in the neighbourhood are gunpowder works, corn
and paper mills, dye works, &c. It has seven
trading companies, who have* each a hall : and
the trade, notwithstanding the disadvantage
of its river for water carriage, is very consid-
erable. It is 44 m. S. of Carlisle, and 261 N. of
London. Long. 2. 52. W., lat. 54. 15. N.

Kenilworth, a town in Warwir. shire, Eng. Its
church is an ancient edifice; a* i there are two
dissenting meeting-houses, a fre xc2xbb school, and a
school of industry. Here was a famous castle,
the remains of which form one of the most pic-
turesque objects in the kingdom. It is 5 m. N.
of Warwick, and 96 N. W. of London.

Kenmare, a town of Ireland, in ihe county of
Kerry, at the head of a river or bay of the same
name, 26 m. S. S. E. of Tralee.

Kennet, a river of England, which rises among
the chalky hills in Wiltshire, becomes navigable
at Newbury in Berkshire, and joins the Thames
at Sunning.

Kensinnton, a village in Middlesex, Eng. 1 m.
W. of London. Here is a royal palace, which
until the reign of George III., was a favourite
residence of the king of England. King William,
Queen Mary, Queen Anne, and George II. died
here. The gardens now form a fashionable and
extensive promenade having been gradually aug-
mented to 3 1-2 m. in circumference.

Knsington. t. Rockingnam Co. N. H. 45 m. fr.
Boston. Pop. 717.

Kent, a county of England, 55 m. long and 28
broad ; bounded on the N. by the Thames and
the German Ocean. E. by the same Ocean. S. E.
and S. by the English Channel and Sussex, and
W. by Surrey. It con tins 935,600 acres ; is di-
vided into 63 hundreds, and 414 parishes ; has
two cities, Canterbury and Rochester, and 24
market towns; and sends 18 members to parlia-
ment. In the soil and face of the country there is a
great diversity. The banks of the Thames are low
and marshy, but backed by a range of chalky em-
inences, sometimes rising to a moderate height.
This kind of hard chalky soil, inclining to barren-
ness, extends to the N. E. extremity of the coun-
tv, and thence round to Dover,exhibiting its nature
in the lofty white cliffs which here bound the is-
land, and produce that striking appearance at sea
which gave it the name of Albion. The S. part
of Kent, called the Weald, is a flat and woody
tract of a clavev soil, and fertile. The midland
and western districts are a mixture of hill and
vale, arable and pasture, equal in pleasantness to
aav part of England. The minerals of this coun-
tv. consists chiefly of chalk, flint, ragstone, and
pvrites: and the only mineral water of any note
is that of Tunbridge Wells. The manufactures
are few. and mostly of the coarser kinds, but
everv branch of agriculture is extensively pros-
ecuted with ability and success. Besides the
usual objects of agriculture, the county produces
large quantities of hops, fruit of various kinds
.(especially cherries and apples, of which there
are large orchards for ine London markets), and
inadder for dyeing. The country inland from Do-
ver, consisting chiefly of open downs, is excellent
for the feeding of sheep: and many bullocks are
fattened to an extraordinary size in Romney
Marsh. The principal rivers, besides the Thames
are the Medway, Darent, Stour, Cray, and Rother.

Kendall, a village in Perry township, Stark
/ Co. Ohio, with a woolen manufactory.

Kennebec, a river of the State of Maine, flowing
into the Atlantic, formea by two branches, one of
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which rises in Moosehead Lake, and the other
in the highlands on the north of the State. It is
300 m. in length and is navigable for ships 12 and
for boats 60 m.

Kennebec, a county of Maine on the above riv
er. Pop. 52,491. Augusta is the capital.

Kennebunk, ph. York Co. Me., at the mouth of
a river of the same name, 25 m. S. W. Portland.
It has some trade in lumber. Pop. 2,233. Ken-
nebunk Port has an additional pop. of 2,763.

Kent, a county of Rhode Island in the centre ol
the State. Pop. 12,784. East Greenwich is the
capital. Also a central county of Delaware
Pop. 19,911. Dover is the capital. Also acoun
ty in the northern part of Maryland, on the east-
ern shore ofthe Chesapeake. Pop. 10,502. Clies-
tertown is the capital. Also a county of Lower
Canada lying on the St. Lawrence, opposite Mon
treah Also a cotanty of Upper Canada extend
ing to the N. and W. without any defined limits

Kent, ph. Litchfield Co. Conn. on the Housa-
tonic, 44 m. W. Hartford. Pop. 2,001. Also a
Ph. Putnam Co. N. Y. Pop. 1,926.

Kent Island, in the northern part of Chesa-
peake Bay. It contains about 30,000 acres and
is comprised within the county of Queen Anne.

Kentucky, one of the United States, bounded
N. by Illinois, Indiana and Ohio; B. by Virginia,

S. by Tennessee, and W. by Missouri. It extends
from 36 30. to 39. 10. N. lat. and from 81. 50. to

59. 26. W. long. Is 300 m. in length from E. to
W’. and 150 in mean breadth, and contains 42,000
sq. m. It is washed by the Ohio on the whole of
its northern limit and traversed by the Licking,
Kentucky and Green rivers. The Cumberland
and Tennessee intersect the western extremity.
The former rises in the eastern part of the state
and passes into Tennessee after which it returns,
and flows through Kentucky into the Ohio. The
eastern boundary is formed by the Cumberland
Mountains' and the eastern portion of the state is
generally mountainous. The soil rests upon a
bed of limestone from 3 to 10 feet below the sur-
face. This substance is also mixed up in the soil
and imparts to it a warm and exciting quality
which with the help of moisture gives a remarka-
ble freshness and vigour to the vegetation. The
centre of the state contains a tract of 150 m. in
length and 50 in breadth, which for beauty of land-
scape and richness of soil surpasses any region
of the same extent in the western country. Along
the Ohio between Salt and Green rivers is a large
tract called the xe2x80x98 barrens’ on account of its defi-
ciency in wood, yet here the land is generally
good, and covered with grass. In many parts of
the state however, there are not wanting sterile,
and mountainous tracts unfit for cultivation. The
general appearance of the county is remarkably
picturesque, being diversified by bills and dales
in the most charming manner. The woods have
a delightful appearance and resemble groves pro-
miscuously arranged by art for the effect of a
pleasure ground. The trees are walnut, cherry,
honey-locust, buckeye, pawpaw maple, cotton
wood, mulberry, elm, ash, hawthorn, synnnore,
&c. In the early part of spring the woods are
covered with the purple flower of the red bud and
the white blossoms of the dogwood. Grape vines oi
prodigious size climb the trees, and in early times
the country was covered with a thick canebrake.

This state does not furnish many mineral pro-
ductions, yet it is said to contain much iron and
some lead and coal. Salt springs are common,
but little salt is manufactured from them. Thera