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LEFT KINGSTON 349 KING VULTURE British, under Ferguson. The latter were defeated with a loss of 456 killed and wounded, among whom was the com- mander, and 648 taken prisoners. KINGSTON, a city and county-seat of Ulster CO., N. Y.; on the Hudson river at the E. terminus of the Hudson and Dela- ware canal, and on the West Shore and other railroads; 91 miles N. of New York City. It comprises the former villages of Kingston, Rondout, and Wil- bur; has a large river commerce and trade in coal, brick, lime, lumber, cement, and bluestone; is a trade center for three counties; and contains. Children's Indus- trial Home, a city hospital, a gravity system of waterworks supplied by moun- tain streams, and National and savings banks. It received a charter in 1661, under the name of Wiltwick, was first settled in 1665, and was incorporated by patent in 1667. On Feb. 19, 1777, the first State convention adjourned from Fishkill to Kingston, and the first State constitution was proclaimed in front of the court house, April 22, 1777. The Legislature met here in September of the same year, but was dispersed by the ap- proach of a British force under Sir Henry Clinton, Oct. 7, when the town was burned. Being afterward rebuilt, it was incorporated as a village in 1805, and as a city in 1872. Pop. (1910) 25,- 908; (1920) 26,688. KINGSTON, the commercial capital of Jamaica; on the N. side of a landlocked harbor, the best in the island, and, for its size, one of the best in the world. It was founded in 1693, after the neighbor- ing town of Port Royal had been de- stroyed by an earthquake. Kingston it- self suffered severe losses in life and property as a result of an earthquake in 1907. Pop. about 60,000. KINGSTON, chief town of Frontenac CO., Ontario, Canada; at the head of Lake Ontario, and at the mouth of Ca- taraqui creek, 161 miles by rail E. N. E. of Toronto. It has a number of hand- some public buildings, and is the seat of the Royal Military College of Canada, of Queen's University, with museums and an observatory, and of the Royal Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons and the Women's Medical College affiliated to it. Here also are a business college and a collegiate and training institute for teachers. The city has, besides excellent railway facilities, good water communi- cation by the lake, the St. Lawrence, and the Rideau canal, which last connects it with Ottawa. It possesses a large, shel- tered harbor, with an active trade, and strongly fortified ; and, besides busy ship- yards, has manufactories of locomotives and stationary engines, machinery, leather, boots and shoes, agricultural im- plements, wooden wares, etc. Kingston is the seat of an Anglican bishop and of a Roman Catholic archbishop. Its site was occupied by the old French fort of Frontenac. The town was the capi- tal of Canada from 1841 to 1844. Pop. about 25,000. KINGSTON, a borough of Pennsyl- vania, in Luzerne co. It is on the Sus- quehanna river and on the Lackawanna and the Lehigh Valley railroads. It is chiefly a residential place but has some important^ industries, including an add- ing machine factory, car and machine shops, and manufactories of hosiery. There are important coal mines in the vicinity. Pop. (1910) 6,449; (1920) 8,952. KINGSTON-UPON-HULL, important English river-port, a parliamentary and municipal borough and county of itself; in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the Humber; here 2 miles wide, and here joined by the Hull. Pop. (1917) 246,- 557. The docks and basins, comprising an area of upward of 200 acres, have been constructed since 1774. Hull was one of the first ports in England to en- gage in the whale-fishery, an enterprise which has been abandoned; but its fish- eries for edible fish employ, in conjunc- tion with those of Grimsby, large fleets of boats, attended by steam auxiliaries. Hull is a principal steam-packet station, and ocean steamers ply regularly to many of the principal ports of Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia. Its home trade is also very extensive. It is the great outlet for the woolen and cotton goods of the mid- land counties. It is the chief entrepot for German and Scandinavian oversea trade. KINGSTON-UPON-THAMES, a town of England, County Surrey, on the right bank of the Thames, 12 miles from Hyde Park Corner. Its antiquity is proved by numerous Roman remains found in its vicinity, and the Saxon kings were crowned here from Edward the Elder to Ethelred II. The stone on which the kings were crowned is preserved within an iron inclosure near the market-place. In the neighborhood are Bushy and Rich- mond parks, and Hampton Court Pal- ace. Pop. (1917) 40,000. KINGSTOWN, a watering place in Ireland, noted for its fine harbor. Pop. about 17,000. KING VULTURE, or KING OF THE VULTURES, a large vulture which re- Vol. V— Cyc— V