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three hours. Here is a large Independent meeting-boufe; 
alfo one for Baptifts, and another for Quakers. Here is 
alfo the fcffions-houfe for the county. 
The village of Geddington is four miles from Ketter¬ 
ing. Here is an ancient crofs of a triangular form, built 
in honour of queen Eleanor, the only one except Nor¬ 
thampton that is not defaced by time or accidents. This 
place had anciently a royal caftle.—Five miles north of 
Kettering, near the road to Uppingham, is Oakley Magna, 
its church, which is not under the biffiop’s jurifdiiition, 
is a donative. 
Pitchley, a finall pleafant village, two miles and a half 
fouth-weft by fouth from Kettering, is much noted for a 
very great fox-hunt kept there in the winter-feafon. The 
pack is fupplied by earl Spencer; a number of noblemen 
and gentlemen are regular fubfcribers, to the number of 
thirty or more, who are all accommodated, together with 
their attendants and horfes, at the large and venerable 
old manfion-houfe kept by Mr. Richard Lane. The houfe 
was formerly the manfion of the Wafhbourne family, but, 
for a feries of years pad, has belonged to the Knightleys, 
of Fawftey in this county. The London polt-road to 
Kettering paffes through the lordfhip of Pitchley, about 
a mile to the ea ft ward of the above-mentioned houfe. 
The ancient lords of this manor held it of the king by 
petit ferjeantry, i. e. to furniffi dogs at their own coft, to 
deftroy the wolves, foxes, polecats, and other vermin, in 
the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Elfex, 
and Bucks. BritiJh DireBory. 
KET'TLE, f. [ce'el, Sax. ketd, Dut.] A velfel in which 
liquor is boiled.—In the kitchen the name of pot is given 
to the boiler that grows narrower towards the top, and of 
kettle to that which grows wider. In authors they are 
confounded. Johnfon. 
The fire thus form'd, file fets the kettle on ; 
Like burnilh’d gold the little feether flione. Dryden. 
[Ufed by Shakefpcare forjj Kettle-drum : 
And let the kettle to the trumpet fpeak. 
The trumpet to the caoonneer without. Hamlet. 
In the art of war, a term the Dutch give to a battery of 
mortars, becaule it is funk under ground. 
KET'TLE-DRUM, f. A drum of which the head 
is fpread over a body of braf-: 
As he drains his draughts of Rhenifii down, 
The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out 
The triumph of his pledge. Shakefp. Hamlet. 
The kettle-drum is fo called becaufe the bottoms, which 
are made generally of copper, Handing upon three or four 
Ihort legs, like thofe at the bottom of a caft-iron pot, re¬ 
ferable large boilers or kettles. Thefe drums are ufed in 
pairs, the one being pitched to the key-note, the other to 
the dominant, or fourth below the key. In fonte in- 
ftances three kettle-drums have been ufed, the third 
being tuned to the fifth below the key ; but this is very 
rare. It were to be wilhed that practice were more com¬ 
mon ; becaufe not only could the kettle-drums thejj ac¬ 
company in the key, and its two adjuncts, but, when per¬ 
forming in the key, the perfect cadence could be com¬ 
pletely fupported by this powerful inftrument. For ex¬ 
ample : Suppofe a piece to be compofed in C major ; then 
the centre drum, ftanding before the performer, would be 
tuned to C; that to the performer’s left would be G; 
and that to his right would be F. Now the perfect cadence 
in the key of C comprifes FGC ; all which notes are thus 
attainable. When the modulation paffes into the key of 
G, the left-hand drum will become the key ; and when 
it paffes into F, the right-hand drum will be the key, 
with the important advantage of having its dominant, C, 
ftanding at its fide. It is to be obferved, that the three 
drums muft itand in a triangular pofition ; the two ad¬ 
juncts rather near to the key, but not quite touching, and 
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the performer ftanding between the two adjunfrs, which 
would rarely be required in the fame bar, except in the 
perfeeft cadence. 
The kettle-drum is furnifhed with ferews, whereby the 
head can be tightened at pleafure ; and that head is faf- 
tened to a large hoop, which being moveabie upwards or 
downwards for fcveral inches, fo as to increafe or to di~ 
minifti the internal area of the inftrument, it follows that 
the kettle-drum can be tuned in exaift accord with the 
inftruments of the band ; the fize of the bottom, or ket¬ 
tle, being duly proportioned to the note it is to yield. 
Formerly, kettle-drums of a final 1 fize were in ufe in our 
feveral regiments of horfe; hut, being found extremely 
unwieldy, they have been for many years laid afide. It 
is difficult to account for our adoption of the Turkifh 
cuftom in a branch fo peculiarly ill adapted to its recep¬ 
tion. Throughout Alia kettle-drums, of an immenfe fize, 
are carried acrofs camels in the train of all crowned heads ; 
the inftrument is adorned with fuperb trappings, and 
beaten by a man, who has a kind of feat made for him on 
the faddle. 
The naugaurah, as it is there termed, is one of the types 
of royalty, though it is fometimes nfurped by, and tacitly 
tolerated with, perfons of diftindlion, when in authority 
at a diitance from the court. Thefe alfo imitate their fo- 
vereigns, by having nobuts, or bands of mufic, Rationed in 
a gallery over the entrance into the palace-yard. The 
bands, in which the naugaurah is extremely audible, per¬ 
form at dated hours during the day and night, to the 
great delight of their retainers, but in a llrain highly of- 
fenfive to a well-tuned ear. 
The muficians of Hindooftan perform with incredible 
dexterity on a pair of very fmall kettle-drums, called tau- 
blahs, winch they fallen before them, by means of a cloth 
•wrapped feveral times round their waifts ; they ufe no 
flicks, but beat with their fingers in a peculiar ftyle, fo as 
to vary the intonation in a manner far from difpleafing, 
according as the fingers ftrike more or lefs near to the 
rims of the taublaks. The note is not pitched to any par¬ 
ticular concordance, but, as in the fide-drum, is perfectly 
adventitious. Single drums, of the fame delcription, and 
faftened in front of the performer by means of leather 
ftraps paffing round the vvaift, are alfo ufed on many oc- 
cafions ; efpecially to accompany the poft, for the purpofe 
of intimidating tigers, which are in fome places very nu¬ 
merous, and Icarcely to be deterred either by the found of 
thefe drums, called doogdoogies, which are beat with two 
flicks of hard wood, keeping up a continued roll, nor by 
the flambeaus, which likewife attend the letter-carriers 
during the night. Many of the poft-office people are an¬ 
nually carried off by tigers. The drum ufed by Hindoos 
in their religious proceifions, and in their recreations, is 
cylindrical, and about twenty inches in length, the di¬ 
ameter about a foot; they are beaten with one hand at 
each end, and are ulually made of wood. The fame peo¬ 
ple likeivife ufe very large drums, perhaps a yard in length, 
and refembling a fruftrated parabolical fpindle ; or, in 
other words, like a long narrow cafk, whofe centre may 
be about double, or even treble, the diameter of either 
end. Thefe drums, which, as well as the wooden cylin¬ 
drical kind juft deferibed, are called doles, are commonly 
made of baked earth, and, like the former, have their heads 
made of parchment. 
KET'TLE DRUM'MER, f. A man on horfeback ap¬ 
pointed to beat the kettle-drums, from which he takes his 
name. He marches at the head of the fquadron, and his 
poft is on the right when the fquadron is drawn up. 
KET'TLE FA'LLS, a cataraft in the river Utwas, in 
Canada ; ninety miles weft of Montreal. 
KET'TLE RIV'ER, a river of Canada, which runs 
into Lake Erie in lat. 43. N. Ion. 80. 51. W. 
KET'TLEWELL (John), a pious and worthy Englifh 
divine, was born at Brompton, in the parifti of Northal¬ 
lerton, in the county of York, in the year-1653. He was 
1 inftrufted 
