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LEFT KESORA 338 KEY forces in 1855. It has an excellent har- bor, and exports salt and hidea. Pop. about 60,000. KESORA kes-o'ra), the female idol adored in the temple of Juggernaut. Its head and body are of sandalwood, its eyes two diamonds, and a third diamond is suspended round its neck; its hands are made entirely of small pearls; its bracelets are of pearls and rubies, and its robe is cloth of gold. KESTREL, a raptorial bird; above, red spotted with black; beneath, fawn spotted with black; the head and tail of the male ashy-blue. Length of both sexes about 12 ^^ inches. It feeds on mice, insects, and occasionally birds, and is a useful bird to the agriculturist. It is a European bird, but migrates in winter to India and Africa. It occurs also in Borneo, China, and Japan. More than 20 species are known. They re- semble hawks, but have the toes shorter. KETCH, a two-masted vessel of the galliot type, usually from 100 to 250 tons burden. Ketches were formerly of- ten used as yachts, also as bomb-vessels. KEXJPER (koi'per), the name given in Germany to a series of beds consti- tuting the uppermost of the three series of strata from which the Trias derives its name. In Wiirttemberg it is about 1,000 feet thick. Alberti divides it into limestone, gypsum, and carbonaceous slate clay. The Keuper is represented in England by saliferous and gypseous shales and marls, and in France by Marnes Irisees. The Keuper sandstones, especially the lower ones, afford good building stones. They are a pale red, yellow or white, and have been largely used in the cathedrals of Worcester and Chester. KEW, a village in Surrey, England, on the right bank of the Thames; pop. about 3,000. Foremost among objects of interest at Kew are the Royal Botanic Gardens and Arboretum, containing magnificent collections of plants and ferns, both native and exotic, and of trees and shrubs. Established in 1760 by the mother of George III., and made a national institution in 1840, the gar- dens now extend over 70 acres, and the arboretum 178 acres. KEWANEE, a city in Henry co.. 111.; on the Burlington Route railroad; 32 miles N. E. of Galesburg. It is in a rich farming region and has a number of im- portant manufactories. Pop. (1910) 9,307; (1920) 16,026. KEWEENAW BAY, an arm of Lake Superior, N. of Michigan. KEWEENAW POINT, a peninsula in Northern Michigan, projecting into Lake Superior. It is rich in copper mines. KEWEENAW SERIES, in geology, a group of rocks in the United States and Canada, chiefly sandstones, amygdaloid?., conglomerates, and traps, belonging to the Algonkian age; greatest total thick- ness about 40,000 feet. They contain the famous copper deposits of the Lake Superior region. KEY, a portable instrument of metal for shooting the lock-bolt of a door. In music: (1) A mechanical contrivance for closing or opening ventages, as in flutes, clarinets, ophicleides, etc. By means of keys on such instruments, apertures too remote to be reached by the outstretched fingers are brought under control of the player. (2) A lever which brings the pallets of an organ under the control of the hand or foot of an organist. (3) A lever which controls the striking appar- atus of a key-stringed instrument. In the harpischord it acted on the jack; in the pianoforte it acts on the hammer. (4) The wrest or key used for tuning instruments having metal pegs. (5) The sign placed at the commencement of the musical stave which shows the pitch of the notes, was originally called a clavis or key. This sign is called in modern music a clef. (6) Key, in its modern sense, is the starting point of the definite series of sounds which form the recog- nized scale. Different starting points require the relative proportion of the steps of the scale to be maintained by means of sharps or flats in the signature. The key of C major requires no flats or sharps for this purpose, hence it is called the normal key. KEY, or KI, a group of islands in the Indian Archipelago, about 50 miles W. of the Arru Islands and about 70 miles from the S. W. coast of New Guinea. KEY, ELLEN (KAROLINA SOFIA), a Swedish writer on social and ethical subjects; born in 1849 in Smalend. She began writing in 1870 by contributing to periodicals on a variety of subjects. For several years she was a teacher and lecturer at the People's Institute at Stockholm. She lived abroad from 1899 to 1910. She took an active interest in the feminist movement, and her radical ideas of love and marriage created much discussion and much unwarranted abuse. Her chief works are "The Century of the Child" (1909); "Love and Ethics" (1911); "The Younger Generation" (1914). KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT, an American poet; born in Frederick co., Md., Aug. 9,