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.tlie' fowler very gently tickles one of his legs, which he 
lifts and places on the palm of his hand ; he then as gent¬ 
ly tickles the other, which in like manner is lifted and 
placed on the hand. He then, no lefs artfully than infen- 
iibly, moves the centinel near the firft lleeping goofe, which 
■he pufhes with his fingers ; on which he awakes, and, find¬ 
ing the centinel Handing above him, he immediately falls 
to fighting him, for his fuppofed infolence. This alarms 
the whole camp, arid, inftead of flying off, they begin to 
fight through the whole company ; while, in the mean 
time, the common enemy, unfufpebted, begins in good 
earned to twift their necks, and never gives up till he 
lias made a rich booty. ' • 
Both men and women delight much in finging ; and 
their voices are abundantly tuneful. Their genius and 
natural vein for poetry is no wife inferior to the other na¬ 
tives of the Hebrides. Their fongs are wonderfully de- 
.fcriptive, and difcover great ftrength of fancy. The fub- 
je£ts of their fongs are the accompiifhments of their fair 
friends among the female fex, and the heroic actions of 
their fowlers in climbing rocks, catching fowls, and fiih- 
itig, and melancholy deaths over the rocks. The men 
and women drefs in the fame form that the Hebrideans do, 
and are poflefled of an equal fhare of pride and ambition 
of appearing gay on Sundays and holidays with other peo¬ 
ple. Their language is Gaelic, unadulterated, having no 
communication with ftrangers to corrupt it with other lan¬ 
guages. This ifland will continue to be famous for its 
being the place of imprifomnent of lady Grange, who was, 
by private intrigue, carried out of her own houf’e, and vi¬ 
olently put on board a veffel at Leith, unknown to any of 
her friends, and kept here till her death. ICilda is fifteen 
miles weft-north-weft from the north point of South Uilt. 
Lat. 55. 48. N. Ion. 8. 18. W. 
KILDA'RE, [anciently called Chilledair, i. e. the Wood 
of oaks, from a large foreft which comprehended the mid¬ 
dle part of it.] A county of Ireland, in the province of 
Teinfter, bounded on the north by Meath, on the eaft by 
Dublin anti Wicklow, on the fiputh by Carlow, and on 
the weft by King’s County and Queen’s County 5 about 
thirty-two miles in length from north to fouth, and from 
twelve to twenty-one from eaft to weft. The number of 
houfes in this county is about 11,200, and inhabitants 
56,000 ; the foil is generally fertile, and the air temperate. 
It is well watered ; the principal rivers are the i-iffy, the 
Barrow, and the Boyne. The principal towns are Kil¬ 
dare, Athy, Naas, and Monafterevan. The county of 
Kildare firice the union fends two members to the impe¬ 
rial parliament. The alfifes are held alternately at Athy 
and Naas. 
KILDA'RE, a town of Ireland, in a county of the fame 
name, the fee of a bifhop, founded at the end of the 5th 
century; the cathedral-church is fmall, befides which 
there is a parifh-charch, but no epifcopal palace. This 
town fullered much from the Danes, being feveral times 
plundered and burnt. In the year 1600 it was in ruins, 
and almoft uninhabited. In 1643 lord Caftiehaven made it 
a garrifoned town. In 1647 it was taken by the rebels, 
but recovered in 1649. In 1798 it was feized by the re¬ 
bels, but foon taken from them, after a battle in which 
they fuftered greatly, Kildare is chiefly fupported by fre¬ 
quent horfe-races on what is called the Curragh , a fine 
plain, containing upwards of 3000 acres. Before the 
union, it fent two members to the Irilh parliament: thir¬ 
ty-three miles weft-north-weft of Wicklow, and twenty- 
eight fouth-weft of Dublin. Lat. 53. 9. N. Ion. 6. 57. W. 
KIL'DERKIN, f [kindekin, a baby, Dut.] A fmall bar¬ 
rel.—Make in the kilderkin a great bung-hole of purpofe. 
Bacon. 
A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ; 
But fure thou’rt but a kilderkin of wit. Dry den. 
KILDOR'RERY, a fmall poft-tovvn of the county of 
Cork, and province ot Munfter, Ireland : 107 miles fouth- 
weft from Dublin. 
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KILDRUM'MY, a village of Scotland, in the county 
of Aberdeen, where are the remains of a caftle, in which 
the wife of Robert Bruce and the ladies of the court took 
fhelter after his defeat at Methven. In 1333, it was de¬ 
fended by Chriftiana Bruce againft theEngiifh. During 
the civil wars; in the 17th century, it was deftroyed by 
fire, and a new one erected by the lords of Elphinftone, 
which came by marriage to the earls of Mar, and was for¬ 
feited in the rebellion of 1715: four miles north-weft of 
Alford, and 120 north of Edinburgh. 
KILDU'IN, a final! ifland in the North Sea. Lat. 69. N. 
Ion. 34. 14. E. 
KILDY'SART, a fmall poll-town of the county of 
Clare, and province of Munfter, Ireland, on the river 
Shannon : 122 miles fouth-weft from Dublin. 
KI'LEF, a town of Grand Bukharia, in the country of 
Balk, on the left fide of the Gihon : iixty miles north- 
welt of Balk. Lat. 37. 10. N. Ion. 64. 30. E. 
KIL'FIT, a feaport town of Nubia, on the Red Sea; 
with a harbour, feven miles in circumference, fafe from 
winds. Lat. 21.45. N. Ion. 36. 40. E. 
KILGAR'RAN, or Kii.garring, a town of Wales, in 
the county of Pembroke, fituated on the fouth fide of the 
Tivy, governed by a portreeve and bailiff. The market is 
difeontinued ; the fairs are, Aug. 21 and Nov. 12. On 
the oppofite fide of the river are the remains of a caftle, 
which had often experienced the viciflitudes of war : three 
miles fouth-ealt of Cardigan, and 227 weft of London. 
Lat. 54. 6. N. Ion. 4. 38. W. 
KlL'GRUND, a fmall ifland on the eaft fide of the gnlf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 62. 5.N. Ion. 21.4. E. 
KIL'HAM, an ancient market-town in Yorkfhire, two 
hundred meafured miles diilant from London. During 
the ufurpation of Cromwell, banns of marriage for this 
and the neighbouring parilhes were publilhed in the mar¬ 
ket-place, three feveral market-days, according to the act 
of parliament, and the marriages were folemnized by the 
neighbouring jultices of the peace. Saturday is the mar¬ 
ket-day, but its market at prefent is dwindled away, ex¬ 
cepting for butchers’ meat, and now and then a little but¬ 
ter ; owing, it is fuppofed, to its vicinity to Bridlington 
and Great Driffield. The fairs are two, viz. Augult zi 
and November 12; the former for cows, oxen, and horfes; 
the latter for cows, oxen, (heep, and horfes, and particu¬ 
larly for foals : there is alfo a llatute for hiring fervants 
in November. Kilham is diftant from Bridlington feven 
miles and a half, Scarborough eighteen, Malton twenty, 
York thirty-three, Market Weighton twenty, Beverley 
nineteen, Pocklington twenty, and Hull twenty-eight. 
Kilham is fituated in a pleafant fertile vale, at the louth- 
eall declivity of the Yorklhire Wolds, in the Eaft Riding, 
and very near the flat country called Holdernefs. The 
grounds in the parifli, (excepting an extenfive portion 
called Swathorpe,) containing about feven thoufand acres, 
were inclofed in the year 1772, and are chiefly appropri¬ 
ated to tillage and fheep-walks. Grain and wool are its 
principal commodities: the former, amounting to a large 
quantity annually, is fold to corn-faftors, and by them 
fent to London, or the Weft Riding of Yorkfhire; the 
latter is chiefly fold to the woollen-manufafturers in the 
faid Weft Riding. The town is near a mile and a quar¬ 
ter long, running from eaft to weft, not in one continued 
llreet, but where the firft ftreet ends another takes place a 
little farther fouth, and runs to the weltern extremity. 
One branch of the river Hull rifes here, the water of which 
is remarkably tranfparent and wholefome. The church, 
dedicated to All Saints, is a very long flrong ftone build¬ 
ing; has one aifle, a large chancel, and a lofty tower; 
and, upon the whole, feems to have been defigned for con¬ 
taining a more numerous congregation than the prefent 
population of the place will admit of. The inhabitants 
retain a traditional notion, that (perhaps fome hundred 
years ago) Kilham was far more populous and extenfive 
than it is at prefent; which notion feems to be favoured 
by the many veltiges of buildings, and fltes of houfes, 
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