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KOTING'HY, a town of Hindooftan, in thecircarof 
jRuttunpour : thirty-fix miles north-eaft of Raypour. 
KOT'LAN, a town of Grand Bukharia, capital of a 
diftrift: 200 miles fouth-eaft of Samarcand. Lat. 38.10. N. 
ion. 68. 36. E. 
KOTMA'NA, a river of Walachia, which runs into 
the Danube, eight miles fouth of Chodivoga. 
KOTMA'NA, a town of Walachia, near the fource of 
the river Kotmana: forty-five miles north-weft of Bucha- 
reft. 
KOT'NA, a town of Grand Bukharia, on the Gihon : 
forty miles fouth of Bukhara. 
KOT'NAR, a town of Moldavia: twenty-four miles 
veft-fouth-weft of Jaffy. 
KO'TO, a diftrift of Africa, on the Slave Coaft, ex¬ 
tending about eighteen miles along the Atlantic ; the 
land is flat, and the foil fandy and barren. Slaves form 
the only traffic which the Europeans carry on with the na¬ 
tives. The principal town is called Koto, or Vcrku. 
KOTO'NA, a town of Hindooftan, in Mewat: twenty- 
five miles north-north-weft of Cotputly. 
KOTOO', one of the fmall Friendly iflands. This 
ifland is fcarcely acceffible by boats, on account of coral- 
reefs that furround it. It is not more than a mile and a 
half or two miles long, and not fo broad. The north- 
weft end of it is low ; but it rifes fuddenly in the middle, 
and terminates in reddiffi clayey cliffs, at the fouth-eaft 
end about thirty feet high. The foil in that quarter is of 
the fame fort as in the cliffs, but in the other parts it is 
a loofe black mould. It produces the fame fruits and 
roots which were found in the other iflands; is tolerably 
cultivated, but thinly inhabited. Captain Cook, in the 
year 1777, planted fome melon-feeds, with which the na¬ 
tives feemed much pleafed, and inclofed them with 
branches : fixteen miles north of Anamooka. Lat. 19. 
58. S. Ion. 185.11. E. 
KO'TRA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: fifteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Grodno. 
KOTROU 7 , a town of Africa, on the Ivory Coaft. 
KOT'SCHAU, a town of Bohemia, in Pilfen: three 
miles north-eaft of Tachau. 
KOTSCHENBRO'DA, a town of Saxony, in the 
margravate of Meiffen: five miles north-weft of Drefden. 
KOT'SKA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Irkutlk, on the Tungulka : 140 miles north-north-weft of 
Ilimlk. 
KOT'TA, a circar of Hindooftan, in the Malwa; 
bounded on the north by Rantampour, on the eaft by Go- 
hud and Chandaree, on the fouth by Kitchwara, and on 
the weft by Meywaror Oudipour. The river Jefal crofles 
it in the centre. 
KOT'TA, a town of Hindooftan, and capital of a cir¬ 
car of the fame name, in the country of Malwa, on the 
Jeful: 100 miles fouth-eaft of Agimere, and 215 fouth of 
Delhi. Lat. 25.15. N. Ion. 76. 20. E. 
KOT'TENBERG, a mountain of the duchy of Carin- 
thia *. three miles fouth of Tarwis. 
KOT'TENBERG, a town of Pruffia, in Oberlar.d: two 
miles north-weft of Willenberg. 
KOT'TERUS (Chriftopher), was one of the three fa¬ 
natics whofe vifions were published at Amfterdam in 1657, 
with the title of Lux in Tenebris. He lived at Sprotta in 
Silefia, and his vifions began in 1616. He fancied he faw 
an angel under the form of a man, who commanded him 
to go and declare to the magiftrates, that, unlefs the peo¬ 
ple repented, the wrath of God would make dreadful ha- 
vock. The elefllor-palatine, whom the proteftants had 
declared king of Bohemia, was introduced in thefe vifions. 
Kotterus waited on him at Breflau in December 1620, and 
informed him of his commiffion. He went to feveral 
other places, and at laft to the court of Brandenburg. As 
molt of thefe predictions promifed felicity to the eleClor- 
palatine, and unhappineis to his imperial majefty, the 
emperor’s fifeal in Silefia and Lulatia got him fsized, let 
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on the pillory, and baniffied the emperor’s dominions* 
Upon this he went to Lufatia, and there lived unmolefted 
till his death, which happened in 1647. 
KOT'TIMBEL, a fmall ifland in the Red Sea. Lat. 
17. 57. N. Ion. 41. 25. E. 
KOTTINBRUNN', a town of Auftria: three miles 
fouth of Baden. 
KOT'TIS, a town of Auftria: ten miles fouth-eaft of 
Zwetl. 
KOTTOCOM'B, a town of Africa, in Bornou : fe« 
venty-five miles fouth of Bornou. 
KOTTOKOLEE', a town of Africa, and capital of a 
country of the fame name, in Negroland. Lat. 13. N. 
Ion. 5. 40. E. 
KO'TUL, a town of Hindooftan, in Bundelcund : twen¬ 
ty miles fouth of Pannah. 
KO'TY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bundelcund 3 
eighteen miles fouth of Callinger. 
KOT'ZAU, a town of Germany, in the principality of 
Culmbach : four miles fouth-eaft of Hof. 
KOT'ZENAU, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Lignitz: fixteen miles north-weft of Lignitz, and nine 
weft of Luben. 
KOT'ZING, a tqwn of Bavaria: ten miles fouth of 
Furth, and nine eaft-fouth-eaft of Cham. 
KOU, a town of Turkilh Armenia : thirty miles fouth- 
eaft of Akalzike. 
KOU, or Kiyang, a city of China, of the fecond rank, 
in Hou-quang : 862 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 26. 30. N. 
Ion. 114. 24. E. 
KOU-CHU',/. A Chinefe flrrub, which bears a great 
relemblance to the fig-tree both in the make of its 
branches and the form of its leaves. From its root feve¬ 
ral twigs or (hoots generally fpring up, which form a kind 
of bufli; but lometimes it confifts of only one (hoot. The 
wood of the branches of the kou-chu is foft and fpongy, 
and covered with bark like that of the fig-tree. Its leaves 
are deeply indented, and their colour and the texture of 
their fibres are exaftly the fame as thofe of the fig-tree 3 
but they are larger and thicker, and much rougher, to the 
touch. This tree yields a kind of milky juice, which the 
Chinefe ufe for laying on gold leaf in gilding. They 
make one or more incilions in the trunk, into which they 
infert the edges of a {hell, or fomething elfe of the fame 
kind, to receive the fap. When they have extracted a 
fufficiency, they ufe it with a fmall brulh, and delineate 
whatever figures they intend for the decoration of their 
work. They then lay on the gold leaf, which is fo ftrongly 
attracted by this liquor, that it never comes off. 
KOU-HI'SAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Carama- 
nia: twelve miles north-weft of Akferai. 
KOU-TCHIN', a town of China, in Kiang-nan : twen- 
ty-tw r o miles north of Fong-yang. 
KOU-TCHING', a to,wn of China, of the third rank, 
in Hou-quang, on the river Han : twenty-five miles north- 
weft of Siang-yang. 
KOU-YU'EN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Chen-fi : 160 miles north-weft of Si-ngan, and 500 fouth- 
weft of Peking. Lat. 36. 5. N. Ion. 106. E. 
KOU'A, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Kiang- 
nan, on the north fide of the Yang-tfe, oppoiite Telling ■ 
kiang: 490 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Peking. Lat. 32.18. N. 
Ion. 118. 54. E. 
KOUAKAN'D, a town of Turkeftan, on the Sirr s 
fixty miles fouth of Taflikund. 
KOU'AN-TE', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Kiang-nan : 570 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Peking. Lat. 
30. 58. N. Ion. 118. 57. E. 
KOUANG', a city of China, of the fecond rank, in 
Ho-nan: 480 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 32.14. N. 
Ion. 114.41. E. 
KOUANG-NAN', a city of China, of the firft rank, 
in Yun-nan: 1132 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Peking. 
Lat. 25. xo,N. Ion. X04. 44. E, 
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