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' KERE'DE, a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat. 42. 14. N. 
Ion. j 19. 52- E. 
KERED'GE, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
fifteen miles fouth-weft of Sava. 
KEREET, f. One of the two feafons into which the year 
is divided by the Hindoos ; the other is called rubby. 
KER'ELO, a town of Tranfylvania, on the Maros : 
twenty miles weft-north-weft of Schefburg. 
KEREMPIBU'RUN, a cape on the north coaft of Na- 
tolia, on a neck of land which runs into the Black Sea ; 
called CapeCrempe in the maps'. Lat. 42. 45. N. Ion. 33.10.E. 
KE'REN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak : 
forty-five miles weft of KermanPna. 
KE'REN-HAP'PUCH, [Heb. the child of beauty.] 
The name of a woman. 
KE'RES, a river of Hungary, which runs into the Da¬ 
nube near Cfongrad. 
KER ES BAN ' J A, a town of Tranfylvania: forty-four 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Colofvar, and fifty-two north- 
eaft of Temefvar. Lat. 46.16. N. Ion. 22.35. E. 
KERESOU'N, a town of Turkilh Armenia,_ at the 
mouth of a river of the fame name, which runs into the 
Black Sea; anciently a city of Pontus, called Cerafus, or 
Csrafopontum. From this place Lucullus is faid to have 
brought cherries into Europe : 125 miles weft-fouth-weft 
of Erzerum, and feventy-five fouth-weft of Trebifond. 
KERESTUR', a town of Hungary: fix miles fouth of 
Canifcha. 
KERESZTUR', a town of Tranfylvania: thirty-fix 
miles north of Schefburg, and fifty-four north-eaft of 
Colofvar. 
KE'RET, a river of Rufiia, which runs into the Vol- 
chov four miles north of Novgorod. 
KE'RET, a town of Ruilia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the White Sea : 148 miles fouth of Kola. 
KERETZ'KOI, a town of Rufiia, in the government 
of Archangel, on the coaft of the White Sea: thirty-two 
miles north of Archangel. 
KERF,/i [ceoppan, Sax. to cut.] The fawn-away flit 
between two pieces of ftuff is called a kerf. Moxori's Meek. 
Exercifes. 
KER'GONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifh : for¬ 
ty-five miles fouth of Indore. 
KERGUE'LEN’s LAND, Crouy, or Island of De¬ 
solation, an ifland in the Southern Indian Ocean, dif- 
covered by Kerguelen, a Frenchman ; and vifited, in the 
year 1779, by Capt. Cook, who gave it the latter name, 
from its appearance. None but amphibious animals w'ere 
difeovered, and few vegetables. This land occupies about 
one degree and a quarter of latitude, and probably about 
two of longitude. Kerguelen called the ifland Croy, or 
Crouy. The French ditcoverers, with fome reafon, ima¬ 
gined this So be the projefting part of the fouthern con¬ 
tinent. The Englifh, fays Capt. Cook, have fince proved 
that no fuch continent exifts ; and that the land in quef- 
tiouisan iiland of no great extent; which, from its fteri- 
Inyi T fhould, with great propriety, call the Ifland of De¬ 
flation, but that I would not rob M. de Kerguelen of the 
honour of its bearing its name. Mr. Anderfon, my fur- 
geon, communicated to me the following obfervations on 
its natural productions : “Perhaps noplace hitherto difeo¬ 
vered in either hemifphere, under the fame parallel of la¬ 
titude, affords fo fcanty a field for the naturalift as this 
barren fpot. The verdure which appears when at a little 
diftance from the fhore fhould flatter one with the expec¬ 
tation of meeting with fome herbage, but in this we were 
much deceived ; for this verdant colour is produced only 
by one fmall plant, not much unlike fome forts of faxi- 
frage, which grows in large fpeading tufts to a confidera- 
ble way up the hills. It grows on a kind of rotten turf, 
which dried, in cafes of neceftity, might ferve for fuel, 
and is the only thing we met with here that could poffibly 
be applied to this ufe. There is another plant growing 
plentifully about the boggy declivities to near the height 
of two feet, and not much unlike a frnall cabbage when 
it has fliot into feed. Two ether plants were found near 
the brooks and boggy places, which were eaten as falad ; 
the one refemblmg garden creffes, and very fiery; the 
other very mild : this laft, though but fmall, is in itfelf a 
curiofity ; having not only male and female, but what the 
botanifts call androgynous, plants. A coarfe grafs grows 
in fome fpots about the fides of the harbour, and afmaller 
fort which is rarer ; in fhort, the whole catalogue of plants 
does not exceed eighteen, including fome forts of mofs, 
and a beautiful fpecies of lichen, which grows upon the 
rocks higher up than the reft of the vegetable productions; 
nor is there even the leaft appearance of a ftmib in the 
whole country. The animals found here are all of the 
marine kind, and ufe the land only as a refting-place, and 
for breeding ; the moft confiderable are feals ; no other 
quadruped either of the fea or land kind was feen ; but a 
great number of birds, viz. ducks, petrels, albatrofifes, 
lhags, gulls, and fea-fwallows. The hills are of a moderate 
height; yet many of their tops were covered with fnow at 
this time, though anfvvering to our June. Rain muft be 
almoft conftant here, not only from the marks of the tor¬ 
rents, but from the difpofition of the country ; which even 
on the hills is an entire bog. The foundation of the hills 
are compofed chiefly of a dark-blue, and very hard, done, 
intermixed with fmall particles of glimmer or quartz. 
Another brownifh brittle ftone forms here fome confider¬ 
able rocks; and one which is blacker, and found in de¬ 
tached pieces, inclofes bits of coarfe quartz. A red, a- 
dull yellow, and a purplifh, fand-ftone, are alfo found in 
fmall pieces; and pretty large lumps of femi-tranfparent 
quartz, difpofed irregularly in polyhedral pyramidal cryf- 
tals of long Ihining fibres. Some fmall pieces of the com¬ 
mon fort are met with in the brocks, made round by at¬ 
trition, but none hard enough to refill: a file ; nOr were 
any of the other ftones adled on by aquafortis, or attracted 
by the magnet. Nothing that had the lealt appearance of 
an ore or metal was feen.” Lat. 49.20. S. Ion. 69. 30. E. 
KE'RI CHE'TIB,/; The various readings in the Hebrew 
Bible : keri fignifies that which is read ; and chetib that 
which is written : for, where any fuch various readings 
occur, the wrong reading is written in the text, and that 
is called the cketib ; and the true reading is written in the 
margin, with p under it, and called the keri. It is gene¬ 
rally faid by the Jewifh writers, that thefe corrections were 
introduced by Ezra ; but it is moft probable, that they 
had their original from the miftakes of the tranferibers af¬ 
ter the time of Ezra, and the obfervations and correct ion a 
of the Maforites. Thofe keri-chetibs, which are in the 
facred books written by Ezra, or which were taken into 
the canon after his time, could not have been noticed by 
Ezra himfelf; and this affords a prefumption, that the 
others are of late date. Thofe words amount to about 
1000 ; and Dr. Kennicott, in his Differtatio Ger.eralis, re¬ 
marks, that all of them, excepting fourteen, have been 
found in the text of manuferipts. 
KER'JE, or El Kerdsje, a diftrict of the province 
of Nedsjed, in Arabia, lying on the fouth-weft part of 
that province, and of courfe on the frontiers of Yemen,: 
extending along the eaft of Hedsjas, a confiderable way to 
the north. In this diftrift is the city of Imam, famous, 
even before the days of Mahomet, for being the native 
city of Mozeilama, who fet himfelf up as a prophet. This 
province alfo comprifes other towns, among which is S?„- 
lernia, on the confines of Yemen. 
KE'RIG, a river of North-Wales, which runs into the 
Dovy about two miles above Machynlleth, in the county 
of Montgomery. 
KERIGAR', a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of 
Oude : eighty miles north of Lucknow, and eighty eaft 
of Bereilly. Lat. 28. 12. N. Ion. 81. 25. E. 
KER'IKERD, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Chufiftan, taken by Timur Bee in 1393 : fifteen, miles 
north of Suiter. 
KER IMCII ARiR Y-, 
