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Dr. Pocock fuppofes about the fourth or fifth century. 
It is thirty-five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Aleppo. 
KU'PINATZ, a town of Croatia: fourteen miles eaft 
of Carlftadt. 
KUPISZ'KI, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate of 
Troki: thirty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Birza. 
KUPLIAGHI'SI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Nato- 
lia : fixteen miles fouth of Sinob. 
KUP'PENKEIM, a town of the grand duchy of Baden. 
In July 1796, it was taken by the French: three miles 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Raftadt, and twenty-two north-eaft of 
Stralburg. 
KUPPORF/AH, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Sirhind : fifty miles fouth-weft of Sirhind. 
KU'PRI, a river of Natolia, which runs into the gulf 
of Satalia in lat. 36. 59. N. Ion. 37. E. 
KUPRIBAZA'RI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Ca- 
ramania: fix miles weft of Satalia. 
KUPS, a town of Bavaria, in the bilhopric of Bamberg: 
three miles weft of Cronach. 
KUPSIN'GA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Gangpour: ten miles fouth-fouth-weft of Gangpour. 
KUR, a river of Afia, which riles in Armenia, paffes 
through Georgia, the province of Schirvan, &c. and runs 
into the Cafpian Sea fe venty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bak u. 
KU'RA, a fmall ifland in the Cafpian Sea. The land 
Is not high, but the Ihores are Iteep all round. Lat. 39. N. 
KU'RAB. See Kesker. 
KURABAD', a town of Candahar: eight miles weft of 
Attock. 
KURAG'GI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
forty-five miles north-north-eaft of Jeddo. 
KURATI'JA, a town of Egypt: four miles north-weft 
of Cairo. 
KURA'MO. See Karan. 
KUR'BITZ, a town of Saxony, in the Vogtland : three 
miles fouth of Plauen. 
KU'REH, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia: thir¬ 
ty-four miles weft of Sinob. 
KURDIUKOV', a fortrefs of Ruflia, in the government 
of Caucafus, on the Malva : twenty-eight miles weft of 
Kizliar. 
KUR'DIUM, a town of Rulfia, in the government of 
Saratov, on the Volga : fixteen miles north-north-eaft of 
Saratov. 
KUREE'K, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : ten 
miles weft-north-well of Gujnrat. 
KUREN'K, a river of Perfia, which rifes in the north 
part of Mecran, and runs into the Arabian Gulf thirty 
miles weft of Tiiz. 
KUREN'KA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 
Enilei fifty-two miles north of Turuchanlk. 
KURFEKIAN'. See Khorfakan. 
KUR'GAN, a town of Ruflia, in the government of 
Tobollk, on the Tobol: fixty-eight miles fouth-weft of 
Yalutorovlk. 
KUR'GAN, a river of Afia, which rifes in the Perfian 
province of Chorafan, and runs into the Cafpian Sea to 
the weft of Aftarabat. 
KURGANSKA'IA, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tobollk, on the Irtifch : ten miles eaft of Tara. 
KU'RIAT, a town of Arabia, in the country of Oman, 
fituated at the mouth of a river of the fame name, which 
runs into the Arabian Sea a little to the fouth of Cape 
Kuriah : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Mufcat. 
KU'RIAT, or Ras Kuriat, a cape on the coaft of 
Arabia. Lat. 23. 27. Ion. 57. 50. E. 
KUR'JAUN, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Gohud : twenty-five miles fouth-weft of Gwalior. 
KURIK'KA, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Wafa : thirty-fix miies north-eaft of Chriftineftadt. 
KURI'LA, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Bothnia: twenty 
miles fouth-weft of Braheftad. 
KU'RILAUT, a town of Charafm : fixty miles fouth- 
fouth-eaft of Urkonje. 
KUR 
KU'RILE I'SLANDS, a chain of iflands in the North’ 
Pacific Ocean, extending from the foutliern extremity 
of Kamtfchatka to Japan, difcovered by the Ruffians in 
the year 1718, and valuable principally for the furs, par¬ 
ticularly of the fea-otter, which are found there. Of 
twenty-one iflands belonging to Ruflia, only four are in¬ 
habited, and their population is eftimated at moft at 140a 
fouls. The inhabitants are very hairy, wear long beards, 
and live entirely upon feals, filh, and the produce of the 
chace. They are good, hofpitable, and docile; and have 
all embraced the Chriftian religion. At the time when 
Peroufe vifited this ifland, the people were exempted for 
ten years from the tribute paid to the emperor of Ruflia, 
becaufe the number of otters was greatly diminifhed ; a 
pleating proof of the mildnefs of that government, which 
has been fo often reprefented as rigidly defpotic. The 
more fouthern and independent ifla'nders fometimes pafs in 
canoes the channel that feparates them from the Ruffian 
Kuriles, in order to give fome of the commodities of Ja¬ 
pan in exchange for peltries. They extend from lat. 42. 
to 51. N. 
KURISON'DA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Carama- 
nia : fixty miles north-north-eaft of Tocat. 
KURISSI'MA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Xico- 
co : fixteen miles weft of Ijo. 
KURK, a town of Candahar: twenty-five miles eaft of 
Cabul. 
KUR'KES, a river of Perfia, which joins the Kurenk 
near its mouth. 
KUR'KIN, a town of Bengal: eleven miles north-eaft 
of Ramgur. 
KURKUM'BA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ruttunpour: thirty-two miles eaft of Ruttunpour. 
KURKU'NA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Surgooja : twenty-five miles north-eaft of Surgooja. 
KURK'STAT, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Nyland : eighteen miles weft of Hellingfors. 
KUR'MA, a town of Africa, in Dar-Fur: twelve miles 
well: of Cobbe. 
KURMAVATA'RA, in Hindoo mythology, the fe- 
cond of the ten incarnations of the Hindoo god Viflinu, 
(fee vol. x. p. J17.) of which the following account is 
given in the Hindoo Pantheon. “The lecond grand ava- 
tara of Vifirnu, in the form of a tortoife, evidently refers 
alio to the deluge. In that of Matfya, or the filh, we 
find the neceflity of a deluge to cleanle the world from its 
linful taints. By the demon Hyagriva having ftolen the 
Vedas while Brahma was dozing, we mult underftand 
the dereliction of mankind from the doftrines and con¬ 
duct prefcribed in the fcriptures, and the criminal indif¬ 
ference of their pallors. The preferving attribute of the 
deity interpofed, faved a remnant of creatures from de- 
ftruflion, and, by recovering the fcriptures, reclaimed 
mankind to purity of faith and conduct. For the purpofe 
of reltoring to man fome of the comforts and conveniences 
that were loft in the flood, Viflinu is fabled to have become 
incarnate again in the form of a tortoife; in which lhape 
he fultained the mountain Mandara placed on his back to 
ferve as an axis, whereon the gods and demons, the vaft 
ferpent Vafoky ferving as a rope, churned the ocean for 
the recovery of the amrita, or beverage of immortality.” 
Karma , or koorma, is the Sanfcrit appellation of the ava- 
tara. Among the Mahrattas, and others in the we Item 
parts of India, it is more commonly called katck, that 
word, or katchiva , meaning, like kurma, a tortoife or tur¬ 
tle. The refult of the operation, in view to which the 
incarnation appears to have occurred, was obtaining from 
the churned ocean fourteen articles, called the fourteen 
gems, or chaterdeja-ratana ; in common language chazvda- 
ratny ; thus enumerated: 1. The Moon> Chandra or So¬ 
ma. 2. Sri, or Lechemy, the goddefs of fortune and beau¬ 
ty. 3. Sura, wine ; or Suradevi, the goddefs of wine. 
4. Oochifrava, an eight-headed horfe. 5. Kultubha, a 
jewel of ineftimable value. 6. Paryata or Pariyata, a tree 
that fpontaneouily yielded every thing defired. 7. Su- 
rabhi. 
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