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ready given under the article England, vol. vi. p. 748, 9. 
The acquittal of Keppel was celebrated with the molt 
magnificent illuminations, and other marks of rejoicing, 
ever known at that time in this country; and the houfes 
of lord Sandwich, firft lord of the admiralty, and fir Hugh 
Pallifer, were with difficulty faved from deftruclion, the 
windows and much of the furniture being demolilhed by 
the fury of the populace. In 1782, admiral Keppel was 
railed to a peerage, with the titles of Vifcount Keppel, 
baron Elden : he was afterwards, at two different periods, 
appointed firll lord of the admiralty. He died Oftober 3, 
1786, unmarried ; and of courfe his titles became extinfl. 
He was a thorough feaman, and a man of great integrity 
and humanity. Gent. Mag. 
KEP'PEL’s BAY, a bay of the South Pacific Ocean, on 
the north-eaft: coalt of New Holland. Lat. 23. 28. S. Ion. 
150. 35. E. 
KEP'PEL’s ISLAND, or Traitor Island, an ifland 
in the South Pacific Ocean. Lat. 15. 53. S. Ion. 172. 33. to 
175. 13. W. 
KEP'PEL’s ISLAND, a final 1 ifland on the north fide 
of the moll wefterly of the Falkland Hands, in the South 
Atlantic. Lat.51.24. S. Ion. 60.15. W. 
KEP'PEL’s ISLAND, one of thole called Queen Char¬ 
lotte's [[lands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Lat. 10. 15. S. 
Rm. 194. 56. VV. 
KEP'PEL’s ISLANDS, a group of iflands near the 
riorth-eaft coalt of New Holland, difeovered by captain 
Cook in the year 1770. Near thefe iflands, as the fliip lay 
at anchor, Mr. Banks tried to fifh from the cabin-win¬ 
dows with hook anil line : the water was too {hallow for 
fifh; but the ground wasalmoft covered with crabs, which 
readily took the bait, and fometimes held it fo fait in their 
flaws, that they did not quit their hold till they were con¬ 
siderably above water. Thefe crabs were of two forts, 
and both of them fuch as had not been feen before; one 
of them was adorned with the finelt blue that can be ima¬ 
gined, in every refpedt equal to the ultrama’rine, with 
which all his claws, and every joint, were deeply tinged ; 
the under part of it was white, and fo exquifitely polilhed, 
that in colour and brightnefs it exactly refembled the 
white of old china ; the other was alfo marked with the 
ultramarine upon his joints and his toes, but fomewhat 
more fparingly, and his back was marked with three brown 
fpots, which had a Angular appearance. Lat. 25. 8. S. Ion. 
209. 11. W. 
KEP'PRITZBACII, a river of Saxony, which runs 
into the Elbe near Meilfcn. 
KEP'SE, a town of Syria, fituated on the coaft of the 
Mediterranean, and north fide of the mouth of the Oron- 
tes, about a mile from the fea ; and, remarkable as it is the 
fpot where the ancient Seleucia Pieriae flood, a place of a 
moft extraordinary fituation, of great natural Ifrength, and 
■well fortified by art. Seleucus, the firfi king of Syria, 
built it foon after he had vanquilhed Antigonus, at a time 
when he was not fettled in his kingdom ; and probably 
fortified this city with a political view, to have it as a 
place for the lalt relort in cafe Antioch fliould be taken. 
Seleucia was fituated on a rocky foil, on the fouth fide of 
the mountain very near to the fouth-weft: corner. 
KEP'TA, a town of Bootan: twenty-four miles fouth 
of Taffafudon. 
KER, a mountain of Algiers: three miles weft of 
Arzew'. 
KERA'MIANS, [. An heretical fe£t of Mahometans, 
the followers of Mohammed Ebn Keram ; called alfo Mo- 
jaflemians, or Corporealifts ; who not only admitted a re- 
femblance between. God and created beings, but declared 
God to be corporeal. They were led to this notion l>y 
the literal acceptation of thole palfages in the Koran which 
figuratively attribute corporeal aftions to God, and of the 
words of Mahomet, when he {aid, that God created man 
in his omnimage, and that himfelf had felt the fingers of God, 
which he laid on his back, to be cold. 
KERA'MO, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia : 
twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Milets. 
KER 
KERA'NA,/! A long fort of trumpet, fomewhat in! 
form ofia fpeaking-trumpet, ufed by the Perfians. To the 
found of this they add a eonfufed -number of hautboys, 
timbrels, drums, and other inftruments, every evening at 
fun-fet, and two hours after midnight. 
KERA'TI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Caramania: 
twemy-fix miles north-weft of Beifliehri. 
KERA'TI A, a town of European Turkey, in Livadia: 
twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Athens. 
KERAU'N, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore: fifteen 
miles weft-north-weft of Gujurat. 
KERB, or Kirb, properly Cure, /. A defence round 
a well; a row of {tones at the edge of a foot-path. Part 
of the regulator of a pocket-watch. See Horolocy, vol. 
x. p. 306. 
KERB-STONE, f. A {tone furrounding the mouth 
of a well, or dividing the foot-path from the carriage¬ 
way. 
KER'BEH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: for¬ 
ty-four miles north-eaft of Ifmid. 
KER'BELA. See Meschid Hosain. 
KERBOO'ZA, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : thir¬ 
ty-two miles fouth-eaft of Attock. 
KER'CAL, a town of Africa, in Fez, on the coaft of the 
Mediterranean : forty-five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Tetuan. 
KERCH, a fortrefs of Rufiia, in the province of Tau- 
ris, on the channel between the Black Sea and the Sea of 
Azoph. This town was founded by a colony of Greeks 
from Miletus, and afterwards fubdued by the kings of 
Bofphorus. In the year of Rome 689, it was taken by 
Mithridates king of Pontus, who was loon after, in con- 
fequence of the rebellion of his fon Pharnaces, befieged 
in the caftle, and put to death at his own requeft by an 
officer of the Gauls, who had forced the walls : 100 miles 
eaft-fouth-eaft of Perekop. Lat. 45. 16. N. Ion. 36. 14. E. 
KER'CHA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chu- 
fiftan : thirty miles north-weft of Suiter. 
KER'CHIEF, f. \_couv rechef, Fr. from couvre, to cover, 
and chef the head ; and hence a handkerchief to wipe the 
face or hands.] A head-drefs of a woman.—A plain ker¬ 
chief, fir John ; my brows become nothing elfe. Shahefp. 
Merry Wives of Windfor. 
The proudeft kerchief of the-court {hall reft 
Well fatisfied of what they love the belt. Dryden. 
Any loofe cloth ufed in drefs.—Every man had a large 
kerchief folded about the neck. Hayward. 
KER'CHIEFED, or Kerchieft, adj. Dreffed ; hooded : 
The evening comes 
Kerchieft in a comely cloud. 
While raking winds are piping loud. Milton. 
KERCK'RING (Theodore), a famous phyfician of the 
17th century, was born at Amfterdam, and acquired a 
great reputation by his difeoveries and his works. He 
found out the fecret of loftening amber without depriving 
it of its tranfparency ; and made life of it in covering the 
bodies of curious infedts in order to preferve them. He 
was a member of the Royal Society of London, and died 
in 1693 at Hamburgh, where he had fpent the greateft part 
of his life with the title of ref dent of the grand duke of TuJ- 
cany. His principal works are, 1. Spicilegium anatomi- 
cum. 2. Anthropogenic ichnographia. There is alfo 
attributed to him another anatomical work, printed in 
1671, in folio. 
KERCOLANG', an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
about eighty miles in circumference, inhabited by Malays, 
Lat. 4. 28. N. Ion. of the north extremity 126. 30. E. 
KER'DA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Sma- 
land : thirty-eight miles weft-north-weft of Wexio. 
KERDECAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman : twenty-two miles north-weft of Sirgian. 
KERDISTAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Chufiftan : ninety miles eaft-fouth-eaft Sufter. 
KER'DIZ, a town of Candahar, in Cabuliftan : feventy 
miles eaft of Ghizni, and fixty-five fouth-weft of Cabul. 
KEREDE, 
