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Tli}' gowns, thy fhoes, thy beds of rofes, 
Thy cap, thy kirtle , and thy pofies. 
Soon break, foon wither, foon forgotten, 
In folly ripe, in reafon rotten. Raleigh. 
A quantity of flax about one hundred weight. 
KIR'TON, or Kirk'town, a large village and parilh 
in the divifion of Holland, and county of Lincoln, Eng¬ 
land, has been a place of confiderable hze and importance, 
but, from having loft its weekly market, and being out of 
a public road, and divefted of manufactures, is now re¬ 
duced to the rank of a village. In the year 1800, it con¬ 
tained 269 houfes, and 1238 inhabitants. Kirton has 
long been famed for its large and elegant church, which 
was formerly collegiate, and, according to fome writers, 
was built by Alexander, bifhop of Lincoln, in the time 
of king Henry I. This ftatement is, however, evidently 
erroneous, for the ftyle of architecture marks it to be as 
late as the early part of the 15th’century. Being much 
injured by negleft, and larger than neceftary for the po¬ 
pulation of the parilh, the chancel, tower, and tranfepts, 
were taken down in the year 1806. A new tower was, 
however, erected at the weft end of the church with the 
original materials. At the weftern end of the nave is a 
femicircular arch, probably of the age of the bifhop above 
named. In the church is a handfome octangular font, on 
the pedeftal of which is an iufcription, ftating, that it 
was made for Alauni Burton, in the year 14.05. Beauties 
of England. 
KIR'TON LIN'DSEY, a market-town in the county 
of Lincoln, 147 miles from London. It had its name 
from its kirk, or church, which is a truly-mngnificent re¬ 
main of ancient architecture. It has a market on Satur¬ 
day, and fairs July 18 and December 11. This place is 
famous for the pippin, which, when grafted on its ftock, 
is called the renate. It gives name to its hundred, in 
which are four villages of the fame name. The inhabi¬ 
tants were returned under the population-aft as 1092, 
the houfes as 243. Dr. Stukeley ftates, that John of Gaunt 
had a palace here. At this place Mr. Pegge fixes the Sid- 
nacefter of the Romans. 
KIRWA'NI, a town of Africa, in the country of Den- 
tila. Here Mr. Park faw lome fmelting-furnaces for iron : 
twenty miles weft of Baniferile. Lat. 12. 30. N. Ion. 11. W. 
KIR'WEILER, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lower Rhine: fifteen miles north of Strafburg. 
KIR'WEILER, a town of France, in the department 
of Mont Tonnerre : eighteen miles fouth of Lauterburg. 
KIR'ZAK, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Vla¬ 
dimir : forty-eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Vladimir. 
KI'SAK, an ifland near the fouth-weft coaft of Eaft 
Greenland. Lat. 59. 51. N. Ion. 45. W. 
KISAN', a town of Curdiftan: eighteen miles fouth of 
Betlis. 
KISELEV'KA, a river of Ruftia, which runs into the 
Lena in lat. 67. 30. N. Ion. 121. 14. E. 
KISERY'A, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty- 
two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bettiah. Lat. 26. 20. N. Ion. 
85.6.E. 
KIS'GOL, a town of Bengal: eight miles north-weft 
of Curruckdeah. 
KISH, [Heb. difficult.] A man’s name; the father of 
king Saul. 
KISH, a fand-bank in the Iriffi Sea, about fix miles 
long, and hardly one wide : feven miles from the coaft of 
the county of Dublin. Lat. 53. 15. N. Ion. 5. 54. W. 
KISH, or Kesh, apoft-town of Ireland, in the county 
of Fermanagh : ninety-three miles north-weft by north 
from Dublin. 
KISHENAGUR', a circar of Bengal, lying on the eaft 
fide of the Hoogly, about no miles long, and from 7 to 
30 broad. 
KISHENAGUR', a town of Bengal, and capital of the 
circar of the fame name t fifty miles fouth of Moorffieda- 
bad, and forty.five north of Calcutta. Lat. 23. 23. N. 
Ion. 88. 38. E. 
K I S 7<?7 
KISHENAGUR', a town of Hindooftan : fifteen miles 
fouth of Agimere. 
KISHENGON'GA, a river of Alia, which runs into 
the Behnt twenty miles weft of Pukholi. 
KI'SHI, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
KISHKOR'RAN MOUN'TAINS, mountains of Ire¬ 
land, in the county of Sligo: thirteen miles fouth of Sligo. 
KISH'ME, Kis'mich, Chis'mie, or Dsjis'me, the * 
largeft ifland in the Perfian Gulf; thirty miles in length, 
and fix or eight broad. It is feparated by a narrow chan¬ 
nel from the continent of Perfia, which is navigable, buf 
trouhlefome to work in, and befides dangerous on account 
of pirates. It contains three or four towns or villages. 
Almoft all the iflands in the Perfian Gulf have feveral 
names; this ifland is likewife called Dsjes, Dras, and Vroet, ■■ 
and by the Perfians Touly. Lat. 26. 54. N. Ion. 56. 50. E. 
KISH'ME, a town on the north coaft of the ifland of 
Kifhme, near the centre. 
KISH'MIR, a mountain of Turkiffi Armenia: thirty- 
five miles fouth of Erzerum. 
KISH'NA, or Krishna, a large river of Hindooftan, 
the chief mouth of which is about in lat 15.43. S. Its 
Delta, which winds round as far as Mafulipatam, is not 
confiderable. This river annually overflows a valt tract 
of country, like the Indus on the weftern fide of this em¬ 
pire, and like all the other great rivers on this extenfive 
coaft. It rifes from the foot of the weftern Ghauts, and 
not more than forty-five miles from Severndroog, on the 
weftern coaft. There is another branch to the eaft that 
rifes Itill more northerly. 
Into the north fide of the Iviflina, in lat. 16. 20. falls the 
great river Beema, afteracourfe of three hundred and fif¬ 
ty miles. The Kiffina, above and below its conflux with 
the Beema, is fordable; and a few miles below its chan-- 
nel is fix hundred yards wide, made horrid with the num¬ 
ber and rudenefs of the varioufly-formed rocks which are 
never covered but in the rainy feafon. The Tungebadra-- 
is another vaft branch of the Kifhna, which falls into it 
in lat. 16. 25. and originates extremely fouth, from a 
doubtful fountain. But what mull give this river great 
celebrity, is its having had on its banks, in lat. 15. 22. 
the fplendid city Beejanaggur, or Bisnagur, which fee, 
vol. iii. p. 69. This place has been long in a defolate 
ftate ; and the river, at one place at the foot of thefe ruins, 
is only fixteen yards wide, below which there has been a 
ftone bridge. Gibfon's Geography, vol. i. 
KISHNUKOO'D, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Segeftan : fifteen miles fouth of Meimend, and thirty-fix 
weft of Candahar. 
KI'SHON, (Judges v. 21.) The brook Kiffion rifes in 
the valley of Jezreel; runs along this valley, to the fouth 
of mount Tabor; and difcharges itfielf into the Mediterra¬ 
nean at Acre, otherwife called Ptolemais. 
KISH'PORK. See Christburg, vol. iv. 
KISH'TAC, an ifland in the North Pacific Ocean, about 
100 miles in length, and from thirty to fifty in breadth. 
Lat. 57. to 58. 40. N. Ion. 152. 30. to 154. 50. W. 
KISHTEWA'R, a country of Afia, lying to the fouth- 
eaft of Cachemire, on the banks of the river Chunaub. 
KI'SI-HI'SAR, a town of European Turkey, in Bulga¬ 
ria : thirty-fix miles fouth-eaft of Sofia. 
KIS'ILE DARLA. See Kezil. 
KISKEMAN'ITAS RIVER, a branch of Alleghany 
river, into which it empties in lat. 40.40. N. in Weftmore- 
land county, Pennlylvania. Its head-waters are Little 
Conemaugh and Stonecreek : after their junction, it is 
called Conemaugh River: it then receives Black Lick 
from the north-eaft ; and feventeen miles from its mouth 
Loyalhannon-creek enters from the fouth-fouth-eaft ; after 
which it is called Kifkemanitas River. It is navigable 
for batteaux forty or fifty miles, and good portages are 
found between it and Juniatta and Potowmac rivers; 
Coal and fait are difcovered in the vicinity of thefe rivers. 
KIS'KIN OS'TROG, a town of Ruffia, in the pen-in - 
fula of Kamtfchatka; fifty-two miles weft of -Verchnci 
Kamtfchatlkoi. 
KIS'KOj; 
