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Kizil-Irmak

the Turkish "Red the Halys, the principal river of Asia Minor. Rising in the E.

Minor. Rising in the E. of the penina circuitous route for about 500 miles, and enters the Black Sea near Sinope. desert in Russian Turkestan, between the KIZIL-KUM ("Red Sands"), a sandy lower courses of the Amu-Daria and Syr- Daria. They stretch S. E. from the Sea of Aral, and rise from an elevation of 150 feet at the sea to 2,000 toward Bokhara. N.

E. of the Caspian stretches the Kara-Kum "black sands" desert, a former bed of the sea.

KLAMATH (klä'mat) LAKE, a body of water in Oregon, at the E. base of the Cascade Range; overlaps the S. boundary of the State into California. The lake is about 44 miles long, by 6 to 14 miles wide. It consists of two considerable .

It consists of two considerable bodies of water, connected by a narrow strait less than 2 miles wide. Klamath river is the outlet, and issues from the S. end, or Lower Klamath Lake.

KLAUSENBURG (Hungarian Kolozvania; 95 miles E. by S. from Grosswar- vár), one of the chief cities in Transylmerly fortified, and of five suburbs. dein. It consists of the inner town, for- Here are a university, and a Unitarian College, and numerous other educational establishments. The town possesses the national museum, with antiquities, scientific collections, and a library. Klausenburg was captured by the Hungarians under under Bem on Christmas day, 1848. Ma- , and spirits are manufactured.

Pop. about 60,000.

SENBURG or SAINT CHRISTOof the Leeward group, aging to Great Britain; square miles, surface, ntainous ridge extendenter from N. to S., and extinct volcano), 3,711 feet. The and produces all Basseterre. in 1493. Pop. seaport of China, on the S. bank of the on with the green-tea ort was opened to for- 32. Pop. about 50,000 of the three principal separated from Korea Korea, and from Hondo Sikoku. Nagasaki is the Turkish "Red own to the ancients as incipal river of Asia the E. of the penincuitous route for Sands"), a saniy tan, between the Amu-Daria and S. E. from the from an elevation to 2,000 toward the Caspian stretches black sands" desert, a I'mat) LAKE, a body at the E. base of the rlaps the S. boundary California, The lake by 6 to 14 miles nested in a narrow wide. Klamath nd issues from the B. (Hungarian Kolorcities in Transy- S. from Grosswalinner town, for suburbi.

Unitarian educational wn possenses the ith antiquitien, scien Hbrary. Klausenby the Hungariam tas day, 1848. Ma are manufactured KLAUSTHAL

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