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condition that he might have his child again ; for he had 
frnelt it out, that the merchant liimfelf was the kidnapper. 
L'EJlrange. 
KID'NAPPERS (Cape), a cape on the eaft coaftof New 
Zealand, dilcovered in 1769, and thus named by captain 
Cook from an attempt made by the inhabitants to carry a 
boy from the Endeavour. It is remarkable for two white 
rocks like hay-llacks, and high white cliffs on each fide. 
Lat. 39.43. S. Ion. 182. 24. W. 
KID'N APPING, f. Stealing children ; Healing human 
beings.—The other remaining offence, that of kidnapping 
(being the Healing away) man, woman, or child, from 
their own country, and felling them into another, was ca¬ 
pital by the Jewilh law. Blackjtone. 
Kidnapping, i. e. the forcible abduiftion and con¬ 
veying away of a man, woman, or child, from their own 
country, and fending them to another, is an offence at 
common law, and is unqueHionably a very heinous crime', 
as it robs the king of his lubjecfs, banifhes a man front 
his country, and may in its confequences be productive 
of the moft cruel and difagreeable hardfhips ; and there¬ 
fore the common law of England has puniHied it with fine, 
imprifonment, and pillory. The flat. 11 & 12 Will. III. 
c. 7, though principally intended againfl pirates, has a 
claufe that extends to prevent the leaving of inch perfons 
abroad as are thus kidnapped or fpirited away ; by enaft- 
ing, that if any captain of a merchant-veffel (hall (during 
his being abroad) force any perfon on fhore, and wilfully 
leave him behind, or refute to bring home all fuch men as 
he carried out, if able and defirous to return, he fhall fuf- 
fer (what feems no very adequate punifhment) three months' 
imprifonment. There is no doubt, however, that the party 
thus injured may maintain an aftion againlt the party of¬ 
fending for damages fuflained by occaiion of fuch treat- 
anent. 
KID'NEY, f. [Etymology unknown.] One of tw'o 
glands which feparate the urine from the blood.—A 
youth laboured under a complication of difeafes, from 
his mefentery and kidneys. Wfeman's Surgery. —See the ar¬ 
ticle Anatomy, vol. i. p. 616.—Sort; kind: in ludicrous 
language.—Think of that, a man of my kidney ; think of 
that, that am as lubjeCt to heat as butter; a man of con¬ 
tinual dilfolution and thaw. ShakeJ'peare. 
KID'NEY-BEAN, f. [So named from its fliape.] A le¬ 
guminous plant. See Phaseolus. — Kidney-beans are a 
Jort of cod -ware, that are very plealant wholefome food. 
Mortimer's Hu (ban dry. 
KID'NEY-BEAN TREE. See Glycine. 
KID'NEY-SHAPED, adj. in botany ; when applied to 
a leaf, it fignifies that it is roundifh, and hollowed at the 
bafe without angles. It is applied alfo to the antheraand 
feed, which, being folid bodies, have really the form of a 
kidney ; whereas a leaf, being a plane furface, relembles 
the feCfion of a kidney. See the article Botany, vol. iii. 
Plate V. fig. 78. 
KID'NEY-VETCH. See Anthyllis. 
KIDNEY-WORT. See Saxifraga. 
KIDO'NIA, or Cidonia, a province of Crete, or 
Candia, which has retained the name of the ancient 
city of the Cretans. It produces oil, grain, cotton, flax, 
f lk, honey, wax, fome fruits, and a tolerably large quan¬ 
tity of cheefe; its territory is in general extremely fertile. 
The nearefl mountains which lie to the fouth, being more 
temperate and more cool than the territory of Canea, 
yield a great many fruits ; but little wine, much oil, and 
fome wheat and barley, are produced in this province. 
KI'DRON, [Heb. obfeure.] The brook Kidron, in the 
valley eaft of Jeryfalem, between the city and the Mount 
of Olives, dilchaiges itfelf into the Dead Sea. It has ge¬ 
nerally but little water, and often none, (lb thatjofephus 
calls it a valley, not a brook;) but after florins or great rains 
it fwells exceedingly; and runs with much impetuofity. 
Some fuppofe that the name Kidron, or Cedron, came 
from the abundance of cedars which, fay they, were for¬ 
merly planted on its banks; but there is no proof of this j 
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the name is derived rather from the blacknefs of the wa¬ 
ter, or of its bed, or from the common fewers of the city 
which emptied themfelves into it. From the branch of 
the valley of Kidron, i. e. the fouthern, was the fink of 
Jerufalem: The kings Afa, Hezekiah, and Jofiah, burnt 
there the idols and abominations of the apoftate Jews. 
2 Kings xxiii. 4. 
KIDWEL'LY, a town of Wales, in the county of 
Carmarthen, lies nearly in the latitude of 51. 40. N. Ion. 
4. 20. W. and ismbout eight miles fouth-eafl of Carmar¬ 
then, twenty miles north-weft by weft of Swanfea, and 224 
weft of London. Market on Friday. This town is un¬ 
der the duchy of Lancafter; and governed by a mayor, re¬ 
corder, twelve aldermen, and twelve common-council : 
the mayor has a right to hold two courts to recover debts 
not exceeding one hundred pounds. The church is elegant, 
with a handfome fpire-fteeple, whole height is 153 feet: 
there are alfo two meeting-houfes, one for Prelbyterians 
and the other for Methodifts. Here is a pretty good fchool, 
with a fmall endowment annually, where a number of 
young gentlemen and others are inftruiited in the various 
branches of the mathematics. The town is about two 
miles in circumference, and the river Gwendraeth runs 
through the middle of it; and about a mile and a half 
below the town it meets with another river called Gwen- 
draeth-fawr; which both run to the bay of Carmarthen, 
and thence to the Briftoi channel. This junction of the 
two rivers probably gave rile fir ft of all to the derivation 
of the word Kidwelly, which Ihould be fpelt Ci dwell y and 
implies, in the Welch language, to go into one bed, to 
join, &c. The town was formerly noted for clothing. 
A battle was fought here between the Britons and Armo- 
ricans in the year 458. 
At the north end of the town is a large ruinous caftle j 
the hiftory of which, as delivered by tradition, is as fol¬ 
lows : It is faid that William de Londres, one of the 
twelve knights that came into Glamorganlhire with Ro¬ 
bert Fitz-Hamon, and had for his lhare the caftle and ma¬ 
nor of Ogrnore, made himfelf, after a tedious war, mafter 
of Kidwelly, (as it is now' ipelt,) and built this caftle. 
A. D. 1093, Cadogan ap Blethyn, who then ruled South 
Wales, deltroyed this caftle, and all others except two 
that were in the land of Cardigan and Dyvet. In 1190, 
Rees, prince of South Wales, rebuilt this caftle ; and, 
in 1215, Rees, fon to Griffith ap Rees, razed it. It was 
again rebuilt; and at length, having gone through other 
revolutions, it fell to the crown; Henry VII. then granted 
it to fir Rice Thomas, K. G. but, being forfeited by his 
grandfon Rice Griffith, it was granted to Richard Vaughan, 
earl of Carbery, lord prefident of Wales. It is now in 
ruins. Brit. Diredtory. 
KIE', or Kieh, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Mecran : 100 miles north-north-weft of Kidge. Lat. 27. 
40. N. Ion. 60. 8. E. 
KIEKER'NES, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Samland, on an illand in the Rufs: nineteen miles north- 
weft of Tilfit, and thirty-five north of Georgenburg. 
KIEL, a town of Sweden, in the Lapmar-k of Afele : 
fifty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Afele. 
KIEL, a town of the duchy of Holftein, fituated at the 
bottom of a bay or gulf in the Baltic, w'hich forms a con¬ 
venient harbour; it belongs with the territory to the em¬ 
pire of Ruffia. Here are 800 houfes, and about 7000 in¬ 
habitants ; three churches, an univeriity founded in the 
year 1665, and a college eftabliflied in 1768. Here is alfo 
an inftitution for the deaf and dumb. The profperity of 
this place is not a little promoted by the annual refort to 
it, which conlifts of the meetings of the nobility and 
perfons of wealth in Holftein and Slefwick, for the trans¬ 
ferring, placing out, and re-demanding, of their moneys. 
This pecuniary intercourle lafts eight days, and at the 
fame time alfo is held a confiderable fair, which is rung 
in on Twelfth-Day, and on the eve of the Purification 
terminated by a fecond ringing of the fame bell. It was 
anciently one of the Hanfe-towns, and the ftaple likewife 
