer- 
mons. Thofe who are belt informed differ from the opi¬ 
nion of the multitude with refpeft to this fpecies of ex- 
tacy ; which frequently draws on them the appellation of 
bad folks. But tills is the extent of their intolerance. 
When returned from the fermon, religion feldoin forms a 
fubjedl of converfation among the citizens. Although 
divided into different fe6ts, they live in the greateft har¬ 
mony ; and, when an alliance is projected between fami¬ 
lies, difference of religion never occafions any obftacle : 
the hufband and wife follow the vvorlhip they approve ; as 
do their children when they are come to maturity, with¬ 
out the leaf! oppofition from their parents.” 
KENTZIN'GEN, a town of Germany, in the Brifgau, 
about a mile from the eaft fide of the Rhine : thirteen 
miles north-weft of Friburg. 
KEN'VENY, a river of England, which runs into the 
Ufk a little below Abergavenny. 
KEN'WULPH, [Saxon.] A man’s name. 
KEN‘YON (Lloyd), was born at Gredington, in Flint- 
fhire, in the year 1733. He was educated at Ruthin fchool 
in Denbighfhire, after which he was articled to Mr. Tom- 
linfon, an attorney at Nantwich, in Chefhire. When he 
had completed his clerkfhip, he entered himfelf a member 
of the fociety of Lincoln’s Inn, and was called to the bar 
in 1761. He now began to p rad life as a conveyancer, and 
foon obtained a high reputation as a found lawyer, which 
was the means of introducing him to notice in the chan¬ 
cery-court. Still, however, he made no figure at the bar, 
till the trial of lord George Gordon, in 1780, gave him 
an opportunity for a full difplay of his talents; and from 
this moment he was looked up to with refpedl by his bre¬ 
thren at the bar. In 1782, he was made attorney-general, 
and chief juftice o( Chefter; and, much about the fame 
time, he was returned to parliament for Hindon in Wilt- 
fhire. In 1784, he was appointed to the office of mafter 
of the Rolls; and on the refignation of the earl of Manf- 
field in 1788, he was, by the zealous recommendation of 
lord Thuriow, railed to the office of chief juftice of the 
king’s bench, and enobled with the title of baron Ken¬ 
yon. He died at Bath in April 1802, leaving two Ions, 
George the prefent lord, and the honourable Thomas 
Kenyon. See the article Heraldry, vol. ; x. p.579. 
“ Other chief juftices (fays Iqrd Kenyon’s biographer) 
may have been profounder icholars ; the decifions of juf¬ 
tice may have been adorned with more grapes of eloquence, 
and more luminous variety of illuftrations 5 others have 
been more diftinguifhed as political characters; but I be¬ 
lieve there never lived a lord chief juftice who more com¬ 
pletely poflefled and deferred the confidence of the public. 
Implicit confidence is more than is due to any man ; but 
confidence in moral worth, in iterling integrity, in tried 
abilities, and fin cere regard to religion, was what lord Ken¬ 
yon eminently enjoyed. The nation at large were more 
than fatisfied with him; they repofed in him with a filial 
confidence that the great interefts of morality, property, re¬ 
putation, and marriage, were fife where lord Kenyon pre- 
fided. Lord Kenyon was one of thofe truly great minds, 
which are fuperior to all affectation, even the affectation of 
knowledge. If he was ignorant, or but flightly informed, 
on any fubjedt which came before him, he never had the 
littlenefs to pretend to know it. He was always very de- 
firotis of receiving the afliftance of thofe who, from their 
peculiar profefjlon, employment, or fituation, were likely 
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fo be better informed than himfelf; and thus on the 
ground of adequate knowledge to do fubftantial juftice.” 
The following concife and comprehenfive, but highly 
appropriate, charadfer is extracted from a much-efteemed 
traft, which appeared not long after his elevation to the 
bench: “ Lord Kenyon may not equal, in talents or elo- 
quehce, the pre-eminent charadfer (lord Mansfield) whom 
he iucceeds on the bench of juftice; neverthelefs, he pof- 
feftes qualities more appropriate to, and knowledge more 
connedted with, the important office which he holds. Pro¬ 
found in legal erudition, patient in judicial diferimination, 
and of the moll determined integrity, he is formed to add 
no common luftre to his exalted ftation. He does not fa- 
crifice his official to his parliamentary character; the fphere 
of his particular duty is the great feene of his adlivity, as 
of his honour; and, though as a lord of parliament he will 
never leffen his charadter, it is as a judge that he looks to 
agrandize it.” In that hope and that endeavour he greatly 
fucceeded. 
In private life, the charadter of lord Kenyon was ami¬ 
able and praife-worthy in the higheft degree; no man could 
pollibly excel him in the relations of hufband and father; 
indeed, in the former, he may be confidered as a pattern 
of conjugal virtues. In his mode of living he was remark¬ 
ably temperate and regular; but the gratuitous afliftance, 
in his profeflional capacity, which it was well known he 
had often afforded to neceffitous and injured individuals, 
does away the imputation that a fondnefs for money was 
rather a prevailing trait in his charadter. Brit. Mag. 
KENZ, a village of Anterior Pomerania, with a mine¬ 
ral fpring, near Barth. 
KEOGANG', the mod wefterly of the branches or 
mouths of the river A va > in Pegu, which runs into the 
fea near.Cape Negrais. 
KEOUAL'TCHA, a town of ChinefeTartary: twenty- 
three miles north of Petoune Hotun. 
KEOWEE', a town of South Carolina, fituated on a 
river of the fame name : fifty-three north-weft of Peterf- 
burg. Lat. 34.42. N. Ion. 82. 55. W. 
KEOWEE', a river of United America, which rifes in 
the Nunic Mountains, and joins the river Broad, at Pe- 
terfburg, to form the Savannah. 
KEOZEE', a town of Birmah, on the Irawaddy: fif¬ 
teen miles north-eaft of Pagahan. 
KEPELDEE', a town of Hindooftan, in the country of 
the Nayrs : thirty miles eaft of Tellichery. 
KE'PHA, or Kai'pha, a town at the foot of Mount 
Carmel, on the north, oppofite Ptolemais; fometinves 
called Sycainivon, or the city of wild fig-trees. 
"KE'PHER HOU'A, a village of Syria, near which are 
the ruins of a building called the Sepulchre of Nimrod s 
twenty-feven miles fouth of Darnafcus. 
KE'PHER KEN'NA, a village of Paleftine, faid to be 
the ancient Cana, where our Saviour changed the water 
into wine. 
KEP'LER (John), one of the greateft aftronomers and 
mathematicians of any age or country, was a native of 
Germany, having been born, as he himfelf informs us, at 
the once free imperial city of Weil in Swabia, on the 21ft 
December, 1571. He was defeended from an ancient fa¬ 
mily of gentry, and his father was an officer in the fervice 
of Wirtemberg. Kepler came into the world in the fe- 
venth month of his mother’s pregnancy, and it was only 
by the extreme care bellowed upon him that his life .was 
preferved. Soon after he was born, his father was obliged 
to accompany the troops to Flanders; and, as his mother 
foon followed her hufband thither, it is probable that the 
infant was left behind under the fuperintendence of his 
grandfather. In 1575 his parents returned ; they found 
that their fon had iuffered feverely from the malignant 
finall-pox, which had brought him to the very jaws of 
death. In his fixth year, young Kepler was lent to the 
public fchool at Weil, but only for a very fhort time; for 
in 1578 an unlucky furetiihip, which his father took upon 
himfelf, deprived him of all he poffeifed, and,rendered a 
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