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Jingen, Forchenberg, Sinderingen, Sec. and runs.into the 
Neckar two miles above Wimpfen. 
KOCH'ERSPERG, a town of Wurtemberg: fix miles 
north of Haidenhaim, and ten Couth of Eiwangen. 
KOCH'IA,/! [fo named by Dr. Roth, and adopted by- 
Mr. R. Brown, in honour, as we prefume, of a German 
botanilf, John-Frederic-William Koch, author of a periodical 
work on economical plants, printed at Magdeburg in 1797 
and 1798, in obtavo. It may alfo commemorate JcfepJi- 
Matthias Koch, who publilhed on agriculture at Vienna in 
1767, recommending fait for manure; an opinion perhaps 
to be adopted cum grano falis ; but, as this plant belongs 
to a faline tribe, he may, under fuch limitation at lead, 
be faid to have merited the diftinbtion as well as feme 
profetfed botanifts.] In botany, a genus of the clafs pen- 
tandria, order digynia, natural order holeraceae, Linn. 
(atriplices, JuJf. chenopodeae, Decandolle and Brown.) — 
Effential and generic characters—Calyx inferior, of one 
leaf, in five fegments, having appendages at their backs 
when in fruit. Corolla none. Seed one, depreffed, en- 
clofed in the winged calyx. 
Species. 1. Kochia brevifolia: leaves cylindrical, felfile, 
fmooth. Stem fhrubby, much branched, erect: and wool¬ 
ly. Appendages of the calyx dilated and membranous. 
2. Kochia aphylla: fhrubby and leaflefs. Branches 
divaricated and bent downwards; the young ones fpinous. 
Spikes lateral. Calyx woolly ; its appendages when in 
fruit membranous. Natives of New Holland. 
There feem to be many more fpecies in other parts of 
the world, as Mr. Brown advifes a divifion of the genus 
into Kochia properly fo called, the fpecies of which have 
the appendages of their calyx awl-fhaped and fpinous, 
their feeds deilitute of albumen, and their embryo cloven 
at the bale; and Wiliemetia, whole appendages are mem¬ 
branous and dilated, their feeds furnifhed fparingly with 
albumen. 
KOC'NI, a town of Walachia, on the Ardgis : fifteen 
miles north of Bucharelf. 
KO'CYCK, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Lublin : twenty-four miles north of Lublin. 
KOCZARAWAC', a town of Poland, in the palati¬ 
nate of Braclaw : forty-eight miles louth-fouth-well of 
Braclaw. 
KOCKZ'MYN, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Novogrodek: twenty-eight miles north of Sluck. 
KOCZOW'A, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiev : twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Bialacerkiew. 
KODA'IA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Nedf- 
jed : fifty miles-weft of Jamatna. 
KODAL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore: twen- 
ty-feven miles ealt of Chinna Balaharam. 
KOD'DA-PA'IL,y. in botany ; the Indian name of 
the Linnnean Pistia ftratiotes, which fee. 
KODE'ME, a river of Poland, which runs into the 
Bog in the palatinate of Braclaw. 
KO'DEN, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Brzefc : twelve miles fouth of Brzefc. 
KOD'GIA-HI'SAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the 
province of Diarbekir : ten miles fouth of Merdin, and 
fifty-four fouth-fouth-eaft of Diarbekir. 
KOD'GIA-SHE'HR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Na- 
-tolia : twelve miles north of Kiutajah. 
KO'Dl-HI'SAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Aladu- 
lia : eighteen miles north-eaft of Sivas. 
KO'DI-HIS'SAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Nato- 
lia: eighteen miles north of Kiangari. 
KO'DIAK, a range of iflands, confiding of one large 
and feveral lmaller, in the North Pacific Ocean, extend¬ 
ing about 120 miles in length from fouth-weff to north- 
eait, and about 40 miles in breadth: above ao miles from 
the weft coalt of America, and 30 fouth from the entrance 
into Cook’s Inlet. Lat. 56.45. to 58. 28. N. Ion. 206.12. 
to 208. 45. E. 
KODJ AKAN'S, or Kod'jas,/. A numerous clafs of 
perfons in the Ottoman empire, particularly in the capi- 
K O E 
tal, which holds the middle rank between the military 
men and the lawyers, and which is become fufficiently 
powerful, fince the influence of the ulemas has declined, 
as the divan is compofed of them, and as foine of them 
obtain .fiefs, military rank, and governments. Almolt all 
the minifters, all the agents in the different adminiftra- 
tions of the capital, the cuftoms, and the mofques; all the 
principals of offices, all the fecretaries, -all the clerks, all 
the fchool-mafters; in a word, all the writers, from the 
fimple kiatib, who copies books, petitions, or memorials, 
and him who applies himfelf to writing purely and cor- 
redtly the language, to the reis-effendi, who is at the head 
of them, are all diltinguiffied by the name of kodja, and 
make part of that fort of corporation. The art of tran- 
feribing the national books, and efpecially the koran, isa 
kind of nurfery for this clafs of perfons. "The Muffulnren 
are indebted to the kodjas for a great number of works, 
which they hold in high eftimation, relative to the Ara¬ 
bic and Perfian languages, philolophy, morality,'Maho¬ 
metan hiftory, and the geography of their provinces; and 
among them are generally found the molt intelligent 
ltatefmen, or thofe who are molt capable of lerving as 
minilters. 
KO'DING, a river of Stiria, which rifes eight miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Windifch Gratz, and runs into the 
Save two miles fouth of Cilley. 
KODIN'SKA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tobollk : 224 miles eaft of Enifeifk. Lat. 58. 30. N. Ion. 
99. 14. E. 
KOD'MA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man : forty miles north of Kermanfhir. 
KODMA'NA, a town of Walachia : ten miles fouth 
of Kordedearda. 
KOD'NIA, a town of Ruffian Poland, in Volhynia ; 
ten miles fouth of Zytomiers. 
KOECK, or Kouck (Peter), an excellent painter in 
the 16-th century, was born at Aloft, and was the difciple 
of Bernard Van Orley, who lived with Raphael. He went 
to Rome ; and, by ltudying the beautiful pieces which 
he found there, formed an excellent tafte, and became a 
very correbt, defigner. On his return to his own country, 
he undertook the office of direbting the execution of fome 
tapeftry-work after the defigns of Raphael. He was af¬ 
terwards perluaded by fome merchants of Bruffels to un¬ 
dertake a voyage to Conftantinople ; but, when he came 
there, finding that the Turks were not allowed by their 
religion to draw any figure, and that there was nothing 
for him to do but to draw defigns for tapeftry, he fpent 
his time in defigning the particular profpebts in the neigh¬ 
bourhood ot Conftantinople, and the domeftic manners of 
the Turks; of which he has left many wooden cuts, that 
alone fuffice to give an idea of his merit. After his re¬ 
turn from Conftantinople he fettled at Antwerp, where 
he drew feveral pictures for the emperor Charles V. He 
u'as alfo a good architebt ; and, in the latter part of his 
life, wrote A Treatife of Sculpture, Geometry, and Per- 
lpebtive; and trantlated Vitruvius and Serliv into the Fle- 
mifh tongue. He died in 1550. 
KOE'I, or Koei-yang', a city of China, of the firft 
rank, in the province of Koei-tcheou. This is one of the 
linalleft cities of China, the circuit of it being not above 
three miles; the houfes are partly of earth, and partly of 
brick. It is a place of no trade, tire river not being na¬ 
vigable. It has within its jurifdiefion three towns of the 
fecond order, and four of the third, as alfo a great many 
forts about it. The country is fmooth and level in fome 
places; in others it abounds with very fteep mountains: 
940 miles fouth-fouth-w'eft of Peking. Lat. 26. 30. N. 
Ion. 106. 19. E. 
KOE'I-TCHEOU', a province of China, and one of the 
fm all eft in the empire. On the fouth it has Quang-fi, on 
the eaft Hou quang, on the north Se-tchuen, and Yun¬ 
nan on the weft. The whole country is almolt a deiert, 
and covered with inacceffible mountains; it may juftly be 
called the Siberia of .China. The people who inhabit it aue 
3 mountaineers. 
