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K O L 
KOK/LOT, a fmall ifland on the end fide of the gulf 
of Bothnia. Lat.62.17.N- Ion. 2125. E. 
KO'KO, a rocky flioal in the Eaftern Indian Sea. Lat. 
6. 24. S. Ion. 124.. 20. E. 
KO'KO NOR', or Kokho Nor, a country of Ada, fitu- 
ated to the weft of China, and north-eaft of Thibet, in¬ 
habited by Tartars, defcended from the Eluths, and go¬ 
verned by princes defcended from a king of China. They 
principally inhabit about a lake, fuppofed to be the largelt 
in Tartary, about twenty leagues in length, and ten in 
breadth, and lituated from lat. 36.40. to 37. 10. N. Ion. 
100. to 101. E. From this lake iffues two of the largeft 
rivers of Alia, the Hoang-ho, or Yellow River, and 
Kiam, or Blue River, which, after having travelled part 
of the Chinefe empire, empty themfelves into the Japa- 
nefe fea. 
KOKO'RE, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Kitchwara : forty-live miles eaft-north-ealt of Shahjehan- 
pour. 
KOICO'RO, the eaftern branch of the Senegal river, 
which riles about lat. 11. 50. N. 1011.6.40. W. and joins 
the wefterly branch about lat. 14. N. 
KOKO'RY, a town of Moravia, fix miles north-weft 
of Prerau. 
KOK'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of Rut- 
tunpour: twenty miles fouth of Ruttunpour. 
KOKU'R A, a feaport town of Japan, on the north coaft 
of the ifland of Ximo. It is a place of extenfive trade, 
but the harbour is nearly filled up with fand. It is fur- 
rounded with walls, and at the end of the town is a ci¬ 
tadel. Lat. 33. 30. N. Ion. 130. 20. E. 
KOKYCZA'NY, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Pilfen : eight miles eaft of Pilfen. Lat. 49.44. N. Ion. 
13.45.E. 
KO'LA, a feaport town of Rulfia, in the government 
of Archangel, fituated near the North Sea, on the river 
Kola, which forms a bay at its mouth, where is a confi- 
derable filhery for whales, fea-dogs, and other fiHi, w hich 
the inhabitants cure for fale : 540 miles north of Peterf- 
burg, Lat. 68. 50. N. Ion. 32, 26. E. 
KO'LA, a town of European Turkey, in Servia : five 
miles fouth of Semendria. 
KO'LA, a town of Turkilh Armenia: forty miles 
north-eaft of Kars. 
KOLABOO'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in Orifta: 
twenty miles north-eaft of Sumbulpour. 
KO'LAH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: thir¬ 
ty-fix miles north-eaft of Alah-Sehr. 
KOLAI'AH, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
KO'LAN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Chan- 
fi: 250 miles welt-fouth-weft of Peking;. Lat. 38. 52. N. 
Ion. 111. 14. E. 
KO'LAR, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Bur- 
Jali, near the coaft of the Atlantic. Lat. 13.50. N. Ion. 
15. 55. W. 
KOLAS'SIN, a town of European Turkey, in Dalma¬ 
tia : twenty-four miles fouth-eaft of Moftar. 
KO'LAY', a river of Cochin China, which runs into 
the Chinefe Sea in lat. 13.51. N. Ion. 108. 54. E. 
KOL'BACH, a river of Bavaria, which runs into the 
Vilz ten miles weft of Vilz. 
KOL'BE (Peter), improperly called Kolben, reftor of 
the fclfool of Neuftadt on the Aifch, but better known by 
his travels to the cape of Good Hope, was born in 1675 
at Dorflas, a village between Wuniiedel and Redwitz, in 
the principality of Baireuth, where his father was firft a 
judge, and afterwards receiver of the taxes. He acquired 
the principles of his education at the fchool of Redwitz ; 
but in 1688 removed to Wunfiedel, which he left in 1694 
to continue his ftudies at Nuremberg. Here he lived for 
foine time in a (fate of great poverty, having brought with 
him no more than a fingle dollar, and being entirely un¬ 
known in the city. In the year 1696 he was received into 
the houfe of the celebrated aftronomer Eimart, under 
K O L 
whofe direction he ftudied the mathematics and aftrono- 
my ; and by daily practice he foon made great progrefs in 
the latter. In 1700 he entered himfel-f at the univerfity of 
Halle, where he difputed next year Dc naturum cometarunt, 
and began to give a courfe of leftures in philofophy and 
mathematics. By means of the celebrated Ceilarius, he 
was introduced to baron von Krofie, privy counfcdlor of 
hisPruftian majefty, who made him very bandfome offers 
to accompany him on his travels, or to inftruft his-fon 
in the mathematics. As Kolbe had conceived at an early 
period a ftrong defire to vifit foreign countries, he readily 
accepted the place of fecretary to the baron, whom he ac¬ 
companied to Poplitz in 1703. Soon after, a propofal be¬ 
ing made to him of going out to make obfervations at the 
Cape of Good Hope, he repaired to Holland the year fol¬ 
lowing ; and, having obtained permiflion from the Eaft- 
India company to perform the voyage, he embarked in 
the Union Eaft-Indiaman, and arrived in the month of 
June 1705 at the Cape, where he was appointed, after the 
death of his patron, fecretary to the colonies of Stellen- 
bofch and Drackenftein. In this fituation he continued 
ten years, employed in making obfervations, and keeping 
up a literary correfpondence with VVitfius, Goekel, Braun, 
and Leupold. The misfortune of blindnefs, which came 
on without any previous pain or external injury, obliged 
him, however, to refign his employment; and, after try¬ 
ing for a whole year, but without fuccefs, every refource 
of the medical art to recover his fight, he began to think 
of returning to Europe. On his arrival at Amfterdam, he 
obtained fo much relief, that he was able, during the reft 
of his life, to read and write with fpeftacles. Returning 
afterwards to the houfe of his mother, he began to arrange 
the materials of his defcription of the Cape of Good 
Hope; and about the fame time he publifned a feparate 
treatife De Aquis Capitis Bona Spei, which, in 1716, was 
inferted in the feventh volume of the Afta Eruditortun 
of Leipfic. He was then invited to travel with two Au- 
ftrian counts ; but at the requeft of his mother he entered 
into the fervice of his own country, and in 1718 was no¬ 
minated reftor of the fchool of Neuftadt on the Aifch ; 
and, though invited the year following to be reftor and ex¬ 
traordinary profefifor of mathematics at Cobourg, he re- 
fufed this offer, as he had now attained to the fnmmit of 
his ambition. His conftitution had been much weakened 
by his long travels, but he continued to difcharge the du¬ 
ties of this office with great diligence, till the month of 
July 1726, when he was attacked by a fevere illnefs, which 
terminated in his death, on the 31 It of December, in the 
fifty-fecond year of his age. Kolbe obtained the greateft 
celebrity by his “ Defcription of the Cape of Good Hope,” 
which was publiftied at Nuremberg, in 1719, in folio, 
with twenty-four engravings. A Dutch tranftation ap¬ 
peared at Amfterdam in 1727, 2 vols. folio, with plates; 
and an Engliffi one, by Medley, at London, in 1731, 2 
vols. 8vo. A French abridgment of it, by a Swifs named 
Bertrand, was printed at Amfterdam in 1741, 3 vols. large 
i2mo. and again in 1743. The whole work confilts of 
three parts, and is written in form of letters. Part of the 
materials were furniftied by the papers of the fecretary 
Grevenbroek, which after his death came into Kolbe’s 
polfeffion. By means of thefe, and his long refidence at 
the Cape, where he had an opportunity of making a va¬ 
riety of curious obfervations, he was enabled to commu¬ 
nicate much important information in regard to a coun¬ 
try which at that time was little known. Kolbe, howe¬ 
ver, did not examine the accounts he received with fuffi- 
cient accuracy; he relates many circumftances with too 
much minutenefs and verbofity ; introduces unneceflary 
repetitions, and has publiftied many falfe and incredible 
ftories, which have been completely refuted by the ac¬ 
counts of more modern travellers, ami particularly by 
thole of Mentzel and Vailiunt. A life of Kolbe, confid¬ 
ing of one fheet and a half quarto, in which his merits as 
a traveller are placed in a clear light, was publiftied in 
