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KERIMCH AR'RY./i [Indian.] An inferior officer un¬ 
der the zemindar, who collets from, the villages, and keeps 
the accounts. 
KERIMGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar : 
twenty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Hajypour. 
KE'RIN, a river of Chinefe Tartary, which runs into 
the Amur in lat. 50. 4.+. N. Ion. 136. 44. E. 
KERIOG', a river of North-Wales, which runs into 
the Dee about rive miles fouth of Wrexham in Denbighfhire. 
KER'ION, a town of Thibet: twenty-four miles north- 
weft of Serangpour. Lat. 32. 35. N. Ion. 83. E. 
KER'IOTH,yi [Heb. the cities.] The name of a place. 
Jerem. 
KERISON'GAR, a lake of United America, inthedif- 
trift of Maine, which fends its waters to Penobfcot river. 
KE'RIST, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfif- 
tan : 106 miles fouth-fouth-ead of Schiras. 
KER'KA, a town of Perfia, in Chufilfan : forty-five 
miles welt of Toftar. 
KER'KA, a river of Dalmatia, which runs into the 
Adriatic near Sebenico. 
KERKELAN', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the go¬ 
vernment of Sivas: thirty miles weft-fouth-weft of Ama- 
fieth. 
KER'KENI, a final! ifiand near the ealt coalt of Tunis. 
Lat. 34. 59. N. Ion. 11. 12. E. 
KER'KER, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Aladulia, on the Euphrates: thirty miles fouth of Ma¬ 
laria. 
KER'KES, a mountain of Grand Bukharia : forty miles 
fouth-welt of Badalhkan. 
KERK'HA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chu- 
filtan, oit the Karafu : fifteen miles north of Suiter. 
KERKHERDE'RE (John Gerard), a learned profeffor 
of the univerlity of Louvain, was born at the town of 
Fauquemont, not far from Maeltricht, about the year 
1678. He purfued his academical lludies at Louvain ; and 
afterwards difiinguilhed hirnfelf during feveral years, as a 
profelfor of the belles-lettres and of hiftory in that univer- 
fity. In the year 1708 he was appointed hiltoriographer 
to the emperor Joleph I. He^ied in the year 1738. He 
was the author of, 1. Syflema Apocalypticum, 1708, umo. 
which was only preliminary to a larger treatife, publilhed 
in 1727, 1 lino, entitled, De Monarchia Roma Paganafccun- 
dum Concordiam inter SS. Propketas Danidem ct Joannem, € 3 c. 
,2. Prodromus Danielicus, &c. 1711,12100. Both thefe pieces 
are faid to be diftinguilhed by profound erudition and 
great critical acumen, and to throw light on many ob- 
icure palfages in the feriptures relating to hiftory, chro¬ 
nology, and geography. 3. Grammatica Latina, 1706, 
nrao. which, .though fiiort, is faid to poflefs greater merit 
than the mafs of more voluminous grammars. He wrote 
alfo a great number of Latin poems; and a volume of 
Diflertations illufixative of Scripture Hiftory, &c. 1731, 
12mo, In one of thele diflertations, De fitu Paradifi ter - 
rejlris, he places Paradife a little above Babylon, making 
the weftern branch of the Euphrates the Pifon, and the 
eaftern branch the Gihon, of the feriptures; which, per¬ 
haps, is as probable as molt of the other hypothefes of 
learned men concerning this point. 
KER'KIL, or Gher'gil, a town of Curdiltan : thirty- 
five miles louth-fouth-eaft of Amadieh. 
KERKIS'IA, a range of mountains in Afiatic Turkey, 
extending from Kerkilia to near Ourfa. 
KERKIS'IA, or Kerkisieh, a town of Afiatic Tur¬ 
key, of the province of Diarbekir, now in a Hate of de¬ 
cay : eight miles north of Rabba. Lat. 35. 18. N. Ion. 
4.2.10. E. 
KEAKO'NI, a town of Georgia: twenty-five miles 
fouth-welt of Teflis. 
KER'KUK, a town of Curdiltan, the capital of a go¬ 
vernment, and refidence of a pacha. It is furrounded 
with walls, and defended by a cattle: 150 miles north of 
Bagdad, and 85 ealt-Iouth-ealt of Moful. Lat. 35. 59. N. 
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KERKL'WTCK, a town of Holland, in the department 
of Guelderland : two miles fouth of Bommel. 
KERL (John Gafpar), a native of Saxony. Having 
acquired in early youth great reputation as an organ- 
player, he was called to Vienna by the archduke Leopold, 
and appointed organilt at his court; and, manifesting Signs 
of extraordinary genius for compofition, he was placed 
under Giovanni Valentini, maeltro dLcapella at the im¬ 
perial court, and afterwards fent to Rome to ftudy under 
Carilfimi. Upon his return tc*Germany, great offers were 
made to him from the eleiftor palatine, if he would enter 
into his fervice ; but he declined them, and preferred fet¬ 
tling at Munich, where he became maeltro di capella to 
the elector of Bavaria, Ferdinando Maria. His principal 
work as a compofer was Moduiatio organica fuper Magnificat 
O&o Tonis Ecclcfmjiicis Refpondens, engraved and publilhed 
at Munich in 1686. Kerl was elteemed one of the molt 
able and Ikilfid organilts of his time. In a competition 
with fume Italian mulicians at the court of the eleilor of 
Bavaria, he is laid by Walther to have compofed a piece 
for the organ of wonderful contrivance, which none but 
hirnfelf could execute. 
KERLE (Jacob de), canon of the cathedral of Cam- 
bray, from Vpres, was.a very voluminous compoler, con¬ 
temporary with Gafpar. He publilhed, 1. Pecces fpecia- 
lis fucceflii, 1569. 2. Cafmen Italica muficis modulis or- 
nafa, 1570. 3. Cantiones facras, 5 & 6 vocum, 1571, 4to. 
Venice, 1573- Befides motets, maffes, and a Te Deum. 
JKER'LEH, a circar of Hindooltan, in Berar, lying to 
the north-welt of Goondwana, and to the fouth-ealt of 
Hindia and Bopaltol. 
KER'LOAK HILL, a hill of Scotland, in the county 
of Kincardine: nine miles weft of Stonehaven. 
KER'LON, a river of Chinefe Tartary, which rifes 
about lat. 49. N. Ion. 109. 10. E. and runs into lake Coit¬ 
ion in lat. 48. 52. N. Ion. 116.40. E. after which it takes 
the name of Argun, or Ergonc . 
KER'MAN, anciently Caramania, a province of Perfia, 
bounded on the north by Segeltan, on the ealt by Mecran, 
on the fouth by the Perfian Gulf, and on the weft by Far- 
liltan. The northern part is barren, and nearly deleft, 
without rivers or brooks, and the air unhealthy; towards 
the fouth the air is more pure, and the land fertile. The 
Guebres are numerous; who are chiefly employed in ma¬ 
nufactures of fluffs and filk. Here are fome mines of 
copper, lead, and iron. 
KER'MAN, or Sirgian, the capital of the above pro¬ 
vince, is celebrated for its beautiful pottery, and manu- 
fadlure for fluff - . This town furrendered to the troops of 
Timur Bee, after a liege of three years : 150 miles ealt of 
Schiras, and 280 fouth-eaft of Iipahan. Lat. 29.40. N. 
Ion. 56. 50. E. 
KERMA'NA, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : forty 
miles eaft of Bahraitch. 
KERMANSHI'R, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman : 130 miles fouth-eaft of Sirgian. Lat. 28. 20. N. 
Ion. 58. 50. E. 
KERMANTSCHUK', a town of Circaflia, near which 
the Mogul Tartars w’ere furprifed by the Ruffians in 1783, 
and defeated with great lofs. 
KER'MASIN, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman: 160 miles fouth-eaft of Sirgian, and 180 eaft- 
north-eaft of Gambron. 
KER'MEL-SU', a riverof Afiatic Turkey, in Aladulia, 
which runs into the Geihoun fifteen miles weft of Ma- 
rafeh. 
KER'MES, f. Kermes is a roundilh body, of the bignefs 
of a pea, and of a brownifh-red colour. It contains a 
multitude of little diftinft granules, loft, and, when crufli- 
ed, yield a fcarlet juice. It tiil lately was underftood to 
be a vegetable excrefcence; but we now know it to be 
the extended body of an animal parent, filled with a nu¬ 
merous offspring, which are the little red granules. Hill. 
See Coccus ilicis, vol. iv. p. 722. 
KER'MES MIN'ERAL, fo called from its colour, 
which. 
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