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manufcript letter of Leibnitz, intended to prove that phl- 
lofopher’s claim to the pretended difcovery. Maupertuis, 
flung with the imputation of plagiarifm, engaged the aca¬ 
demy to call upon him for the proof of what he had ad¬ 
vanced, by producing the original letter of Leibnitz; and, 
upon his not being able to do fo, they expelled him from 
their body. All Europe was interefted in the quarrel 
which this occafioned between Koenig and Maupertuis. 
The former appealed to the public; and his “Appeal,” 
written with the animation of refentment, procured him 
many fupporters. He was the author of fome other pieces, 
and died in 1757, with the character of being one of the 
belt mathematicians of the age. Voltaire thus charac¬ 
terizes him, in a letter to Helvetius : “ Koenig has no 
pretenfions to imagination, in any fenfe of the word, but 
he is what is called a great metaphyfician. He is, belides, 
a very good geometrician, and, what is of ftill greater mo¬ 
ment, a very good man !” Nouv. Diet. Fl/Ji. Hutton. 
KOENIG'IA, f [fo named by Linnaeus, in honour of 
his pupil John-Gerard Koenig , M.D. of Courland, who firft 
found the plant in Iceland.} In botany, a genus of the 
clafs triandria, order trigynia, natural order of holora- 
ceae, (polygonece, JuJf.') The generic charadters are—Ca¬ 
lyx: perianthium three-leaved ; leaflets ovate concave, 
permanent. Corolla : none. Stamina: filaments three, 
capillary, Ihorter than the calyx. Antherse roundifh. 
Piltillum : germ ovate. Styles none : Itigmas three (of¬ 
ten two), approximated, villofe, coloured. Pericarpium: 
none ; but the calyx protects the feed, without entirely 
covering it. Seeds fingle, ovate, naked, length of the ca¬ 
lyx, terminated by the permanent ftigmas. EJfential Cha- 
raEler. Calyx three-leaved; corolla none; feed one, 
ovate, naked. 
Koenigia Iflandica, a fingle fpecies. It is an annual 
plant. The herb has the appearance of Polycarpon. Stem 
a finger’s length, fomewhat fucculent, with very few 
branches oppofite to the leaves, and fpreading very much. 
Leaves alternate, fubpetioled, obovate, quite entire, blunt, 
fomewhat fucculent, the length of the internodes of the 
Item. Stipules folitary, flieathing (after the manner of 
Perficaria), intrafoliaceous, campanulate, permanent. Ter¬ 
minating leaves in fours. Flowers terminating, very 
many, in a fort of fafcicle, on fliort peduncles, feparated 
by membranaceous braCtes. It varies with two and three 
Itigmas. Native of Iceland, where it was found by Koe¬ 
nig in 1765, in clayey foils overflowed, both on the moun¬ 
tains and the coaft. It flowers in April. 
KCEPEN'ICK, a town of Brandenburg, in the Middle 
Mark : fix miles fouth-eaft of Berlin. 
KOER'TEN (Joanna), was born at Amfierdam in 
1650. She had a fine tafte for drawing in water-colours 
and for embroidery. She alfo modelled in wax, and made 
artificial ornaments and flowers; but her chief excellence 
confided in cutting out figures in paper with feiflors only, 
and her portraits and landfcapes in this way were fo much 
talked of, that foreigners from all countries vilited Amfter- 
dam to fee them, among whom was Peter the Great of 
Ruflia. She made a magnificent difplay of her art for the 
confort of the emperor Leopold, confiding of trees, arms, 
eagles, &c. for which flie was handfomely paid. She died 
in 1715. 
KOETEKOI'E, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea. Lat. 4. 38. S. Ion. 132. 8. E. 
KOEWAK', a town on the fouth coaft of the ifle of 
Ceram. Lat.3.14.S. Ion. 129. 18. E. 
KOF, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : twen- 
ty-feven miles fouth-eaft of Nigata. 
KO'FEL, a town of the county of Tyrol, on the bor¬ 
ders of the Vicentin. Here is a celebrated pafs, with a 
fort erefted on a high and deep rock, in which is alpring 
of water to fupply a fmall garrifon, which can only enter 
by means of pulleys. The road below is fcarcely wide 
enough for two carriages. On the fide oppofite the fort is 
the precipitous bank of theBrenta; twenty-one miles eali 
*f Trent. 
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KO'FES, mountains of Perfia, between Mecran and 
Kerman. - 
KO'FLA, a town of the duchy of Stiria: two miles 
wed-north-wed of Voitfberg. 
KO'GALNIK, a river of Moldavia, which runs into 
the Reut four miles weft-north-weft of Orliei. 
KO'GE. See Kioge. 
KO'GELBERG, a fortrefs of the duchy of Weflpha» 
lia : one mile eaft of Volkmarfen. 
KO'GELNICK, or Kunduk, a river of European Tur¬ 
key, which runs into the Black Sea twelve miles fouth 
of Tatar-Bunar. 
KO'GETEN, a town of Moravia, fourteen miles fouth 
of Olinutz. Lat. 49.20. N. I6n. 17.15. E. 
KOGL, a town of the duchy of Stiria : feventeen miles 
north-north-weft of Rakefpurg. 
KOGONG', a town of Africa, in the country of Sier¬ 
ra Leone. Lat. 10.45. N. Ion. 12.12. E. 
KOGOR/LI, a river of Moldavia, which runs into the 
Pruth twenty-four miles north of Galatz. 
KOG'STEN, a town of Pruflian Lithuania: feven miles 
weft of Pilkalien. 
KOH ZER'DE, mountains of Perfia, in the province of 
Chufiftan, bordering on the Irak. 
KO'HASP, a mountain of Perfia, north of Softer. 
KO'HATH, [Ileb. a congregation.] Son of Levi, and 
father of Ainrarn, Jehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Gen. xlv. 
i. 11. Kohath’s family was appointed to carry the ark 
and facred veflels of the tabernacle, while Ilrael marched 
through the wildernefs. Exod. vi. 18. Num. iv. 4, 5, 6, &c. 
KO'HATHITHE, / A defendant of Kohath. 
KO'HAUT, a town of Candahar : 130 miles fouth-eaft 
of Cabul. Lat. 33. 5. N. Ion. 70. 20. E. 
KOH'HEL, a town of Arabia, in the province of Ye¬ 
men : ten miles north of Debin. 
KOHL'BERG, a town of Bavaria, in the principality 
of Sulzbach: feven miles fouth-weft of Weiden, and 
eleven north-north-eaft of Sulzbach. 
KOH'MU, a town cf Bengal: nine miles north of 
Toree. 
KOHO'NE, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Burfali. 
KOH'TAUM, a town of Bengal: eighteen miles weft 
of Doefa. 
KO'JA KIZ', a town of Charafm, near lake Aral: 
eighteen miles north-eaft of Urkonje. 
KOIDANOW', a town of Ruffian Lithuania: fifteen 
miles fouth-weft of Minlk. 
KOPE. See Kaui. 
KO'JEND, Kogend, or Cojend, a town of Grand 
Bukharia, fituated on the left bank of the Sir, on the bor¬ 
ders of Turkeftan. This place, after a brave defence, was 
taken and plundered by Jenghiz Khan, in 1220: ninety 
miles fouth of Taffikund, and 120 north-eaft of Samarcand. 
KOI'LUTSCH, a town of Servia, at the conflux of the 
rivers Morava and Danube : fix miles north-weft of Paf- 
farowitz. 
KOIRVI'RAH, a town of Perfian Armenia ; eighteen 
miles fouth of Erivan. 
KOIS'JU, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo s 
twenty-fix miles weft of Naka. 
KCPIT, or Kerram, a call of Hindoos, produced 
from a connexion between a man of the Bice and a woman 
of the Sooder caft. 
KOIVIS'TA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Vihorg : twenty miles fouth of Viborg. 
KOKA'NO, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : twenty-eight miles north of BraClaw. 
KO'KAR, a fmall iflandof Sweden, in the Baltic, about 
thirty miles fouth-eaft from the ifland of Aland. Lat. 
59. 58. N. Ion. 20. 46. E. 
KOKERWA'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: 
fifteen miles north-weft of Amedabad. 
KOKETAR'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Gangpour : fixteen miles north-eaft of Pada. 
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