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Kuram

(kö-ram'), a river rising in Afghanistan near the N. end of the W.

Suliman range, and flowing through British territory into the Indus near Isakhel.

KURDISTAN (kur-dis-tän'), an extensive geographical, though not political, reg region of Asia, for the most par included within a line drawn from Sivas to 500,000 to the Persian part. islands in the North Pacific, extending KURILES (köʻril-ez), a chain of S. W. to N. E. from Japan to Kamchatka, and belonging to Japan; area, about 5,000 square miles. The whole chain is of volcanic origin, and there are many active volcanoes, one of which is from 12,000 to 15,000 feet high. The population is very scanty. a Warburton to that kind of hieroglyphic KURIOLOGIC, term applied by writing in which the principal circumstance in the subject stands for the whole. Thus a battle was depicted by two hands, one holding a shield and the other a bow; an insurrection by an scaling ladder, and so on. armed man casting arrows ; a siege, by a KURLAND. See COURLAND.

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