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KEU'LROD, a town of G c mi any, in tbs county of 
Hennteberg : four miles north-north-welt of Schleulingen. 
KEU'RA, /I in botany. See Pandanus. 
KEURBOO.'M, a river on the fouth coaft of the colony 
of the Cape of Good Hope, which, like the Knyfna, runs 
tip into the midft of tall forefts, and might be navigated 
by boats to a confiderable diltance ; but its mouth, in 
Piettenburg’s bay, is completely landed up by the almoft 
perpetual rolling fwell of the fea, from the iouth-caftwsrd, 
tipon the Tandy beach. 
KEURN, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Wafa : ninety-fix miles fouth-eaft of'Wafa. 
KEV'ROL, a town of Rufiia, in the government of 
Archangel: one hundred miles fouth-eaft of Archangel. 
KEUSCH'BERG, or Kiade, a town of Saxony, re¬ 
markable for a vifiory obtained by Henry the Fowler over 
tiie Huns, in the year 933 : fix miles fouth-eaft of Merfe- 
burg, 
KEW, a village in Surrey, formerly a hamlet of Kingf- 
ton, but united to Peterfliam, as one vicarage, by act of 
parliament in 1769, is feated on the Thames, feven miles 
weft-fouth-weft from London. Here is a chapel, ereCted 
at the expence of the nobility and gentry in the neighbour¬ 
hood, on a piece of ground given by queen Anne. 
Againlt the fouth wall is a tablet to the memory of Jere¬ 
miah Meyer, a celebrated miniature-painter, with fome 
elegant verfes by Hayley. In the cemetery adjoining is 
interred the celebrated artilt, Thomas Gainfborough : a 
flat ftone only recording his name and the day of his exit 
from this mortal lcene. On Kew Green, on the fite of 
Mrs. Theobald’s beautiful gardens, once ftood a lioufe, 
the favourite retirement, in the latter part of his life, of 
fir Peter Lely, another celebrated painter. Here is a ftone 
bridge, of leven arches, over the Thames, from a defign 
of Paine’s, which was opened in 1789, and is private pro¬ 
perty. 
Kew Palace formerly belonged tp the Capel family, and 
by marriage became the property of Samuel Molitseux, efq. 
fecretary to George II. when prince of Wales. The late 
Frederic prince of Wales took a long leafe of the lioufe, 
which he made liis frequent refidence 5 and here too occa- 
fionally refided his favourite poet, James Thomlon, au¬ 
thor of The Seafons. It is now held by his majefty on 
the fame tenure. The late prince and princefs of Wales 
greatly improved both the lioufe and gardens; a defcrip- 
fion of which we fhall give in the words of the late fir 
William Chambers. 
The principal court of the palace is in the middle ; 
the ftable-court on the left-hand ; and the kitchen-courts 
on the right. As you enter the lioufe from the principal 
court, a veftibule leads to the great hall, which occupies 
two ftories in height, and receives its light from windows 
in the upper fto.ry. It is furnilhed with full-length por¬ 
traits, reprefenting king William III. queen Mary, the 
late king of Prufiia, the emperor of Germany, the prefent 
hereditary prince of Brunfwick, the late eleflor of Co¬ 
logne, and the famous lord-treafurer Burleigh; befides 
which there is a very good hunting piece, by Mr. Woot- 
ton, wherein are reprefented Frederic prince of Wales, 
lord Baltimore, lord Cliolmondeley, lord Bofton, colonel 
Pelham, and feveral of his royal highnels’s attendants. In 
this room are likewife two large vafes of ftatuary marble, 
on which are cut in bafio-relievo the four fealons of the 
year. The ceiling of the drawing-room was defigned, 
and I believe painted, by Mr. Kent, with'grotefque orna¬ 
ments, in party colours and gold. The centre compart¬ 
ment reprelents the ftory of Leda. The chimney-piece, 
the tables, glafs-frames, and all the furniture, were de¬ 
signed by the fame ingenious artift. The room is hung 
with green filk, and furnilhed with a very pretty collec¬ 
tion of pictures by Domenichino, Paul Veronefe, Albano, 
.Claude Lorraine, Pietro da Cortona, Cornelius Johnfon, 
2 Jaftano, Berghem, Borgognone, &c. 
“ The gardens of Kew are not very large j nor is their 
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fituation by an y means advantageous, as it.is low, and 
commands no profpefts. Originally the ground was one 
continued dead flat; the foil was in general barren, and 
without either wood or water. With fio many difacivan¬ 
tages, it was not eafy to produce any thing even tolerable 
in gardening; but princely munificence, guided by a di¬ 
rector equally (killed in cultivating the earth, and in the 
politer arts, [the late lord Bathurft, we fuppofe,] over¬ 
came all difficulties. What was once a def'ert is now an 
Eden. The judgment with which art hath been employed 
to fupply the defeats of nature, and £0 cover its deformi¬ 
ties, hath very juftly gained univerfa!.admiration, and re¬ 
flects uncommon luftre on the refined tafte of the noble 
contriver ; as the vaft fums that have been expended to 
bring this arduous undertaking to perfection do infinite 
honour to the generofity and benevolence of the illuftri- 
ous pofleflor, who with fo liberal a hand diftributed the 
f'uperfluity of her treafures in works which ferve at once 
to adorn the country and to nourifh its induftrious inha¬ 
bitants. On entering the garden from the palace, and 
turning towards the left-hand, the firft building which 
appears is the Orangery, or Green-houfe, built in the 
year 1761. The front extends one hundred and forty- 
five feet ; the room is one hundred and forty-two feet 
long, thirty feet wide, and twenty-five high. In the back 
fliade are two furnaces to heat flues laid under the pave¬ 
ment of the orangery. The Temple of the Sun is fitu- 
ated in an open grove near the orangery, and in the way 
to the phyfic-garden. ■ Its figure is of the circular perip- 
ieros kind, but without an attic; and there is a particu¬ 
larity in the entablature, of which the hint is taken from 
one of the temples of Balbec. The order is Corinthian, 
the columns fluted, and the entablature fully enriched. 
The infide of the cell forms a faloon richly finilhed and 
gilt. In the centre of its cove is reprefented the fun ; and 
on the frieze, in twelve compartments, lurrounded with 
branches of laurel, are reprefented the ligns of the zodiac 
in bafl'o relievo. The Phyfic or Exotic Garden is the am- 
pleft and befit collection of curious plants in Europe. 
Contiguous to the exotic garden is the Flower Garden, of 
which the principal entrance, with a Hand on each lider 
of it fqr rare flowers, forms one end. The two fides are 
inclofed with high trees, and the end facing the principal 
entrance is occupied by an aviary of a vaft depth, in 
which is kept a numerous collection of birds, both foreign 
and domeftic. The parterre is divided by walks into a 
great number of beds, in which all kinds of beautiful 
flowers are to be leen during the greateft part of the year; 
and in its centre is a bafon of water flocked with gold 
filh. From the flower-garden a Ihort winding walk leads 
to the Menagerie. It is of an oval figure : the centre is 
occupied by a large bafon of water, furrounded by a walk; 
and the whole is inclofed by a range of pens, or large 
cages, in which are kept great numbers of Chinefe and 
Tartarian pheafants, befides many forts of other large ex¬ 
otic birds. The bafon is (locked With fuch water-fowl as 
are too tender to live on the lake; and in the middle of 
it Hands a pavilion of an irregular oflagon plan, in imita¬ 
tion of a Chinefe opening. Near the menagerie Hands 
the Temple of Bellona. The cell is re&angular, and of 
a lefquialteral proportion, but clofed with an elliptical 
dome, from which it receives the light. Palling from the 
menagerie towards the lake, in a retired folitary walk on 
the left, is the Temple of Pan. It is of the Doric order; 
the profile imitated from that of the theatre of Marcellua 
at Rome. Not far from the laft defcribed, on an emi* 
nence, Hands the Temple of Eolus. The order is a Coin- 
pofite, in which the Doric is predominant. Within the 
columns is a large femicircular niche, ferving as a feat, 
which revolves on a pivot, and may with great eafe be 
turned by one hand to any expofition, notwithftanding its 
fize. The Temple of Solitude is fituated very near the 
fouth front of the palace. At the head of the lake, and 
near the temple of Eolus, Hands a Chinefe ofcagon build- 
