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of four collefiions of liarpfichord-pieces, which included 
feveral of his own; and of all thefe he marked the finger¬ 
ing according to the rules of Emanuel Bach. During 
the laft years of his life, his knowledge in the laws of 
harmony made him regarded as the Pepufch of Berlin ; 
but, being gifted with lefs temper than the venerable or- 
ganilt of the Charter-houfe, his critical quarrels kept his 
mind in perpetual perturbation. His fugues and church- 
mufic are models of corrett counterpoint, but too elabo¬ 
rate and dry for the public. He never feems to have af- 
pired at, or thought of, facility, grace, or elegance. His 
ambition feems to have been to (how what could be done 
by labour and ftudy, which had never been attempted 
before, and which, when achieved, amufed the eye much 
more than the ear. He feems to have created giants 
which none could vanquifh but himfelf. His Mufical 
Inftitutes manifeft great meditation and fcience; but will 
be intelligible to none but thofe who have already ad¬ 
vanced far into the myfteries of counterpoint. This able 
profeiTor died at Berlin, in i77 3,attheageof fixty-two years. 
KIR/NEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: forty- 
eight miles fouth-weft of Arrah. 
KIR'NSNICHBACH, a river of Saxony, which runs 
into the Elbe at Schandau. 
KIROLL', a town of Hindooftan, in Dooab: twenty- 
eight miles north of Etaya. 
KIROO', a town of Bengal: twenty-four miles north 
of Toraar. 
KIROO', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Jufh- 
pour: fifty miles eaft of Odeypour. 
KIRRIEMU'IR, commonly pronounced Killamoor, a 
town and parifii of Angus-fhire, Scotland, is built on the 
fouth-weft fide of a hill near a romantic glen, through 
which flows the final! river Gairie. This town is fixteen 
miles from Dundee, twenty from Arbroath, fix from For¬ 
far, and feventy-five from Edinburgh. Here is a large 
weekly market; and the town contains fome confiderabie 
manufactories for Gfnaburghs and coarfe linens. In the 
year 1792, the value of thefe goods, manufactured here 
and in the immediate neighbourhood, was about 30,000!. 
fterling. The town is a burgh of barony, but the date of 
its charter is unknown. In the population report of 
1801, this town was returned as containing 949 houfes, 
and 4421 inhabitants 5 but it is prefumed this total mult 
include the whole parifti, as, in a previous cenfus for 1793, 
the town is fa id to have comprifed only 1584 inhabitants. 
The parifti confifts of an area meafuring about eight miles 
in length by fix in breadth, and is beautifully diverfified 
by hills, dales, woods, and plains. At Kinnordy, Mr. 
Lyall has a handfome feat, with fine plantations; and at 
Clova, the feat of Mr. Ogilvie, the woods are abundant, 
and ferve to beautify the afpeCt of the country. At In- 
vercarity is a large caftle formerly belonging to the Ogil- 
vies. Sinclair's Statijlical Account of Scotland. 
KIRR'WEILER, a town of France, in the department 
ef the Lower Rhine : twelve miles weft of Spire, and 
four north of Landau. 
KIRSANOV', a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tambov : fifty-fix miles fouth-ealt of Tambov. 
KIRSCH, a river of Wurtemburg, which runs into 
the Neckar five miles above Efslingen. 
KIR'SCHROD, a village of France, in the department 
of the Sarre, near which copper and agate ftone are found : 
fix miles ealt-fouth-eaft of Kirn. 
KIRSHE'HR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, 
and capital of a diftrlCt. It was formerly a confiderabie 
city, and called Dio Cof area. Salt is made in the neigh¬ 
bourhood : eighty-four miles north-eaft of Cogni. Lat. 
39. is. N. Ion. 34. 13. E. 
KIRSHET'CH, a town and diftriCl of the government 
of Volodimir, in Ruflia, feated on a rivulet that falls into 
the Kliafma. 
KIRSO'VA, a town of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, 
on the Danube: thirty miles fouth of Galatz, and feven- 
ty-fix fouth-weft of Ifmael, Lat. 44. 50. N. Ion. 27. 30, E, 
KIR'STEN (Peter), a phyfician diftinguifhed for his 
knowledge of the Arabic language, was born at Bref- 
lau in 1577. He was the fon of a merchant, who died 
while he was an infant 5 and his guardians, defigning to 
breed him up to trade, lent him to Pofna to learn the Po- 
lilh language, which he acquired in a very (hort time. 
On his return, he difplayed fuch an infatiable defire for 
all kinds of knowledge, that it was determined he ftiould 
purfue a literary profeflion 5 he was accordingly fent to 
ftudy phyfic at feveral of the principal German univerfi- 
ties, and afterwards improved himfelf in the practical part 
under the moll eminent matters in France and the Low 
Countries. The high character he heard of the works of 
Avicenna induced him to wilh to read them in the origi¬ 
nal ; for which purpofe he applied with great afiiduity to 
the Arabic language, and vifited the univerfity of Bafil, 
which at that time afforded the belt helps for its acquifi- 
tion. He took the degree of doCtor of phyfic there, and 
palfed feven years more in travels through different parts 
of Europe. Returning to Breflau, he was made rector of 
the college, and infpeCtor of the other fchools in that 
city. At length he confined himfelf folely to the practice 
of phyfic and the cultivation of the Arabic tongue, in 
which laft concern he was fo zealous, that he applied part 
of his profeffional gains in fetting up an Arabic prei’s, 
and printing fuch works in that language as he judged 
might be of public utility. Being in Pruflia, he became 
known to the famous Swedifh chancellor, Oxenftiern, 
who attached him to his perfon as his phyfician. He ac¬ 
companied him to Sweden, where in 1606 he was ap¬ 
pointed phyfician to the queen, and medical profeflor in 
the univerfity of Upfal. Infirmities rendered the latter 
part of his life chiefly fedentary, and he fpent moft of his 
time in reading the bibie, and in exercifes of piety. He 
died at Upfal, in 1640. In his own profeflion, Kirften 
publifhed an inaugural diflertation, De Pejle$ and a work 
De vero Ufu et Abufu Mcdicina, 8vo. 1610. He alfo edited 
Avicenna Canonis liber fecunaus , Lat. et Arab, the Latin ver- 
fion, with notes, by himfelf. For the fervice of Arabic 
learning, he publifhed, 1. An Arabic Grammar, Frankf. 
1610, folio. 2. A facred Decad of Canticles and Arabic 
Verfes, taken from fome Manufcripts, with a Latin Verfion, 
1609. 3. The four Evangelilts, from an Arabic Manu- 
fcript, 1609, folio. 4. The Epiltle of St. Jude, from an 
Arabic Manufcript, collated with the Greek and the Vul¬ 
gate, 1611. 5. Notes on the Gofpel of St. Matthew, col¬ 
lated with the Arabic, Syriac, Egyptian, Greek, and La¬ 
tin, Texts, 1612. It is aflerted, in his epitaph, that he 
underftood twenty-fix languages. 
KIR'STEN (George), alfo a phyfician, was born at 
Stettin in January 1613. He purfued his ftudies during 
feveral years at Jena and Strafburg, and afterwards travel¬ 
led through Germany and the Low Countries. He was 
invited to profellional chairs in the univerlities of Gripf- 
wald and Dorpat; but the political troubles of the times 
prevented him from accepting them ; lie determined at 
length to fettle at his native place, and contented himfelf 
with a profelTorfhip in the Royal College of Stettin. He 
died on the 4th of March, 1660. The greater part of his 
life was pafled in ufeful refearch, and he obtained a high 
reputation in his profeflion. He left feveral learned ef- 
fays, in Latin, on the fecretion of milk, on wounds of the 
head, on the fight, fmell, tafte, See. which were efteeined' 
in their day; and he publilhed alfo the following: 1. 
Oratio de Medicinas dignitate et pneftantia, 164.7. 2. Ad~ 
verfaria et Animadverfiones in Joannis Agricolas Cdm- 
mentarium in Poppium et Chirurgiam parvam, 1648. 3, 
Difquifitiones Phy tologicte, 1651, 
KIR'STENDORF, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Oberland: nine miles fouth-eaft of Ofterrod. 
KIR'TI, in Hindoo mythology, a name of Parvati, the 
confort of Siva. 
KIR'TLE, f. [cyjhcel, Sax.] An upper garment; a. 
gown.—What fluff wilt thou have a kirtle of? Thou llialt 
have a cap to-morrow. Shahefpearc's Henry IV. 
