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Dame at Paris, which the learned were bufy in explain¬ 
ing. Keyfler examined it alfo ; and his conjectures re- 
fpedting it are far fuperior to the greater part of thofe 
which were offered. In confequence of the great reputa¬ 
tion which Keyfler had acquired in hisfirft tour, M. Bern- 
ftorff, minifterof his Britannic majeity in Hanover, an en¬ 
lightened ftatefman, arid a decided patron of letters, en¬ 
gaged him as travelling tutor to his two fons. After re¬ 
maining two years in Hanover, he obtained permiflion, 
in 1718, to vifit England for his own improvement. At 
London and Oxford he met with that reception which he 
deferved ; but nothing was fo flattering to him as the ho¬ 
nour he had of being elected a fellow of the Royal So¬ 
ciety. The paper on account of which he received this 
mark of diftinffion was his ingenious diflertation, De Oca 
Nechclenia, numine Wallachiorvm tobico. He wrote alfo feme 
curious observations on that ftupendous monument on 
Salifbury Plain, known by the name of Stonehenge; and 
a dilfertation on the confecrated gui or mifietoe of the 
Druids. On his return to Hanover in 1720, he publifhed 
liis immortal work, entitled, Antiquitates JeUELe Septcntrio- 
?iaks et Celtica, in which he is exceedingly happy in 
i'olving a great number of difficulties never before fuffi- 
ciently explained. This work hears evident marks of 
being written by a man who does not regulate his ideas 
by thofe of others, and who at the fame time is neither 
fond of novelties nor wedded to imaginary fyftems. In 
1727, Keyfler's pupils, who continued under his care 
more than ten years, accompanied him to Tubingen; and 
in 1729 they began their travels, which comprifed the 
whole of Germany, Swifferland, Italy, Hungary, France, 
England, and Holland. The diffinguiflied name of Bern- 
Iforff procured them free accefs to every thing worthy of 
notice; and Keyfler was thus enabled to derive from his 
travels all the advantages which he wifhed and expected. 
In the courfe of this tour Keyfler had many advantageous 
offers made to him, which liis attachment to his pupils 
induced him to decline. He accompanied the younger 
of thefe gentlemen to the court of Copenhagen, thence to 
Ratifbon, and then returned to the elder. Thefe noble 
and generous patrons made a proviiion for their tutor, 
iuitable to tire obligations they were under to him ; they 
entrufted him at the fame time with their Valuable libra¬ 
ry, their collection of medals and natural curiofities, and 
even gave him the chief management of their domeitic 
concerns. M. Keyfler in the courfe of his travels had 
made a valuable collection of books, amidft which he 
fpent the inoft agreeable moments of his life. He had 
alfo a collection of curiofities acquired at a great expence; 
and a prodigious number of braCteati, urns, and other 
antiques, the molt remarkable of which he has delcribed. 
To this valuable collection he added, by purchafe, that 
of M. Eckard; and, to prevent the whole from being dif- 
perfed, he deftined it after his death to be added to that 
of M. Bernltorff. Keyfler was of a communicative difpo- 
fition, and ready to aflift in their literary labours all thofe 
who ftood in need of his advice; of this he gave proofs 
on various occaficns. He was of great fervice in particu¬ 
lar to M. Eckard, when about to publilh his German 
Antiquities, after the model of the Thefaurus Antiqui- 
taturn Grrecarum et Romanarum,‘ by Graevius and Gro- 
novius. The profpeChis of this work appeared in 1720, 
but unfortunately it was never printed. In 1728, when 
M. Jark reprinted the work of Schedius on the German 
deities, Keyfler not only corrected it, but furnifhed him 
■with confiderable additions, and fubjoined an ingenious 
diflertation De Cultu Solis. Keyfler, after his return from 
his travels, fpent the remainder of his days in retirement, 
declining all public employment, and keeping himfelf 
Angle, that the charge of a family might not impede him 
in his literary purfuits. He had for feme time been trou¬ 
bled with an afthma ; but his friends did not imagine that 
it would fo foon have proved fatal. He was found dead 
in his bed on the twenty-firft of June, 1743, at Stentcn- 
bourg, an eftate belonging to M. Bernltorff. His Travels, 
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V/hich contain an abundance of curious matter, were 
tran flated into Englifh from the fecond German edition, 
and publifhed in 4 vols. 4to. Lond. 1756. 
KE\ WAWAj a fmall ifle in Charleftown harbour, 
foutli of Carolina. 
KEY ZER’s BAY, a bay on the fouth coaft of the 
iflantl of Sumatra. Lat. 5. 40. N, Ion. 104. 38. E. 
KEZEM'SKA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Irkutfk, on the Angara : forty miles fouth-weft of 
Ilimfk. 
KEZ'EREH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia : 
forty miles eaft of Caftamena. 
KEZI'A, [Heb. caffia.] The name of a woman ; one 
of Job’s daughters. 
KE'ZIL, a river of Perfia, which runs into the Cafpian 
Sea near Refhd. 
KE'ZIL, Khe'sil, or Khe'zil, a river of Afia, which 
rifes in the mountains of Bukharia, to the north-eaft of 
Samarcand, and formerly rah into the Cafpian Sea ; but 
the Rullians, in 1719, endeavouring to trace the ftream, 
the Tartars not only put the men lent on the million to 
death, but turned the current of the river into Lake Aral, 
by uniting it with the Jihon. 
KE'ZIL-A'GASH, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Gillian : twenty miles north of Lenkeran. 
KE'ZIL-KA'jA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Nato¬ 
lia : twenty-five'miles fouth of Ifbartch. 
KE'ZIN, a town of Poland, in Voihynia : ten miles 
weft of Krzeminiec. 
KE'ZIZ, [Heb. the extremity.] The name of a val¬ 
ley. J0JI1. 
KEZ'MA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Ir¬ 
kutfk, on the Tungufka : 160 miles north-north-welt of 
Ilimfk. 
KE'ZUC, a town of Perfian Armenia: four miles fouth 
of Eli van. 
KHA'BUR, a river of Curdiftan, which paffes by Bet-' 
lis, and runs into the Tigris lifteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Gezira. 
KHA'BUR, a river of Afiatic Turkey, which rifes 
twenty miles eaft of Harran, and runs into the Euphrates 
at Kerkifia. 
KHAD'ARAH, or Cha'dra, a town of Algiers, in 
the province of Tremecen, fituated on an eminence near 
the river Shelliff. It appears to have been once a large 
place, in the opinion of Dr. Shaw, who faw the ruins 
about it three miles in circumference. The ancient name 
was probably Zucchabbari , according to Ptolemy ; Succabar 
and Colonia Augujla, according to Pliny. A little tc the 
eaft are the remains of a large ftone bridge, the only one 
that was probably ever built over the Shelliff, notwith- 
ftanding the great inconveniences which travellers en¬ 
counter, efpecially in the winter feafon, of waiting a whole 
month before they can ford over : fifty-five miles fouth- 
fouth-welt of Algiers, and ninety-fix eaft of Oran. 
KHAI'BAR, a town of Arabia, in the province of 
Hedsjas. This town was taken by Mahomet, after a 
fiege of ten days : 120 miles eaft-north-eaft of Medina. 
Lat. 25. 10. N. Ion. 40. 50. E. 
KHALEKAN', furnamed Aboul Abbas Schamfcddin 
Akmed Ben Mohammed Ben Ibrahim, a very celebrated bio¬ 
grapher of iliuftii . . Ivluffuimen, particularly of fuch as 
were diltinguilhed by their proficiency in the fciences, 
was born in the year 6c8, and died in the year 681 of the 
Hegira, or 1282 of the c. iftian era. His work is enti¬ 
tled, Vajiat Ala'ian, or the Dc of illuftrious Men ; and 
was commenced by him at the city of Cairo in Egypt, 
under the reign of Bibars, a fbltan of the Matnaluke dy- 
nafty. Being appointed by that prince cadi of-Damafcus, 
in the year of the Hegira 659, the duties of that employ¬ 
ment fo far interrupted his ltu. ies, that he was not able 
to finifh his work before the year 672, according to that 
computation. He was the cotemporary of Abulphara- 
gius, whofe dynafties our countryman Pococke has pub- 
liflied, in Arabic and Latin; and the treatife on which 
3 his 
