being alfassinated by one of his generals, in league nervous complaints: and our author relates fome with bis nephew and succeflor, in 1747, aged very striking cases which the use of it had com60. See INDIA, Ø 12 and 13; and Persia. pletely cured. All those who drank it agreed in

KOUMISS, a fort of wine made in Tartary, saying, that during its ufe, they had little appewhere it is used by the natives as their common tite for food ; that they drank it in very large beverage during the season of it, and often serves quantities, not only without disgust, but with them instead of all other food. It is said to be fo pleasure ; that it rendered their veins turgid, with. nourishing and falutary, that the Baschkir Tar- out producing languor; that, on the contrary, tars, who, towards the end of winter, are much they loon acquired from it an uncommon degree emaciated, no sooner return in summer to the use of iprightlinefs and vivacity ; that even in cases of of koumiss, than they become strong and fat. some excess it was not followed by indigeftion, From the Tartars it bas been borrowed by the headach, or any of the symptoms which usually Ruffians, who use it medicinally. It is made with attend the abuse of other fermented liquors. The fermented mares milk, aceording to the following utility, however, of this preparation as a medirecipe communicated by Dr Grieve in the Edin. cine, supposing it completely ascertained, would, Phil. Trans. (Vol. I. p. 181.) as he obtained it among us, as our author observes, be greatly cirfrom a Ruflian nobleman, who went into that cumscribed by the scarcity of mares milk in this part of Tartary where it is made, for the sake of country. Di Pallas says, that cows is also sus. using it medicinally, “ Take of fresh mares milli, ceptible of the vinous fermentation, and that the on one day, any quantity; add to it a fixth part Tartars prepare a wine from it in winter, when of water, and pour the mixture into a wooden mares milk fails them; that the wine prepared vesel; use ther, as a ferment, an 8th part of the from cows milk, they call airen; but that they soures cows milk that can be got; but at any always prefer koumiss when it can be got, as it is future preparation, a small portion of old koumiss more agreeable, and contains a greater quantity will better answer the purpose of souring ; cover of spirit ; that koumiss on distillation yields of a the vessel with a thick cloth, and set it in a place weak spirit one third, but that airen yields only of moderate warmth; leave it at rest 24 hours, at two gths of its whole quantity, which fpirit they the end of which time the milk will have become call árika. This account is confirmed by Oscret. four, and a thick substance will be gathered on ikowsky, a Russian, who accompanied Lepechin the top; then with a stick, made at the lower end and other academicians in their travels through in the manner of a churn-staff, beat it till the thick Siberia and Tartary. He published lately a dissubstance above mentioned be blended intimately sertation on the ardent spirit to be obtained from with the subjacent fluiderit In this situation leave cows milk. From his experiments it appeass, it again at rest for 24 hours more ; after which that cows milk may be fermented with, or event pour it into a higher and narrower verlel, resem- without fouring, provided sufficient time and bling a churn where the agitation must be repeat- agitation be employed ; that no spirit could be proed as before, till the liquor appear to be perfectly duced from any one of its conftituent parts taken homogeneous; and in this state it is called koumiss, separately, nor from any two of them, unless in. of which the taste ought to be a pleasant mixture asmuch as they were mixed with some part of the of sweet and four. Agitation must be employed third ; that the milk with all its parts in their naevery time before it be used.” Dr Grieve has add. tural proportion was the most productive of it; ed fome particulars, taken from other communi. that the closer it was kept, or, which is the cations, with which he was favoured by Tartars same thing, the more difficultly the fixed air is themselves. To prevent changing the vessel, the allowed to escape during the fermentation (care milk may be put at once into

a pretty high and being taken, however, that we do not endanger narrow vefiel; and to accelerate the fermentation, the buriting of the veflel), the more fpirit is obsome warm milk may be added to it, and more tained. He also informs us, that it had a fourer touring. The process may be thortened by heat- finell before than after agitation; that the quantiing the milk before the fouring be added to it, ty of spirit was increased by allowing the ferand as foon as the parts begin to separate, and a mented liquor to repose for fome time before dis. thick substance to rise to the top, by agitating it tillation ; ibat from fix pints of milk, fermented every hour or oftener. In this way a Tartar made in a close veslel, and thus set to repofe, be obtainfome in the Doctor's presence, in the space of 12 ed three ounces of ardent spirit, of which one hours. He learned also, that it was common was consumed in burning ; but that from the same among fome Tartars to prepare it in one day du- quantity of the fame milk fermented in an open ring fummer, and that with only two or three vessel, he could scarcely obtain an ounce." agitations. And though it is commonly used with- KOUN, a town of Austria, s mile N. of Egin a few days after the preparation, yet when well genburg. locured in clofe vessels, and kept in a cold place, KOUS, a town of Egypt, on the E. coast of it may be preserved for three months, or more, the Nile, 45 miles NNE. of Afna. without any injury to its qualities. He was told KOWETAS. See COWETAS. farther, that the acid fermentatiou might be pro- KOWNO, a town of Lithuania, on the Wilna duced by four milk, as above, by a four paste of and Niemen ; 40 miles W. of Wilna. rye.flower, by the rennet of a lamb's ftomach, or KOZLE, a town of Siieba, in Oppeln, on the by a portion of old koumiss. It was according Oder, 32 miles ESE. of Neils. to the process first mentioned, however, that all (1.) KRAINBURG, a town of Bavaria, on the the koumiss which the Doctor employed in medi. Inn, 35 miles E. of Munich. cine was prepared. It is serviceable in hectics and (2.) KRAINBURG, in Auftria. See CRAIN.

KRAINOWITZ,

though the weather was perfectly calm; the mon fter never appearing at other times. His excrement is faid to be attractive of other fish, on which he feeds; which was probably neceffary, on account of his flow unwieldy motion, to his fubfiftence; as this flow motion again may be neceffary to the fecurity of fhips of the greatest force and burden, which must be overwhelmed on encountering fuch an immenfe animal, if his velocity were equal to his weight; the Norwegians fuppofing, that if his arms, on which he moves, and with which he takes his food, were to lay hold of the largest man of war, they would pull it down to the bottom. In confirmation of the reality of this animal, our learned author cites Debes's Defeription of Faroe, for the existence of certain islands which fuddenly appear, and as fuddenly vanish. Many feafaring people, he adds, give accounts of fuch, particularly in the north fea. Dr Hierne, a learned Swede, quotes from Baron Grippenhielm the following remarkable paffage: "Among the rocks about Stockholm, there is sometimes feen a tract of land, which at other times difappears, and is feen again in another place. Buræus has placed it as an island in his map. The peasants, who call it gummars ore, fay that it is not always feen, but that it lies out in the open fea, but I could never find it. One Sunday, when I was out amongst the rocks founding the coaft, it hap. pened, that in one place I faw fomething like three points of land in the fea, which furprised me a little, and I thought I had inadvertently passed them over before. Upon this I called to a peasant, to enquire for gummars ore; but when he came, we could fee nothing of it: upon which the peasant faid all was well, and that this prognofticated a form, or a great quantity of fifh." To which our author fubjoins," who cannot difcover that this gummars ore, with its points and prognostications of fish, was the kraken, mistaken by Buræus for an ifland, who may keep himfelf about that fpot where he rifes?" He takes the kraken, doubtlefs, from his numerous tentaculi, which serve him as feet, to be of the polype kind; and the contemplation of its enormous bulk led him to adapt a paffage from Ecclefiafticus xliii. 31, 32, to it. Whether by it may be intended the dragon that is in the fea, mentioned Ifaiah xxvii. 1, we refer to the conjecture of the reader. After paying but a juft respect to the moral character, the reverend function, and diligent investigations of our author, we muft admit the poffibility of its existence, as it implies no contradiction; though every thing faid about it appears very incredible. His thicknefs has been estimated at 300 feet; his breadth at 26c0 feet." But fome argue, that these im. menfe dimenfions are no conclufive argument against the exiftence of the kraken, though it doubtlefs is ftrong against a numerous propagation of it. In fact, the great scarcity of the kraken, his confinement to the north fea, and perhaps to equal latitudes in the fouth; the fmall number pro pagated by the whale, who is viviparous; and by the largest land animals, of whom the elephant is faid to go near two years with young; all induce us to conclude, from analogy, that this creature is not numerous; which coincides with a paflage in a MS. afcribed to Swen king of Norway, as cited

KRAINOWITZ, a town of Upper Silefia. KRAKEN, in zoology, a moft amazing large fea animal, faid to be feemingly of a crab-like form; the credit of whofe exiftence refts upon the evidence produced by Bishop Pontoppidan, in his Natural History of Norway. As a full grown kraken (fays he) has never been feen in all its parts and dimenfions, an accurate furvey of which muft employ fome time, and not a little motion, it is impoffible to give a complete defcription of one. Nevertheless, we all fubmit the probability of its exiftence, on the beft information our author could collect, which feems to have fixed his own belief of it; though at the fame time he acknowledges the account is very defective, and fuppofes a farther information concerning the creature may be referved for pofterity. Our fishermen unanimously and invariably affirm, that when they are feveral miles from the land, particulary in the hot fummer days, and by their diftance, and the bearings of fome points of land, expect from 80 to 100 fathoms depth, and do not find but from 20 to 30; more especially if they find a more than ufual plenty of cod and ling, they judge that the kraken is at the bottom; but if they find by their lines that the water in the fame place ftill fhallows on them, they know he is rifing to the furface, and Tow off with the greateft expedition till they come into the ufual foundings of the place; when, lying on their oars, in a few minutes the monfter emerges, and fhows himself fufficiently, though his whole body does not appear. Its back or upper part, which feems an English mile and a half in circumference (fome have affirmed more), looks at firft like a number of small iflands, furrounded with fomething that floats like fea-weeds; at last feveral bright points of horns appear, which grow thicker the higher they emerge, and fometimes ftand up as high and large as the mafts of middle-' fized veffels. In a fort time it slowly fiuks, which is thought as dangerous as its rifing; as it caufes fuch a fwell and whirlpool as draws every thing down with it, like that of Maleftrom. The bishop intly regrets the omiffion of probably the only opportunity that ever has or may be prefented, of furveying it alive, or feeing it entire when dead. This, he informs us, once did occur, on the credit of the reverend Mr Friis, minifter at Norland, and vicar of the college for promoting Chriftian knowledge; who informed him, that in 1680, a kraken 'perhaps a young and careless one, as they generally keep feveral leagues from land) came into the waters that run between the rocks and cliffs Bear Alftahoug; where, in turning about, fome of its long horns caught hold of fome adjoining trees, which it might easily have torn up, but that it was alfo entangled in fome cliffs of the rocks, whence it could not extricate itself, but putrefied on the spot. Our author has heard of no perfon destroyed by this monster, but relates a report of the danger of two fishermen, who came upon a part of the water full of the creature's thick flimy excrements (which he voids for fome months, as he feeds for fome other); they immediately ftrove to row off, but were not quick enough in turning to fave the boat from one of the kraken's horns, which fo crushed the head of it, that it was with difficulty they faved their lives on the wreck,

by

by Olaus Wormius, in his Museum, p. 280, in the dep. of Mont Tonnere. The town Mes 38 Latin, thus translated : “There remains one kind miles WSW.of Deux Ponts. which they call hasgufe, whose magnitude is un- KRIMPE, a town of Holland, in the dep. of known, as it is seldom feen. Those who affirm Delft, and late prov. of Holland, on the Merwe; they have seen its body, declare, it is more like 6 miles E. of Rotterdam. an island than a beaft, and that its carcase was ne- KREPELIEN, a town of Mecklenburg. ver found ; whence fome imagine there are but KRONA, a town of the Italian republic, in the two of the kind in nature.” Whether the vanish. dep. of the Mincio. ing isand Lemair, of which Captain Rodney went KRONAS, a town of Germany, in Austria. in search, was a kraken, we submit to the fancy

, or KRONENBURG, See Cro. of our readers. In fine, if the existence of the

KRONBURG; } VERBORG, N° 1,;. creature is admitted, it will seem a fair inference, KRONENBERG, a town of the Batavian re. that he is the scarceft as well as largest in our public, in the dep. of Amstel, and late prov. of world. But the existence of that huge land ani- Utrecht; 10 miles N. of Utrecht. mal the mammuth appears equally incredible, KRONSEY, a town of Austria, 6 miles NW. yet it is certain that bones of a carnivorous animal of Krems. vastly larger than the elephant, have been found in KRONSTADT. See CRONSTADT, N° 2. various parts of N. America. See MAMMOTH. KROPPA, a town of Sweden, in Warmeland. Within these 15 years, fome Dundee sailors who KROPPENSTADT, a town of Lower Saxony. had been on a voyage in the North Sea, made an KROTTENDORF, a town of Upper Saxony. affidavit before the magiftrates, that they had seen KROUTE, CROUTE, or Sour CROUTE, a kraken, of Worm, as they called it, which they (Germ. Sauer Kraut, i. e. four berb. a preparation took at first for an island. Their affidavit was of cabbage, which has been found of sovereign effiprinted in the newspapers.

cacy as a preservative in Jong voyages from the KRAKO, a town of Sweden, in Upland. fea-scurvy. The process for making it is this: KRANACH, a river of Germany, in Stiria. The foundeft and moft solid cabbages are selected,

KRANTZIUS, Albertus, a native of Ham. and cut crosswife very small, with a knife or an burgh, and a famous historian, who travelled over instrument made for the purpose, like that used feveral parts of Europe, and was made rector of for slicing cucumbers. The cabbage thus sliced is the university of Roftoch in 1482. He went thence put into a barrel in layers, hand high, and over to Hamburgh in 1508, where he was elected dean each is strewed a handful of salt and carraway of the chapter in the cathedral. He did much feeds; in this manner it is rammed down with a good to that church and city; and was so famed rammer till the barrel be full, when a cover is for his abilities and prudence, that John king of put over it, and pressed down with a heavy weight. Denmark, and Frederic duke of Holstein, made After standing some time in this ftate, it begins to him umpire in a dispute they had with the Dit- ferment; and when the fermentation has entirely marfi. He wrote several good historical works, fubfided, the head is fitted to it, and the barrel is particularly an Ecclefiaftical History of Saxony, finally shut up and preserved for use. There is entitled Metropolis, in folio; the best edition is not a drop of vinegar employed. that of Francfort. He died in 1517.

KROZE, a town of Samogitia. KRAUT. See KROUTE.

KROSINA, a river of Poland, which joins the KRAZAU, a town of Bohemia, in Boleslau. Bug. KREBES, a town of Saxony, in Vogtland. KRUMAU, a town of Moravia, in Znaym.

KREMNITZ, or CREMNITZ, a town of Hun. KRUMLAU, orCRUMLAU, a town of Bohemia. gary, on the side of a hill, famous for its tilver KRUTSWITZA,atówn of Poland, in the Pal.of mines; 1oo miles E. of Vienna.

Brzelk, memorable for being the birthplace of KREMPE, or ( a town of Holstein, seated on Piast, who, from being a private citizen, waselect

KREMPEN, S a rivulet which runs into the ed king of Poland A. D. 842. It is 28 miles W. Stoer: 4 miles N. of Gluckstadt, and 27 NW. of of Brzesk. Hamburg

KRYLOW, a town of Poland, in Kiof. (1.) KREMS, or CREMS, a town of Austria, KRZEMIEN, a town of Poland, in Bielik. seated on the Danube, 23 miles SW. of Znaym, KU, a town of China, in the prov. of Se-tchuen. and 32 WNW. of Vienna. Lon. 33.27. E. Ferro. KUAN, a town of Perfia, in Farlitan. Lat. 48. 25. N.

(1.) KUARA, a province of Abyffinia, S.of Dem (2.) KREMS, a river of Austria, that runs into bea, bordering on that of the Shangalla, the MAthe Danube, near the above town.

CROBII of the ancients. The neighbouring counKREUSBACH, two towns of Germany, in tries, inhabited by the pagan savages, produce KREUTZEN, ) Auftria.

gold, which is introduced in plenty into this pro: KREUTZNACH. See CREUTZNACH. This vince, but none is produced in the province ittown was taken by the French in O&. 1794. By the self. In the lower part in this country is a colony laft division of the territories on the left bank of the of pagan blacks, named Ganjar, derived from the Rbine into 4 departments, in June 1801, it appears black Naves who came with the Arabs after the to be now included in the dep. of Mont Tonnere. invasion of Mahomet. These, deserting their mal

KREYSCHA, a town of Saxony, near Torgau. ters, formed this colony, but it is more increased

KRICHLINGEN, or Creange, a town and by emigrants from other parts than by the multilate county of Germany, in the circle of the Upper plication of the inhabitants. The governor is one Rbine, now annexed to France, and included in of the great officers of ftate; he has kettle-drums

of

of filver, which he is allowed to beat through the with otters, and the land with bears and foxes ; streets of Gondar; a privilege allowed to none and some of the illes fheltered the fable : temptelle, conferred upon the first governor by David II. ations sufficient for the Russians to invade these who conquered the country,

islands; but the rage after tbe furs of the sea ot(2.) Kvara, in botany. See ETHIOPIA, \ 68. ters has been so great, that they are become ex

KUBELBERG, a town of Germany, in the Pa- tremely scarce both here and in Kamtschatka. latinate of the Rhine, now included in the French KURKI. See Ardea, II. N° 12. empire, and dep. of Mont Tonnere, 11 miles (1.) KURRA, a river of Hindooftan. NNW. of Deux Ponts.

(2.) KURRA. See ARABIANS, Ø 16. KUBESHA. See LESGUIS,

KUSEL, or a town of Germany, in the ci-deKUFFSTEIN, a town of Tirol, on the Inn. KUSSEL, J vant duchy of Deyx Ponts; now

KUHNIUS, Joachim, a learned German critic, included in the French empire, and dep. of Mont born at Gripswalde in Pomerania, io 1649He was, Tonnere; 18 miles N. of Deux Ponts, and 9 SSW. in 1669, made principal of the college at Oettingen of Lauterek. in Suabia; in 1676, Greek professor in the col. KUSSNACHT, a town of Switzerland, capilege at Strasburg; and ten years thereafter Greek tal of the late bailiwic so named, in the canton and Hebrew professor. His uncommon skill in of Schwitz ; near which is a chapel, erected on the Greek language attracted a great number of the spot, where the celebrated patriot William scholars from very diftant places; and he publish. Tell New the Austrian governor, and gave rise to ed fome claffic authors with very learned notes ex- the revolution whereby the Swiss republic was planatory and critical. He died in 1697.

established. KUNATIR. See KURILES.

KUSTER, Ludolf, a very learned writer in the KUNCKEL, John, a celebrated Saxon chemift, 18th century, born at Blomberg in Westphalia. born in Sleswick, in 1630. He became chemift to When very young, he was recommended by bathe elector of Saxony, the elector of Bandenburgh, ron Spanheim as tutor to the two sons of the count and Charles XI. king of Sweden, who gave him the de Schwerin, prime minister to the king of Prof. title of counsellor in metals, and letters of nobility, sia, who, upon our author's quitting that ftation, with the surname of Louwensleing. He employed procured him a pension of 400 livres. He was 50 years in chemistry ; in wbich, by the help of promised a professorship in the university of Joathe furnace of a glass-house which he had under chim; and till this hould be vacant, being then his care, he made several excellent discoveries, but 25, he resolved to travel. He read lectures particularly of the phosphorus of urine. He died at Utrecht; went to England, and thence to in Sweden in 1702; and left several works, some France, where he collated Suidas with three in German, and others in Latin: among which, MSS. in the king's library, which furnished him that entitled Observationes Chemicæ, and the “ Art with many fragments never before published. He of making Glass,” printed at Paris in 1752, are the was made LL.D. by the university of Cambridge, moft esteemed.

who made him several advantageous offers to conKUNERSDORF, a town of Saxony, in Bran. tinue there ; but he was called to Berlin, where denburg, where Frederick the Great of Prussia he was installed in the professorship promised him. was defeated by the Russians in 1759. It is 24 Afterward he wentto Antwerp; and being brought miles ENE. of Francfort on the Oder.

over to the Catholic religion, he abjured that of KUNISFELD, a town of the Helvetic republic, the Protestants. The king of France rewarded 4 miles W. of Baden.

him with a pension, and ordered him to be admit. KUPFENBERG, 2 towns of Franconia. ted supernumerary associate of the academy of in. KUPPENHEIM, a town of Suabia, in Baden; scriptions. But he did not enjoy this new settle3 miles SSE. of Rattadt, and 22 NE. of Strasburg. ment long; for he died in 1916, aged 46. He It was taken by the French in July 1796.

was a great master of the Latin tongue, but chiefly KUR, or CUR. See CYRUS, N° 3.

excelled in the Greek language, to which he al KURCISTAN. See GEORGIA, N° I. $1. most entirely devoted himself. He wrote many KURIL, Isles, a series of islands, ex- works; the principal of which are, 1. Hiftoria cria KURILE, or tending from N. Lat. sroto tica Homeri. 2. Jomblicus de vita Pythagora. 3.

KURISKLI, ) 45°, and which probably once An excellent edition of Suidas, in Greek and Lalengthened the peninsula of KAMTSCHATKA be. tin, 3 vol. fol.' 4. Aristophanes, Gr. and Lat. fore they were convulsed from it. They run S. fol. s. A new Greek edition of the New Testafrom thelow promontory LOPATRA,between which ment, with Dr Mills's Variations, in folio. and SOOMSKA, the most northerly, is only the dif- KUSTRIN, or CUSTRIN, a strong town of tance of one league. On the lofty PARAMOUSER, Brandenburg, in a marsh surrounded by the Oder, the ad in the chain, is a high peaked mountain, 48 miles E. of Berlin. It was burnt by the Rur. probably volcanic, and on the 4th, called Arau- fians in 1758, but since rebuilt, on a regular plan. makutan, is another volcano. On Uruss there is Lon. 14. 40. E. Lat. 52. 36. N. another ; on Storgu there are two; and on Ku- KUTATIS, or Cotatis, a fortified city of KATIR, or Kaunachir, there is one. These three Afia, the capital of Imeritia, on the Riona, conmake part of the group which pafs under the name taining a palace and 200 houses. In 1770

it was of the land of Jeso. Japan abounds with volca- taken by the Rullians, who mafsacred the Turkifh noes; so that there is a series of spiracles from garrison. Kamtschatka to Japan, the last great link of this KUTTING, a town of France, in the dep. of extenfive chain.-The Ruffians soon annexed these Meurthe, 44 miles N. of Dieuze. islands to their conquests. The sea abounded KUYAMETA. See CERTHIA, N° 1.

KUYNDER, KUYNDER, a town, fort, and river of the KYNETON. See KINETON. Batavian republic, in the dep. of the Eems, and KYPHONISM, > or Cyphorifmus, an ancient late prov. of Friesland. The town is feated on the KYPHONISMUS, 3 punishment frequently unZuyder Zee, at the mouth of the river, 23 miles dergone by the primitive martyrs; wherein the S. of Leewarden. . Lon.s.53. E. Lat. 52. 50. N. body of the person was anointed with honey, and

KYBURG, a town and late county of the Hel- so exposed to the sun, that the flies and walps vetic republic, in Zurich.

might be tempted to torment him. This was KYD, Thomas, an English writer in the reign performed in three ways; sometimes they tied of Q. Eliz. who, in 1595, published a play entitled 'the patient to a stake;' sometimes they hoisted Pompey the Great, from the French of Garnier. him up into the air, and suspended him in a bas

To Kyd. v. n. (corrupted probably from cud, ket; and sometimes they stretched him out on the Saxon.] To know.

ground with his hands tied behind him. The But ah, unjust and worthless Colin Clout, word comes from xupov, which lignifies either the That kydst the hidden kinds of many a weed; fake to which the patient was tied, the collar fit

Yet kydĩ not one to cure thy sore heart root, ted to his neck, or an instrument wherewith they Whose rankling wound as yet doth rifely bleed. tormented him. The scholiaft on Ariftophanes

Spenser. fays, it was a wooden lock or cage, and that it KYDERMINSTER. See KIDDERMINSTER. was To called from xurletv, to erook, or bend, because (1.) KYL, a town of Sweden, in Nericia. it kept the tortured in a crooked bending pol. (2.) Kyl, a town of Sweden, in Warmeland. ture; others take it for a log of wood laid over

KYLBURG, a town of Germany, in the late the criminal's head, to prevent his standing up'electorate of Treves, on the Kyll; now included right. Hesychius describes the xupar as a piece of in the French empire, and dep. of the Rhine and wood whereon criminals were stretched and tor. Moselle ; 13 miles NW. of Treves, and 26 NNE. mented. Saidas gives us the fragment of an anof Luxemburg.

cient law, which punished those who contemned KYLL, a river of France, which runs into the the laws with kyphonism for 20 days; after which Moselle, 's miles below Treves.

they were to be precipitated from a rock, drelled KYLLINGA, in botany, a genus of the mono- in women's habit. gynia order, in the triandria

class of plants. KYRLE, John, the beneficent Man of Ro's, KYNASTON, John, A.B. an English divine, immortalized by Pope, was born in 1634. He born at Chester in 1728, and educated at Oxford, had but a small estate in Herefordshire, and yet, of which he was elected fellow, June 4th, 1752. out of that narrow income, actually performed all He acquired great reputation by an oration en- the a&ts of humanity recorded by that excellent titled, De impietate C. Cornelio Tacito falso objetla- poet. He died in 1724, aged 99. 'ta, oratio, &c. Oxon. 1761. He took an active KYRNOS, the ancient name of CORSICA. part in the trial of the notorious parricide, Miss KYSSEL, a river of Germany, in Suabia. Blandy; and published some other pieces. He died KYTZBIEHL, or / a town of Tirol, 45 miles în June 1783, in consequence of a broken arm.

KYTZBUHL, } NE. of Inspruck.

L

L Α Α ) A liquid consonant, which preserves III. As an ABBREVIATION, L ftands for Lucius in the Saxon it was aspirated a blaf, loaf; blæfdig, deeds, charters, &c. for locus figilli, the place of the lady. At the end of a monosyllable it is always seal; and L. L. S.for a sejterce. See SESTERCE,N° 2. doubled ; as, Mall, still, full, except after a diph- (1.) * LA. interje&t. (corrupted by an effeminate thong; as, fail, toel, veal, cool. In a word of pronunciation from lo; unless it be the French la.] more fyllables it is written single; as, channel, ca- See; look; behold. nal, tendril. It is sometimes put before e, and La you! if you speak ill of the devil, founded feebly after it; as, bible, title.

How he takes it at heart. Shak. I'welfth Nighi. (2.) L is used, 1. as a letter; 2. as a numeral ; (2.) LA, in music, the fyllable by which Guido and, 3. as an abbreviation.' I. As a LETTER, L denotes the last sound of each hexachord; if it be is the sith of the alphabet, and the 8th consonant. gins in C, it answers to our A; if in G, to E ; &c. It was derived from the old Hebrew Lamed, 5, or LAA, a town of Austria, 4 m. S. of Vienoa. Greek Lambda, 'd. It is founded by intercepting LAAB, a town of Austria, on the Taya, famous the breath between the top of the tongue and fore for a battle fought, 1278, between the emp. Repart of the palate, with the mouth open ; and dolphus and Ottocar king of Bohemia, in which makes a sweet sound, with something of an aspi- the latter was Nain. In 1645, it was taken by the ration; and therefore the Britong and Spaniards Swedes. It is 12 miles ESE. of Zoaim, and usually doubled it, or added an h to it, in the be- 26 N. of Vienna: Lon. 34. 3. E. Lat. 48. 39. ginning of words, as in llan, or lhan, a temple, N.

founding nearly like fi, &c. It is placed after LAADSTEE, a town of Norway, 112 miles N. .most of the consonants in the beginning of words of Bergen. and syllables, as black, glare, aiddle, ea.gle, &c. LAALAND, or LALAND, a fertile isand oi but before none. Its found is clear in Abel, but Denmark, at the entrance into the Baltic from the obscure in abk, &c. I, As a NUMERAL, L de- Greater Belt; 30 miles long, and 12 broad. AV notes 5 ; and with a dath oyer it, thus, I, 5000 kinds of grain are cultivated with great succes ;