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KOUANG-NGAN', or Quang-yan, a city of China, 
cf the fecond rank, in Se-tchuen : 762 miles fouth-fouth- 
weft of Peking. Lat. 30. 32. N. Ion. 106. 14. E. 
KOUANG-Sr, or Quang si, a city of China, of the 
firit rank, in Yun-nan : 1140 miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Peking. Lat. 24. 40. N. Ion. 103. 28. E. 
KOUANG-SIN', or Koang-sin, a city of China, of 
the firit rank, in Kiang-fi. Although this city is fituated 
in the midd of mountains, which for the mod part are 
very high and of a great extent, the country is not lefs 
fertile or inhabited ; a great many of thefe mountains are 
cultivated, and are not inferior in their produce to the 
mod fertile plains. Some of the mountains are covered 
with foreds, and others produce a fine crydal. They 
make here very good paper, and the bed candles in the 
empire : 710 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 28. 27. N. Ion. 
117. 44. E. ’ 
KOU'ANIN, in the Chinefe language, the name of a 
tutelary deity of women. The Chinefe make great num¬ 
bers of the figures of this deity in white porcelain, and 
Pend them to all parts of the world, as well as keep them 
in their own lioufes. The figure reprefents a woman with 
a child in her arms. The women who have no children 
■pay a fort of adoration to thefe images, and fuppofe the 
deity they reprefent to have power to make them fruitful. 
The datue always reprefents a handfome woman very 
mode lily attired. 
KO'VAR, a town of Hungary: fixteen miles north-wed 
of Bidritz. 
KOVARABAD', a town of Grand Bukharia, in the 
kingdom of Balk: ninety miles wed of Balk, 180 north- 
north-end of Herat. 
KOU'CHO, a town of Upper Guinea, on the river 
•Scherbro: thirty-fix miles from the fea. 
KOV'DA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Archangel, on the north-wed coad of the White Sea: 132 
miles fouth of Kola. 
KOU DEWATER, a town of Holland : five miles ead 
Leyden. 
KOUD'JEH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
forty-eight miles wed of Kiutaja. 
KOU'DRA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twenty- 
feven miles fouth of Burvvah. 
KOU'DURj a town of Hindoodan, in the country of 
Dowlatabad : feven miles north-north-wed of Beder. 
KOU'E, a city of China, of the l’econd rank, in Hou- 
quang, on the Yang-tfe river: 622 miles fouth-fouth-weft 
of Peking. Lat. 30. 57. N. Ion. 120. 81. E. 
KOU'E-HO'A, a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
yun-nan: 119s miles fouth-fouth-weft of Peking. Lat. 
23. 26. N. Ion. 103. 56. E. 
KOU'E-HO'A, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Fo-kien: fifty-feven miles weft-fouth-weft of Yen-ping. 
KOU'E-KI', a town of China, of the third rank, inKi- 
ang-fi : forty-two miies weft-fouth-weft of Kouang-fin. 
KOU'E-TI', or Kouei-ti, a city of China, of the firft 
rank, in Ho-nan. This city is fituated in a vaft plain, be¬ 
tween two fine rivers; its diftricl contains feven towns, 
one of the firft order, and fix of the third. Thele cities 
are rich and well peopled; the country is flat and well 
cultivated. The air is very pure, and the foil fruitful in 
all forts of grain and fruits, efpecially oranges and pome¬ 
granates: 312 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 34.30. N. Ion. 
115. 29. E. 
KOU'E-TONG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Hou-quang : twenty-one miles eaft-north-eaft of Telling. 
KOU'E-YANG', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Hou-quang: thirty-feven miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Tching. 
KOU'E YANG', a city of China, of the fecond rank, 
in Hou-quang: 885 miles fouth of Peking. Lat. 25.50. N. 
Ion. 112. E. 
KOUE'I-LING'. See Quej-ling. 
KOUE'IT, or Grten, as it is called by the Perfians and 
Europeans, a fea-port town, three days journey from Zo- 
fiejar, or Old Bafra, in Arabia. The inhabitants live by- 
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the fifliery of pearls and of fillies; and are faid to employ 
in this fpecies of naval induflry more than eight hundred 
boats. In the favourable fealon of the year, this town is 
left almoft defolate, every body going out either to the filh- 
ing, or upon fome trading adventure. Koueit is governed 
by a ftieik of the tribe of Othema, who is a vaflal to the 
flieik of Lachfa, but fometimes afpires at independence. 
In fuch cafes, when the flieik of Laclifa advances with his 
army, the citizens of Gram retreat, with their effeds, into 
the little illand of Fcludsje. Near Green are the remains 
of a Portuguefe fortrefs. 
KOUE'IT. See Cathem, vol. iii. 
KOVIN'SKA, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tobollk : 224 miles eaft of Enifeilk. 
KOVIN'SKOI (Niznei), a town of Ruffia, on an illand 
in the river Kolima. Lat. 69. 40. N. Ion. 156. 24. E. 
KOVIN'SKOI (Sred), a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Irkutlk, on the Kolima. Lat. 65. 5. N. Ion. 
153. 14. E. 
KOVIN'SKOI (Verchnei), a town of Ruffia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Irkutlk, on Kolima. Lat. 66. 15. N. Ion. 
149. 14. E. 
KOUISOU'-POU'LAC, a town of Chinefe Tartary. 
Lat. 44. 31. N. Ion. 120. 49. E. 
KOU'KOU, or Kougou, a town of Africa, in the 
kingdom of Gaoga, the refidence of a powerful king in 
the 12th century. 
KOULE'I-HI'SAR, or Cho’nac, a town of Afiatic 
Turkey, in the government of Sivas: forty miles north- 
north-eaft of Sivas, and 130 weft-fouth-weft of Erzerurn. 
KOU'LI-KHAN, fee the article Persia ; and for his ex¬ 
ploits in India, fee Hindoostan, vol. x. p. 65-67. 
KOU-M el ARAB', a town of Egypt, on the left bank 
of the Nile : eight miles north of Tahta. 
KOUM ERIGE', a town of Egypt, on the left bank of 
Nile : twelve miles north of Benifuef. 
KOUM MUSSIE', a town of Egypt, on the right fide 
of-the Nile : three miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Kena. 
KOUM OM'BOS, or Com-Omeos, See the article 
Egypt, vol. vi. p. 355. 
KOU'MAN, a town of Thibet: fifteen miles north of 
Darmadijira. 
KOU'MISS, J. A fort of wine made in Tartary, where 
it is ufed by the natives as their common beverage during 
the feafon of it, and often ferves them inftead of all other 
food. It is laid to be fo nourilhing and falutary, that the 
Bafchkir Tartars, who towards the end of winter are 
much emaciated, no fooner return in fummer to the ufe 
of koumifs, then they become ftrong and fat. From the 
Tartars it has been borrowed by the Ruffians, who ufe it 
medicinally. It is made with fermented mares’ milk, ac¬ 
cording to the following recipe, communicated by Dr. 
Grieve, in the Edinburgh PhilofophicalTranfadions, as he 
obtained it from a Ruffian nobleman, who went into that 
part of Tartary where it is made, for the fake of ufingit 
medicinally. “Take of frelli mares’ milk, of one day, 
any quantity; add to it a fixth part of water, and pour 
the mixture into a wooden veil'd; ufe then, as a ferment, 
an eighth part of the foureft cows’ milk that can be got; 
but, at any future preparation, a fmall portion of old kou¬ 
mifs will better anfwer the purpofe of Touring; cover the 
veil'd with a thick cloth, and let in a place of moderate 
warmth ; leave it at reft twenty-four hours, at the end of 
which time the milk will have become four, and a thick 
fubftance will be gathered on the top; then, with a ftick 
made at the low'er end in the manner of achurn-ftalf, beat 
it till the thick fubftance above-mentioned be blended in¬ 
timately with the fubjacent fluid. In this fituation, leave 
it again at reft for twenty-four hours more ; after which 
pour it into a higher and narrower vefiel, refembling a 
churn, where the agitation muft be repeated as before, till 
the liquor appear to be perfectly homogeneous; and in 
this lfate it is called koumifs, of which the tafte ought to 
be a pleafant mixture of fweet and four. Agitation muft 
be employed every time before it be ufed.”—To this de- 
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