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LEFT KEY BOAKD S39 KEY WEST 1780. He was a lawyer by profession Economic Society since 1913, and was and a brother-in-law of Chief Justice member of the Royal Commission on In- Taney. Being detained on one of the dian Finance and Currency 1913-1914, British ships during the bombardment He was one of the British financial rep- of Fort McHenry, Sept. 14, 1814, he resentatives at Paris in 1918-1919, and composed the words of "The Star-Span- his book, "The Economic Consequences gled Banner." He died in Baltimore, of Peace," attained a great vogue. In Md., Jan. 11, 1843. 1913 he published "Indian Currency and Finance." KEYSTONE, in masonry, the central voussoir at the vertex of an arch. The row or course of said stones along the crown of an arch is the key-course. In chromo-lithography, the stone on which a general outline of the picture is drawn or photo-lithographed. Its object is to furnish a guide for the production of the work upon the several color stones. Transfers from the keystones in common printing inks, more properly called "off- sets" to distinguish them from transfers from which impressions can be printed, are made upon as many stones as there are colors required. KEY WEST, a city and county-seat of Monroe co., Fla.; on the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Florida East Coast railroad. It is also a port of entry and a noteworthy United States naval sta- tion. The city is built on an island of the same name, about 50 miles off the coast, 7 miles long by 1 to 2 wide, of coral formation, elevated only 11 feet above the sea, and covered with a thin layer of soil on which tropical fruits are successfully cultivated. Key West has an excellent harbor and regular steamer communication with the principal Atlan- tic and Gulf ports of the United States, and with Cuba. During the American- Spanish War the city was the rendezvous of the United States navy. The prin- cipal industries are the manufacture of cigars, sponge fishing, green turtle catch- ing, and deep-sea fishing. Key West has a United States Marine Hospital, a shipyard with marine railway, a United States dock, custom house, and the United States courts for the Southern District of Florida. Key West, the terminal of a chain of islands, is con- nected with the main land by a railway running through these islands and over a stone and concrete roadway connecting them with each other. This enterprise, financed and accomplished by Henry Flagler at a cost of some $15,000,000, makes it possible to carry through-cars, both with freight and passengers, be- tween the United States and Cuba by means of an ocean ferry, capable of carrying 30 cars at a time. It was com- pleted in 1915. Pop. (1910) 19,945; (1920) 18,749. ELLEN KEY KEY BOABD, the range of keys on a pianoforte or organ. Keys played by the fingers are called manuals; those by the feet are called pedals. KEYNE, ST., a virgin said to have lived about 490, whose name survives in an old church in Cornwall near Liskeard, England, and still more so in its famous well. Whichever of a newly married pair first drinks of its water will bear rule throughout their life together. KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD, a British economist. He was born at Cam- bridge in 1883, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became twelfth wrangler in 1905, and president of the Cambridge Union Society in the same year. In 1906 he passed second in open competition for Civil Service (Class I.) and was at the India Office in 1906- 1908. In 1907 he became Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He also be- came connected with the "Economic Jour- nal" and has been its editor since 1912. In 1915 he became attached to the Treas- ury and became acting principal clerk in 1917. He has been Girdlers' lecturer in economics in the University of Cam- bridge since 1910, secretary of the Royal