K V. A 
KRAG'OVATZ, a town of Se.via: thirty miles north- 
north-weft of Belgrade. 
KRAINE POLE, a town of Poland, in Volhynia : 
twenty-eight miles weft-north-weft of Berdiczow. 
KRAJO'VA, a river of Hungary, which runs into the 
Czerna near Meadia. 
KRAJO'VA, or Kolosvar, a town of Walachia: 
twenty miles fouth-weft of Brancovani, and feventy-two 
weft-fouth-weft of Blichareft. 
KRA'KA, a town of Walachia, fituated on a confi- 
derable lake, which communicates with the Danube: 
thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Buchareft. Lat. 44. 5. N. 
Ion. 26. E. 
KRA'KAN, a fmall ifland on the weft fide of the gulf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 63.30. N. Ion. 19. 33. E. 
KRAKATO'A, a fmall iiland in the Straits of Sunda. 
Lat. 6.6. S. Ion. 105. 21. E. 
KRA'KAW, or Kra'ko, a town of Mecklenburg, on 
a lake : ten miles north of Guftrow, and thirty fouth of 
Roltock. 
KRAKE BAY, a bay on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Curagoa. 
KRA'KEN, f. in zoology, a marine animal of moft 
ftupendous magnitude, faid to have been feen in the 
northern leas, and particularly near the coafts of Norway 
and Sweden. The exiftence of fuch an enormous crea¬ 
ture is attefted by bifliop Pontopiddan, who, in his Natural 
Hiftory of Norway, affords an entertaining, if not a very 
fatisfaflory and accurate, account of this furprifing crea¬ 
ture. From his details we learn, that the kraken lies in 
the deeper parts of the fea, in eighty or a hundred fathoms 
water, arid at fome leagues from land. This mighty, 
and as it feems unwieldy, mafs of animated fubftance, 
very rarely rifes near the furface; when it does, the calmeft 
fea becomes troubled to a vaft diftance around it, the 
heaving billows point out the more immediate fpace in 
which it will emerge, and, when it has rifen, thofe parts 
vifible above the furface of the water afl'ume the afpeft of 
fo many iflands, variable in dimeniions as well as fliape 
at every motion of the kraken. The form of this enor¬ 
mous being is compared to that of a crab ; the back or 
upper part (fo far as can be probably eftimated) is faid 
to be a mile and a half in circumference, (or, as fome af¬ 
firm, even more.) Its limbs, and of thefe it is furnilhed 
■with feveral, are truly gigantic, appearing, when elevated 
above the water, as thick and long as the malls of veffels 
of a moderate fize, and are befides endowed with fo much 
ftrength, that with one of thefe it can feize on boats and 
the fmaller kinds of veffels, and draw them under water. 
The defcent of this monfter from the furface of the fea to 
the bottom, is faid alfo to be not lefs terrible than its rifl¬ 
ing, fince it occafions a fwell and whirlpool fo violent 
and irrefiftible, that (hips of the largeft burthen, drawn 
within its vortex, inevitably fall into the abyfs of the 
waters, and fink to rife no more. Thefe, and various other 
circumftances equally calculated to excite aftonilhment, 
are related of the kraken by the learned prelate before- 
mentioned, the particulars of which have been differently 
received ; many having placed an implicit confidence in 
his relations, and others as ftrenuoufly determining to re¬ 
ject them as tales unworthy of belief. In juftice to Pon¬ 
topiddan, we fliould obferve however, that, though we are 
principally indebted for our knowledge of the kraken to 
this writer, it muff be underftood that the exiftence of 
fuch an animal as the kraken is not teftified on his autho¬ 
rity alone ; nor is it in his volumes only that details fo 
marvellous have appeared ; his accounts in general are in 
a greater or lefs degree corroborated by feveral northern 
writers, and with fuch internal evidence of truth, that we 
cannot rejeft their reports as wholly fabulous, or conceive 
the kraken to be the mere creature of fiction. Still we 
muft receive their obfer-vations deliberately; we may, and 
certainly do, on their veracity, admit the probable exift¬ 
ence of a marine animal, fuch as the kraken is defcribed, 
of a lize very far furpafling that of the whale, and confe- 
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quently of any animal at prefent known ;—but here we 
paufe ; we have yet to be informed how far the truth has 
really been exaggerated as to the afhial magnitude and 
powers of this tremendous creature. As to the nature of 
this being, that particular appears to be pretty clearly de¬ 
fined ; we have little doubt, if any confidence can be 
placed in the confeffedly-imperfeft defcriptions left us 
by different authors, that it is a creature by no means ana¬ 
logous either to the whale tribe, or any kinds of filhes ; 
it is affuredly, on the contrary, one of the mollufca" or¬ 
der, or family of worms peculiar to the fea. Denys Mont- 
fort, a writer who feems to have confidered its nature 
with attention, believes it to be a fort of Sepia, an idea 
not improbable from the ftrangeform of fome of the known 
Sepiae, particularly of that defcribed and figured under 
our article Helminthology, vol. ix. p. 349, 30. and Plate 
III. Should it fo prove, it will be a lingular circumftance, 
that the largeft animal in nature mult be ranked in the 
clafs of vermes, or worms, with which we fo commonly afi- 
fociate the idea of minutenefs. 
KRA'KO, a town of Sweden, in the province of Up¬ 
land : feventeen miles north of Upfal. 
KRA'KON, a fmall ifland on the weft fide of the gulf 
of Bothnia. Lat. 61.33. N. Ion. 17. 9. E. 
KRA'LAM, a town of Bofnia, near the river Mifna; 
thirty-four miles fouth of Serajo. 
KRALIEV'TSZI, a town of Croatia: nine miles fouth 
of Agram. 
KRA'LITZ, a town of Moravia, in Olmutz : eight 
miles fouth of Olmutz. 
KRALOVAVELI'KA, a town of Sclavonia : thirty 
miles weft-north-weft of Pofzega. 
KRA'LOWE HRA'DECZ. See Konigingratz. 
KRALO'WICE, or Kral'owitz, a town of Bohemia, 
in Rakonitz. In the neighbourhood is a citadel where 
John Hufs refided fome time, in the year 1413 : thirteen 
miles fouth-weft of Rakonitz. 
KRAL'OWIDWUR, or Konigin'hof, a town of Bo¬ 
hemia, in Konigingratz, on the river Elbe: thirteen miles 
north of Konigingratz, and eighty-feven fouth-eaft of 
Drefden. 
KRAL'OWITZ, a town of Bohemia, in Czaflau: fix- 
teen miles fouth-weft of Czaflau. 
KRA'MA, f. Wooden fandals, ufed by the natives of 
Hindooftan in the wet feafon. 
KRAME'RIA, J. [fo named in memory of John- 
George-Henry and William-Henry Kramer, father and 
fon, M. D. of Vienna. The former publifhed Tentamen 
Botanicum, 1728 and 1744; the latter, Flora Auilrite, 
1756.) In botany, a genus of the clafs tetrandria, order 
monogynia. The generic characters are—Calyx: none, 
unlefs you call the corolla fuch. Corolla : petals four, 
equal, fpreading, oblong, acute ; the uppermoft wider ; 
the lateral ones ovate; ne&aries two; the upper fuperior j 
ereft, linear, three-parted; divifions linear, thickilb, ovate 
at the tips, membranaceous. The lower inferior, two- 
leaved ; leaflets linear, convex, clavated, wrinkled. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments four, within the neftary, afcending; an- 
theras fmall, with two foramina at the tip. Piftillum s 
germ ovate ; ftyle awl-fhaped, afcending, length of the 
llamens : ftigma acute. Pericarpium : berry dry, globofe, 
unilocular, echinated on all Tides with ftiff hairs directed 
backwards. Seed Angle, ovate, fmooth, hard .—EJfential 
CharaEler. Calyx none: corolla four-petalled ; nefiary 
upper, three-parted, lower two-leaved ; berry dry, echi¬ 
nated, one-leeded. 
Krameria ixina, a fingle fpecies. It is a flirub, with 
alternate lanceolate leaves. Flowers alternate, in termi¬ 
nating racemes. Found in South America by Loefling. 
KRAME'RIJE AFFI'NIS. See Aczena. 
KRAMER'SKY, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Ermeland : fifteen miles fouth of Heilfberg. 
KRA'NACH, a river of Stiria, which runs into the 
Salrn near Gamlitz. 
KRAN'ICHFELD, a town of Saxony, in the princi¬ 
pality 
