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KEHL (kāl), a town of the former grand-duchy of Baden, immediately opposite Strasburg, and 10 miles N. W. of Offenburg. Kehl was formerly a forwas formerly a for tress. It was ceded by France to Baden in 1697, taken by the French in 1703, 1733, 1793, and 1796; by the Austrians, also, in the latter, and again taken by the French in the year following . After the peace its fortifications were dismantled. Pop. about 5,000.

KEIGHLEY (kēth'li), a market and manufacturing town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the Aire, 9 miles N. W. of Bradford and 17 W.

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W. of Leeds. Manufactures worsted and woolen goods, worsted spinning machinery, and sewing and washing machines. Pop. (1917) 40,575.

KEI (kā) RIVER, GREAT, a river of South Africa, which in 1848 was made the boundary between Cape Town and Kaffraria.

KEISKAMA (kis-kämä), a river in South Africa, formerly the boundary between Cape Colony and British Kaffraria.

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