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rah hi, a cow fimilarly beautiful. 8. Dhanvantara, a phy- 
fician, or the god of phyfic. 9. Iravat, the elephant of 
Indra with three probofci. 10. Shank, a (hell conferring 
victory on any one who fhould found it. ix. Danulha, 
an unerring bow. 12. Bikh, poifon, or drugs. 13. Rhetn- 
ba, a beautiful woman, correfponding in many points 
with our popular Venus. 14. The Amrita, or beverage 
of immortality; which appears, though laft obtained, to 
have been the primary object of this churning procefs ; 
the other gems appear to have been obtained incidentally. 
KURMDY'A, a town of Bengal: fifty-five miles fouth- 
fouth-weff of Doefa. 
KUR'MISCH, a town of RufTia, in the government of 
Simbirfk : 104 miles north-weft of Simbirfk. 
KURMU KI, a town of the principality of Georgia: 
105 miles fouth-eaft of Teflis. 
KUR'MYK, a town of Rufiia, and diftrift of the go¬ 
vernment of Simbirfk, on the Sura : 104 miles north-weft 
of Simbirfk. 
KUR'NACH, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Danube two miles north-weft of Villingen. 
KUR'NU, a village near ancient Thebes. See the ar¬ 
ticle Egypt, vol. vi. p. 349. 
KUROPATNI'KI, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Ga¬ 
licia : forty-five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Lemberg. 
KUROSA'KI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo: 
twenty-feven miles north of Taifero. 
KUROW', a town of the duchy of Holftein: nine miles 
north-north-weft of Lubeck. 
KUR'RA, a river of Hindooftan, which runs into the 
Beema thirty-two miles north of Vifiapour. 
KURRAB A'GH, a town of Candahar, in theprovinceof 
Ghizni: twenty miles weft-fouth-weft of Ghizni, and 125 
eaft-north-eaft of Candahar. Lat, 33. 30. N. Ion. 67. 59. E. 
KURRABA'GH, a town of Candahar: fifteen miles 
north-weft of Cabul. 
KURRAVAU'T, a river of Hindooftan, which runs 
into the Cauvery nine miles north-eaft of Carroor. 
KURREGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Orifla: feven 
miles louth-eaft of Boad. 
KURRE'RA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Golmd : twelve miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Narwa. 
KURRIGCO'RA, a town of Bengal: forty-five miles 
fouth-fouth-weftof Doefa, and thirty-five fouth of Burwah. 
KURRY'A, a town of Bengal: thirty miles fouth-eaft 
of Palamow. 
KURSCHIN'NEN, a town of Pruflian Lithuania: eight 
miles fouth of Infterburg. 
KURSK, a town of Rufiia, and capital of a government 
to which it gives name, on the Sem : 240 miles fouth of 
Mofcow, and 544 fouth-fouth-eaft of Peterfburg. Lat. 
51. 40. N. Ion. 36. 24. E. 
KUR'SKOE, a government of Rufiia, bounded on the 
north by the government of Orel, on the eaft by the go¬ 
vernment of Voronez, on the fouth by Voronez and Char- 
kov, and on the weft by Tchernigov ; about xia miles 
from north to fouth, and generally 100 from eaft to weft; 
but a narrow part, about twelve miles wide, extends forty 
miles farther weft. Kurfk is the capital. 
KUR'SY, a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifh: forty- 
five miles fouth-weft of Burhanpour. 
KURSZA'NY, a town of Samogitia : eighteen miles 
north-north-eaft of Miedniki. 
KURTACULAC', a town of Afiatic Turkey'’, in Ala- 
dulia : twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Adana. 
KURTAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore: ten 
miles fouth of Jaliindar. 
KURT'CHI,yi An order of foldiery among the Per- 
fians. The word, in its original, fignifies army ; and is ap¬ 
plied to a body of cavalry, confifting of the nobility of the 
kingdom of Perfia, and the pofterity of thole conquerors 
who placed Ifmael Sophi on the throne. They are in 
number about eighteen thoufand men. Their commander 
is called kutchi bafchi, which was formerly the firft poll; in 
the kingdom 5 equivalent to coufiable in France. 
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KURTOWFANY, a town of Samogitia : fixteen miles 
eaft-north-eaft of Miedniki. 
KUR'TUS,/: in ichthyology, the Hunch-Back ; a ge¬ 
nus of jugular fifties, inftituted by Mark Eliezer Bloch, 
and now received into the Linnsean fyllem by Dr. Gmelin. 
Generic characters—Back greatly elevated ; body broad, 
carinated above and below’; two rays in the membrane of 
the gills. Bloch received the fpecimen from Muller, to 
whom it was fent from Tranquebar by Koenig. There i3 
only one fpecies, which is called 
Kurtus Indicus, the Indian hunch-back: the generic 
character therefore will form the fpecific. It has thirteen, 
rays in each pectoral fin, fix in each ventral, eighteen in 
the tail, and feventeen in the dorfal. The body is broad, 
fliort, thin, and inftead of fcales covered with lamellae of 
a filver-colour, which are lo arranged as to make the fifti 
appear to be covered with a filming plate of filver. The 
head is large, comprefled, and ends in a blunt point; the 
aperture of the mouth is large; the under jaw is longer" 
than the upper, and turns down at the end ; both are fur- 
nilhed with feveral rows of fmall teeth. The tongue is 
fliort and cartilaginous ; the palate fmootli. Inftead of a 
covering for the gills, there is a broad membrane which 
reaches to the pectoral fin, under which lies the branchial 
membrane or gill, the rays of which are fmall; the aper¬ 
ture of the gills is very large. Between the mouth and 
eyes are two round apertures. The eyes are large; pupil 
black, iris blue above and white below. The back be¬ 
gins to rife juft above the eyes ; it is of a gold, colour, 
with orange-coloured (pines. Near the dorfal fin are four 
black fpots. The lateral line does not begin behind the 
neck, as in other fifties, but beyond the pectoral fin, and 
goes in a ftraight direction to about the middle of the tail- 
fin. The belly' is fliort ; the anus not far from the head. 
The pebloral and ventral fins are of a gold-yellow, edged 
with red ; thofe of the back, anus, and tail, have a blue 
ground bordered with yellow. All the rays are foft and 
bifurcated, except the firft of the dorfal and ventral fins, 
and the two firft of the anal, which are Angle and fliarp- 
pointed. This filh inhabits the Indian feas, and lives on 
lliell-fifh and fmall crabs; its jaws, which are formed like 
a rafp, are fufliciently ftrong to mafticate the (hells. 
Length ten inches, including the tail; greateft breadth 
fomething more than four. It is very faithfully repre- 
fented on the annexed Plate. 
KU'RU, a town of Sweden, in the government of Abo; 
fixty-three miles eaft-north-eaft of Biorneborg. 
KURU', in Hindoo mythology, was the brother of 
Pandu, who was the father of the five heroes of the Ma- 
habarat. Kuru had a hundred fons, whofe contefts with 
the Pandus are the fubjeft of a poem, which is a continued 
allegory of the ftruggles between man’s virtues and vices, 
perionified in the offspring of the brothers. 
KURU'ME, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Ximo ; 
fixteen miles eaft-north-eaft of Ikua. 
KU'RUNLUK-DEN'ZY, the Ocean of Gloom. The 
Turkifh term for the Atlantic Ocean. 
KURY'MA, a town of Hungary : twelve miles north- 
eaft of Szeben. 
KU'SA, or Cusa ,f. in botany, the fpecies of grafs ef- 
teemed by the Hindoos (acred and myftical, and ufed by 
the Brahmins in many of their facred or fuperftitious ce¬ 
remonies. See the article Hindoostan, vol. x. p. 140, 
141. and Poa cynofuroides. 
KUSA'MO, a town of Sweden, in the government of 
Ulea: eighty-five miles eaft of Tornea, and eighty-five 
north-eaft of Uiea. 
KUS'BAH, a town of Hindooftan, In Benares: twenty- 
two miles weft-north-weft of Benares. 
KUS'CAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Segef- 
tan : twenty-one miles north-eaft of Kin. 
KUSCA'RI, a town of Mingrelia : thirty miles north- 
north-eaft of Anarghia. 
KUS'CHAIL, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Tobollk; twenty.eight miles fouth of Tomfk. 
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