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Ins refidence. At the age of eighty-one, forefeeing his 
approaching end, he gave an entertainment to the acade¬ 
mical body, prefented it with a valuable goblet, and foon 
after died, in 1607. Like mod of his Lutheran brethren, 
he was a great friend to wedlock, and entered thrice into 
that ftate.^ Crufius is reckoned one of the principal pro¬ 
moters of Greek literature in Germany. He published a 
great number of works, grammatical and critical; with 
orations, Greek and Latin ; Greek poems, fermons, &c. 
which are now forgotten. His nioft valuable publication 
was entitled Turco-Grecia libri ocio, Bafil, 158.-)., containing 
an excellent colle&ion of pieces relative to modern Greece, 
with the language and literature of which he was well ac¬ 
quainted. His Annales Suevici, ab initio return ad ann. 1 594. 
Francof. 2 vols. folio, is rare, and much elteemed. Moreri. 
KRAUS, or Kraussen (Jean Ulric), a German en¬ 
graver, was born at Augfburg in the year 1645, and died 
in the fame city in 1719. He was the difciple of Mel¬ 
chior Kufiell, married Sybille his daughter, and became a 
clofe imitator of the works of his contemporary Le Clerc. 
His engravings are numerous, chiefly from his own com- 
pofitions 5 and the fubjecls of them, for the moll: part, 
views of buildings, or taken from the Old and New Tef- 
taments. In imitation of his model Le Clerc, he general¬ 
ly introduced a vaft multitude of figures into his compo- 
fitions 5 but they are lei's graceful, and far lefs well drawn. 
He frequently enriched his back-grounds with architec¬ 
ture, which he appears to have well underfcood, and his 
chiarofcuro is often judicioufly difpofed, and his general 
effcfls good. His principal works are as follow : A let of 
iixty fubjedls copied from Le Clerc’s Life of Chrift, on 
Email folio plates, two fubjecls on each, printed at Augf¬ 
burg in 1705. The Hittory of the Old and New Tefta- 
ments, in 4to. containing four finall fubjecls on each plate, 
and apparently defigned to be bound in 8vo. lb as to have 
two fubjefls only on a leaf. The Four Seafons, and the 
Four Elements, deligned for the royal tapeftries. A fet 
of twelve interefting views of the city of Nuremberg, after 
Andrea Graf, in folio ; and a very large and capital view 
of St. Peter’s church at Rome, after the fame mafter. 
KRAUS'NEC, a town of Brandenburg, in the Ucker 
Mark : thirteen miles fouth of Storkow. 
KRAUT'HEIM, a town of Germany, on the Jaxt: 
eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Meckmuhl, and thirty-four 
north of Heilbronn. 
KRAUT'HEIM, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg: 
four miles north of Volckach. 
KRAW (Iftlimus of), the narrow part of Lower Siam, 
between the Indian Sea and the Gulf of Siam, about fe- 
venty milesacrofs. Lat. 9. to 12. N. Ion. 98.20.1099.30.E. 
KRAYSIC, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Wilna: eighty-four miles eaft of Wiina. 
KRA'ZAU, a town of Bohemia, in Boleflau : five mile* 
eafr-fouth-eaft of Krottau. 
KRE'BES, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland. 
KREBS'BACH, a river of Silefia, which runs into the 
Neifle near Ottmuchau. 
KREBS'BACH, a town of Silefia, in the principality 
of Neifle: four miles fouth-weft of Ottmuchan. 
KREB'SEE, a town of Pruflia, in Oberland: four 
smiles eaft of Marienwerder. 
KREESE, Creese, or Crisse, /. A kind of dagger 
ufed by the Malays, particularly in the ifland of Ceylon ; 
the blade of which is of the beft-tempered Heel, and of¬ 
ten in a Terpentine form, fo as to inflift a moll: dreadful 
wound 5 the handle is of ivory or wood, carved into the 
figure of a man’s body and arms, with a head reprefenting 
fomething between that of a man and a bird ; this they 
call their fuaming, or god ; and to this figure they snake 
their falam, or obeifance, before they draw the kreefe to 
execute any bloody purpofe on which they have deter¬ 
mined. Atter they have ratified their vow by this cere¬ 
mony, they draw their kreefe, and never again Iheath it 
till they have drenched it in blood. So refolute is their 
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ferocious difpofition, that, if their adverfary is placed be¬ 
yond the reach of their vengeance, fooner than not in¬ 
dulge it they will plunge the dagger into the body of 3- 
pig, dog, chicken, or any other living animal which hap¬ 
pens to come in their way. The lcabbard is made of 
wood, frequently ornamented with gold or filver wire ; 
and the whole appearance of the weapon, as well as the 
mode of wearing it, on the right’fide, greatly refembles 
that found sn the ancient drefs of the Celtic nations. 
This terrible inftrument is rendered frill more lo by its 
being always poilbned, commonly by the juices of fome 
poifonous herbs, and, among thofe who can procure it, 
with poifon from the upa-tree, Thefe daggers, in the ufe 
of which the Malays are peculiarly dextrous, are regarded 
by them with veneration, and they defcend as facred re¬ 
lics from father to fon, and from generation to generation. 
No money is accounted fufficient to purchafe them j and 
no violence can compel their owners to give them tip. 
When a Malay is prefled in battle, he will looner be Haiti, 
or kill himfelf, than l’urrender his kreefe to the enemy. 
KREI'BITSCH, a town of Bohemia, in Leitmeritz : 
twenty-four miles north-north-eaft of Leitmeritz. 
KREI'SENBRUNN, a town of Aullria: four miles 
north-weft of Hoffmarckt. 
KREITZ, a town of Hungary, -on the Gran : fix miles 
fouth of Crenmitz. 
KREITZ, a town of Croatia: thirty miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Varafdin, and twenty-five eaft-fouth-eaft of Agram. 
KREITZ'ENSTOTTEN, a town of Aullria : fix miles 
fouth-eaft of Ehrnfprunn. 
KREK'YTHE. See Crickleith, vol. v. 
KRE'MEN, a town of Croatia, on the river Korana: 
four miles north of Slain. 
KRE'MENGUG, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Ekaterinollav, on the Dnieper: thirty-eight miles 
weft-north-weft of Ekaterinoflav. Lat.49.N. Ion. 33.10.E. 
KREMINITS'KOI, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Novgorod : fifty-two miles eaft of Novgorod. 
KREMINIEK', a town of Poland, in Volhynia : 3S 
miles fouth of Lucko, and 224 eaft of Cracow. 
KREM'PE, a town of Holltein : three miles north of 
Gluckftadt. 1 
KREMSIE'R, or Kromerziz, a town of Moravia, in 
Preran, on the Morawa, belonging to the bifliop of Oi- 
mutz. The palace was burned down in 1752, together 
with the archives. The fuburbs and many houfes within 
the walls were confumed at the fame time : ten miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Perau, and feventeen fouthcf Olmutz. 
Lat. 49.17. N. Ion. 17. 20. E. 
KREMS 1 MINSTER, a town of Auftria: twelve milts 
weft of Steyr. 
KRENENSKAI'A, a town of Ruflia, in the country 
of the Cofacs, near the Don : 216 miles north-eaft of Afoph. 
KREN'STOTTEN, a town of Auftria : nine miles eaft: 
of Steyr. 
_ KREPS'BACH, a river of Silefia, which runs into the 
river Weidelach. 
KRESABAD’, a town of Hindooftan, in Bundelcund: 
twenty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pannah. 
KRESNIZKE'RERCH, a mountain of Lower Carni- 
ola : four miles north-north-eaft of Weixelberg. 
KRES'TA, a fmall ifland near the fouth coaft of Nova 
Zembla, in the Straits of Vaigatlkoi. Lat. 70. 32. N. Ion. 
59. 20. E. 
KRES'TA (St.), a gulf or bay of Ruflia, in the north 
part of the Anadirlkaia gulf. Lat. 65. 20. to 65. 40. N„ 
Ion. 180. 34. to 181. 24. E. 
KRES'TIAK, an ifland in the Frozen Sea, fituated at 
the mouth of the Lena, of a triangular form; its mean 
diameter about twelve miles. Lat. 77. 42. N. Ion. 16.14. E. 
KRETYN'GA, a town of the duchy of Sainogitia s 
thirty-fix miles north-weft of Miedniki. 
KRES'TAL, a town of the duchy of Wurzburg : fix 
miles fouth of Kiflingen. 
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