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theircontinence; for lie cohabited fucceffively with more 
than one woman, without fubmitting to the formalities of 
marriage which the canon and civil law have prefcribed. 
Neither was he ignorant of the art of getting money from 
thofe who were lo credulous as to be perfuaded of his 
prophetic million ; and there werefome, to whom he wrote 
in a magifterial and prophetic ftyle, that it was necelTary 
for the advancement of the new kingdom of God, that 
they fnould raife fuch and fuch a fum, in failure of which, 
he threatened them with the moft dreadful judgments 
from the vengeance of the Moft High. Van Helmont 
was one of thofe who received fuch letters, but without 
paying any regard to them. Bayle. Hcnningii Diarium Bio- 
graphicum. 
KUHL'SHEIM, or Kultz'heim, a town of Germany: 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Miltenberg, and thirty-two eait- 
north-eaft of Heidelberg. 
KUH'MOIS, a town of Sweden, in the province of Ta- 
vaftland: thirty-nine miles north-north-eaft of Tavafthus. 
KUIiMONIE'MI, a towm of Sweden, in the govern¬ 
ment of Ulea : fifty miles eaft-fouth-ealt of Cajana. 
KUHN (Joachim), a learned critic, the foil of a rich 
merchant at Gripfwalde in Pomerania, where he was born 
in 1647. He ltudied at the univerfity of Jena; and, after 
vifiting feveral parts of Germany, was appointed, in 1669, 
principal of the college at Oetingen in Swabia. In 1676 
lie was chofen profelfor of Greek in the college of Straf- 
burg ; and in 1685 obtained the chair of Greek and He¬ 
brew in the univerfity of that city, where his reputation, 
efpecially for Greek literature, brought him a number of 
auditors from foreign parts. He died in 1697. Kuhn 
became known to the learned world by his editions of 
/Elian and of Diogenes Laertius. He had before publilhed 
remarks in Latin on Julius Pollux. After his death ap¬ 
peared his Quajlioncs Philofophice ex Jacris Veteris et Nov. 
Tejl. 4to. Stralb. 162.8; and an edition of Paufanias, Gr. 
Lat. with notes, Lipfise, 1711. 
KUH'NA, a town of Lufatia : four miles fouth-eaft of 
Golifz. 
KUHNAU' (John), the fon of a filherman of Gryfin- 
gen, near Altenburg, on the borders of Bohemia, four 
miles from Drefden, was a learned and fkilful mufician of 
the higher clafs, among thofe who have formed and efta- 
bliflied the German fchcrol of mufic, particularly in the 
ecclefiaftical ftyle, and in organ-playing. In the year 
1684, he was organilt of the church of St. Thomas at 
Leipfic; and, while in that ftation, he wrote a diflertation 
De juribus circa mujicos ecclefiajiicos , and afterwards de¬ 
fended it againft the cenfures of his adverfaries. In 1689, 
he publilhed lefions for the harpfichord in two volumes; 
and in 1696 feven fonatas, entitled Clavici Fruchte, Fruits 
of the Keys, or of keyed inftruments ; and in 1700, fix 
fonatas, entitled Bibluc'he Hijic-ri, a Bible Narrative. Luf- 
tig of Groningen, in a Dutch treatife entitled Inleiding 
tot de Mufikkunde, takes notice of this work, and lays 
that it is a lively reprefentation, in mufical notes, of Da¬ 
vid combating Goliah. In the fame year Kuhnau, to 
filence the clamours of fome ignorant men of his profef- 
fion, who, envying his merit and reputation, had libelled 
him, wrote a fmall trafl, which he entitled The Mu¬ 
fical Quack, or Mountebank. In the fame year Kuhnau 
■was appointed direElor mitfices of the univerfity of Leipfic, 
in which llation he died in 172a, in the 63d year of his 
age ; and was fucceeded in that honourable poll by John 
Sebaftian Bach. Kuhnau was celebrated immediately af¬ 
ter his death in a Latin difcourfe by a count palatine and 
magiftrate of Merfeberg for his Hull, not only in mufic, 
but theology, law, eloquence, poetry, foreign languages, 
algebra, and mathematics. And Matthefon, in his life 
of Handel, as the higheft praife he could beftow on his 
performance, fays, that he was even more powerful on the 
tjrgan than the famous Kuhnau of Leipfic, vvho was then 
(in Handel’s younger days) regarded as a prodigy. 
KUHN'FELD, a town of Bavaria; feventeen miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Bamberg. 
VOL. XI. No, 803. 
K U K 
RU'HNIA, f. [fo named by Linnaeus from his pupil 
Adam Iiuknius, a traveller in America, who fent feeds cf 
the plant from Penfylvania.J In botany, a genus of the 
clafs fyngenefia, order polygamia aequalis; or clafs pentan- 
dria, order monogynia, natural order of compofitae pifco- 
idese, (corymbiferae, JuJf.) The generic characters are— 
Calyx: perianthium common oblong, imbricated; fcales 
very' many, unequal, lanceolate, gibbofe, permanent. Co¬ 
rolla : common equal; flofcules from ten to fifteen ; co- 
rollets one-petalied, funnel-form, twice the length of the 
calyx; border five-cleft, upright. Stamina: filaments five, 
capillary, very Ihort; antherse fub-cylindric, Ihorter than 
the tube of the corollet, gaping with a lip at the top. Pif- 
tillum : germ inferior; ftyle the length of the ftamens ; 
ftigmas two, clubbed. Pericarpium : calyx unchanged. 
Seeds : folitary, oblong, columnar, ftriated, fmooth,crown¬ 
ed with a feathery down, longer than the calyx or feed. 
Receptacle : naked, fcrobicular, fomewhat rugged.— Ejjen- 
tial Charadler. Flowers flofcular; calyx imbricate, oblong, 
cylindrical; downplumofe; receptacle naked; ftyle deeply 
bifid; ftigmas club-lhaped ; antherae diftinct. 
Kuhnia eup.atorioides, a fingle fpecies. Stems a foot 
and half high, upright, even, ftiffilh. Leaves alternate, 
petioled, broad-lanceolate, naked, fomewhat wrinkled j 
veined underneath, fomewhat toothed, with the middle 
ferratures larger. Branches alternate from the middle of 
the Item. Corollas white; ftamens yellowifti white. The 
plant refembles a Eupatorium, but there is no inftance of 
club-lhaped piftils, and dijlinEl cylindrical antherae, in a 
compound flower. It differs alfo from Eupatorium in 
having alternate leaves. The antherae, according to Gaert- 
ner, fo far from being feparate, adhere fo pertinacioufly, 
as to keep together after being macerated twenty-four 
hours in water. Hence, theLinnaean character being fic¬ 
titious, and the plumofe down forbidding its being aflb- 
ciated with the Eupatoriums, Gaertner refers it to the 
Critonia of Brown. Native of Pennfylvania. 
KU'HU, the Hindoo goddefs of day. It is moft likely 
one of the many names of Parvati; but, refpefting her, 
very little has yet been made known. 
KU'l-FEOU', a towm of China, of the third rank, in 
Chang-tong : ten miles eaft of Yen-tcheou. 
KUI'A, a town of Ruflia, on the coaft of the White 
Sea, in the government of Archangel: twenty miles north 
of Archangel. 
KUJARIT'ZA, a river of European Turkey, in Roma¬ 
nia, which runs into the Marizs four miles eaftofFilippopoli. 
KUIATZKA'IA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Irkutlk, on the Dzonmuren, built in the year 1728, 
for the purpofe of carrying on a traffic between the Ruf¬ 
fians and Chinefe, according to the treaty made in 1727. 
It confifts of two parts 5 one inhabited by the people of 
each country: forty-four miles north of Irkutlk. Lat. 52. 
50. N. Ion. 105.14. E. 
KUFNEN, a town of Pruflian Lithuania : eight miles 
fouth of Infterburg. 
KUI'NUC, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
twenty miles north of Elkilhehr. 
KUIVAI'NEMI, a town of Sweden, in the government 
of Ulea: twenty miles ealt-fouth-eaft of Tornea. 
KUIVAS'MAKI, a town of Sweden, in the govern¬ 
ment of Wafa : 106 miles fouth-eaft of Wafa. 
ICU'KA, a town of Sweden, in the government of Abo: 
thirty-two miles fouth-eaft of Biorneborg. 
KUKALAR', a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Abo : thirty-eight miles eaft of Abo. 
KUKERPEH', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: 
thirty-two miles weft of Boli. 
KU'KI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : fe- 
venty miles north of Meaco. 
KUKAISTEN'MAA, a final! ifland on the eaft fide of 
the gulf of Bothnia. Lat. 60. 53. N. Ion. 21.1. E. 
KU'KU, a town of Africa, and capital of a country 
fituated to the north-eaft of Bornou: 250 miles north-ealt 
of Bornou. Lat. 21. 45. N. Ion. 24.45. E. 
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