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To prevent impofition, the price for a fingle perfon is only 
one (lulling ; if more than one paflenger, the price is nine- 
pence each. We mention this for the fake of perfons 
vdioin bufinefs or pleafure may lead this way, as it is dan¬ 
gerous for travellers to attempt the road without a guide. 
Warton, in the parilh of Kirkham, is an agreeable lit¬ 
tle obfcure town, near the mouth of the Kibble, on a lake 
Called Ware, and at the foot of a bill, called Wharton- 
cragg, on the top of which there ufed to be a beacon. 
The town is a royal demefne, and was part of queen-dow¬ 
ager Catharine’s jointure. Here is a neat church, with a 
good grammar-fchool and a library, founded and endowed 
in i 594; a!lb an liofpital for fix poor men. 
KIRKHE'ATON, a townfhip of Yorkfiiire, in the 
Weft Riding, with 1469 inhabitants, including 713 em¬ 
ployed in trade and manufactures: eight miles weft-foiith- 
•weft of Wakefield. 
KIR'KI, a town of Grand Bukharia: 100 miles fouth- 
eaft of Bukharia. 
KIR'KIE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Chanderee : twenty-four miles fouth-lbuth-W’eft of Chat- 
terpour. 
KIRKIN'GEN. See Creange,- vol. v. 
KIRKINTUL'LOCH, a fmall town of Dumbarton- 
fhire, about nine miles from Glafgow, and four from Kil- 
fyth. The Forth and Clyde canal is carried over the 
fmall river Loge, about half a mile from this place, by an 
aqueduft of a fingle arch of great dimenfions, which was 
confidered at the time it was built as a very extraordinary 
fpecimen of mafonic art. Kirkintulloch is not a place of 
any importance; but the country round it is populous 
and well cultivated, and many refpeftable land-holders 
•of middling fortunes refide upon their eftates, and con¬ 
tribute much to its improvement. It is a burgh of ba¬ 
rony, governed by two bailiffs, annually chofen. In 1801, 
•the number of inhabitants was 3210, of whom 1785 were 
employed in trade and manufacture. Its manufactures 
are linen and cotton. 
KIRK'LAND, a town of England, in Weftmoreland, 
-adjoining to Kendal, but diltinft from it. In 1801, the 
number of inhabitants was 1086, of whom 532 were em¬ 
ployed in trade and manufactures. 
KIRK'LAND (Thomas), an eminent phyfician of 
Afhby de la Zouch in' Leicefterfhire, where he died on 
■ the 17th of December, 1798, in the 78th year of his age, 
after an illnefs of two months. He was a member of the 
Medical Societies of London and Edinburgh, and author 
of many valuable publications ; but his chief work, An 
Enquiry into the prefent State of Medical Surgery, had 
proceeded only to the fecond volume when his hand was 
arretted by death. 
KIRKLE'ATH AM, p. townfhip of Yorkfiiire, in the 
North Riding, with 680 inhabitants : ten miles north- 
north -eaft of Stokedey. 
KIRK'LEY, a village in Suffolk, to the fouth of Lowe- 
ftoff, which formerly had a very extenfive (ilhery, at 
prefent declined. The church, which is dedicated to St. 
Peter, was, in the year 1749, a ^ ea P of ruins; but thefe 
■were cleared away, and the fouth aide rebuilt, by the Rev. 
John Tanner, vicar of LoweftofF, affifted by the neigh¬ 
bouring gentry ; the fteeple is about feventy-two feet 
high; the tower is a good one, but contains only one bell. 
JC IRK'MAN (Jacob), an excellent harpfichord-maker, 
who came to England from Germany, about the year 
1740, and worked with the celebrated Tabel, as his fore¬ 
man and finifher, till the time of his death. Soon after 
which, by a curious kind of courtfhip, Kirkman married 
his matter’s widow, by which prudent meafure he became 
polfelfed of all Tabel’s feafoned wood, tools, and ftock in 
trade. Kirkman himfelf ufed to relate the lingular man¬ 
ner in which he gained the widow, which was not by a 
regular fiege, but by ftorm. He told her one tine morn¬ 
ing, at breakfaft, that he was determined to be married 
that, day before twelve o’clock. Mrs. Tabel, in great 
jurprife, afked him to whom he was going to be married, 
and why fo loon ? The fnijlier told her, that he had not 
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yet determined whom he fliould marry; and that, if (lie 
would have him, he would give her the preference. The 
lady wondered at his precipitancy, and ftefitated full half 
an hour ; but, he continuing to (wear that the bufinefs 
muft be done before twelve o’clock that day, at length 
(he furrendered ; and, as this abridged courtfhip preceded 
the marriage-adl, and the nuptials could be performed at 
the Fleet or May Fair, “ without lofs of time or hin¬ 
drance of bufinefs,” the canonical hour was laved,’ and 
two fond hearts were in one united, in the moll fummary 
way poflible, juft one month after the deceafe of Tabel. 
Kirkman lived long enough to ftock the whole king¬ 
dom with his inftruments, and to amafs great wealth. He 
had no children, but as many nephews hovering over him 
as a Roman pontiff. He doubled the profits of his in¬ 
ftruments, by becoming a pawnbroker and aufurer; oblig¬ 
ing young heirs with money as kindly, and with as much 
liberality, as a Hebrew. Kirkman did not live to fee his 
excellent double - harpfichords, of fixty-or feventy guineas 
price, fold at auftions for twelve or fourteen pounds, and 
the original purchafers turn them out of their houfes as 
ufelefs lumber. Butfuch are the viciflitudes of this world, 
that our defcendants will, perhaps, know as little about 
the pianoforte, as we do now of the lute or lyre. He 
died, in 1778, worth near 200,000k 
KIRKPA'TRICK, a town of Scotland, in the county 
of Dumbarton : eight miles north-weft of Glafgow, and 
eight eaft of Dumbarton. 
KIRK'STALL, a village in Yorkfiiire, three miles from 
Leeds, formerly a place of note, and adorned with a moll 
Iplendid and richly-endowed abbey, of which the ruins 
of the church prefent a grand and interefting rnafs of an¬ 
cient ecclefiaftical architecture. It was founded by Hugh 
de Lacy, in the reign of king Stephen, anno 1147, forCif- 
tercian monks. Parts of the original building ft ill re¬ 
main ; the columns of the nave are maflive, and fupport 
heavy pointed arches. The fide-aifles are nearly perfeCt, 
as are alfo the nave, tranfepts, and choir. At the weft 
front is a fine door-way with a femicircular arch, and 
above it two handfome windows, curioufly ornamented. 
On the fouth fide are feveral ruinous apartments, among 
which the dormitory and fome other rooms are ftill co¬ 
vered in. This abbey was valued in the king’s books at 
329I. 2S. nd. Kirkftall will be found highly interefting 
to the pifturefque traveller, as it affords a variety of fub- 
jefts for the pencil, both architectural, and where the 
ruins will unite finely with the landfcape. The vale of 
Kirkftall, formed by the river Air, is fertile and exten¬ 
five. The village confifts of a few draggling farm-lioufes 
and cottages, a rape-mill, and fome warehoufes upon the 
canal which pafles by this place. The remains of the ab¬ 
bey are feen a quarter of a mile eaft of the road, by the 
river fide. It belongs to lord Cardigan, who allows a 
mafon 10I. a-year for keeping the ruins from total de¬ 
cay. The waters of the river Air, collefted into a wier 
juft oppofite to the ruin, form an artificial cafcade when 
again falling into their channel. The ground fwells be¬ 
hind the ruin, and is richly clothed in wood. Let this 
fpot be vifited in a fine evening, when the moon-beam 
gliliens on the rufhing water; "when the broken pillars 
and long aides are touched with a pale light ; and when 
the filence is only broken by the foft fighs among the 
trees, or the foft dafhing of the fall. 
KIRK'STED, a village in Lincolnfhire, near Tatter- 
fhall and the river Witham. A Ciftercian abbey was 
built here in 1139, of which the gabel end is yet remain¬ 
ing. 
KIRKULE'TT, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Guriel, on a river which runs into the Black 
Sea near its mouth. 
KIRKULE'TI, a river of Afia, which rifes in the 
mountains of Armenia, and, eroding the principality of 
Guriel, runs into the'Black Sea in lat. 41.55. N. Ion. 41. 
25. E. 
KIR'KUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Rohilcund: thir¬ 
ty-five miles fouth of Bereilly. 
KIRK'WALL. 
