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nal reparation. They wear no mourning; and the funeral 
pomp terminates in a fcene of intemperance, where the 
fumes of the liquor and tobacco gradually efface the re¬ 
membrance of death; after a few months’ widowhood, the 
women are permitted to marry again. Death is in their 
eyes, but the pall’age to another life; and in quitting the 
world, they do not imagine that their pleafures terminate, 
but that other joys are referved for them. They acknow¬ 
ledge a Supreme Being, the creator of all things : and they 
fuppofe him to inhabit the fun, whole burning orb they 
confder the throne or palace of the Lord of nature, whom 
they probably confound with that celeffial fire which is fup- 
poled to be his dwelling. They neither fear nor worlhip 
him ; they addrefs no prayers to him •. goodnefs, they fay, 
is his effence; all the good that exifts in the world proceeds 
from him ; and it is impoifijble he Ihould do an injury. The 
principle of evil they confider as a malignant fpirit, who di¬ 
vides with the fovereign Good Being the empire of nature. 
Their power is equal: as the one is intent on the happi- 
nefs of mankind, 'the other endeavours to render them 
unhappy. Difeafes, tem pelts, famine, calamities of every 
kind, are his work, and the inftr.uments of his vengeance: 
it is to pacify his wrath that they lacrifice their perfonal 
Entered, and have reccurfe to devotion. Their homage is 
dictated merely by the terror with which the menacing 
deity fills every heart, and confilis of expiatory facrifices: 
they offer to him various animals that have juft begun to 
exift, rein-deer, dogs, the firft fruits of their hunting and 
filhing, and whatever they poffefs that is molt valuable. 
Their devotional exercifes coniilt of ^applications and 
thankfgivings. There is no temple or fanftuary fet apart 
for liis votaries. This fantaltic god is equally worlliipped 
in all places; and hears the Koriaks, who pray alone to 
him in the defert, as well as the aflembled family, who 
conceive that they render him propitious by pioully get¬ 
ting drunk in their yourt; for drunkennefs is become 
with thefe people a religious practice, and the bafis of all 
their folemnities. 
KOR'KAN, or Jorjan, a diftriit fituated on the eaft 
fide of the Cafpian Sea ; the country is flat, and fubjedt to 
inundations ; the heat is intolerable, and the air unwhole¬ 
some. The foil is fertile in dates, wine, cotton, filk, and 
corn. The town of Korkan is in ruins. 
KORKAN'JE. See Urkonje. 
KORKI'NA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tobollk : twenty miles fouth-weft of Ifchim. 
KOR'KUB, a town of Perlia, in Chufiftan: thirty miles 
weft-fouth-weli of Jondilabur. 
KORKS, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman i 
330 miles fouth of Amanzirifdin. 
KOR'MEND, a town of Hungary, on the Raab: fif¬ 
teen miles fouth of Steinam Anger, and fifty-two fouth 
of Vienna. 
KOR'MESI-ITY, mountains of Ireland, in the county 
of Mayo : feventeen miles north-weft of Caftlebar. 
KORMUD'SEH, a town of Perfia, in Farfiftan : one 
hundred miles fouth-weft of Schiras. Lat. 28. 37. N. 
KORN-NEU'BURG, a town of Auftria, on the north 
fide of the Danube, oppofite Clolter-Neuburg. In 1645, 
this town was taken by the Swedes, and partly fortified ; 
but they left it the following year: eight miles north of 
Vienna. Lat. 48.19. N. Ion. 16.40. E. 
KOR'NA. See Corna, vol. v. 
KOR'NAC. See Carnac, vol. ill. p. 8:5. 
KOR'NACH, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg : fix 
tniles north-weft of Volckach. 
KORN'BURG, a town of Germany, in the territory of 
Nuremberg : eight miles fouth of Nuremberg. 
KORN'BURG, a town of the duchy of Stiria, on the 
Raab: twenty-four miles fouth-eaft of Gratz, and eight 
north of Rakelburg. 
KORN'DYCK, a fmall ifland of Holland, in the Meufe, 
with a town of the fame name; about feven miles weft- 
north-weft of Wiilemftadto 
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KOR'NER, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Gotha: five miles eaft-north-eaft of Muhlhaufen. 
KORN'HAUS, a town of Bohemia, in Schlan : eight 
miles fouth-weft of Schlan. 
KOR'NICK, a town of the duchy of Holftein : four 
miffs fouth of Cifmar. 
KOR'NOCK, an ifland near the weft coaft of Weft 
Greenland. Lat. 6 1.38. N. Ion. 47. 40. W. 
KORONOW', a town of the duchy of Warfavv : fifty 
miies north of Gnefna. 
KO'ROL, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: twenty 
miles eaft of Baroacli. 
KOROLEVETZ', a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Novgorod Sieverlkoi: forty miles fouth-eaft of Nov- 
gorod Sieverficoi. 
KOROMAN'TIN, a town and factory belonging to the 
Dutch on the coaft of Guinea in Africa. See Guinea, 
vol. ix. p. 89. 
KO'ROP, a town of Ruflia, and diftridl of the govern¬ 
ment of Novogorod Severlkoi, feated on the left more of 
the Defna. 
KORORO'FAH, a country of Africa, fituated eaft of 
Wangara. 
KOROTAFCHA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into 
the North Sea in lat. 68. 10. N. Ion. 59. 14. E. 
KOROT'CHA, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Kurlk ; forty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kurfk. 
KOROTOI'AK, a town of Rufiia, in the government 
of Voronez, on the Don: twenty miles fouth of Voronez. 
KORO'VA, a fmall ifland in the Sea of Ochotflc: 240 
miles eaft of Ochotlk. Lat. 59. 20. N. Ion. 150. 40. E. 
KOROVAI'NO, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Saratov, on the Volga : twenty-four miles fouth of Ka- 
mifehin. 
KOROWC'ZI, a town of Poland, in Podolia : eighteen 
miles north-north-well of Kaminiecz. 
KORPIKY'LA, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia; 
fourteen miles north-north-weft of Tornea. 
KOR'PILAX, a town of Sweden, in Tavaftland : fixty- 
eight miles north-north-eaft of Tavalthus. 
KOR'PO, an ifland of Sweden, in the Baltic, near the 
fouth-weft coaft of Finland, of an oval form, about twenty 
miles in circumference. It has on the north-weft coali a 
town of the fame name, and feveral villages. Lat. 60. 9. N, 
Ion.21.25. E. 
KORPO'NA, a town of Hungary: twenty-eight miles 
north-north-eaft of Gran, and ninety-fix eaft of Vienna. 
KORS, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adirbeit- 
zan : eighty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Erivan, and feventy 
north-weft of Tabris. 
KOR'SA, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of Delhi: 
twenty-fix miles weft of Delhi. 
KOR'SEC, a town of Poland, in Volhynia: feventy- 
two miles eaft of Lucko. 
KORSE'NIEC, a town of Lithuania: fixty miles eaft: 
of Wilna. 
KOSEWE'LAN, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern Indian 
Sea. Lat. 7.39. S. Ion. 128. 40. E. 
KORS'HOLM, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Bothnia: 
two miles fouth of Wafa. 
KORS'NAS, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Bothnia: twen¬ 
ty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Wafa. 
KORSO'ER, a fortified town of Denmark, lying at the 
mouth of a fmall bay, forming a well-protecled harbour, 
on the Great Belt. It has a few good lioules, which be¬ 
long to merchants, &c. Some trade is carried on from 
hence up the Baltic, and in the vicinity. The fortifica¬ 
tions are in ruins, and the town is chiefly inhabited by fifli- 
ermen and feafaring people. The breadth of the Great Belt 
between Korfoer and Nyeborg is about twenty-two miles. 
KOR'SPE, a river which riles in the county of Mark, 
and runs into the Wipper a mile below Wipperfurt. 
KOR'SUN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Kiev: 
forty-four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of. Bialacerkiew. 
KORSZA'NY* 
