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Treatife of Fading, with the Letter added to it, which 
■was chiefly, compofed by Knox; nor any other of the 
public papers in which he had a hand, but which were 
publiflied in the name of the General Afl'embly. In an 
Epiitie to the Reader contained in his Anfwer to Tyrie, 
Knox mentions that he had befide him a collection of let¬ 
ters which he had written to Mrs. Bowes, which he was 
prevented from publKhing merely by inability. It alfo 
appears, from Field’s Dedication prefixed to the Expofi- 
tion of the fourth of Matthew, that a number of our re¬ 
former’s manuferipts were in circulation both in England 
and Scotland. I have in my pofieflion a manufeript vo¬ 
lume, containing tr.xfts and letters written by him be¬ 
tween 1550 and 1558. This is unqueltionably the iden¬ 
tical volume which formerly belonged to the Rev. Mr. 
Wodrow, author of the Hiltory of the Sufferings of the 
Church of Scotland, and deferibed under the name of the 
Quarto volume of manuferipts in Crawfurd’s Lite of Knox, 
prefixed to the edition of his Hiltorie publillied in 1732. 
It confifts of 518 pages, including the contents. On the 
leaf at the beginning of the volume is'this title: “The 
Epilties of Mr. John Knox, worthy to be read becaufe of 
the authority of the wryte'r, the folidity of the matter, and 
the comfortable Chriilian experience to be found therein. 
Edr. 22. feb. 1683. H.T. m. p.” Below', in a hand con- 
iiderably older, are thefe words: “This booke belong’d 
fomtyme to Margaret Stewart, widow to Mr. Knox, after¬ 
ward married to the knight of Favvdonefyde. Siller fiiee 
was to James earl of Arran.” At the beginning of the 
Letters, in a hand older than the former, and the fame 
with that in which the Letters themfelves are written, is 
this title : “ Certane Epiftillis and Letters of ye fervand of 
God, Joline Knox, fend from dyvers places to his friendis 
and familiaris in Jefus Chryft.” On the margin of the 
trails are feveral thort notes by the tranferiber, referring 
to his own times, fuch as this: “ Our care at this day in 
Scotland 1603.” This afeertains the date of their tran- 
feription; and I think it highly probable that they were 
copied by Mr. John Welfh, a fon-in-law of the reformer, 
one of whole letters is inferted on feme blank leaves in 
the middle of the volume. The letters are forty-three in 
number, befides the Letter to the Queen Regent, the Dif- 
courfe on the Temptation of Chrift, and the Additions to 
the Apology of the Parilian Proteftants, which are infert¬ 
ed among them. Two of the letters have alfo been pub- 
Iillied, and are noticed in Nos. 14 and 15 of this cata¬ 
logue : the remainer, as far as I can learn, never appeared 
in print. They confill chiefly of religious advices to the 
friends with whom he correfponded ; but a number of 
fa£ts, and allufions to his external circumltances, are in- 
terfperled.” 
Mr. M'Crie concludes : “I have thus attempted to give 
an account of our national reformer, of the principal 
events of his life, of his fentinients, his writings, and his 
exertions in the caufe of religion and liberty. If what I 
have done (hall contribute to fet his character in a more 
juft or full light than that in which it has been generally 
reprefented ; if it diall be fubfervient to the illustration of 
the ecclefiaftical hiltory of that period, or excite others to 
pay more attention to the fubjeft ; above all, if it lhall be 
the means of fuggefting or confirming proofs of the fu- 
perintendence of a wife and merciful Providence in the 
accomplifhment of a revolution of all others the molt in- 
terefting and beneficial to this country, I (hall not think 
any labour which I have beltow'ed on the fubjett to have 
been thrown away, or unrewarded.” 
KNOX, a county of Tenneflte, in North America, con¬ 
taining 11,573 inhabitants. 
KNOX, a county in the north-weft territory of the 
American States, erefted June 20, 1790; beginning at the 
Standing Stone Forks of the Great Miami river, and down 
the laid river to its confluence with the Ohio river ; thence 
with the Ohio to the fmall rivulet above fort Malfac; 
thence with the eaftern boundary-line of St. Clair county, 
to the mouth of the Little Michilimackinack; thence up 
the Illinois river to the forks or confluence of the Tliea- 
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kiki and Chikago ; thence by a line to be drawn due north 
to the boundary-line of the territory of the United States, 
and fo far eafterly upon laid boundary,_as thatadue Couth 
line may be drawn to the place of beginning.—Alfo the 
name of- a fort in the fame territory. 
KNOX, one of Ingraham’s Mands. Captain Ingraham 
dilcoveved two illands, which he called Knox and Hancock ; 
which captain Roberts, foon after difeovering, called Free¬ 
man and Langdon. Thefe illands had every appearance of 
fertility. Lat. 8. 3. to 8. 5, S. Ion. 141. W. Greenwich. 
KNOK'IAjyi [fo named by Linnaeus from Robert Knox, 
who lived many years on the iHand of Ceylon, and pub- 
lillied a relation of it in 1681. ] In botany, a genus of the 
clafs tetrandria, order monogynia, natural order of ftel- 
latae, (rubiaceae, JuJJ'.) Thegeneric characters are—Calyx : 
perianthium four-leaved, fuperior, fmall, deciduous; leaf¬ 
lets (harp-pointed ; one lanceolate, thrice the fize of the 
reft. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-form; tube filiform, 
long, border four-parted : divifions equal, fomewhat ob¬ 
long, rounded. Stamina: filaments four, capillary, with¬ 
in the mouth of the corolla. Antherae: oblong, equal. 
Piftillum : germ roundilh, inferior ; (tyle filiform, length 
of the ftamens. Stigmas two, headed. Pericarpium : fruit 
naked, fubglobofe, (harp-pointed, furrowed. Seeds: two, 
roundilh, lharp-pointed, outwardly convex, marked with 
three ftreaks; inwardly flat, connefted at the upper part 
to a thread-form receptacle.— Fffential CharaBer. Corolla: 
one-petalled, funnel-form. Seeds: two, grooved. Calyx: 
one ieaflet larger. 
Knoxia Zeylanica, a (ingle fpecies. This plant has the 
appearance of a Plumbago, or a Lychnis. Stem upright, 
a foot high, fmooth, jointed. Leaves oppofite, lanceolate, 
fubfeflile, veinlefs, fmooth. Spikes long, narrow, with 
fcattered feflile flowers. Native of Ceylon. 
Gaertner has another fpecies, from the Bankfian Herba¬ 
rium, which he names Knoxia friFla. He deferibes the 
fruit as a very fmall inferior caplule, ovate, flatted-rhomb- 
(haped, fmooth, two-celled, bipartiie: fegments three- 
fided, bay-coloured on the outlide, within black and po- 
lilhed, fpontaneoufly or with a flight preflure opening in 
three parts at the top, coriaceous. Common receptacle 
filiform, bifid at the top, as in the umbellate plants ; pro¬ 
per none, except a little fear at the bottom of each cell, 
to which the feeds are fixed. Seed in each cell one, fub- 
ovate, acuminate to both ends, three-fided, fmooth, ru- 
fefeent. According to him, it was fent from Ceylon by 
Koenig. That is doubtful; it is however a native of the 
Ealt Indies. 
KNOX'VILLE, the metropolis of the (late of Tennef- 
fee, North America, is fituated in Knox county, on the 
north fide of Hoilton river, on a beautiful (pot of ground, 
twenty-t\«o miles above the junction of Hoilton river with 
the Tennelfee, and four below the mouth of French 
Broad-river. It is in a flouriflting fituation, and enjoys a 
communication with every part of the United States by 
poft. It is regularly laid out, and contains about 130 
lioufes, a court-houfe, gaol, and barracks large enough to 
contain 720 men. The fupreme courts of law and equity 
for the diftrift of Hamilton, and the courts of pleas and 
quarter-fefiions for Knox-county, are held here. A col¬ 
lege has been ellablilhed here by government,called Blount 
College. It is 32 miles north of Tellico Block-houle.; 
200 fouth-eaft-by-fouth of Frankfort, in Kentucky ; 485 
welt-by-fouth of Richmond, in Virginia; and 728 fouth- 
welterly of Philadelphia. 
To KNUB, or Knub'ble, v. a. [ knipler , Danilh.] To 
beat. Skinner. 
KNUB'BING, or Knub'eung,/! The aft of beating. 
KNUCK'LE,yi [cnucle. Sax. knockle, Dut.] The joints 
of the fingers protuberant when the fingers dole: 
Thus often at the Temple-Hairs we’ve feen 
Two tritons, of a rough athletic mien. 
Sourly difpute lb me quarrel of the flood. 
With knuckles bruis’d, and face befmear’d in blood. GartIL. 
The knee-joint of a calf.—-Jelly, which thef • ufed for «; 
10 F re flora tive. 
