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Kent Island – Kerowlee

Kent Island

an island some 15 miles long in Chesapeake Bay, Md., 7 miles E. of Annapolis. It was here the first settlement in Maryland was made by William Claiborne in 1631.

Kentucky

a river of Kentucky, formed by two forks which rise in the Cumberland Mountains, and, after winding N. W. course of about 250 miles, enters the Ohio, 12 miles above Madison , Ind. The river runs through part of its course between perpendicular limestone walls. It is navigable by steamboat beyond Frankfort.

Kenya Protectorate

the name: given to the dominion on the coast of Africa under the nominal sovereignty of the Sultan of Zanzibar. See ZANZIBAR.

Keratin

a term applied to the substance which forms the chief constituent of hair, feathers, nails, claws, horns, and the epidermis and epithelium of the higher animals.

Keratonyxis

a term applied by the German surgeons to the operation of couching, performed by introducing a needle into the cornea or horny coat of the eye, and depressing or breaking the opaque lens.

Keren

a Hebrew trumpet. The word is sometimes used in the Bible as synonymous with shophar, and to it is sometimes affixed jobel, rendered in the English version ram's horns. at La-

Kerkenna Islands

a group of islands in the Gulf of Cabes, E. of Tunis.

Kerki

a town belonging formerly to Bokhara, Central Asia, about 120 miles S. of Bokhara city, on the left bank of the Amu-Daria or Oxus. An important place both commercially and stategically, it is the halting place of the caravans trading from Bokhara to Herat, and stands near the chief ferry over the Oxus.

Kermadec Islands

a group of volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean, 700 miles N. E. of Auckland, New Zealand. It consists of four principal is lands-Raoul or Sunday (7,200 acres), Macaulay (756 acres), Curtis, and L'Esperance-and several smaller is lands. The group was discovered in 1788, and annexed by Great Britain in 1886.

Kermes Mineral

amorphous antimony trisulphide, a brown-red powder used in the preparation of artists' colors.

Kerosene

a name given to the principal product of the distillation of petroleum, the crude domestic oil yielding 70 per cent. of its weight. It is also obtained from bituminous shale.

Kerowlee

the chief town of the native State of the same name in Rajputana, India, 80 miles S. W. of Agra. It was founded in 1348; is surrounded by a sandstone wall; and contains a beautiful palace and a temple of Krishna which attract many pilgrims.