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engagement, which continued the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 
15th, of July, it was again taken by the French ; the lofs 
of the Pruflians on thofe days was upwards of four thou- 
fand men killed ; fome time afterwards it was recovered 
again by the Auftrians. On the 20th of December, 1795, 
the French general Pichegru attempted to retake it, and a 
general engagement took place between the Auftrians and 
French, in which the latter were repulfed with the lofs of 
two thoufand men and feveral cannon. The Auftrians 
loft twenty-nine officers, and upwards of fix hundred men 
killed and wounded. On the 26th of October, 1796, it 
was finally captured by the troops of the republic. It is 
twenty-four miles north-weft of Landau, and ft-venteen 
eaft-north-eaft of Deux Ponts. Lat.49.27-N. Ion. 7.47. E. 
KAI'SERSTHUL, a town of Swilferland, in the county 
of Baden, fituated on a hill, on the Rhine : three miles 
north-eaft of Baden, and twelve north of Burich. 
KAI'SERSWERT,. or Keyserswert, a town of Ger¬ 
many, on the eaft fide of the Rhine, engaged a long time 
to the biftiopric of Cologne, but in the year 1762 rellored 
to the elector of Palatine. It was once fortified, but is 
now without walls. William II. count of Holland, being 
eleifted emperor after the death of Frederic II. laid fiege 
to this town, about the middle of the 13th century, upon 
the refufal of the governor, to whom Frederic had given 
the command of it, to put it into his hands ; the fiege 
lafted more than a year; a proof that the art of beiieging 
•was not well underftood in thofe days ; but at laft, their 
provifions being exhaufted, the governor capitulated ; and 
William, admiring his valour as well as his fidelity to the 
deceafed emperor his mafter, gave him in marriage a 
daughter of the lord of Brederode, his near relation, with 
the lordftiip of Keyferfwert, to be held by him and his 
heirs for ever of the empire, in fief. In the year 1700 it 
held out a long time againft the allies, who took it at laft, 
and deftroyed the fortifications. In 1758 it was furprifed 
by prince Ferdinand, and great part of the garrifon killed 
or taken : fix miles north-north-weft of Dufteldorf, and 
twenty-four north of Juliers. Lat. 51. 16. N. Ion. 6. 37. E. 
KA'JUC, a town of Afia, in the country of Charafm : 
one hundred miles fouth-eaft of Urkonge, and twenty- 
three north-weft of Samarcand. 
KA'KA-PU', f. in botany. SeeToRENiA. 
KA'KA-TOD'DALI. See Paullinia. 
_ KAK'BERG, a town of Pruffia, on the Frifch Nerung: 
eighteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Vogelfang. 
KAKEGA'VA, a town of Japan, in the ifiand of Ni- 
phon : ninety-five miles fouth-weft of Jeddo. 
KAK'ET, or Kaketi, the eaftern part of the princi¬ 
pality of Georgia, comprehending a part of the ancient 
Iberia, about 180 miles in length, and 90 in breadth. 
The air is laid to be falubrious, but the country is thinly 
inhabited. 
KAK'ET, a town of the principality of Georgia, in 
the province of Kaket, fituated near Mount Caucafus : 
forty-five miles north-north-eaft of Teflis, and 120 north- 
weft of Derbend. 
ICA'KI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
feventy miles north of Meaco. 
KAKIAT', a town of New York, in Rockland county: 
twenty-fix miles north of New York. 
KAKILAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
gellan : fixty-five miles north of Bolt. 
KAKKAB'BAN, an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
and one of the duller called Maratuba : forty miles from 
the eaft coaft of Borneo. Lat. 2.8. N. Ion. 116. 50. E. 
_ KAKKAWA'TA, one of the fmall Friendly Illands: 
eight miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Neeneeva. 
KAK'KRI, f. A fpecies of carriage very common in 
India, of a very Ample conftrudion, running upon two 
wheels, and drawn by oxen ; the driver fits on a large 
pole, confifting of feveral bamboos. It is not in any or¬ 
naments about thefe vehicles, but in the cattle which 
draw them, that the objeft of pride and expence to the 
Indian lies 3 a pair of white oxen for one of thefe carriages 
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will coft 600 rupees. Thefe oxen have the points of their 
horns ornamented with filver ; their pace is quick, but 
lefs fo than that of horfes. Niebuhr. 
KAK'NAH, a river of Hindooftan, which joins the 
Beemah twenty-five miles fouth of Calberga. 
KAKOU'LI, a town of Turkilh Armenia : twenty-fe- 
ven miles eaft of Baibourdi. 
KA'KU MAL'LU. See Pedalium. 
KA'KU-VAL'LI. See Dolichos. 
KAKUN'DI, a town of Africa, in the country of Si- 
erra Leone. 
KAKU'RI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
eighty-five miles north-eaft of Meaco. 
KALAAT'-ul-AD'GUZ, a fort of Afiatic Turkey, 
in the province of Diarbekir, on the Tigris: fifteen miles 
eaft of Gezirat Ibn Omar. 
KALAAT' GI'ABAR, or Dau'sar, a town of Afia¬ 
tic Turkey, in the province of Diarbekir, on the Eu¬ 
phrates : thirty miles fouth-weft of Racca. 
KALAAT' el NEGU'IR, a town of Afiatic Turke)% 
in the government of Diarbekir : twenty-five miles fouth 
of Bir. 
KALADAR', a mountain of Perfia, in the province 
of Schirvan : ten miles north of Scamachie. 
KALADGIK', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natoliar 
eight miles fouth-eaft of Kiangari. 
KA'LAH, a fortrefs of Perfia, in the province of Cho- 
rafan, where Nadir Shah treafured up his riches : near 
Mefchid. 
KALAKU'LA, a river of Africa, in Angola, which 
erodes the province of Loanda from north-eaft to fouth- 
weft, and runs into the Coanza near its mouth. 
KALALCON'NA, f. [Indian.] A duty paid by Ihop- 
keepers in Hindooftan who retail lpirituous liquors; alfo 
the place where they are fold. 
KALANSHEE', a town of Africa, in the country of 
Gonjah : 140 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Gonjah. 
KALATO'E, an ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea, about 
thirty miles in circumference. On fome rocks on the 
fouth coaft of this ifland, the Englilh fliip, the Ocean, was 
loft in the year 1797. Lat. 7. 18. S. Ion. 122. 15. E. 
KALATU' SE'FID, a town of Perfia, in the province 
of Farfiftan : ten miles north of Neubendjan. 
KAL'BA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Mazan- 
deran : fixty miles eaft of Fehrabad. 
KAL'BA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman, 
near the Perfian Gulf: one hundred miles weft-fouth-weft 
of Julfar. 
KAL'BACK, a town of Sweden, in Weftmanland : four 
miles north of Stroemflrolm. 
KAL'BRA, or Kelbra, a town of Germany, in the 
principality of Schwarzburg Rudolftadt, on the Helm : 
twenty-feven miles north of Erfurt. Lat. 51.28. N. Ion. 
11. 4. E. 
KALBRON', a town of Germany, in the margravate 
of Anfpach : two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Feuchtwang. 
KALCO'BO, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian Sea. 
Lat. 5. 20. S. Ion. 117. 39. E. 
KALCKRED'TH, or Kalkreuth, a town of Ger¬ 
many, in the territory of Nuremberg: feven miles north 
of Nuremberg. 
KALDEHIR'CHEN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Roer: eight miles north-north-ealt of Rure- 
mond. 
KAL'DENHART, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Weilphalia : three miles fouth of Rhuden, and nine 
north-north-weft of Brunn. 
KALDERU'ZA, a river of Moldavia, which runs into 
the Pruth twenty miles north of Jafli. 
KAL'DI (George), a Jefuit, whole learning and merits 
are highly fpoken of by his biographers, was a native of 
Hungary, and born in Tirnaw about the year 1572. He 
refufed confiderable ecclefiattical dignities, and preferred 
to them a ftudious life among the followers of Loyola. 
Having been received into the order at Rome, and re¬ 
turned 
