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 790 KENNEBEC KENNEDY three times, the last in 1575, being the occasion so graphically narrated by Sir Walter Scott in his novel of " Kenilworth." The castle was dismantled in the time of Cromwell. After the restoration it belonged to the family of Clarendon, and is now the property of the family of Eardley-Wilmot. KENNEBEC, a S. county of Maine, traversed from N. to S. by Kennebec river, and touched on the west by the Androscoggin ; area, 1,050 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 58,021. It has an undu- lating surface, diversified by numerous small lakes, and a very fertile soil. The Maine Cen- tral railroad and the Augusta division pass through it. The chief productions in 1870 were 25,822 bushels of wheat, 111,246 of In- dian corn, 170,371 of oats, 122,627 of barley, 733,026 of potatoes, 137,231 Ibs. of wool, 1,176,423 of butter, 154,727 of cheese, and 113,153 tons of hay. There were 7,563 horses, 13,252 milch cows, 5,481 working oxen, 12,- 163 other cattle, 31,975 sheep, and 4,086 swine ; 11 manufactories of agricultural imple- ments, 33 of carriages, 2 of cars, 4 of cotton goods, 4 of edge tools and axes, 6 of iron cast- ings, 14 of machinery, 7 of marble and stone work, 5 of oil cloth, 3 of printing paper, 13 of saddlery and harness, 11 of sash, doors, and blinds, 2 of steel springs, 3 of stone and earth- en ware, 14 of tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware, 4 of woollen goods, 35 saw mills, 6 flour mills, 19 tanneries, and 10 currying establish- ments. Capital, Augusta, which is also the capital of the state. KENNEBEC, a river of Maine, and next to the Penobscot the most important in the state. Its principal source is Moosehead lake in the N. W. part of the state, on the boundary line between Somerset and Piscataquis counties. It issues from the lake on its S. W. shore, and after a course of 20 m. receives Dead river from the right. Its direction is then changed from S. W. to S., and from this course it has but one considerable deviation, namely, in the S. part of Somerset co., where it flows 12 m. E. It enters the Atlantic in Sagadahoc co., through Sheepscott bay, an irregular indentation of the coast studded with many islands. The largest tributary of the Kennebec is the Androscog- gin, which joins it 18 m. from the ocean at Merrymeeting bay. The outlets of a number of small ponds, and Sebasticook and Sandy rivers, also flow into it. The most important towns on its banks are Bath, Richmond, Gar- diner, Hallowell, Augusta, Waterville, and Norridgewoek. It has falls at Waterville and at three points above, which afford excellent motive power. Its whole length is about 150 m., in which it has a descent of 1,000 ft. Large ships can ascend it to Bath, 12 m., steamboats to Hallowell, 40 m., and small craft to Waterville, 54 m. The influence of the tide extends to Augusta, 42 m. from the sea. A dam with locks has been constructed at Au- gusta for the purpose of improving the navi- gation above that point, and increasing the water power. The river is closed by ice at Hallowell from the middle of December to about the 1st of April ; below Bath it is open at all seasons except during severe winters. KENNEDY. I. Benjamin Hall, an English cler- gyman, born at Summer Hill, near Birming- ham, Nov. 6, 1804. He graduated at St. John's college, Cambridge, in 1827, was elected fellow and classical lecturer in 1828, became assistant master at Harrow in 1830, and was appointed head master of Shrewsbury school in 1836. In 1841 he became prebendary of Lichfield, and in 1860 was appointed select preacher to the university. He resigned his head master- ship in 1866, and was appointed regius profes- sor of Greek at Cambridge, and the next year canon of Ely. He has published " The Psalter in English Verse " (1860), "Elementary Greek Grammar " (1862), and "Public School Latin Grammar" (1871). II. Charles Uann, an Eng- lish barrister, brother of the preceding, born in Birmingham, March 1, 1808, died in 1867. He graduated at Trinity college, Cambridge, and was elected fellow, entered Lincoln's Inn, was called to the bar in 1835, and settled at Birmingham. Besides several law books, he published "Poems, Original and Selected" (1843); in conjunction with his father, the Rev. Rann Kennedy, the ' Works of Virgil," in blank verse (2 vols., 1850); "Specimens of Greek and Latin Verse " (1853) ; " Orations of Demosthenes," translated into English, with notes, appendices, &c. (5 vols., 1841-'63) ; and "Hannibal," a poem, part i. (1866). KENNEDY, Grate, a Scottish authoress, born in Ayrshire in 1782, died Feb. 28, 1825. She passed the greater part of her life in Edin- burgh, and subsequent to 1811 was an indus- trious writer of works of fiction of a moral and religious character, which were greatly esteemed at home and abroad. Among the most successful were "Decision," "Father Cle- ment," "Anna Ross," "Dunallan," "Jessie Allan," &c., nearly all of which have been translated into the French and other languages. Her works were all published under an as- sumed name. KENNEDY, John Pendleton, an American au- thor, born in Baltimore, Oct. 25, 1795, died in Newport, R. I., Aug. 18, 1870. He graduated at Baltimore college in 1812, and in 1816 was admitted to the practice of the law, which he followed successfully for 20 years. In 1 818-'20, in connection with his friend Peter Hoffman Cruise, he published the "Red Book," a serial in prose and verse issued about once a fort- night. He was a member of the Maryland house of delegates in 1820-'23. He warmly espoused the cause of President J. Q. Adams, and strongly advocated the protective policy. In 1832 he published "Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion," descriptive of plantation life in Virginia ; and in 1835 " Horse- shoe Robinson, a Tale of the Tory Ascendancy," the most successful of his writings. In 1838 he published "Rob of the Bowl, a Legend of