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tie corn is produced ; grazing is more attended to; and 
butter in confiderable quantities is -exported, as well as 
beef, hides, and tallow. Tralee is the county-town, which 
fends one member, and the county two members, to the 
imperial parliament. 
KER'RY HEAD, a cape of Ireland, in the county of 
Kerry: eleven miles north-weft of Tralee. Lat. 52. 23. N. 
Ion. 9. 4.8. W. 
KER'RY POINT, a cape of Ireland, on the coaft of 
the county of Down, in the Irifh Sea. Lat. 54. 22. N. 
Ion. 5. 23. W. 
KERS, a town of the county of Tyrol, on the river 
Inn : twelve miles north-eaft of Landeck. 
KER'SCHAN, a town of Iftria: fixteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Pedena. 
KERSEM'PE, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia : 
four miles north-eaft of Atnalieh. 
KER'SEY, f. [karfaye, Dut. carifee, Fr.] Coarfe fluff 
woven with a kind of rib.—His lackey with a linen (lock 
on one leg, and a kerfey boot-hofe on the other. Shake- 
fpeare. —The fame wool one man felts it into a hat, another 
weaves it into cloth, and another into kerfey or ferge. Hale. 
Thy kerfey doublet fpreading wide. 
Drew Cic’ly’s eye afide. Gay. 
KER'SEY, adj. Woven with a kind of rib. 
KER'SEY (John), an able Englifh mathematician and 
philologift, author of, 1. Elements of Algebra, 1673, in 
2 vols. folio ; a very ample and complete work, containing 
a full explanation of Diophantus’s problems. 2. UiBio- 
narium Anglo-Britannicum, or a General Englifh Dictionary, 
1708, 8vo. Of his life and death nothing is known. 
Hutton's Math-. Did. art. Algebra. 
KERSEYME'RE, f. [from kerfey .] In commerce, a 
kind of fine cloth woven after the manner of a kerfey. 
KERSHI'TAH, /. See Kesitah. 
KER'SHAW, a county of United America, in Cam¬ 
den diftriCt, South Carolina, on Wateree river, which fe- 
parates it from Richland county. It is thirty-five miles 
in length, and thirty in breadth. 
KERTSCH. See Kerch. 
KERTZ, a mountain of Tranfylvania, bordering on 
Walachia. 
KERT'ZENDORF, a town of Brandenburg, in the 
'Middle Mark : nine miles fouth-eaft of Potzdam. 
KERTZ'HOFEN, a town of Bavaria, in the princi¬ 
pality of Aichftatt: four miles north of Aichftatt. 
KER'UA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Kerman : 
ninety miles fouth-fouth-weft of Sirgian. 
To KERVE, v. a. [ceppan, Sax. ] To cut: 
That elfe was like to fterve 
Through cruell knife, that her deare hart did kerve. Spenf. 
KERYERDONK, a town of France, in the department 
of theRoer: feven miles north of Gueldres, and eight 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Cleves. 
KERVIGNAC', a town of France, in the department 
©f the Morbihan : fix miles north-eaft of L’Orient. 
KER'VIKER, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia : 
twenty-eight miles fouth-weft of Aphiom-Kara-hiffar. 
KE'RUN, a lake of Egypt, in a diltridt forming a kind 
of excreficence to the weft, about thirty miles long, and 
fix broad ; which has no appearance of being artificial. 
KE'RY, a river of South Wales, which runs into the 
Tivy about feven miles above Cardigan. 
KERYE', a town of Hindoollan, in Baglana: twenty- 
five miles weft of Naffuck. 
KES'ALAX, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Kuopio: eighty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kuopio. 
KE'SAR,yi [Caefar.] An emperor.—Whileft kings and 
kefars at her feet did them proftrate. Spaifer. 
Fayre fell good Orpheus, that would rather be 
King of a mole-hill, than a keyfar's Have. Return from Parnajf. 
KESA'VA, a name of the Hindoo deity Vilhnu ; and 
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of his principal avatara or incarnation of Krifhna, and 5 i 
faid to refer to the beauty of his hair. The name is fome- 
times pronounced Kejfu. See Hindoostan, vol. x. p. 117. 
KESAW', a town of Hindooltan, in Bahar: forty- 
eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
KES'BAH, a town of Bengal: twenty-three mile3 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Moorfhedabad. 
KES'CHIM, or Ke'sem, a feaport town of Arabia, and 
refidence of a fovereign prince, in the province of Had- 
ramaut, with a port on the Arabian Sea. Lat. 15. 20. N. 
Ion. 50. 2. E. 
KESCONSIAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman: nine miles fouth-fouth-weft of Sirgian. 
KESCOU'-KIA'MEN, a poll of Chinefe Tartary: 
twenty miles fouth-weft of Tchahan Soubarken. 
KES'ELBAUDIN, a town of Bohemia, in Konigin- 
gratz : eighteen miles north-north-eall of Gitfchin. 
KES'ELDORF, a town of Bohemia, in Konigingratz : 
ten miles eaft of Gitfchin. 
KESH, Kech, or Sebz, a town of Grand Bukharia, 
and capital of a diftridV, of which Timur Bee was ap¬ 
pointed governor in 1360. Here was a kind of univerfity 
for the ftudy of fciences and law. Timur made it his or¬ 
dinary fummer-refidence, and declared it the fecond feat 
of his empire; he furrounded it with walls, and built a 
new palace in 1379. It was otherwife called Ckaber Sebz, 
or the Green City, from the verdure of the gardens and 
meadows, celebrated for rare and beautiful plants. It was 
alfo called Coubbet Elilmi Veladeb, which fignifies the Dome 
of Science and Virtue : thirty miles fouth of Samarcand. 
Lat. 39. 10 N. Ion, 64.10. E. 
KESH'AM, a town of Grand Bukharia: feventy miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Badalhkan. 
KE'SHO, Kecho, or KACHO, a city of Alia, capital of 
the kingdom of Tonquin, and the royal refidence, is fitu- 
ated upon the navigable river Songkoy, or San Koy, about 
forty leagues from the fea, and about lat. 21. N. With 
regard to iize, it may be compared with the moll cele¬ 
brated cities of Alia ; and may at lead equal that of Pa¬ 
ris. On the 1 ft and 15th days of every moon are held 
great markets, which attraft moft of the inhabitants of 
the furrounding towns and villages to a confiderable dis¬ 
tance. The crowd is there fo immenfe, that, though the 
ftreets be very wide, it becomes difficult to advance one 
hundred paces in half an hour. Yet great order prevails, 
each merchandife and village having diftinft ftreets for 
the expofure of their articles. The ftreets are paved with 
brick, except fome parts which are left for the paflage of 
horfes, elephants, and the king’s carriages. Two-thirds 
of the houfes are of wood ; others are of brick, among 
which are the factories of fome foreign merchants, dif- 
tinguilhed amidft a multitude of huts conftrufted of bam¬ 
boos and clay. The palaces of the mandarins, and the 
public buildings, which occupy large fpaces of ground, 
are chiefly built with wood in a neat and folid manner, 
and decorated with fculptures and paintings. The roofs 
confift of tiles of different colours. The common houfes 
are compofed of a roof placed on wooden columns, com¬ 
monly covered with ftraw, reeds, or large leaves of trees, 
which, accidents excepted, will laft thirty or forty years. 
Thefe houfes have no ceilings or ftories, but are divided 
by partitions on a ground floor; and the numerous win¬ 
dows are covered with gauze, or fine muflin, glafs being 
almoft unknown. This conttruftion being very liable to 
take fire, the police only permits it to be lighted during 
certain hours of the day. The trade is very confiderable; 
and the great river is crowded with barks and boats, con¬ 
veying the merchandife of the provinces to the capital. 
Each boat pays about two-pence for the right of anchor¬ 
age, and this fmali tax forms a confiderable revenue. The 
royal palace occupies a confiderable fpace in the fineft 
quarter of the city, fituated amidft groves, gardens, and 
canals, and difficult of accefs. The women and eunuchs 
never quit its precincts. Before a recent revolution, the 
triple walls of the ancient city and palace, the courts 
paved 
