K U N 
continent of Finland arid the ifland of Aland, with a town. 
Lat. 60. 17. N. Ion. 20. 37. E. 
KU'MO, a town of Sweden, in the government of Abo, 
on a river of the fame name : twenty-three miles fouth- 
eaft of Biorneborg. 
KUM'RAH, /. A very ferviceable and laborious bead 
of burden, begot by an afs upon a cow, and much uled in * 
the dates of Barbary. 
KUM'RI, a chain of lofty mountains in Africa, in 
■which are the fources of the Nile and Bahr Kulla, lying, 
according to Browne, in lat. 7. N. and probably running 
acrofs the continent. 
KUM'SCHAK, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 
Don, near Bidrianka, in the country of the Cofacs. 
KU'MUK, a province bordering on the Cafpian Sea, 
part of the territory included between the rivers Terek and 
Kur, and lying between the Terek and Koifu, compre¬ 
hends a fertile plain watered by thefe rivers, as well as 
the Akfai and Kafma, and the next adjoining mountains 
to the wed. It is under the government of leveral beys, 
of whom the two mod powerful refide in the cities Akfai 
and Eudors, (called by the Ruffians Andrewka ,) at the foot 
of the mountains; and is inhabited by the Kumuk and 
Nogai Tartars, and by Armenian and Georgian merchants, 
who dwell in the cities. In winter the Lefgians defcend 
likewife with their herds from the mountains into the 
plain 5 for the liberty of doing which they pay a tribute. 
The length of this province is about eleven and the 
breadth eight German miles. The Kumuks are vallals to 
Ruffia. 
KUN-LI'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Se-tchuen : forty miles fouth-fouth-wed of Soui-tcheou. 
KU'NA, a town of Lithuania, fifteen miles fouth-ead 
of Braclaw. 
KUNAS'SYR, one of the Kurile iflands, 82 miles 
long, and 37 broad, and entirely furrounded by mountains 
with lofty fummits ; but in the middle of the ifland are 
low plains. Firs, larches, birch, &c. grow here. At the 
fouthern extremity, a flat landy beach extends from the 
lofty mountains, where the fea brings up a fpecies of 
pearl-bearing mufcle in vad abundance; fome of the fize 
of a defert-plate. The ifland has lakes and broad dreams 
that abound with fiih. It is inhabited by Kuriles, who 
are rated at forty-one perfons. 
KUN'CKEL (John), a celebrated chemid, was born in 
1630, in that part of the duchy of Slelwic which belong¬ 
ed to the duke of Holdein-Gottorp. Having acquired 
much reputation by his ability and lkill in chemidry and 
the mechanical fciences, he ingratiated himfelf into the 
favour of various princes, and formed his fird eflablifh- 
ment in Saxony, where, in 1676, he gave private leftures 
on chemidry. He was alfo valet-de-chambre and chemid 
to John-George II. elector of Saxony, who entrufled him 
with the care of his famous and luperb laboratory at An-' 
naberg, near Wittemberg, on the Elbe. In 1679, he was 
invited to Berlin, by Frederic-William, elector of Bran¬ 
denburg, to be chemid to the court; and in this fituation 
he attained to great celebrity by his difcoveries, and par¬ 
ticularly by that of phofphorus from urine. The honour 
of this difcovery, however, has been difputed. Claude 
Commire, in a treatife on phofphorus, aflerts that Ferne- 
lius, firfl phyfician to Henry II. king of France, was the 
fird perfon who made dry phofphorus, a fpecimen of which 
he prefented to that prince at Boulogne, under the name 
of Indian-done. A profelfor of Wittemberg afcribes the 
invention to an Italian, named Caneparius; and Leibnitz 
maintains that the fecret of this difcovery was communi¬ 
cated both to Kunckel and Kraft, by Henry Brandt, a che¬ 
mid of Hamburgh. The claim of Kunckel, however, has 
been drongly fupported by various other authors, and par¬ 
ticularly by Kirchmayer. About 1693, Kunckel left Berlin, 
and repaired to Sweden, to which he was invited by. 
Charles XI. who conferred on him the title of counfellor 
of mines, and, at the fame time gave him letters patent of 
nobility, with the furname of Lowendein. He was defi¬ 
ed alfo a member of the Acad, curiof. Naturae in Germa* 
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ny ; but, having lod liis intimate friend Kirchmayer in 
1700, he furvived him only a very fhort time, and died in 
Sweden in 1702. His principal works are, 1. Utiles Ob- 
fervationes five Animadverfiones de Salibus fixis et vola- 
tilibus, Auro et Argento potabili, Spiritu rnundi, &c. 
London and Rot. 1678; but this is only a tranflation by 
C.A. Ramfay, the original having appeared in German at 
Hamburgh, in 1676, 8vo. 2. Obfervationes Chymicas, 
Lond. 1678, 8vo. tranflated by the fame as the preceding. 
3. Collegium Phyfico-Chymicum experimentale curiofum, 
Hamb. 1716, 8vo. in German ibid. 1722. 
KUN'DAL, a town of Bengal: twenty miles fouth-ead 
of Comillah. 
KUNDAL'LAH, a town of Hindoofian, in Dowlata- 
bad : ten miles ead-fouth-ead of Tooliapour. 
KUNDAWlL'SA, a town of Hindoofian, in Cicacole: 
twenty miles fouth-wed of Cicacole. 
KUN'DEH-BE'NEIK, or Druggists, a tribe of Hin¬ 
doos, compofed of perfons produced from a connexion 
between a bramin and a woman of the Bice cad. 
KUN'DERA, a town of Hindoofian : thirty-five miles 
wed of Poonah. 
KUND'HERPS, in Hindoo mythology, good fpirits, 
who perform their journeys on the horfe called Tajee. 
KUNDJ, a river of Turkifli Armenia, which runs into 
the Euphrates near Kundjeh. 
KUND'JEH, a town of Turkifli Armenia, on the Eu¬ 
phrates : fixty-five miles fouth of Erzerum. 
KUN'DING, a town of Bavaria, in the principality of 
Aichdatt, on the Altmuhl: five miles fouth-fouth-wed 
of Berngries. 
KUND'LITZ, a town of Bavaria, in the bithopric of 
Bamberg : two miles north-wed of Markt Schorgad. 
KUN'DORF, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Henneberg : three miles north-eafl of Meinungen. 
KUNDOZERSKA'IA, a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Archangel : 128 miles fouth of Kola. 
KUNDRUT'CHIA, a town of Ruffia, in the govern¬ 
ment of the Codies, on the Donetz: fixty-eight miles 
north-ead of Azoph. 
KU'NE, a river of France, which runs into the Mo- 
felle near Konifmaker. 
KUNGIPA'RA, a town of Hindoofian, in the fubah 
of Delhi: ten miles fouth-ead of Tannafar. 
KUNGS'BERG. See Konigsberg. 
KUN'GUR, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Perm, on the Silva : forty miles fouth of Perm. 
KU'NISFELD, a town of Swiflerland, in the county of 
Baden : four miles wed of Baden. 
KUNJU'RA, the name of a wandering tribe of dancers 
and conjurors in Hindoofian, more commonly called Nuts, 
and fometimes Bazce-gurs,- which fignifies jugglers or 
trickers. Of this people we have a curious account in the 
Afiatic Refearches, from the pen of Capt. Richardfon. 
They confid of feveral cads. In remarking on the refem- 
blance between them and the gypfeys of Europe, he takes 
occafion to corroborate the fyltem of Grellman, which re- 
prefents this latter erratic horde as of Hindooflanee ori¬ 
gin. See Gypsey, vol. viii. p. 579. The feet of Ba- 
zee-gurs, furniffies the dancing and tumbling,girls of In¬ 
dia. Scarcely any European is ignorant of the free and 
eafy manners of thefe ladies; but Mr. Rj. informs us that 
this circumflance proves no obdru6tion to their marriage ; 
that when they enter into that date they quit their pro- 
feffion ; and that it is expected of them at the fame time 
to lay afide their former habits, in which they mod gene¬ 
rally acquiefce. This people are in the upper parts of 
Hindoofian called Kunjura, which Mr. R. thinks is likely 
to have been the dock whence fprang our term conjurer , 
indead of the Latin word to which it is commonly traced. 
A people of the fame defeription with the Kunjura, whofe 
language is Hindoodanee, refide near Condantinople, and 
are called Cingarees. He admits that the verb juggle may 
have been formed from the word jug, and occafioned by 
the ufe which conjurors made of cups, jugs, and mugs, 
but he obferves that, in tire Hindoowee dialeeis, jug is ap~ 
